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 [...]