Upper Midwest Pagan Alliance


The Pentacle
Symbol of Belief

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Veterans' Pentacle Rights Initiative

Public Ceremony - Veterans' Pentacle Rights Ritual




As part of this initiative we will periodically present public, and encourage private, affirmative ceremony (ritual). This focusing of our spiritual community's and the public's attention, on the Veterans' Pentacle Rights issue through ritual, is an important part of effecting change. We will sponsor these public ceremonies, over the wheel of our spiritual year, to keep this focus active. The Ceremonies will both serve to honor Wiccan Veterans and the symbol of our belief, The Pentacle. We also seek aid in the securing of Wiccan and Neopagan Religious Freedom and rights, and to support a positive result in the active court cases relating to this issue.

The public honoring of those veterans of our faith, in a spiritual way through ceremony, is an important part of bringing healing and resolution to this matter. In our ceremony we capture the intention for change the participants offer in a large, symbolic pentacle sculpture, which is then displayed in regional businesses to keep awareness of this injustice ever present in our communities.



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A few images from our first Veterans' Pentacle Rights Ritual
February 24th, 2007, State Capitol Mall, St Paul, Minnesota.

Besom Brigade Banishes

Color Guard Casts

Charged Pentacle Displayed

Color Guard Takes Down Circle

Photographs by
Brandy Torres-DeMark

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