- We recognize that all power and energy and love is here now.
- Everyone has the potential to manifest Victory in her life - everyone can win.
- We acknowledge that the power is limitless and there is more than enough for everyone.
- Through our ritual we will affirm that it is our intention to attract an abundance of everything we need into our lives.
- This includes healing energy and good health, love, friendship and support, wealth and success as we each envision it.
- This also includes healing the Environment as well as healing Social stress, and anything else we have not specifically named.
- This for the highest Good of All.
- We will call Sri Lakshmi, the Hindu Goddess of Healing and Abundance.
- We will empower the token/figurines that we have made and request the Goddess to imbue them with ability to attract Healing and Abundance to our lives.
- We will drum, sing, chant, and perform a mutual blessing dance to honor ourselves and each other. This dance will bless ourselves, our community, our society and the world with an abundance of health and healing, emotional and spiritual understanding and whatever else may come to us in the course of planning the ritual at the festival.
In preparation, Naomi and anyone who wants to assist her will coordinate two or three Ritual-related workshops before Saturday evening. Please contact Naomi by email copperjet at yahoo com if you are interested in assisting with the ritual planning and priestessing.
- We will each have the opportunity to make a clay figure or token of health and abundance, which will be blessed by the ritual fire, and imbued with our empowered intentions for health and abundance. Goddess willing, our tokens will survive our primitive firing process and we can collect them on Sunday morning to take them home.
- We will each have the opportunity to assist in planning the central working of the ritual by attending one or more of the workshops to help plan and if we choose to take a leading ritual role.
- We will learn one new song taught by Green to use for the mutual blessing dance - taught Thursday night sing-along and the Performing Arts/Talent show on Friday evening
In honor of 20 years of Elderflower Main Rituals we will formalize all the parts of ritual that happen every year. And begin some new traditions.
- The fire keeper and her assistants prepare the meadow and dig the fire pit.
- We gather in front of the Dining Hall and process to the Main Meadow.
- Our maidens/explorers/seekers will asperge us as we enter the circle.
- As always we will honor the crones in their quadrant of honor.
- We will begin some new traditions:
- We will acknowledge and honor the drummers.
- We will ask the mothers how they would like to be honored in our ritual.
- We will ask the Amazons how they would like to be recognized and honored in the main ritual.
- Libations will be served in the form of a wonderful bread baked by our wondrous caterering crew at Good Thyme Herb Co.& Catering with dessert in the Dining Hall after.
- Drumming and Dancing around the fire after the Goddess and directions have been thanked, and the circle is opened.
We will call the directions in as representives of the Aspects of the Triple Goddess
- Maiden Goddess Guardian in the East - yellow or white
Fresh Ideas, Thoughts, Exploration and Inner Discovery
- Amazon Goddess Guardian in the South - orange
Passion, Transformation, Judgement, and Decisions
- Mother Goddess Guardian in the West - blue or red
Planning, Shaping, Creating, Nourishing, and Flowing
- Crone Goddess Guardian in the North - black or deep green
Contemplating, Manifesting, Holding, Endings and New Beginnings
Main Ritual Blessing Song
May the Long Time Sun Shine upon You,
All Love, surround you
and the Pure Light, Within You
Guide you all the Way Home.
- excerpted from "A Very Cellular Song" (Incredible String Band)
About Sri Lakshmi (pronounced Shree Lock-shmee)
- Read about Sri Lakshmi in a clear (relatively) unbiased article from Wikipedia
- Many scholars agree that Sri Lakshmi is an ancient goddess of the Indian subcontinent, who was worshiped in pre-Aryan times (before 1500 BCE).
- I have found this book to be a good reference to learn something about Sri Lakshmi, both from a historical perspective and some information about how she is worshipped in India today. Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition by David Kingsley. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 19-34
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