Walking the Hedge

(Leader script, not the abberviated version for particpants. Without proper formatting because converting to make WordPress happy is a pain and I’m tired)

Processional In

Building the Belfires

Brooms Stand Guard

Fire Blessing & Fire Dance

Meditation

Inviting Guardians

Sacred Landscape

Planting the World Tree

Parting the Veil

Lady at the Cross Roads

Lord of the Gates

Ancestors Join Us

Flower Maiden & Greenman

Beltaine Poems: Flower Maiden & Oak King

Seed Blessing

Honouring Danu & Bile

Offerings

Housle

Open Floor to Group

Oracle

Farewell Summer Queen & Greenman

Farewell Ancestors

Closing the Veil

Lowering the World Tree

Sacred Landscape

Meditation

Removing Brooms

Processional Out

 

Building the Belfires

v The group enters the grove to see the ritual area set up and the (bon) belfire burning, Solaren tending it.

v Juniper leads group to the south altar (where Solaren’s oil lamp is burning) and places her candle on it and continues to circle around the grove. Solaren will tend the two fires and aid the group.

v The group follows suit, filling the altar with candles (lanterns etc) and then forming a ring around the ritual space.

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