Desert Magic Festival 2007

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This year we held our first Desert Magic outside of Summerlands - up on the top of Mt. Lemmon at a Girl Scout
Camp! We were lucky with the weather - while it got a bit cold at night, the days were quite pleasant. Next
year we'll try harder to get our old May dates.

We had an Opening Rite, honoring Math, the Welsh God of Magic, and we left the Gates open for the
weekend. Francesca held a Slavic ADF Rite (where they sacrificed a cake!) during her class and Gannd led the Unity Rite which utilized the talents of our assembled guests.

At the closing rite on Sunday, at Steve's suggestion, we made a working to heal the wounded land, burned in
the great fire of three years ago.

For our Bardic evening, Ian and Sue played and sang, and Jack and Meredith led a fantastic auction - and
raised more than $2000! Kirk auctioned off the Archdruid - Kirk produced a tutu and announced that Skip
would put it on and model it if we got $100 in bids. We raised $400 on that one!

Our presenters were many and various! Ian produced his new divination system, based on ADF cosmology. Sue
presented on Indo-European Goddesses, Faolan led an incredible workshop on shapeshifting and the warrior within (and the festivals back east would do well to bring him out to do these as well!), Kirk did one on the nature of sacrifice, Illious led us on a tour of the world through beer (and we all got a bit fuzzy at that one), Cei spoke about common IE mythological themes, Skip spoke about the role of the Seer in IE culture, Linda led a trance journey and Dennis led a warrior roundtable.

Click on any photo below to see a larger version.
Photos are by Gannd, Craig Wilcox and Leahlani Thornhill

Arlene teaches the chants	Dennis offers to the Fire	The Ritual Warrior	Nora leads the 2 Powers	Kirk hallows the Waters
Craig and the ADF Regalia table	Deedra, Paul and Carmela	Kate and Tina	Linda, Ian and Meredith	Nora at the Unity Rite
Nora, Medb and Skip	Kirk teaches on the Nature of Sacrifice	Cei teaches on IE mythological themes	Illious tells us all about the beers of the world	Jon's stone fish
Bert carves a stone	Sue and Ian entertain us!	Jack and Meredith lead the incredible auction!	Ben and Modig	Steve Fuji plays for us
Jenni Hunt recites	Kirk auctions off the Archdruid!	Skip in the tutu!	Faolan starts his class	Ulrich shapeshifts
Jon brings the sacrifice for the Land	The Closing Rite	We Honor the Earth	We pray for healing	Jenni and Sharon