Ease of Passage

(• • • • Life)                                                                                        The Book of Crafts  89
The pain and joy of childbirth are part of the dialetic cycle the Sisters follow; the delight in bearing children is balanced by the agonies a woman must suffer.  Yet in some cases, the lives of the child and mother hang precariously close to death.  This ritual, usually accompanied by extensive massage and some gentle exercise, allows the chorodia invoking it to make beneficial changes in the mother's body, lessening the risks involved with childbearing.  The Effect might widen the mother's pelvis or enlarge her birth canal slightly; the ritual seeks to normalize the process, not detract from the experience of pain and excitement in any way.