Green Mountain Circle Works

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KEY:
(Volume:Issue)
* Repeating features, inc. Songs, Paganalia, Calendar, and Resources are assumed after first mention.

Volume I 1998:
Jan; Feb; Mar; Apr; May; Jun; Jul; Aug; Sep; Oct; Nov; Dec

Volume II 1999:
Jan; Jan Blue Moon; Feb; Mar; May 2; May 30; Jun; Jul; Aug; Sep; Oct; Nov; Dec

Volume III 2000:
Jan; Feb; Mar; Apr; May; June; July; Aug, Sep, Oct/Nov, Dec

Volume IV 2001:
Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, June, July, Autumn

Volume V 2002:
Winter

I:1 Jan 1998

Sabbat: Candlemas

* Songs

* Calendar

* Circle Celebration

I:2 Feb 1998

Sabbat: Spring

* BUUC Calendar

I:3 Mar 1998

Feature: "A Circle of Community," by Rev. Dian Firebearer Mueller, HPs

Nat'l & Internat'l News

News Feature: Asatru and Indians Claim Bones of Ancestor

* Resources

I:4 Apr 1998

Sabbat: Beltain

"Astrological Energies for Beltaine," by Patrick Downing

Nat'l & Internat'l News

Review: "They Change Everyone Who Hears Them (Libana)," by Dian Mueller

Feature: "Basics of the Northern Way," by Laeknir Eirarson

	"Kennewick Man, An Ancestor," by J.T. Gordon

	"Runes," by alfred

* Paganalia (news digest)

I:5 May 1998

Feature: "Healthy Pagan Gatherings," by Oz

"Runes," by alfred

Feature: "The Burning Times, Part I," by Rev. Dian Firebearer Mueller, HPs

News: "First Annual Pagan Pride Day," "Pagan Awareness Week"

Feature: "Educating the Media About Wiccan and Paganism," by Malcolm Brenner

	"The Internet Witch's Witch Hunt," by Robert A. Blew

	"Cybersitter Bans ALL Wiccan/Pagan Websites!!!," by Asherah

I:6 Jun 1998
Sabbat: Summer Solstice
* Runester's Rede, by alfred
Feature: "The Burning Times, Part II," by Rev. Dian Firebearer Mueller, HPs
Humor: "Top ten things that really irritate Viking heatherns"
Feature: "Initiation: A Dangerous Doorway"
	"A Shaman in a Nutshell," by Divine Madwoman
	"Apprentice to the Old Ways"
	"God on the Brain"

I:7 Jul 1998
Feature: "Romuva: Bastion of European Paganism" by Dian Mueller
Feature: "The Burning Times, Part III," by Rev. Dian Firebearer Mueller, HPs
Feature: "First Nation News"

I:8 Aug 1998
Feature: "The Burning  Times, Part IV," by Rev. Dian Firebearer Mueller, HPs
News: "Burning Times Apologies May be Forthcoming"

I:9 Sep 1998
Feature: "The Hardships of a Teenage Witch," by Jessie Lynn
* Astrology, by Rev. Terre Benjamin, HPS
Announcements: "Out of the Broom Closet," "Pagan Children's Books"
Feature: "Pagan Parenting: Raising Spiritual Kids," by Terre Wheeler Benjamin
"Book Reviews from Hypatia's Horde," by Elizabeth Barrette

I:10 Oct 1998
Review: "Nordic Destiny Weavers (Roles of the Northern Goddess)," by Laeknier Eldur Eirarson
Announcement: "Support Networks Starting for Victims of Religious Discrimination"
Pagan Pride Day report: "Out from the Shadows," by Alfred, Dian & Karen Mueller
Feature: "Pagan Guide Dog," by Gwen Evans
News: "Declaration from the World Pagan Congress"
Feature: "Defamation by Caricature," by Rev. Dian Firebearer Mueller, HPs
Poem: "Spiral Circles," by Dian Mueller
Jane's Tidings, by Jane Raeburn

I:11 Nov 1998
Feature: "The Unboundable Trickster," by Elizabeth Barrette
Editorial: "Take Your Tea Seriously"
News: "Bigotry in Massachusetts"
* Circle Schedule
News: "K-Man Still Seeks Final Repose"
Feature: "Elemental Workings: Tarot That Makes Sense to Me," by Susan Greenwind
	"Vermont WitchCamp 1998," by Elisabeth Ast
News: "The View from the Holy See"

I:12 Dec 1998
Feature Song: "The Thirteen Days of Yule"
Feature: "Sing in the Yule!" by Firebearer
Humor: "Medicine Through the Ages"
* Spike No Evil (comic strip), by Spike
News: "Papal Apology Request"
Fable: "Fable of the Moth"
Index of Volume I
* Calendar Highlight

II:1 Jan 1999
Feature: "Religions of Place and People: out of place, among new people," by Samuel Wagar
Editorial: "Sexual Magic is the Deep End of the Pool"
Letter
BUUC News: "Proto-Chapter No More!"
Feature: "Gwydion Pendderwen: Life and Death of a Faerie Shaman," by Oz
Feature: "Wiccan, Warts and All," by York Dobyns
(no calendar highlight)

II:2 Jan Blue Moon 1999
Sabbat: "Imbolc: A Time of Awakening," by Phaedra Oorbeck
Editorial: "Can There Be too Much Love?"
Op-Ed: "A Teen's Take on Polyamory," by Jess Brangwyn
Feature: "Blue Moon Magic," by Dian Firebearer Mueller
Feature: "Top 10 Stories of 1998"

II:3 Feb 1999
BUUC News: "Pagan Pride 1999"
Editorial: "Reconciliation with the Shadow"
Letter
UU News: "Unitarian Universalists and Nature Spirituality"
Feature: "Spirituality for Our Whole Selves," by David Endora Edleson

II:4 Mar 1999
Editorial: "Pagan Unitarian Universalists"
Feature: "Faeries of the Air," by Lilith Ravenroot
	"Correspondences for Air"
Feature: "My Path: Losing My Sight to Find My Spiritual Vision," by Gwen Evans
	"Symbiotic Spirituality"
	"Without the UU, Where Would We Be?" by Dian Mueller and Alfred Hedenburg

II:5 May 2, 1999
Editorial: "Neither One Can Work Without the Other"
Letter
Feature: "Caring for Each Other: The Pagan Tradition of Community Service"
	Community Service Announcements
Feature: "The Sixth Source of the UU Religious Tradition," by Steve Trombulak

II:6 May 30, 1999
Editorial: "Mirth & Reverence"
Letters
* The Cauldron of Wyrd, by Peri Wyrrd
Feature: "Born Again Pagans," by Rev. Gary Kowalski
	"Iolo Morganwg (1747-1826)," by Dian Mueller

II:7 Jun 1999
Guest Editorial: "Barring the Door," by Jane Raeburn
Letter
Feature: "Reconstructing Tribes: Indigenous European Religions," by Grolheim
Humor: "What Would God/dess Do? Part One"
Feature: "The Moon in Her Phases and the Tides of the Sea," by Karl Lembke
(no Paganalia)
Feature: "The Halves and the Half-Knots," by Rev. Dian Firebearer Mueller, HPs
Jane's Tidings, by Jane Raeburn

II:8 Jul 1999
Guest Editorial: "Drifting Toward Theocracy," by Skeeter Sanders
Letter
"A Pagan Grace," by anonymous
(no Cauldron of Wyrd)
Feature Song: "Give Us a Song of Anacreon"
Feature: "What's a Radical Faerie?" by Khrysso
BUUC News: "God/dess Art," by Sigil
Feature: "Rites of Spring," by Lady Nekhebet
Review: "Lammas Night," by Matt Dragonfly Drury
Jane's Tidings, by Jane Raeburn
BUUC News: "Pagan Pride Day Cometh"

II:9 Aug 1999
BUUC News: "PPD Schedule of Events"
Guest Editorial: "High Spirits at the Solstice," by Jane Raeburn
Letter
Feature: "Ritual for a Diverse Pagan Crowd," by Susan MoonShadow
Feature: "Pagan Empowerment and Unitarian Universalism," by Rev. Dr. Christa Heiden Landon
Feature: "Cults Can't Do It," by Soror Theta Sigma
Fable: "The Cracked Pot"

II:10 Sep 1999
Guest Editorial: "To Thine Own Path Be True," by Morphius
Humor: "What Would God/dess Do? Part Two"
(no Cauldron of Wyrd)
Feature: "Gods and Goddesses: Literal or Symbolic?" by Ralf Muhlberger
Feature: "Kids in Ritual," Sienna Newcastle
	"A Pagan Alphabet," by Breid Foxsong
	"If the Gods Had to Attend Parent-Teacher Conferences," by anonymous
	"Pagan Parenting Resources On-Line"
Review: "The Pagan Family: Handing the Old Ways Down," by Grey Mere
Jane's Tidings, by Jane Raeburn
BUUC News: "Into the Light: Pagan Pride Day 1999 in Vermont," by Alfred, and Dian Mueller

II:11 Oct 1999
Announcement: "Ancient Goddess Figures"
Guest Editorial: "How We're Seen," by Jane Raeburn
Local News: "Middlebury CUUPS"
Humor: "Techno-Pagan Serenity Prayer," by anonymous
Local News: "Nature Religions Trail"
Poem: "Samhain Eve," by anonymous
BUUC News: "Drumming Up the Spirit"
Feature: "Calling Lilith In," by Lilith Ravenroot
Jane's Tidings, by Jane Raeburn
Announcement: "Books for Pagan Prisoners," by Tom Canfield

II:12 Nov 1999
Editorial: "Saving Samhain"
Letter
(no more Astrology)
(no Cauldron of Wyrrd)
BUUC News: "Communing with Ancestors," by Willow
	"In Memoriam"
Feature: "A Call to Action," by Sacred Earth Alliance
Local News: "VOCAL"

II:13 Dec 1999
Feature: "Year of Leifur Eiriksson," by alfred
Special Report: "How We Really Shut Down the WTO," by Starhawk
Letter
Feature: "The Year 1000 CE in:"
Review: "The Bacchae at St. Mike's," by Dian Mueller
Local News: "Peace in the Woods (SPiN)," by Dian Mueller
Feature: "The Growth of Pagan Spirituality in the U.S., Part One," by M. Macha NightMare
Feature: "2000: Apocalypse or Ascension?"
(no Paganalia)
Feature: "Top 10 Stories of 1999"
Volume III Index

III:1 Jan 2000
Sabbat: "The Eight Sabbats of Witchcraft: Candlemas: The Light Returns," by Mike Nichols
Feature: "Candle Colors and what they mean," by anonymous
Local News: "Faeries Busy as Bees"
(no more Cauldron of Wyrrd)
Feature: "The Mossegubbe," by Kristin Madden
Feature: "The Growth of Pagan Spirituality in the U.S., Part Two," by M. Macha NightMare
"CUUPS Continental News"
Humor: "Butt Prints in the Sand," by anonymous

III:2 Feb 2000
Feature: "Shamanism, Psychosis, and Seduction: A Dialogue," by Firebearer
Guest Editorial: "To Dress or Not to Dress," by Lowell McFarland
Local News: "SpINing Connections"
Humor: "The Three Priestesses," by anonymous
News: "World Leaders Address Pope"
	"Giving the Goddess Equal Bill(board)ing," by Macha Nightmare
	"Wiccan/Pagan Poll Preliminary Results Posted," by Kathryn Fuller Emerita
Feature: "In Praise of the Hag," by Magpie
Humor: "What Would God/dess Do? Part Three," by anonymous
Feature: "Living the Spirit of Peace," by Dian Mueller
	"Standing Stones for Peace," by Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

III:3 Mar 2000
Feature: "Stewart Farrar (1916-2000): An Obituary," by Peter J. Doyle
Guest Editorial: "A Hopi Elder Speaks," by Oraibi
Parable: "Parable of the Frogs," by anonymous
Local News: "Open Circle," by Joel Lowy and Bonnie Hearthstone
"A Pagan Pledge of Allegiance," by Wolfsquint
Local News: "Paying Homage to the Sacred Earth"
Sabbat: "Spring Equinox," by Ahrianna Spiritsong
BUUC News: "Wheel of the Year Group," by Sigil

III:4 Apr 2000
Editorial: "Opening the Door for Teens"
UU News: "Supporting the UU Society"
Letter
Sabbat: "A Celebration of MAYDAY," by Gwydion Cinhil Kirontin
Local News: "SpINing Solutions"
Feature: "Resisting Christianization: Some European and Native Parallels, Part One," by Michael Strmiska

III:5 May 2000
Feature: "Resisting Christianization: Some European and Native Parallels, Part Two," by Michael Strmiska
Guest Editorial: "Pondering the Pope's Apology," by Lowell McFarland
Letters
Local News: "SPiN News"
	"Coven Seeks Founding Members," by Chris
News: "Guilty by Reason of Wicca? Free the Memphis Three," by Cat Chapin-Bishop
Local News: "Come All Ye Pagans," by Witch Haven Circle and Haven Heritage Traditions

III:6 June 2000
Editorial: "Why We're Taking Action Against the World Bank & IMF," by Starhawk
Letter
Runester's Rede: "Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Viking Scandinavia, Part 2," by Gunnora Hallakarva
Pagan Prisoners Project
Sabbat: "The Eight Sabbats of Witchcraft: A Midsummer's Celebration," by Mike Nichols
PSAs: 	"Pagan Perspectives Radio"
	"Raven's Call Press"
Local News: "Faeries Manifest Dreams"

III:7 July 2000
Cover Pictorial: "Gay Pride 2000," by Dian Mueller
Editorial: "How Many Are We?" by Lowell McFarland
Letter
Runester's Rede: "Consecration of Chalice, Athame, or Other Tool," by anonymous
Sabbat: "The Eight Sabbats of Witchcraft: Lammas: The First Harvest," by Mike Nichols
	"Summer Solstice" article by anonymous, pictorial by Dian Mueller
Features: "Making Good Choices: A Guide for Teens and Adults," by Jane Raeburn
	"In Grandmother's Lap: The Right Teaching Stuff," by The Spinster Aunt
	"Finding Healing, a Healer, Meditation Groups, Etc.," by Richard P. Andresen
	"The Craft and the Healing Arts," by Jehana
	"Pagan Ethics Internet Resources"
Local News: "Pagan Pride Day 2000 in Vermont"
	"Seeding SPiN's Vision"
(No "Paganalia" this moon)

III:8 August 2000
Cover Pictorial: SulisCircle, by Dian Mueller
Editorial: "Save the First Amendment," by Mel Eddington
Letter
Runesters Rede: "Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Viking Scandinavia, Part 3," by Gunnora Hallakarva
Review: (Teen Witch) "Just Do It," by Jane Raeburn
Local News: "[VOCAL] Circle Seeks Board Members"
	"BUUCing Up, Chipping In"
	"Speaking Up for the Vox" (The Witches' Voice)
Humor: "Top 10 Reasons to Be Pagan"
	"Superfundamentalists," by Rob Wynne
Feature: "Riding Your Spiritual Bicycle," by Richard P. Andresen
News Features: "Resurfacing Stonehenge"
	"Bad as They Wanna Be"
	"Interfaith Peace Summit"
	"India's Holy Wars: Scenes from an Internecine Religious Battleground," by Dian Mueller
	"CUUPS Mission Keepers"

III:9 September 2000
Cover art by Anthony Cardaci Mendes
Editorial: "Why Pagan Pride Day?" by Dragonet Dewr
Letter
Feature: "Oneness of God/dess," by Katiera
Local News: "Ever Changing Has Ever Changed"
	"New CUUPS Chapter Forming" (Montpelier)
	"SPiNing Away Summer"
	"Reclaiming Reunion," by Dorothy Moonsong
Sabbat: "The Eight Sabbats of Witchcraft: Harvest Home," by Mike Nichols
Features: "An Open Letter to a Witch"
	"Beginners Magic," by Richard P. Andresen
	"Teen Craze, or The Dot.com Generation," by Peri Wyrrd
	"Blessed Bee Pagan Scholarship"
	"Pagan Parenting Resources Online"
Reviews: "Taking Care of Earth's Business," (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability) by Warren
	"Starwood Magical Faerie Tour," by Dian Firebearer Mueller

III:10-11 October/November 2000
Editorial: "Consider the Alternatives," by Rev. Shari A. "Willow" Eicher
Local News: "Fighting the Shadows: Pagan Pride Day 2000 in Vermont"
	"Finding My Voice, Embracing My Self" (WitchCamp), by Staci AKA She Chameleon
	"Healing Community" (Laurelin Retreat/Cherry Hill Seminary), by Kirk White
	"Reclaiming Autumn at SPiN," by Evergreen Erb
Sabbat: "Samhain Explained for the Young," by Rev. Dian Firebearer Mueller
Features: "Pagan Presidential Perspectives," by Dian Mueller
	"Lea Wood, Witch-Activist: Vermont's Hag Extraordinaire," by Lilith
	"Witch Camp at Timberlake" (poem), by Lea Wood
	"Wear Your Purple Hat and Act 50+!" by anonymous

III:12 December 2000
Sabbat: Yule decorations
	"The Eight Sabbats of Witchcraft: Midwinter Night's Eve: Yule," by Mike Nichols
Editorial: "A Natural Alliance?" by Lowell McFarland
(No "Spike No Evil" this moon)
Local News: "Wolfsong on the Wind," by Dian Mueller
	"Winterfest 2000"
	"Vermont WitchCamp Organizing 2001," by Raven
	"On-line Wedding Course" (Cherry Hill Seminary)
	"New England Pagan Magazine" (A Faery's Dreaming)
	"Witches' Yellow Pages"
Features: "A Spiritual Message to America from the Nation's Native Elders"
	"Top 10 Stories of 2000"
	"Asia's Distorted Image: Exploiting Stereotypes to manipulate," by John Samuel

IV:1 January 2001
Editorial: "Defending the Faith," by Ami Grimes
Miscellaneous Articles: "Counting Pagans"
	"Perfect Love and Perfect Trust," by Deidhre Reid
	"An Interview with Author Isaac Bonewits," by SilverPeace
	"Finding Flora's People: Honoring Ancestors Through Genealogy," by Sunna
	"A Look Back" (remembering the Green Button Campaign)
Local News: "Good Press, Better Education" (VT Pagans in local media)
	"Winterfest Wonderland"
	"Solstice at SPiN"
	"Pagan Clergy Resources"
	"CoSE Journalism"
	"Solar Eclipse"
Features: "The Pagan Vocation: What Makes a Priest(ess)?" by Elizabeth Barrette
	"An observation on unpaid clergy," by J. Nagdeo
	"Some Thoughts on Pagan Clergy," by Sunfell
PSA: "Library Goddess" (SageWoman campaign)

IV:2 February 2001
Editorial: "Who Is Pagan, Who Is Not," by LS Chapman
Local News: "Sacred Britain Tours"
	"Covenanting Community" (BUUC-UU covenanting)
	"Remembering Wolfsong"
	"Yuletide Radio" (on The Point)
Review: "The Scholars and the Goddess," (Atlantic Monthly) by Archer
News Feature: "Protecting the People and Her Land," by Anne Garcia
Features: "Notes for Large Rituals," by Russell Williams and Rowan Fairgrove
	"The Pagan Vocation: What Makes a Priest/ess, Part 2," by Elizabeth Barrette
PSA: "NH Prison Ministry"

IV:3 March 2001
Editorial: "People and Work Make Community Happen," by Robyn
Local News: 
	"Heilsa, Asatruar!" (kindred forming)
	"Connecting to the Earth Community" (ecological spirituality)
	"SPiNing Growth" (Spirit in Nature trails expand to Chittenden Co.)
	"Big Do's at Dryad [Design]"
	"Vermont Pagan Festival" (second annual SulisCircle)
Reviews:
	"The Drumming Elves," (Elvendrums) by Elizabeth Barrette
	"Written in the Grounds," (Café Nation) by Francesca Susanna
Features:
	"Spirituality and Art," by Mrs. B. Nirmala Kumari
	"Doing Art for the Earth," by Dominique Mazeaud
	"Fantasy Literature & Paganism," by Graham Harvey
	"Returning to the Roots of a Witch's Education," by Elka Eastly
News:
	"Tasting Immortality: India's Baptismal Festival," (Maha Kumbh Mela) by Dian Mueller

IV:4 April 2001
Editorial: "Détente in the Sex Wars," by Dian Mueller
Local News:
	"Organizing Faeries" (Faerie Camp Destiny)
	"Goddess Study" (Morning Dove astrological research)
	"Pagan Reading List"
	"Prayer for Beltane" (local Fire Eye participation)
	"Ritual for the Earth with Starhawk," by Francesca Susanna
	Sidebar: 
"Radical Terra-ism Meets the Spirit of the Zapatistas," by Dian Mueller
Reviews:
	"Hanging Out at Griffin Grove Inn," by Lady Galadriel
	"Tarot for the Single White Female" (TAROT UNIVERSE), by Francesca Susanna
Humor:
	"What Would God/dess Do? Part Four"
Features:
	"Getting Beyond Church 'Willies': Why I'm a UU Pagan," by Geneva N.
	"The Strangers" parable
	"Uncommon Language: As Pagans join churches, new skills are needed," by Summer Woodsong
		Sidebars:
		"Aren't UUs Christian?"
		"Supporting Our Supporters"
		"Money Makes a Difference"
Animal Allies Series:
	"Firebird," by Kristen Madden

IV:5 May 2001
Guest Editorial: "Inrterfaith Dissent & Diplomacy," by Skeeter Sanders
PSA: "Civil Rights Resources" (boilerplate Website)
Local News:
	"CUUPS Regional Conference"
	"VOCAL Evolution"
	"Young Pagan Scholars" (Ivo & Kye Lippold win state Destination Imagination)
	"Organics On-Line" (Goddess Garden)
	"Solstice Sojourn" (VT Witch Camp reunion)
	"Equine Emotions" (Annette Urbschat's multimedia play)
	"Coming of Age in an Age of Conflicting Values" (UU program)
Reviews:
	"Spellbinding Series" (Circle of Three), by Archer
	"Searching for the Light" (Incantation CD), by Dian Mueller
Features:
	"A Pretty Good Mother," by Francesca Susanna
	"Lakshmi and Saraswati: Tales in Mythology and Art," by Nitin G.
	"Which Goddess Are You?"

IV:6 June 2001
Guest Editorial: "Racism is not a Pagan Value," by Alfred Hedenburg
Local News:
	"Spirit Seekers Organizer"
	"Weaving Scholarship" (VT Witchcamp preparation for VWC 2001)
	"SPiNing in the Spring"
	"Civil Union Celebration" (one-year anniversary observance at Goddard College)
Reviews:
	"Never Kiss a Black Cat - It Will Make You Fat" (CAT MAGIC), by Graig Skaff
	"Spirit Lessons from Animal Friends" (THE BIBLE ACCORDING TO NOAH)
Features:
	"Thanking Lucky Stars" (omens on considering a move to VT)
	"Initiation" (labyrinth work), by Selchie
	"Journeys of the Soul" (sacred sites in Britain), by Glenn Broughton
	"Respect for Megalithic Sites," by Frater Peredur
Animal Allies Series:
	"Sparrowhawk," by Kristin Madden

Editorial Reply: "No Offense Intended," by Mark Potok

V:1 Winter 2002
Perspective: "Winter’s Pregnant Pause," by Dian Mueller
Local News:
	"Aboreal Amour" (VT Tree Society)
	"River of Change" (anti-globalization Pagan Cluster)
	"’Pagan Nexus’ of Rutland Crosses Over" (Curt Stannard)
	"Seekers’ Seminary" (Cherry Hill Seminary)
	"Conservation Consciousness" (NH-VT UU District Conference)
	"Faerie Space" (Faerie Camp Destiny)
	"Natural Solace" (Spirit in Nature)
	"Joy in Adversity" (Gwen Evans’ workshops)
	"Celebrating Spirit" (Laurelin Retreat)
	"Countering Prejudice" (Green Mtn. Council of Boy Scouts)
	"Winterfest 2001"
Animal Allies Series:
	"The Best Friend" (Dog), by Kristin Madden
Seasonal:
	"Musings on the Coming of Spring," by woodspirit
Feature:
	"Lord Shiva as Nataraja: Aesthetics of Dance and Destruction," by Nitin G