Opening Critter Parade and Stage Blessing

Grab your animal masks, costumes, and robes, and head on down to Ousel for the Opening Ritual Critter Parade led by Wild Bill McBunny & our Kidsbooth crew. This year we will begin at the Kidsbooth, parade through the Palisades, down Old Crow Road, and then hook back around Acoustic Avenue to the main stage. This shorter route will be easier for tiny legs. We use the energy from the parade to bless the stage and sacred circle. Join us Thursday night for a spectacular festival event.

Main Ritual: "LOVE!"

What is Love? Where do we find it? What should we do with it? Is Love about one-on-one, family, or community? Is Love something we always strive for, or will it come to us if we are patient? Our 10 ritualists lead us through some ways to find Love, connect with Love, and give Love in return. The central song this year is "Revival" by the Allman Brothers, as played by Dale Morris and company.

Our main rituals are always active, musically enhanced, and fully participatory. Appropriate attire is whatever you can dance in. Suitable for all age groups, our magick is always aimed at larger social issues that need the boost of energy. Past rituals have included "The Polluters," "The Fallen Ones," "Peace," and "People Power."

Tantric Temple Opening Ritual Puja

If you've never attended a puja ritual before, this is a great time to do so. A traditional puja is the enticing ceremony held directly before the act of Tantric lovemaking. Priestess Sienna and Reverend Feathers bring in the sacred energy of the God Shiva and the Goddess Shakti to bless the festival in this interactive, seductive ritual, held in the Tantric Temple at midnight. Share gifts with the Sacred Male and Female energies in this space. Honor, flirt, adore, and be a part of these sacred actions. This rite is typically some of the most intense magickal energy of the festival.

Pre-ritual meditation at Temple Village at 11 pm, immediately before the Puja. All who are intent on attending the Puja must attend the pre-ritual meditation.

Ending Ritual

Sienna leads us on a meditation that packs the energy up with us so we can take it back home for the season.

Our main ritual focused around the question "How do we create peace?" Four powerful women helped us answer this question with "Peace begins with me."

We charged up paper peace cranes and placed them on a shrine to be taken to the Sadako Monument in Seattle.

photos by Leis

 

Anne Weiss singing "What's going on" raised the energy during a spiral dance, which was then followed by "Give peace a Chance."

Closing Ritual- Taking the Magic Home

Our closing ritual let people take a piece of the magick home with them from the main ritual.
photo by Leis

Shrines: Several different shrines were built around the property; some of which were inadvertent!
photos by Nikki