Through the Maiden's Eyes By Mut Danu

When the Wheel turns to Spring, the Goddess returns to us as the Maiden; young, carefree and bursting with the life force of youth. If you are part of a Circle or group you may find that you rack your brains for ideas to keep your gatherings fresh, interesting and really in tune with the seasons.

I've come up with a Spring Equinox ritual game-to-call-in-the-Maiden for my own Circle of women and would like to share it with you.

Through the Maiden's Eyes: The Game

Gather your group in a circle outdoors and give each person a note card and a pencil.

The following list is written on each card:
Take ten minutes to look through the eyes of the Young Maiden and find:

• something that makes Her happy
• something that makes Her sad
• something that makes Her laugh
• something that She thinks is wonderful
• something that is a sign of Spring

Now send everyone out in different directions with the instructions to look through the eyes of the Young Child and to jot down a one or two word note about what they see. Everyone needs to be back in Circle in ten minutes.

Back in Circle, the facilitator explains that the sharing will be in the form of a chant. In response to each question, the participants go around the circle adding what they saw. The chanted words go round and round the circle filling the center with the energy of the Maiden, and serving as an Invocation.

For example:

Facilitator: What makes Her happy?
Responses: a white dog, floppy hat, baby blowing bubbles, pink clouds

What makes Her sad?
Broken glass, trash, people yelling, homeless man

Why is She laughing? Responses…
What does She think is wonderful? Responses…

How is She reborn? Responses…
She is here! She is here! She is here!

Feel the energy of the Maiden that is now present in and around the Circle.

Before opening your Circle at the end of your Spring celebration ask everyone to share how it felt to look through the very young eyes of the Maiden and how this is different from what they would normally see with their eyes of adults. Then, offer them the challenge; to keep their Maiden's eyes open to the wonder of the season, all season long!

Happy Ostara!

Mut Danu, HPS
Spring Equinox, 2008

Mut Danu is a High Priestess of The Apple Branch, a Dianic Tradition and La Branche du Pommier-Apple Branch France.

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