Ritual Follow-up

We celebrated our Winter Solstice ritual last night. Our theme was "Where will your wings take you?" as we move into the Dreamtime of winter, dreaming what we will birth in the spring. Elfkat and Mary led us in caroling before we began. Joanne was her amazing self as the Mistress of Ceremonies and led us in meditation. I spoke for the Wings of Justice, Callista spoke for the Wings of Heart, Catherine spoke for the Wings of Truth, Laura spoke for the Wings of Healing, and Anniitra spoke for the Wings of the Dark. Callista crowned our new Lucinas, Nicole and Ella. I'm hoping Elfkat will post some pictures in the next couple of days.

The ritual went beautifully, the feasting afterwards was wonderful. And we raised $200 for Heifer International.

Unfortunately, while we were in ritual in the hall, someone entered the kitchen and stole a couple of wallets, and some cash from another purse. We spent the 2 1/2 hours after ritual making sure no other wallets were taken, checking trash cans and the grounds with flashlights, and waiting for the police to show up and take a report.

Obviously, someone hadn't yet learned a cardinal rule:
Don't mess with witches!

As our participants heard what had happened, many of them were muttering spells to recover the lost wallets, to make the thief trip up soon and be caught, for karma to catch up with them, and a few choice other spells that I won't mention here. Let's just say they were a bit graphic. Was it really worth all that for less than $50 cash? You see, we don't need to see Justice be done to know that Justice is done. We've got the hardball players on our side: Ma'at, Kali, Justitia, Freyja, Themis, Dike, Astraea and Athena to name a few.