Imbolc Ritual

[phoenix_arose]

Yes yes i know it after Imbolc but i just finished it today

yay me

Supplies:

¨         5 – One inch taper candles (per person)

¨         1 – Straw wreath (per person)

¨         Hot Glue Gun

¨         Assorted Leaves and Flowers

 

v     1 – Cup finely ground almonds

v     1¼ - Cups flour

v     ½ - cup confectioner’s sugar

v     2 – Drops almond oil

v     ½ - Cup of butter (softened)

v     1 – Egg yolk

 

ë    Alter candles

ë    4 directional markers (candles or jars)

ë    Corn meal

ë    Milk

ë    Feast Food

 

 

Ritual Preparations

            Feast Food

            Crescent Cakes

            Candle wreath – can be made before hand or during ritual depending on time

Ritual:

 

Cast & Invoke

            Air, bring your gentle spring breezes that signal new ideas.

Group:               To know

            Fire, burn bright with in us so that our passions are fanned anew

Group:              To Will

            Water, spring rains awaken us as you do the earth

Group:              To Dare

            Earth, make our body and mind fertile that new thoughts may grow

Group:              To be silent

 

Invocation to the Goddess

Mother, we hold your Sun in our eyes. We find new hope for the coming spring. We welcome you to your circle

Invocation to the Young God

            Come young God, come with the fire

            Lissome& leaping alive with desire

            Come with pipe come with Drum

            With heartbeats pounding, Come God Come

 

 

Invocation to the Ancestors

We call the ancestors to be with us tonight not only the ancestors of this body but also of this soul and this land.

 

Craft: Candle wreathes – or these can be prepared a head of time if time does not permit

 

Spiral dance: chant should continue thought that Goddess’s speech.

 

Chant: The well by Starhawk and Rose May Dance

            We will never, never loose our way to the well of her memory.

            And the Power, of her living Flame it rise, it will rise again   X2

 

            Like the grasses, though the dark, though the soil, to the sun light, we shall rise again

            We are thirsting, for the waters of life, we are moving, we shall rise again         X2

 

[Someone shouts] Behold the Fire Goddess!

 

{As chanting continues the Goddess enters the circle, either fire spinning or carrying a candle in each hand, She should move around the circle pausing to bless each person. When she reaches the circle center she speaks.}

I bring the flame to light your fires
I come with the Sun

{Either passes out and lights wreaths – or if they were crafted in ritual then simply lights them}

As the light move from me to you let it kindle your soul
the Sun has returned!

 

[Chanting should come to a natural end]

 

Cake and ale – that you may never hunger that you may never thirst

 

Thank “everyone” and devoke

Open the circle

Feast