We call upon you, spirits of the east, to guard this circle. This will make the calls much easier to read aloud. When you prepare pre-written quarter calls, be sure to use large print and break up the text into a separate paragraph for each sentence. Ritual benefits from structure and repetition. I wrote these calls so that they all have exactly the same pattern. Notice how the ideas and actions to come later in the ritual are incorporated into the quarter calls. This ritual was primarily about balance, with harvest as the secondary theme. Make magic, but efficiently! Calling quartersĪs you design rituals, I encourage you to pick a theme and keep reinforcing its central images and ideas within each element of the ritual. It takes a really long time for each person to say “hand to hand, heart to heart” and place their hand (clasped in that of the person on their right) onto their heart, so I suggest that you have this start in each of the four quarters and proceed around simultaneously. Even though we had already cast with athame and sword, the circle wouldn’t feel complete to the participants without some kind of circle casting they were part of. Once the participants were inside and standing in a large circle, we had them strengthen the circle using “hand to hand, heart to heart”. The supplies for the gate, photo by Victor Gibbs If people get bored waiting a long time to get into circle, that starts the ritual off with lower energy. Kathryn (co-author of this ritual) emphasized this by telling the crowd outside the gate to think of it as “a spiritual carwash”. This purifying team was instructed to waft/sprinkle people as they passed by, rather than doing the individual purification you’d do in a small group ritual. We set up two pathways in, and each side had a person smudging and a person sprinkling the people with salt water. The people then came in through a festively decorated gate. The participants were diverse in their traditions and level of experience, so we decided to create sacred space in a more focused way and then invite people to enter. Cast the circleīecause this was to be a largish ritual at a Mabon festival, with about 150 people attending, we did the purification and casting of the circle itself before the people came in. I hope you’ll incorporate these ideas in your own rituals, whenever in the year you need balance magic. In this post, I’ll share that ceremony, with how-to instructions for you, dear reader.
That vision came to life this autumn in a Mabon ritual to bring balance. I composed my song Balance in All Things for use in group rituals for either fall equinox or spring equinox.
About Phil Kessler of Murphy’s Magic Mess.About George Nicholas of Cernunnos Rising.
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