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- FULL MOON RITUAL - 28 OCT 85
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-
- (Purpose: Prevent passage of Amendment 705 to HR 3036.)
-
- PREPARATORY MEDITATION:
-
- (Relax, regularize your breathing, and center. Visualize the following
- scenes, as if they were on television before you:
-
- First, build up a detailed picture of Lady Liberty, as she is
- portrayed at her shrine on Ellis Island. The statue inhales once,
- then becomes the living Goddess of Liberty. The light of her torch
- outshines the sun, and can be seen from horizon to horizon. The light
- is the light of Her wisdom and power, protecting the liberty of all on
- this continent.
-
- Change the scene. A group of ugly, gnomish men crouch in a carefully
- darkened room. They piously lower their heads to pray, but from their
- gathering-place billows a dark cloud, blotting out the light. The
- proud, happy smile on Liberty's face wavers - then is replaced by fear
- as the cloud billows rapidly outwards from the Capitol.
-
- Summon to a nearby place the God of America - who probably looks a lot
- like Uncle Sam, but in no way clownish. As he strides forward to see
- the cloud, his face is angry. Feel that anger, and revel in it. See
- and feel the fear of Liberty, as the cloud battles her light.
-
- From out of the sun, an eagle dives towards the Capitol building.
- Look down on the city by the Potomac from the eagle's point of view,
- and search the center of the dark clouds until a piece of paper
- glimmers. The offending item has been found, and it is labelled
- "House Resolution 3036, Amendment 705." The gnomes are crowded around
- it, trying to protect it from the only force that can stop them - the
- combined anger of the Gods and the American people. In addition to
- Liberty's fear and America's anger, feel the fierce, stern pride of
- America's Eagle, as the battle is joined.)
-
- PROCESSIONAL:
-
- All holding hands, process into and three times around the circle area
- chanting "I Circle Around":
-
- "I circle around, I circle around The bound'ries of the Earth ...
- Wearing my long wing feathers as I fly, Wearing my long wing
- feathers as I fly ..." (repeat)
-
- SUMMONING THE GUARDIANS OF THE FOUR CORNERS:
-
- Priest signals for quiet, advances to the center, lights the four
- remaining candles. After a brief pause for meditation, cries out:
-
- "Hail, mighty Spirits of the Dead! We call on you though the season
- is not yet ripe, for our need is great. Send forth to be with us the
- spirits of four mighty heros of Freedom, to defend the country that
- they once gave their all for. We summon forth the spirits of George
- Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln.
- Even so, now come!"
-
- Priest looks to the north, and asks, "Who here speaks for Franklin?"
-
- "Benjamin Franklin" takes a candle from the altar, advances to the north
- edge of the circle, and places it. Then facing inward, with a stern face,
- says:
-
- "We must all hang together, or we shall all surely hang separately."
-
- Priest calls to the east, "Who here speaks for Washington?"
-
- "George Washington" takes a candle from the altar and places it to the
- east, as above, then says:
-
- "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on
- the Christian Religion."
-
- Priest calls to the south, "Who here speaks for Jefferson?"
-
- "Thomas Jefferson" places the south candle as above, then says:
-
- "The churches fear me, and with good reason, for I have sworn eternal
- emnity against all forms of tyranny over the minds of men."
-
- Priest calls to the east, "Who here speaks for Lincoln?"
-
- "Abraham Lincoln" places the final candle, then says:
-
- "We are now engaged in a great civil war, to determine whether that
- nation, or any nation so constituted, may long endure."
-
- STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
-
- The Priest continues:
-
- "Behold, my dear brothers and sisters, this latest attack on your
- freedom:
-
- "They would take away the Goddess and substitute their own pale,
- sickly ways! They will take away our money, but leave those of their
- dead, skeletal churches! No longer will we be able to build as we
- will, marry as we will - perhaps even worship as we will! What say
- you all?"
-
- RAISING OF POWER:
-
- One by one widdershins, each person in the circle shouts "NO!" and an
- extension, as in ...
-
- "NO! It shall not pass!" "NO! We will not permit this!" "NO! The
- Constitution forbids it!" "NO! This is not the Law!" "NO! We will
- never surrender!" "NO! This is not right!" (etc).
-
- When the call returns to the Priest, he continues immediately
- chanting "NO! NO! NO! ..." and leads the circle in a spiral inwards,
- widdershins. Each person has his or her right hand on the person in
- front's shoulder, and clutches the prepared "Ballot" in the right hand.
- When the Priest reaches the Ballot Box, he drops in his ballot, then
- begins the march in a spiral outward, deosil. Once all have dropped in
- their ballots, the spiral returns inwards widdershins, still chanting
- "NO!", until it can wind no tighter and seizes up.
-
- TRIGGERING OF THE SPELL:
-
- This will be the signal for a five-second pause, then on the Priest's
- signal, all scream "NO!", releasing the energy that they have raised into
- the ballots, to re-emerge in Washington D.C. amidst the Conference
- Committee.
-
- FOLLOW-THROUGH
-
- Priest announces:
-
- "The votes have been cast.
- The ammendment has failed.
- So mote it be!"
-
- All echo:
-
- "SO MOTE IT BE!"
-
- GROUNDING:
-
- Brief pause as everyone re-centers and relaxes, then one or more people in
- the crowd yells, "Hey! We won!" and all yell, "Group Hug!!!" After a
- long, satisfying group hug, all disperse to celebrate.
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