Paganfaire XI

Community Spring
Equinox Ritual -
"The Transformation of
Taliesin and Cerridwen"

• Welcome and Introduction
  
  
• Circle-casting
  
  
• Directional Invocations:
  (Response: "Be Here Now!")
  
  East, South, West, North
  
  
• Invocation of Cerridwen
  (Response: "Blessed Be!")
  
  
• Tale of Transformations
  Gwion undergoes a shamanic initiatory journey as Ceridwen pursues him through many transformations, becoming at last the great poet Taliesin. As we help Cerridwen search out Gwion in each form, we also are transformed, rejoicing along with Elphin and Gwyddno.
  
  
• We Dance as our Animal Transformations:
  "Hoof and horn, hoof and horn,
  All that dies shall be reborn.
  Corn and grain, corn and grain
  All that's cut shall rise again."
  
  
• When you hear three big drumbeats, we begin the Spiral Dance:
  "She changes everything she touches and
  Everything she touches changes..."
  
  
• We send the energy for the changes we need!
  
  
• Grounding the energy
  
  
• Cerridwen blesses the Feast
  
  
• Feasting
  (The Direction callers lead distribution in each quarter of the circle).
  
  May you never hunger, may you never thirst!
  
  
• Devocation: Cerridwen, North, West, South, East
  (Response: "Hail and farewell!")
  
  
• Circle-Opening:
  "The circle is open, but unbroken
  Merry meet and merry part
  And merry meet again!"