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Vox ID: 318529
Clergy Id: 7607
Posted: Sep.22.2008
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Pagan Clergy
Stasa Morgan-Appel
Located in: Princeton, New Jersey
Clergy Profile: http://smorganappel.googlepages.com/home
bread & roses spiritual nurture
My primary ministry is spiritual nurture -- helping people nurture their connection to the That-Which-Is-Sacred. There are a number of specific kinds of ministry that fall under this umbrella for me:
* music
* spiritual healing and physical healing
* dance
* ritual and magic
* teaching
* handwork
* building community, especially spiritual community
* spiritual counseling/mentoring/direction
* humanitarian work
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I offer the following services:
* Meeting one-on-one to talk about your spiritual life and spiritual journey
* Energy work (as taught by John Calvi)
* Winter Solstice Celebrations based on A Winter Solstice Singing Ritual
* Magic and ritual:
- Teaching magic
- Facilitating ritual
- Helping you craft ways to mark life's transitions, including births, deaths, engagements/ handfastings/ weddings, relationship endings, cronings, and more
* Planning and facilitating retreats and workshops
* Specific workshops and retreats:
- Singing the Goddess
- Winter Solstice Celebration/Winter Solstice Singing Ritual
- Ritual and magic
- Handwork in the Light: an Evening of Healing Handwork
- Handwork, Ministry, and Magic
- for Pagan Quakers/Quaker Pagans
- Explicit Friends (community-building among Quakers who experience the Divine an an explicit way)
- The Goddess Is Alive and Magic Is Afoot
- Working with Dying and Death: a Day of Comfort and Healing
Please see my website for more information about specific workshops and retreats.
I am available to come to your community to facilitate a workshop, retreat, or other event. Most workshops can be tailored in length to the needs of your event or group. I can also develop a workshop for the needs of your particular group or event.
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My ministry is interfaith.
I particularly work with folks from Quaker, Pagan, and Jewish backgrounds, as well as with musicians and dancers; I work with folks from other backgrounds as well. I am LGBTQ-friendly and poly-friendly.
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I offer/host the following events, without charge:
* Full Moon Meeting for Worship
* Roses, Too! Tradition Sabbat Celebrations
* Friends (Quaker) Meeting for Worship for Healing
* Handwork circles
* Singing and music circles
* Meeting for Worship for Walking (worship-walks) in the woods and other places of natural beauty
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A note about handfastings and weddings
I joyfully facilitate handfastings after appropriate consultation and counseling with the people involved. As a matter of conscience, I do not sign legal marriage certificates. I strongly support separation of church and state, and therefore will not sign civil marriage certificates as clergy; that's what justices of the peace are for. I also support civil marriage as a right for couples regardless of gender, and therefore would not sign civil marriage certificates, since I would only be able to sign them for opposite-gender couples.
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My experience as a Priestess, Witch, and minister includes:
~ large, public ritual;
~ small, intimate ritual;
~ handfasting and wedding planning and facilitation;
~ memorial planning and facilitation;
~ pastoral counseling;
~ spiritual mentoring/spiritual direction;
~ music ministry;
~ ministry among Pagan Quakers;
~ healing;
~ teaching;
~ clearness committees;
~ ministry support and accountability committees;
~ and other things I'm sure I'm forgetting.
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About me
I am a Quaker Witch: Quaker in the unprogrammed tradition (Friends General Conference in the US) ; Priestess and Witch in the eclectic feminist tradition of Roses, Too! Coven. I've been involved with ministry since 1986, have been a Priestess and Witch since 1991, and have been active in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) since 1997.
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About the name
The song "Bread and Roses" has been important to me since I first learned it as a teenager. Part of why is that it expresses an important truth about social justice -- that physical and economic survival are not enough:
"Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses... Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses, too!”
- from the song “Bread and Roses, ” James Oppenheim and Mimi Farińa
"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too."
- Rose Schneidermann, social worker and trade unionist; from a 1912 women's suffrage and labor campaign flier
Since 1991, I've been committed to nourishing my heart as well as my body - to meeting my spiritual needs as well as my survival needs - and to working with other people who share this committment.
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Feel free to contact me with any questions.
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Rates: Generally, sliding scale based on income. Group events: donations to meet expenses. If I travel to your community: travel & lodging, plus stipend. Currently, I do ministry full-time, and do not subsidize my ministry with other paid work.
Website: http://smorganappel.googlepages.com/home
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