RITUAL ITEMS
Salt (for grounding)
Sage (for cleansing)
Hops (for relaxation)
Red rose petals (for love energies)
Lavendar flowers (for peace of mind)
Reusable muslin tea bag
1 pink candle (to represent love)
1 white candle (to represent purity)
1 purple candle (to represent psychic abilities)
Love Attraction oil
Purification oil
Attraction oil
Love incense
Relaxing music (optional)
Morter and pestle
Athame
Censer
Candlestick holders
Lighter
PREPARATION
1. Turn off all electronics (except stereo if using music) and lock doors.
2. Turn off all unnecessary lights.
3. Ground
4. Measure out the salt and herbs
RITUAL
1. Take the athame and trace the
sacred circle saying:
Here is the boundary of the the Circle.
None but love shall enter in,
None but love shall emerge from within.
Charge this by Your powers, O Ancient
Ones.
2. Add the salt to the morter saying:
Oh Goddess of the night and of love,
Please bless this salt so that is may ground
All the negative love energies I have acquired
Throughout the many years past.
3. Add the sage to the morter saying:
Oh Goddes of the night and of love,
Please bless this sage so that it may cleanse me
Of all the negative love energies I have accquired
Throughout the many years past.
4. Add the hops saying:
Oh Goddess of the night and of love,
Please bless these hop flowers
So that they may relax my weary soul
From tonight and through the years
to come.
5. Add the rose petals saying:
Oh Goddess of the night and of love,
Please bless these rose petals
So that they may attract love
Throughout the many years
left to come.
6. Add the lavendar flowers saying:
Oh Goddess of the night and of love,
Please bless these lavendar flowers
So that they may give me peace of mind
Throughout the many years
left to come.
7. Gently crush and mix the ingredients
together to release their energies and pour into the muslin tea bag.
8. Take the pink candle and annoint
it with the Love oil saying:
Oh God of fire and of love,
Please bless this candle
So that it may light the way
For the love that is to come.
9. Take the white candle and annoint
it with the Purification oil saying:
Oh God of fire and of love,
Please bless this candle
So that it may light a new purity
In my soul and in my heart.
10. Take the purple candle and annoint
it with the Attraction oil saying:
Oh God of fire and of love,
Please bless this candle
So that it may light the psychic path
That my life and my love will follow.
11. Draw the bath and drop the tea
bag in the running water.
12. Take the athame and call the
Watchtowers.
13. Lower the athame into the water
and say:
Before the Goddess and the God,
I now bless and consecrate this water
So that it may cleanse my body and my soul
And give me positive engeries from this day forth.
So mote it be!
14. Light the candles saying:
With this fire,
What was dark is now light
What was cold is now warm
What was lost is now found.
So mote it be!
15. Light the incense saying:
With this smoke,
Where once there was hopelessness, now lies hope
Where once was pain and sorrow, now lies joy
Where once was emptiness, now lies love.
So mote it be!
16. Bathe
17. After bathing, thank the Goddess
and God:
O Gracious Goddess,
O Powerful God,
I thank thee for watching over this ritual.
May I hold dear your love
and light along my path.
May I never stray far
from the teachings of the Craft.
So mote it be!
18. Closing the circle:
Close the circle and ground, saying:
The Circle is now open,
but may never be broken.
