![]() ![]() ![]() The artifacts will be returned to Greece on March 24 and a special ceremony to receive them has been planned. The three sculpture fragments, which are over 2,500 years old, depict the heads of a bearded man, a boy, and a horse. VATICAN CITY – Last week, Vatican officials signed an agreement to return to Greece three Parthenon sculpture fragments that it has held in the permanent collection of the Vatican Museums for 200 years. Image credit: Mstyslav Chernov – CC BY-SA 3.0 Parthenon, Athenian Acropolis (internal view) – Athens, Greece. More details on Camp Hekate are available on the Sacred Medicine Sisterhood website. Saturday and Sunday lunch is up to the guests attending.” ![]() There is a potluck dinner on Friday night, a professionally catered dinner on Saturday, and a continental breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Organizers note that the “facilities for the event are rustic camping, with ample bathroom facilities. In addition to the classes and rituals centered around Hekate, the three-day summer camp will also offer a variety of workshops on “subjects such as death, dying, and crossing the veil uses of animal skulls in witchcraft and spiritual work spell jars and magickal talismans warding, banishment, and curse removal classes on yoga and spiritual body movement and much more.”Īccording to the press release all of the workshops will be “geared to various experience levels,” and the event will also have performances that will range from belly dancers and fire spinners to community and sacred fires and even a Hekatean dance party. author of Entering Hekate’s Garden, Keeping Her Keys and True Magic, will be the main presenter of the first Camp Hekate.īrannen is a noted expert when it comes to modern practices of working with the Goddess Hekate, and describes herself as “a seeker of the sacred within and the mysteries of the deeper world.” She is also the founder of The Covina Institute, which identifies itself as “a community for those exploring the magic, medicine, and mystery of the ancient goddess Hekate through personal inquiry, transcendent experiences, and natural magick.” Instead, it emboldens us to make the world better a place through the study of magick, the constant drive to learn how to be a better person through its use, and helping educate others that seek that knowledge and practice.Ĭyndi Brannen, Ph.D. The increasing popularity of witchcraft does not deter those of us that have studied the Craft for several years. “Many of us will never get to go to a magical school like in popular fiction, but we can build the witchy equivalent. Many witches are solitary practitioners, and the ability to connect to others in a welcoming space helps foster support and connection. Fellowship is something that is also needed. Magickal education is important since there is more information, and accessibility of the subject, than ever before and it is a great benefit to learn from experienced teachers. “Witchcraft is essentially pantheistic- meaning that we and the Universe are One- and the connection it offers is an antidote to a world that we sometimes feel woefully separate from. It can include anything from the mystical usage of plants, spell work that allows the user to manifest their goals, astrology that helps explain our place in the cosmos and how it influences us, simple rituals to help cope with the stress of everyday existence, and much more. “The goal of Camp Hekate is to facilitate magickal education and fellowship as it relates to modern witchcraft. As occult means “hidden” so too does Hekate guide us in the hidden and subtle arts of the Craft. She is a divine teacher and revealer of the Craft. She is well known as a deity of witchcraft, change, and spiritual guidance. ![]() The goddess Hekate is the main spiritual inspiration and divine patron for the event. “The knowledge and worship of Hekate has grown in popularity as witchcraft has gained cultural prominence. The press release outlined the objective and purpose of the event: According to a press release, the organizer is Rae Fia Brassell of Sacred Medicine Sisterhood, and “Camp Hekate is a three-day, immersive weekend experience to awaken the witch within, from the afternoon of Friday, July 7th to the afternoon of Sunday, July 9th, 2023.” – In response to a number of people expressing interest in a Pagan summer camp experience, a new event will be held at the Wolf Run Wildlife and Spiritual Sanctuary this summer. ![]()
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