Celtic Spirit:
Celtic Mythology and Modern Pagan Practice
5 Week Course
Wednesdays
September 16th through October 14th, 2009
7pm - 9pm
$20 per class
Please let us know you are interseted in taking the classes by September 9th.

This 5 week workshop series will offer a overview of Celtic mythological themes and how they relate to pagan practice and life in the modern world. Open to all levels of experience.

Week One: Celtic Mythology - Part One
Celtic Mythology ranges from 6 Celtic lands, hundreds of years of living folklore. Celtic cosmology and introduction to themes, rather than any particular one region’s myths will be discussed.

Week Two: Celtic Mythology - Part Two
In Week two, we will continue the survey of themes and mention a few major deities specifically as to how they affect the world today.

Week Three: Celtic Shamanism
Modern Pagans have recreated a shamanistic system using Celtic myths, sacred creatures, cosmology and the inspiring connection Celts have to magick, to the earth, and to the living worlds.

Week Four: Working with Celtic Faery Beings
Stories of Faery abduction, underworld travel, and interactions with magickal creatures abound in Celtic Myth. In this session you will learn how to build relationships with otherworld creatures.

Week Five: Ritual to the Goddess Brigid
Some of the theory taught earlier will be put into the context of Practice in this devotional ritual to Brigid. Lady of the Faery Folk, Healing, Inspiration, and Protection.

About the Teacher:
Maggi Horseman has been studying for 10 years as a Celtic and Northern focused witch. She is a Second Degree Initiate of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel, a 25 year old eclectic Wiccan Tradition currently consisting of 8 covens based in DE, MD, and PA. She is a member of the Assembly Coven, Chalice of Living Stars, in Chester County PA. Her interests range from women’s empowerment, otherworld beings, nature devas, green magick, kitchen witchery, shamanism, ceremonial magick, martial arts, warriorship, and sweat lodge. The main deities she works with include Brigid, Cerrnenous, Herne, the Morrigan, and Celtic Artemis also known as Artio. She began working with Norse deities and magick in 2007 and mainly works with Odin and Freya. In NJ, she serves on the council of the Northern NJ Pagan Fellowship.

Maggi has a BA Degree in fine art and Anthropology from Salisbury
University. She moved from MD to NJ in 2008 and lives with her
loving partner and two cats in Ridgefield Park. In NJ, she serves on
the council of the Northern NJ Pagan Fellowship. You may contact
Maggi at maggi.horseman@gmail.com.

Assembly of the Sacred Wheel: http://www.sacredwheel.org
Chalice of Living Stars: http://www.sacredwheel.org/cls
Northern NJ Pagan Fellowship: http://www.meetup.com/Northern-New-Jersey-Pagan-Fellowship