Everyone has the right to their own opinion about a ritual, and to their own aesthetics. There's generally at least one invocation in every ritual th… - Starhawk

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

May the wind carry her spirit gently May the Fire release her soul, May the Water cleanse her, may the Earth receive her, May the Goddess take her in her arms and guide her to rebirth.

The truth is nobody ever really got it right, including myself. What we learned over the years is that the energy has a form and shape of its own. When a group works together collectively, everyone seems to intuitively follow the energy and to know when it has begun to fail.