The Green Lady

Last night was very fun and exciting. I performed a Samhain/Full Moon ritual with my partner in the Old Spirit Path Study Group. We celebrated in the moonlight and invited our ancestors, the Old Ones, and the God and Goddess to celebrate with us within our Circle.

While I was out there in the woods with my friend I sensed a presence. I sensed a very old feminine spirit in the woods with us and I felt at peace. We asked permission to enter the woods and perform our rites and then thanked the spirits when we left.

There's a legend at my college of a woman spirit known as the Green Lady who appears out near Viking Trail going up to Mountain Campus. It's said that you see her through the trees while driving up Stretch Road  and that if you get out of your car, turn it off, walk around in three times saying "Green Lady", then get back in and turn your car on that you'll see her in you rear view mirror.

I don't necessarily believe that part of the legend but I do believe that there is definitely a feminine presence in the woods. I saw many things out there which I believe to be Elementals. I saw men and women dashing through the trees out of the corner of my eye curious at what we were doing. At one point I was sure that I saw a man and woman kissing each other and then they disappeared.

I heard strange sounds too such as talking that seemed to whisper through the trees on the frigid air. We were so far away from any inhabited place that I don't see how human like voices could've been heard out there. It was exhilarating and slightly terrifying at the same time. We were out in the middle of the woods at night after all. Even though the moon was bright it was slightly eerie.

After the ritual, I came back to my dorm and went straight to sleep. I had a dream of the ritual that we did but in the dream a woman in a long pale green dress was watching us from outside our Circle and slightly smiling. She seemed curious about us and admired us at the same time. I could almost read what she was thinking in my dream. I felt that she admired our determination with our ritual even though it was freezing outside. She thought we were beautiful.

I find it neat that I had that dream on the same night. It's like a confirmation of the presence that I, we, felt and that the path we are treading is taking us in the right direction.