Just to compliate matters
May. 3rd, 2010 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHey,
So there's a common bit of pagan/new age-y ritual known as "calling the quarters", wherein one invokes spirits/elements/pokemon associated with a given cardinal direction.
It occurs to me that if your coven is of a nautical bent, or you feel like doing things super formal you could always "Call the Compass" and invoke from all 32 compass points. It also has two big advantages:
1.) With 32 points everyone who wants to be part of the calling certainly can be and if you have a favored quarter it's probably easier to get a slot in your area. If you can't be "North", well you can probably be "North by East" or "North by West" and it'll amount to the same thing. Certainly, the complex shadings of your spiritual callings can be better represented.
2.) By the time you finish calling the compass, the ritual is over and you can go eat.
Don't think I won't figure out a way to make this happen.
"Hail North By Northwest! May thy identity always be in doubt!"
Tom
So there's a common bit of pagan/new age-y ritual known as "calling the quarters", wherein one invokes spirits/elements/pokemon associated with a given cardinal direction.
It occurs to me that if your coven is of a nautical bent, or you feel like doing things super formal you could always "Call the Compass" and invoke from all 32 compass points. It also has two big advantages:
1.) With 32 points everyone who wants to be part of the calling certainly can be and if you have a favored quarter it's probably easier to get a slot in your area. If you can't be "North", well you can probably be "North by East" or "North by West" and it'll amount to the same thing. Certainly, the complex shadings of your spiritual callings can be better represented.
2.) By the time you finish calling the compass, the ritual is over and you can go eat.
Don't think I won't figure out a way to make this happen.
"Hail North By Northwest! May thy identity always be in doubt!"
Tom
