Rituals

Kindling the Tribe-Fire
As the winds grow colder, the tribe draws in toward the clan-fire for warmth. What is the fire at the center of community? How do we serve it, and how does it feed us?

We will work with Hestia, of the hearth-fire, Hecate, who guides us to the crossroads with her lantern, and Haphaestus, whose forge-fire transforms pain into beauty deep beneath the earth.

What is your individual flame? What is the path you must walk—your hero’s journey—to find the gifts and shadows within yourself? Will you risk stepping into the Underworld to discover the deepest part of your Self? Will you risk transformation by stepping into your own personal power and excellence?

Together, we unite our individual fire with that of the clan fire through the forge of transformation and the alchemy of inclusive, ecstatic community ritual. Join us to sing, dance and drum the fire within! Will you become the hero of your own journey?

Desire: Reach for the Rose

What love, what beauty, enchants you?
What does your soul yearn for?
What do you desire?

Rain turns to summer’s heat. We reach. Like the rose, our seeds soften in the ground, yearning up for something warmer, brighter. Do you remember falling in love with the sun, the rain? With the dream, with that beauty just past our grasp?

Do you yearn for connection to the Beloved, the sacred? Will you dare reach? Like the seed, are you willing to crack open your heart…to fall in Love? If you are to claim your soul’s deepest dream, you must claim your gifts…Passion…Beauty…Grace…Radiance…Strength…Power…Vision…Enchantment…Service…Devotion.

What sparks you, what do you desire enough to take the risk? To follow your soul’s calling, will you release the fear holding you back? Will you heal the wounds of the past? We will work with archetypes and deities of desire, love, and inspiration. Will you reach for golden fire of creation, the magical heat underlying all magic?

Ecstatic & Participatory Ritual
Together, we unite our individual fire with that of the fire of community in the alchemy of inclusive, ecstatic community ritual. Join us to sing, dance and drum the fire and water within!

Journey to Avalon: The Grail Quest

Can you feel the stirrings of the season shifting and of life-force Rising?
Will you join us to celebrate together in communal gathering and ritual?
Can you hear the call to Avalon, to drink the waters of the Grail and find your spiritual home?

Do you remember hearing the call? Do you remember when we journeyed there across the lands and across the waters, to the place that called us Home? Beltane is the season of inspiration, rising life force, and connection, it is the time when we can reach out to the divine and the divine reaches back.

Do you remember when we stood at the edge of the waters, when the mists barred our way, when we were unsure of our path. When the Bale-fires atop the hills called us forward, called us to the Island of Avalon where our brothers and sisters welcomed us home. Do you yearn to stand in the place of divine communion? Do you seek inspiration, energy, and passion? What do you wish for, reach for? Risk desire…risk the journey to Avalon, to drink from the waters of the chalice, the Grail, the cup of eternally-full life and life force. Can you imagine what it would be like to stand, shoulder-to-shoulder, hand in hand, with the other seekers who have made this arduous journey?

Join us to part the mists, to release what holds you back, to let the waters of the divine cradle you with absolute love, to find yourself welcomed among other seekers like yourself. What is it like to find your deepest spiritual Home? As a tribe we gather around the clan-fire and journey together across the sacred waters in the alchemy of inclusive, participatory, and ecstatic community ritual.

 

Into the Depths, Beyond the Veil 
Samhain Ritual 
Do you seek connection to something more?
Are you called to what lies beyond the veil of life and death?
Will you join us to journey into the land of shadows, ancestors, and dreams?

From light into darkness, the year has turned. This is the time of the final harvest of the year, the time when we journey down the roots of the World tree to the Underworld, the realm of the Ancestors, where we hold our deepest stories and shadows. What Beloved Dead do you honor this year? What shadows of the past will you face? Will you grieve a death, mourn the end of a relationship, honor an old story of yourself that no longer serves?

The only certainty in life is that all of us will pass into Death. It is an unspoken mystery, for once we greet Death, we pass beyond the veil to what is beyond. But what is Death? What is beyond the Veil? Why do we fear death, and dying? Join us to explore the depths of this mystery, down into the rich soil of the Underworld past the gates that ask us to lay down all of our past, all of us that does not serve us.

So many of us ask, silently and aloud, Death, pass me by another year. Many traditions, many pantheons, have different deities associated with Death, but for every tradition, Death is a change, a transformation from what we were into something unknown, releasing what we have been.

But what do you fear releasing? Why is it so hard to let go? Why do we fight against Death? When you stand before the sharp edge of the scythe, what do you fear will be cut away by the Reaper of Souls?

Together as a tribe we will gather around the clan-fire and journey in the alchemy of inclusive, participatory, and ecstatic community ritual. Join us to greet the Gods and Goddesses of Death, to release what no longer serves us, to greet our honored dead or to face our shadows, and to stand at the shores of the great River at the gates of the Underworld, to hear the music that calls us back across the waters into life.

Passing through Shadow:

Do you seek community and spirituality?
Do the ancient mysteries call to you?
What lies within the land of shadows, ancestors, and dreams?

From light into darkness, the year has turned. This is the time of the final harvest of the year, the time when we journey down the roots of the World tree to the Underworld, the realm of the Ancestors, where we hold our deepest stories and shadows. What Beloved Dead do you honor this year? What shadows of the past will you face? Will you grieve a death, mourn the end of a relationship, honor an old story of yourself that no longer serves?

What of the past year have you harvested that you will keep, and what must fall away?

Together as a tribe we will gather around the clan-fire and journey in the alchemy of inclusive, participatory, and ecstatic community ritual. Join us to howl with the Wild Hunt, to heal within the warm earth, and to harvest the treasures of the deep waters in the cauldron of the Underworld, the magic to water your dreams, your soul,and the year to come.

Rising Up

Can you feel the stirrings of the season shifting and of Life-Force Rising?

Can you feel the energy of healing, inspiration, and rising up within you?

Will you join us to celebrate together in communal gathering and ritual?
Can you feel the stirrings of the season shifting and of Life-Force Rising?
Can you feel the energy of healing, inspiration, and rising up within you?
Will you join us to celebrate together in communal gathering and ritual?

Celebrate the fertility of inspiration, spiritual connection, and ecstatic energy raising in community. We will work with the Nine Muses and ask, What inspires you? What breathes life and life force into you, what brings you energy? What do you wish for, reach for? What projects are you beginning? Do you want to fill your life with the passion and fire that you crave? To take in the blessings of the Muses and of life force, will you risk desire?

As a tribe we gather around the clan-fire and journey together in the alchemy of inclusive, participatory, and ecstatic community ritual. Join us to rise up and fill with life force!

 

Sacred Fire: Keepers of the Flame

What is the Sacred Fire in your heart?
Will you be inspired and ignited by the fire within?
Will you become a keeper of this sacred flame?
Deep in the heart of winter, we join together around the Clan-fire that sustains us through winter’s cold. Together, we visit the sacred waters of the cauldron warmed by sacred fire. We ask for the blessings of the fires of inspiration, healing, and transformation.

The open Imbolc ritual will focus on Brigid’s triple flames and her sacred well. We celebrate the return of the light by opening to inspiration from Brigid as Goddess of poetry and inspiration. We will open to the healing and nurturing hearth fire, and we will step into our power and strength at her transforming forge. At her sacred well, we seek the deep mysteries of potential and healing that goes beyond words.

Sacred Fire: Keepers of the Flame

 

What is the Sacred Fire in your heart?
How do you build the Clan-fire of community?
Will you become a keeper of this sacred flame?

Deep in the heart of winter, we join around the Clan-fire that sustains us through winter’s cold. Together, we tend the fire of community and the fire that burns within our hearts. Join us for a ritual to identify our own gifts in the sacred well, and to ignite, tend, and transform our gifts. What fire burns in your heart? Will the forge fires transform you? Will you add your add your flame to the communal Clan-Fire? Join us to celebrate Imbolc, Aquarius–the season of deepest cold, the celebration of the return of the light of springtime.

Will you light the flame within?

Will you tend the flame within?

Together we step into the alchemy of ecstatic, participatory, community ritual to honor the returning light of the sun, the quickening life force rising, to ignite our gifts and inspiration. All spiritual seekers are welcome.

A Winter Knight’s Vigil

Listen to the falling snow…
The longest night calls us to our vigil.
Will you light the Yule fire to summon the returning sun?

Solstice means, “the sun is still.” We gather together for the Longest Night, when we gather out of the cold to feast around the fire. Together as a tribe we gather and journey in the alchemy of inclusive, ecstatic community ritual, feasting, storytelling, workshops, and revelry.

Our Yule ritual begins with the story of King Arthur. This archetypal dreamer and hero began as a simple servant…until he pulled the Sword from the Stone at the Christmas Eve jousting tournament. In one moment, he changed his destiny. When have you pulled the Sword from the Stone?

Winter Solstice is the darkest night, the still point when the old year passes, and the new year is born. Arthur–the king, the returning sun–beheld a vision, a midwinter dream for his kingdom. But to become sovereign, he must became a true Knight…he must face the challenges of the 12 Knights of the Round table, the 12 Astrological signs of the Zodiac. Will you seek Knighthood–seek personal excellence–to bring back the light to the dreams you hold? As we sing for the returning sun, we join the Knights of the Round Table as servants of destiny, community, and a brighter world.

The Hunter’s Moon and the Wild Hunt

Listen…the leaves fall to the earth…
Can you hear the howls of the cold winds blowing?
Will you join us under the full moon for the Wild Hunt?

From light into darkness, the year has turned. This is the time of the final harvest of the year, the time when the veils between the worlds are thin. Together, we stand at the foot of the World Tree. We invoke the Horned One–the antlered god who is both hunter and hunted, Guardian of the Gates of Death and Life. We invoke the Dark Mother, crone and ancient ancestor, who holds the Cauldron waters of death and rebirth.

We journey down the roots of the World Tree into the Underworld–the realm of the Ancestors, where we hold our deepest stories and shadows. What Ancestors of blood and spirit, what beloved dead, do you wish to honor? What shadows of the past will you face? What of the past year have you harvested that you will keep, and what must fall away? Will you grieve a death, mourn the end of a relationship, honor an old story of yourself that no longer serves? Of the fruits you’ve harvested, what seeds will you keep, what will you release? Here in earth of the Underworld, you may leave something behind to heal and prepare for the new year.

Together as a tribe we will gather around the clan-fire and journey in the alchemy of inclusive, ecstatic community ritual. Join us to howl with the Wild Hunt, to heal within the warm earth, and to harvest the treasures of the deep waters in the cauldron of the Underworld, the magic to water your dreams, your soul,and the year to come.

Solar Fires & Surging Waters
Quickening our Life-Force

The vital fires arise within…
Rushing waters of the Full Moon fountain in our souls…
Will you mix fire and water to quicken life force and abundance?

How do the waters well within you? How does the Sun’s fire rise inside? Vitality quickens with the abundance of the Summer Solstice. We recall story of Isis–like Isis, will you journey to gather your missing pieces and discover the deep magic within you? Together, we unite the Full Moon waters and the fires of the summer sun with the alchemy of inclusive, ecstatic community ritual. Join us to sing, dance, and drum the life force within!

Unity: The Waters of Spring
Spring comes…the light returns, the waters are melting.
Will you share the sacred waters in community?

For some it is a time of planting seeds in the garden, and for others, a time of planting seeds in our souls. We celebrate the return of life force, and the thawing waters, by sharing water with one another.

We come together in the spirit of unity, we share water together in a sacred rite to pledge fellowship. Can you remember when water was a precious resource so essential to life? When we had to journey to find fresh water, when we guarded our sacred springs and holy wells? Sharing water is a communion of souls, it’s recognizing the Divine Being in one another, and it’s a blessing of abundance.

Will you drink of the waters, will you risk healing the past in order to build a stronger community?  What seeds will you plant with the healing waters within you?

 

 

The Star and the Grail: Lighting our Way on the Hero’s Journey
Will you walk the path of the Grail Quest? The Grail—chalice, cauldron, well, philosopher’s stone—holds the celestial waters of the Guiding Star. She leads us to the best in ourselves with the waters of inspiration, life-force, and hope.

Become the Grail Knight:  Seeker, what is your quest? Will you heal yourself and learn who you are? Will you risk alchemical transformation?

Become the Grail Shaman:  Initiate, you embody the mysteries. Standing in a temple lit with Starlight, you pour the divine waters of beauty, compassion, and vision, that the thirsty may drink.

Become the Grail Sovereign:  Adept, your sacred duty is Service. You turn lead into gold, healing the land, community, and world around you.

Join us to seek the Grail within, to heal the cup of your heart, and drink the Starlight.