Monday, April 29, 2013

Beltaine Ritual Outline


Pre Ritual
  • Clean your entire house and smudge it as well as the area where you will practicing outside. 
  • Do any baking that needs to be done. 
  • Gather supplies
  • Take a ritual bath
Ritual
  1. Create Sacred Space
  2. Do devotional for, set up, and decorate your altar.
  3. Cast a Circle
  4. Call up the Quarters.
  5. Invoke the Goddess and God.
  6. Perform enactments, poems, songs, chants, artistic displays in honor of the Goddess and God. Because it is Beltaine, a time to celebrate the Goddess and God in their union.
  7. Raise energy with song, dance, and/ or instruments and do the Maypole ceremony if you are doing one.
  8. Do all magickal workings.
  9. Meditate by focusing on the union and love surrounding everything today. Think of fertile feilds and crops abounding.
  10. Thank the Goddess and God.
  11. Release the Quarters.
  12. Close the circle
  13. Feast
  14. Clean up
  15. Enjoy the rest of your day outside and with your friends.
On this day, I know this year it is a Wednesday, but try to throw a party or a gathering of friends.

Beltaine Ritual Bath

Today is a celebration of fertility and love . The herbs and fruits that you purify your body with should represent this as well. Here are a few things you can add to your morning bath in celebration of the holiday.

Squeeze fresh strawberries over the bath so some of the juice runs out. (only 2 or three so that you don't end up sticky when you get out and be sure to eat them so as not to be wasteful.)
Add a pinch of all spice
Add a pinch of cinnamon
Petals of a single rose

Beltaine Shopping/ Gathering List

Multicolored Ribbons
Spring colored clothes
Jars (to collect running water or morning dew off of grass)
Wine/ Juice
Decorations for the maypole (fruits, plants, flowers)
Yarn (to weave or crochet. today is a great day for crafting)
Foods: Dairy products esp. vanilla ice cream, fresh fruits, oatmeal cakes

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Promoting Peace and Serenity at Work

There are several things you can do to promote peace and serenity where you work, all depending on what kind of job you have. The chant is universal but having some things could be limited. I made the chant very short and simple, easy to remember but still as potent as any long one. It can be recited every day when you walk in or just once a week. That is all up to you. I broke it up into two categories after the chant: Desk Jobs and Footwork Jobs.

Chant:

Let no negative energies fill this place.
With love, light, and peace cleanse this space.
Frustration and hatred dare not enter.
Let serenity dance without the banter.
I ask the Goddess and God to watch from above.
Guide this ship under the symbol of the dove. 


Desk Jobs:
  • Have a picture(s) of blue birds or the sea, very calming images. Aesthetics are a lot more powerful than people give them credit for being
  • Keep a bowl on your desk with oranges and other citrus fruits for good luck.
  • Have a blue dish filled with potpourri in it. I came up with a special blend that would be perfect for creating the right atmosphere. (Obviously all these ingredients would need to be dried ahead of time. I prefer to go out and dry them myself but if these plants are not indigenous where you live, you could always go out and buy them or order them online.):
      • Gardenia petals
      • Magnolia leaves or petals
      • Lilac petals
      • Orange peel strips
      • Cinnamon sticks(halved)
      • Frankincense powdered (crush incense sticks or by the incense meant for charcoal disks)
      • Lavender oil


Footwork Jobs:

If you are a waitress or hostess or retail worker or anything like that you probably cant carry around a dish of potpourri with you, however, you can carry around a small one- one and a half inch pouch.

Needed:
Blue felt
Very thin yellow ribbon or yellow yarn
Yellow paint pen or the Squeezy tube paint (that stuff that comes with kids crafts usually)
Lavender (dried or seeds)
Magnolia leaves or petals (chopped up tiny)
Orange peelings
Cinnamon stick (cut piece no bigger than half an inch)
Frankincense powdered (crush incense sticks or by the incense meant for charcoal disks)
Ruler
Scissors

Directions:
1. Cut two squares out of the felt about 2" wide.
2.Take paint pen/ squeezy paint and  on one square draw Dagaz, on the other draw Ehwaz.
3. Sew three of the sides shut, runes facing out.
4. Put about a pinch of everything in
5.  Sew last side up.
5. Say chant holding it whenever desired.