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Saturday June 19, 1999
6am - Get up and check E-mail for more ideas for ritual script.
Noon - I was the only person from our group who showed up at Andy's 3rd Street Café for Planet Walk. I did assist the local Star Trek fan club in cleaning the solar system display as a Solstice activity. And walked to the Commons and back.
Interval-(After that I ran around like a crazy person trying to get all the supplies I needed for the ritual.)
3pm- Didn't leave for Upper Buttermilk falls till closer to 4pm, and our friends from Binghamton still hadn't shown up. I was still putting finishing touches on the script and had just discovered that my printer was not working. I could not print out the script even if it was finished. Or even to take what we had done as a reference. I E-mailed the script to some other members of the group in the hope that they would check their E-mail before they left for the ritual and could print it out.
Arrive at Upper Buttermilk falls and discover that it costs $6 to get in, luckily the people I was with had cash. When we checked the site out the night before there had been no charge. Also noticed the great big sign that says no alcohol allowed in the park (I had 3 bottles of wine in the car, for the ritual). Oh well, it is too late now, we press on to the site.
Set up for dinner. (Bring: silverware, plates, cups, A Dish to Pass.) This part went well. Everyone except the people from Binghamton showed up and were able to pay the fee to get in.
"Discuss ritual at great length over dinner." We planned on doing a ritual based on "A Midsummer Nights Dream". Where ever possible the words were to come from Shakespeare. The magic was suposed to be a spell for rain (because we were having a drought right then) and one for jobs (because many people in our group were unemployed and that is the harvest we hoped to reap). I did manage to bring a couple of copies of the play to discuss even though we had no copy of the work we had already done.
6pm - set up for ritual (put the corn pone on the fire to bake.) We had a beautiful site near a pool in the stream. There were very few people around. We used the grill as the central fire and put flat stones on the ground around it to hold the ritual tools. I swept the site with my ritual broom even though I could not find the verse in the text I had wanted to use for that.
Need: flowers, Resumes (Or wishes), Wine, Corn bread, Honey Comb, Salt
Ritual start
Psychopomp: Zahde
Light Center Candle: We used the grill and it was already lit . But we did use the opening words thus:
Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;
Turn melancholy forth to funerals;
The pale companion is not for our pomp.
Soak and Smoke:
Salt Water: We did our usual salt water blessing but we used very big bowls for the spell later.
Incense: We did our usual blessing But in this case we threw the incense on the fire.
Circle Casting : Everyone had a flower and as Micheal said this casting we turned and marked the boundries of the circle with our flowers.
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander every where,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours.
Quarter Calls (special Instructions: Call fairies in all directions.) We didn't call fairies because we din't have the research done. We just did our usual extemporanious calls aimed to the meaning of the ritual.
God/dess Calls (Oberon and Titania):
God: Joe did this call
Goddess : I called Her
Magic: Rain Ritual, Right Livelyhood ritual (burn resumes)
Charge our resumes and cast them into the fire while saying something apropriate.
Energy raising:(Chantiing, Drumming. Bring drums and noismakers.)
Dance Leader: Zahde
Drum leader: Joe
I picked up the broom (Everyone else took a sprig of Rosemerry) and diped it into the bowl of consicrated water. As we danced around the circle to the sound of the drums we diped our sprigs into the water and sprinkled it all around. Visualizing rain falling.
Sacred Feast: We opened up the corn bread and broke open a honey comb
Devocations done by the people who did the calls Goddess, God, North, West, South, East, Circle Closing
We did recite this last piece. A bit butchered but still resonent.
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumb'red here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
If you pardon, we will mend.
If we have unearned luck
Now to scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
(c) 1998 Sheherazahde, Braided Wheel Tradition
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