DEOSIL DANCE IS A JOURNAL DEDICATED TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF PAGANS AND NEW AGE PHILOSOPHIES THAT EXIST IN THE WORLD TODAY IN ITS MANY MANIFESTATIONS

This is Deosil Dance, the phenomena of the 80's and 90's re-emerging into an exciting new format for the 21st century, we welcome all interested readers, old and new and people who wish to submit articles, artwork, and advertisements

There will be no subscriptions to the online magazine, though support via donations would be gratefully welcome, you can make your donations via Paypal

EDITORIAL VERNAL EQUINOX / EOSTRE 2008.e.v

By Kimberley Morgan

     Once again welcome to another great edition of THE DEOSIL DANCE, another milestone or another nail in my coffin, you decide!!!
It was brought to mind by an old friends who once illustrated The Deosil Dance when it was a paper and ink copy back in the heady luddite days of the 80’s who was lamenting the fact that the Internet has been the nail in the coffin for many an independant Pagan magazine, that flourished in the 70’s 80’s and early 90’s, mine included. It made me think, was the internet and technology such a bad thing to our Pagan heritage and it made me think.

     In the 80’s if one needed Incense or oil, you either made your own, or went to a specialist retailer (of which I was one), if you needed Magickal Equipment, you went to specialist shops. When I was first initiated into the Craft in the late 70’s there were no high street shops for Candles, Incenses, books or even magickal equipment. I remember the delight in travelling from outside Liverpool to Northampton with my Old High Priestess or High Priest, to visit ‘Occultique’ run by M John Lovatt, does anybody remember this shop???

     You waled in and the smell of Incense hit you, not synthetic modern joss stick incense, but true, Frankinsence, Gum Arabic, Opal and amber,  gentle pagan music, neither folky nor New Agey drifted over you as you were intoxicated by the second hand books, statues, incenses and oils, it was a magickal experience, drinking Earl Grey tea with Marina, my High Priestess and John Lovatt in his shop, relaxing and rejoicing in this our little magickal secret.
It was occultique that encouraged me to start my own mail order business firstly selling Incenses and oils and latterly my own books and I thouroghly enjoyed my times running Deosil Dance and latterly Pentacle Enterprises, (along with Beltane Books, my little shop I opened  thrown into the mix around 1992!!!).

    Looking back I wonder, is it better now with Ebay, and a million and one occult suppliers all on the internet? You can order anything, from a statue of the Goddess to a first edition of Witchcraft Today by Gerald Gardner, copies of Anton Laveys Satanic Mass sit shoulder to shoulder with Gwydion Pendderwens ‘Songs for the Old Religion’ and thinking of Phils letter to me, makes me think of a simpler time, when magazines were run by people with something to say, when occult shops were run by people who care not just who can turn over their first ‘Pentagrammed Million’, these were things run by people who were in the know and were known by those in the inner circles of covens and magickal groups. If you knew where to look you knew where to go!!!

     Yes, I long for that simpler time, when we belonged not to secret societies, but we were in societies with secrets!

THE DEOSIL DANCE, Which readers of old know by our simple manifest which is; THE DEOSIL DANCE IS AN INDEPENDANT JOURNAL DEDICATED TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF PAGANS AND NEW AGE PHILOSOPHIES THAT EXIST IN THE WORLD TODAY IN ITS MANY MANIFESTATIONS.

That means we are not Part of any Groups or Cliques or Organisations, that set themselves up for Modern Pagans to be some kind of custodians or Guardians of the Truth. We recognise that all Pagans, separated by their many and varied paths are united in one simple truth – they are Pagan, Not Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, or any Neo Pagan/Christian, multi-faith nonsense. We are Pagans, our faith is Pre-Christian, not anti-Christian and as such we celebrate and embrace our faith in its very varied forms, be they Wiccan ( Gardnerian, Alexandrian, Dianic or any other flavour people concoct from the bare bones of Traditional Witchcraft), Heathen, Shamanic, Indigenous Spirit/ancestor worship, all Paths, all Pagan faiths all united by our Paganism

We are delighted that we can bring you this E-zine, and we need you to get the message out to as many people as possible. That as an E-zine The  Deosil Dance, that was the phenomena of the 80's and 90's is re-emerging into an exciting new format for the 21st century, we welcome all interested readers, old and new and people who wish to submit articles, artwork, and advertisements

There will be no subscriptions to the online magazine, though support via donations would be gratefully welcome, you can make your donations via Paypal

The Deosil Dance E-Zine will be published at the Solstices and Equinoxes, with new updates as they happen. 

At present we will not be having a fixed subscription, we would like readers to contribute by donation via Paypal and I would ask all  readership to make a donation every so often to keep the project going, without your input we cannot keep going, so once again its your magazine, please use it to get your points across.

You can pay your donation towards the Magazine by credit/debit card and Paypal ( no you do not need a Paypal account to make a donation to the magazine) you can also send postal orders, cheques etc ( email me kim@deosildance.co.uk) for a snail mail address to send postal order or cheque donations to. Like the Deosil Dance of Old, I am welcoming writers new and Old to participate in writing for the “The Deosil Dance”, it’s a great way for new writers to get their new ideas aired and opened out to the Pagan communities.

ARTICLES FOR THE MAGAZINE :- You can submit all articles, photos etc to me at kim@deosildance.co.uk, as a word document, it will help if you can make your articles 1,000 words and over and spell check them first and also indicate where pictures, photos etc should go in the magazine.

ARTWORK AND MUSIC FOR THE MAGAZINE:- I am also welcoming artists, poets, even singers to get in touch, we can put Pagan music on the magazine to lull you or rock you as you are reading each article – now how cool is that???? Deosil dance meets Harry Potter!!!!

Seriously folks, it’s a magazine for you by you and about you, you will get occasional articles by me Kim Morgan your editor about things that are either interesting or infuriating me at any given time.
We will be producing a small amount of Paper copies of THE DEOSIL DANCE for shops to sell to people who do not have computers etc, if you have a shop and would like copies of THE DEOSIL DANCE  to sell in your shop, please contact us, we will send you copies and an invoice, you will make a profit from stocking THE DEOSIL DANCE

BOOK AUTHORS/CD PRODUCERS :- If you would like your books and cd’s reviewed professionally, please contact me and we will give you a postage address to send your review books and cd’s to.

MUTUAL ADVERTISING:- Other magazine, e-zine editors, we are doing mutual shared advertising which has a long long history in Pagan publishing, if you put a banner advertisement for your magazine in your magazine/web site, we will put a reciprocate advertisement for your Pagan publication here in Deosil Dance. Contact us at kim@deosildance.co.uk for our Banner.

SHOP RETAIL ADVERTISING:- If you are a shop, E-shop, Business that will be of interest to the Pagan community and would like to put an advertisement within Deosil dance, we can put you an advertisement for your shop in the magazine for the cost of £20 per issue for an advertisement 750pixels by 250 pixels, Payment to be made as a donation (tax receipts sent out), send me your artwork as a 750pixel by 250pixel image and we will paste it into the magazine.

PUB MOOT ORGANISERS; If you are a pagan pub moot, group etc and want to feature in our listings, drop us a line and we will add your info in our Listings Diary.
If you want a web site designed for you contact our Coven Maiden Jennifer Giles at (jenn@deosildance.co.uk) and she will happily make web site.

So once again my readership and friends it is sooo good to be back among friends, my wandering the Earth amassing great wisdom is behind me now, its time I settled down and got some of what I have seen into words and published here in THE DEOSIL DANCE.  This E-Zine is being done for you and I certainly could never have done it without you.
Merry Meet once again dear friends and very many blessings be upon you and your hearth

Kimberley Morgan
Editor THE DEOSIL DANCE – JOURNAL FOR INDEPENDANT PAGANISM IN THE 21st CENTURY

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