Witches Brew

It’s a week till Lammas, First Harvest, also known as Lughnasah. Lammas comes at the height of summer, but it is already looking forward to Fall and the harvest season. There have been changes here at Witches Brew. The Peoria Blog Project changed service providers, and my old site theme vanished. Now I have these spiffy, rotating views of Peoria.

I haven’t posted since Ostara, though I have been thinking about where I wanted to go with this blog. So imagine my surprise when I realized today that I am not a solitary witch anymore. The Central Illinois Pagan Society started out October just before Samhain–right about the time I started Witches Brew. CIPS (with a hard “C”) has grown dramatically in the last nine months and swept me up with it. I’ve been attending the monthly Meet & Greets, and I find myself involved in planning our Sabbat rituals and inaugurating the CIPS newsletter. We our first online issue will be out this coming week.

These kind and caring people have made me feel welcome. CIPS is a family organization. It’s common to have three generations of participants at our open rituals, and members have brought non-Pagan friends and Significant Others. It’s great to be back in a Pagan community again. I’m sure I am going to have lots of news and views the coming months. Thanks, guys! Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again!