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.