Greetings All, :wave:
I would like to invite you all to CedarLight Grove's Mabon Highrite!
When? Saturday Sep 25th at 6PM folks can arrive anytime after 3PM.
This rite is intended to be a fun rite, dress in your festival attire, bright silly colors, clothes that you can have fun in. We will be decoarting some masks for wear into the ritual. You can bring your own or make one (they are not intended to be offered to the fire)
We plan to call familiar deities that the Grove has worked with regularly. Danu, mother of the gods, goddess of the land and the rivers as the earth mother. Tailtue, patron of CedarLight Center as the intersessor between us and the gods, Dagda (the good god) warrior, bard, womanizer, and father and his daughter Brigid, goddess of bards, healing and protection.
Once they have been called into the sanctuary, we will honor them with an offering of food and invite them to join us for a feast and bardic circle. If we can get someone to do face painting, we will do that. We will have sing-a-longs and storytelling around the fire and lots of food. Personal conversations with the gods should be done at this time.
(PLEASE bring a dish to pass, we will have the grill out and ready. Note: Chicken takes a long time if it has not been precooked)
We will be collecting food for our fall charity endeavor. Please donate one item of non-perishable food! All donations will go to the Bea Gaddy Foundation in Baltimore.
Once we are done with our festing and songs and stories, we will gather back in the sanctuary at ask for the guidance of the gods and for their blessing in this rite. The waters of life will be passsed and we will thank all we have invited and close the gates between the wolrds.
CedarLight Center does not survive on goodwill alone, please consider reserecting some of the dead presidents in your pocket into the Dagda's Cauldron so that they may be reserected as pagans in the service of the pagan community!
Bright Blessings
Caryn
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