The ritual, part 2
Nov. 22nd, 2008 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azdesertroseWell, I got with Jen and we can use her backyard and she and Rip will help with the ritual, so it's on for tomorrow night.
Any and all healing thoughts/prayers/good juju of whatever sort are greatly appreciated especially around tomorrow evening US Eastern time.
I'll post in detail about the ritual itself after it's done.
The parchment to be burned, with which I wish to banish my father's influence from my life reads:
He raped my body and soul.
He stole my childhood.
He locked me in pain for twenty years.
I banish him from my soul.
I banish him from my body.
I reject the pain and terror he caused me.
I reject the grip he has held on my life.
I reclaim my body in the name of the Deity of Love.
I reclaim my soul in the name of the Deity of Strength.
I reclaim my name in the name of the Deity of Power.
William Linwood Parrish, you no longer have power over me.
I am a woman, the bearer of life, and I banish your destruction.
I am Nora Holland Parrish, and I am stronger than your evil.
I am stronger than your evil.
Selah. Amen.
I wrote it out on parchment paper that I was given at an SCA event; I used my second finest calligraphy point (the finest one is for copperplate and it's hard to manage). It's not beautiful or perfect. It's just my regular handwriting, as legible as I can make it working with a dip pen.
It's just going to be a fairly basic pagan ritual. We'll cast the circle, call the quarters, bless the working, then I'll read out the parchment and burn it with a purity candle, meditate, bid farewell to the quarters (most people say "dismiss the quarters" but I find that disrespectful), say a final blessing, and close the circle.
Ideally, I'd like to do it skyclad, but it's November and we're all Floridians and it's just too goddamn cold to be performing an outdoor ritual naked. Ideally I'd have more ritual accoutrements but we'll just work with what we've got.
Any and all healing thoughts/prayers/good juju of whatever sort are greatly appreciated especially around tomorrow evening US Eastern time.
I'll post in detail about the ritual itself after it's done.
The parchment to be burned, with which I wish to banish my father's influence from my life reads:
He raped my body and soul.
He stole my childhood.
He locked me in pain for twenty years.
I banish him from my soul.
I banish him from my body.
I reject the pain and terror he caused me.
I reject the grip he has held on my life.
I reclaim my body in the name of the Deity of Love.
I reclaim my soul in the name of the Deity of Strength.
I reclaim my name in the name of the Deity of Power.
William Linwood Parrish, you no longer have power over me.
I am a woman, the bearer of life, and I banish your destruction.
I am Nora Holland Parrish, and I am stronger than your evil.
I am stronger than your evil.
Selah. Amen.
I wrote it out on parchment paper that I was given at an SCA event; I used my second finest calligraphy point (the finest one is for copperplate and it's hard to manage). It's not beautiful or perfect. It's just my regular handwriting, as legible as I can make it working with a dip pen.
It's just going to be a fairly basic pagan ritual. We'll cast the circle, call the quarters, bless the working, then I'll read out the parchment and burn it with a purity candle, meditate, bid farewell to the quarters (most people say "dismiss the quarters" but I find that disrespectful), say a final blessing, and close the circle.
Ideally, I'd like to do it skyclad, but it's November and we're all Floridians and it's just too goddamn cold to be performing an outdoor ritual naked. Ideally I'd have more ritual accoutrements but we'll just work with what we've got.
