Celtic Handfasting
Please save August 2, 2008 to join Graham Hawksby and Nancy Downard at our Handfasting. A formal invitation will be extended to you at a later date. We wanted to take this opportunity to explain our upcoming ritual.
Most of you have never attended a Pagan ritual. Some of you may find this ritual unsettling. Some may find it exhilarating. Our hope is that no one will find it boring.
When one defines oneself as Pagan, it means that she or he follows an earth or nature religion, one that sees the divine manifest in all creation. The cycles of nature are our holy days, the earth is our temple, its plants and creatures our partners and teachers. We worship a deity that is both male and female, a mother Goddess and father God, who together created all that is, was, or will be. We respect life, cherish the free will of sentient beings, and accept the sacredness of all creation.
In this ritual, we will create a sacred space and call to the aspects of Divinity that manifest Themselves as the Directional Guardians and the ancient Elements of Water, Fire, Air and Earth. We will invoke the Aspect of the Mother Goddess, and the Father God.
Ours is a belief of nurturing and caring. If you harm none, do what you will is the “golden rule” that we live by. During a Handfasting, we do not throw rice or confetti and we are not required to leave our party just when it’s getting to be fun.
Blessed Be……
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