Happy fullmoon every one, Now it is late and I should go to bed but just have to share my FM ritual with you. One of those well you may as well laugh about it ones. So to give you a image I live in a 2 bedroom apartment that dose not really have a good space to cast a circle but I make do. In summer with it being so hot I normally cast in the lounge room which means the cycle actually goes through the couch, wall, book cases etc there is not that much space. Well tonight my boys (dogs) decided that they wanted to join me (or it may have just been that the lounge is the room with the air con) and made themselves comfortable on the floor of the lounge as i set up my temporary alter (a card table with a wonderful cloth hiding it given to me by another O&M member). So all that done and I am ready to start. Then comes actually casting the circle, build up the energy only to take 2 steps and trip over one dog, then another 3 steps and trip over the other one, few more steps and now Blu is under my feet again trying to work out were I am not going to step, takes a little wile but get the first circle done only to have the same problem when putting the salt water on the circle. By now at least one of my boys has given up and left to go to bed. Ritu in the mean time has taken up the prime position in the center of the circle. OK now comes the incense, as some of you may have read in a previous post of mine last FM was my first attempt at using a charcoal burner which I did not do very successfully. I have now had some practice and feeling much more confident. Ok so I have already lit the charcoal and it looks nice and hot, humm, burner feels nice and hot to.....test with finger.....OUCH.......yep it is hot and way to hot to touch. How am I going to carry that around the circle???? Then another thought....It is sitting on a plastic card table with only a thin cloth between it and heat and plastic do not mix.....forget to cut door in circle just run for a tea fowl that I can pick up the burner with and put a lot more padding between it and the table. What other little things could go wrong. Easy, my mind can go blank after only saying a few word when invoking the elements, many trips between BOS and each quarter later and I have finally the circle is cast and the elements, Lord and Lady probably standing there saying "well she is trying, and we know she can do this so lets give her a smile and enjoy the ride". Ok so after all that and a little chuckle at myself and a few deep breaths I finally do start to get some thing right. Next month I am leading the SL FM ritual and we are exploring Yggdrasil the Norse tree of life. I have had a bit of an idea for a vis to support next months FM ritual so I cleared my mind and let the energy take me were they wanted the vis to go and it was just fantastic. Can not wait to let every one explore were I went tonight next month. So then after a quick thank you and good thoughts for all of the members of O&M I closed the circle only tripping over the dogs once and this time not having to keep looking at my BOS. Hope every one that has done a ritual tonight enjoyed it and that if anything that was not meant to happen did that you were able to laugh about it. Full Moon blessings Crystal