Tags: Ritual

  • September’s Hearth

    Fireplace Day, the first day the fireplace or woodstove (etc) is lit up for the cold season. A page torn out of the book of my history; Chapter One: Early Childhood Memories.
    The first fireplace I recall was a great big thing of white brick and a dark granite hearthstone that stuck far out beyond the reach of the fire itself. As a young child I could lay upon the hearthstone in front of the metal screen that kept the [...]

  • Same Old

    It’s the same old, same old.
    I’m sick to death of it!
    I have spent the last 15 years inundated with Paganism 101.
    The next time I have to do the “Be a Tree” meditation I’ll scream.
    I’m going to pull my hair out the next time I have to eat a salad mindfully to connect with Earth.
    I am so sick to death of “All Hail Great All/Goddess/God/Spirit/Nothing” pick something already!
    If I have to sing yet again the same stupid Wiccan chant I’ll puke.
    I [...]

  • Beltaine Ritual

    (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 [...]

  • Sacred Landscape

    North
    I call upon the Monashee Mountains
    Strength of stone and earth and rock
    I call upon the wild woods
    Home of trees and lakes and wild things
    Hail Peaceful Mountains! (“Monashee means “peaceful”)
    Pond (roughly north-north-east)
    I call upon the spirit of the sacred pond
    Spirit of water and door to the Underworld
    I celebrate before your waters this rite
    Hail Sacred Pond!
    East
    I call upon the Eastern Winds
    Eastern sky, where the sun does rise
    Each dawn a promise of rebirth
    I face the way to ancestral lands
    Hail Eastern Winds!
    South
    I call upon [...]

  • Some Tips for Making Ritual REAL

    Some Tips for Making Ritual Feel Real

    Decorate your altar, shrine and ritual space with items that relate (in your mind) to the ritual purpose. Use colors, scent, images, and tools to their best effect.
    If you are doing a very masculine working, do not put pink flowers on your altar. Put images and items that have a masculine feel and meaning to you.
    If you are doing a hearth and home related ritual, put a dollhouse in the room, cut out images [...]

  • A Beginners Laying the Hedge

    A Beginners Laying the Hedge
    An Excerpt from the Hearth Craft Class currently going on at Walking The Hedge’s Forum, feel free to join in, or follow along at your own pace.
    This ritual can be preformed anywhere in your home or yard that has a hearth element to it. For the purposes of this lesson, the default will be the kitchen.
    One can feel a tad exposed and vulnerable the first few times they attempt to contact the spirit world. So for [...]

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