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116 Creating Circles & Ceremonies changed. 3,000 pilgrims have gone forth as prophets, and new tales will be told, new songs sung, new visions painted, danced, and played. We are coming to a new beginning, and we have been sanctified together. Great beginnings require great endings of what has been before, and the Wheel is turning. This eclipse signaled to many of us the closing of the Age of Pisces (in which sign it occurred), but there must yet be an interval of purification and healing of the Earth before the book opens again on the Age of Aquarius. When Shadow mates with Sun. Be there. You know where. Addendum: Twenty years later, on August 11, 1999, I led a similar ritual for the total eclipse of the sun in the ancient stone circle of Boskawen-un in Cornwall, England. Thus was this 20year ritual cycle completed. Of the 3,000 people who had stood together in Stonehenge II in 1979, only one other woman also showed up at the concluding rite in 1999. We suffused the lunar shadow with these intentions to carry across the face of the Earth: 1. We are all one—all children of the same Mother (Gaia), flesh of her flesh and blood of her blood; 2. We want an end to human conflict (especially religious wars!); 3. We want healing and restoration of the Earth; 4. We want a return to the reverence of nature, the seasonal cycles, and the ancient ways, including the preservation and restoration of sacred sites, temples, stone circles, and groves; 5. We want an awakening of the planetary consciousness of Gaia; 6. We desire the ushering in of a new millennium—the Aquarian Age, with all that signifies. The next total solar eclipses to pass across the United States will be on August 21, 2017, and April 8, 2024. Don’t miss them! (For dates and maps of solar eclipses through history, see the NASA Eclipse home page: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html.) T he Stonehenge Eclipse Ceremony (Unless otherwise indicated, all poetry and songs were written by the people who performed them in this ceremony.) Procession from the east, Otter carrying stang with medicine skull (eclipse painted on in black on red), Selene carrying Venus of Willendorf replica, Cyndie carrying chalice, Danaan carrying broadsword, leading a line of Pagans into the henge. All sing: We come, we come, with the rising of the sun, To the East of East where morning lies. And we bring the sun with us On the wings of the wind, Oh rise, my spirit, rise. (—Frodo Okulam) The Elements are invoked. A reading from the Egyptian Book of Apep is recited. Lila invokes the Moon Goddess: O moon, O lovely one of a thousand names, As you approach the moment of meeting We watch, and wait, and honor you. As you approach your moment of fullness, May we realize, male and female, The power of you, And the power of the feminine within us. May your blessing be upon all of us. Selene Kumin appears as Moon Goddess in long grey velvet cape, dances while all sing: She is bountiful, She is beautiful, She loves her children, Her daughters and sons. She won’t forget us, She speaks within us, Open your heart, let her come. (—Susan Arrow) Tom Williams invokes the Sun God: We’ve come to the edge of morning, Cold and lonely, and we wait. We call the Sun – Oh light of night! We call the Sun God, bright. Your face is piercing brightness And your heart the soul of flame. We call you Ra and Bellenos,
Book II: Rites & Rituals 117 You go beyond the name. Oh hark to your children calling! Rise up shining, banish night! Now hear the solar lion’s roar And see – now comes his light. Danaan appears as Sun God in black robe with embroidered sun on back. Moon Goddess covers Sun God with robe. Sun God takes off black sun robe and emerges in shiny golden robe. All sing: May the longtime sun shine upon you All love surround you And the pure love within you Guide your way on. (—Incredible String Band) Morning Glory leads her Prayer for Healing of the Earth: From the flesh of this planet we grew, She is our Mother; Let Her be Healed. People and Trees Dolphins and Bees We are the children of Earth Let the Earth be Healed. We are the cause and we are the effect For good or for ill Our prayers create Reality…so: Let the soil be unpoisoned, Let the winds blow fresh, Let the waters flow clear, Let the fires burn clean, Let the Earth be Healed! However it must happen… …Let it Be. Isaac sings David Geller’s “Now Do We with Songs and Rejoicing”; Morning Glory recites Oothoon’s “Evocation of the Goddess.” Other songs are sung: “Will Ye Not Come Back Again?” “Turn to the Sun,” and “Here Comes the Sun.” To focus the eclipse energy on endangered species, the following poems were chanted (written by Isaac; Anodea and Morning Glory changed theirs slightly). Otter chants: Children of the sea Whale and dolphin free Friendly manatee White fur seal baby All repeat several times. Morning Glory chants: Children of the land Oak and redwood grand Wolf & tiger proud Raise your voices loud All repeat several times. Anodea chants: Children of the sky May you forever fly Eagle, crane & condor May your spirits always wander All repeat several times. Isaac chants: Children of the sea May you live strong and free Children of the land We join you in your stand. Children of the sky Listen to our cry: All chant several times: Sea and Land and Sky We will not let you die! Sky and Land and Sea You shall all be free! All chant: Rain, Rain, go away, Come again some other day! Clouds, Clouds, go away, Come again some other day! Morning Glory leads her Eclipse Litany: Magickal Mirror of Darkness, Golden Creator of Light, Your embrace for a moment surrounds us; We share in your perfect delight, delight; We share in your perfect delight. Magickal Mirror of Darkness, Golden Creator of Light, Your embrace for a moment surrounds us; In shadow we search of insight, insight; In shadow we search for insight. All chant Otter’s words: The Prophecies will come When Shadow mates with Sun. Circle is dissolved and everyone finds a place to view the spectacle.
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