Blackberry Circle held a sunrise ritual on December 19th to welcome the birth of the sun. The ritual was led by Meical and Ashley with great success. Grandma and Grandpa Blackberry made another appearance to the apparent pleasure of everyone there; even though Grandpa Blackberry kept throwing candy canes at folks in the Circle.

Also did not help with him standing there in the Circle wearing his overalls, flannel shirt, Santa hat with bells and large candy canes in each hand in the God position.

There were 25 people who showed for the ritual with many of them driving over an hour coming from Sugarland, Katy and Friendswood. Meical was able to start a bonfire from wet wood much to everyone’s delight and cold bottoms.

Ritual was followed with a nice breakfast consisting of eggs, ham, biscuits, bagels, coffee cake, muffins, coffee, tea, hot chocolate and some awesome homemade wassail. Weren’t much left for leftovers. Wonderful conversations and some excellent questions developed around the fire following breakfast.

Overall the ritual was a great success. This is something that will have to visited again in future Yule rituals.