ADF Dedicant Path Documentation – Dedicant Oath Ritual – Performed at Chrysalis Moon 2014

Pre-Ritual Briefing Opening Celebrants line up to process to ritual area. “You have not arrived here by chance.  You put yourself on this path long ago and tonight we will walk some of it together.  Welcome to this dedication rite.” Process. Purification Asperge celebrants with water as they enter the ritual space. Offering to the...

ADF Dedicant Path Documentation – Dedicant Oath Rite Review

I performed my Dedicant Oath Rite at Chrysalis Moon on July 12, 2014.  When I first started thinking about when and where I wanted to perform the ceremony, I knew that I did not want to do it alone.  I felt it was something that I should do with people that were important to me...

ADF Dedicant Path Documentation – Personal/Grove Centered Spiritual Practice

When I started on the pagan path in college many moons ago, I began with the Greek pantheon.  I had taken Ancient Greek as my classic or foreign language and had learned about the pantheon through mythology courses in college and high school.  As a beginner, I used what was familiar and easy.  As I...

ADF Dedicant Path Documentation – The Three Kindred

The Ancestors The Ancestors are the people who came before.  They are our parents, grandparents, great grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters.  They are also those that we are not related to by blood, but cared about or admired nonetheless.  They are not just people from our past who have died. They built the...

ADF Dedicant Path Documentation – Working with Nature

I have always been a bookworm.  During my childhood I would most often be found curled up on the sofa or in my bedroom with my nose in a book but I also remember the feeling the pull of trees and the woods on a sunny day.  I  felt at home with feel of the...

ADF Dedicant Path Documentation – Mental Discipline

I decided to take the metal discipline requirement as an opportunity to do something I hadn’t done before.  I have meditated and done various types of trance work in the past and wanted to do something different.  Over the last several years I had thought about trying yoga but, for one reason or another, never...

ADF Dedicant Path Documentation – Two Powers

The Two Powers are deceptively simple.  They interweave throughout the hallows of the sacred center and the elements.  They link with everything and just as you think you have a handle on them, a new association appears.  This was one of the more complicated essays to write. My experience with the Two Powers started simply...

ADF Dedicant Documentation – Book Review – Home Shrine

My home shrine has already gone through a few variations in the last year, but here is the most recent set up. This is the space where I do meditation, devotions, yoga, and solitary ritual.  I created a grove in the front of my apartment by taking terra cotta pots, filling them with floral foam...

ADF Dedicant Documentation – Book Review – Drawing Down the Moon

I have started to read this book many times and this requirement gave me the push I needed to actually finish it.  Drawing Down the Moon is one of those books that a lot of people say they have read, but I don’t know that many actually made it all the way through.  Even though...

ADF Dedicant Documentation – Book Review – A Brief History of the Druids

I chose A Brief History of the Druids by Peter Berresford Ellis as my title for Ethnic Studies book review because there is very little known about the Druids and I was interested in seeing Ellis’ take on the information that is available.  Ellis’ thoughts on the information, or lack there of, is summed up...