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Midsummer Ritual.

In a torrential downpour. (Yes, it lasted through the whole ritual. And within minutes of us ending, it was almost completely stopped.)

I learned something: my blue tie-dyed skirt is REALLY heavy when it's completely soaked.

Need I say more? (Maybe later, I'm gonna go eat something)


This oughta be an interesting write-up for my DP.

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It was cloudy yesterday with occasional moments of sun. And then Caryn decided to try making offerings and singing to the spirits of air to see if they might not be implored to hold off for a few hours. And more sun came out...and then it got cloudy again, and cloudier with occasional thunder...and about half an hour before we were to begin it started raining, you know those big, huge raindrops that only mean one thing...so we did the pre-ritual brief and decided that when we were to begin, we'd see how the weather was...and it was pouring. So we waited a bit (weather maps showed a very narrow, fast-moving strip of storms...figured it would be over quickly. About half an hour later, it stopped. So we started...and then it started again. Hard. And got harder. It didn't stop.

I'm happy to say, CedarLight Grove (quite enthusiastically) stuck through torrents of rain for our midsummer ritual. there were some umbrellas set up, but they dien't do much good, and some people carried umbrellas...which didn't do much good, it was raining that hard. I finally said "screw it" and ditched the umbrella I was holding (which also meant ditching my book with the ritual written down...I had someone put it in the pavillion so it wouldnt get wet as I stood there with nothing over me. But I didn't do badly without it.)

And I got thoroughly soaked. I found out how heavy the skirt that I was wearing (which is normally fairly light)gets when it's soaked. Within minutes, I felt liked I just took another shower...and was still standing under the faucet. So much water got in my eyes that they were burning and I couldn't see clearly.

But I managed not to mess anything up too badly (I forgot about the shining ones til Caryn reminded me), And about the lore of the season (til Caryn reminded me)

We ran a bit shorter than we normally would...about an hour. No one complained when people continued to step in to make offerings (most of them thought up on the spot in lieu of anyhitng that could be put into the fire). For the lore of the season, since it was a celebration of the birthday of the Grove, I asked Caryn to tell of the naming of Cedarlight, and a few people shared some memories and stories of the Grove, bookended by Will telling of how CedarLight Center came about. Half of anyhitng said couldn't be heard by half the people because of the loudness of the rain. The reading of the omen was a bit complicated, considering that they were runes drawn on cupcakes with icing but it was done. And the waters of life got a bit, eh, watered down. And as soon as we were finished, everyone ran inside to dry off/change clothing/whatever they could do

Word on the street is that I did a good job, and Caryn says that after getting through a high rite in that, nothing can be intimidating anymore. I slept at the Grove last night...I was ready to fall over shortly after the ritual ended. But I stayed awake til everyone left. And slept...rather soundly.

Word on the street also says that the Gods were VERY amused.