02
 Feb 11

Our History

Nathair The Coven 0 Comments

We are the first coven of the Rainbow Warrior Tradition. We got our start in 1997 when two of our High Priests, Pan and Druimaelduin, began holding “open by invitation” Sabbats after Pan decided to leave the group with whom he had been studying. Though they didn’t realize it at the time, they were laying the foundation for what would later become the Rainbow Warrior Tradition. In 1999, Nathair and Pan did some healing work for another individual; seeing how well the two worked together, Pan and Druimaelduin began incorporating Nathair into their rituals. Shortly after this, the group expanded to include another fledgling witch who chose the magickal name Aengus. The foursome continued working together presenting Sabbats and Esbats to the local community. Based on the fruitfulness of their combined efforts, the group decided that it was finally time to formally recognize themselves as a coven. They slowly began using the name Rainbow Warriors and on June 21, 2001 performed a birthing ritual for the coven and set the intention that one day the ways of the Rainbow Warriors would be followed as a Tradition.

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21
 Jun 10

Summer Solstice 2010

Braggwynn Sabbats 0 Comments

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I awaken strong, a full day’s readiness;
Power to be beckoned and used.
The Light Lord’s harmony this day will never rest,
Until our essences‘ totally fuse.

The Rainbow Warrior’s hosted Litha on Saturday, the 19th of June, to celebrate and watch the Lord of Light’s reigning moments of glory pass into the second solar half of the year. It was a great gathering of faces old and new to observe the Sabbat.

I am the sun radiating and the breeze moderating. I am action manifesting within the body of my Goddess. I give her purpose, I give her direction, I give her my unending devotion. I have become the Oak reaching into the heavens, bold and erect. See this tree as the instrument of connection on all levels, elements becoming alive, integrating within the world. As I thrive so does the Mother Earth, the Goddess. See my strength dancing with her beauty as the world touches the stars.

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17
 May 10

Hotep: An Introduction

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I, Hotep, was born on August 20, 1954 and was brought up in the lovely Town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, in a strict Italian Catholic family (which later all went “Born Again”). I was not at all hostile to my religious up bringing, as a matter of fact it was quite the opposite, I loved the Priests and Nuns of St. Johns and St. Pauls Churches. However, I just never “bought into” the teachings of the Catholic Church, and as a youth in “catechism” thought the stories and classes quite silly. It all just seemed very unrealistic and did not ring honest to me. From my teens on I “floated” spiritually, and felt more than a little lost…I didn’t know what I believed.

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I realized at a very early age that there was “something different” about me (aside from being Gay, which I understood from around age 5, but didn’t have a word for). I had my first highly psychic experience pre-kindergaden, which haunted me for years, and amazes me even to this day. Although not a frequent occurrence, throughout my life I have had “visitations” or “visions”, that I could only explain as perhaps “daymares’, “nightmares” or “waking dreams”…and of course, being raised Catholic, even though I had no particular belief in it, I did consider these experiences “bad”. Later, however, these “gifts” (which I now consider them) were beautifully explained to me in one of Raven Grimassi’s books.

As a youth and into my teens I absolutely didn’t “fit in”. I was the school “weirdo”. I always dressed in black (my color of choice even today) and had a very strong attraction to the occult and witchcraft, but of course, I steered away from it as I was taught to believe it was “the work of the Devil”. Remember, most anything written about the subject in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s depicted anything not Christian as “Satanic”…and of course, that didn’t fit me well either. When I was old enough to drive I spent a lot of time in Salem (a place I’ve always loved and would love to live even today), and many other sites around Massachusetts and New England that had a history of Witchcraft to delve into.

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