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SerpentStar Lughnasadh 2025

27 Thursday Feb 2025

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Belated Lughnasadh Blessings, everyone! Here for your enjoyment is the Lughnasadh 2025 edition of SerpentStar!

This time of year has been an absolute hive of activity, one where we harvest the fruits of what we have sown during the beginning of Spring and through Beltane. One such example: The Macadamia Grove is currently gearing up for the SHOBOD Assembly here in Brisbane, and they’ve been hard at work to make sure everything goes off without a hitch!

I’d like to take a quick moment (as always) to thank our contributors for their wonderful submissions, and to remind our wonderful readers that I accept contributions for SerpentStar at all times of the year. If you have an article, recipe, pictures, drawings, music, videos (almost any way your Awen manifests, really!) that you’re unsure about submitting, don’t be afraid to send it in.

For all submission guidelines, you can find them here: http://serpentstar.druidryaustralia.org/about

Higher resolution issues can be requested at: serpentstar.obod@gmail.com

Lughnasadh blessings to you all, and I’ll see you at Samhain,

– Sam /|\

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SerpentStar Imbolc 2024

14 Wednesday Aug 2024

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Belated Imbolc Blessings, everyone! Here for your enjoyment is the Imbolc 2024 edition of SerpentStar. It’s a huge issue, and I hope you enjoy!

Imbolc to Alban Eilir is always a great time of the year for me, where the winter days pass through the cold and wet season into the bright freshness of spring breezes and the gentle heat of the sun. It’s not quite time to fling the windows open here in Brisbane, but it’s getting there and I can’t wait!

I’d like to take a quick moment (as always) to thank our contributors for their wonderful submissions, and to remind our wonderful readers that I accept contributions for SerpentStar at all times of the year. If you have an article, recipe, pictures, drawings, music, videos (almost any way your Awen manifests, really!) that you’re unsure about submitting, don’t be afraid to send it in.

For all submission guidelines, you can find them here: http://serpentstar.druidryaustralia.org/about

Imbolc Blessings to you all, and I’ll see you at Beltane,

– Sam /|\

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SerpentStar Samhain 2024

14 Tuesday May 2024

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Belated Samhain/Samhuinn Blessings, everyone! Here for your enjoyment is the Samhain 2024 edition of SerpentStar.

I’d like to take a quick moment to thank our contributors for their wonderful submissions, and to remind our wonderful readers that I accept contributions for SerpentStar at all times of the year. If you have an article, recipe, pictures, drawings, music, videos (almost any way your Awen manifests, really!) that you’re unsure about submitting, don’t be afraid to send it in.

For all submission guidelines, you can find them here: http://serpentstar.druidryaustralia.org/about/

Bright and cooling Autumnal Blessings, and I’ll see you at Imbolc,

– Sam /|\

(EDIT: Just a quick little addition to the issue, and it’s an announcement that I know a lot of you have been looking forward to! – Sam.)

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SerpentStar Beltane 2021

04 Thursday Nov 2021

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Beltane Blessings Everyone! Here for your enjoyment is the Beltane edition of SerpentStar:
 
I’d also invite you to click on this link for a greeting from our new Editor, Samantha Travis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1wngDdEHTo&t=61s
 
Blessings and thanks, until we meet again ?
Mandy /|\

A special announcement re the 2021 Southern Hemisphere Assembly…

27 Tuesday Apr 2021

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THE 2021 SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ASSEMBLY IS MOVING ONLINE!

Greetings All

The organisation team for the 2021 Southern Hemisphere OBOD Assembly (which was planned for 10-14 September at Bribie Island, Qld Australia) has discussed the current situation and recent developments in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic in our region, and has made the difficult decision to move this year’s event online. Although we are in a much better place than we were last year, it is clear that there are still too many variables to be able to confidently proceed with planning the type of event that we can stand by as a full face-to-face OBOD gathering.

But all is not lost! We have already begun discussing options for a 3-5 day (exact program TBC) schedule of online ritual, talks, workshops, bardic gatherings, games, markets and social time. We encourage local groups to organise a mini-retreat in their own region where you can consider holding initiations, share meals and spend time together, while also dialling into the Zoom event.

The online event will be free to all OBODies to attend, and conducted entirely within Zoom. Links to the Zoom room and full schedules etc will be posted in the Southern Hemisphere Order of Bards Ovates & Druids Online SHOBODO Community Facebook Group. To attend the event, you will need to either be a member of that group, OR if you do not use Facebook you can request to join the event info mailing list by emailing mandy@druidryaustralia.org There will be no ‘public’ live stream of this event, but recordings will be made available to the Facebook group and email mailing list for those who cannot attend live via Zoom.

All members who have already paid monies for the Bribie Island gathering will be contacted and refunded in full.

We’re full steam ahead now for what we plan to be an exciting, inclusive and engaging online event. We thank you for your understanding and sincerely hope you’ll stay on this journey with us.

Blessings
Mandy (for Macadamia Grove)

SerpentStar 20th Anniversary – Alban Hefin 2017

22 Friday Dec 2017

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It is with great joy and pride that I present to you the 20th Anniversary special edition of SerpentStar. Not only that, but I can also announce that the archiving project, which aimed to capture all the editions which had not appeared online before (plus a couple whose files had disappeared) is now complete, and can be viewed here

With the joy of the Solstice

Mandy /|\

SerpentStar Beltane 2011

01 Tuesday Nov 2011

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Greetings,

Beltane SerpentStar 2011

Please don’t forget to submit your work! ladya.serpentstar @ gmail.com (remove spaces!)

A friendly reminder that the submission deadlines are the 20th of the month prior to the publish date. e.g. for the Lughnasadh edition, the deadline is January 20, 2012.

Bright Blessings under the Southern Stars,

LadyA

(NB there was no edition of SerpentStar released for Imbolc 2011 – Ed.)

SerpentStar Imbolc 2010

31 Saturday Jul 2010

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Hallo everyone,

Here’s the latest SerpentStar.

Please note that SerpentStar is looking for a new editor. It’s great fun, light easy work, and keeps you in touch. Plus you learn heaps about desktop publishing – a valuable skill these days. If you have a few spare hours per quarter year, consider volunteering for this enjoyable, richly rewarding job. I will be available to help you get your hand in.

Meanwhile This Imbolc’s SerpentStar is hosted here:

SerpentStar Imbolc 2010

Anyone having difficulty downloading it, let me, wyverne, know at wyeuro@bigpond.com and I’ll try emailing it direct.

(During the archiving project, Jowen made contact to say she had noticed the poem she had submitted to this issue had been published in the wrong order. Click below to read a restored version.)

Jowen Poem Imbolc 2010 restored version