BLUE MOON RITUAL TONIGHT! 7-midnight!

Brought to you by Mary Peterson & Jessica Peterson

Blue Moon Ritual followed by New Year’s Eve Party

Will include food, dancing and merriment.

DATE: Thursday, December 31^st, 2009.

TIMES:

· 7 p.m. meet and greet

· 8 p.m./8:30 Ritual

· Frivolity & socializing until midnight to follow

WHAT TO BRING:

· For the ritual:

1. An idea of what you would like to be rid of and an idea of what goals you have for the coming year.

2. A white candle or a white flower or something silver.

3. CD (If you would like to hear your own music played)

· For the party:

1. Potluck finger food (items such as sandwich, vegetable, cheese, fruit, or pickle trays, beverage or other snack item).

WHAT TO WEAR: Dress from casual to fancy and everything in between

This will be a lot of fun so we hope to see you there!

Childcare is available for this event!

Peace,

Mary Peterson

Saltwater Earth Based Spirituality

YULE RITUAL ~ Sat., Dec. 19, 7 pm

Yule: Winter Solstice Celebration

Saturday, Dec. 19, 7 pm.

Join the Earth Based Spirituality group in Des Moines, 25701 14th Place South, as we celebrate the return of the Sun with ritual and music. A harp player will lavish us with beautiful music of the season. Please bring a potluck item to share following the ritual. Newcomers welcome!

Costumes Encouraged: Samhain Ritual 2009: begins 4 p.m. {Des Moines}

Event: Sat., Oct. 31, 2009 ~ Samhain/Halloween led by Octavia ~ 4–11p.m.

The Earth Based Halloween Ritual will be a family friendly fun time! We will start our parade for Trick-or-Treating at the Des Moines U.U. church at 4 PM.

We will return to the church around 6:30 p.m. to set everything up for the ritual.

FOR LATER THIS HALLOWED NIGHT: Please, bring a Jack' O lantern and a picture of a loved one who has passed over.

The ritual will be family-friendly and will focus on the joy and love that we share with those we love including the ones beyond the veil.

LATE NIGHT CELEBRATION: After the ritual please stay and enjoy a fun old-fashioned Halloween party. Please bring food (as you are able) to share at the potluck shared during the party. We will bob for apples, eat donuts off strings, have a cupcake walk and have a lot more games! If you want to bring Halloween-themed food for the potluck that would be great fun! Everyone is welcome to come in costume (in fact we encourage it!) For more information or if you’d like to help please contact Danylle at: cdanylle@yahoo.com.

WHAT TO BRING:

• Pictures of loved ones who have passed
• Jack' O Lantern
• Food for potluck

[Click on the above, borrowed, image to enlarge and/or see it in its orginal context.]

Old Fashioned Pagan Music (posted by SunTiger)

Listen for the line: "you get a rabbit's foot to keep a waving hoodoo" (and more)

About the Artist: Blues Diva Bessie Smith was a powerful woman who lived a hard and fast lifestyle. She had a big, brassy and outspoken personality. "There ain't nothing I can do, or nothin' I can say, that folks don't criticize me," she said,... "But I'm going to do just as I want to anyway."

Bessie Smith became one of the worlds greatest performers: she was one of the most successful entertainers in the roaring 1920's. A car crash took her life at age 39. {{Feel the emotion in her song; below}}

Next Public Ritual: Saturday, August 1, 6:30-9 p.m.

Lady Lydia will be Head Priestess for this Lammas Public Ritual on Saturday, August 1, 2009. The ritual will begin at 7p.m. (as usual) but come :30 minutes early for learning new songs during "ingathering." We'll be celebrating outdoors. All are invited to contribute to the afterfeast and a suggestion is made to bring cakes shaped like stars and moons.

Here Is The Announcement Submitted By Lady Lydia:
Come celebrate the height of the summer heat where the sun's strength supports our efforts to grow and begin harvesting the fruits of our spiritual and mundane labors. As always we celebrate the cycle of death and rebirth with a ceremony for raising energies to help us let go and open up to the new. As one lets go, one makes room for new insight, emotion, prosperity and peace. Bring simple cake or cookie shaped as stars and moons to represent the first
harvest of grains. Bring straw to shape into male or female figures to represent emotional or
psychic issues you wish to let go of in the sacred fire of renewal. And bring your blessed self to just be in the heat of the high summer as we rarely experience it here in the NW.

• August 1st. SAT. 6:30 PM ingathering and learn new songs
• 7PM circle will be cast
• 8:30 PM breaking bread and sharing community
  

Until then,
Lady Lydia


INSIDER's NOTES: Lady Lydia is making a strawman to burn. There will some sort of stick cage to hold the straw man and any papers or other objects people may want to burn during ritual. Drums , bells, rattles etc. are encouraged. The ritual will be located at the usual place, Des Moines Unitarian Universal Church, but this time the ritual will happen out-of-doors. [See left column for address and driving directions.]

Next Public Ritual {submitted by Jeryze}

Here ye, Here ye
We are pleased to announce that
on Saturday, July 11th, 2009, @ 7 PM
The cauldron will boil with excitement. That's because a class will be taught on SIGILS!

Yes if you want health, wealth beyond your wildest dreams, or that special "someone," then come on down and learn!

“The making of SIGILS”
Ok I'm only joking: you probably won't get that special someone but health and unlimited wealth CAN be yours! (Well, sort-of!)

Come to our gathering for food fun and an uplifting ritual and a class. The Magick is up to you.

Saltwater UU church
25701 S. 14th Pl.
Des Moines, Wa. 98189

We want to thank all that attended last months ritual: THANK YOU!

Salty Salty Pagans

Have you ever seen anyone look any more outrageously "fun" or utterly beautiful? I say NOT! This here is Lydia (truly one of the Saltiest members of "Salty Pagan," our Earth Based Spirituality Group). Thank you Nathan/aka "the Green Man" (pictured below) for making this photo available to us! {And thank you Lydia, who agreed to make her face public}

FOLLOW UP: Midsummer Ritual

I [SunTiger] felt so loved and supported/nurtured by all who attended last night's Summer Solstice Ritual (amidst the grief of Doug's dad passing on the night prior). Thank you for all the loving words and support in action intended for Doug and his family! You are all so awesome!

The costumes worn to this Sabbat were truly fun and entertaining if not utterly beautiful. I felt truly blessed to be the evening's organizer -- with so many wonderful people proving so willing to step in for ensuring the program's success. It was especially uplifting to see and hear laughter while we danced the spiral. Thank you all for honoring the circle - for creating sacred space as spiritual beings and for helping to raise such joyous, fun and healing energy.





Having so many visitors on this ritual night felt like such a soothing ointment. Hail and welcome to all who came and to anyone who wants to attend in the future. Merry meet and merry part (definitely, may we meet merrily again and again).

~ SunTiger

P.S. All photos are provided by Nathan via his cellular phone. {Thank you Nate}

More details on Tomorrow's [Open To The Public] Sabbat

Posted by SunTiger: I'm making a unicorn mask for the ritual on Saturday, June 20th [7-9 p.m.] (Please attendees, if you do not have a costume just make a mask out of paper to wear.)

Lydia has been asked to lead the spiral circle/dance again this year (like she did last Summer). I'll be bringing the fire pit. Hopefully it will NOT rain. We will be writing our cares on a piece of paper [burdens, bad habits, etc.] to throw such into the flames/sending all that we'd like to overcome away.

If anyone has flower bulbs to share . . . please bring them. I have a few crocus bulbs to bring but probably not enough for everyone. We will be blessing the bulbs, filling them with our personal desires to take home and plant in a pot or in the yard . . . so when the flower blooms this coming spring it will symbolize how that reality (of our goals/aspirations expressed during ritual) will be fully manifested.