I love ritual.  i love writing ritual, performing it, watching others’ rituals – i think part of what attracts me to wicca in general, but also eclecticism in particular is the atmosphere of freedom in ritual form and practice.  With no set playbook, i can jump from a sweat lodge to a lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram and not have to worry about conflict or spiritual dissonance.  (within reason, of course.  not all spiritual practices ‘gel’ well together, and one of the challenges of eclecticism is to skillfully integrate those that do, while steering clear of those that do not.)  So I’d like  to know what your favorite part of ritual is, or if you have a favorite ritual practice.

there are two things that float my ritual boat. first, i love quarter calling. don’t know why. i prefer to call west, but i’ll gladly take over another direction if needed. in my groups we don’t have set ritual calls, we let whomever is doing the calling decide how they want to do it. i’ve always enjoyed listening to the different calls that people from different traditions come up with.

and second (and this is relatively new in our circles) i love raising group kundalini. i and another circlemember **cough Dru Ann cough** will act as ‘cheerleaders’ as we lead everyone through raising energy and chanting to focus on opening up the chakras. one of the neat things about it is that it isn’t common in public circles, so most people haven’t been exposed to the practice.

so anything in particular that gets your ritual juices flowing, or even anything that just works really well?

-justin