{"id":1070,"date":"2019-09-08T21:01:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T01:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2019-09-17T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T20:54:01","slug":"samhain-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/1070\/events\/samhain-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Samhain 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-SamhainLogo_WitchBling_title.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1071\" src=\"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-SamhainLogo_WitchBling_title.png\" alt=\"Witchy jewelry spilling out from a treasure chest carved with skeletons and skulls\" width=\"500\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-SamhainLogo_WitchBling_title.png 500w, https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-SamhainLogo_WitchBling_title-300x452.png 300w, https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-SamhainLogo_WitchBling_title-400x603.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Coven Oldenwilde&#8217;s<br \/>\n25th Samhain Sabbat<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019,<br \/>\n7 p.m. until\u2026<br \/>\nAsheville, N.C.<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"samhain-list circle-pent justify\">\n<li><span>Theme:<\/span> <span class=\"italic bold\">&#8220;Witch Bling \u2014 Please the Gods in High Style!&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Details:<\/span><\/li>\n<p>We welcome high-energy, devout teens and adults to dazzle the Gods in their Witchy finery, jewels, and accoutrements! (Don&#8217;t worry, basic black is always OK too.)<\/p>\n<p>Meet &amp; Greet others of like mind; enjoy snacks &amp; Spirits; honor your beloved dead and celebrate the New Year in torchlight adoors (weather permitting) or in the Coven&#8217;s impressive ritual room \u2014 billowing incense and ambiance galore!<\/p>\n<p>High Priestess Queen Lady Passion and High Priest *Diuvei (authors of <a href=\"\/getritualsandsabbats\">Rituals &amp; Sabbats: Sacred Rites and Seasonal Celebrations<\/a>, Sterling Publishing, NY, NY, 2017) will officiate the ritual.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve any of our published books, such as the bestselling <a href=\"\/getthegoodlyspellbook\">The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells For Modern Problems<\/a>, bring them for signing! (Or purchase <a href=\"\/getritualsandsabbats\">Rituals &amp; Sabbats<\/a> and <a href=\"\/getcandlemagic\">Candle Magic: Working with Wax, Wick, &amp; Flame<\/a> for a $25.oo donation each.)<\/p>\n<p>Coven Oldenwilde is a 501(c)(3) religious nonprofit charity in continuous operation since its founding on Samhain 1994. We educate folk worldwide about the beauty, antiquity, and power of magic in daily life.<\/p>\n<p>We always need and appreciate tax-deductible donations to offset costs via secure PayPal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center paypal-simple\" style=\"margin-top: -3.25em;\">\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><br \/>\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"E6JLKFTM4S6QW\"><br \/>\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate with PayPal button\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><br \/>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;d like to play an instrument or otherwise contribute, or have any questions, email Queen Lady Passion at: <a href=\"mailto:oldenwilde@gmail.com\">oldenwilde@gmail.com<\/a>, or call her at: <a href=\"phone:8282510343\">828-251-0343<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<li><span>Location:<\/span> 113 Clinton Avenue, Asheville, N.C. 28806<\/li>\n<li><span>Directions:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>From I-40: Take Exit 44, turn Left onto Smokey Park Highway, aka Patton Ave., past an Ingles grocery store on the left (where you can pick up some ale, wine, or snacks to contribute). At the Exxon station, turn Right onto Haywood Road (NOT Haywood &#8220;Street&#8221;, which is downtown). Continue per &#8220;On Haywood Rd.&#8221;, below.<\/li>\n<li>From downtown Asheville: Take Patton Ave. West, past an Ingles grocery store on the right (where you can pick up some ale, wine, or snacks to contribute). At Swannanoa Cleaners, turn Left onto Haywood Road (NOT Haywood &#8220;Street&#8221;, which is downtown). Continue per &#8220;On Haywood Rd.&#8221;, below.<\/li>\n<li>On Haywood Rd.: Go 3 blocks and turn Right on Clinton Ave. (between coffee shop and fire station). Go straight through stop sign at hill bottom. The Covenstead is on the right, on the corner of Clinton Ave. &amp; Lane Street. Park on Clinton across the street, either along the curb or in the school parking lot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coven Oldenwilde&#8217;s 25th Samhain Sabbat Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, 7 p.m. until\u2026 Asheville, N.C. Theme: &#8220;Witch Bling \u2014 Please the Gods in High Style!&#8221; Details: We welcome high-energy, devout teens and adults to dazzle the Gods in their Witchy finery, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/1070\/events\/samhain-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}