SLG Family Samhain, 1998

Written by Timothy McClennen with help from Kami Landy, input from Gareth Landy and Rob Henderson.

Tim says: "To make a kid-friendly ritual, fuse the kid activities and the ritual. Elaborate chants are less boring than one-liners. Do foil-lantern making, to light the path up to the ritual and to represent the light and power of Lugh. Offer a rose-quartz for Ana."

Organization stuff: put the altars in close to the Bilé. Put a table for Ana, with a special stone for her, down by the stream. Make a wheat-sheaf doll with a spear for Lugh, and a finger-knitted ribbon to tie them together. It might be good to make a table in two parts, with a hole in it, to go around the Bilé with the altars on it; 3 for the Kindreds and one for Ana and Lugh's marriage. Or put them between the Earth Mother stone and the Bilé- it depends on how many people are there.

Processional: We Approach the Sacred Grove

Usual purifications

Begin with the Portal Song immediately, to call on the Fire and the Well.

No meditation.

While we keep singing, make the offering to the Outsiders. Outsiders are like the Norse Loki, the source of chaos. Have one person go out and ask them; "Outsiders, we would like you to just stay out for this rite. This is not a rite for you."

All at one time, while we keep singing the chorus of the portal song,

3 people will do the offerings to the Nature Spirits, then Ancestors, then Deities, stepping into the center and saying short things like; "Nature Spirits, I would like you to be with us for this rite."

Call on the Tree last, to bind everyone together; "The central bolt that holds them." Say; "Spirit of the central tree, we'd like you to be with us to hold this rite together."

[gesture of tying something together, like the conductor does at the end of an orchestra piece. Stop singing.]

Then say; "Lugh, we especially want you to be with us today because today at last, Ana, our Lady and Yours, will marry you."

Make candle lanterns.

When they're ready, one person goes to the top of the path and says to Ana
Come Lady, come Mother,
Your lover has made a beautiful bower.
Come and bask in the sun's power,
Your people call to you to wed with Lugh this day!

Another person goes and brings up the stone for Ana while folks sing; "Ana come be with us".

Bring Lugh and Ana together at the center altar or a platform halfway between the earth-mother stone and Bilé. Tie them together loosely with finger knitted cord, dance around them singing; "Mother has come with her beautiful song, oh-ho-tallame-ho (x2)..And Lugh Himself is also here, oh-ho-tallame-ho (x2)."

After dance, a grownup holds the cauldron, everyone takes the water and sprinkles it the air over Lugh and Ana for fertility.

Tree meditation to bring the energy down and tuck the memory of it into the people. (Return blessing)

Cider and cookies- telling how the cider is the sweetness of the sun warmed apples and the cookies are the strength of sun-warmed grain from the earth.

Unwinding: as usual; brief thank-yous.

Recessional: Walk with Wisdom

Potluck

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