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USAGE: To celebrate growth.
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Altar supplies:
Salt
Wand
Incense
Burner
Dagger
Pentacle
Chalice of wine
Plate of bread
Chalice of water
4 element candles
Cauldron with orange or yellow candle in it
Fall flowers, ivy and leaves for decoration
**Cast the Circle**
Light the cauldron candle, say:
O Ancient Gods of the Celts, I do ask your presence here.
For this is a time that is not a time,
in a place that is not a place, on a day that is not a day,
and I await you.
Set plate of bread on the pentacle. Stand still and breathe deeply for a few moments. Concentrate on the cleansing power of
the breath of air when you feel ready say:
I have purified myself by breathing in the life force
of the universe and expelling all evil from me.
Lift plate of bread high, then set it back on the altar:
I know that every seed, every grain is a record of ancient time,
and a promise to all of what shall be.
This bread represents life eternal
through the cauldron of the Triple Goddess.
Eat a piece of bread, put wine chalice on pentacle, lift it high, then set on altar:
As the grape undergoes change to become wine,
so by the sacred cauldron of life shall I undergo change.
And as this wine can give man enchantment of the divine
or sink him to the lower realms,
so I do realize that all humans rise or fall
according to their own strength and will.
Drink some wine, say:
As in the bread and wine, so it is with me.
Within all forms is locked a record of the past
and a promise of the future.
I ask that you lay your blessings upon me, Ancient Ones,
that this season of waning light
and increasing darkness may not be heavy.
So Mote It Be!
**Put some wine out for the little people or give it to the Earth**
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