phoenix_arose | Long Sing Song ritual

Welcoming the Elements
*** These are suggestions only ***
East, our 1st light and 1st breath
We embrace your gentle breezes and hurricane winds
We ask the you bring us your Knowledge
Hail and welcome

South, our passion and the summer years
We embrace your hearth fire and white hot core
We ask you bring us your Passion
Hail and welcome

West, our womb and the twilight years
We embrace your life giving rains and floods
We ask you to bring us your Healing
Hail and Welcome

Earth, our body and the Midnight years
We embrace your well plowed fields and desert lands
We ask you to bring your Sense of Timing
Hail and welcome

Spirit, our soul that has passed thru many incarnations
We embrace your brightness above, and the darkness below,
We ask you to bring your energy
Hail and Welcome
Welcoming the Ancestors
Ancestors we call you here to stand with us
Those who walked this land before us; who gave birth, raised family and died
Those who birthed our body and their mothers and their mother’s mothers before them
Those whom our souls have known and loved and supported us
We welcome you to our circle
God or Goddess Invocation – should we want any =)

Grounding
Normal tree thing; sending roots down fist then branches up

Blood of Our Blood
*** Preferably we won’t have to use the knife I will have but it will be there if you want or need to prick a finger or cut a vein – the ideal thing would be for every one to either give blood and have them draw you an extra vile or to have someone who is trained draw you a vile – You should ask them to put it in a vile with anti-coagulate solution in it so your blood doesn’t dry up***

Each person will step forward one at a time and say:
The Celtic Trinity
Gods and Dead and the mighty Sidhe
Powers of Earth and Sky and Sea
By Fire and Well and Sacred Tree
Offerings we make to thee

After everyone has added their blood we will mark one another’s forehead with what ever spiritual marks they deem appropriate as well as a sigil to mark them as a sister.

After we are marked Blood of our Blood we will pledge to remain sister unto one another; to understand that we might fight but will remain family.

Raising of energy We will spiral dance and sing the following songs:
Silver Shining Wheel

Honored maiden huntress,
Artemis, Artemis,
Maiden, come to us.

Silver shining wheel of
radiance, radiance,*
Mother, come to us.

Ancient queen of wisdom,
Hecate, Cerridwen,
Old one, come to us.

Goddess Chant

Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna.

We All Come from the Goddess

We all come from the Goddes
And to her we shall return like a drop of rain,
Flowing to the ocean. (repeat)

Hoof and horn, hoof and horn,
All that dies will be reborn.
Corn and grain, corn and grain.
All that falls shall rise again.

Sage and Crone Sage and Crone
Wisdom’s gift shall be our own.
Crone and Sage, Crone and Sage
Wisdom is a gift of age.

We all come from the Goddes
And to her we shall return like a drop of rain,
Flowing to the ocean. (repeat)

As we come to a stop every one should link hands crisscrossed and we will sing
We are a Circle

We are a circle within a circle
With no beginning and never ending (repeat min of 3 times)
Cake and Ale
Sweet bread or fruit (apples) and wine or fruit juice or ale
That you may never hunger the at you may thirst
Release all Gods Ancestors and Elements
All say: the circle is open but unbroken merry meet and merry part and marry meet again. Then sing the fallowing

When we are gone

When we are gone, they will remain
Wind and rock, fire and rain
They will remain when we return
The wind will blow and the fire will burn.
**Repeat until it dies out makes a wonderful Round **

Sending forth
All say:
Walk with wisdom from this hallowed place.
Walk not in sorrow, our roots shall ere embrace.
May strength be your brother, and honor be your friend,
And luck be your lover until we meet again.