Protecting What’s Ours
After about 12 years of visioning and fundraising, the Open Hearth Foundation is opening a community center for pagans of all paths here in the District of Columbia. The center officially opens December 31, 2011, but Becoming has the honor of facilitating the cleansing, warding, and blessing of the center at its monthly circle of connection [...]
Tarot Blessing
One of my spiritual groups, Becoming, is undergoing a time of transitions. I am stepping down as the Presiding Celebrant after eight and a half years of service, and handing the responsibility over to my dear spirit sister Ketzirah and her vision. We have also been struggling with the continual search for a permanent home [...]
Self-evident Equality
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The overturning of Proposition 8 and other legal successes to grant same-sex couples the same rights as different-sex couples are [...]
Getting Excited For Samhain
Saturday night bonfire, originally uploaded by heatherbirdtx. In Becoming, it is known that Samhain is mine. It is my favorite holiday, the one that stirs my ritualist’s imagination. When I create ritual, I usually start with the “feel” or atmosphere of the ritual, rather than a precisely worded intention. That comes as the ritual forms [...]
More on the Animating the Spirit of Democracy ritual
I just thought I would share some coverage of the ritual from the Monday before the inauguration. Caroline Kenner, one of the main organizers, wrote a feature article of the whole process at Witches’ Voice with a few pictures. Interfaith Voices, which airs locally on WAMU 88.5 on Sundays at 3:00pm, had a segment in [...]
Invoking compassion and heart into democracy
Angela, originally uploaded by Carly & Art. On Monday, January 19, about 100 people attended a Ritual of Unity and Blessing to Animate the Spirit of Democracy at the Jefferson Memorial. I was honored to invoke the powers of Water to the occasion. With a strong and open heart, I call upon the power [...]
Reflections on Samhain
Becoming’s Samhain ritual was Saturday evening. This year we did the biennial Journey to the Otherworld. Every time we do this ritual I learn new things about myself, my abilities, the people I work with, and what’s weighing in the hearts and minds of those who journey through. This year, a core group began preparing [...]
Becoming Samhain Journey
If you are around the DC area…. Journey to the Otherworld Saturday, November 3, 2007 Time: Gather in at 6:30pm. Ritual begins promptly at 7:00pm. Location: Campgrounds at Watkins Regional Park, Upper Marlboro, MD. Written or emailed RSVP required – Angela (at) Becomingdc.org Do you dare to cross the threshold and walk the unknown path? [...]
Caring for Each Other, We Care for the Earth
Every spring, Becoming goes on pilgrimage to the source of the Potomac River to give blessings and praise offerings to the beginning of the river that runs through the land on which we live. Some years, we have had lots of snow in the mountains, the land is saturated, and the spring is full and [...]
Journey of Transition
On the night of the New Moon and the eve of National Coming Out Day, I had the honor of priestessing a ritual for a friend of mine who is transitioning male to female. She has been passing as female since starting graduate school this summer, and now is starting hormonal treatments. She wanted to [...]
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