More on the Animating the Spirit of Democracy ritual

Posted on | January 26, 2009 | No Comments

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 their show featuring recordings from the ritual.  You can play the whole show from their web site.  Our segment starts about 43 minutes into the program.

The folks over at Magic TV recorded the whole 1 hour 20 minute ritual and interviews with the three organizers.

If you don’t want to watch the whole ritual, some highlights (with a personal bias) include:

Me giving the Water invocation (at 17:40)
Caroline Casey‘s invocation of the Compassionate Trickster (at 24:00)
Ketzirah Carly‘s blessing on the District of Columbia (at 42:00)
Katrina Messenger‘s message (at 57:40)

Last, but not least, the Associated Press picked up the Witches’ Broom Dance, which started off the ritual and many local stations around the country showed the video.  You can see it at the website of The Washington Post

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