Worship
Solitary and small-group practice
Alone is complete. Together requires a plan, a stop-word, and someone who will do the dishes.
Most of this library is written so one person can do it. That is a design choice, not a waiting room. If you gather others, you are hosting, which is a practical art.
Solitary
Read the page once in daylight. Gather only what the page names. Do the rite. Write five lines. Go to bed. Resist the urge to add thirteen tools because a video had them. Solitary practice fails by accumulation more often than by simplicity.
Two or three people
Before you meet
- 1Agree on the purpose and the end time.
- 2Agree on a stop-word. Anyone may say it. The rite ends without debate.
- 3Say whether the evening includes deities, grief, or anything sensual in tone. Surprise is not intimacy.
- 4Decide who brings water and who watches the candle. Roles can rotate. They are chores, not ranks.
- 5No one is priest or priestess by gender. If you use those words, they mean “the person facilitating tonight.”
- 6Phones away unless someone needs one for safety or disability.
- 7Afterward, ordinary conversation and a real goodbye. Do not drift into analyzing a friend’s soul.
What not to found
Do not name yourselves a branch of The Wilde Altar. There is no charter to hand out. Do not charge money for these rites as if they were accredited classes. When this project offers classes, the study pages will say so in boring, verifiable detail.