Do you remember your first Pagan ritual?

[SacredWithin]

Just for a little remeniscing, does anyone remember their first ritual? What was it like, who were you with, what was it for, etc.? What do you think now? Do you think you knew what you were doing?

[LadyTrinity]

My very first one was a sugar spell to make someone thinks sweet thoughts of me. I dont know if the guy ever thought of me.. but I do know.. he never asked me out :lol:

[KEishin]

Mine was a spell to make to find the perfect college roommate.
I thought it backfired when the one I got was an alcoholic party-slut. Then she dropped out of school around Columbus Day weekend. Due to a shortage of available female students, I got the whole room to myself for the rest of the school year.

And they say spells don't work. Hah!

[Patriciaj]

My first ritual was a water blessing. I had gotten some water from a running lake and at midnight on the full moon went outside to do the blessing. I was a little nervous and had to read it from the paper. I closed my eyes after I was done and felt the moon's energy come into me. I heard a noise and when I opened my eyes I couldn't believe what I saw. There were about a dozen deer walking through my yard only a few feet from me. They were so casual and not afraid at all. It was the most awesome thing.

[Bix]

I remember my dedication ritual. While it probably wasn't my first ritual, it's the one I remember the most. I just went down to the river and sat on a dock there...and just meditated. It felt so peaceful and nice.

[Home & Garden Witch]

My first ritual was to help me find a job :) The very next day I got a phone call for an interview!! Perhaps just a coincidence, but I like to think otherwise :)

[Ninjakitten]

Kind of hard for me to forget since it was a year ago on Ostara. I went to the Arcata Community Farm for a ritual that a Circle in my area decided to do publicly and invite anyone that was interested (wasn't well advertised, but was advertised in our local metaphysical journal). I was still fully Christian but longing at the time, and feeling like there were things missing (oh, could it be the feminine part of my spirituality?!)
Anyway, I went to the ritual, where there were various masculine and feminine "parts" (to keep it PG-13) on the altar, and I helped them make an egg shaped circle of flowers on the ground before others showed up. We all started the ritual, and during the ritual, we were instructed by the High Priest and High Priestess that if we felt inclined to do so, to enter the middle of the circle and expres ourselves in a way that would suggest a want for rebirth or growth or something to that degree. After a few people did their own versions of growing, I entered the Circle.
I closed my eyes and turned my face heavenward, and outstretched my arms, calling to the Divine and to Jesus (don't worry, I told them ahead of time I was Christian and was exploring my spirituality and they said my personal experessions were okay if done respectfully), but more to the Divine in his name, and asked the Divine to not let me be afraid to explore "it", and to get to know "it" better. I wanted to know the truth, and to seek spirituality that was my own personal experession of love for the Divine, and to know the truth about Jesus as well if I didn't already know it. I wanted the Divine to let me know what was okay and what wasn't in my worship experience as I go.
Well, to this day, I have only gained a longing to know more about Jesus (the real one, not the one the church teaches and Paul claimed to know), and the Sophia has revealed herself to me as the co-creatrix next to Yahweh. I have learned that I don't need to "dump" Jesus and his teachings to be closer to the Divine, but that when I came to Christ, I was on the right track and it was time for me to expand on my walk with him. This allows me to incorporate the Craft into my walk and explore the energies within Creation that we call "magic", and that it is okay to fellowship with the rest of Creation to show love and respect for the Creator and Creatrix.

[Dragonanzi]

My first Ritual was a Candle spell.

I sent it out to help a friend of mine get some Courage in life. It worked better then i planned so it was all good.

[Aidron]

My first spell that I can recall, which I've often thought to be my first spell ever but the more I have thought about it lately before finding this thread I'm almost sure it wasn't, though I cannot remember any specifics... but anyway, it was a spell to bring rain. It rained within twenty minutes, so either I have always been very good or the cosmos like to humor me with its own brand of a faux orgasm every time I perform a working. Probably... 50/50 on that.

[mucgwyrt]

I was alone. I cast a circle and just meditated inside of it, nothing complex :)

[nightstream]

It's hard to remember - mine happened five years ago, while I was living at a boarding school. The first "Pagan thing" I can remember doing was a meditation outdoors in the amphitheatre at the school; we were in the middle of a city, but the school's campus was near park land, and the amphitheatre had a little stream with a bridge and trees down at the bottom of it. I remember sitting on a rock with my feet in the stream and feeling happier than I'd felt in months, because I was going through one of the hardest times in my life.
The first full rituals that I remember doing happened in the summer after that semester, in my bedroom at home - I think the first was an empowerment meditation that I found in a book. Those first months were really inspirational to me - when I feel discouraged in my practice now, or when I feel stuck, I like to think back on those times and how new and beautiful Wicca felt, and it really brings me good memories.

[BelovedDru]

My first ritual was me asking to find true love at a school function. Well, this came back to bite me in the behind, because the person I found was my friend's boyfriend. *headdesk* I wound up pretending that I thought of him as nothing more than a friend--my friend was more important to me than a relationship with this guy. I found out that my friend was trying to hook us up. By the time I called him, it was too late. *headdesk*

I learned my lesson. Love and magic just don't mix.

[Stormbeard]

I vividly remember calling upon a deeper part inside myself. The part of the hunter. To defeat a foe I thought impossible.

Before long he was on the floor, and I was strangling him mercilessly, before I let him free.

[Stormbeard]

This message is for you storm beard,on your first pagan ritual,did you rape any christian women like your banner says?did you make the christian hounds pay?You are a pathetic coward and being banned for telling you is worth it,your banner is offensive,the
pope is dead.leave him the hell alone,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Do you have no respect for the dead?If you feel a need to make some christians pay,you can see where I live.Does it make you feel good to threaten someone and rape thier women?Maybe you have to rape cause no one wont give you anything.How does it feel to be talked about?

:lol:

Three forums so far and counting! :D

Threatening people over the internet is hilarious! Everybody is mighty brave in cyberspace.

[Sage Rainsong]

Three forums so far and counting!

Threatening people over the internet is hilarious! Everybody is mighty brave in cyberspace


:T Maybe you should come back when you get over your ridiculous teen angst, phase that you are going through. Any punk that wants to think themselves as dangerous or special because they are spreaders of chaos can do so over the internet. People like you make me laugh. Thanks for that by the way.

[Cathubodva]

Well, my first spell was hilarious. It was a love spell and i was very nervous. I kept spilling the blesses water, the candles kept falling all over, and the incense wouldnt lit. I casted the circle in the wrong way, and, since i had to read the spell, i also had to leave the circle. When i was reading, i got several blanks. By this time, i went to fetch my divination stones and asked if i should go on with the spell. The stones gave me a negative answer, and i stoped right there. But i felt really good about my first magickal act, even if it was a total failure. Anyways, later i also found out i was doing it in the wrong moon phase :(

[Windsmith]

Oh, man, do I ever. ::facepalm:: As with many things in my life, there was a girl involved. :heybaby:

3 of my college friends who were Pagan (a Wiccan, an Asatruar, and a Druid [which sounds like the beginning of a bad joke]) held rituals on Samhain and Beltane every year. They invited me every time, seeing something in me that I hadn't yet seen myself. But since I hadn't, you know, seen it, I declined.

And then there was this girl. I had a mondo huge crush on her, and I knew she was Wiccan, but I didn't put the pieces together until the day of the Beltane ritual. She said, "Hey, I hear they invited you to the Beltane ritual; you coming?" I was about to hem and haw and insist that they hadn't so much invited me as mentioned it in my general presence when she said, "Because I think it would be great if you did." You do? Really? "Great"? Well, then, sign me up!

I didn't expect much. The priestess was a poet, so I knew the ritual would be well-written, and the Druid had a flair for the dramatic, so I knew it'd be pretty. That was about it. Instead, it changed my whole worldview (corny as that sounds). I felt the circle as a physical presence when it was cast. I felt the dual presence of a Divine not limited by socially accepted visions of an old man with a long beard. We did spellwork, and I understood that it was working in a literal, nonmetaphorical manner. I walked back to my dorm in a daze at about 2 that morning.

By Midsummer that year, the girl I'd been so crazy over was dating my best friend. Last year she moved to Seattle, and we don't talk anymore. Is it embarrassing that my first exposure to Paganism was for such shallow reasons? You bet. But I woudln't trade it. Because of that girl, I saw the path I'm meant to be walking, and I'll always be grateful to her for that.

[halfwaynowhere]

sadly, i do remember my first "spell"... i was 11, i had just read "Teen Witch" by Silver RavenWolf, and there is this spell in there to get a new car... it involves a hot wheels toy car and some other random things... needless to say, it didn't work... looking back, i feel so stupid... of course, i never expected it to work, i thought the whole thing was stupid, but a new car would have been fun.

[Raven Reed]

It's been nineteen years. I haven't a clue what it was.

[Chesna]

Just for a little remeniscing, does anyone remember their first ritual? What was it like, who were you with, what was it for, etc.? What do you think now? Do you think you knew what you were doing?

It wasn't too long ago on Ostara last year. I had only thought of looking into the wiccan religion and met a person on the internet who invited me to this Ostara ritual. It was bee-u-ti-ful!!!! I remember thinking I had no idea what the symbols meant but it felt wonderful inside me!! I also remember the person I was with asking me if I had questions about what i saw.. I didn't at that time b-cuz I was still processing everything. A few days later I had a page of questions. To this day I love learning about the symbols in the Wiccan religion.

[SacredWithin]

sadly, i do remember my first "spell"... i was 11, i had just read "Teen Witch" by Silver RavenWolf, and there is this spell in there to get a new car... it involves a hot wheels toy car and some other random things... needless to say, it didn't work... looking back, i feel so stupid... of course, i never expected it to work, i thought the whole thing was stupid, but a new car would have been fun.

:) You know, I read a similar visualization excercise in one of Doreen Virtue's books. I forget which one it was. How interesting.

But I do find visualisation very helpful. It's always good to be realistic that things may not always come exactly how you visualise or as soon as you'd like it. I always found it good to be somewhat vague, but not too vague as to leave room for problems. lol

Just a random thought. :)