gate keeper

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Fortunate and timely for me that I could seek counsel from my son on spring break from his first year at Bard.

There is an uproar on the clergy council list, a few of the members  have expressed the need to remove the gatekeeper from the core order of ritual.

The  Gatekeeper followed by the spirits of inspiration take us to where we want to be.

They are recognized appreciated and respected as conductors of appreciation and respect.

The process is one of  ascending and uplifting the platform, the -altar- the attention, the spirit.

another step away from the common or normal perception of experience on our way to a different place.

away from home.

The Earth Mother is  Our Familiar Home.

I took it upon myself to fix the personas  of gate keeper and spirit of inspiration  to those that were called upon here , my new-old home with my yet to be born son in the belly of my wife , not knowing it would be the last ritual we would share as members of  Green Man Grove.

This was breaking with a tradition of promoting group experimentation with under represented god forms and cosmology that would or could change from ritual to ritual. such rotational devotion strategies tend to create spin off fragmentary groupings people with a greater or lesser degree of acceptance and belonging in what the group is doing, or scheduled to be doing at any given time.

          

         The outsiders are offered to outside of the ritual area without insult or provocation between the gate keeper and the spirits of inspiration in ritual transition in the holiday rituals of Our Whole Grove.

I explained to my son how difficult it was for me to know what people think of an aspect of ritual when I am involved in the process...... What did he think about the gate keeper? 

He said it was important for new people to be able to have an introduction to the relationship of the portals spatially to one another, to get an idea of what they are, and how they are used by the group.

He likes the clear cut, " Let the gates be open"-"Let the gates be closed" as a definitive sacred time changer , easy and simple concepts to grasp , the gatekeeper the guide for the ritual journey combined entrance and exit. making it clear to the assembled beginning and ending.

That is what I recall , in my own words of the thoughts of  a long time ritual participant on this full worm moon - on this vernal equinox.