Join David and Matt for our community observance of Samhain in ADF-style ritual. Our work will focus on the energy raised by our fundraiser for Harvesters being funneled into symbolic Obols that will be offered to the well to pay for passage of those Beloved Dead who need help paying the fare of crossing. We will also be reading the names of those who have left this world since last Samhain. If you wish to add to the list please email it to RitualTeams@gaiacommunity.org or message David or Matt directly. We will be on Zoom, starting at 3pm for social hour and with ritual starting at 4pm: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84395354101
As always in ADF ritual there will be time for praise offerings, oaths, or check-ins regarding oaths previously given. You will find it helpful to bring a chalice and means to light your candle, a beverage you enjoy toward the end of ritual when we receive the return blessing, and any offerings you wish to present. If you wish to contribute to the Harvesters fundraiser, you may do so at this link
The Mighty Dead, as recognized in this ritual:
Marian K Renner, mother-out-law
Jack Denzer, photographer and grandfather
Lillian Camillieri
Alan Cook
Shane Rouse, stage technician
Kurt Sederberg
Jack Jury
Bob Allen
Ralph Stingo
Katie Bohannon, beloved wife
Arachne, Rennie and Psychic
Lois Rupp
Bob Jones
Emelie Davidson, beloved wife
Richard Blim, world-famous pediatrician
Carole Ingram, musician and choral accompanist
Phyllis Calvert
Jesse Linder, renfaire musician
William Bunce
Jan Marie Smith, Kansas City Women’s Chorus accompanist
Gayle Lynn Bennett-Grant
Ernest Martin
Howard Yocum
Geane Delores Talbot Mulholland
Stacey Park Milbern
Amanda “Mel” Baggs, autism activist
Howard Marshall Ledbetter Sr.
Michael Connor Hogan
Erica Zern
Monica Roberts
Larry Aubry, newspaper columnist and activist
Vanessa Filkins
Jim Bass, Artist and Scoutmaster
Tyler Kurtz (Andrew’s nephew)
Connie Welch
Breonna Taylor, emergency room technician, killed by police
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice
Chadwick Boseman, actor
George Floyd, security guard, killed by police
Elandria Williams, former co-moderator of UUA General Assembly
Eddie Van Halen, musician
Erin Wall, opera singer
John Lewis, civil rights activist
Sean Monterrosa, carpenter, killed by police
Nikki Araguz Loyd, marriage equality activist
Freeman Dyson, physicist
Yvette Lundy, French Resistance fighter and Legion of Honour recipient
Thích Trí Quang, Buddhist activist (Teek Shee Kwang)
Cameron Lamb, Kansas City repairman, killed by police
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
Zwelonke, king of the Xhosa people (zih-lon-kay)
LeGend Taliferro, child
J. Charles Jones, civil rights activist
Barger, radio dog
Joe Diffie, singer-songwriter
Brad McQuaid, video game designer
Andres Guardado, killed by police
James Randi, skeptic
Almaas Elman, peace activist
David Patrick Underwood, security officer, killed by vigilantes
David Glass, former owner of the Kansas City Royals
Olivia Ann Jansen, Kansas City child
Barbara Hillary, first black woman to reach both poles
Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis, killed by state police
Charlot Jeudy, Haitian LGBT activist
Caroll Spinney, puppeteer
Tyron Payton, Kansas City child
Antonio Valenzuela, killed by police
Vicki Wood, race car driver
Michael Mosher, Overland Park police officer
Cannon Hinnant, child
Donnie Sanders, Kansas City man, killed by police
Howard Cruse, gay comics artist/author
James Scurlock, activist, killed while protesting
Agnes Baker Pilgrim, eldest grandmother of the Takelma tribe
Stan Kirsch, actor
Dorothy Maclean, author and co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation
Nicholas Alahverdian, child welfare advocate and whistleblower
Ahmaud Arbery, jogger, killed by vigilantes
Irving Burgie, Carribean songwriter
Ramon Timothy Lopez, truck driver, killed by police
Lil Bub, celebrity cat
Sarah Grossman, barista, died from reaction to tear gas fired by police
D. C. Fontana, scriptwriter and author
René Auberjonois, actor (eau-BEAR-gen-wah)
Raeven Parks, Kansas City woman
George Joseph Laurer III, inventor of the UPC barcode
Marie Fredriksson, singer
Myrtle Cagle, pilot and member of the Mercury 13 astronaut group
Ram Dass, author, mystic, and founder of the Hanuman Foundation
Alasdair Gray, author
Tom Alexander, musician
Salaythis Melvin, killed by police
Mike Resnick, author
Terry Jones, actor, member of the Pythons
David McAtee, restaurant owner, killed by National Guard during protest
Jim Lehrer, journalist
Jonathan Price, football player, killed by police
Kobe Bryant, basketball player, author
Scott Hutton, police officer, killed by another police officer
Mary Higgins Clark, author
Regis Philbin, television personality
Sally Rowley, Freedom Rider and civil rights activist
Rayshard Brooks, restaurant worker, killed by police
Roy Little Chief, First Nations activist
David Clewell, former Poet Laureate of Missouri
Carlos Carson, father, killed by security guard
Lorena Borjas, transgender and immigrant rights activist
Larry Tesler, computer scientist
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, performance artist and singer
Ryan Whitaker, killed by police
Sarah Ratley, pilot and member of the Mercury 13 astronaut group
Kenny Rogers, singer-songwriter
Wilford Brimley, actor
Joseph Lowery, civil rights activist
Curly Neal, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
Nina Pop, trans woman from Sikeston Missouri
Javier Ambler, killed by police
April Dunn, disability rights activist
Daniel Prude, killed by police
Soraya Santiago Solla, transgender pioneer
Cristina, singer
Larry Kramer, playwright and LGBT activist
Mort Drucker, cartoonist
Glenna Goodacre, sculptor
Brian Dennehy, actor
Atatiana Jefferson, killed by police
Vormsi Enn, esotericist
Charlie Daniels, singer-songwriter
Duncan Lemp, killed by police
Shere Hite, sex educator and feminist
Richard Hake, journalist
Damon Gutzwiller, police officer, killed by vigilantes
Madeline Kripke, world’s foremost dictionary collector
Robert Johnson Jr., killed by police
Zara Alvarez, human rights activist
Olivia de Havilland, actor
Nathaniel Woods, executed
Bill English, co-developer of the computer mouse
Aaron J. Danielson, killed by vigilante
Justa Barrios, home care worker and labor activist
Grant Imahara, engineer and actor
Manuel Ellis, killed by police
Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite, preservationist, last surviving female Monuments Men
Little Richard, musician
Aimee Stephens, funeral home director and transgender activist
Fred Willard, actor
Nicholas Chavez, killed by police
Kirvan Fortuin, dancer and LGBT activist
Vera Lynn, singer
Hawa Abdi, human rights activist
Ian Holm, actor
Joseph Rosenbaum, killed by vigilante
Anthony Huber, killed by vigilante
Santiago Manuin Valera, indigenous rights activist
Emily Howell Warner, first female captain of an American airline’s scheduled flight
Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, world’s oldest conjoined twins
Tommie Dale McGlothen Jr., died in police custody
Ebru Timtik, human rights lawyer
Monica Roberts, transgender activist
Kathleen Byerly, US Navy captain and Woman of the Year
Terry Goodkind, author
Sean Connery, actor
Timothy Ray Brown, considered the first person cured of HIV/AIDS