For our Lughnasadh Charity event (I know, we are preparing early ), CedarLight Grove will be sending care packages to our overseas pagan military thanks to Operation Circle Care of the Circle Sanctuary.  Three Cranes Grove of Ohio and Sassafras Grove of Pennsylvania have also joined in the effort to make this a multi-Grove of ADF charity event!

From now until Lughnassadh, we will be collecting the following items:

Pagan Spiritual Medallions -

* Pentacles
* Ankhs
* Awen symbols
* Thor’s Hammers
* Sun symbols
* Moon symbols
* Goddess and/or God symbols
* Green Man/Woman symbols
* Wheel of the Year symbols

Other items -

* Pagan Music, Meditation: CDs & DVDs
* Gift cards from store that ship overseas, for example Barnes and Noble, Amazon
* Gift cards can be used for online holiday shopping (So deployed soldiers can send gifts home to their children from overseas)
* ATT phone cards
* Crystals
* Small God and Goddess statues
* Pagan Books (No nudity)
* Incense
* Oils
* Herbs
* Small Wands
* Small travel chalices
* Altar cloths

These items can be shipped or hand-delivered to CedarLight Grove in Baltimore (or subsequent Grove’s in Ohio or Pennsylvania) by or on our Lughnassadh High Rite.  We will be blessing these items during the rite before sending them off to be placed into care packages for soldiers.

Please join in our cause to celebrate our warriors during the time of the Tailteann Games of Lughnassadh. If you have any questions, please email clg@cedarlightgrove.org

[Download our flier for this event]

CedarLight Grove will be hosting a Personal Finance 101 workshop on April 11th starting at 1pm. This workshop will cover basics of personal finance such as emergency funds, snowballing debt, income vs. expenses, and those just starting out in financial management.

This is not a workshop on investing, retirement, or general financial planning. Those will be covered in a supplementary workshop later on. Personal Finance 101 is just going to cover the concept and steps of getting out of debt and recognizing bad habits.

This workshop is open to all, but you must RSVP for this event as there will be limited seating.

When: April 11, 2010 starting at 1pm. Folks are welcomed to join us for a pot-luck brunch at 10am and our weekly devotional meditation “Walk with the Old Ones”.
Cost: $10 for non-members, $5 for members. All proceeds go to support CedarLight Grove.
RSVP: Email clg@cedarlightgrove.org by April 9th

It is recommended that you bring a laptop or paper/pencil for taking notes. An e-mail follow-up of resources will be available after the workshop as well.

CedarLight Grove has been collecting canned food and non-perishable food items for the month of March, and will continue to do so through our Ostara High Rite.

Please consider bringing some non-perishable foods with you between now and during Ostara to donate to needy families.

We’ve decided to cancel our Imbolc High Rite indefinitely for 2010. We will be using our ritual preparations for our Ostara High Rite instead. We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope you will still join us for Rites of Caffiena this Sunday, and for future events

Usui Shiki Ryoho
Courtesy of: usuishikiryohoreiki.com

CedarLight is proud to present a Reiki I intensive scheduled for March 7th from 1-5pm by Reverend Caryn MacLuan. This same class is taught by Reiki Masters for $150 but we are offering it for only $50.

This will include:
-a book Reiki the Healing Touch by William Rand
-a Reiki Level I Attunement
-a Reiki Level I Certificate
-a brief history of Reiki
-an overview of the chakras and aura
-instruction and practice of treatment techniques

And homework for those who plan to go on to the Reiki II Attunement and training.

Please RSVP by March 1st by emailing clg@cedarlightgrove.org. We are limiting this class to 10-12 participants, so get your RSVP in soon!