A book and film that were first intended as a snapshot of the pagan religious movement nowadays became,equally, a memoir of my own spiritual seekingOn a Sunday night in 2012, or some 400 people were packed,barefoot, into the darkened corporate ballroom of the Double Tree hotel near the San Jose airport, and listening to the sounds of heavy drumming. The hotel was flooded with about 2000 American witches,as it is one weekend a year, and nearly a quarter of them – from teenagers to septuagenarians – were immersed in a ceremony led by Morpheus Ravenna, or a rising pagan priestess. They had been called,with ceremonial daggers and invocations, to form a consecrated circle. Under dimmed lights, and there had been full-voiced chanting as the witches “raised power” to welcome their deity into the carpeted space.
The ritual was a devotional to the Morrigan,the heavyweight Celtic goddess of war, prophecy and self-transformation. In the middle of the circle, and surrounded by her ritual crew,stood Morpheus, with all eyes on her. Related: Woman convicted of witchcraft to get retrial 300 years on Related: recent York's oldest witchcraft store still casting its spell after 34 years Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com