November's Moot - 'Creating the New Aeon and Averting Apocalypse!'

The following communication was sent to us by KaosCrow:

"This talk and discussion follows on from last Septembers Moot, 'Occult War for the New Aeon' in which we examined the many and various schools of thought and theories of impending Apocalypse and whether or not shadowy occult cartels manipulate human evolution.
Taking the conclusion that whatever the causes, or indeed whatever the 'truth' behind the scenes, we cannot escape the fact that civilisation stands on the brink of a collapse of monumental scale. Our symbol for that talk was Atu XVI, The Tower.

Over a year has passed and the world slips further toward disaster but from the ashes the phoenix can rise... If we've the will to change and to direct that change for humanities benefit.
We now take Atu XX, the Aeon, as our symbol as we examine how we can change and adapt our ideas and thinking in order to gestate a fundamental change in the direction of human evolution. Be under no illusions some of your deepest held beliefs will be challenged by this talk and if no-one walks away without at least some of their beliefs in tatters I will be dissapointed!

Hail Eris!"

See you at the Red Lion at 4pm on Sunday the 6th of November - there will not be any Hot Dog Buns this time round.

Intuitive Geomancy

Richard will be hosting this Sunday's (3/7/11) Avebury Moot (Red Lion at the usual time of 4pm). The Talk will be given by Richard's partner, Alda Gerchi, who will be coming along to give a talk and introduction to the subject of Intuitive Geomancy. Alda is Slovenian and has studied at the school of Marco Pogacnik in Slovenia. Marco has undertaken earth-healing and erected stone circles containing healing symbols (Cosmograms) in every corner of the globe, and Alda has been part of a number of significant stone circle projects with him.

Alda will be involved in a 2012 project to erect a stone-circle in London planned to coincide with the Olympics with the intention of ameliorating any disruptive energies associated with that event.

Many thanks Mooties

Beltane

Greetings - The Moot is taking a spring break this month - it's first proper break for over 2 years :) People will still be gathering at the Red Lion, but we don't have the room booked. Feel free to turn up for a natter. It's Beltane of course so Avebury's gonna be busy with all sorts of goings on.
Enjoy.

April Moot 2011 - Maria Whaetley and Busty Taylor!

Greetings Mooties - this Month I'm delighted to confirm that Maria Wheatley and Busty Taylor are coming along to present their talk... Redicovering the Avebury Henge and the Earth Force. For the full low down click HERE - all the details are on last month's post. Circumstances meant that they couldn't make it last time.

Remember - we start at 4pm these days..

Also... something odd is happening in Swindon... check this out!


Does modern science have it’s roots in the occult?

Swindon Libraries will be playing host to bestselling authors Clive Prince and Lynn Picknett as they talk about their new book The Forbidden Universe.

Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Universe reveals the secret brotherhood that defined the world, and perhaps discovered the mind of God.

All the pioneers of science, from Copernicus to Newton via Galileo, were inspired by Hermeticism. Men such as Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Bacon, Kepler, Tycho Brahe – even Shakespeare – owed much of their achievements to basically occult beliefs – the hermetica.

In this fascinating study, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince go in search of the Hermetic origins of modern science and prove that not everything is as it seems and that over the past 400 years there has been a secret agenda behind our search for truth. From the age of Leonardo da Vinci, the influence of hermetic thinking upon the greatest minds in history has been hidden, a secret held by a forbidden brotherhood in search of the mind of God.

Join the authors at the Central Library on Thursday 14th April at 7:30pm.

Tickets are £2 (£1.50 concessions) and are available from the First Floor Help point at the Central library.

Call 01793 463238 or see www.swindon.gov.uk/libraries for more details.

March Moot - Rediscovering Avebury Henge and The Earth Force

For the coming March moot I’m delighted to announce that Maria Wheatley will be joining us. Maria is author and co-author of a number of books including:

Avebury: Sun, Moon and Earth
Ancient Sites of Stonehenge
The Essential Dowsing Guide: 1
Stonehenge: An Investigation into Earth Energies

Maria also wrote Avebuy: Sun, Moon and Earth with another writer, Busty Taylor, who I’m also delighted to say will be joining us and presenting the first part of the talk. Busty will start things with an examination of Avebury’s solar alignments, followed by Maria who will talk to us about ley lines and earth energies.

Avebury is a regional power centre which holds many secrets. At specific times of the year the Sun and Moon interact with certain stones creating mysterious shadow lines and also linear lines of intense bright light, which were used in past rituals. Intriguingly, surrounding stone circles and mounds were aligned upon these light/yang and shadow/yin lines which can extend for miles and possibly inspired the ley line phenomena.

Powerful earth energies were also integrated into Avebury’s megalith architecture which are absorbed and transmitted by the standing stones – the electromagnetic frequencies of which were recently detected by sensitive electronic equipment. Further investigations revealed that when megalithic or earth energy is contained, by constructing certain stylised monuments, paraterrestrial activity causes mind-altering affects, time-lapses, and spirit manifestations. Maria describes which earthen and stone structures were designed to produce paraterrestrial affects and how to recognise and interact with the Earth Force within Avebury’s timeless landscape.

Fascinating stuff, I think you’ll agree, and I’m certainly looking forwards to enjoying March’s moot on Sunday 6th at the new time of 4pm at the Red Lion.

Great News.

The Red Lion will be roaring back to business within the hour so our lovely moot is on! See you for 4pm.

Fire at the Lion - Please check in tomorrow.

Greetings.

The Red Lion had a small fire last night and are just hoping to have the pub ready prior to the moot.

I'll update you all for midday tomorrow so just check your mails and the blog

Andrew Collins presents: Avebury – The Cygnus Mystery

Sunday 6th @ 4.00pm

Greetings Mooties, this coming moot will be presented by the famous author Andrew Collins. For this moot Andrew asks, is Avebury aligned to the constellation of the Northern Cross, also known as Cygnus, the celestial swan. This was the discovery of Professor Alexander Thom in the 1960s, and rubbished by American archaeoastronomer Professor Gerald Hawkins, famous for announcing that Stonegenge was a Neolithic calendar clock.

Andrew Collins investigated and found that Thom was correct – Avebury is aligned to Cygnus. Yet if so why? What is the significance of this much overlooked constellation positioned so prominently on the Milky Way? The answer is that it has been seen as the point of

origin of life and universe, as well as the destination of the soul in death for cultures and civilizations around the world for many thousands of years. Its influence is reflected in the alignments of the Pyramids of Giza, the Indian mound sites of North America, the great temple of Cusco, and the Hindu temples of India. In his book THE CYGNUS MYSTERY, Andrew shows that Cygnus has been at the root of religions worldwide for over 30,000 years.

You can have a look at Andrew Collins site here by the way - check out the books page!

Please note that the start time for this presentation is 4pm, so please ensure you get there a little early as we'll be starting on time.

Happy New Year!

Greetings mooties. This month's moot is going to be a gentle affair at the Lion for chit chats and plotting. Next month we have a fabulous speaker lined up... more to come very soon once the t's have been crossed.

See you tomorrow at 3pm.

The Snow Moot!

Wow, isn't the scenery in and around Avebury so very stunning? This month's Pagan Moot is back in the pub and we'll be having a talk by Terry Dobney, Arch Druid and Keeper of the Stones and a general get together and chit-chat. The original plan to help fix up the West Kennet Long Barrow prior to the Moot has been postponed until another time, so it'll be in the Well Room for 3pm.

A big thanks to The Red Lion for having us back again. Having tried a few different venues now, the general consensus is that it'd be best held in the Red Lion. So come along for a chit-chat and join me in celebrating new life, my son Oberon.

Samhian - who's watching?

New Blood Needed! As Winter draws in and the home fires start to burn again, you’re probably wondering, “what amazing projects can I be getting on with over the next few months?” Look no further because we’re asking for some new volunteers to come and take an active roll in running, hosting and having fun at the Moot. We’d all like to see the Moot driven by the community, for the community – so here’s your chance... put you driving gloves on now and let us know what you’d like to do, see, hear... even feel hmmm.

Volunteers and needed to help on a number of fronts:
Scheduling Speakers
Hosting individual Moots
Running the Cafe
And a whole host of other essential tasks that all contribute to bringing us the chucky stew that is the Avebury Moot. If you’re interested then contact us and we’ll talk though what can be done.

This month's Moot will be offering a one off showing of the amazing little film, Erasing David. See the trailer and get you thinking caps on! We’re starting the film dead on 3pm (I mean it this time!) as we’ve got to clear out of town a few minute early this week. Bring cake.

Erasing David -

A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PRIVACY, SURVEILLANCE AND THE DATABASE STATE

David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear, a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across the database state on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of privacy and the loss of it.

Click here for a trailer and the website!

Come along and have a look...

Also the Moot is packing it’s picnic bag and putting on it walking boots again – that right, we’re on the move again.... keep an eye wide open here for further details.

States of Mind - October Moot

Greetings Mooties - this month's moot, States of Mind, looks at the power of our thoughts... and the ultimate power we have over Them. Utilising simple and sophisticated tools, both ancient and modern, we'll delve into the power of the mind. Magic! 3pm at the National Trust Learning Resource Centre.

Would everyone please also turn their thoughts to Samhain and the Labyrinthe, particularly whether they want to get involved. We need people to play with fire; poi, staffs, fire breathing etc, etc, people to help set up, people to make lanterns between now and then, drummers, chanters etc etc. Those taking part will also need to think about costume too. Drummers, black and skeletal, fire dancers red and sexy!
If anyone wants to get involved they can email Leon at crow.dark@virgin.net or phone him evenings on 01672539679.

Also, fancy looking at some real nasties in Swindon - then look no further the Swindon Ghost Fest... here!
Lots of really cool FREE talks and events on ghosts, ghosthunting and Wiltshire folklore.

The Rainbow Serpent Project... here in Avebury on the 30th September!

What's this serpentine being slithering through the stones.... ?


The Rainbow Serpent Feature documentary is five years of work showing one man’s pilgrimage. Tor travels around the earth chakra points:
The Base chakra is Mnt Shasta CA,
Sacral; chakra Lake Titicaca Peru,
Heart chakra; Glastonbury UK,
Solar Plexus: Uluru Australia,
Throat chakra; Egypt,
Third Eye chakra; Currently Glastonbury UK,
Crown chakra; Mnt Kailash Tibet.


Working with ceremonies at each of the sites in order, interviewing Tribal Elders, Charley Thom, Bob Randell etc... Then all Tor’s synchronics, crazy and beautiful findings and all of the adventures are present in a rich tapestry of images and poetry, with mixed media footage of nature and beauty from the sacred world. Tor links the myths and legends from all over the universe displaying a deep culture that many have missed. This film is to inspire people to travel consciously around the world and into their hearts. The tag line is ‘The Pilgrim Age to 2012 and beyond’




There is a a screening of this Film at The Avebury Social Centre, High St, Avebury, Wiltshire........Thursday 30th September at 7.30pm

There will be tea and cakes and Tor will be here to present the film, and talk about the preparations for the next part of the Adventure. The lovely people there will be raising money for this, and all contributions are welcome.

See more at Tor's site here.

OMPHALOS EQUINOX FAIR

Calling all Mooties - some special is brewing up in Bath!

Sat & Sun 18th/19th September 2010
2pm- 7pm
St James Wine Vaults, St James Square, Bath. BA1 2TW

A Weekend of talks on the Magical arte:
Mogg Morgan
Adebisi Data Adekundle
Levannah Morgan
Geraldine Beskine
Karl Le Marcs
Jane Stratton Kent

+ Entertainment and Magical Craft Stalls

Just a few quid will see you good for the whole weekend - checkout futher details here

Occult war for the New Aeon: magical paradigms and strategies for dealing with the coming apocalypse.

Out of New Order erupts Chaotic Rumblings - this month's fantastic Moot is titled, "Occult war for the New Aeon: magical paradigms and strategies for dealing with the coming apocalypse." Is civilisation as we know it coming to and end? What is the threat? Does a threat exist? And what can we do to counter this threat?

See you at the National Trust's Learning Centre at 3pm.

MAGICAL MINDSCAPES: How landscape was invested with meaning in the Ancient World

I'm delighted to announce that our next speaker will be Paul Devereux, whome I'm sure many of you already know of. For anyone wanting more info on what Paul get up to then check out his website here.

Paul will give us a highly illustrated tour of the Ancient World, looking at several varieties of visual and other sensory sacred geographies, from Native American ground drawings to Chinese and Japanese gardens and much else besides, and suggest what environmental wisdom we can draw from them today. The presentation will be a celebration of Paul's major new book, "Sacred Geography", being published this year by Gaia Books.

Paul Devereux is a founding editor of the academic publication, Time & Mind – The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Berg), a research affiliate with the Royal College of Art, a Senior Research Fellow of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL), Princeton, and the Director of the Dragon Project Trust. He has written a great many articles for general publications and a string of peer-reviewed papers plus twenty-six books since 1979, many published internationally, dealing variously and primarily with the anthropologies of consciousness, archaeoacoustics and other aspects of ancient sites, landscapes and lifeways, as well as selected other topics. He lectures in Europe, the UK and North America.

This Moot is on Sunday the 1st of August - experience has taught me that some people get caught out by Moots on the 1st of the month, so make sure you write this one in to your diaries. Our last moot was a lovely and relaxed affair with a free form and open format. Paul's talk will see us return to rows of chairs etc to ensure everyone can get in and listen to this fabolous talk. Teas and Coffees will still be available.


See you at about 2.45pm at the National Trust's Learning Centre in Avebury (behind the Barn and next to the toilets).

Herbal Medicines

Greetings Mooties, this month's Moot is all about herbal medicines. See a selection of plants that you see growing around you everyday and see how they can benefit your physical and spiritual health. The Moot will be presented by the lovely Carlie, host of the Calne/Chippenham Moot.

We're still at the Learning Centre in the National Trust area, and still there on Sunday for 3pm sharp. See you there :)

Greetings Mooties, this month's moot will be at the National Trust Learning Centre again, situated behind the barn next to the toilets. My moot talker has cancelled so I'm working on another couple of possible moot talkers for this Sunday. Same time, 3pm.

Beltaine's Moot - A Peak into Change

Happy Bealltainn - May you all be rampant and free :)

So much to squeeze into one little weekend! A weeding, a birthday, a moot, a chase, a stag and a maypole... to name but a few. For Avebury, Beltane is often one of the most lively and gentle festivals.


Moot Location

Thank you to the National Trust who have allowed us to use their facilities for this moot. So our new location is in the Learning Centre which is the building behind the Barn, situated with all the other main Trust facilities - the shop, cafe etc. If you're still not sure where that is then we're right next door to the toilets, so go to this area and follow the signs to the toilets - easy.

Please don't bring any vehicles into this area. As usual there'll be refreshments and laughter for all.


The Moot

We've reached an interesting time in our world's time line - the simultaneous onset of both peak oil and climate change. Now, the climate change part we should all know about... the media has at least insured we're all acquainted with the fundamentals. Whether you believe there's global warming, or believe it's just a scam using false science and media to bring about a world bank, world police, world government... the effects are still the same. Shortages. More tax. More expense.

Whether you believe peak oil(an oil thirsty world encountering a slowing down of oil production) has happened or not, or even if you believe it's been orchestrated as well... the effects are just the same. Shortages. More tax. More expense. At least, that's what I thought until I researched the matter a little bit more closely.

Dooooom! Dooooooooom! Well, maybe not. This weekend's fact busting talk is about how we, the people, can take personal responsibility for ourselves to build in a resilience into our very own communities to these types of changes. Meet Transition Towns. Will the ancient site of Avebury become another exemplar, a flagship leading earth-friendly systems through to a safe land where our children and grandchildren can look back and thank the gods that we, you and me, made the change we wanted to see in the world. Come along to this weekend's moot and find out.

We live at a fascinating point in history. The convergence of challenges, most particularly global warming and peak oil, have brought us to a point where we are profoundly challenged to act. We are surrounded... by individuals telling us that this means the end, that we have gone too far, that it is inevitable that life as we know it will collapse catastrophically and very soon.



Yet, at the same time, something very powerful is stirring and is taking root the world over. People are choosing life and are manifesting that in their lives and their communities. People are starting to see peak oil as the Great Opportunity, the chance to build the world they always dreamt of. As one man said during a group discussion at the end of a screening of The End of Suburbia... “we’ve just seen that the end of the Oil Age will bring about the collapse of industrial society … bring it on!”. The scale of the challenge is huge, and the obstacles are plenty, but there is an emerging energy to succeed, a sense of quickening and an exhilaration in talking and listening to each other once again, to visioning what we want and then rolling up our sleeves and starting to co-create it. This is not a denial of the scale of the challenges we face, rather a practical and instinctual response to it. In towns and cities all over the world people are asking each other “what can we do about this?”.

From transitionculture.org

April's Moot - The Labyrinth, a trip through the Homeopathic Rainbow

This month's Moot will see Sam, a Registered Homeopath and resident of Avebury, talking about what she knows and loves the most - Labyrinths, Homeopathic Medicine and Rainbows. Her presentation style is lively, interactive and fun - and I'm sure you will all have a jolly time.

A big thanks to Janice who, in my absence, will be hosting the Moot this month. There will also be a few new and cheery faces dishing out tea and take :)

You'll also be interested to learn that we have speakers booked into the Moots for the next 6 months... I'll publish the lineup for you when we've dotted the eyes :)

Hope you all enjoy the moot and I can't wait for it to be published as a Podcast, so that I can have a good old listen. Incidentally, last month’s moot and two roaming moots will soon be available to listen to as well… watch this space.