Events organized for, or largely attended by, members of
Neopagan
Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, is a term for a religion or family of religions influenced by the various historical pre-Christian beliefs of pre-modern peoples in Europe and adjacent areas of North Afric ...
spiritual paths: often planned around the
Wheel of the Year
The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by many modern pagans, consisting of the year's chief solar events (solstices and equinoxes) and the midpoints between them. While names for each festival vary among di ...
or coinciding with adjacent
phases of the Moon
Concerning the lunar month of ~29.53 days as viewed from Earth, the lunar phase or Moon phase is the shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion, which can be expressed quantitatively using areas or angles, or described qualitatively using the t ...
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Festivals
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Council of Magickal Arts
The Council of Magickal Arts, Inc. (CMA) is a Modern Paganism, Neo-pagan organization in Texas, and runs one of the USA's largest bi-annual Neo-pagan festivals in the Southern United States.Provided by CMA registration, 2012
History
Founded in 1 ...
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Faerieworlds
Faerieworlds is an annual music and arts festival currently held annually in the U.S. state of Oregon. The festival's primary theme is the "realm of the faerie". As of 2015, the festival moved to Hornings Hideout near Portland after many recent ...
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Free Spirit Gathering, ongoing since 1985
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Hekate's Sickle Festival, ongoing since 1989
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Mėnuo Juodaragis
Mėnuo Juodaragis ( en, Black-Horned Moon or Moon of the Black Horn, sometimes abbreviated as BHM (''MJR'')) is an annual Baltic culture, alternative music, folk music and experimental music festival organized in Lithuania. It has been running s ...
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ongoing since 1995
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Pagan Pride Day
Pagan Pride is a movement among American pagans to build a positive public image of paganism. Local Pagan Pride groups sponsor "Pagan Pride Day" festivals, usually in public locations such as city parks or university campuses. The first recorde ...
, held annually at many locations
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Pagan Spirit Gathering
The Pagan Spirit Gathering (PSG) is one of the United States's oldest and largest nature spirituality festivals, organized by Circle Sanctuary. Since its inception in 1980, it has been held from Sunday to Sunday during the week around the summer ...
, ongoing since 1980
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Pan Pagan Festival, ongoing since 1976
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Spring Mysteries Festival, ongoing since 1986
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Starwood Festival
The Starwood Festival is a seven-day Neo-Pagan, New Age, multi-cultural and world music festival, taking place every July in the United States of America. The Starwood Festival is a camping event which holds workshops on a variety of subjects.
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, ongoing since 1981
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Wellspring Gathering
Defunct
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Beltania, final gathering in 2019
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Gnosticon, final gathering in 1976
See also
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Pagan festivals in the United States
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Lists of festivals
This is a list of festival-related list articles on Wikipedia. A festival is an event ordinarily staged by a community, centering on and celebrating some unique aspect of that community and its traditions, often marked as a local or national holi ...
– list articles on Wikipedia
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List of modern pagan temples
References
{{Neopaganism
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Lists of religious festivals
Modern paganism-related lists