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I attended my Grove's Imbolc celebration this year at the Irish American Heritage Center
here in Chicago. We had a standard ADF style ritual dedicated of
course to Brighid. We found that among her many wonderful
attributes, she also has a great sense of humor! But I'll get to
that in a minute. We entered the area in front of the Altar which
was set with a picture of Brighid in her 3 aspects, among other
things. (note to self, bring camera next time!) The ritual
continued to go smoothly with people giving offerings to Brighid (I
actually offered mine when I got home), and we had the Omen, and
then we got to the consecration and sharing. That was when it
went a bit pear shaped. The pomegranate juice was poured,
consecrated and then our head Druid took a sip....and promptly ran
to the garbage can to spit it out! There was something
wrong with the juice! Others took a sip with much the same reaction.
So they took the glass with the juice to pour it out in the sink in
the bathroom and then the problem was discovered. It wasn't
pomegranate juice, it was blue dye! There had been a bottle mixup!
Needless to say we found a substitute and drank that instead
(Hawaiian Punch Green Berry Blast from the vending machine) The
cookies were delicious however. After that the ritual took on a much
lighter note as we couldn't stop laughing! After the ritual we went
to the pub to eat and drink (and to take the taste of dye out of
people's mouths! the dye BTW was happily a non toxic vegetable dye
but it still tasted nasty) At the pub after a single Guiness I
started to inadvertently call the Artisans Guild the Artesians
Guild! (I actually don't blame the Guiness for that, I'm just dippy)
Anyway much fun was had by all. When I got home I was inspired to
finish some things I had started but hadn't finished yet. So I got
my Home
Shrine set up, finished the silk painting that goes with it
and got all of this written down and ready to upload and I have an
idea for my next project! This in combination with the fact
that I didn't ask for last night off from work but I got it
anyway (I never get Sat night off unless I
ask for it) plus I got Sun and Mon off as well (practically unheard
of) makes me wonder if Brighid is trying to tell me something....I
was born almost on Imbolc too...hmmm food for
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