2ND FEBRUARY
rite suggest
Cake/drink
Colour white/flowers and candles
Incense of flowers and 3 pine cones
Primrose or snowdrops
Ash tree
Amethyst
merlin
peacock
saturn/uranus
violet
Tarot 17 the star
THE RITE OF IMBOLC 2nd FEBRUARY
Dress for the ocassion by dressing with chaplets and attire
Light incense and candles
Charge up tools
Cast the circle & Chant to the four quarter elements
CANDLE LORE
If you light a candle from a fire, you may expect to die in poverty
If the wick sparks, strangers will come
If the candle burns out bad luck may follow.
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Come to us from earths four quarters
Earth and air and fire and water,
Bring your minions to this home,
Sylphus, undines, salamandas, gnomes,
Ask your captains Nixsa, Djimm, Paralda,
Ghob to bring them in".
6) Say the blessing for the house, face the doorway ~ sign the pentagram and say:
"Those who come to me I wish to keep
Those who go from me I wish to free
Yet I'll stand strong, unrelenting
Against all that will not let me be me.
We stand ever in circles of light
That nothing may enter unless invited".
7) Hang three pine cones over the door, or as near to it as possible.
8) Say a spell for the maiden who is about to give birth:
" With Winter reclining, it starts to thaw
Goddess is returning to us once more
Too boost the land, for it's own rebirth
Too soften again this hardened earth
With snowdrops around, and the Robins voice
We know spring is near, so let us rejoice
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chant & dance
We dance the sphere of Imbolc,
We dance to bring forth spring,
We dance today to invoke,
The joy that it may bring
Do any magical work.
Direct power.This can be done by using the Witches Rune and Eko chant
High Priestess says
" This Feast of light has now ended. Eat drink and be merry"
All Chant "Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again!" (3x)
Close circle
Eat and drink & make merry
Throw candles and sticks into burgeoning BELTANE FiRE STACK making wishes and resolutions.