Opening Ritual
Join us Thursday evening at 7:30 pm for the Opening Ritual of the Chrysalis Moon Festival, where we will honor and celebrate our 17th year, our new location, continued growth, and welcome all festival participants. This year we will celebrate our theme “DIVINE REFLECTIONS WEAVING SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS” Pagan ritual that celebrates our connectedness with each other, our ancestors and all of creation.
Facilitated by: Michele Polacek
Main Ritual
Join us Sunday for our Main Ritual. It will celebrate this year’s CM theme, “DIVINE REFLECTIONS WEAVING SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS”. This will be a bittersweet ritual that will examine the ways the divine has lived in us and acted through us as we have co-created the Chrysalis Moon Festival. We will reflect on the community and personal connections we have made throughout the years at the festival. We’ll look back at the moments of fun and learning. We will consider that the Chrysalis Moon Festival is this year at a Chrysalis stage. What will we transform into? What will the future look like for our individual spiritual journeys and for us a group? We’ll reflect on these questions together. Bring your memories and your hopes for the future.
Facilitated by: Dawn Gaetke
Closing Ritual
Join us Wednesday morning at 9 am for our Ritual of thanksgiving and farewell, releasing of Wards, blessings of safe travel, and celebration of Chrysalis Moon’s Community Spirit.
Facilitated by: Dawn Gaetke
Sumbel Celebration
Sumbel is a ritual drinking celebration. 1. Toasts are drunk to the Gods. 2. Ancestors and personal heroes. 3. Oaths, boast and song or poetry.
This is an adult Ritual. Mead will be used. But folks can still attend if they don’t drink alcohol. Anyone under the age of 21, needs to have permission from a parent or guardian. This ritual will take place after 9 pm around a fire. Date and time TBA
Facilitated by: Shelly & Eric
For those who are new to the Magical Gift Exchange this is how it goes.
Gifting, and the gift economy, is more about building relationships between the givers and receivers than it is about the gifts themselves.
We, within our magical community, recognize another layer of this exchange. We recognize the role of serendipity or divine providence. Sometimes we receive an item and immediately recognize it as just what we needed! Or, within the next fortnight we’re invited to lead a ritual for which that item would be just perfect. Maybe we receive an item and realize that it is just what a friend needs. We pass it on to that friend and thus extend the network of relationships from original giver to ultimate receiver.
As you prepare to come to the festival (or to the ritual) take a look within your magical closet, camping gear shed, attic, or pantry. Is there an item that no longer serves you but could serve someone else? Do you have duplicates of an item and so could spare one? Do you have an abundance of garden vegetables to spare? Crafted items? Look for unbroken items that are still in good condition even if they are not new-in-packaging items.
At the appointed time we will gather in a sacred circle, each with their wrapped or bagged gift in hand. We will go around the circle to share a story about the gift-how we acquired it, or why we think someone will find it useful, or why it called to us in the vendor tent. We share these stories to learn a bit about each other and help build relationships.
Each gift will be assigned a number and placed in the circle center. Fortune will then be invited to join us as a dice roll will determine which gift each person receives. We will open our gifts, express our gratitude, and leave the circle enriched in body and spirit.
Facilitated by: Dawn Gaetke