There are 365 days in a year. Even if you celebrate all eight Sabbats and all 13 esbats, you’re still left with 344 days that aren’t holy days. Let’s say you add in all the New Moons and the quarter moons as well. That would take care of a few more days. What about all the normal days which remain? Do you stop being Pagan just because it isn’t a holiday? Being a Pagan isn’t something you take on and off with your ritual robes. Once you start to follow a Pagan path, it becomes part of you. It becomes part of your viewpoint into the world around you. I know for me, when I started to seriously follow my Pagan lifestyle, I started seeing things Pagan all around me. It was funny. Sometimes I would see a rune or a Pagan symbol in the most obscure places, like the corner Quickie Mart!
This workshop focuses on how to move from being a part-time Pagan to connect with your spiritual Path on a more daily level.
I have attended Circle with my daughter many times. 9 times out of 10, she's asleep before we bless the cakes and ale. Sometimes I've felt like joining her. I'm sure we can all remember a particularly LONG ritual we endured because you don't break circle. Imagine my surprise when she didn't know the first thing about ritual. I thought that with all the circles we had attended together, she would have picked up the basics. I thought about it. Yes she had been to ritual with me, but nothing was explained. The Quarters and God/dess were called and circles cast, but the reasoning behind the actions was something beginners get out of books.
Pagan parents and educators learn what is involved in creating a meaningful and fun ritual for children ages 5-10 years old. If time and space permit a sample ritual will be created and enacted with participants' children. (Two part workshop when ritual is performed.)
The author/illustrator of the Pagan children's book An Oridinary Girl, A Magical Child, W. Lyon Martin has followed a Pagan path all her adult life. She became a parent March 1994, when her daughter was born.
She began to actively call herself Pagan in 1985 after she read Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler. She continues to read and research her chosen religion to achieve a better understanding of the Pagan Path and deepen her spiritual connection to the Goddess and God.
An Eclectic witch living in Eastern Missouri, she has written articles for Craft publications both on-line and in print including PanGaia, PagaNet News, The Seeker Journal, NewWitch, Acorns Journal, Elements Magazine, Crescent Magazine, New Age Retailer, The Witch’s Voice and The Pagan-Wiccan Times.
She has been a working artist since 1981, when she received an Associate of Applied Science degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She continued her training at the School of Visual Arts where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1988. She has exhibited her watercolor paintings in art shows internationally. Her fine art paintings grace both public and private collections. Her illustration work has been featured in assorted publications, from books and magazines to corporate collateral materials and advertisements.
Lyon's Craft website, Magickware is geared toward unique handmade gifts, quality ritual supplies and fine art for the Pagan home. She lives with her husband, her daughter and a cranky, old cat of undetermined ancestry.
