(Rituals) are for any moment that we understand as significant -- getting a divorce, starting a new career, adopting a child. When we don't intentionally mark these things as important, then we move through life without a deeper consciousness.
High priestess Ruth Barrett is featured in Madison's
Capital Times -- front page photo and article,
Witchy Woman Dispels Wiccan Myths.
Barrett contends that you don't have to be a witch to benefit from
Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Creating Ritual in the Dianic Wiccan Tradition (Author House, $21.75 in paperback), her new and self-published book.
"This book was written for anybody who wants to create their own rituals for their own life," Barrett says. "It is written for women because that's what I know, and our rites of passage tend to be invisible" -- the basis for shame or concealment instead of celebration.
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Moment-driven versus prescheduled ... you've hit on an area that needs balancing in our craft, I think.
Ruth strikes that balance in her work and in her teachings. The seasonal observations/celebrations/rituals are important, and equally important are the acute noticings of our own cycles and passages.
Living in the moment, celebrating the present, being conscious, acting as if our lives matter and our experiences are significant. This is the huge gift and challenge of an embodied spirituality.