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Sep. 18th, 2004 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masque12I just received an announcement in email about ritual submissions for the local Pagan Pride Day festival. One of the requirements is:
"It must be generalized enough not to offend the majority in our community with diverse paths, yet filled with wonderful energy and passion for this sacred harvest time and coming together as a community."
I understand why they have this requirement, but to me it is a perfect example of why open, public rituals don't accomplish much. To me, if one is going to enact a ritual, it should have a definite purpose, a magical goal to be accomplished. I don't go in much for "celebratory" ritual, I want something to change as the result of the working. Going by the description above, it seems that all that they can do is hang out and groove on how much they love nature or something. That's fine, but why bother with a ritual in that case? Just seems to be a waste of effort.
"It must be generalized enough not to offend the majority in our community with diverse paths, yet filled with wonderful energy and passion for this sacred harvest time and coming together as a community."
I understand why they have this requirement, but to me it is a perfect example of why open, public rituals don't accomplish much. To me, if one is going to enact a ritual, it should have a definite purpose, a magical goal to be accomplished. I don't go in much for "celebratory" ritual, I want something to change as the result of the working. Going by the description above, it seems that all that they can do is hang out and groove on how much they love nature or something. That's fine, but why bother with a ritual in that case? Just seems to be a waste of effort.
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Date: 2004-09-28 11:43 am (UTC)As for celebratory rituals, I've done them in the past, and didn't get much out of them. I definitely felt the effects of the ritual, etc., it was a successful working, I just didn't see much point in it. The majority of my work is geared towards my pursuit of my own goals, celebratory stuff (particularly badly-arranged, ad-hoc, least common denominator rituals as described in my original post) just seems to be a waste of time to me at this point in time. YMMV.