Preparations
Preliminary Ritual Activity
Briefing
Individual Meditations & Prayers
Lighting the Sacred Fire(s)
Pouring the Sacred Waters
Optional: Consecrating the Sacred Pole
Optional: Consecrating the Altar & Tools
Phase One
Starting the Rite and Establishing the Groupmind
Clear-cut Beginning: Consecration of Time
Musical Signal
Opening Prayer
Consecration of Space & of Participants
The Processional/Sigil Marking
Purification(s) of Participants
Optional: Purification(s) of Site
Honoring the Earth-Mother
Centering, Grounding, & Merging
The Grove Meditation
Unity Chant/Song
Specification of Ritual Purpose & Historical Precedent
Naming Deity(ies) of the Occasion & Reasons for Choice
Phase Two
Recreating the Cosmos and Preliminary Power Raising
Creating the Vertical Axis
Planting the Cosmic Tree/Honoring the Sacred Pole
Evoking the Gate Keeper/Defining the Ritual Center
Evoking the Fire & Water Deities & Linking to Center
Gaining Assistance & Preventing Interferences
Invoking the Bardic Deity(ies) or Spirit
Acknowledgement of the Outsiders
Filling Out the Cosmic Picture by Invoking..
Nature Spirits, Ancestors, Deities in Three Worlds or..
Helpful Beings of each World/Realm or..
Helpful Beings by Province/Function or..
(Type and number will vary according to ethnic cosmologies.)
(Possibly different invocations at each of five fires.)
Settling and Focusing
Phase Three
Major Sending of Power to Deity/ies of the Occasion
Descriptive Invocation of Diety(ies) of the Occasion
Primary Power Raising
Praise Offerings, Dance, Libations, etc.
The Sacrifice
Seeking the Omen of Return
Phase Four
Receiving and Using the Returned Power
Preparation for the Return
Meditation upon Personal and Group Needs
Induction of Receptivity
Consecration Agreement
Reception of Power from Dieity(ies) of the Occasion
Consecration and Sharing
Acceptance of Individual Blessings
Reinforcement of Group Bonding
Optional: Spell Casting or Rite of Passage
Phase Five
Unwinding and Ending the Ceremony
Thanking of Entities Invited, in Reverse Order
Thanking the Gatekeeper & Closing the Gates
Affirmation of Past/Future Continuity and Success
Unmerging, Regrounding & Recentering – Meditation
Draining off Excess Power – The Restoration
Clear-cut Ending: Deconsecration of Time and Space
Final Benediction
Announcement of End
Dissolving the Sigil
Musical Signal
