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The MoonFire Workings BLOG
The MoonFire Workings BLOG – Devotion, Manifestation and Promulgation
The MoonFire Workings BLOG
Long before we opened our famous witchcraft Supplies store, Artes and Craft, and long before this witchcraft store online was created Pat and I (crazy as it sounds) over the course of a year, wrote and performed TWELVE monthly witchcraft public rituals and performed them... This is the story of THE MOONFIRE WORKINGS... Many of you will have seen versions of this at our popular pagan supplies store in Hartford Michigan.
“They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men.” Aleister Crowley – The Book Of The Law… AL 1:15
During 2013, my magnificent partner in crime, love and magick and I wrote and performed a series of twelve public rituals in a de-sanctified little gothic country church in the middle of nowhere near Kalamazoo, Michigan. This was long beforer we opened our wicca store and pagan store online! Each ritual was loosely based on the prevailing zodiac sign and/or ruling god or planet. We also performed some of them at other gatherings in the southwest Michigan area. Some were presented at Aum. Ha. OTO Lodge in Chicago.
The story of the MoonFire workings begins long ago during the heyday of the east coast Wiccan movement. My lovely partner, Pat, started an originally eclectic coven that was first adopted by trainers from Athanor, a Celtic Shamanic Order and then began initiations through an Alexandrian HPS, from the “Du Bandia Grasail” (DBG) tradition, whose initiations came directly from Alex Sanders and is the first documented Alexandrian Coven in the USA. Ironically, both lines of trainers traced their origins back to this same origin.Pat later also joined “The Order of Ganymede ” (OG)an Alexandrian Chhonioi organization also originating from the same lineage.The order is very Hellenistic in nature harboring a deep appreciation of Ceremonial Magick with the Cabalistic teachings of Dion Fortune having a large influence. Pat has always had a deep regard for Crowley and Thelema, and as we well know, ceremonial Magick and Thelema is a major component of the foundation of Gardner’s system of Wicca.
When I met Pat I started spending substantial time in southwest Michigan where she lived and is now our home. She would take me to the various local gatherings led by a local pagan church leader. These were much simpler and rustic than the quality of ritual found on the east coast, and of course in ritual groups like the OTO. The knowledge and experience of the pagan locals was also surprisingly low. Therefore, Pat and I decided to write and perform a ritual for their Yule gathering that would combine elements of both Thelemic Ceremonial Magick and Traditional Wicca, to show the MI pagans what dramatic ritual could be when “rightly performed with joy and beauty”.We wrote a Yule 2012 ritual celebrating the sun moving into Capricorn, using a goodly quantity of Pan imagery and texts. The ritual included the Star Ruby, traditional Wiccan circle opening, the Hymn to Pan, reading of Liber A’ash and more.
The yule ritual had quite the effect!! After the ritual, the pagan church leader accused me of being a “Sex cult specialist and Demonologist” and that I had “filled his daughters head with hate”! Not bad for a Star Ruby performance if I do say so myself!
Pat and I left THAT pagan church shortly thereafter, one must never suffer fools gladly…… But the ritual was very well received by many who attended and some asked for more… and so we started to plot other deeds…. Funny, the idiot who led that pagan church ran it into the ground, gave up pagaism and is now a born again christian! One of the few to convert back!
We thought it would be very cool to restart Pat’s old coven and combine Wicca and Thelema. We had attended the Occult Conference in Glastonbury (UK) a few months before where members of the British OTO, Wiccans, Druids and Chaotes agreed that fluffy solitary practitioners were dumbing down the Western Esoteric Tradition and the various mystery paths should recognize and celebrate their common foundation and heritage, and work together instead of bickering at each other. This resonated strongly with us, Pat being a Wiccan with a strong appreciation of Thelema, and me being a Thelemite and practitioner of Traditional Witchcraft, who had also practiced Wicca before getting into Ceremonial Magick and joining the OTO.
As we were starting to discuss and plan, a friend of Pat’s who runs another earth based pagan church (in the gothic church in the middle of nowhere) asked us for ideas on how to get more people to attend her church… So we decided to write a series of twelve zodiac rituals, using our Yule/Capricorn ritual as a model and start performing them publicly at her church as a draw to get people to her pagan supplies store.
The first ritual, the rite of Aquarius, was written and performed in January 2013. It was followed by a Pisces Moon ritual that included a full blown Wiccan drawing down of the moon and five-fold kiss plus a Lesser Banishing Ritual Of The Pentagram. A Mars/Aries ritual that included an Invoking ritual of the hexagram for Mars and then used war like verses from Liber AL Cap III followed. Then we created a Venus ritual that included grimoire Magick from “The Consecrated book of Black Venus,” a mercury ritual that included Liber Israfel, and so on and more through the whole year. Writing, planning and performing an 18 to 20 page hour long ritual a month was exhausting, but also is a very magical and fulfilling rite of manifestation and will. The Rites of Eleusis, Holy Books, Orphic Hymns, Liber 963, Reguli, Star Ruby and more were all plundered and proudly put on display for those who have never witnessed the like or heard the Law.
Attendance started modestly with about 8 people, and rose to a high of some 35. We invited some of the regulars to be side officers, some of these asked for more training and exposure. This led to us inviting the most promising 6 or so to form the beginnings of the reborn MoonFire coven.
MoonFire continues its work. We now host a well-attended monthly full moon rituals and 3 or 4 times a year we reprise some of the original zodiac rituals here at our pagan and wicca supplies store. We also performed abridged versions for Aum. Ha. OTO Occult Lodge.
As local knowledge of the occult arts, traditional witchcraft, wicca, correspondences, Tarot, et al, was so low the original rituals were written to include a great deal of explanation as to why certain tools, candles, or weapons were in use. They were also designed to subtly expose people to Thelema, paganism, traditional witchcraft and Alexandrian Wicca.
The MoonFire coven is very active in SW Michigan and has been invited to gatherings such as Grand Rapids Pagan Pride and others to perform our rituals. The coven is growing and also its outer circle.
We have a found a way to showcase what good ritual group magick can be, continue a storied Alexandrian lineage, educate the ignorant, do the great work our way, and made good on a magickal oath taken long ago.
Every MoonFire ritual is closed with a standard exultation comprised of selected verses from Liber Al, be it our public monthly esbats, or our private rituals or anything we do, and so I close this essay with the same.
“Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. This is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. The word of sin is Restriction. There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will. Every man and every woman is a star. And Thou hast no right but to do what thou wilt.”
This IS a place of MoonFire.
The work goes on and the MoonFIre Coven continue to perform seasonal rituals at our witchcraft and pagan supplies store! ALL ARE WELCOME!
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