{"id":306,"date":"2011-05-02T22:04:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T05:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.wordpress.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2011-05-02T22:04:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T05:04:04","slug":"dark-moon-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/02\/dark-moon-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Moon Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our rite this night began with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=220509774629762\">&#8220;Rite of Her Sacred Fires&#8221;<\/a>, a celebration and invocation of Hekate that can be done by anyone and really at any time, though people are asked to do it across this waxing moon to share in a global group experience.<\/p>\n<p>Our circle casting was simple and efficient (with that much practice, its not too surprising!) though in it I used the red drum I made with Nikiah of <a href=\"http:\/\/redmoonmusings.com\/\">Red Moon Musings<\/a>. \u00a0Its voice has deepened and reaches far on our behalf.<\/p>\n<p>And then we worked with our Ancestors, in particular our spiritual ancestors. \u00a0While I cannot speak of the ritual and our experience, I will say that it was an honour, periodically fun, and has left me glowing with the love of a night well spent.<\/p>\n<p>Let as many as can release their fears, become All, become None, become One and thus find our Selves.<\/p>\n<p>~the Abysmal Witch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our rite this night began with the &#8220;Rite of Her Sacred Fires&#8221;, a celebration and invocation of Hekate that can be done by anyone and really at any time, though people are asked to do it across this waxing moon to share in a global group experience. Our circle casting was simple and efficient (with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/02\/dark-moon-magic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dark Moon Magic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[24,68,85,120,180,291,297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}