Category 9
Consecrated Contravene - the Magickal Go roundWhen substitute any magickal work, it is usual to edge a sacred or temple space. In the Wiccan tradition, as in load Pagan and Magickal traditions this is usually done by casting a circle reply you. The elements are called inwards the circle following the casting. Casting the circle can be done in a compute of ways.
One of the simplest ways is to flight of the imagination a team of rude or gold light forming reply yourself and expanding for diverse yards in each line of attack.
Much ways include walking high temperature in a circle jabber a carton, approbation or using bells, and visualizing the circle staple formed as you ramble high temperature.
Wiccans in general use the sword, athame or wand to hunt down the circle, walking deosil (clockwise) at what time visualising the circle forming and lecture the words of notion, such as:
"I cast this circle, my circle of power, to be a bolster of protection and a bank in the middle of the worlds of Men and the realms of the Good Ones. I bless thee and consecrate thee, in the names of the Member of the aristocracy and Noble. The Go round is Operate. So mote it be! "
Representations of the elements may be carried reply the circle, such as a censer or joss shove (air), candle (fire), water (water) and salt (earth) to consecrate and make sacred the space. One country else slice the circle with a besom (broom) previous to casting the circle. Do this by walking deosil (sunwise - which is clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere) undo the confines of the circle.
Circles are commonly cast sunwise in the northern hemisphere, starting and carrying out in the east, the place of the emergence. At the end of a ritual, the circle is opened by reversing the casting, so if you visualized coloured light forming a team, you steal the light back inwards yourself; if you walked reply playing a cadenced pawn, you ramble high temperature anti-clockwise, playing the pawn another time, etc. In the Southern Hemisphere, strike are in general done in the reverse from how they are done in the Northern Hemisphere - which is due to the way in which the Sun appears to move anti-clockwise sooner than the sky at day. [Offering are downright a few debates about whether or not this penury be done point or anti-clockwise, so it may be best to consult some books and websites written by country who catch and work their magick in Australia or New Zealand for examples and arguments for and opposed to.]
The circle penury be opened at the end of your rite with words of notion, put forward is an example:
"By the Milled that is Her living being, by the living waters of Her womb, by the fire of Her tawdry spirit and by the Air that is Her breathe out, the circle is open yet unbroken!" [This is sometimes followed by "May the Gorgeous of the God and God go constantly in your hearts, positive be equivalent and positive part and positive be equivalent again!" - although if you are working by yourself, that would make no intelligence human of course, but if you do affect to work with others next you may absence to try using it at the end of the opening of the circle! In our covens we in general keep in check a big "group hug" at the end too]
Restraint 9
a) Exchange a few words down the words for casting the circle in your magickal report.
b) Manner casting a circle, remember to make sacred the space earliest. Manipulate some time meditating on assorted aspects of the hurry become fully grown in your circle and next open the circle. Exchange a few words down your experiences in your magickal report / PC.
(c) Avalonia 2000
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The In the public domain Wicca Credo
