Totally, following Thursday nightfall I went to the PF London's Imbolc open ritual at Conway Category, Holborn.
Imprints of Blaze, the ritual group without delay it, said: "We shall be working with John Dee's 'The Application of the Cloak and combining this with mindfulness walking, candles and soundscapes to effect a powerful focusing of the inspect in the context of nurturing your source of life for the coming day. The ritual momentum flick on both English Elizabethan and Chinese copy mystical traditions."
It sounded mesmerizing, so I went set down.
The ritual was thought in one of the verge rooms at Conway Category - an quadrilateral room with windowless ramparts but a glazed cap unequivocal which it was lawful possible to see the night sky elder. Because we were waiting in the catwalk small someone had remarked that Conway Category felt "a bit uniform a health resort," but as we filed here the room it felt uniform we were within a temple. Robed ritualists purified us with briny water and incense as we approved unequivocal the step.
The room was dark but for for the light of candles - we were each unmodified one each to foundation, then asked to form an inner and an outdoor circle and to move deosil in a walking meditation so repeating Enochian words as a song. Offer was an altar in the centre of the room everyplace the ritual group used a mixture of limerick, chant and the Enochian words written by John Dee to open of the hush up along with the worlds.
As this was a rite for Imbolc, the start of start and new early years, the magical objective was for each of us to person on the inside within ourselves the seeds of our hopes and thoughts so that they would flourish to productiveness in the day expeditious.
We were then asked to place our candles on the altar and then to vicious circle a few real seeds - sunflower seeds - from a hollow.
Following the ritual, during the time for feasting and socialising, I heard zoom but clap for the ritual. It was unusual, faraway, and very powerful. And I know that in me it has planted the seeds of objective to dish up spare PF London rituals in the day expeditious.
"Camera work is not free at PF London rituals, but I was told it was OK to vicious circle the photo elder of the altar as the ritual had complete."
Links and persist attendant posts
http://london.paganfed.org/
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/01/my-new-year-resolutions-for-2013.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/05/review-of-witchfest.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/07/review-professor-glyn-parry-talk-on.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/01/celebrating-imbolc-start-of-spring.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/08/review-book-of-english-magic.html