THE VERNAL EQUINOX 21-22ND MARCH

Needs

4 yellow candles for points and two green for alter - Yellow ribbon and flowers to be left - Honey cake/drink - Incense of flowers - Sweet Violet or love in idleness
Choice of flowers - Daffodils/Strong leader of other flowers
Primrose/new love I may learn to love you
Cowslips/sweetness
Jonquils/hope for an affirmative answer.

Herbs
Heartseage/cupids dart/love in idleness.

Tarot 18 the moon

THE VERNAL EQUINOX RITE

1) Light candles etc and charge up wands etc.
2) Cast circle between 5am and 6.30pm
3) Stand before the alter and think about the past season and what it done to the earth and how we now begin to need the suns strength. Also think about the knowledge we have learnt and how we are going to use it.
4) When the sun comes up we say goodbye to the dark time - at this point imagine two men fighting each other but not for long ( sun/dark Oak/holly)
The sun wins for the earth to continue. The dark leaves the circle.
5) We all say : Hail God of light - Welcome the Lord of the Sun.
6) We dance and sing summer songs and celebrate the sun.
7) Direct cone power.
8) Sit down and meditate ready to shape change into a hare:
"All things that love the sun are out of doors
The skies rejoice at the mornings birth
The grass is bright and theirs raindrops on the moors
The hare is running races in her mirth".
9) As you feel yourself ready say:
"Hare hare God send the care
I am in Hares likeness now
But I shall be a woman even now
Hare hare God send the care".
10) Eat and drink
11) The Rite is Ended.