ooga booga

on our way back from shangri-la saturday night, we passed by kezar on the bus and had to go back to check out the scene. well, what we were missing. after being offered freebase (which we pleasantly decline) and a night with two women in some "pristine" cardboard hotel room (also a no. and these were separate offers), we got back to kezar and found that the witch and magic advocates were holding their annual halloween dance and ritual. yes, ritual. with chanting. which (or witch) we could hear outside. for $100, you too could throw on your dark green velvet cape, park your broom with the valet, and dance in a circle to the beat of the drum.

"The all-new Spiral Dance: the Reclaiming Community's major public celebration of Samhain, or Halloween.... We've been working all year to re-conceive the ritual, to make it more powerful, coherent, shorter and more participatory. The words to all the songs and the great spell will be projected on screens for all to view, and everyone is invited to sing along with the chorus. We have shortened the ritual by about one third, finding imaginative ways to honor and name the dead and the newborn, invoke the elements of life, call to the Goddess and God, bring forward all the spiritual help we need, and finally, dance the sacred spiral of life, death, and renewal. Our new space is beautiful, and its shape allows us to more easily create a rounder double spiral than in previous years. Please join us to celebrate on Saturday, and bring your friends. Also, we still need volunteers -- please check the website for more information."

um.... yeah. glad they're tech-savvy witches and warlocks. projecting the chants up on a screen is a novel idea! but the new space being beautiful? it's a basketball court/sport pavilion. mmm, sweaty athletic socks. magical. i hope they added some patchouli to the cauldron.