Business Meeting Minutes for Muin Mound Grove, ADF - 11/19/04

Held at Dennis and Chris's house - after Liturgist round trable.

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Here are the parts that we decided on for the Yule ritual:

Skip will be working with the children.

Jenn will be Naming, Calling, and Thanking the Deity of the rite (Cerridwen)

Deb will be honoring the Earth Mother

Jennifer will be invoking the Bardic Deities

Alicia will be doing the Historical Precident

Sharon will be acknowledging the Outsiders

Sean was volunteered to call the Ancestors

Jenn will call the Nature Spirits

Ellie was volunteered for the Shining Ones

Dennis will be taking the Omen

Other parts will be given out before ritual or performed by Kia and Dennis.

In addition to your respective parts, everyone should be reviewing the flow of ritual. We will be trying to do it without cheat-sheets. It would be good for us all to read over all the parts and perhaps do some reading on Cerridwen as well.

Keep practicing those chants!

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We also talked about the processional. There was some confusion last time. We decided to continue walking (and chanting) around the nemeton until the last 2 people (the ones censing and aspurging) have entered and circled 3 times. The first people in may end up circling more than
3 times.

We talked about ideas for improving the recordings of the chants.
Separating the speaking from the singing onto to different tracks would be helpful. We also discussed whether the speaking is necessary since the words are in the book. We talked about borrowing some better recording equipment with a mixing board.

Ideas for children's rituals were discussed. Perhaps turning the pre-ritual briefing into the pre-ritual children's ritual.

The two-powers meditation was talked about. We discussed how the heat and cold aspects that we have been doing could be reversed so that the heat comes from the earth and the cold comes from the void of space above. Now that the seasons have changed, we may want to tap into the warmth of the earth.

Anything I missed?

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Æthon Tobar
Vice Senior Druid &
Grove Scribe