FERAFERIA NEWS:

Feraferia at PantheaCon, Sunday February 19, 2012
Wednesday december 21st 2011. Feraferaia (a Love Culture for Wilderness & Celebration of Wildness) will offer a dance to the Goddess, an Oimelc/Candlemas rite with the faeries of wild nature at PantheaCon next year. I'd love for you to come and join us for it, on Sunday February 19 at 1:30 pm, in the Cedar Room at PantheaCon.

Here are some details including the link to Pantheacon, where you can register:
http://pantheacon.com/wordpress/ PantheaCon is an annual eclectic gathering of Pagan tribes & folk from all over the world in San Jose, CA. For four days (February 17 - 20, 2012, Presidents Day weekend) the San Jose Doubletree Hotel will be taken over by folk from all traditions of wicca, magick, shamanism, Nordic folk, the fairie folk, and many more - your choice, at any time, of about 10 different very cool/hot/fascinating offerings - rites, rituals, music, bardic circles, chanting groups, witchery, herb magick, ceremonial magick, trance journeys, sacred bee keeping... Only $65 for the full conference if you pre-register.

Rooms at the event hotel (Doubletree San Jose (2050 Gateway Place, San Jose CA 95110) proper have been sold out since last summer, but only 1 1/2 blocks away is the pleasant (and discounted for the event) San Jose Airport Garden Hotel (the San Jose Airport Garden Hotel at 1740 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 793-3300. It is just a 10 minute walk or 3-5 minute shuttle ride from the Doubletree, and parking is free with your room. Please mention PantheaCon when booking to get the group rate ($85/night for 2 queen beds, up to 4 people).

Here is the description of us in the program, derived from Fred Adams' original writings:
"Feraferia - A Dance for the Goddess: Feraferia is nature oriented, poetic tribal Folk and Faerie Lore, festival forms, magic, esoteric religions, erotic systems of spiritual development, ecstasy and vision quest, divinations, enchantments, seasonal and regional nature communion, wild-food gathering information, organic horticulture, nature blending arts and crafts, research into communication between all forms of life and nature, golden feast diet and paradisal life styles. Join Feraferia as we invite the Fay to dance with us in the endless wedding procession of Ouvrania and Kronos, of alpine peaks and cone forests, at it winds through mazes of starlight in the nuptial night of the nameless bride!"< /I>

Here you can find the complete text of the Feraferia Oimelc festival.

We will dance forth the Goddess from the Underworld, and entrance the local Fay (faerie) mostly from the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains and the San Francisco Wetlands and Bay, but also from the distant galaxies, to join us in the world between the worlds for a time of magic and revelry!
May you be inspired to come dance with Feraferia! Please let me know if you will be joining us.

Blessings, Jo Carson from Feraferia.

Nine Royal Passions Project Finished!
Wednesday december 21st 2011. At last, the Feraferia Yearly Festivals or 'Nine Royal Passions of the Year' are online for everyone to read and share. Added to these texts are the original texts which were originally added to them to explain the Feraferia system to the readers of the original blue booklets. It was Fred's wish these texts should be offered to the public at large for free this way. Everyone is invited to respond or react to make this project a living entity.
You can check all the festivals and see which one is ready at the Festival Index.

Nine Royal Passions Online Project Starts
Thursday march 18th 2011. At last, the Feraferia Yearly Festivals or 'Nine Royal Passions of the Year' will all be online soon. The first one to be available is the Festival of Ostara. You can check all the festivals and see which one is ready at the Festival Index.

In Memoriam: Lady Svetlana
Thursday may 6th 2010 after a long illness Lady Svetlana quietly passed over to the other side in a nursery hone in California.
For years she was the partner and great inspiration of Fred McAdams. Together they were the ultimate Highpriestess and Highpriest of Feraferia. During that time she wrote a great number of poems, texts and rituals of her own, which together with Fred's material make up the Feraferia codex
with which we now have to work in order to continue their paradisal vision of a more 'wild' and natural world to come.

May the Wings of the Lady Caress and Protect Her on her way to the Summerland.

In Memoriam: Fred McAdams
Fred McAdams passed over to the other side in California on saturday august 9th 2008 at 8:00 am. His niece was at his side holding his hand. It was a shock to everyone who knew him, pagans and non pagans alike. The memorial service took place sunday, the 28th of September, 2008, at the Mont Salvat Temple and Hermatage of the OTA Lodge in Pasadena, California.

Fred was of great importance, not only for our own Dutch group, but also for the Pagan Community as a whole. In the 1960's it was Fred who organised the Council of Themis, and together with Anderson he founded the Fairy Faith, which later on gave birth to Faery Wicca and Fred's own Feraferia movement. In the time I helped him organising his Feraferia texts and turn them into some kind of complete 'Book of Shadows' he was my closest advisory by organising my own group here in the Netherlands. I'm truly sad I never got the chance to meet him personally.......

A great artist, magus, magister, but most of all human and friend has gone.
May the Wings of the Lady Caress and Protect Him on his way to the Summerland.

Other people will maintain and continue his work for the future. The current board of Feraferia will be Poke Runyon, Pat Ancona and Jo Carson. They will keep Feraferia alive in California by organising at least one Feraferia seasonal ceremony per year. Meanwhile according to Fred's ideas we will be working hard on his texts and in time we will offer them to the community for free to download them in the lay-out and way it was intended. Links will appear on this side as soon as this project will start.

Fred McAdams Art Features in New Movie.
March 2008. Fred McLaren's artwork can now be viewed in the new hermetic movie 'Beyond Lemuria' In this fictional story about the everlasting battle between the forces of good and evil, Fred's art is presented as prehistoric remains of a long lost civilisation. It even comes to life in a scene when a Goddes steps out of the painting into the 'real' world. You can find more about this remarkable project at http://www.beyondlemuria.com/.

FERAFERIA'S NEW WEBSITE.
March 2006. Feraferia hopes to inform, serve and help a modern public for the coming years by way of its new website, and new people who take care of it. Should you have any questions or remarks, please let us know and we'll mail you back.

THE LOST CANYON HOUSE MURALS - FOUND!
Early Historic Mural Images of the Feraferia Spirit from 1960-1962 are found back again.
They were painted by the Founder of Feraferia: Fred Charles-McLaren Adams.
Read all about it at this link: http://www.ixoraflorist.com/murals

CONTACT FERAFERIA:
You can reach Ferafareria by e-mail via our contact persons Jo Carson, Phaedrus or Lady Selena
Feraferia's phone number is: (00+1 for USA) (530) 265-2637

KORE INCANTATION :
If you are a Lover of Nature, Galactic, Eco-Psychic and Humane,
please join us in a gesture of Paradisal Devotion.
Commune in prayer by repeating each day, outdoors whenever possible, this KORE Incantation:

"Oh Holy Maiden of the kindling Quick,
Of merging mist and mazing echo.
The innocent bounty of the trees
Bares Your Faerie Flesh of Wildness Wonder Magic Mirth and Love.
Your Beauty seals our bridal with all Life.
The Dance of Your green Pulse unfolds all Souls,
All Bodies and all Blessings from Earth's fragrant Form."
Evoee Koree! Evoee Kouros! Aweeeya!!!

EVOE KORE!
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