Autumnal Rituals

The other week I was in rituals back-to-back. The “order of service” (to borrow terminology from the UU’s) in the Wicca-lite rituals I do begins with creating a sacred space for the ritual by calling in and imagining a protective circle of blue flame. I wound up speaking the invocation for both rituals.

For the first ritual, a four person New Moon Meditation Ritual, the invocation gelled; the imagery of the circle was clear in my mind and the words flowed; folks said afterward that that part of the ritual was very effective. The second ritual, a twenty person Equinox Ritual for Community, was also effective, but felt more forced. That there were twenty folks involved instead of four might have had something to do with it, but my sense is that I was more focused on recalling what words I had used earlier than on calling the circle.

Over the following days, I played around with words and sounds and came up with the following:

Blue flame, blue flame
Circle of blue flame
Be whirling earth
Be wheeling stars
Be flowing veil
Between the worlds
Make this space sacred space
Make this time sacred time
Negative spirits, begone! (clap)
You have no power here!
Blessed Be