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And so it ’twas, that Ra-Hoor-Khuit once again took his seat in the East in our recent Vernal Equinox ceremony, on March 19, 2016 at BATT in Oakland, CA. There were no additional initiations, nor was there a separate education session, just this one important ceremony. Yes, there was a changing of the guard, as […]

The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn had an action-packed February, from which I’ve just now recovered enough to write this blog entry. Pantheacon happened from 2/12 – 2/15. Another great edition of this preeminent pagan festival, filled with inspiring workshops, powerful rituals, and a full-spectrum of socializing, from mild to wild. A good […]

PantheaCon is held on Friday, February 12th through Monday, February 15th at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, CA, USA. For more information on PantheaCon, please visit: http://pantheacon.com/wordpress/ You are invited to meet the OSOGD at PantheaCon 2016 in our suite located in room 1060, and for our “Hymns to the Moon” ritual on Sunday, […]

The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn convened this past Saturday, January 16. The Education Session was actually our first real rehearsal of the Lunar Pantheacon ritual, and it is shaping up to be a powerful event. Now, I need to find some silver + purple clothing! Then, feeling adventurous, some of us tried a nearby Chinese restaurant for dinner. […]

Once again, the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn was busy on the third Saturday of the month. On December 19, we enjoyed another Hall of the Neophytes, an Education Session, and an elemental Advancement, in our small but vital community, meeting in Oakland as usual. First, the Advancement, wherein Frater CMS became officially attached to […]

Yesterday, 11/21/15, the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn held its approximately annual Video Day at Arcadia. While we sat around drinking beer, eating chips, salsa, + pineapple cake pastries, we watched 2 great flicks. First, Walt Disney’s “Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land”, a 1959 mostly-animation explaining some of the sacred geometry + mathematics underlying the physical […]

This past Saturday – November 7, 2015 – the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn held an earlier than usual Education Session and Neophyte Hall. Frater HOSV conducted a stimulating workshop on Electional and Horary astrology. We were introduced to some core principles of both systems – touching on Al-Kindi, Agrippa, Iamblichus, and others – and everybody enjoyed […]

On Saturday, October 17, 2015, the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn held its monthly gathering. Just the Educational Session + the Neophyte Hall, in stark contrast to September’s veritable explosion of activity, but much fun + profundity nonetheless. Frater QES kicked off the day at 3:30 with an excellent talk in which he […]

And a week later, on Saturday 9/26/15, some members of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn gathered for Jim Fassbinder’s “San Francisco Ghost Hunt”. Mr. Fassbinder is a regular(?) on the Travel Channel’s show “Haunted Hotels”, and he’s run the Ghost Hunt for the last 17 years. He was full of highly detailed […]

The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn had a lively Equinox weekend September 18 – 20. Friday night, 9/18, we enjoyed an excellent dinner at Arkadia. The fabulous pasta, salads, + dessert were then followed by the OSOGD Talent Show. Some of our Order’s artisans displayed their creations: Sr. HKnA showed off her mystical […]