Ritual Style

The Diana's Grove style of ritual may be different from rituals you have experienced in the past. In the Grove style, participants are encouraged to participate. Circle castings, elemental invocations, and other pieces of the ritual may invite you in.

Air is not summoned with a liturgy, but invoked by each of us. Can you feel the wind blowing? What does it sound like? What are the gifts of Air? Does Air have a color for you? How does Air move? Can you make the motion of Air, or make the sounds of Air? Can you speak the gifts of Air into the circle that they may be present with us for our work tonight?

For the Imbolc Ritual, those who attend the workshops earlier in the day will have the opportunity to join an Elemental invocation team and help plan the invocation for each of the five elements: Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and Center. Learn More about the day of workshops >>

When we participate in the ritual, we add our energy. Diana's Grove uses an ecstatic ritual tradition, which means that we work throughout the entire ritual to build up energy. Energy is raised by including everyone, and by everyone participating. For each ritual, we become a community, a tribe, and we each put our energy forth for the work of the evening, to support the intention and everyone in the community.

The ritual begins with grounding, casting the circle, elemental invocations, and deity invocations. The middle of the ritual is whatever work we are doing. There might be some storytelling, some trance/guided meditation, and an opportunity to embody the work. For this ritual, we will be providing participants with an opportunity to reach for the flame inside of them; to identify their passions, the dream that they reach for. Participants will be able to physicalize this reaching, take an action, speak their truth. The ritual will conclude with ecstatic energy raising; our talented energy drummers will drum, we will sing a chant, we can move our bodies, and add our physical presence, our energy, to support our own work and the work of the community.

If you have any questions about this ritual tradition, or have never been to a ritual with an earth-based spirituality group, please feel free to contact us. There really are no stupid questions!