Ritual Of Gestures For The Earth
by Blayze and participants at the Applegrove ritual writing gathering - April 2000

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The idea behind the ritual is to open oneself to the web of the world, to its energies and to cleanse those energies through reach person to give energy back to the land.

Speech removes us from the natural language of the earth.
We stand upon the earth with no beginning and no end.  We find are connected to the Earth - we bring the energies of the universe and draw them down into the Earth - Macrocosm to Microcosm.

We spin, as the Earth spins, and we trace the journey of the sun as we acknowledge all that spins around us.  We join each other connecting ourselves with our surroundings.  We bring the suns energies to warm the Earth upon which we stand.  This is our prayer and our offering.

We merge the suns energies into the heartbeat of the land just as we merge with each other.  This we do from our hearts.

We disconnect ourselves physically but all retain the spirit of the time we shared.

1.	All stand in a circle
2.	Narration
3.	Beat 1, 2, 3, 4
4.	Stamp 1, 2 to find your place and connect to the Earth.
5.	Bring in the pillar from above through you and touch the ground
6.	Spin to the left
7.	Stand palm to palm with those beside you still facing out.
8.	Palm to palm circle dance one around.
9.	When back at starting position stop, bring hands down and spin to your left.
10.	Take step back
11.	Cross arms over chest count to 4. Bring arm down and up again into a prayer stance and bow
12.	Take one step forward
13.	Start clapping and stamping in a heartbeat pattern
14.	1 person stops clapping when power is raised every 4 beats the next person stops.
15.	Lone heart beat everyone stands with palms out and palms face down
16.	Lower palms down to ground, scoop and spin to the left facing outwards
18.	Place energy to the Earth with palms to the ground
19.	Spin back around facing inwards stand up hold hands
20.	Bring hands up and forward then down and let go.
It is done SO MOTE IT BE.