*Our screenings have all been private affairs since Covid came along. We feel it's safe enough now for screenings to resume! We hope to have some new screenings coming soon to announce for you. In the meantime, consider going outdoors to spend time with the trees and dew-dropped grasses!
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History and Relevance of the Feraferia Tradition with Jo Carson on Voices of the Sacred Feminine with Karen Tate: "On Saturday September 12, 2020, Jo Carson is with me to discuss the history and relevance of the pagan tradition called Feraferia, about celebrating wildness, with magic, mirth and love. Jo will tell us about Fred Adams, the founder of Feraferia, and his vision of Goddess. We'll talk about the controversial Lady Svetlana, the Dancing with Gaia Film, the history of Feraferia as well as some of their work, such as their newsletter, films and work today." https://www.blogtalkradio.com/voicesofthesacredfeminine/2020/09/12/history-and-relevance-of-the-feraferia-tradition-with-jo-carson
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*SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2019 AT 7 PM – 9 PM Movie Night: "Dancing with Gaia" Fairfax COMMUNITY Church, California Details: Event by Dancing With Gaia and artist Minouche Graglia at Fairfax COMMUNITY Church, California Duration: 2 hr. Public · Anyone on or off Facebook A film about connecting to the earth as your own body, about sacred sexuality and honoring the earth as Gaia. Explore how our joy as physical beings can be expanded to include this larger ecstatic identity. Fifteen visionaries present ways to personally experience the living earth. Fairfax filmmaker Jo Carson shot Dancing With Gaia at ancient sacred sites of earth-based religions in nine countries. She will answer questions after the film. "DANCING WITH GAIA invites us to sense and feel ourselves as part of her, of Gaia, and brings the feeling of wholeness and joy. It is a very deep and touching experience." - Ruth Denison, Buddhist teacher Donation at the door $7 to $16 - Cash or check only.
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Blogtalk Radio: On Thursday June 23rd, 2016 The Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon and guest Jo Carson will present a preview of her forthcoming book: "The Green Pulse Oracle - A Tool for Eco-Psychic Insight." Lady Jo Carson is the President of Feraferia, America's First Goddess-centered, Ecology-oriented Neo-Pagan religion founded in 1967 by Artist and philosopher Frederick Adams (1928-2008). Jo Carson is the leader of Feraferia and dedicated to preserving and continuing the work of Fred Adams and his consort Lady Svetlana Butyrin.
Jo is presently readying "The Green Pulse Oracle" for publication. This is a system of divination similar to Geomancy and I-Ching. It is based on Fred Adams' further development of Robert Graves' Tree Alphabet from his modern classic "The White Goddess." Adams delineated and extended Graves' twenty Celtic Ogham glyphs into a twenty-four letter system that he mounted on a series of Hermetic Enneasphere mandalas coordinating them with the Trees, the Tarot Trumps, astrological and planetary signs, and myth themes. Jo Carson reconstructed the system from Fred's rudimentary publications, notes and graphics. We have experimented with the Oracle and found it to be remarkably accurate and inspiring. So join us as we explore the divinatory magick of an American master as revealed by his worthy successor. https://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-hermetic-hour/2021/07/02/the-green-pulse-oracle-by-jo-carson-of-feraferia-re-broadcast
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*Dancing With Gaia filmmaker Jo Carson was interviewed on "Feraferia at PantheaCon" on Poke Runyon's Hermetic Hour radio program on February 23, 2012 (see below for description); you can listen anytime at Feraferia Oimelc Rite at PantheaCon 2012
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*On Sunday February 19, 2012 PantheaCon: From the program guide: "Feraferia - A Dance for the Goddess: Feraferia includes nature oriented, poetic tribal Folk and Faerie Lore, festival forms, magic, esoteric religions, erotic systems of spiritual development, ecstasy and vision quest, divinations, enchantments, seasonal and regional nature communion, wild-food gathering information, organic horticulture, nature blending arts and crafts, research into communication between all forms of life and nature, the golden feast diet and paradisal life styles. Join Feraferia as we invite the Fay to dance with us in the endless wedding procession of Ouvrania and Kronos, of alpine peaks and cone forests, at it winds through mazes of starlight in the nuptial night of the nameless bride!"
The theme was based on earth's/Gaia's process at that time of year: NORTHEAST - OIMELC - Candlemas - DEVOTED TO AMPHITRITE AND POSEIDON: GODS OF CLEANSING WATERS. The Festival of First Shoots and Enscaled Buds on Bare Branches. Through portals of earth, branch and cloud, Her burning belly bursts the locks of frost. The babe readies for birth. Torchlit processions lead the Goddess out of the Underworld. Slush from snows thawing off the heights, and mud from new rains signal the bursting of the new waters of birth... We danced forth the Goddess up from the Underworld, and entranced the local Fay (faerie) from the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains and the San Francisco Wetlands and Bay, and from the distant galaxies, to join us in the world between the worlds for a time of magic and revelry!
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*Radio Show - Jo was interviewed on "The Magic of Feraferia" with host Karen Tate, September 1, 2011 on "Voices of the Sacred Feminine"; link here to listen anytime: The Magic of Feraferia, Wilderness Mysteries. This show had a good discussion of how to call in the Fay Folk of wild nature, and strengthen that relationship over time.
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Earth Energy, Earth Spirit discussion With Poke Runyon on The Hermetic Hour: This Thursday, the 18th of August, 2011, the Hermetic Hour, with host Poke Runyon, will feature a discussion on "The Magick of Nature." We begin by explaining that the Hermetic Tradition, unlike Gnosticism, is a blend of Natural and Transcendental magical perspectives and methods -- therefore we can include such subjects as sacred landscapes, land forms, flora and fauna, and humankind's relation to the eco-system as an integral part of our philosophy and our workings. The best example of the nature-oriented Western magick is Fred Adam's Feraferia, which we will again visit in our discussion. We will cover Lay Lines, sacred sites, and the connection of celestial aspects with seasonal changes, connecting the greater universe with the sphere of nature, and the earth-sky-love body of the Goddess Herself -- known to the Renaissance magi as the Anima Mundi. Tune in and we'll go outdoors for inspiration this time. https://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-hermetic-hour/2011/08/19/the-magick-of-nature
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*Radio Show - Jo Carson discussed 'Feraferia - A Faerie Faith' with host Dave Alan on "Talk Back Radio 1080" in Santa Cruz, CA on Sunday August 21 2011; unfortunately the link to the show is no longer active! A reminder that we should always get recordings when they are live...
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*The SONOMA COUNTY PAGAN NETWORK hosted a special screening on 6/17/11 of Dancing With Gaia by Jo Carson. This film is about new and ancient ways to experience earth as part of your own body and larger being. Ms. Carson spoke and answered questions after the showing of her documentary.
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*Dancing With Gaia was featured at the 2011 West Coast Dowsers Convention in July at their annual gathering at U.C. Santa Cruz, to a large crowd of dowsers and earth mystery enthusiasts.
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*Radio Show - Jo appeared on the Hermetic Hour One Year Anniversary Show on Thursday 4/14/11, and the show is archived so you can listen anytime. The host, ceremonial magician Caroll "Poke" Runyon was recounting highlights from all this past year, including his interview with Jo on "Dancing With Gaia". On December 30 Poke did another highlights show with Jo there to talk about Feraferia; it is HERE.
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**PantheaCon "Dancing With Gaia" screened at PantheaCon, on Sunday February 20th, 2011; After the show Jo answered questions and talked about the laughing girl Goddess, Kore and the faerie tradition of Feraferia. This was the seventeenth annual PantheaCon: in their words, "our wonderful gathering of the tribes, and the largest annual pagan convention in the US. The Bay Area has a wide range of pagans, reconstructionists, and nature religions that meet and mingle here. Once again we offer the best events and most knowledgeable speakers that the West and beyond has to offer.."
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*Radio Interview - KSCO AM1080 in the California Central Coast Area Jo spoke with radio host Dave Alan on Sunday, December 5th, from 4 - 6 PM - on how "Dancing With Gaia" came to be, and about deep, effective ways to feel the earth to be part of your extended body. What does that feel like? What is it like to share it with a partner - real or imaginary? Why is the world of faerie important to us now? The show was put in the archives, but unfortunately their archives have disappeared now...
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*We had a lovely screening (poster below) at the Open Secret Bookstore in San Rafael, California, on Friday, December 3rd 2010. We talked afterwards about Goddess, connecting with the Earth and Earth spirits, and connecting with our sacred sensual selves. http://www.opensecretbookstore.com/
