Join the Goddess Festival for 2012
Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters!
Goddess Festival 2012
We’ve opened the door to the Goddess Festival 2012 and invite you to gather the women in your life and enjoy reading and sharing with each other the exciting goddess-inspired information about this year’s Goddess Festival hosted by Z Budapest.
Goddess Festival 2012 is a fabulous event for you to share together!
Women & Trees are Gathering Goddesses again!
SAVE THE DATE!!!
Sept. 7-9, 2012
Goddess Festival 2012
Women’s Goddess Festival 2012
Goddess Festival Redwood Trees
Z Budapest presents Goddess Festival 2012!
Please join us for Z Budapest’s women-only Goddess Festival 2012! Women are gathering again in the Redwood Forest of the Northern California Santa Cruz Mountains, September 7th-9th.
Entertainment will include a wide array of Goddess music and musical performances. We will have rituals lead by Z Budapest happening every day.
We have two days of powerfully sacred workshops lead by some of the most spiritually focused women of our times. We have ordination rituals. Initiation rituals. Musical Goddess sing-a-longs! Drum-a-longs! And a swimming pool for the heat of the day! Endless forests to explore as you commune with the ancient Redwoods! All of Nature is just a step outside your cabin door … and wonderful Sisters to share the whole experience with.
All meals are prepared for us. There is no work duty. No food to cook. No dishes to do. The Camp’s staff does it all for us.
You can attend the workshops, listen to music, you can shop with the vendors, you can walk amongst the redwoods or you can rest. What you do when is up to you.
At night we light a huge bonfire in the center of our sacred ritual space deep in the heart of the redwood forest and then, we gather round. We sing. We dance. We worship the Goddess. We recognize the goddess in each other. We celebrate life!
Women & Trees are Gathering the Goddesses
This Goddess Festival is a life changing event, not to be missed!
Please check out thiswebsite: www.goddess-festival.com for more information, including information about the amazing Ceremonialists, High Priestesses, Presenters and Musicians who will be at the Goddess Festival.
The Goddess Festival is a life changing event!
Festival Pricing:
Now from Sept. 1st – Sept. 3rd to you can register for the Goddess Festival for the price of only $400 for the entire Festival. Terms & Conditions.
Sept. 3rd is the final day for online registration.
Your Goddess Festival 2012 fee includes absolutely everything: all workshops, all meals, all rituals, nice lodging, hot showers, all entertainment and a swimming pool. Bus ride is an additional $25 fee.
Make your reservations: http://store.dianic-wicca.com/index.php/wsf-events.html
We are also offering a coven discount to those women who are active members of live, in-person women-only covens. Bring yourself and at least 8 of your Circle-Sisters to the Festival for only $350 per person. For larger women-only covens: if you have 20+ Circle-Sisters the price is only $325 per person! All coven discounts expire on July 1st. (We will confirm your coven. No virtual covens are given discounts.) Contact us if you are interested in this option.
Laughter, dancing, drumming, hugging, kissing, smiling, eating, singing women at every turn. Please join Z Budapest for the wild woman experience of a lifetime…Goddess Festival 2012!
Goddess Festival 2012 is sponsored by the Women’s Spirituality Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to empower women and girls of the world, so your Festival fees are tax deductible!
Z Budapest Dianic High Priestess
Blessings Sisters in Goddess,
Over forty years ago I started a Women’s Spirituality Movement, and happily it took hold. I felt like celebrating this Movement and the Goddess. So, again I agreed to do one more goddess festival.
I wanted to take a moment of your time to invite you to participate in the upcoming gathering of the Goddess Festival 2012 event. I’ve produced a good number of Goddess Festivals over the years, and I’m ready to say that this one is going to be amazing and filled with talented Goddess women, song, dance, ritual and sisterhood. This Gathering is going to be a very special one.
In the past, I’ve hired special entertainment and teachers for the festivals. The women who are teaching and entertaining us have all devoted their time in support of the Women’s Spirituality Movement. It’s just like it was when we started this Movement. We have come full circle.
And speaking of taking things back to their origins, I am taking us all the way back to the beginning of the Movement because sadly some outside influences have caused women to no longer understand real magic. Real rituals. I want you to understand and experience a real ritual, and that is something that happens in person for women-born-female.
The Goddess Festival is held at our beloved camp in the coastal redwoods of Northern California. It is something between staying at a hotel and camping. We have beds, but you need to bring your own bedding and towels, and we highly recommend bringing a twin air mattress.
Goddess Festival 2012
All meals are prepared for us. There is no work duty. No food to cook. No dishes to do. The Camp’s staff does it all for us.
You can attend the workshops, you can shop with the vendors, you can walk amongst the redwoods or you can rest. What you do when is up to you.
What I want from you: Every woman who attends this Festival should know the Charge of the Star Goddess. It’s in the Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries, and it’s powerful when spoken together.
Each woman should bring her red girdle if she has one. Girdles/cords are discussed in the Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries. I will be offering an initiation ritual into the Dianic path. You will be given a single red cord if you take initiation with me. That cord can be woven into a new girdle or into an existing girdle after the ritual. So, if you don’t have a girdle, it’s okay to wait until after initiation.
We’re doing a Herstorical Documentary of this Gathering too. We are filming as much of the weekend as we can. Next we will create a DVD of the festival. It will be a great DVD to remember your weekend, and others will appreciate seeing what really goes on at a Goddess festival. Projects like this are what have helped the Women’s Spirituality Movement to outreach to women all over the world. And, you’ll be a part of it!
You can stay in a cabin with the other festival attendees or you can bring your tent and camp outside under the redwoods. Either way, the price is the same.
Stay in cabins or camp
Our big rituals take place in a wonderful sunken temple in the round. We’re completely surrounded by the embrace of the redwoods.
At night we light a huge bonfire in the center and then, we gather round.
We sing. We dance. We worship the Goddess. We recognize the goddess in each other.
We celebrate life!
Please check out this website for more information, including information about the amazing Ceremonialists, High Priestesses, Presenters and Musicians who will be at the Goddess Festival.
Laughter, dancing, drumming, hugging, kissing, smiling, eating, singing women at every turn. Please join Z Budapest for the wild woman experience of a lifetime…Goddess Festival 2012!
What to Bring
- Your clothing should be for all seasons. Dress in layers. Bring a warm coat. Shoes for walking in the woods.
- Ritual dress is encouraged, but warmth is more important. What can you wear over a warm coat or sweater?
- Bring your bedding, blankets and pillow. We highly recommend bringing a twin air mattress too!
- Bring musical instruments.
- Bring flowers.
- Bring cash if you plan to shop with vendors.
- Bring a flash light.
- Bring sun glasses.
- Bring a camera.
- Bring personal care items like aspirin or feminine care products.
- Bring a notebook to journal and a pen.
- Yoga mat if you’re doing yoga/stretches in the mornings.
Goddess Festival 2012 Tickets are now available for purchase:
- ADULT - Fee is $400. Terms & Conditions.
- DAUGHTER - Fee is $250 and discounts do not apply to the Daughter fee. Daughter is defined as a female-born-female child between the ages of 6-17 years old.
- BUS - $25 roundtrip fee. More info available at this link.
Goddess Women and ancient Redwood Trees celebrating life and nature together at Z Budapest’s Goddess Festival 2012.
Goddess Festival 2012 Presenters
Click on each presenter’s name to read more about them!
Susun Weed
Susun Weed
Susun Weed, herbalist and author of women’s health books, invites you to rediscover the Wise Woman Tradition, herbal medicine healing, and how to make home remedies.
Susun Weed, founder of The Wise Woman Center in Woodstock, New York and prolific author of women’s health books, is the voice of the Wise Woman tradition. Her goal is to help women rediscover these ancient Wise Woman ways, passed down through countless generations.
The Wise Woman Tradition empowers you to use your innate wisdom when gathering information and making informed decisions about your health care options. Natural healing and healthy living is simple, safe, and fun! Improve your health and personal well being as you begin to use complementary medicine confidently and effectively.
Diana Paxson
Diana Paxson
Diana Paxson has written or collaborated on more than a score of books, including a number of historical fantasies set in Dark Age Europe and most of the Avalon books, and has founded or otherwise instigated, midwifed, or re-written several organizations religious or otherwise.
In 1988 I began an intensive study of the runes and started a rune class for which I developed the materials that became Taking up the Runes. The next year I began work on recovering the ancient oracular practice of Scandinavia, and started a group that could present such rituals at festivals. The story of this work appears in The Way of the Oracle.
Letecia Layson
Letecia Layson
Letecia Layson is a Filipina, Feminist, Futurist, Priestess of Morphogenesis (Form Coming Into Being) and High Priestess of Diana ordained in the Dianic Tradition; Priestess of Isis, Priestess Hierophant in The Fellowship of Isis (FOI) and The Temple of Isis. Letecia is the recipient of the 2003 Catherine Wright Award for Equality and Justice in Alternative Spiritual Awareness by Feas2t.
Z Budapest
Z Budapest
Zsuzsanna “Z” Budapest, D.Min (h.c.), is the founding mother of the Women’s Spirituality Movement. Z founded the Goddess College, an online school for the Dianic tradition and Goddess studies for women. She authored nine books embracing spirituality; including The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries, Grandmother Moon, Celestial Wisdom and Summoning the Fates. She has appeared on several TV shows and documentaries, as well as hosting her own show, 13th Heaven. Through her non-profit organization, Women’s Spirituality Forum, Z’s vision for the future is that of peace and abundance, expressed in female values, to dominate the world’s consciousness.
As women of faith, we are growing into our full sacred integrity. We believe the Goddess shows Herself to us daily through all nature and inspires us through wisdom. The Goddess is the Holy Spirit who embodies and engenders everything. She reveals Herself as creation. She is the original Holy Trinity; Virgin, Mother and Crone. She is the mother of all Gods. She is responsible for the divinity of all birth. ~ Z Budapest
M. Flora Peterson
M. Flora Peterson
M. Flora Peterson - On my own at 16, joined the service at 17, married young. Years later at 27, a divorced single mom of two who’d just been laid off. Desperate for a change, I gave away all my possessions and moved to South Africa with my kids. Expecting things to be better…they weren’t. My problems followed me – and within three months, I was back in the US… homeless and jobless. At rock-bottom and discovered my strength, my passions, my power! I found my Spirit and my “Yay!” [The voice of my Spirit!]
Let me help you awaken the power you hold inside, your passions and your Spirit! Let me help you to awaken The Yay FactorTM in your life!
Ella Hope
Ella Hope
Ella Hope is a workshop facilitator, multi-media presenter, and author of three textbooks on self-healing/ shamanic practices with nature.
Ella will take us on a hands-on journey with the redwood forest in exploration of the divine, devas, and spirits of the forest land.
The subject-matter of Ella’s textbooks are drawn from her 26 years on the shamanic path, marked by waves of initiatory experience, tempered with extensive training with both indigenous and modern-style shamanic teachers. Her traditional education includes an honors BA in Literature, years of post-bac study in movement composition and alternative healing, and three graduate schools in Clinical Psychology (Antioch U), Dance Therapy (Princeton extension), and World Arts and Cultures (UCLA).
JoAnna “Silverwitch” Medina
JoAnna Medina
JoAnna Medina is a Dianic High Priestess, minister, writer, teacher and ordained daughter of Z Budapest with 45 years in the Mystical Arts and Tarot. In 1987, she founded The Sacred Circle of Maidens, Mothers and Crones, a sisterhood of recovering women who are reclaiming the Goddess and her ancient ways to heal the fragmentation of the soul caused by patriarchy.
She is author of 13 Steps to the Goddess, Reclaiming the Power of the Divine Feminine in Recovery, and facilitates Women’s Spirituality Circles, Workshops, Nature Retreats and Community Rituals in California and Nevada.
The Ancient Redwood Trees – We will be planting trees!
Redwood forest
Goddess Festival 2012 Divination Readers
Diana Paxson -Runes readings
Z Budapest – Tarot readings
M. Flora Peterson – Oracle readings
Goddess Festival 2012 Vendors
This year’s vending has been limited to the supporting the presenters and the Susan B. Anthony Coven. We had an overwhelming amount of women who wanted to vend, but Z wanted a different kind of festival this time that was hyper-focused on the Trees. Plus, all of our presenters volunteered their time for this festival and it is important we honor them by allowing them to successfully sell their wares to support them for their generosity in attending this festival. We thank all of you for your interest in vending this year.
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Women & Trees
Every time mothers and daughters dance and sing under the stars
and honor the Goddess in each other,
we see the woman-bond strengthened and female relationships celebrated.
Bring your daughter to Goddess Festival 2012.
