Rituals
Most Rituals that are done are done to honor someone or something. Most of us go all out, the dress (or lack of,) ornaments, certain candles, everything on the alter has to be in place, enough flowers to start our own store, food enough to feed a small country and enough wine to get 50 people drunk for the next 5 weeks. All of this takes time and energy. Is all this necessary? I am not saying that we should all become lazy and never do any of this, but... what if you have a sick child, family member, or you yourself are sick. Perhaps you had to work late and just don't have the time to do all this. Deep down inside do you have feelings of wanting to do the ritual?
Grab a candle corresponding to the ritual (moon or Sabbat) you want to do, a Soda (or tea or glass of wine), and some cookies (or crackers if it is you that are sick.) Go to a place you can be alone for 5 minutes (the bathroom,) Light your candle, use the chant from the next page, sing your positive song, do an invocation, prayer, and ground. Crumble a cookie into the toilet follow it with a bit of you beverage of choice then eat yourself. The End. It might be something like this:
Light candle
Cast circle
Great Goddess in you I am free,
In you I can be
With you I am
I am you
You are me
Say a prayer
Ground
"crumble curmble....slosh....flush"
"munch munch...slurp"
The End
See not that hard, time saving and there is no big raising of energy. Still you have honored the Goddess, and it really is the thought that counts. You don't need big long speeches, just heart.
Spells
Many of you may already know this part but I thought I would add it in for those of you that are fairly new to the craft(for lack of a better name.) Out there in the world there are tons and tons of chants. A chant is something said over and over again to gather energy. This is a spell. You are raising energy to make your chant be heard. Use this to heal, change jobs, move to Norway. It works.
Another thing you can do is chant while you are doing something else. While washing the dishes imagine that you are washing you sick friend, chant as you wash, washing away the illness. This is just an example. Folding the laundry and want money? Say a chant as you fold, imaging that you are folding money to hide it.
It is not the big elaborate set ups that make you spells happen, not just believing that it will work does it either. Imagination is the key, imagining it, means fully believing in it.
Chants
Chants are everywhere; you just have to learn to watch for them, listen for them. Just break up with your boyfriend, had a fight or lose something? One Example you can use, changing the words a bit to suit your purpose is Rogers and Hammerstein’s "South Pacific,"..."I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair, and send him down the drain." Do you have problem going with the flow? You can make a chant from watching a tree, "Swing and sway with the wind, bending never breaking, this I shall be." Remember we are a religion that learns from nature not books.
I dedicate these pages to my husband, without his love and support I would not be what
I am today.
I love you!!! I love you!!! I love you!!! suniei on't'ol.
