It's getting closer! Really felt the shift today
SL wrote:What is your opinion on the nature and purpose of this feast?
Some would call it the Witches Thanksgiving. We definitely have a feast much like the American feast of Thanksgiving. In large part because it is the time of the final harvest. The one thing we do different is dumb-supper, which is eating the meal in silence. Relying on looking to your guests eyes, hand gestures and expressions to communicate. The reason behind this was to take time to dine with the dead, "speak not and listen well", for the ancestors are without their earthly voice, and they may have a message for you. Also a place setting is made for the ancestors and a portion of your meal is offered to the plate of the departed. Rarely have we been able to finish this meal without some one laughing or otherwise speaking out, or the phone rings, or an early trick-or-treater has arrived.
HopefulChild wrote:What is gone is not really gone. What awaits is not really new. It has been and will be again
so love this saying, it reminds me though of the Zep song
What is and What should Never be to...What is and What should Never be, will be Again.
anyhoo really good to see you around Hopefulchild, it's been a long time.
L.J.Hex wrote:If you feel unprepared, do not prepare, come join my circle
You did say the 30th right? I can make it that day. I would like to take some time in the astral as a deeper connection to the Shining ones. Our group is doing Samhain tonight. ( there are 2 other rituals next week...busy season
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firebirdflys wrote:I've been asked to Aspect the Morrigan for our Samhain rite.
SL wrote:What does it mean? Wear her costume and preside over the rite?
Not exactly. Wearing costume can help facilitate a good Aspecting but it isn't necessary. What one is doing is basically a kind of trance channeling where the vessel
becomes the aspect of a God or Goddess. A full body takeover. Then the vessel become the voice of oracle for the group. It requires a person to do the invoking who will also act as the grounder to bring the person out and back into their body. There is generally a scribe because the aspected one does not usually remember all that was said. Someone else leads the rest of the circle. It can leave one either exhilarated or exhausted.
SL wrote:leaves dancing, trees murmuring and smell of water with dirt in the air
Ummmmm, I want to walk down that lane
SpiritTalker wrote:I figure an obstacle is my own resistance to change or a natural part of the cycle, or maybe a bit of both
thank you for that, I think a bit of both.
SpiritTalker wrote: I keep looking for Kizmet to walk into the room even though I know her embodiment has been fulfilled. I'm trusting Samhain readjusts the void to advance her into her new existence.
indeed, it's like an imprint shadow?, takes time to dissipate I imagine. Also have been expecting to see Pumpkin to look up from her couch spot when I enter the room. I think too her energy is realigning, the neighbor cat Dixie came in and had a look around today. I told her Pumpkin is gone you don't have to be afraid anymore, and she looked at me and said, "me-mouw".
Yea indeed, the wild hunt...
I have a little poem from Robert Cochran's group we use occasionally;
A CHANT TO THE TRIPLE GODDESS
"Her three faces we have known,
Maiden, Bride and ancient Crone
demanding her due in a ring of Stone.
the Hunter, the Stagg, the Boar we become,
for Hunter and Hunted are but One.
Three days, three nights, I lay capped with stone,
'til Past did Present and Future join,
shaping a bridge the Worlds to span.
the Hunter, the Stagg, the Boar we become
for Hunter and Hunted are but One.
Three mystic Worlds the bridge must span,
from Earth, to Spirit, to Shining One,
to return again from whence we came,
and tread the spiral path again.
the Hunter, the Stag, the Boar we become,
for Hunter and Hunted are but One.
Blessed All Hallows!
FirebirdFlys