yesterday evening we celebrated pagan new year, the feast of Samhain.
marÃa and i went to the Spiral Dance, the ritual by Reclaiming,
the activist wicca (witchcraft) group of Starhawk,
in the Golden Gate park in San Francisco.
mourning the dead of the year that passed away (all the names…
shoes of people who died in iraq… photos of young brown and black
men shot by SF police…). welcoming new life.
insisting chants, and a spiral dance with hundreds of bodies
spinning a circle of life with a promise of renewal of the earth.
(and as spirits strayed among us,
i recognized a guardian angel)
(impression from the altar of the north | the winter )