New England Pagan Land Project

Last week, the New England Pagan Land Project had its first organizational meeting.  There were two of us there – Stone Coyote and myself.  Ragnar would have made it except for a stroke of good luck that struck him and he had be at his new job.

We spent about an hour and a half discussing the project, out hope, dreams, and plans for it and basically getting acquainted.  For next time he’ll be looking into the legalities of land use by religious organizations and I’ll be looking into the legalities of becoming a religious non-profit, the exact type we will be, etc. as well as how to try and get others involved.

At this time, I’d like to schedule our next meeting.  As the last one was the second Tuesday of January, I’d like to propose that we meed on the first or second Tuesdays of a month – that is, the first Tuesday unless it happens to be a holiday in which case, we’ll meet the second Tuesday.

Any thoughts on this?  Is this a particularly good or bad day for those who would like to be involved?  Please let me know.  Leave a comment here or email me at brian at pagan sanctuary dot org.

Current Mood:  hopeful

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Welcome, everyone and Happy New Year to all of you.

With 2009, I would like to get things rolling here at PaganSanctuary.org and It looks like it’s going to be a good one.  Jupiter enters Aquarius on January 5th and I have a feeling that this will be bringing better news for the world.  This site is up and running and the forums are beginning to be active.  We’re beginning our first step to make this huge project work, and that means organizing into a real non-profit corporation.  I know it sounds daunting, and this very project sounds pretty daunting, in fact.  I am convinced, however, that if we take it step by step, we can make something wonderful.

So far, there are three of us who have volunteered to work on this.  We need at least five.  I’d like to see us form a council of 7, 9, or 13 to run the show.  That doesn’t mean that othere won’t be welcome – we need all the help we can get.  Even if you don’t want to be an active member of the council or board of directors, you can still help us out a great deal.  Talk to your friends about this site.  Spread the word that we’re doing something special that will benefit the entire community – and the gods.  Visualize with me our completed outcome – a network of places where we can worship, pray, retreat from the mundane world, and organize community events and yes, even party.  Visualize a place where you can help build temples to the gods we worship, where we can commune with our gods and the spirits of the land and of our ancestors.

There are already a scant few such places – you might have heard of them and you might have visited a few of them – and they could use our help, too.  Just in New England, I know of Cauldron Farm and A Sacred Place, and both can use volunteers for regular maintenance, improving roads and trails, cutting fire wood, and more.  These places are sacred to us and far too few.  Imagine, if you will, building the Pagan Sanctuary into a network of volunteers to help these sites out and build more.  Each of the existing Sanctuaries has its own small group of people doing a great job of keeping them alive, but imagine if we had a larger community.  More hands make easier work.  And that is exactly what I hope to do with this.

So pass the word around.  Visualize what we could become.  Help out when and where you can and we CAN do this.  One step at a time, we can do it.  With your help, we can do it better.

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