Coming soon - Jo will help Feraferia (a Love Culture for Wilderness & Celebration of Wildness) present a dance to the Goddess, an Oimelc/Candlemas rite with the faeries of wild nature at PantheaCon this year.

Date/Time:  Sunday February 19, 2012, at 1:30 pm, in the Cedar Room at PantheaCon.

Feraferia - A Dance for the Goddess: Feraferia is nature oriented, poetic tribal Folk and Faerie Lore, festival forms, magic, esoteric religions, erotic systems of spiritual development, ecstasy and vision quest, divinations, enchantments, seasonal and regional nature communion, wild-food gathering information, organic horticulture, nature blending arts and crafts, research into communication between all forms of life and nature, golden feast diet and paradisal life styles. Join Feraferia as we invite the Fay to dance with us in the endless wedding procession of Ouvrania and Kronos, of alpine peaks and cone forests, at it winds through mazes of starlight in the nuptial night of the nameless bride!

The theme will be based on earth's/Gaia's process at this time of year:

NORTHEAST - OIMELC - Candlemas

DEVOTED TO AMPHITRITE AND POSEIDON : GODS OF CLEANSING WATERS.

The Festival of Enscaled Buds on Bare Branches, and also of First Shoots. Through portals of earth, branch and cloud, Her burning Belly bursts the locks of frost. The babe lowers. Torchlit processions lead the Goddess out of the Underworld.  Slush from snows thawing off the heights, and mud from new rains signal the bursting of the water sack. 

We will dance forth the Goddess from the Underworld, and entrance the local Fay (faerie) mostly from the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains and the San Francisco Wetlands and Bay, but also from the distant galaxies, to join us in the world between the worlds for a time of magic and revelry!  

PantheaCon lasts 4 days, from February 17 - 20.  Details and link to PantheaCon, where you can register:

http://pantheacon.com/wordpress/   

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Radio Show - Jo was interveiwed on "The Magic of Feraferia" with host Karen Tate, August 31st on "Voices of the Sacred Feminine"; link here to listen anytime: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/voicesofthesacredfeminine/2011/09/01/jo-carson

This show had a good discussion of how to call in the Fay Folk of wild nature, and strengthen that relationship over time.

Radio Show - Jo Carson discussed 'Feraferia - A Faerie Faith' with host Dave Alan on "Talk Back Radio 1080" in Santa Cruz, CA on Sunday August 21 2011, but you can download the show and listen anytime from the following link:
Jo Carson -Feraferia- A faerie faith

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SCPN JUNE GATHERING - SONOMA COUNTY PAGAN NETWORK

A SPECIAL SCREENING

Friday, June 17th ~ Doors open at 7 pm
Luther Burbank Art and Garden Center
2050 Yulupa Ave., Santa Rosa, CA
Wheelchair Accessible

DANCING WITH GAIA
The SCPN is honored to host a one night only screening of this feature
documentary by Jo Carson. This film is about new and ancient ways to
experience earth as part of your own body. MS Carson will speak after
the showing of her documentary. CD's will be available for purchase.

"Dancing With Gaia" is a toolkit for connecting with earth energies,
sacred sexuality and the return of the Goddess as Gaia. Fifteen
visionaries, including Fred Adams, founder of Feraferia, Wiccan teacher
Cerridwen Fallingstar, and Geomancer Richard Feather Anderson, present
ways to deeply experience the living earth; filmed at prehistoric sites
of earth-based religions in nine countries. The DVD comes packaged with
a beautiful 48-page color mini-book, which expands on the material in
the film. See the trailer at: http://www.gaiadancing.com/trailer.html

POTLUCK FEAST

Since our gathering is at the dinner hour, we ask that you bring a
potluck dish and/or non-alcoholic brew to share that serves 4-6 people.
Let's treat ourselves to! a good meal. Please bring your own place
setting. There will be hot water available for tea.

We ask non-members to make a donation of $5 – 3 to help us cover
operating costs. No one turned away for lack of funds.

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Radio Show - Jo appeared on The Hermetic Hour (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-hermetic-hour/2011/04/15/one-year-anniversary-show) on Thursday 4/14/11, and the show is archived so you can listen anytime.  The host, ceremonial magician Caroll "Poke" Runyon was doing a one-year anniversary show, recounting highlights from all this past year, including his interview with Jo on "Dancing With Gaia".

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PantheaCon - http://www.pantheacon.com/

"Dancing With Gaia" screened at PantheaCon, on Sunday February 20th ; After the show Jo answered questions and talked about the laughing girl Goddess, Kore and the faerie tradition of Feraferia.  This was the seventeenth annual PantheaCon: in their words, "our wonderful gathering of the tribes, and the largest annual pagan convention in the US. The Bay Area has a wide range of pagans, reconstructionists, and nature religions that meet and mingle here. Once again we offer the best events and most knowledgeable speakers that the West and beyond has to offer.."

Radio Interview - KSCO AM1080 in the California Central Coast Area

Jo spoke with radio host Dave Alan on Sunday, December 5th, from 4 - 6 PM - on how "Dancing With Gaia" came to be, and about deep, effective ways to feel the earth to be part of your extended body.  What does that feel like?  What is it like to share it with a partner - real or imaginary?  Why is the world of faerie important to us now?  You can listen to the show from the archives, and be inspired to get outdoors with the trees and dew-dropped grasses.

Recent Screenings

We had a lovely screening (poster below) at the Open Secret Bookstore in San Rafael, California, on Friday, December 3rd.  We talked afterwards about Goddess, connecting with the Earth and Earth spirits, and connecting with our sacred sensual selves. 

http://www.opensecretbookstore.com/