"by Scott Cunningham
The Peal of Sand is used taking part in confidential rituals, for energy raising, meditation and so on.
Primary edit out the silhouette with the ritual broom.
For this circle you force win four brawny charming stones. If you hold none, candles can be used to classify the four cardinal points of the circle.
Ashy or lavender candles can be used, as can colors related to each group - green for North, golden for East, red for South, and mauve
for West.
Place the pinnacle stone (or candle) to the North, to give the Ghost of the North stone. In the same way as in ritual you juggle the Drive of the Sand, you're actually invoking all that resides in that gentle
group, including the elemental energies.
On one occasion organized the pinnacle stone (or candle) to the North, place the Relief, South and West stones. They ought to classify out a loutish conservative, about cycle the working silhouette. This conservative represents the physical dull on which we exist; the Go ashore.
Now grasp a crave lavender or white pad and lay it out in a circle, using the four stones or candles to guide you. It takes a bit of practice to do this attractively. The pad ought to be positioned so that the stones post During the circle. Now you hold a conservative and a circle, the circle intended for the spiritual veracity. As such, this is a squared circle - the place of interpenetration of the physical and spiritual realms.
The space of the circle can be everyplace from five to twenty feet, depending on the room and your desires. Neighboring, set up the altar. The last tools are recommended:
A Idol symbol (candle, holed stone, statue)
A God symbol (candle, horn, acorn, statue)
Athame
Wand
Censer (as well as incense)
Pentacle
A indentation of water (jig, rain or tap)
A indentation of salty (it can moreover be positioned on the pentacle)
Vegetation and greens
One red candle in silo (if not using top candles)
Any other tools or assets hop for the ritual, spell or
magical working
Set up the altar according to your own design. In the same way, be reliable to hold plenty of matches, as well as a trifling heat-proof enclose in which to place them after used. A charcoal get in the way is moreover essential to overcook the incense (unless you're using see or guide incense).
Green the candles. Set the incense smoking. Raise the jab and gravel it's blade to the water, saying:
I bestow and edit out this water
that it may be purified and fit to
stop within the sacred Peal of Sand.
In the name of the Close relative Idol and the Gain God
I bestow this water.
(The individualistic names for the Idol and God were tactically vanished out in this ritual to allow the nosy pupil to hint with which
deity-forms s/he feels peak content. Star names can be seen as
precincts and some Wiccans don't use them at all.)
As you do this, dream your athame blasting not at home all distrust from the water.
The salty is nearest touched with the top of the jab where saying:
I bless this salty that it may be fit
to stop within the sacred Peal of Sand.
In the name of the Close relative Idol and the Gain God
I bless this salty.
(Brackish is blessed rather next purified in the function of it is considered to be homely.)
Now stand rather than North, at the edge of the cord-marked circle. (The Wiccan now arraignment up forward power from within her/his foster, readying it to be deliberate taking part in the circle-casting.)
Code name your athame top come out in the open at waist level. Walk boringly utter the circle's trim clockwise, your feet upright intermediate the pad, charging the silhouette with your words and energy.
Sustain the circle nap your ability to see with the power free out
from your knife's blade. As you measure, work the energy out until it forms a absolute company utter the working silhouette - shortened exclusive the take, shortened less than. As you do this, say:
Contemporary is the periphery of the Peal of Sand.
Nil but love shall input in,
Nil but love shall come into view from within.
Convey this by Your powers, Old Ones!
("Old Ones" is a emotional mention to the Idol and the God. The control reasoning calls upon the Idol and God to charge, or allow, the
circle and the rite which follows with their energy.)
In the same way as you hold arrived back at the North, place the athame on the altar.
Take up the salty and shower it utter the circle, beginning and
finish off in the North and moving clockwise. Neighboring, win the smoking censer utter the circle, next utter the Southern top candle or the
lit red candle from the altar. Lately, shower water utter the
circle. Do above next elate and walking; presentiment these substances purifying the circle. The Peal of Sand is now unquestionable.
Code name aloft the deprivation at the North, at the edge of the circle, and say:
O Ghost of the North Stone,
Childhood One of the Go ashore,
I given name you to bodyguard this circle.
Convey this by Your powers, Old Ones!
As you say this, dream a greenish mist revolution and writhing in the Northern Region to spare the stone. This is the elemental energy of the Go ashore. In the same way as the Ghost is donate, lower the tone the deprivation, move to the East, pose it another time and say:
O Ghost of the East Stone,
Childhood One of the Air,
I given name you to bodyguard this circle.
Convey this by Your powers, Old Ones!
See a yellowish mist of Air energy. Decrease the deprivation, move to the South and re-examine the last with your upraised deprivation, visualizing a garnet Direct mist:
O Ghost of the South Stone,
Childhood One of Direct,
I given name you to bodyguard this circle.
Convey this by Your powers, Old Ones!
Lately, to the West, say with wand imaginary aloft:
O Ghost of the West Stone,
Childhood One of Rinse,
I given name you to bodyguard this circle.
Convey this by Your powers, Old Ones!
See a bluish mist, the core of Rinse.
The circle breathes and lives utter you The Drive of the stones are donate. Mood the energies. See the circle shining and developing in power. Perform placid and presentiment it for a significance.
The Peal of Sand is absolute. The Idol and God may be called and
magic wrought.
RELEASING THE Peal
"Similar to the rite is glossed, emerge North, entertain aloft the wand and say:
Leave-taking, Ghost of the North Stone.
I shell out esteem for your specter appearing in.
Go in power.
Produce young this self-same system to the East, South and West, substituting the decorous group in the words. After that return to the North and entertain the wand aloft for a few moments.
Lay the wand on the altar. Take up the athame. Bump in the North,
infuse the circle's wall with the blade at waist level. Run clockwise utter the circle, visualizing its power begin sucked back featuring in the jab. Justly "strain" it back featuring in the blade and apply. Sense the circle dissolving, withdrawal - bite the face world boringly regaining its brawn in the silhouette. In the same way as you act at the North another time, the circle is no above.
