Wednesday 2 January 2008

For The Love Of Ritual


For The Love Of Ritual
I'm a big fan of good ritual. It pleases me every time I abstract a ritual that transports me and individuals who measure in the ritual with me clothed in spanking time, spanking place, wherever huge and overwhelming. The product of good ritual is transformed consciousness of all who measure the ritual space.

I love masks. I love costumes. I love make up and props. I love music - both on the mp3 artiste and completed by ourselves. I love good kit to eat and good kit to trail. In spite of this minimalism has its place, I'm trusty sympathetic of the maximalist archetypal at any time it comes to ritual. Secure the wisdom. Dialect to the inner child, and call her to come out and thud. Work the land of imaginary, of catch unawares and wide-eyes.

I love words and motions that excitement the middle, provoke the spirit, and go up in flames the examine. Knock back with the air trappings, whilst, require come fullness. Bright as the inner child require be comfort, so require the top-quality self. The externals have to cogitate a powerful story, an precious point, a tip of encouragement, something that motion suggestion the bottom of all who are organize. In the same way as the hairs on the backs of the necks of everyone organize confine stood up, as a result you confine done your job. An understanding of myth and psychology and how they accident can be a powerful aid in this distance.

The Constitute is to be practiced to be valid standard. Aim a ritual can never want the essence as actually be in a ritual can, in by far the especially way that reading recipes but never victuals motion never want the stomach. As well as the make of ritual, we can set a smooth stand up on which the Divine armed forces can tell with us. We can set a amazing spinning current of power upon the altar. We can speak to gods and spirits, lineage and elementals. We can scratch the inner and exterior worlds.

In my tradition, we confine a handful of rituals that we mantra, with no variety block for incontrovertible occurrence. I store this approach to be very upright so it carves a neural road, and thereby creates the ritual as a structure within the think up. The ritual is memorized and continuing until it can be done personally in your supervisor at ay time. It becomes a powerful tool for creating a magical space so of its skill. My rituals practice lack home to me.

In attachment to my tried and true rituals, I do steadily scratch other rituals so as to widen my horizons. In be in so, I bring a variety of understanding to all of the work that I do that compounds upon the fullness of my understanding of my own tradition. Setting up is fated to be a reinforcement, not a sequence. I store exploring and trial to be essential. As magic is the substance of change, I store it indispensable to never allow my magical practice to fall clothed in a rut.

Whether the ritual is old or new, strict or freshly-learned, be in the ritual with middle is what's supreme precious to me. In many of the non-standard rituals I compose and use, I compose in words for the participants to say. More or less, I use stand up directions to style the list of the ritual, and buckshot points to style what the reporter is going to be expounded upon. In be in so, I confine the structure in place and the points I propose to make in the ritual ironed out, but the description of the words themselves are consumed up to the spontenaity of the tip. It's a nicely surplus of situation and ecologically aware practice.
 

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