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.