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Temple of the Goddess
Autumn Equinox Ritual & Celebration
September 22, 2012
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"The seasons and all their changes are in me."
--Henry David Thoreau.
The Wheel of the Year spins and we come together to honor the turning of the seasons and the Earth's never-ending cycles of life. As we, once again, begin our descent into the season of winter and prepare ourselves for the coming dark, we give thanks for the bounty of the Earth's harvest. And in this year of change we seek guidance and wisdom . . . not just the inevitability of change but how we approach, embrace, and integrate change into our lives.
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September 22, 2012
Temple of the Goddess
Equinox Celebration & Ritual
Autumn Equinox. Fall is the time of Thanksgiving, a time of gifts and blessings worldwide. Day and night are equal and the balance of giving and taking, of light and dark, summer and winter, life and death are the focus of this Sabbat. Though the year is waning and winter approaches, the emphasis is less on death than on the message of rebirth in the harvest seeds and the plenty of the season.
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Newcomer's Meeting
5:45
Before the Ritual
If this is your first Temple of the Goddess Ritual or you just have questions, meet with Kamala in the lobby before the ritual. Bring your questions, fears, hopes, and desires. Newcomer's Meeting in Lobby at 5:45pm, before the ritual.
Autumn Equinox Ritual & Celebration
Saturday
September 22, 2012
6:30 PM
Doors Open 6:00
Neighborhood Unitarian Church, Pasadena
NOTE: Families with children, please come early for a seat down front so your children don't miss anything!
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Ganesha
Hinduism's
Remover of Obstacles and
Lord of New Beginnings
Our evening of ritual theatre opens with music and dance, a soulful call, beckoning us onward in a sacred journey, a search for the path ahead . . . the worlds within and the worlds without . . . yet mournfully resigned to the obstacles which must be faced.
Our myth on this Equinox will be given by a storyteller, as in days of old. In her reading, she will tell the story of Aapti, a woman, a heroine of her own story, living a good life but faced with overwhelming obstacles . . . Mountains ALL, which she must face, embrace, integrate and when needed . . .obliterate.
In vivid story, we see Aapti descend into the Valley of Limen, the place betwixt and between . . .
Liminality.
A place of upheaval
Where Order convulses,
And Tranquility is ripped away.
Unsought.
A space of absolute Disintegration
The Dark Unknown.
Aapti's journey towards Fulfillment takes her to the very edge of the unknown. There she cries out, "A Wounded Prayer," and calls on unseen and unknown, Holy Numinosity. Ganesha, Remover of Obstacles and Lord of New Beginnings comes to her aid in a dance of Com-Passion, and Wisdom . . . a dance that quenches her soul's thirst and fills her with Courage to face the obstacles that are a natural part of life's evolution.
Temple of the Goddess, and The Mythic Players, invite you to join us for an evening of art and ritual theatre in celebration of the Autumn Equinox.
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 Celebrating the Seasons: Autumn Equinox
Saturday, September 22, 2012, 6:30 PM, Doors Open at 6:00
PLEASE NOTE: NEW START TIME
Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church
301 N. Orange Grove Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91103
Website: www.TempleoftheGoddess.org
Temple of the Goddess offers seasonal celebrations for families and community at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena. Multi-media ritual theater combining, music, myth, visual art, dance, liturgy, spoken word, and participatory theatre which fuses drum and dance with personal enactment to re-connect us to the seasons and the Earth. Click here to download Flyer.
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All Things Change
I'm on the verge of something,
something bigger than I know.
Something born of nothing,
infinite and whole.
At the place where all things change
And no one is going to ever stay the same.
Welcome to the doorway.
What is on the other side?
It's not for me or you to say.
Because the blind keep leading the blind
unto the end.
Now here's where all things change.
And no one is going to ever stay the same.
We're on the verge of something
greater than we know
something that will rise above
the ashes of the old
And no one will ever stay the same.
All things change.
(Kan`Nal)
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