I charge $50 an hour as exchange for my services, which typically include meeting and correspondence, ritual planning, and ritual facilitation time. Travel time is charged at half my hourly rate.
Customized Ceremonies
I facilitate ceremonies to mark significant life passages, including pregnancy, birth, coming of age, commitment, marriage, initiation of a new life path, and death. Once you decide to engage my services, I send you a cost estimate and we work together to create a beautiful gathering that genuinely reflects your personality, values, aesthetic, and goals. All ceremonies start with conversations about hopes, fears, expectations, purpose, and culminate in a commitment to details such as when and where the ceremony will take place. Typically, I respond to these conversations by providing you with a draft outline that utilizes a structure familiar to practitioners of most spiritual practices: welcome, statement of purpose, setting the sacred space, enactments appropriate to the purpose, blessing, and gratitudes. I incorporate Nature imagery, and provide ideas for including ceremony participant-guests. We then discuss the outline as well as other issues, such as how to:
- help all participants feel welcome and included;
- incorporate elements from various traditions;
- incorporate music and song; and,
- manage the stresses of mixing family, friends, and excitement all in one day.
Once we settle on the outline, I send you a final draft and any “homework” I would like you to complete. I will arrive for the ceremony with plenty of time to prepare and make your day as special, sacred, and glorious as possible!
Below please find sample ritual format.
Commitment Ceremony/Wedding Package–$450
Includes up to 4 planning meetings, ceremony development and coordination, phone and email contact, officiating for the day, and a post-ceremony de-briefing meeting.
Individual Ritual Sessions
We focus on forming a specific intention related to personal, professional, or spiritual aspirations. We use visualization, journaling, archetypal imagery, and candle-lighting to expand possibilities and commit to a course of action.
Sample Full Moon Ritual for Wedding Party:
- Set up Altar and Place Candles (I will bring altar top, cloth, extra candles, and other tools)
- Discussion of purpose, outline, brief explanation of Wicca and ritual, questions.
- Individual Check-in (how are you feeling now? What are you looking forward to with the ritual?)
- Purification with sage and blessing (“I cleanse you of all anxiety and self-doubt”)
- Guided Moon Imagery
- Chant: “The Earth, the Air, the Fire, the Water…Return, Return, Return” (repeat)
- Song: “We are opening up”
- Open the Cone of Power with Chanting.
- Invoke the 4 Corners, Ancestors, and Spirit Guides
- Participants anoint Bride with oils and give blessings
- Light Candles for Individual Moon intentions
- Send Intentions and Ground
- Gratitudes and more singing
- Dismiss Corners: “Go if you must, stay if you will, Hail and Farewell”
- Feast
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