First High Holy Day: Recap

I went to my second ritual tonight, celebrating Beltaine with the sierra Madrone grove in Sacramento. My first ritual was with the Feather River Grove in Pulga last weekend. They were celebrating different things and so can't really be compared to each other in that way. Both had wonderful rituals, with differences that enhanced the reason we were there perfectly in my mind.
In Sierra Madrone I didn't know many people there and was a little bit of an outsider. I wasn't the only new person there but I didn't see anyone, besides Bonnie, step up and really help out and explain what was going on. Not to say that there might have been some welcome committee that I missed, I am not aware of all things and I was a little preoccupied by taking pictures. Bonnie can attest to my sieve like mind, random thoughts are common in my experience.
It was a little intimidating that most of the members ages were either much older or much younger than I was. Not alot of younger people were there around my age, which was a little disconcerting.

I tend to latch on to people when I'm in a strange place which can be a little annoying to some so I did try to strike up conversations with the people there, with little success. Maybe I was a little standoffish but I still got the feeling that the people there were very close knit and dealing with grief as I found out later.
The maypole was very fun, though disorganized throughout. It turned out very good looking. They had to cut it down though, because it was actually put together on a volleyball pole.
Another thing that just came to me out of the blue, is that the location didn't have the sense of permanence that  Feather River had. I mean it is permanent, maybe permanent is not the right word. The room seems to be used for other things and the residue of those uses lingers.
Feather River has its own place of worship that is only used by them and that made a difference I think.
The Ritual itself was very well done and played out without a hitch and I really enjoyed it. The meditation was very potent and the omen felt very powerful.

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