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chironcentaur

Grove Ritual and Some People are just Idiots

Jun 28, 2009 02:40

Today was the grove's Midsummer ritual that Renee and I were running in honor of Hermes and Apollo (I know, how shocking of us, huh?). I can't say that things went as well as we wanted them to, but considering the very stressful time we've been living in, the major life re-evaluations and course direction changes that have been made in the last few ( Read more... )

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Re: Moo! chironcentaur June 29 2009, 03:16:35 UTC

Whether people were rolling their eyes at you or not (and I at least wasn't), you understood the theme and were keeping well within it. And we thank you for trying to be an example before she followed you and ruined it.

The offerings that you missed carynml June 28 2009, 23:46:37 UTC

Will and I didn't quite know what to do or wher to find the words for our offerings so...and Hermes would appreciate this.... We got them from West Side Story and began filching ( ... )

Re: The offerings that you missed chironcentaur June 29 2009, 03:17:57 UTC

LOL!!! Oh my gods, that is awesome! I'm going to want to see this performed at some point, the gods deserve their due!

I'm not commenting on the forum, but I am keeping up to date, Please give Will my best. You're both in my prayers.

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chironcentaur June 29 2009, 03:30:55 UTC

Well, I will say this is just the way this particular grove does things, might be different elsewhere (was different in this grove too even just a couple years ago, there is a clergy person that at one point wrote and ran every ritual, I think it may have just wore her down (this isn't a grove that only meets on the eight High Days, there is a weekly service) and she wanted to open the floor to other people as well). There is clergy training as well as liturgy training in ADF, so if they did want to make running rituals something you need to be trained and certified for there is a set up for that within the organization. It probably helps to have a very solid structure you need to follow, means you don't have to write everything from scratch. Plus there are a lot of people there very experienced with the ritual structure and with writing and organizing things who will usually help you out if you ask them to ( ... )

pagandenma June 30 2009, 00:53:15 UTC

I'm sorry that happened, and if I hadn't had to go home and put kids in bed, I would have had a word with her. *sigh* Or maybe more than just a word.

I hope you'll still come to Lughnasa, because we're doing some very different and very reverential stuff . . . .and I'm gonna lay down the law for this one, along with Taryn and Ashley.