Ulf Asgardson, (Wulff to kith and kin), is a child of the deep south and has traveled and lived in most of the extreme southern states. He has studied magic and the occult since late 1989. He found the Runes in 1991, and since that time they have slowly become his sole path. Currently he lives in Jacksonville, FL with his beloved, Song and their magnificent border collie, Possum.

In 2001, he met Freya Aswynn one night at his campsite at his first GOTT. After several hours of runic talk he was told that he should write a book about his new ideas. Not listening, he was injured in a factory in North Carolina in 2003, an incident that left him depressed and unemployed. In anger one day he challenged the runes and gods of the north to give him some vision to prove all the years of study were not in vain.

To his surprise, the runes screamed their answers at him, and in minutes he began to write and franticly draw hundreds of diagrams and pictures. After 9 months, he presented a manuscript to Freya Aswynn at the 2004 Fall GOTT. Not only did she read the work, but she also agreed to foreword the book and to present it to the Troth in summer of 2005 at Trothmoot in Indiana! He is so extremely pleased to return to the place of its birth and begin teaching this new lore to all who will listen.

Arawn Machia
     Arawn Machia is a healer, Strega high priest and elder, psychotherapist, and spiritual counselor.  He is schooled in ancient magickal practices and modern behavior sciences, and has studied with internationally recognized shaman and psychologists in both the United States and Europe.  _Who's Who in the World_ says Dr. Machia's "noteworthy achievements are of lasting value to humankind." He holds degrees in theology, education, and psychology, and has done post-doctoral work in Princeton.
     Arawn has been a presenter at numerous conferences and has been published in numerous pagan and secular journals.  His own journal, "Dragon Whispers", is distributed throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Oxun Olakari' Al'aye
www.Pagan.com/santeria/
     Tyo Llorente: Oxun Olakari' Al'aye is an initiate priestess of Oshun of both  Afro-Cuban Santeria and Palo Mayombe as well as an initiate of Brazilian Condomble. She brings to her present practice a diverse background: clinical and Jungian psychology, shamanic trance and healing work. She has, for the past 15 years, traveled to many countries lecturing and learning, including extensive study while living in Brazil. She is a practitioner of ecstatic dance, a poet and lyricist, Akpetebi' de Orunmila ("Maid of Orunmila"), a practitioner and student of Awo (the ancient Yoruba science of divination). Daughter of Oshun, the river, Mother of Mirrors, through silence and through sound, stillness and movement, introspection and celebration, is the reflection through which the beautiful reveals itself. Ecstasy is a love affair with the divine. Maferefun Orisha.
     Oxun will be offering workshops  about the practices and traditions of Ifa' and Orisha worship as expressed through Yoruba, Afro-Cuba Santeria, and Afro-Brazilian Candomble.  She will explain the qualities and attributes of various Orisha (forces in nature as faces of Deities) and the ways in which the Aleyo (non-initiated worshippers can respectfully and productively work with the Orisha traditions.

Rev. Susan Davis 

Rev. Susan Davis(Moonsilvered) was born in Galveston, TX in 1955. Her first book, "Magickal Progressions" was released in 2008. She is a former CPA who began formal training in New Forest Tradition in Houston, TX in 1972.  In 1983, with two small children, she retired from active coven management and embarked on a solitary magickal journey that focused much more on various forms of healing with sound and visualization, massage, chakra manipulation,  herbs, trance work and Reiki.  She also began serious work with Elemental Magicks during this time and met her lifemate/HP and fellow healer, Rev. Lawrence Harney. They have been teaching students and traveling together since then.
 

Rev. Lawrence P. Harney
Rev. Harney was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1952.  He practices a Wiccan/Egyptian Tradition, and was career USAF, retiring 1995.  Lawrence is trained in several styles of healing, including techniques learned while stationed in the UK and in Japan.  He is a specialist in accupressure and vibrational healing and a teacher both in person and online. He actively performs a variety of Pagan Ministerial work, including funerals, handfastings, wiccanings and covenings along with lifemate/HPS.

Cynthia Edmunds
    Cynthia Edmunds, no magical name, thanks; a witch in the kitchen and everywhere else; HPS of Silver Moon Interwoven Circle of Tides because no one else wants the job; reformed festival organizer and officer for Covenant of the Goddess; possessor of the secrets of the sausage finger trick and other stupid human tricks; holder of an honorary cyber degree that looks impressive hanging on the wall; founder of the Lighter Degree System, please don't ask me how my lighter works, that's a third degree secret; credentialed first generation priestess of the Sacred Order of Trickster; owner of thigh high black patient leather boots and in my next lifetime, author of thirteen books on various topics yet to be disclosed to me.

Rev. Lilith Dorsey
Rev. Lilith Dorsey comes from many different magickal traditions , including Celtic, Voodoo, and Native American spirituality. Her traditional education focused on Plant Science , Anthropology and Fine Art at the University of R.I., New York University and the University of London, and her magickal training includes initiations in Voodoo and Santeria. Lilith Dorsey has been doing successful magick over the past 13 years for patrons of her business Branwen s Pantry, and is editor/publisher of Oshun-African Magickal Quarterly.

Rebekah Benner
http://groups.msn.com/TerraAmmaGrove
Rev. Rebekah Benner is an ordained Pagan minister affilated through love and trust with the Unitarian Universalist Churches, lives in Akron, Ohio, and travels to the UU churches of the U.S. and Canada as a guest minister for Sunday services, to lead drumming workshops and rituals. She also presents classes for other churches, schools and universities in Witchcraft and Paganism and facilitates community drum circles.

A Certified Professional Grief Recovery Specialist, she is an on-call Pagan Chaplain for the Akron hospital systems. She has been a ritualist/priestess for 30+ years and specializes in "ritual theatre"; a drummer for over 15 years, she concentrates  in teaching basic djembe, song and chant, and empowering women to DRUM!!! Her many teachers include Ubaka Hill, Layne Redmond and many African Master Drummers, mostly from West Guinea.
Through her company, Terra Amma Grove ~ The Healing Journey, she employs diverse interfaith and cultural techniques ~ voice, drum, gemstones, singing bowls, guided meditation ~ to facilitate healing, find inner peace and bring joy and laughter to the world and creates organic art with "leather, feathers, stones and bones".

ER-Medth is an author, healer, teacher, student, and lover of the wise ways.   Nature and Family members have been her mentors.  Companion to all living things, she urges all to become one with the universe.  

There will be a Bonfire Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights to drum and dance around, special children's activities throughout the event, and much, much more!

The Spring and Fall Gathering of the Tribes sponsored by Out of the Dark, Inc. & FCMS Inc., which are held in Virginia are not associated with any other "Gathering of the Tribes" festivals which may be held on occasion in other parts of the country.  Yes, we know there is a small "Gathering of the Tribes" that has stolen copy directly off our website.  We have addressed the issue here 
                http://www.Pagan.com/Plagiarized/ 
 if anyone is at all interested.  Hopefully this will answer everyone's questions 'cause quite frankly, we are tired of hearing about it :-/ 
 

Your opinions and ideas are important to us!! It is how we chose this event's path...  PLEASE take the time to give us your comments regarding this Fall's Gathering, as well as your feelings on where we should concentrate future efforts.
                                                Thank You.... Betsy