This weekend is going to be very busy for me. I hope to see lots of Southern California people at these events: Antelope Valley Pagan Pride Day Saturday, October 20 10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. LOCATION: George Lane Park in Quartz Hill Just north of Los Angeles, CA Antelope Valley Pagan Pride Day This is going to be a great day with lots of family activities. It’s a smaller event and you’ll have a chance to meet and get to know new friends. There are free workshops on Magic Squares, Easy and Powerful Spellcrafting, Divination, a Guided Meditation to help you connect with your Inner Warrior, an Introduction to Druidry, and lots of special activities for kids. AVPPD is free, but

Have you attended festivals or conferences put together by hard-working volunteers and organizers? Have you mingled at Pagan Pride Day, learned something new from an excellent workshop at a local store, chanted under the moon with close friends, felt energy coursing through hands of strangers on either side of you? Have you been entertained and enlightened by bloggers musing on topics you once thought only you thought about, and followed it up with a lively discussion with others in the comments section? Pagan community permeates our lives in so many ways, both online and offline. Even if you don’t think about it often or meet with “actual Pagans” in your community every day, you can

Over the past weekend I appeared at two Pagan Pride Day events. There are many dozens of such events all over the U.S. and around the world. You can find out more about these events at this LINK. I strongly encourage people to find local events and attend them. They're free, and they give you a chance to meet people who think like you. On Sunday, I gave a workshop on the future of magick, for the Los Angeles/Orange County Pagan Pride Day event, focusing on banishing rituals used by Chaos magicians, especially one created by Peter Carroll. You can find out more about this in the new edition of Modern Magick which is just shipping. It was originally taught to me by Ms. Lola Babalon who