Midsomer Sabbat, 6/25/11
Purify
Smudge/ Anoint
Grounding
Cast circle
Three times round this Circle’s bound. From the North and the East to the South and the West then back to the North again.
The first is a Circle of Protection - as we ask Dragon to cast a protective eye upon all who gathers within these walls.
The second is a Circle of Hope - as we understand that all who pass through these doors will find hope in themselves and in their futures.
The third is a Circle of Love - as we know that our Divine Mother shines the light of Her love upon all who celebrate here with us.
Three times round this Circle’s bound. North, South, East and West from edge to edge this Circle is cast. So Mote It Be.
Call Quarters
North: Isis – The One Who Is All - Join with us and share with us your ability to create and to bring life from that which is lifeless. Enter and be Blessed.
East: Athena –The Great Protectress – Share with us your wisdom and strategy so we may protect our way of life. Enter and be Blessed.
South: Amaterasu - Bringer of the Dawn - come to us with your beautiful light our crops will blossom and grow into a beautiful bounty of food. Enter and be Blessed.
West: Cerridwyn - Goddess of wisdom, knowledge and divine inspiration - join us and inspire us to create, teach us so that we may live in the light. Enter and be Blessed.
Spirit: Great Spirit which lives in each of us - awaken this beautiful day, guide us each to create that which will fill our souls with the brightness and beauty of the divine. Blessed be our spirit.
Invocation
Asarte – Goddess of Fertility and Apollo – God of the Sun. We call to you to join us this night and share with us your magic to bring our dreams to fruition. Enter and be blessed.
History
Midsummer or the Summer Solstice is the most powerful day of the year for the Sun God. Because this Sabbat glorifies the Sun God and the Sun, fire plays a very prominent role in this festival. The element of Fire is the most easily seen and immediately felt element of transformation. It can burn, consume, cook, shed light or purify.
Midsummer Night, is a time when elves, sprites and faeries abound, making this a great opportunity to commune with them. Litha is considered a time of great magickal power. Spells and magick for love, healing and prosperity are especially effective now. This is also a very good time to perform blessings and protection spells for pets or other animals.
This is the day of the Summer Solstice, the day of Litha, "Light." The sun dances at dawn, stands still in the heavens at noon, and lingers into the night. Light fills the world. This is the Time of Brightness, the Moon of Light. Light fills our dreams and lingers behind our eyelids as we sleep
At dawn on Midsummer Day, three rays of light can be seen shining over water. They are the Awen of Cerridwen, in Druid tradition the source of magic power and poetic inspiration. Druids celebrate the Summer Solstice as Alban Heruin, "Light of the Shore." The liquid light of Midsummer fills Cerridwen's cauldron of inspiration and rebirth.
Working
In the British Isles, Midsummer bonfires were built on hilltops on St. John's Eve, June 23. Straw giants were burned. Families carried torches three times sunwise around standing stones. In 1929, the Old Cornwall Society revived the British custom of lighting a chain of fires in sequence. The first fire overlooks Land's End. As the light from each fire is sighted, the next is lit, until a fiery chain runs 80 miles through Cornwall to the Devon border. A woman called the Lady of the Flowers casts garlands of herbs and flowers into the fire and speaks a Cornish invocation to bless the crops and wither the weeds
Raise Energy
Tonight, I would like to make our own fire chain. Each of us will have a candle. And I will light mine from the goddess candle and then light my neighbors candle and so on around the room, three times sunwise as we say this crop blessing….. and as we are doing this focus the energies we are raising on the “seeds” we planted at the Ostara. So come Lughnasadh, we will have bountiful harvests.
As sun light and summer rains nourish our crops and our souls. We ask you great Mother to bless that which we have sown so that we may reap bountiful harvests.
Wish Box
Cakes and Ale
(Sun Tea and crackers)
As We share these cakes and ale - we share the warmth of the sun and the clarity of the light. May all that you sow, flourish.
All that we do is in service and in honor to the God and Goddess. May we never hunger - May we never thirst. So Mote It Be!
Thank Spirit
Astarte and Apollo, we honor you and thank you for your presence in this our sacred circle. You are with us always.
Release Quarters
North, East, South, and West: We thank you, for your presence here tonight. We bid you well as you depart, may there be peace between us.
Great Spirit, we thank you for joining us in our circle. As we walk each day we honor your presence within. Forever in us may you reside. Blessed be.
Release Circle
May those who guide us with their light, protect us in the dark and walk beside us on the roads traveled - this Circle is open but unbroken, merry meet, merry part and merry meet again.
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