Setting up the ritual (matriarchy, slightly dystopian)

You gather up your ritual stuff, an athame, white candles, a small silver bell, a leather bound journal. You also get the stuff for this specific ritual, a condom (because you want to go to a world where you can get laid), a major figure in that world (you picked Margret Thatcher, she was a powerful woman and you want to focus on women so it seemed right), a US flag pin (you still want to be in the US so figured that would help), a $100 bill (you want to be rich, and this is a ton of money to you but you are committed), and some ecstasy (you want it to be really sexual, you actually ended up pocketing this at one of the basketball team’s parties because you were too scared to take it and ended up playing for like 2 months because you were the only member of the team that didn’t fail the **** test)

You hike out into the woods near sunset, probably the dumbest part of this whole thing because you seriously could get lost or hurt doing this kind of thing but the instructions said you needed to cross the threshold out of your normal world near sunset and keep walking until you could see the full moon. As you enter a clearing you see the moon hanging right over the curve of the treeline as if it had been waiting for you. Though the ritual had said to do them one then the other you light the candles and place your objects as you go. Fumbling your equipment a few times you manage to drop the pill in the dirt but put it in it’s place anyway and as you are lighting a candle you singe the condom. Despite that you set everything up and sit yourself down, you are now supposed to meditate on the world you are going to at this point but you aren’t really sure how. You fantasize about parties with girls and being popular so you get invited to everything and everyone likes you (well you really focus on tons of girls liking you) and how you won’t have to worry about money or really anything else.

Hours later you are woken from your doze as your phone rings telling you that you need to pack up and get back to your house before anyone notices you are gone, though you do notice that the last sliver of the moon is just setting on the other side of the clearing which is perfect timing as apparently you will “reality shift” at some point before the moon is no longer visible.