Some time ago, I contacted a friend of mine who's a high priestess in a local NROOGD coven about helping me with a re/birth ritual. She sent me a draft of the script yesterday, and I'm meeting with her tonight to go over the details with her husband, who's the high priest.
Wow.
I still have to write a eulogy for myself, to be read at the ritual by my second-born daughter/son. I'm going to be symbolically laid to rest and then birthed. Looking over the draft, it looks like this will be an intense and deeply meaningful thing.
The date is set for the 9th of November.