Delaware Valley Pagan Network Clergy Submission Form

Let's build a list of Clergy folk in the Delaware Valley Pagan Network. 

Please note that the information submitted will be made public, so please do not share anything that you do not wish to have available publicly.

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Yuletide Sock Drive

Socks are one of the most requested items at homeless shelters, but they are also one of the least-donated items.

From December 17, 2016 (Krampuslauf Philadelphia: Parade of Spirits) through January 1, 2016, Distelfink Sippschaft will be collecting new, unworn socks for folks in need. We need all sizes, from baby to adult male. Practical socks, fun socks, fuzzy socks, holiday socks, argyle socks are all needed!

Stock up stacks of socks and stockings and help to bring warmth to the feet of those in need this Yuletide!

Contact Robert L. Schreiwer (schreiwer@urglaawe.org) for collection sites. The first location will be at Parade of Spirits/Krampuslauf in Liberty Lands Park.

Donations will be directed to homeless shelters in the Delaware Valley.

Parade of Spirits (formerly Krampuslauf Philadelphia)

Time to start planning for this wonderful, participatory event! Get your costume ready!

Parade of Spirits

Liberty Lands Park

Saturday, December 17, 2016

3:30 PM arrival

Parade begins around dusk

The Parade of Spirits in Philadelphia reflects the Wild Hunt throughout the realms. Come in costume as Krampus or as your favorite mythological shadow side creature from any tradition!

Philadelphia Pagan Pride Vendor and Workshop Applications Closing Tonight

Alert! We will be closing the vendor and workshop application pages tonight! If you are interested in either, please jump over to http://www.philadelphiapaganpride.org and sign up now!

An Urglaawe Ritual Response to the Pulse Massacre

The question has arisen on the main Urglaawe group about how to honor those murdered in the Pulse Massacre. I am thinking this is a time to make use of our color associations. Perhaps six candles:

Red: Representing the blood spilled, calling to Ziu for justice and to Dunner for courage and strength.

Orange: A request to the deities, to the ancestors (our own and those of the victims), to each other, and to ourselves to attain the energy needed to surmount the polarization and hatred that is consuming this world.

Yellow: Our response needs to be appropriately angered, but our love of humanity must be victorious over these hateful actions.

Green: For the growth and expansion of messaging and ideas that toward putting an end to this sort of terror.

Blue: A call for peace and consolation to those who loved the victims.

Violet: Appeal to the sacred and to the things that connect us because, as much as our humanity is what got us into this world plight, it will be our humanity that gets us out.

Per Urglaawe funerary rites, one may also want to get some seeds or something to represent the victims, then wrap the seeds up in four pieces of paper or cloth of different colors. Say the name of a victim while adding each seed.

The first would be red. Set each seed onto a red sheet. The color and action represents the loss of life and blood and the journey to death. Draw a Raidho rune on the red paper pack with the seeds inside.

Then take the red pack and wrap it in yellow-green. Draw the Yaahr/Jera rune on the now yellow-green pack. This represents the commending of the bodies back to nature.

Then take the pack and wrap it in black. Draw the Kenaz rune on it. This represents the Higher Self's journey through The Mill.

Take the pack and wrap it in white. Draw Ingwaz on the pack. This represents the rebirth of those lost into new soul constructs. 

Respectfully place the pack into a sacred fire, asking for Holle to bless the lost.

After that, perhaps add an uncounted number of seeds to a pack formed from purple cloth or paper. Draw the Mannaz rune on that pack, and add it to the fire along with pleads to Ziu, Zisa, and Dunner to aid the victims' loved ones.

I am going to work this into our Dingsege on Saturday. Perhaps if everyone performed the same -- or a related -- ritual at the same time (say, 2:30 PM EDT locally), we can strengthen our cause. 

Feel free to make this idea viral. Perhaps this virus can combat the virus of hate, destruction, and despair that is becoming an epidemic throughout the world.

Some DVPN and PPPD Resources

Folks who are on Facebook and/or Meetup may wish to jump onto these groups;

DVPN

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/19305827704/

Use for community/event announcements, general discussions, development of ideas for the community, Please, though, no sales without consulting with an Admin. 

Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/dvpn-org/

Blog: http://dvpagans.blogspot.com

Twitter: @DVPN

Yahoo Group: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dvpn-discuss/info

Philadelphia Pagan Pride Day

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/philadelphiapagapride/

NOTE: Please reserve this Facebook group only for questions, comments, and announcements related directly to PPPD. Other topics, community announcements, etc. are more than welcomed on the DVPN Facebook group.

Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/PhiladelphiaPPD/

Blog: http://www.philadelphiapaganpride.org

Twitter: @PhilaPaganPride

Thanks!