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- | "Unbalanced power is the ebbing away of life. Unbalanced mercy is weakness and letting evil go unchecked, therefore becoming an accomplice of evil. Unbalanced severity is cruelty and the bareness of mind." | + | < |
==== 2013 Foam Winter Solstice Ceremony ==== | ==== 2013 Foam Winter Solstice Ceremony ==== | ||
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The Code of Conduct shall also be strictly enforced. As the Ceremony is a liminal event taking place outside the everyday world of customary roles, mores, and social conventions, | The Code of Conduct shall also be strictly enforced. As the Ceremony is a liminal event taking place outside the everyday world of customary roles, mores, and social conventions, | ||
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+ | === The Miscellanies === | ||
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+ | * Yule Herbs -- ash, bay, chamomile, frankincense, | ||
+ | * Yule Incense -- bayberry, pine, cedar, rosemary, juniper | ||
+ | * Yule Colors -- red, green, white, silver, gold | ||
+ | * Yule Decorations -- yule log (oak or pine), mistletoe, wreaths, strings of dried flowers and cinnamon sticks, apples, oranges, yule tree, holly, lights, mistletoe, candles, pine branches | ||
+ | * Yule Foods -- nuts, apples, oranges, caraway rolls, mulled wine, roast turkey, pears, pork, Wassail, eggnog, bread, cookies | ||
+ | * Yule Sacred Gemstones -- cat's eye and ruby | ||
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+ | === The Appointed Recipes for the Feastings === | ||
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=== The Modes of Observance of the Proceedings: | === The Modes of Observance of the Proceedings: | ||
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+ | * The Feastings. (I do not know when these shall take place.) | ||
- Fumigation | - Fumigation | ||
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== Consuming and Embracing the Demons. Deliverance and Transmutation of the Bonds of the Demons. Embracing the Depths. Renunciation and Inner Purification == | == Consuming and Embracing the Demons. Deliverance and Transmutation of the Bonds of the Demons. Embracing the Depths. Renunciation and Inner Purification == | ||
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The Demons are but misconstrued facets in the cogworks of our minds. We begin to merge and writhe with them. By merging with them, we dissolve their bonds and transmute them. The ecstasy of sundering, the agony of reuniting. We honour the infinite, let ourselves fall and fall into the infinite depths. Butoh. Noh. | The Demons are but misconstrued facets in the cogworks of our minds. We begin to merge and writhe with them. By merging with them, we dissolve their bonds and transmute them. The ecstasy of sundering, the agony of reuniting. We honour the infinite, let ourselves fall and fall into the infinite depths. Butoh. Noh. | ||
- | == Renewal and Metempsychosis. Sudden Transmogrification. Wild Rumpus Starts == | + | == Renewal and Metempsychosis. Sudden Transmogrification. Wild Rumpus Starts. == |
The intensity of the previous Observance has conveyed Celebrants through a metempsychosis of renewal and transmogrification, | The intensity of the previous Observance has conveyed Celebrants through a metempsychosis of renewal and transmogrification, |