As Samhain is approaching we are all here at Ladi Em's getting ready for the upcoming Sabbat. However, we can not forget about that wonderful full moon that is occurring tonight. If the universe was just trying to be obvious, tonight's Full Moon is also going through a Lunar Eclipse on the Eastern Hemisphere. Even though we will be unable to visually see this occurrence, I am excited to work with her tonight and experience a full moon ritual under our Blood Moon.
What makes this ritual extra special for me, despite the fact that in the past couple of years, I have not written or lead a ritual for more than myself. Those in the past couple of years have been small and very personal. The extra special part is that I got to get behind the computer once again in so many years and create and write an entire ritual. I have not done one to this magnitude since our Ladi Em's Cauldron days in Spring, Texas. How I really miss those days. The days of turning out 15-20 rituals a year. New Moons, Full Moon, Sabbats, all very different from the last and exploring so many different paths and pantheons.
Tonight's ritual is also special because even though I am not holding a public ritual tonight, (Sorry my friends), I am leading a ritual with two very important people. My daughters. Sage and Zennia will be by my side as we Descend into the Underworld. The purpose of the ritual is to follow the descent of Inanna into the underworld to meet her sister Ereshkigal. In doing so we are going to abandon the light side of our lives that we have grown comfortable in, and embrace the darkness and settle in for a moment of death and rebirth. Returning stronger and whole. The entire ritual is about embracing the duality of it all.
I will be posting pictures of the altar once it is complete and if you are interested in what we did for the ritual, I will be working on posting the *ritual in our ritual section. This will be the first ritual that I do with both my daughters and we are hoping to build on this and then soon open up ritual for our close friends and family and then the community. Thank you for being with us on our journey.
* Rituals posted in that section will have certain mysteries redacted.
I can't wait to see what you post.