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Yuletide season is upon us and Wyoming Valley CUUPS is excited to offer a lot of fun December activities for the season.
This month, several of our WVCUUPS Crows are hosting events at our local NEPA metaphysical store Pickeyweedz. Come hang out with us as we drum, divine and learn stuffs.
We are stronger together. If you have an internet connection, or even just a phone, you can stay connected to the community.
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Scroll down to see this month's opportunities to connect, learn, and grow.
An up-to-date listing of events is always available at www.wyomingvalleycuups.com, our Google Calendar as well as on the Events section of our Facebook page.
Hope to see you soon!
The Wyoming Valley Crows
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Join Shannon from Wyoming Valley CUUPS for our first Pickeyweedz drum circle at 4:30PM.
Come together for community with sounds of rhythm and connection.
A drum circle is a celebration of life, community, and music-making in the moment.
Please bring hand drums, shakers and other hand percussion. A few small percussion instruments will be available if you do not have your own.
This event is free however donations will be accepted benefiting Wyoming Valley CUUPS
FB LINK: https://fb.me/e/28h3NKcs0
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Join us for Magick and connection in our online Full Moon ritual! Many of us started out as solitary practitioners on our Pagan and Witch paths. To those of us introverts, it can be quite a leap to seek out other like-minded groups. Online rituals can offer the best of both worlds to those who are more comfortable casting alone. You can turn off a video feed if you are more comfortable, set up your space and connect while being led in ritual simultaneously.
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In Pagan practices, the Full Moon means many things. Abundance, spirituality, peak psychic ability, fertility, a good time for Magick, The Mystery. Something about that silvery light sets the subconscious to dreaming. Things are possible by moonlight that are not in the revealing light of day. We can be more truly ourselves, casting off some of the masks we layer on in order to fit in during our daytime lives. Our truths are easier to manage in moonlight. We’re more willing to step into Mystery, to allow dreams, and to listen to what our inner voice has to say.
-Irene Glasse
President of Frederick CUUPS
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Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/93456370081
FB Link: https://fb.me/e/1Pv59vdJf
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Wednesday 12/7 & 12/28 at 7 PM EST via Zoom
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Have you ever been interested in learning about Tarot cards? How to use them? What the cards mean? Well then this is the series for you. This 13 bi-monthly session will go through the history of the cards, go through the different components of the deck and allow for some practice reading.
The tarot can help you understand yourself better and teach you how to tap your inner resources more confidently. You do not have to have "psychic powers" to use the tarot successfully. All you need is the willingness to honor and develop your natural intuition. If you're a new reader, this course will help you find your way to reading fluently over the course of several months. If you're a somewhat experienced or even a veteran reader, it will help you fill in interpretive gaps and consolidate your knowledge into a strong and flexible practice.
Recommended materials include:
- Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck
- Something to take notes with
Class Schedule - Wednesdays 7PM-9PM EST
12/7 Wands 8-Courts
12/28 Cups 1-7
1/11 Cups 8-Courts
1/25 Pentacles 1-7
2/8 Pentacles 8-Courts
2/22 Classic Tarot Spreads
A 201 Course will be March 2023! That creating your own spreads, Tarot with numerology, astrology, qabalah, spell work and more!
ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/97766444052
FB LINK 12/7: https://fb.me/e/2IPzZImPm
FB LINK 12/28: https://fb.me/e/3iFL9zyYi
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Come enjoy the beauty and peace of the Labyrinth by the light of the Full moon!
The labyrinth will be illuminated from 7:00pm-8:30pm. Everyone is welcome.
During the cooler months, we take our Labyrinth practice indoors.
If you haven't walked a Labyrinth before, there is no ceremony or ritual. A Labyrinth Walk is safe, open Sacred Space for personal exploration.
We will also have Tarot and Oracle card readings available as well as a space for hot coffee and tea.
FB Link: https://fb.me/e/5aDr4EKGj
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Tarot & Rune Readings with Emily and Raven Redfeather!
This is an outreach & fundraising event.
Emily will be reading from her Mystical Cats Tarot and Enchanted Forest Oracle decks. Readings are $5 each, and will include up to 10 cards. Emily has been reading tarot and oracle for over 10 years!
Raven Redfeather will be offering rune readings for $5 per reading. Raven uses the elder futhark runes and offers two different readings: a full 24 rune cast or a three rune pull. She has been practicing divinatory methods both Abrahamic and Pagan, since 2008.
Both Emily and Raven Redfeather are facilitators in the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPs) of Wyoming Valley where to lead rituals, classes, labyrinth walks and more.
FB Link: https://fb.me/e/29K7cM1N4
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Please join us for our monthly meeting where we will be planning events and gatherings for February.
All are welcome to attend whether you are a member of WVCUUPS or not. This meeting is for those that have ideas or interest in participating and volunteering in our events. The meeting will be held online via zoom.
We use google docs for our Meeting Agenda, Notes and Discussion points. Meeting Notes & Agenda can be found here: https://bit.ly/wvcuupsmeetings
We will be:
- Doing a quick review/checkin of our December & January events to make sure we are on track
- Setting dates for all of our February Gatherings
- Going over our Imbolc Ritual.
Have some ideas for our Winter rituals or other events? We'd love to hear them? Feel free to join us or event send us an email about it at wyomingvalleycuups@gmail.com
NOTE: Our Monthly Meetings are now held the 2nd Saturday of each month at 8PM EST via Zoom.
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Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/96009621557
FB Link: https://fb.me/e/20dFDdQX3
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Join us for an evening of celebration, toasting, and boasting!
A Sumbel is a Norse Pagan ritual consisting of rounds where each participant has a turn to toast, praise or hail a God, ancestor, spirit, or self. They then pour a beverage and everyone drinks. Traditionally there are three rounds.
This sumbel will be dedicated to the Norse Goddess Frigg. Frigg is the wife of Odin, mother of Baldr, and see-er of all fates. She is a Goddess of the home and hearth, a matron Deity. The first round will be in her honor. The second round of the sumbel will be to our matron ancestors, known in Norse Paganism as our Disir. And the third round will be to ourselves. It is the time to celebrate our accomplishments.
Participants will be encouraged, but not required, to take turns toasting. Bring a beverage, or two, or three, of you choosing and get comfortable in front of your computer in this virtual sumbel.
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Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/96134520320
FB Link: https://fb.me/e/2bDveS6K5
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Join us as we visit Pickeyweedz and
learn the basics of magic and spell casting with Emily Haberkern of the Wyoming Valley CUUPS community.
This is a fundraising event.
In this workshop, she will cover the basics of:
- Energy work and spell work
- Researching or writing your own spells
- Sourcing ingredients and tools
- Casting spells
- Troubleshooting spells that don't work!
Fundraising Cost: $5.00 Donation for our Midsummer Pride Event!!!
FB LINK: https://fb.me/e/2u4caRtX2
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Join Wyoming Valley CUUPS for our Yule Rituals (and Potluck for our in-person gathering)!
Yule, the Winter Solstice, falls on the shortest day and longest night of the year. Pagans welcome the rebirth of the Sun with dancing, music and festivities. Yule is a celebration of the season, an opportunity to manifest new desires and to support each other in difficult times.
FOR OUR IN-PERSON RITUAL:
Arrive between 4:00-4:15pm
Ritual will start at 4:20PM
This year, Wyoming Valley CUUPS Member, Karen Fisher, will be leading a special Druidic O.B.O.D. Ritual for our in-person ritual. After the in-person ritual, we will gather for the Potluck after the ritual. Please either keep ingredient list or label all offerings with the included ingredients to allow those with dietary restrictions to make healthy choices for themselves.
Our rituals like to include drumming, so feel free to bring a percussion instrument if you have one. Depending on the weather, we may do a fire outside and have a drum circle after our potluck. Its late December so probably not, but one can hope...
In-Person FB Link: https://fb.me/e/3TvnrPFum
Online FB Link: https://fb.me/e/2WP3NYtKC
Online Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/94749090617
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For our monthly Dark Moon Discussions Wyoming Valley CUUPS is diving into the book "Warrior Goddess Training" by Heatherash Amara. Each Dark Moon, we will delve into a new chapter for discussion, learning, healing and deeper work.
The Ninth chapter is "Embody your Wisdom"
All are welcome. If there are a lot of people, we will use zooms raise hand feature to direct the flow of discussion.
Book can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Goddess-Training-Become-Woman-ebook/dp/B00KOD9DFQ/
It is 99¢ on kindle right now.
Optional workbook found here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015K1BXHW/
Also 99¢ on kindle right now.
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Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/97420659596
FB Link: https://fb.me/e/3biXPjNsg
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Join the Wyoming Valley CUUPS chapter as we dive into a different dark God, Goddess or other Spiritual Power each month around the dark moon.
These lessons may include a degree of shadow work and self-reflection.
Dark Deities, Gods and Goddesses of the Underworlds, chaos, shadow, and destruction, are sometimes thought of as bad in a binary good vs evil light. These Deities may not hide their shadow side and may make some of us feel uncomfortable, but through that shadow we often find deep introspection, shadow work, self-improvement, devotion, and even love.
This Dark Moon, we are honoring the Norse God Fenris.
Fenris, also called Fenrir or Fenris’s Wolf, is the son of Loki and Angrboda. He is known as the destructive force of Ragnarok, the Norse apocalyptic event. Join Wyoming Valley CUUPS facilitator Raven Redfeather as we dive into the lore of Fenris and create a space for our divine rage and anger.
*Trigger warning. There will be some guided imagery for this devotional involving abduction, binding, and extreme societal rejection. If you wish to join, please have the proper care which you may need.
Recommended tools: Something to journal with.
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Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/94834765773
FB Link: https://fb.me/e/2jJNMC3e6
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January things that we are super excited about! It is our favorite way to start the year!
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All the January Events Planned so far.
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