Paganism is dramatic because we believe in Gods who take notice when we make a devoted show of faith in them. Our rituals are laced with dramatic qualities because they are a branch of the ancient tree that bears fruit of transformation.

The transforming power of inhibition and abandanment of the conventional creates a heightened sense of reality. Our ritual (s) act as a mirror and focus, reflecting back to us our integrity as natural beings. We release raw energies in the forms of ecstacy, joy, devotion and our dark primorial selves. These are all elements of the triunal aspect matrix of natural beings. By making them open for our Pagan community to see in ritual, it invites peer acceptance in context of oneness of spirit.

Ritual leaves us deeply moved, and it can express all that we experience, yet cannot othewise communicate. Ritual is a profound journey to places within and beyond ourselves that revisits events of spiritual encounters which forever change our lives. There must be drama in ritual to be effective.

There is a fine line between drama and passion which is often intertwined and fused at specific points. The distinction lies in the difference between memorization and spontaneity. Likewise rituals require memorization of procedure which is dramatic and the spiritual passion of including all individuals concerned with any particular rite.

In rites and rituals, participants double as audience and are invited to suspend their society-impossed disbelief and invoke their natural child-like acceptance of the fantastic. Allowing one's self to be caught up in and carried away by the spirit of engagement allows magic to flow freely during the drama of ritual. Within this context, an alter to the divine realm becomes a gateway and the unexpected wind speaks in the voices of our Gods.

At this point in a ceremony, the spoken word of the participants is filled with magic that can move whole civilizations because it is fuled by faith and passion. This same magic and passion is infused into the core beings of the Pagans who experience it and they carry that energy into the comming moments of the Holy times and their daily walks amongst non-Pagans. Through the drama of ritual, objects of ordinary worth become sacred to the passionate believer and the mundane becomes sacresent. Be Well, Magus