With Ginger and Harmony moved full time to Egypt, and Beth moving down state again,
the ole APA is not quite dead, but greatly less active, particularly in the spring, summer, and fall.
So we are doing the newsletters once yearly now.
We've been at the newsletters here since the last century
and there is some great info in our back issues. So leaving all them up and available for exploring.
Anything you'd like to submit for the 2017 newsletter send to Ginger on the facebook Appalachian Pagan Alliance group page.
Ginger will be back yearly for the winter holidays and will hostess the usual APA costumed Brunch on Samhain, and a Yuletide event yearly.
Beth Teleri, Terri, Joy, and the other usual suspects will be holding the fort for the rest of the year and having some Pagan Lunches.
Here are photos of our 2016 Samhain Costumed Brunch (above) and Yuletide Lunch.(Below)
The chat group on facebook is also still going strong, adding new members all the time, well over 100 now!
Anything you'd like to submit for the 2017 newsletter send to Ginger on the facebook Appalachian Pagan Alliance group page.
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Ginger and Beth went on a pilgrimage to the Mayan ruins in Belize in December.
Where they performed a bloodletting rite on the sacrificial altar in front of the Temple of the Balam (Jagaur Gods)
in Lamania, Belize, after getting there via a boat ride up The River Of Many Faces.'
Beth sliced open the heel of Ginger's left hand, then coated a ceremonial jade Jaguar-head-handled blade
in Ginger's blood. Ginger then plunged the blade into the ground between the altar and the Temple pyramid.
The blade still coated with bits of Ginger's blood and the Mayan earth now rests
on Ginger's Altar at her winter cabin in North Carolina.
The spell was to make an offering to the Mayan Gods to relieve Ginger of any past life debts or current life debts
that were holding her back from moving on from her divorce.
The spell could be used in a less magical spot, if you just can't get to any Mayan ruins,
and can be used to offer a sacrifice in exchange for any curses being lifted from one.
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A Raven Totem Invocation
by Terri King
I feel your love, like a raven in my head,
your coal black feathers strewn across my bed,
a thousand feet above the ground you take me,
if only to forsake me,
my heart lies bleeding on the ground,
I'm falling down, down down down...
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