February Full Moon Ritual

LUNAMYSTIC GROOVE

February Full Moon Ritual

Saturday, Feb 28, '99
6:00 p.m. JS & CB's






THEME: Be Living and Believing

(a revival-style celebration; reaffirming our faith and belief in ourselves & all that is)





Individual Purification: -----One at a time, go into bathroom (set up with candles, basin of scented water, mirror).
-----Prepare self (in whatever way seems right)
-----Come out & cross threshold into living room (MH gatekeeper/challenge)

Group Attunement:

(Everyone standing) Sing out tones for each energy chakra, starting with root & going up. While toning, hold hands open in front of each chakra, moving up until all hands outstretched, fingertips touching. (MH leads tones)

Create Sacred Space:

East-Weavre
South-MT
West-AH
North- JS
Center-Bee

Enactments:

1. Invocation: to Artemis; She Who is The Instinct to Live (AH)
2. Sing together:
-----" Earth our body, Water our blood, Air our breath and Fire our Spirit…." repeat (AH leads)
diminish chant, start rhythms/drumming music, progress to:
3. Testimony Time:
-----One at a time, as she feels moved, one womon stands in the center & speaks/reads/testifies 'how I will define(believe in) myself in Living'
-----(similar to Hallows testimony when each defined herself in Death)
-----others give lots of support ("Can I get a witness?")
-----After all have spoken, begin to shuffle-step (pow-wow dance style) in circle, progress to:
4. Ecstatic Dancing/our own drumming/raising energy can include spinning, whirling, body-drumming,
(close eyes if self-conscious about movements)
intent: to majikally make the abstract (thots/words) concrete (through our bodies/the earth)

-----Peak of energies/will: everyone shout phrase:
---------"I believe in Me! I believe in the Moon! I believe in the Mystery! I believe in the Groove!" (3 times)

Grounding:

after peak, everyone standing, hands outstretched overhead, slowly lower hands held open in front of each chakra, singing a short tone for each, (MH leads)
ending with root chakra & everyone sitting/laying/ being down on the floor.

Silence for a while, then pass bread & tea, saying: "the spirit in me believes in the spirit in you" (or similar)

Release Sacred Space:

---Devocation (sp?)-AH
---Center- Bee
---North-JS
---West-AH
---South-MT
---East-Weavre
Closing phrase:
----"The circle is open, but never broken,
-----May belief in the Goddess go in your hearts.
-----Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again."




Reminders/Commitments

JS--bread, bathroom set-up
AH--tea
JW--drumming music
Everyone:
---drums, rattles, tambourines, etc.
---personal testimony
---eat supper before arriving
---snacks if want to hang out afterward






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