Connect DC Yule 2006 – Sunday, December 17, 2006
Time: Gather 11:30 am, Ritual: 12:00 noon
Location: Dupont Circle

Roots beneath the Snow: The Soul of the Tree

Intention: Just as the fields beneath the snow are fallow but not barren, the winter season is a time of rest and reflection. Join Connect DC in a Yule celebration of the inner joys of the soul.

Purification NANCY

Ground ELIZABETH

Cast PATRICIA

Call Elements ANGELA

Invoke Deity

St. Nicholas ROSE

Marzanna RYNI

Meditation ROSE (Introspective meditation)

Intention
To remember, mourn and acknowledge our beloved dead, and to celebrate, welcome and bless our cherished newborns.
Outline
Site Prep - All
Purification as people arrive -
Collect Name on cards -
Welcome, Greeting & Read Intention – Katrina
Teach Chants: “Weaver, Weaver”, print out copies for people? – Katrina
Grounding -
Cast Circle - ?
Call Quarters -
Invoke
Persephone -
Hades – Katrina
Heart
Read Intention -
Read names of dead:
index cards -
list of children - Ryni
litany for victims of war & unknown– Katrina

Connect DC Fall Equinox 2006 - The Secrets Of The Trees
Sunday, September 24, 2006 - Gather 11:30 am, Ritual 12:00 n
Location: 6th & I Street SW

Intention: The Secrets Of The Trees
Rooted to the soil, trees can transport seeds hundreds of miles away, borne by animal carriers, wind and water, adapting a growth compatible to sets of completely different circumstances. How are we altered by where we live, work and play? And how do we assess whether we are thriving or merely surviving in our current environment?

Greet Participants Rose, Renee, Angela, Eri, Patricia and Jennifer

Connect DC 2006 - The Seasons of the Trees - Summer Solstice
Sunday, June 18, 2006 - Gather 11:30, Ritual 12 noon
Location: Raoul Wallenberg Plaza- Washington, DC
Across from the Holocaust Museum
Intention: Illumination, Reason &Light
Amidst chaos and madness, let us remember that like the branches of the oak trees, we can grow toward the rays of the Sun, into reason and light .
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Greet Participants Rose, Renee, Angela, Jennifer, Eri, and Patricia
Welcome
History Rose
Teach Chant Angela
We all come from the Sun God
And to him we shall return
Like a flash of flame