Keep Simple Ceremonies

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Diane Eiker & Sapphire, editors
8 1/2 X 11" - 215 pages - $17

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Keep Simple Ceremonies' 27 rituals celebrate our life passages, friendships, seasons of the Earth-year, and the friendships and blessings of community. It functions as a wonderful beginner's
book, with information on ritual formats and parts, sigils, guided meditations, and ten pages of resource materials. It's also a
powerful priestess' book, with in-depth ideas for croning rituals, decade circles, and a wonderfully foolish celebration of the Great Goddess April Foola.

“The Circle’s coming in half an hour and I forgot to plan the ritual!”

A wonderful beginner’s book, with information on ritual
parts and format, sigils, and guided meditations.

“Got me started in ritual in a nice and easy way. My circle loves these rituals.”

“Ten pages of resource materials really filled in my gaps!”

A powerful priestess’ book, with in-depth ideas for croning rituals, decade circles,
and a wonderfully foolish celebration of the Great Goddess April Foola

“I was deeply moved by the intimacy and spiritualness of the ceremonies.”

Easy to prepare rituals that go deep

"Rituals so simple, yet profound and deep. Really transforming and moving."

How this book came to be...

“Once upon a time, in a place called Maine, there was a group of women who gathered every Monday evening to do rituals to celebrate their lives – to tell their stories, to meditate, to cry and laugh together and to sing. They didn’t want to forget their rituals, so they wrote them down in a book and drew beautiful pictures to decorate them....”

The Feminist Spiritual Community of Portland, Maine, grew out of a course on Women and Religion in which rituals were done as a class project. When the course eneded, many of the women expressed a desire to create a women-only space to take seriously their own knowing and experiences and explore and do ritual apart from the usual context of the patriarchy.
pppThese rituals have come from individual traditions, needs, and creativity. Because the personal is often political, there are rituals in each section of the book with political dimensions. The rituals we have done have inspired us to act and have challenged us to live our visions of peace and justice. As one member observed, “Our rituals don’t end at 9 pm on Monday nights....”

“Something inside of me cried out in longing for the connectedness with other women that exists in the spiritual community you are in. I have experience yet another awakening because your community has touched my life.”