Saying Goodbye to the Firefly Covenstead

It's common for folks to move around before they truly settle down.  The places that we live become magical havens for our work.  They don't have to be just our physical homes, but can become our spiritual homes as well.  On Friday, my coven said goodbye to it's first spiritual home.  Even though I was clammering to move out of that apartment and into my new, amazing life, the coven was a little shocked that we were leaving our home.  It is probably something close to 50 rituals that we’ve held in that space. All in all, we hosted hundreds of events there. We've done so much bonding and made so much magick there.  Our forming and storming were done within those walls.  We made new friends and grew our family. 

The Firefly DC Pagan Meetup was formed October 19, 2007. It started out as a coffee chat. We held our first ritual on Friday, January 8, 2009 at the Cleveland Park Library, and then hopped around to area libraries doing lunar rituals for a few months.  I moved into an apartment in April of 2009 with the intention of holding rituals and events there for the Firefly DC Meetup and the Coven of the Spiral Moon.  Then, on May 8, 2009, we held the first ritual at the Firefly Covenstead---during the Flower Moon.  In July of 2009, the Coven of the Spiral Moon started holding closed lunar rituals, and the meetup transitioned to public sabbats with Lughnassadh. 

Now, it is time to norm.  We have grown up, and it’s time to leave the comforting nest.  To go into uncharted territory.  We’ve gone through coven grade school, and it’s time to go off to coven college.  It is time to challenge our relationships with one another to grow in an even more dynamic way.  We spoke about our favorite memories in that apartment.  Many of our favorite memories were little or big ordeals that we went through together and came out on the other side of together. 

Our intention Friday was to honor this rite of passage for our coven. To say goodbye to our first home and to embrace Firefly’s new home of the DC Pagan community center. We asked the divine to help us through this transition.  We read the original blessing from the Covenstead done in March of 2010, and then we released my old apartment of it's ties to our circle.

So mote it be.