PCon so far
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blackfyr and lysana's room, hanging out with ogam. We've been plotting a ritual to give to the community as a sort of CR equivalent of a symbel, where people can get together and make offerings to the land spirits, the ancestors and the deities as a basis around which groups might be able to coalesce. We'll be running it by alfrecht tomorrow as soon as we run him down -- assuming he comes back to the con hotel before he heads home. My feeling for quite some time has been that part of the reason that CR groups tend to flail around and not do that much publicly or to become very large is because everyone is having to reinvent the wheel ritually whenever they get together. Rather that proposing a large, intricate ritual, we wanted to put something together that you can do alone or with a group as small or as large as you like and work out from there.
My ogam workshop this morning was nearly standing room only. I sold all the copies of my ogam booklet that were printed (30 of them), and could probably have sold 20 more over the past day or so. People were very excited by what I had to say, and I felt like I did a pretty good job with it. Tomorrow afternoon is my filidecht workshop, though it's so late in the day that most of the congoers will be gone by the time 1:30 rolls around.
I participated in the Ecclesia Antinoi lupercalia, and was declared "youth for a day" and am now officially a Luperca. Way cool. More about this stuff later.
Talked to Isaac Bonewits and it turned out he was dining with the acquisitions editor and the publicist from Llewellyn, who immediate pounced upon me and were desperate for me to write for them. I gently turned them down, explaining that a CR 101 would probably work for their audience, but I'd promised my ogam book to Megalithica, and that really, a book on filidecht would deal with the search for illumination that results in one of three things -- poetry, madness or DEATH -- and that honest, I didn't think their target market was quite ready for that.
Been doing a lot of networking and ritual, and have met some great folks, as well as seeing people I haven't seen since last PCon. I'm definitely looking forward to coming back next year. Gwethelyn came by, and we had a late dinner together after the Brighid ritual (they didn't fix the twitches that made me so nuts last year), though Tadgh was not able to come. She passed along his greetings.
More reportage to come, though most likely either late Monday or sometime Tuesday.
Fabulous things are happening. Huge hugs to everyone and lots of enthusiastic love. I'm missing reading my flist and looking forward to catching up with you all in a few days.
WHEEE!
That sounds interesting, and I'm sure that many people would find it useful. I'm biased, of course, since closeness to and communion with the land is such a big part of my (tree hugging) take on religion. [grin] Are you going to publish your suggested structure for this? Is there some divination beforehand? (I've run into places where the local land spirits were all GO HOME GET LOST, and didn't want me trying to make friends or give them anything.) There is tons of precedent in the Heroic Cycle and in the Dindsenchas about how people began to relate to places -- I know I've used it as inspiration when trying to work Celtic-centered ritual in new or different places. I look forward to anything else you have to say about this.
poetry, madness or DEATH -- and that honest, I didn't think their target market was quite ready for that.
[laughs] Somehow, I imagine they'd find that hard to argue with.
I suspect more will happen once I'm un-crispy.
Rest well, and go go beta!
Though, with a feast, you'd most likely be doing it either in your home or in a place you're pretty familiar with, and the spirits would be fairly familiar with or even well-disposed toward you.
I've done traditional, norse sumbles for our very eclectic pagan community the past four years for Yule, with one twist - instead of restricting the honoring of the gods to just the Norse pantheon, we allowed people to toast to "The gods their tribe swears by."
The Asatruar who attended the sumble last year, didn't like that, btw, and didn't participate in that round. But - we've done it that way for four years, and so far the Norse gods didn't seem to mind. As long as we gave them their just due, they were cool with it.
Poetry, Madness or Death
As he is a wise man, I assume he chose correctly, although at times I could swear he chose the one that made him mad.
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I had expected it to be a mushroom. Sometimes we get answers we don't expect. Was my journey accurate? ::shrugs:: I dunno, but I'm not about to test it out.
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Secondly, as one of those Heathens from across the river, and one who serves Freyr, our god of Frith, I would be extremely interested in helping out in any way possible with the development of the symbel ritual - that is, if the help is welcome.
Thank you so much for all that you do :)
I'd love to hear further comments from you about the workshop and your thoughts on the whole thing. It would really help for how I present the material once I finally get to working on the book about it.
Anyway, it was great to hear you speak, and despite your protestations, you expressed yourself in a very clear and (for me at least) easy to understand manner. And I, like
*sporks Isaac* I have opinions on his one size fits all ritual idea.
The rug burn is finally going away. I was able to wear pants and not cringe when they rubbed on my knee yesterday ;)