His hobbies include almost all of the martial arts, military history and just to annoy the family cats he plays the violin and recorder.

You can most likely find him at events walking the area and keeping an eye on everything, or at night with glow sticks trying to avoid the poison ivy.

*Hint: He's not very quick to say, "not it"...

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"I am honored to be a part of this amazing group and planning what will be a very memorable event!"

David began folowing the Pagan path in 1993, and practices Shamanic Witchcraft and nature spirituality. He has been leading rituals and workshops for various Pagan groups in Northern Virginia since 2002, and has helped plan numerous regional events and festivals for the past 10 years.

David is part of the Circle Sanctuary community, is a member of Circle’s Military Ministry Team, is the Stweard for the Order of the Pentacle, a Pagan active duty and veteran’s military oganization, and is on track to be ordained as a Circle Sanctuary Minister at this year’s Pagan Spirit Gathering.

He is also one of the founding directors of the Northern Virginia Pagan Network, a networking organization founded to connect Pagan individuals and groups in Northern Virginia and the surrounding area.

Lisa (Adams) Starnes has been practicing witchcraft since 1989. She began her career in Holistic Health as a Massage Therapist in 1995, continuing her studies by becoming a Reiki Master and obtaining certification as a Holistic Health Practitioner, where she learned to work with herbs, homeopathics, energy, TCM and more. To ritually affirm her desire to help others, she became ordained in the Order of Melchizadek in 1996, eventually becoming legally recognized by the State of Virginia as clergy in 2002.  Since then, she has performed many weddings and loves to do so. Lisa dedicated herself to the Goddess after re-locating to Charlottesville from the Northern Virginia rat race in 1998. Shortly thereafter, she met and fell in love with her hunky warrior husband –at the Charlottesville Beltane Festival.  The following year, they and a group of friends, became involved with the festival, moving it to Heavenly Acres Campground. Lisa continued on the Beltane Festival committee until 2005 as workshop and ritual coordinator, and as treasurer for the Blue Ridge Pagan Alliance. Lisa is a Second Degree High Priestess, although her true path is much broader including Hinduism,  yoga and Buddhism. Lisa has attended several of the Mid-Atlantic Pagan Leadership Conferences, and went on to organize the Central Virginia Pagan Community Conference in 2004, carrying forward the spirit of community organization she learned from the MA-PLC. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from James Madison University with a Bachelor’s in Religion and Women’s Studies in 2004. She likes to tell folks she majored in the Goddess.

Scarlet Ravenwing, also a Shen Valley native. She has been on the Pagan Universalist path for over 10 years and practices an eclectic mix of Kemetic, Native American and a sprinkling of others. She practices healing and energy work, mixing Reiki, crystals and working on mediumship. She enjoys making art, spending time with friends, and many other hobbies. Together they run an online Vampyre/Otherkin community. Both look forward to meeting and making new friends in the coming year.