January

February

• February 1/2/3 2008, Lake Mary, FL.
  • February 1st, Friday 7pm: Concert of original songs, music, and ancient magical ballads. The concert will be held at Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp.
  • February 2nd and 3rd : Faery Ritual Magic: The Magic of Three Sticks. Discover how to empower three sticks with the Directions of Faery, Human, and Living Creature. Based on traditional folkloric magic, this method is a unique development taught only by R J Stewart, which greatly enhances our alliance with other Orders of Life. You must bring three small sticks, each stick should be the size of your longest finger. This workshop is part of the ongoing Faery Ritual Magic and UnderWorld magic program that R J has been teaching from 1989 to the present day. Other workshops, books and CDs associated with this program can be found at www.rjstewart.net, www.dreampower.com and this site.

  • Contact Catherine Madden: .

• February 15-18th, 2008: PantheaCon, San Jose, CA.

  • R.J. will be presenting The Rollright Ritual, by W. G. Gray, and giving a concert with Caitlin Matthews. PantheaCon is very reasonably priced, and is the largest pagan gathering on the west coast. You may already be too late to join! For booking details, and the Panthea schedule go to: http://www.pantheacon.com/08/index.php

• February 19th-27th, 2008: Recording sessions for new CD with Caitlin Matthews.
  

March

• March 8th-9th, 2008: Louisville, KY.

  • The Magic of Three Sticks. (see description for February, above). Contact Christine or Harry : . This is an open workshop, anyone may join.

• March 15th -16th, 2008: Boston :
  • The Cord of Life and Death. An Inner Temple Traditions Inner Convocation workshop. Part 3 of the ongoing Cord Series. At its deepest level of sacro-magical power, the Cord is associated with the experiences of birth, life, and death. From the umbilical cord to the Silver Cord and Golden Bowl of spiritual traditions, the Cord is both our lifeline and our death-line. In this two-day workshop, R J will teach a series of forms (sacro-magical techniques) for working with a physical Cord that connects to spiritual and transformative forces. For those who have done previous work with R J Stewart, these forms bridge between the Faery and UnderWorld traditions, and the Inner Temple traditions. Subjects will include: Coming into Birth/ the birth forces of the Lunar World/ archangelic and angelic powers and traditions of birth and death/ a Cord ceremony for peaceful death/ working with the death forces of the Lunar World/ Connecting to ancestral consciousness through the Cord/ Ascending through the Three Worlds/ Spiritual or inner contacts at work through the Cord. To join this workshop you must have previously attended Cord workshops or Inner Temple workshops with R J Stewart. This is a powerful and deeply effective workshop: there is no "one day only" attendance. No exceptions to this rule.

  • Contact Frank:
    

April

• April 5/6. Seattle, Washington
  • The Cord of Life and Death workshop has been moved to Spring of 2009. The next Seattle workshop will be October 4/5th, The Mystery of the Seven Directions (a new workshop open to all).

  • Contact Harry: for booking details.

• April 18/19/20, 2008. The StarHouse, Boulder, Colorado
  • The Miracle Tree, DeMystifying Qabalah. This is an open workshop, anyone may join!
  • April 18th: evening concert. 19th-20th weekend workshop
    Based on R J's books The Miracle Tree, and his Living Magical Arts series, revealing how powerful, and how simple, the Tree of Life truly is. All classes are in English, and are experiential rather than comparative: no special vocabulary is required. Most Qabalistic books or courses are limited to the intellect, and often cause confusion. A merely intellectual or comparative approach is insufficient. The true function of Qabalah is not to compare lists of concepts on a page, but to transform inwardly, to come into radiant awareness through our spiritual experience of the Tree of Life. We are already the Tree of Life, growing from Earth to Stars: how could we not be? The Tree of Life is our home within the cosmos. Come and experience direct insights and methods from a teacher who has worked within western hermetic Qabalah for more than 35 years. R J Stewart was initiated into the Franco-Russian lineage of Qabalah that includes many leading figures such as Papus, Schwaller-de-Lubicz (Fulcanelli), the composer Eric Satie, and into the western tradition lineage of Dion Fortune, W G Gray, and the Glastonbury adept A R Heaver.

  • Contact Jan:
    

May

• May 23rd-26th, 2008: The StarHouse, Boulder. Colorado.
  • Memorial Day retreat and ongoing teacher training. (Not open to new members) This event has two components:
    1) The overall Inner Temple Inner Convocation retreat, which is open to anyone who has attended previous workshops with R J Stewart or has worked with any of the current Inner Temple teachers.
    2) Closed sessions for those already in teacher training. There is one overall fee for the entire event ($500). The closed teacher training sessions are included for those teachers who join for the entire retreat. There are no single day or drop-in options.
  • Due to a death in his family Steve Blamires will not be joining us this year to teach on William Sharp/Fiona Macleod. Our deepest condolences and kind wishes go out to him and his family, and we hope to bring him to the StarHouse in 2009.
  • Other themes include a full day on Working with Inner Contacts and a full day on spiritual and sacromagical rites of cleansing, liberation, and purification. The retreat will feature the methods of working with the Arch of Heaven Invocation that appears in UnderWorld Initiation and other books, and the Lightning Flash and the Streams. We strongly recommend early booking for this retreat.
  • Contact: .

June

• June 7/8. Santa Rosa CA.
  • Gate Opening/Fire Temple/Zadok workshop, Part 1.
    A weekend workshop of part 1 in the Gate Opening series, attuning to the inner Fire Temple in ceremony, vision, and meditation. Inspired in part by the spiritual teachings of A R Heaver (1900-1980) the "hidden" Glastonbury adept, and including material from R J Stewart's forthcoming book The Sphere of Art. You will need a new (unused) red cord, of your own height. If you have done previous Gate Opening workshops or Sphere of Art workshops, you may attend this event as for half-price. No one day attendance, no exceptions. For further information

  • Contact: Farida,

• 8th Annual Fairy & Human Relations Congress June 27th - 29th, 2008.
  Skalitude Retreat Center ~ Twisp ~ Methow Valley ~ North Cascades ~ Washington.
  • RJ will be giving a concert, and teaching on The Foundations and Principles of Faery Ritual Magic.

  • Contact: www.fairycongress.com
    

July

August

• 29-31th August 2008 Hawkwood College, Stroud, Glos. UK.
  • THE FIRE TEMPLE:LINEAGE OF ZADOK, Aesch Mezareph with R.J.Stewart, Gareth Knight & Caitlín Matthews.
    PLEASE NOTE: PLACES ARE LIMITED FOR THIS UNIQUE EVENT, IF YOU WISH TO ATTEND YOU SHOULD BOOK EARLY!
    This is an "invitation only" gathering, for those already working with the Sphere of Art and the stellar fire temple, with R J Stewart. If you have attended a previous workshop or gathering on this theme, you are eligible to join.
    Developed from teachings and inner contacts, initiated by the hidden Glastonbury adept A.R.Heaver (1900-1980), The Sphere of Art is the most advanced method in R. J. Stewart's Living Magical Arts series. Themes will include infusion with the Aesch Mezareph (Fire of Purification) and the conscious merging of the Arthurian and Arimathean mysteries through the Rivers of Blood and Tears. Each annual British gathering on this theme seeds new aspects of the Fire Temple/Zadok work, which are later expanded by dedicated small groups in Britain, the USA, Holland, Egypt, and Brazil. Early booking is strongly recommended for this event.
    This course is open ONLY to those who have taken The Gate Opening Part 1 at Glastonbury Town Hall 2006 or at Hawkwood College 2007 or to those who have taken the Fire Temple courses in USA.
  • HAWKWOOD COLLEGE is a comfortable course centre, situated in its own wooded grounds, only 5 minutes drive from the main-line rail station at Stroud, Gloucestershire, accessible from Paddington Station, London. It has been home to the on-going magical work of Gareth Knight and of that of John and Caitlín Matthews, and is also where R.J.Stewart has taught much ground-breaking work, including the Underworld Initiation which was first taught in public there in the early 1980's.
  • Contact: Jane May, Briarwood, Long Wittenham, Oxon OX14 4QW. TEL: +44 (0)1865 407680 or EMAIL . Please state which Fire Temple course you attended to be eligible for this event.
    

September

October

• October 4/5th. Seattle, Washington
  • The Mystery of the Seven Directions (a new workshop open to all).

  • Contact Harry: for booking details.

November

• November 14th-16th, 2008: The StarHouse, Boulder, Colorado.
  • Celtic Gods, Celtic Goddesses. Following the recent reprint of R J's book on Celtic deities (part of a series first published in the 1980's), we will experience an intensive weekend working with ancestral gods and goddesses. This workshop will include ceremony, vision, chant, and insights into mediating Celtic gods and goddesses directly in your magical and spiritual work.

  • Contact Jan:

• November 7th-10th, 2008: Advanced Teacher Training.

  • A closed retreat, by invitation only. If you are eligible to attend contact for an invitation!

• Further workshops and concerts for September through December will be added to the Calendar.
  

December