By Lynda Landstreet
http://www.wildideas.net
Position required:
Another drummers and other musicians if realistic. A priest and priestess who tendency give a picture of the God & Divinity (and have to be garbed entitlement), referred to herein as P & PS, birth a priest or priestess who tendency read the meditation and
"direct" the ritual (referred to herein as "N" for Loudspeaker)
Tools/Supplies required:
Additional few. Introduce have to be a fire in the norm of the circle, and a chalice of wine and a pitch of Nine Sacred Herbs bunch or other draw to a close alcohol (we obsolete up using Jamaican overproof rum, which worked very well -- flared up about six feet high!).
Have in the culture and contain them sit. Bolt the musicians sit together in an inner semi-circle, tardy the Loudspeaker. One drummer have to be playing a dull-witted, mesmerizing heartbeat appearing in the at first response of the ritual. The priest and priestess who tendency give a picture of the God and Divinity have to be hiding adjacent the circle, and shape what the part about them originate adjacent begins.
N: "Beltane means plentiful things. It is a celebration of drift coming wearing full come into flower, of the return of the Divinity from the criminal world, the mating time of the nature, the return of the sun, and plentiful other things. Better all, it is a celebration of life. But for us, appearing in in this community, it is besides the time what we crack the confines of our firm and return to the temple of the forest. "Wicca is a design religion, but too steadily we worship in partnership cages, cut off from that design, and from our own natures. And as we contain now returned to design in our span of ritual site, I ask you tonight to return to design in your hearts and minds as well, for the ways of the world within brickwork are not robotically the incredibly as the ways of the world outside.
"We congregate in a curt fall apart of forest, within a local point of view. But now, I ask you to overlook the local that surrounds us. In your mind's eye, let the local subside notwithstanding and the forest breed on and on, shoot down the land that plainly moments ago was unseen under partnership. For once this land was rowdy, and veiled with vegetation, not buildings. Next the rivers and streams ran free, and the air was new and stinking with the aroma of cedar and annoying fern, not infected by car manipulate and facility smoke. And it may be that one day, it tendency be so again, we contain no way of worldly wise.
"But for now, picture the forest extending on and on, as far as you can nightmare, in all directions. The immense rowdy forest surrounds and embraces us, and we are the culture of the forest.
"Herein the immense rowdy forest, we contain no hold of a sword to cast the circle, for we contain each other, our hands, our minds, our bodies.
Be in contact hands, and be in this world in primarily, and be in this world out, as one. Feel the circle personage formed now by our reach, the energy leaping from hand to hand, deosil, about the circle. Feel it forming, a place set frosty from the trials of term paper life, a sacred, rowdy place...
"Roughly speaking in the immense rowdy forest, we contain no hold of a besom to unsoiled our circle, for we congregate in the inhospitable surroundings, which is sooner than clean and dirt free, and by its reach are we made clean and dirt free ourselves. Feel all worries, suspicions and negativities ebbing notwithstanding from you, as the forest absorbs them and transforms them to good...
"Roughly speaking in the immense rowdy forest, we contain no hold of incense to purify our circle, for we contain the arching sky finished our grove, and the rushing nap that ruffles our hair and caresses our skeleton. Take breaths primarily, and attitude the nap and the sky wearing yourself. The spirits of the air are appearing in reliably, it is we who contain come to their place. Link them, now, to yourself, in your own way...
"Roughly speaking in the immense rowdy forest, we contain no hold of a candle to purify our circle, for we contain the balefire in the norm of our circle, and the stars finished. See the leaping ardor now, cling their fizz, and see them reflected in the tiny fires in the sky finished us. Feel their warmth, and attitude them wearing yourself. The spirits of the fire are appearing in reliably, it is we who contain come to their place. Link them, now, to yourself, in your own way...
"Roughly speaking in the immense rowdy forest, we contain no hold of a water pitch to purify our circle, for we contain the rushing string in the condition in contrast to us, and the dew that moistens the spy. Fall prey to the water's call, now, tastefulness the uprising humidity in the air, and attitude it wearing yourself. The spirits of the water are appearing in reliably, it is we who contain come to their place. Link them, now, to yourself, in your own way...
"Herein the immense rowdy forest, we contain no hold of salty to purify our circle, for we contain the earth itself, underneath us, and the consistency of our own flesh and bones. Feel the squatness, the best part, of the earth, and attitude it wearing yourself. The spirits of the earth are appearing in reliably, it is we who contain come to their place. Link them, now, to yourself, in your own way...
"Unconstrained yourself, now, to the tremble of life all about you. It is introduce, if you can free your spirit a load to suffer it. Feel the life straining to be instinctive in every developing beginning, the jubilation of the blossoms sated from their buds on the vegetation, the joy of the very spy itself, of every flowering shrub and flowering shrub and control of moss, greening again as the earth is warmed by the sun, as the life- giving rains fall from the sky, and all of design is instinctive wearing the delighted skip of life's return. And tastefulness, in the midst of it all, the vision of the Member of the aristocracy and Aristocrat, who are the soul of all design, the consciousness of the rowdy, the beauty of the green earth, the sun and moon and stars, and the mystery of the waters. Feel them approaching! Even now, they adjacent our circle, illustrative by our love and our joy in their invention. Feel their power, their nearness... they shape... they come... THEY ARE HERE!"
Loudspeaker throws the Nine Sacred Herbs wearing the fire. As it flares up, the drummers begin to tub, and the priest and priestess vivid the God and Divinity run wearing the circle and begin to skip hysterically about the fire. As soon as a join up of rounds, they each represent some-one in from the circle to skip with them a few rounds, subsequently each of the four represent other culture in, and so on, until the whole circle is up and dancing (in high school they called this a snowball skip, remember?).
As the skip reaches its peak, the priest and priestess attitude the chalice, and transfer it up finished the heads of the dancers to charge it (this is made easier if your circle site is limited by point of view benches all but ours is). If the energy is really expansion, a dignified wine blessing shouldn't be fundamental, but one may be performed in any case if preferred. After the wine has been charged, the teller calls
"Down!" and culture fall to the bottom.
N "Feel the energy swirling up and up finished us, forming a rainy shaft. See it explode in a shower of fireworks, the energy increase down to the earth all but killing stars, toting up power to the amendment that is sooner than underway, blending with the energy of every leaf and bud and sprout to aid in the greening of the earth. (Standstill) Now splendidly, and colleague hands once again."
Preacher and priestess attitude chalice about circle, and kiss each unusual former giving it to them, generation culture sing:
"Powers of the Soil
Powers plunder form
Growing to rebirth,
Growing to be instinctive."
After chalice takings, emanate libation wearing the fire.
N "We hold not bid leave-taking to our Gods, nor to the spirits that cloak us, the nap, the fire, the string, or the earth, for they are reliably appearing in. It is we who shall attitude our crack of them, in the manner of on, and what we do, each of us shall say our own leave-taking, in our own words. But for now -- LET THE Party BEGIN!"
