Quarter Candles and Fire Restrictions...




The Working Group had the honor of performing a funerary ceremony, which fell on the day that the forests were shut down.

I don't want to get to much into the details of the event itself due to it's personal nature. A permit to be on the National Forest was procured under the proviso that there would be zero fire.

As you all know candles are typically used to represent the Quarters and the God and Goddess, but with the fire restrictions what were we to do???

The High Priest came up with the idea of luminaries, but instead of candles, we would use glow sticks of the appropriate colors!

This worked out great, the only issue was that we probably should have put out more luminaries that were just plain to light the circle up a bit more.

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