Movin' on up!
I'm graduating into first degree and officially becoming a Practitioner with the Order tonight during our Samhain ritual. I'm pretty excited. I went out and got some new beads to make a new necklace for my pendant. Since the color is yellow, I bought a string of 5-6mm (I can't really tell which size they are!) round beads and some citrine rondelles. Also, a few silver bali beads set off the pewter of the pendant nicely and make the necklace look less fancy and more "natural"...like something that I'm more likely to wear every day.
I'm quite pleased with it.
We're also supposed to bring some item of someone we've lost (through death or otherwise), and I've been having a hard time trying to decide. I still want to do something of Mom's even though she died 5 years ago...mostly because it's my way of saying, "Even though Dad's getting remarried, you're not forgotten." But what to bring?
I have some of her jewelry, but none of it is stuff that she wore all the time.
I have three (well, I can find two...one wouldn't fit in the box without getting damaged, and now I can't find it) dried roses from one of the funeral floral arrangements. They're on my altar.
I have a cross-stitch piece that she did that I'm supposed to complete. That has more of her personality and energy in it because she worked on it for over a year, and ALMOST got it done. At the same time, knowing how she felt about my choice of religion, I don't feel entirely comfortable bringing that to ritual, even for a reverent ritual.
What I think I'm going to bring is a cross-stitch I did. The down side to it is that she didn't do any work on it herself. But she did help me pick it out, and while I did (most of) it when I was in Paris, we did kind of have a bonding experience over it when I had questions or had to ask how to do the beads, etc. And it's Marion Levitt-Imblum's Blue Moon Angel...a beautiful angel looking down over the earth. Which, while I don't believe in angels in that kind of form (same as I don't believe that faeries all look like Tinkerbell), it's still how I think Mom would like me to think of her. Besides, Marion Levitt-Imblum was Mom's favorite cross-stitch pattern designer.
I think I might also bring one of the dried roses.
It's about an hour until I have to leave. I wish I had time for a nap. Oh well. Might as well gather all the stuff I need to bring. I wish I had a drum, but I don't. I'd bring my lyre, but I'm not proficient with it enough to improv along with the drumming and chanting planned for tonight and I really need to tune it again. The drastic change in temperature has made it go all wonky.
I feel like there's something else I should bring, too. But I've gone over the instructions again, and that's all we've said.
OH YEAH!!! edie_sweetie's present!!!
I'm quite pleased with it.
We're also supposed to bring some item of someone we've lost (through death or otherwise), and I've been having a hard time trying to decide. I still want to do something of Mom's even though she died 5 years ago...mostly because it's my way of saying, "Even though Dad's getting remarried, you're not forgotten." But what to bring?
I have some of her jewelry, but none of it is stuff that she wore all the time.
I have three (well, I can find two...one wouldn't fit in the box without getting damaged, and now I can't find it) dried roses from one of the funeral floral arrangements. They're on my altar.
I have a cross-stitch piece that she did that I'm supposed to complete. That has more of her personality and energy in it because she worked on it for over a year, and ALMOST got it done. At the same time, knowing how she felt about my choice of religion, I don't feel entirely comfortable bringing that to ritual, even for a reverent ritual.
What I think I'm going to bring is a cross-stitch I did. The down side to it is that she didn't do any work on it herself. But she did help me pick it out, and while I did (most of) it when I was in Paris, we did kind of have a bonding experience over it when I had questions or had to ask how to do the beads, etc. And it's Marion Levitt-Imblum's Blue Moon Angel...a beautiful angel looking down over the earth. Which, while I don't believe in angels in that kind of form (same as I don't believe that faeries all look like Tinkerbell), it's still how I think Mom would like me to think of her. Besides, Marion Levitt-Imblum was Mom's favorite cross-stitch pattern designer.
I think I might also bring one of the dried roses.
It's about an hour until I have to leave. I wish I had time for a nap. Oh well. Might as well gather all the stuff I need to bring. I wish I had a drum, but I don't. I'd bring my lyre, but I'm not proficient with it enough to improv along with the drumming and chanting planned for tonight and I really need to tune it again. The drastic change in temperature has made it go all wonky.
I feel like there's something else I should bring, too. But I've gone over the instructions again, and that's all we've said.
OH YEAH!!! edie_sweetie's present!!!