Ritual Writer

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Ritual: Soup to Heal the World

All over the world, relationships are nourished with food.I created a ritual to provide virtual nourishment. My inspiration? Spiritual activist Caroline Casey who says, “Imagination lays the tracks for the reality train to follow.”    All aboard!   Parliament of the World’s Religions   Do you want to help the world? Look for hope. I […]

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A wooden spoon with an owl design rests on the edge of a pot of soup. The spoon is part of a spiritual ritual.

Spirit Spoons: Your Magic Wands 

Follow the Sun Did you use a spoon to stir your coffee or tea this morning? Did you feel a sense of power?    From at least the 1700s, ancient cultures in Europe, and I suspect elsewhere, too, considered clockwise movement to be the movement of the sun. Since the sun was seen as the […]

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Bowls of Abundance: A Spiritual Ritual for a Moon Circle

For many years, I led a women’s moon circle in my home. Our purpose was to:  Celebrate the seasons the way our ancestors did Align our spirits with the cycles of nature  Honor the Divine Feminine    We met once a month on or near the full moon. There were four of us. We came […]

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Rites of Passage: Funerals

Whatever your spiritual beliefs, death creates a threshold between the world of the living and the world of the dead. When we think of a funeral as a rite of passage, we’re referring not to the deceased but to those left behind. For the survivors, life is irrevocably changed by the death of someone significant, […]

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Guidelines for Writing Your Own Wedding Vows

A wedding vow, whether traditional or personal, is the most universal way for a couple to satisfy their declaration of intent, one of the two legal requirements for marriage ceremonies in the United States. Reciting personal vows gives couples the opportunity to express __________, knowing moments later the second of the two legal requirements will […]

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