Cult of Ecstasy
🌈 Cult of Ecstasy of Madison
“We do not run from the collapse—we dance with it, scream through it, and come out the other side changed.”
The **Cult of Ecstasy** in Madison are ecstatic prophets, umbral dreamers, and paradox dancers. They walk into storms barefoot, laugh in the face of the Seal’s unraveling, and listen to the whispers of the **Phoenix** and the **Dreaming**. In a city where memory loops and the future trembles, the Ecstatics may be the only ones who can still hear the rhythm underneath the chaos.
🔮 Vision in the Capitol Node
For decades, the Cult has served as **emotional stabilizers** and **vision-holders** for the Council of Traditions. They are guardians of **Olbrich Gardens**, walkers of **echo timelines**, and interpreters of **visionary states** when other Traditions have no language left for what’s coming.
Their rituals are raw, beautiful, and terrifying. They induce visions not to escape—but to prepare.
🧘 Key Figure: Peggy Fitzgerald – The Phoenix Keeper
- Born in Europe; Awakened in the Alps during a near-death experience - Tied to a Phoenix spirit of rebirth and dissolution - Founder of **Mother Fool’s**, a Chantry café / sanctuary / Fae neutral zone - Brokered a secret **pact with the Fae** to preserve ritual ground - Dream-walker and visionary seer; receives glyphs through ecstatic trance - Believes the **Mirror of Shadows** is a collapsed Dreaming filament—and may be repairable through emotion
🎵 Practices and Methods
The Cult of Ecstasy in Madison expresses Magick through:
- Ecstatic dance and trance
- Controlled substance ritual (entheogens, crafted with safety and spirit)
- Sexual magick and breathwork
- Drumming, chanting, scream-raving
- Ritual burns, dream incubation, and timeline sliding
Their paradigm: > “Reality is a rhythm. If you can feel it, you can ride it. And if it breaks—feel harder.”
🌐 Sacred Sites in Madison
🌿 Olbrich Botanical Gardens
- Shared space with the Dreamspeakers and Changelings - Once a dream-tempered sanctuary, now partially corrupted - Serves as a seasonal ritual point for time-bending ceremonies
☕ Mother Fool’s Cafe
- Neutral ground between Traditions, Fae, and Kindred - Disparate safe haven and rumor hub - Ritual music and wordless trance poetry echo through its floorboards
🔥 The Burn Circle (Secret Site)
- Located in a grove on the far edge of the Arboretum - Site of the 1983 **Phoenix Rite**, in which Peggy saw the future glyph - Tied to a spirit flame that only burns during paradox storms
📉 Current State (1985)
| Aspect | Status | |--------|--------| | **Leadership** | Stable. Peggy leads by feeling, not force. Others follow because she’s never wrong. | | **Allies** | Dreamspeakers (spiritual sync), Verbena (ritual sharing), Hollow Ones (emotional loyalty) | | **Warnings** | Hermetics ignore them, Choristers distrust them, Technocracy targets them | | **Dreaming Sync** | Fragmenting. Vision trips now show *competing* futures and sometimes player deaths that haven’t happened yet | | **Paradox Effect** | Rising. Recent ecstatic rites have triggered recursive timeline echoes in participants |
🧠 Prophetic Vision Fragments (from Peggy’s Journal)
- “A flaming symbol. 13 edges. We’ve seen it before we see it.” - “A child with no face is singing in reverse.” - “The Phoenix weeps, not from fire—but from memory.”
🔗 Related Pages
- The Traditions of Madison
- Peggy Fitzgerald
- Nameless Echoes
- Olbrich Gardens
- New Avalon
- Pre Generated Characters
“Ride it. Burn it. Breathe through it. And when the Seal breaks—scream loud enough to be remembered.”