Pagan Student Association Schedules

Greetings!

The following are schedules and meeting topics that the Pagan Student Association at Ohio State has held over the past few years.

Schedules: 2006-2007:

Co-Chairs: Nick & Misty
Treasurer: Ryan
Historian: MJD

Autumn 2006

Winter 2007

Spring 2007

All meetings, Buckeye Suite AB

09/26 - Nick: Introductions & Basic Meditation
10/03 - Anna: Altar Building
10/10 - Brian: History of Neo-Paganism
10/17 - OSU Pagan-friendly Sites Tour
10/24 - Mike: Pagan Prayer
10/31 - Samhain Party
11/07 - Nick: Warrior Spirituality/Magic (tentative)
11/14 - Misty: Green Living/ (tent.) Green House trip
11/21 - Brian: Taoism & Neo-Paganism
11/28 - divination/movie night

Derby Hall 0024

01/2: intro meeting - Cancelled (Ohio Union/SOURCE did not provide meeing space)
01/8: Brian, "How has Neo-Paganism affected your major/career" discussion
01/16: Maggie: "Creation Myths" [first mention of "Nick and the Magic Uterus"]
01/23: Keith: "Faerie"
01/31: MJD: "Gaulish Deities", and "Esus isn't Jesus, damnit!"
02/06: Mid-Quarter Party - Cancelled (weather)
02/13: Cancelled (weather: University closed)
02/20: Jay, "Synchretism and Eclecticism"
02/27: Nick, "Dreamwork (lucid dreaming, etc.)"
03/06: Brian and MJD: "Comparative Sacred Architecture: Borobudur and the Summerlands Stone Circle"

All meetings in 056 Hagerty Hall 056

03/27: Pagan Movie Night
04/3: Tom, "Tarot"
04/10: Misty, "Pagan Gardening"
04/17: Brian, "Mandalas"
04/24: MJD, "In the Shadow of Olympus"
05/1: Mid-Quarter Party
05/8: Meghan, "Felicitas Goodman's Ecstatic Body Postures"
05/15: Faith, "Rastafari"
05/22: Nick, "Magical Alphabets"
05/29: Maggie, "Paganism in Children's Movies"

Schedules: 2005-2006:

Co-Chairs: Carmen & Anna

Autumn 2005	Winter 2006	Spring 2006
09/20 - Introduction 09/27 - Dorm Room Paganism (Mike) 10/04 - Movie Night (vote beforehand) 10/11 - Samhain Lore (Meghan) 10/18 - Circles of Concentration (Anna) 10/25 - Mid-quarter Party 11/01 - Slavic Vampires (Mike) 11/08 - Ritualistic Tattoos (Tenille) 11/15 - Candle Magic (Skye) 11/22 - Seasonal Celebrations (Carmen) 11/29 - End of Quarter Party	01/03 - Seasonal Celebrations - Carmen 01/10 - Faith- Undecided 01/17 - Pagan Influences in Art - Ryan 01/24 - Keith - Undecided 01/31 - Mid-Quarter Party 02/07 - Sephiroth & Kabbalic Mysticism - Luke 02/14 - Etruscans -Brian & Mike 02/21 - Nick- Undecided 02/28 - Jewish Mysticism- Mike 03/07 - End of Quarter Party	03/28 - Mike: Creating Magical Entities - Buckeye FG 04/04 - Brian: Sex Magic - Gray B 04/11 - Carmen: Pagan Crafts - Buckeye FG 04/18 - Mike: Taking up the Shards: Jewish Mysticism - Buckeye FG 04/25 - Jan: Music and Paganism - Buckeye FG 05/02 - Movie Night!!! - Gray B 05/09 - Nick & Misty: The Nine Worlds - Buckeye FG 05/16 - Anna: Urban Paganism - Buckeye FG 05/23 - Faith: Martial Arts Ritual - Buckeye FG 05/30 - End of Quarter Party!!! - Buckeye FG

Schedules: 2004-2005:

Co-Chairs: Misty & Aaron (until 01/11); Anna (until end of year)
Treasurer: Ryan
Historian: MJD

Autumn 2004	Winter 2005	Spring 2005
09/21 - Introductions 09/28 - Mike: Dorm Room Paganism 10/05 - Faith: Pow Wow magic 10/12 - Mike: Creative Offering Workshop 10/19 - Misty: God/Goddess Handpuppets 10/26 - Mid-Quarter Party 11/02 - Ayla: Folklore Presentation 11/09 - Aaron: Chants 11/16 - Sylena: Medicine Wheel Gardens 11/23 - Carmen: Familiars workshop 11/30 - End of Quarter Party	01/11 - Tom: On the Nature of the Gods 01/18 - Faith: Ceremonial Magic 01/25 - Mike: "Something Mentioning Tentacles" 02/01 - Mid-Quarter Party 02/08 - Jeff: Acceptance and Tolerance in Paganism 02/15 - Mike: Amulets 02/22 - Misty: Triple Goddesses 03/01 - Ryan: Art in Religion 03/08 - End of Quarter Party	03/29 - Mike: Amulets 04/05 - Meg: Astrology 04/12 - Tom: More fictional pantheons(Kirby & Tolkien) 04/19 - Bardic Circle 04/26 - Mid-quarter Party 05/03 - Meg: Herbalism 05/10 - Misty: Paganism Rocks 05/17 - Anna: Pagan Poetry 05/24 - Mike: Dreamcatcher Workshop 06/01 - End of Quarter Party

Schedules: 2003-2004:

Co-Chairs: Meghan & Priscilla (until 01/29); Kasey (until 04/20); Erin (until 04/27); Skye (until end of year)
Treasurer: Ryan
Historian: MJD

Note: PSA requested funding for the first time in Autumn quarter 2003. They were granted, but never used by the organization, as we never bothered to cash the check or even manage to get a checking account created.

Autumn 2003	Winter 2004	Spring 2004
09/23 - Introductions and Dorm Room Paganism 09/30 - Mike: Prayer 10/07 - Priscilla: candle magick and color correspondences 10/14 - Meghan and Ryan: The Art of Shielding: Or, What to do when Mean People Hate You 10/21 - Mike: The Rune Poems 10/28 - Mid Quarter Party 11/04 - Ayla: Handcrafted Tools: The Difference They Make 11/11 - Carmen and Ayla: Polyamory [cancelled] 11/18 - Faith: The Fluffy Bunny Goddess 11/25 - Psyche Torok: Earth Magic 12/02 - End of Quarter Party	01/06 - "Divination" 01/13 - Panel Discussion: Ayla, Chris, MJD, Oberyn: "ethics, daily worship, and copmosite Gods and Goddesses" 01/20 - Oberyn: "Scrying" 01/27 - Tom: "There's More Than Just Homer and Christ: A Presentation on Educated Paganism just before Christian Supression" 02/03 - Mid-Quarter Party 02/10 - Ayla: "Polyamory" 02/17 - Mike: "Chaos Magic" 02/24 - Faith: "Sacred postures" 03/02 - MJD: "Ritual" 03/09 - End of Quarter Party	03/30 - Divination - FG 04/06 - Mike: "Meditation or whatever" - Board Room 04/13 - Ayla: Kitchen Witchery - Ayla's house 04/20 - Ray: Ethics of Psychic Readings - Board Room 04/27 - Mid-Quarter Party - FG 05/04 - Panel Meeting - FG 05/11 - Skye: Shamanic Magic - FG 05/18 - Faith and Tom: The Teen Witch Kit - FG 05/25 - Ray: Psychic Self Defense - FG 06/01 - End of Quarter Party - FG

Schedules: 2002-2003:

Co-Chairs: MJD & Monika
Treasurer: Jennifer
Historian: Tom

Autumn 2002	Winter 2003	Spring 2003
09/24 - Mike: Dorm Room Pagan 10/01 - Mike: Herbalism 10/08 - BJ: Faery Alchemy 10/15 - History of Neopaganism 10/22 - Spirits and Ancestors 10/29 - Middle of Quarter Party 11/05 - Mike: Weather Working 11/12 - Brian: Taoism 11/19 - Monika: Egyptian Magic 2 11/26 - Denomination Day 12/03 - End of Quarter Party	01/07: Jen - "Kitchen Witchcraft" 01/14: MJD - "Amulets and Talismans" 01/21: Faith - "Fae Communication" 01/28: Meghan - "Dreams" 02/04: Mid-Quarter Party 02/11: Monika - "Tarot" 02/18: BJ - "The Pearl Pentacle and the Gods and Goddesses of Feri" 02/25: Tom - "Mound Builders of Ohio (the Adena and Hopewell)" 03/04: Tom - "Mithras Liturgy, an early Theurgic ritual" 03/11: End of Quarter Party, Pre-finals destressing	04/01 - Panel: Ways rituals go wrong and how to fix them 04/08 - Chris: Keeping a Magical Journal 04/15 - Crystal: Familiars, Guardian Spirits, and Outer Realm Guides 04/22 - Ryan: Runes 04/29 - Mid-Quarter Party 05/06 - Pagan Wedding Ceremonies 05/13 - Sydney: Shamanism 05/20 - Panel: Magical tools 05/27 - Meghan: Reki 06/03 - End of Quarter Party

Schedules: 2001-2002:

Co-Chairs: Jenica & Melissa
Treasurer: Jen
Historian: Brian

Autumn 2001	Winter 2002	Spring 2002
09/18 - Everyone: Meet and great, bardic circle, fun stuff 09/25 - Psyche: Earth magic 10/02 - Melissa: Yoga 10/09 - Brian: Magic in other religions and how it relates to Paganism/what we can learn from them 10/16 - SilverPeace: Protective Magic/shielding/banishings 10/23 - hands-on: Making masks and planning for ritual 10/30 - Samhain Ritual (non-public) 11/06 - Mike: Herbalism 11/13 - Sydney: Shamanistic Journeys/Altered states of consciousness 11/20 - Ann: Paganism, Cultural Creatives, and Transmodernism 11/27 - Relaxation/Destressing (End of Quarter Party)	01/08 - Forum: First Meeting / Divination Day 01/15 - Forum: Deity Discussion 01/22 - Brian & Jenica: Mandalas 01/29 - Forum: Covens/Circles/Solitary/Traditions 02/05 - Brian: Sex Magic 02/12 - Forum: Morality & Ethics 02/19 - Jenica & Melissa: Magic & Science 02/26 - Karen M.: Stone Magic 03/05 - Releasing Stress Workshop 03/12 - End of Quarter Party, feast, Improv Topic	04/02 - Forum: (Advanced) Divination day 04/09 - Monika: Egyptian Magic 04/16 - Mike: Meditation (not visualization) 04/23 - Tom & Brian: Cosmology & Cosmogony 04/30 - Beltaine Party 05/07 - Sydney's classmate?: Belly Dancing 05/14 - Karen: Healing Spells 05/21 - BJ: Ritual Possession 05/28 - Brooke: Intuitive Magic (cancelled) 06/04 - End of Quarter Party

Schedules: 2000-2001:

Co-Chairs: Faith & Curi
Treasurer:
Historian: Brian

Autumn 2000	Winter 2001	Spring 2001
no info	no info	03/27 - 04/03 - 04/10 - 04/24 - 05/01 - Beltaine Party 05/08 - 05/15 - "Cabala (Jewish Mystical Texts)" - Bryan (aka "Numbers") 05/22 - "The Inquisition" - Karen 05/29 - End of Year Party

Schedules: 1999-2000:

Co-Chairs: Chris & MJD
Treasurer: Faith
Historian: Brian

Autumn 1999	Winter 2000	Spring 2000
no info	01/18 - "Weather Working" - MJD	03/28 - Dealing With Christians Who Are Out To "Save" Us - SilverPeace 04/04 - Shinto, an Ancient Japanese Religion - Curi 04/11 - Visualization - MJD 04/25 - Energy Healing 05/02 - Beltaine Party 05/09 - Spirit Guides 05/16 - Native American Religions and Theologies 05/23 - Wiccan Initiation Rites - Nikki Bado 05/30 - Ways Rituals Go Wrong and How To Fix Them - Audrey Alexander 06/04 - End of Quarter Party

Schedules: 1998-1999:

Co-Chairs: Joann & Faith
Treasurer: Jenni
Historian: Brian

Meetings in Buckeye Suites F & G.

Note: Brian took meticulous notes on this year's meetings, and started PSA's Historical Record. Then, well, he was officially elected to the job "Historian", and we sorta didn't do that anymore.

Autumn 1998	Winter 1999	Spring 1999
09/29 - First meeting: Everyone: Meet and greet 10/06 - Book-sharing, elections for treasurer 10/13 - Tree-identification walk - Joann (who told us to meet for the tree ID walk "under the sycamore in front of the Ohio Union.") 10/20 - Planning for Samhain Party 10/27 - Samhain Party: Shelterhouse on Olentangy, near Drake Union 11/03 - "Meditation Exercise" - MJD 11/10 - "Past Life Regression" - Karen 11/17 - "Divination workshop" - Tarot, pendulums, and Karen's "Girl Scout playing card divination" 11/24 - "The Crow Indian Sundance" - Alex Snow 12/01 - "Celtic Mythology" - Lilith	01/05 - Planning meeting for quarter, introductions, discussion of getting a speaker 01/12 - "Dorm Room Paganism" - MJD; discussion of ghosts and personal religion 01/19 - Panel discussion: "Morality/Good vs. Evil" 01/26 - Discussion: "Shamanism"; became discussion on "drugs for religious use" 02/02 - Imbolc celebration 02/09 - "Visualization" - MJD 02/16 - "Greek Mythology" - Brian 02/23 - "Nordic Mythology and Runes" - Jenni 03/02 - "Storytelling" 03/09 - Last meeting of Quarter	03/30 - "Power Animals/Spritual Guides" - MJD 04/06 - "Herbalism" - Joann and MJD 04/13 - "Afterlives" - discussion 04/20 - ?? 04/27 - Beltaine celebration 05/04 - "Rites of Passage" 05/11 - "Incenses and Oils" [officer nominations] 05/18 - Elections: next year's officers 05/25 - "Numerology" - Bryan (aka "Numbers") 06/01 - End of Year/Quarter Party

Schedules: 1997-1998:

Co-Chairs: Joann & some guy name Charlie who only came to one meeting?

Note: most of this schedule is reconstructed from emails, and many gaps occur. It is an approximation as best we can remember.

Autumn 1997	Winter 1998	Spring 1998
Locations indicated 10/09 - First meeting: Everyone: Meet and greet - Stecker Lounge 10/16 - Various traditions - MJD did "Druidism" - Stecker Lounge 10/23 - Topic unknown - Stecker Lounge 10/30 - Samhain Party: met in front of Morrill Tower, moved to Chadwick Abroretum Labyrinth 11/06 - Topic unknown - Scarlet Suite U 11/13 - "Ritual: what it is, why it's done" - Lillith - First meeting in Buckeye Suites F & G 11/20 - "Pantheons" - various, includes Norse, Greek, Celtic, and Fey (MJD, apparently, did "Fey") 11/27 - No meeting: Thanksgiving Holiday 12/04 - Yule Party: Glass Lounge of Morrill Tower at 8pm, but moved at the last minute to Morrill Tower 0642, Georgia's room, due to scheduling conflicts.	01/08 - 01/15 - 01/22 - 01/29 - Imbolc ritual: Buckeye Suites F & G 02/05 - 02/12 - 02/19 - 02/26 - 03/05 - 03/12 - End of Quarter Party	04/02 - 04/09 - 04/16 - 04/23 - 04/30 - Beltaine Ritual Rehersal/first game of "I Never" - at the Gazebo on Ag. Campus 05/07 - 05/14 - 05/21 - 05/28 - 06/04 - End of Quarter Party

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