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Welcome to Northampton Pagans |
| This is the home for the Northampton Pagans group. Northampton Pagans is an online and face to face group for Pagans living within the county of Northamptonshire. We are a growing group of people from various paths within the Pagan community, of varying age and experience. Our aim is to create a space for pagans who are sincere about their chosen path, whether that be as a solitary witch, a druid, someone who prefers to work in a group setting or any of the other ways of expressing the pagan spirituality. It is our desire to create a central 'meeting point' where information and views can be shared in a safe place without the fear of recriminations or ridicule. |
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Northampton Pagans goes GlobalNorthampton Pagans has been running now since 2002, pretty much as per the above description, but all things change over time, and we have decided that NP needs to change as well. Until now, our membership has been restricted solely to those Pagans who live within the county of Northamptonshire (pretty much what our name implies). However, we have decided that it is time for us to broaden our horizons somewhat. In part, this is because we have had more queries from people who are just outside the county boundary, and also because of queries from those who want to know more about Paganism, but who do not currently class themselves as Pagan. As a result, we have decided that in addition to our full members that fill both of these criteria, we are adding an associate member level that will allow anyone to join NP as long as they have an interest in Paganism, regardless of where they live. Anyone who wishes to join us should fill in the application form in the Join page (under the Members menu entry). If you wish to be considered for full membership, you will need to confirm that you are a Pagan living in Northamptonshire. If you only want associate membership then these entries are optional. As long as they qualify, associate members can upgrade to full membership at a later date. |
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So what can you expect to find on this site? |
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First there is the Forum (in the Members section). This is our main on-line area, where we discuss anything from how to cast a circle, to which is the worst of the Star Wars films. In order to protect our members from spam and abuse from those who do not appreciate a Pagan viewpoint, this is only open to members. Membership requests are checked by the groups Elders, rather than by having on-line registration, as this allows us to keep spiders, robots, etc from gaining access to our members data. |
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In the Group Info pages are details of upcoming events, details of the craft skills of our members, and links to other Pagan (or related) sites which are recommended by our members. Galleries are pretty self explanatory. Photos from some of our events (and some pictures that are simply silly). |
Pages under the Paths menu relate to the various paths that Pagans usually follow. Within that section we also have the NP Tree - which has symbols representing many of the paths available, as well as symbols relating to Pagan interests. All of these symbols are explained in the other pages within the Paths section. |
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We have a page for each sign of the Zodiac, with not only the traditional astrological details, but covering the mythology and the astronomy of the signs as well. The current sign is |
We are working on pages for each of the main Pagan festivals (in the Festivals section), and we will start uploading these shortly. The next festival will be |
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The Talking Tree pages are simply a collection of articles that may be of interest to Pagans (though they do not have to be about Paganism per se). They are taken from the pages of our somewhat short lived magazine, hence the title of the section. |
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