Midsummer’s Rite

Coven of the Burning Waters
23 June 2001

by Pentegarn

 

Donning of the robe ceremony...everyone sheds their mundane clothing and put on there ceremonial robes

The challenge... "How do you enter the Circle?" "In perfect love and perfect trust."

Exorcising the water...place athalme into the water vessel (directing the energy from the crown down the arm) and say "I exorcise thee O'creature of water, that thou throw out from thee all impurities and uncleanness of the material world.  In the name of the Mother Goddess Diana and the Father God Faunus...I exorcise this water!"  Now sprinkle the water around the circle’s border.

Consecration of the salt...place athalme into the salt (again directing the energy from your crown Chakra down your arm) and say "Blessing upon this salt, so that all bad influence be cast out.  I conjure thee so that thou mayest aid me!  Let all good things enter here in.  In the name of the mother Goddess Diana and the father God Faunus...  I consecrate this salt!"  Now sprinkle the salt around the border of the circle.

Consecration of the incense... walk deosil around the circle with the incense "I bless the sacred space with the fumes of the holy incense."

Consecration of the circle...place the blade of the athalme on the border of the circle (again direct the energy from the crown down the arm) and say "I conjure thee O'circle of power, that thou become a boundary between the world of man and the realms of the mighty spirits.  I invoke the guardians of the east, south, west, and north to aid in this protection!  In the name of the mother Goddess Diana and the father God Faunus...  I consecrate this circle of power!"

OPENING BY WATCHTOWER "HI KASH HI KASH...EST TIE BIE BEL OI"

Midsummer’s ritual...  Covener says "Hail to you O'ancient Gods on this, our special night!  The door between the worlds swings open on this night of perfect balance!  Day and night doth stand in the balance and the world of the spirits and the faery are at hand.  Don’t be surprised if thou seeth your ancestors about the circle.  We also gather in this place and time to give thanksgiving for all the new growth, and the flowering of the fields.  Love is the Law...Love under will!!!!  Blessed be

(Female covener assumes the goddess position while the rest of coven encircles her)

Priest says... "Hail sweet Goddess now you are in bloom, and in perfect love and perfect trust I call you forth to this time and place.  Come...come O'supreme creatrix.  O'thine Triple Goddess known by so many names and manifold attributes.  Diana, Artemis, Isis, Ishtar, Danu and Brigde!!!!  Come and give your children a sign of you ever lasting love.  So mote it be!" 

Coveners chant around priestess until the Mother goddess enters he body to give a message (Don’t worry this doesn’t always happen!!!!! But it’ll be fun) CHANT: "Singing dancing chanting low... rising power... let it go!!!"  Regardless if invocation works... coven members pass between two flames and make wishes.

CLOSING BY WATCHTOWER

Breaking the circle... "I give thanks to all spirits who participated in the rite...return to your homes and habitations.  As this circle was cast in peace and love, let us leave it in the same way.  And though we know that this circle can never truly be broken.  I now end this circle in the names of the mother Goddess Diana and the Father God Faunus.  SO MOTE IT BE!" (Cut the border of the circle with the Athalme.  All coven members raise their hands in the air as the energy is released into the universe) DONE


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NOTE: it helps if the woman trying to bring the Goddess into her body drinks a vessel of milk.  The female fluid entering the body invokes the spirit of the ultimate Female Goddess.

 

 
  Last Modified: February 26, 2002