The complete Open Full Moon and Potluck Saturdays 2025 schedule for Walnut Hill Wiccan Pagan Community Church is as follows:
June 14
June 21 (Litha/ Egyptian Golden Dawn/ RC/ Justice 42 Sealing)
July 12
August 9 CANCELLED--Dragonfest
September 6 Golden Dawn study
October 4 Golden Dawn study
November 1 Golden Dawn study
December 6 Golden Dawn study
Schedule updated: July/August to reflect Khari's desire to focus on Dragonfest; therefore, Morgan's taking over the OFM Saturday for his Hermetic Golden Dawn study group.
Where: 2727 N. Cook St. Denver, CO 80205
When: Work force show up at 5 pm.
Gate opens at 6 pm, for Potluck.
Main event starts at 7 pm . . . sort of.
We will run to 10 pm because I don't have to kick people out to honor a rent agreement.
Suggested donation: A dish for the Potluck, something to drink if that type of pagan.
Kid friendly--Khari's a school teacher.
Medical marijuana welcome--Morgan (a minister) has pain issues.
Wheelchairs can come through in the back, along with big unloads.
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| Black walnut tree which refuses to die. |
A tip of the hat to our dead priestess, Cassandra Ravenspell, whose memory on May 10 inspired me and Khari to go to the Denver Botanic Gardens, buying a grape vine.
Context being everything: When I left a certain Capital Hill's Friday night's OFM system, one of their complaints was that my bipolar meds, migraine treatments, and medical marijuana use was endangered everyone else's mental health. Basically, no one in the Open Full Moon community remembered how to Ground, Center, and Shield (nor did they care to teach others that technique) when it could drive out the Village Critic.
Sadly for them, me and Khari own our venue, so we don't have to ask for a twenty dollar suggested donation. Yeah--$20--my mentor's spinning in her grave, right. In their defense, renting space in a church, or spiritual center, to hold your event every month costs money. Until recently, the Capital Hill church had a Secret Sponsor paying the bills.
Me and Khari owing the place (the art studio and occult shop) means that we don't have to ask for a suggested donation. Oh, Khari might try to sell you some pottery after a kiln firing, but how often does she finish one of those during the course of a season?
Maybe a little drink for the occasional blot, but that's not a lot, right?
Especially, when the other church's "Safe and Sober" went to "WTF?!?" Sorry, I read their website recently--having not being sent a newsletter in months to read "Do not show up, if you are ineribrated." (Pardon, the spelling,) What? Have they spin my exit to Falling Down Drunk . . . Yes . . . but do Meltdown Girl move back in the neighborhood, and have a little wine before the ritual, I ask.
If so. why can't we enjoy a little wine before our pagan religious ceremony? That crazy only lives three blocks away. She walks to the ritual. Why is the board of the community church acting like the Morality Police to Paganism and Wicca? Ain't we living in a state that voted for Medical Marijuana? Yeah, right, doesn't matter--we criticized the board.
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| Onions, a pot of onions. |
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| Broken shards of pottery--because breaking pottery happens at some rituals. |
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| Wheelchairs can get in through the back alley. |
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| My back patio behind the studio. No rent required. |
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| I can fit two, maybe three whole pagans back here. |
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| Maybe a fourth witch in this corner. |
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| Fifth witch here, if they are quiet. |
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| If not, they go into the cage we keep for the children. Kidding, kids are safe. |
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| Do not judge me for my decorations, |
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| Maggie could get her wheelchair through here. |
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| Open Full Moon rituals are not just an excuse to show off the garden. |
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| Behold our purple storage sheds. |
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| Sometimes the sun gets the better of a picture. |
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| Rocky mountain pinstimmin . . . I can't spell . . . Khari does not blog. |
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| Gate of magical entry--know it well. |
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| Neighbor's tree . . . I might profit. |
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| This is target zone of you looking for my house--you can just see trees. |
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| Dangerous fairies are not apparent at all. |
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| Blue pig of death, or not--his sister died in hail last year. |
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| Grape vine that going to take over the world. |
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| View the area now before the conquest. |
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| Beautiful flowers, gone so fast. |
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| Goddess of peace--let us mediate. |
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| Collect each berry for ten cents. |
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| Wife created collection area . . . oh, you laugh. |
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| Peace and profit, I see. |
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| Still, Khari did do a nice job, didn't she? |
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| Camera happy, I might have been tonight. |
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| Khari has done a lot of work out here. |
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| Where the US Mail Service does not find me. |
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| We will drum here--sun or no sun. |
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| Another shot of the garden before we leave. |
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| Look at this slacker. Pretending that he can read. |
For those who have been over to Khari's studio (Wiccan Treasures/ Celtic Soul), we are just north of the Denver Zoo, golf course, Museum of Natural History. It's a private residence. A lot of small time potters have their kilns and studios out of their houses.
And in my case, several of the herbs that I use in my spell kits and courses are grown directly in our yard. I am still exploring whether it is legal for me to use the "Quantum Alchemy Two" name that I want to use for my occult shop. My friend sold her shop, along with the pet supply store that was housed in the same Victorian house, and the new owner kept the pet supply company, closing out Quantum Alchemy . . . it's now a mattress store, according to my wife.
Moving forward with the Walnut Hill Community Church Open Full Moon Saturdays, I would like to see performers (covens) other than mine presenting. Volunteers. To reflect how varied and rich our pagan and Wiccan community is. And to reduce mine and Khari's workload. (Reminder: Khari's Third in her school building.)
With the promise that if a single person shows up, an Open Full Moon ritual is happening.
Why the name "Walnut Hill"? It's actually the historical name of area in which our house in built. The local shopping mall, with its grocery store was the Walnut Hill Shopping Center. Originally, every lot had a black walnut tree. Unfortunately, a tree disease has caused all of them to be cut down . . . except for my Fairy Grove of black walnuts and choke cherries that guard the entrance to my property; it's just refuses to die. So we thought Walnut Hill Community Church would be an appropriate name in the 80205 area.
How close to the Denver Zoo, are we? Occasionally, we can hear peacocks. Late at night.
One of the big advantages that we have here that we don't elsewhere is being able to work Outside. Under the Moon and Stars. Not under a ceiling. Not under a roof.
Without having to risk a ticket from the Denver police department for violating After Dark laws.
To say that I am looking forward to trying out a few things that I was unable to during my time under Rented Church Space is an understatement. I loved the old church until the day that they hated me, for whatever reason. But not being able to run long on a ritual, or use "Live Fire," or use finger paints, those things always annoyed me because as a regular UU member, I should have been allowed to full privelages; but that unholy agreement got in the way. Or was that the rest of the board did not want to stick around, oh yeah, right.
Yes, me and Khari are most definitely looking forward to having the last say in how we organize our new Open Full Moon Saturdays in North Denver Park area.
Blessed be--hope to see you sometime this year.
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