A lot has been happening over the course of 2018 so far for Great Valley Kindred. While we may not have had a Q1 newsletter, I’ll cover the basics of what we’ve been up to as we transition into an exciting second half of the year. Past Happenings January: Creation of the World, we did …
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2017 q4 newsletter
The 3rd quarter we omitted a newsletter due to time constraints. Everything was under control, though. Herein follows the 4th quarter review. Past Happenings October: Winter Nights saw a semi-private ritual to Ing and the Ancestors. This was a blood sacrifice involving a farm animal. Our weofodthegn is a farm girl and has been trained …
q2 2017 Newsletter
GVK Newsletter q2 2017 The Summer Solstice fast approaches. Seems hard to believe 2017 is almost halfway expired, does it not? GVK has been busy last quarter. Here are the highlights. Rituals: April: We conducted a rite to Hretha and Eostre. We are an Anglo-Saxon kindred, after all, and these two little-known …
q1 2017 Newsletter
Hail, Friends! It’s time again for a quarterly wrap-up! Past Happenings January: As we always do, we honored Woden for the creation of the world. We ritually reenacted the sacrifice of Ymir by creating a bread simulacrum and dismembering him. February: The Charming of the Plow was observed on an unseasonably warm day. Ing …
2016 q4 newsletter
Howdy, friends. In October, we had a “blot” in the truest sense of the word, which is to say a blood offering. Our closest associates gathered at Winter Nights as an animal was sacrificed in honor of Ing and the Ancestors. We are fortunate to gather at a farmhouse, where our presiding spiritual officer is …
2016 q3 Newsletter
Quarterly Recap: In July we honored Tiw (Tyr). In August we honored Thunor (Thor). Some of us also attended the Summerstow festival. This September some of our members established a presence at Frederick Pagan Pride and conversed with some interested parties. This September we also had a private kindred retreat, our annual “meeting of the …
2016 q2 Newsletter
Ah, summer. Sunny skies and fecund fields. I had occasion the last rite to observe the gardens of my kinsman, Donald. Imagine several rows of neatly constructed lumber beds arrayed rank-and-file in a field of mulch and topsoil. Heads of cabbages and cauliflowers bursting forth from their resting places. Brilliant marigolds blazoned in the midsummer …
2016 q1 Newsletter
In January we honored Woden and his two brothers in our “Creation of the World” rite. A breadman was created as a simulacrum of the giant Ymir. The kindred and its guests ritually dismembered it in recreation of the primordial sacrifice that begat the world. In February we honored Ing-Frey at Charming of the Plow. …
q4 2015 Newsletter
GVK Newsletter q4 2015 As we open our last quarter of this year, we celebrated the joyous nuptials of Crystal Groves to Donald Smith. It was a beautiful ceremony at Thor’s Hollow in early October, invoking Frige and Ing. May the two newlyweds live long in connubial harmony! We returned briefly to Thor’s Hollow for …
2015 q3 Newsletter
September isn’t over, but the kindred has wrapped up its business and considers the quarter closed. Oh, what a quarter it has been! Heretofore we had had our founding celebration/private retreat in July. Call us wimps, if you wish, but the heat and insect activity of the July weather was detracting from our camping experience. …
