Welcome to Atlanta Pagan Pride Day 2015! I hope you have a wonderful day! Today is a day to learn about, and celebrate some of the rich and diverse set of practices, traditions, belief systems which take place within the greater Atlanta area. We are happily hosting a food drive for the Atlanta Community Food Bank. This is an opportunity for Atlanta pagans to share the harvest with the Thank you for coming and for adding your positive energy to the day!

Blessings, Lady Arden

Atlanta Pagan Pride Coordinator

2015 Harvest Ritual Middle Pillar Exercise – OTO Building the Space – Kathryn & Arthur Hinds Persephone Poem – Alena Sullivan Spreading Gratitude – Lady Arden Closing – Kathryn & Arthur Hinds Leading Out with Song – Spiral Rhythm

Presentations & Classes

Advice for the Seekers - House of Ravenwood, Lady Maia Are you new to the Craft or Paganism? Want to know the lay of the land? Need to know how to get started?

This class is meant to assist folks in finding their way to their place in Pagan Community. The purpose is to help people find their spiritual home. We will cover things like how the Pagan-based spiritual community is structured, a few general definitions, and some assistance on how to go about finding a local group. We will also cover some things to watch out for and how to avoid some of the pitfalls of the 'unwritten rules' along the way. Come join our conversation and bring your questions as there will be time provided within the class to address the concerns of the attendees.

Meet the Wild Hunt Informational and Q & A Session - Heather Howard The Wild Hunt, originally based in Oregon, now makes Atlanta its home. Heather will briefly talk about The Wild Hunt's history and mission to build an independent, reader-funded news forum dedicated to our varied religious traditions. After that introduction, she will open the floor to questions about The Wild Hunt, its coverage, its stories and Pagan Media, in general. Simple Color - Lady Astraea Businesses use color to "influence" our desire for their product - the magic of drawing us to their product. We apply color to influence our abilities in ways such as wearing red to give a speech so that we are confident and therefore we are portrayed as knowledgeable. This class has a few hands on practices and shows how we are already in tune with color and practicing color magic in our every day life.

The Healer's Choice, a reading by the author - Kathryn Hinds “The road opened to them as they advanced—a phenomenon all the stranger for its lack of overt drama. One moment Rossen might see nothing but a dense thicket ahead, the next he could discern a possible path through it, and the next he was in that very place, on a road as wide and level as that which they’d been riding all along. The effect was disorienting at first, almost as though they were standing still with the forest shifting around them.” –from The Healer’s Choice

What is Thelema and Who is the OTO? - Dove & Serpent Oasis, Bobby Creech We will discuss Thelema's founding in 1904 by (and who he was), the Book of Law and its importance, magick within Thelema, and the focus of life, love, and liberty within the teachings of Thelema. We will also answer questions on the Ordo Templi Orientis - As the largest organizational dedicated to Thelema, we will give an overview of its history, its central message of individual liberty, sacred sexuality within its practices, its melding of Eastern and Western mysticism, and the use of and ceremony in its system.

ADF Druidry - Red Earth ADF One of the primary traits of ADF Druidry is the building of reciprocal relationships with the Kindreds (Gods, Nature Spirits, Ancestors). This class will deal with the various ways we build such relationships through ritual, study, and worship, as well as how they manifest and function in our daily lives.

Wands - Gypsey Teague Because one simply does not serve soup with a butter knife. Therefore having just one wand and expecting it to do everything is over simplification.

Introduction to Magic - John Umbras An introduction to the basic techniques and practices of using . Bring a notebook and a pen and be ready to do some magic!

How to Create and Use a Mini Travel Altar - A Make It, Take It Workshop A workshop on how to make travel alters and what they are used for! We will make travel alters to take home!