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1998 Ostara Ritual Log

This is the log of our online Ostara ritual of March 22, 1998. This log has been edited to remove extraneous comments.

.Elspeth> Everyone ready?   Let's get this show on the road. :)
.Elspeth> I want to welcome everyone to the Grove's Ostara Ritual...
  especially the newcomers
.Elspeth> For the sakes of those who have never attended an online ritual, I
  will mention a few things
.Elspeth> This is modified Wiccan style ritual
.Elspeth> We will be grounding and centering, casting a circle, calling
  Quarters and deities...
.Elspeth> Then we will be doing a simple working....
.Elspeth> Well, the Cauldron is rarely simple. 
.Elspeth> If you don't have something that I call for, then imagine yourself
  doing the action called for
.Terri> do we need food?
.Elspeth> Only if you want it, Terri
.Elspeth> Any questions before I start?
.Terri> 'k
HALLIEJEAN> not here
.Elspeth> Okay... here we go. :)
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth> I want all of you to relax.... leaving your fingers lightly on the
  keyboard
.Elspeth> Take a deep breath... hold it ... let it out slowly....
.Elspeth> Do it again, taking in a calm peaceful feeling .... letting out
  the petty distractions of our mundane life
.Elspeth> Another breath and you feel the everyday world drawing away....
.Elspeth> Continue to breath and relax ... until you feel yourself enter
  that place that exists not in this world and not in the next
.Elspeth> This is the Place between Worlds... be welcome here.
.Elspeth> Type <> when you are grounded and centered and ready to go on.
.Terri> <>
.Ann> <>
.Jill> <>
HALLIEJEAN> <>
.Tina> <>
.Phyllis> <>
.Randall> <>
.Dianne> <>
.Elspeth> I draw this circle to contain and protect our working.  From
  Keyboard to Keyboard, I connect us.  We come here in friendship and desire
  to reach beyond ourselves.  By our will let the circle be cast!
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth> Randall?
.Randall> ::draws invoking pentagram of air::
.Randall> Mighty Spirits of the East, Sylphs and sprites of the Air,
.Randall> We ask you to be present and, with your airy might, guard our
  ritual
.Randall> <>
.Elspeth> Ann?
.Ann> Lords of the South, Lords of Fire, please join us and guard our ritual
.Ann> <>
.Elspeth> Terri?
.Terri> Guardians of the West, Creatures of Water, we ask you to witness our
  rite and guard our circle. <>
.Elspeth> Halliejean?
HALLIEJEAN> Winds of the North keep us pure.<>
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth> I call upon the Spring Maiden....
.Elspeth> Lady Eostre.... come to us
.Elspeth> Bring Your flowery presence to this place
.Elspeth> Brighten life that has become barren during the Spring
.Elspeth> Help us celebrate Your time ... the return of the warmth
.Elspeth> With joy in our hearts and a song on our lips.....
.Elspeth> Attend and be welcome!
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth> If any wish to call another into the circle, please do so. :)
.Elspeth> Type <> when you are finished.
.Ann> My Prince, join us and guide me in the transformation You wish.  <>
.Randall> Athena, please be present and lend your wisdom to our ritual. <>
.Elspeth> My Dark Lady ... ever wise, ever with me... You are welcome, the
  Morrigan.  Now and always. <>
.Terri> I call to Mama and the Greenman..bless us with your presence..
  welcome to our circle.<>
.Dianne> My lord and Lady please join us bring forth your love and
  understanding to all
.Dianne> <>
.Phyllis> Lady Tonan/Guadalupe, beloved mother goddess, please join us.<>
.Jill> Spirits of the Woods, rejuvinate us in mind and health, welcome and
  be with us
.Jill> <>
HALLIEJEAN> Friends everywhere.  Goodness <>
.Tina> I ask that Isis joins and assists us in our ritual. <>
.Elspeth> Any others? :)
.Elspeth> :)
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth> We celebrate this day the awakening of the Earth from her winter
  slumbers.
.Elspeth> The Maiden has returned from the dark underworld, and life springs
  forth anew throiughout the land.
.Elspeth> Those who have a candle light it.
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth> We light this fire
.Elspeth> On this day of equal light and equal dark,
.Elspeth> As a symbol of the growing power of the sun.
.Elspeth> May the cold darkness of winter be banished!
.Elspeth> Let the light shine forth!
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth> Join with me as we call upon the returning tide of light, life,
  and growth.  Just type the words I do....
.Elspeth> We call forth the Gentle Rains!
.Randall> We call forth the Gentle Rains!
.Jill> We call forth the Gentle Rains!
.Terri> We call forth the Gentle Rains!
.Ann> We call forth the Gentle Rains!
.Tina> We call forth the Gentle Rains!
HALLIEJEAN> We call forth the Gentle Rains!
.Phyllis> We call forth the gentle rains!
.Dianne> we call forth the gentle rains!
.Elspeth> We call forth the Fertile Earth!
.Tina> We call forth the Fertile Earth!
.Terri> We call forth the Fertile Earth!
.Randall> We call forth the Fertile Earth!
HALLIEJEAN> We call forth the fertile earth!
.Phyllis> We call forth the Fertile Earth!
.Jill> We call forth the Fertile Earth!
.Dianne> We call forth the Fertile Earth!
.Elspeth> We call forth the Warm Sun!
.Tina> We call forth the Warm Sun!
.Randall> We call forth the Warm Sun!
.Ann> We call forth the Warm Sun!
.Terri> We call forth the Warm Sun!
.Jill> We call forthe the Warm Sun!
.Phyllis> We call forth the Warm Sun!
.Dianne> We call forth the Warm Sun!
HALLIEJEAN> We call forth the Warm Sun!
.Elspeth> We call forth the Soft Breezes!
.Tina> we call forth the Soft Breezes!
.Jill> We call forth the Soft Breezes!
.Randall> We call forth the Soft Breezes!
.Ann> We call forth the Soft Breezes!
HALLIEJEAN> We call forth the Soft Breezes!
.Terri> We call forth the Soft Breezes!
.Dianne> We call forth the Soft Breezes!
.Phyllis> We call forth the Soft Breezes!
.Elspeth> Come forth, Spring Maiden!
.Terri> Come forth, Spring Maiden!
.Jill> Come forth, Spring Maiden!
.Tina> Come forth, Spring Maiden!
HALLIEJEAN> Come forth, Spring Maiden!
.Ann> Come forth, Spring Maiden!
.Phyllis> Come forth Spring Maiden!
.Dianne> Come forth, Spring Maiden!
.Randall> Come forth, Spring Maiden!
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth> In honour of the Time of the Cycle, we have decided to do a
  Cauldron of Transformation.  If you do not have the items needed, then
  imagine the cauldron before you .... the bitter liquid ... the sweet
  juice....
.Elspeth> Pick up the bitter water... sip it... allow its bitterness to
  linger on your tongue...
.Elspeth> So linger the bitterness within....
.Elspeth> Hold the cup of water and concentrate on what is bitter and wrong
  your life
.Elspeth> Pluck it from your soul and being and depoist it in the liquid
.Elspeth> Type <> when you are ready to continue...
.Terri> <>
HALLIEJEAN> <>
.Tina> <>
.Ann> <>
.Randall> <>
.Dianne> <>
.Phyllis> <>
.Jill> <>
.Elspeth> Pour it into your bowl or cauldron.
.Elspeth> Now pick up the sweet juice .. taste it....
.Elspeth> How pleasant it is after the bitterness...
.Elspeth> It dissolves the bad, leaving it only as a memory....
.Elspeth> Nature dislikes a vacumn.  If we are to take away, then we must
  replace it with something
.Elspeth> Hold the sweet liquid and enpower it with what you want to become
.Elspeth> Some need or desire....
.Elspeth> Growth and wisdom
.Elspeth> When you are done, pour it into the bowl and type <>
HALLIEJEAN> <>
.Terri> <>
.Jill> <>
.Phyllis> <>
.Randall> <>
.Tina> <>
.Dianne> <>
.Ann> <>
.Elspeth> While I am 'transforming' I want each of you to stir the liquid
  and 'chant' by typing...
.Elspeth> "I desire change...
.Elspeth> A Change for me
.Elspeth> As I do will
HALLIEJEAN> I desire change
.Elspeth> So mote it be...
.Randall> I desire change...
.Dianne> I desire change.... A change for me As I do  will So mote it be
.Terri> I desire change
.Ann> I desire change, a Change for me; as I do will, so mote it be!
.Randall> A Change for me
HALLIEJEAN> I desire change.  A change for me.  So mote it be!
.Randall> As I do will
.Terri> a change for me; as I do will, so mote it be!
.Jill> "I desire change..A change for me  As I do will, So mote it Be!
.Tina> "I desire change...a Change for me, As I do will, So Mote it be!
.Phyllis> I desire Change... A Change for me. As I do will.  So mote it be!
.Randall> So mote it be
.Terri> I desire change
.Terri> a change for me
.Randall> I desire change...
.Terri> as I do will
.Randall> A Change for me
.Terri> so mote it be!
.Randall> As I do will
.Randall> So mote it be
.Elspeth> I desire change
.Terri> I desire change
HALLIEJEAN> I desire change.  A change for me.  As I do will...so mote it be
.Elspeth> Change for me... for us
.Phyllis> I desire change
.Tina> I desire change, a change for me,
.Terri> a change for me
.Ann> I desire change, a change for me; as I do will, so mote it be!
.Dianne> I desire change
.Phyllis> A change for me.
.Terri> as I do will
.Randall> I desire change...
.Elspeth> As I do will ....
.Dianne> a change for me
.Tina> As I do will, so mote it be!
.Terri> so mote it be!
.Phyllis> As I do will
.Randall> A Change for me
.Randall> As I do will
.Elspeth> The Power goes Free!
.Dianne> as I do will
.Phyllis> So mote it be!
.Randall> So mote it be
.Terri> so mote it be!
.Ann> I desire change, a change for me, as I do will, so mote it be!
.Dianne> the power go free
.Jill> The Power goes Free!
.Terri> The power goes Free!
HALLIEJEAN> the power goes free
.Phyllis> The Power goes Free!
.Ann> The Power goes free!
.Tina> the Power goes Free!
.Elspeth> And so it is....
.Randall> The Power goes Free
.Tina> The Power goes Free!
.Jill> And so it is...
.Dianne> and so it is.....
.Tina> and so it is
.Terri> and so it is
HALLIEJEAN> and so it is...
.Ann> and so it is
.Elspeth> ::giggle::
.Phyllis> And so it is...
.Randall> And so it is....
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth>
.Terri> ::giggle::
.Tina> :)
.Dianne> ::giggle::
.Terri> (baaaa)
.Elspeth> Silly folks. 
.Tina> lol
.Dianne> :))
.Randall> (moos for GF)
.Tina> :::giggle::::
.Elspeth> The bitter has been transformed to sweet.... taste the liquid now
  the bowl...
.Elspeth> Take in its sweetness.  Make it part of you....
.Elspeth> Enjoy. :)
.Jill> :)
.Terri> (we's all sheep..not cows, Randall. )
.Dianne> [necture of the gods :)]
HALLIEJEAN> Enjoy:)
.Elspeth> Did anyone bring food they want blessed? :)
.Terri> no..but I brought a doll.
.Elspeth> ::watching ghost play with fire. ::
.Elspeth> Want a blessing, Terri?
.Phyllis> me too!
.Terri> please, Elspeth.
.Terri> ::holds up the doll::
.Randall> ::Watches Elspeth watching Ghost::
.Elspeth>
.Dianne> brought my self
.Elspeth>
.Jill> I have some new crystals =;)
.Tina> :::holds up Mama doll:::
.Elspeth> :focusing::
.Elspeth>
HALLIEJEAN> I'll observe candle
.Phyllis> ::holds up Mama Doll::
.Jill> can I hold up the crystals?
.Elspeth> Sure. :)
.Elspeth>
.Jill> ::thanks::
.Elspeth> By those who watch ... those who guide ... those who guard ...
.Tina> :::and my crystals::
.Elspeth> By all deity known and unknown....
.Elspeth> Send your blessings to these items
.Elspeth> Make them tools of wisdom for us
.Elspeth> That they may aid us on the Path  You have sent us on
.Elspeth> ::sketching a symbol of blessing and sending forth::
.Terri> ::smiles::
.Elspeth> :)
.Terri> I felt that. :)
.Tina> :)
.Elspeth> You should have... Ghost was helping. :)
.Terri> thank you, Elspeth. :)
HALLIEJEAN> Thinking.  Thinking. :)
.Ann> It hit ... felt it in the back of my skull.  Thank you.  :)
.Terri> ghost is good at smacking me in the face. 
.Elspeth> She has smacked me too... in other places. ::innocent look::
.Tina> I felt a warmth in my arms
.Tina> thank you!!!
.Elspeth> Shall we close things down? :)
.Jill> Yes, Thank you Lady Elspeth and Your Lady....
.Elspeth> You are welcome, Jill....
.Elspeth> Okay.... let's close this down and we can just talk
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth> Randall?
.Randall> ::draws banishing pentagram of air::
.Randall> Mighty Spirits of the East, Sylphs and sprites of the Air,
.Randall> We thank you for your presence and your aid at our ritual.
.Randall> <>
.Elspeth> Ann?
HALLIEJEAN> <>
.Ann> Lords of the South, Lords of Fire, we thank you for your gracious
  presence and aid.  Go if you must, stay if you will.  :)  <>
.Elspeth> Terri?
HALLIEJEAN> This was serendipitous for me.  Just moping.  Waiting for spring
.Terri> Guardians of the West, Creatures of Water..we thank you for your
  presence and your warm protective waters..go if you must, stay if you will
<>
.Elspeth> Halliejean?
.Elspeth> [rehi, Jill. :)]
HALLIEJEAN> Winds of the North be warm.
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth> Honoured guests.....we are grateful for the support and wisdom You
  have shared with us at this time.  Go if You must, but know that You are
  welcome to remain.
.Elspeth>
.Elspeth> The Circle is now ended, but know one thing
.Elspeth> What we have shared here will never end ... only grow.
.Elspeth> Go in fellowship.
.Elspeth> Merry Meet, Merry Part, Merry Meet again
.Ann> Merry Meet, Merry Part, Merry Meet again!
.Terri> Merry Meet, Merry Part, Merry Meet again. :)
.Randall> Merry Meet, Merry Part, and Merry Meet Again!
.Tina> Merry Meet, Merry Part, Merry Meet again!
.Phyllis> Merry Meet, Merry Part, Merry Meet Again!
.Dianne> Merry Meet Merry Part  Merry meet Again
HALLIEJEAN> Merry Meet, merry part, merry meet again
.Jill> Merry Meet, Perry Part, Merry Meet Again!
.Tina> this was wonderful :)))
.Elspeth> ::taking a deep breath and relaxing fingers and energy::  :)

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