Learning Resources

ARCHIVES ONLINE: articles, rituals, and other materials.
  • About Circle Sanctuary's History
  • Some Articles about Nature Spirituality, Paganism, & Wiccan Ways
  • Selena's Guide to Planning Pagan Weddings & Handfastings
  • Selena's Guide to Celebrating the Seasons
  • Articles about Pagan Spirit Gathering Experiences
  • Quest for Pagan Religious Freedom: LLL Reports
  • Sample Articles from CIRCLE Magazine

    CIRCLE LIBRARY: Circle maintains a reference library at its headquarters. Its collection includes books, periodicals, recordings, videotapes, and academic papers pertaining to the Wiccan religion, contemporary Paganism, and Nature religions. The library is presently closed to visits by researchers because the building is currently undergoing renovation. Donations of books, periodicals, and other materials are still being accepted. If you have materials you wish to donate, please email us at the Circle office.

    CIRCLE MAGAZINE: is our quarterly journal of Nature, Spirit, and Magic. Published since 1978, it continues to be one of the most widely read Pagan periodicals and is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It contains articles, rituals, photos, news, reviews, illustrations, contacts, & more. Some of its regular features include the Readers' Forum, Sacred Sites, Herbcraft, Rites of Passage, Scholars Speak, Ritual Tools, Family Focus, Celebrate the Seasons, and Leaders Skills. For more information use this link.

    STUDY CIRCLES: several groups meet monthly at Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve in Wisconsin for learning and ritual. These include:
  • Craftway Circle: open to women & men exploring the Circle Craft tradition of Wiccan spirituality and Paganism.
  • Goddess Circle: open to women and focused on exploring various forms of the Divine Feminine.

    WORKSHOPS & CLASSES: a variety of workshops and classes happen throughout the year at festivals and other occasions in Wisconsin. More than one hundred workshops, rituals, and meetings happen each year during the weeklong international Pagan Spirit Gathering in Ohio.
  • Workshop Notes

    LEADERSHIP TRAINING:
  • Circle Ministers Training Program: Studies for ordination as legally recognized clergy through Circle Sanctuary. Please use this link to email Selena about this program.
  • PSG Leadership Institute: Workshops and intensives by a variety of Pagan elders open to Pagan ministers/clergy and leaders of many paths and groups.

    RESEARCH: Circle sponsors and assists with a variety of Pagan studies research projects, papers, and presentations by faculty, students, and scholars at universities and other instutitions in the US and other countries.

    ON CAMPUS: Associated Pagan Student Groups:
  • PATHS: Pursurers of All Things Holy & Sacred at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Circle Sanctuary is PATHS national sponsor & some members are part of Circle's Pagan Spirit Gathering Community.
  • LUPO: Lawrence University Pagan Organization at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Members are connected with the Circle Sanctuary Community & perform music at Circle's Beltane Festival

    PAGAN ACADEMIC NETWORK: Association of students, faculty, and researchers who are Pagan and/or who are studying Paganism. The annual meeting of this network happens during the Pagan Spirit Gathering. In addition, some members present workshops and facilitate discussion sessions on their areas of academic interest and expertise during the gathering.