Ostara 2008
Drumming
HPS: Welcome, Purpose, Explanation and Practice the Chants
HP: The prince of the Sun stretches out his hand and Kore, the Dark Maiden, returns from the Land of the Dead cloaked in the fresh rain, with the sweet scent of desire on her breath. Where They step the wild flowers appear. As they dance despair turns to hope, sorrow to joy, want to abundance. may our hearts open with the spring! Blessed be!
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Salt water purification
Grounding
Cast the circle (includes restrooms and kitchen)
Call the elements (East, South, West, North, Spirit)
Call theGod
Call the Goddess
Chant:
Earth My Body 2
Earth my body
Water my blood
Air my breath
and Fire my spirit)
HPS: Story of Demeter
HP: "It's time to banish fears, doubts, prejudices, negative energies" (He takes the broom and sweeping the area in front of him; center to outside of immediate circle and then passes the broom to the person next to him who continues with the sweeping and so on until all have swept.)
All chant while all sweep: "Banish, Banish Negative Energies. Out, Out, Fears, Doubts, Prejudices"
HPS: "It's time for renewal, hope and rejoicing. Come join the dance."
All dance and chant: (CD of "Spiraling into the Center" is played with accompanying drum)
Spiraling into the Center 3
Spiraling into the Center;
The Center of the Shield.
Spiraling into the Center;
The Center of the Shield.
We are the Weavers;
We are the Woven Ones.
We are the Dreamers;
We are the Dream.
We are the Weavers;
We are the Woven Ones.
We are the Dreamers;
We are the Dream.
All chant and drumming while returning to the circle:
Return 4
The earth, the air, the fire, the water
Return, return, return, return
The earth, the air, the fire, the water
Return, return, return, return
Grounding meditation
My Help is in the mountain5
My Help is in the mountain
Where I take myself to heal
The earthly wounds
That people give to me.
I find a rock with sun on it
And a stream where the water runs gentle
And the trees which one by one give me company
So must I stay for a long time
Until I have grown from the rock
And the stream is running through me
And I cannot tell myself from one tall tree
Then I know that nothing touches me
Nor makes me run away.
My help is in the mountain
That I take away with me.
Earth cure me. Earth receive my woe. Rock
strengthen me. Rock receive my weakness. Rain
wash my sadness away. Rain receive my doubt.
Sun make sweet my song. Sun receive the anger
from my heart.
Feast blessing
Devoke the Goddess
Devoke the God
Devoke the elements (Spirit, North, West, South, and East)
Devoke the circle
Closing song:
May the circle be open but unbroken,6
May the peace of the Goddess be ever in our hearts
Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again.
1. Starhawk, The Spiral Dance, pg. 187
2. Found at the Enchanted Garden
3. Raymond Buckland, Wicca for Life: The Way of the Craft-From Birth to Summerland, pg. 254
4. Found at the Enchanted Garden
5. Roberts, Elizabeth and Elias Amidon, eds., My Help is in the Mountain by Nancy Wood from Earth prayers from Around the World
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