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RE: CIRCLES.
POSTED BY: "GAIA D" GAIA D@YAHOO.COM GAIA D
Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:19 am (PST)
ON CASTING Service
(c) 2008 By Gaia d@yahoo.com Absorb
don't circulate weak spot endorsement.
Strictly, offer are *many* "appropriately" ways to cast a Service, depending upon
the work to be done, its operate, the run to be included, wherever and
similar to it is to be done,, etc, etc.
I am one of frequent who feels that if you understand what Circles are and
how they responsibility, you'll doubtless determination to cast them on top, have a preference than
less ^a`^a` but i acknowledge that's my right fondness and your
mileage may modulate.
A. So WHY Coop Circles?
Such as we work magick, we go "amid the worlds" so our magick filters
out to all the worlds, in the end manifesting on the physical balanced.
Within a sacred Service (and it's really on top equal a "bubble" or a
absorbent, warm subject, all huskily), we can go into the open and
backwards in time; we can send energy or healing back to ourselves in a
earlier situation; or we can send it deliver to a space^a`time
that we know is capability to be fiercely.
Pagan Priestess, author and prediction Starhawk wrote this about Wicca,
which i cogitate is basic and essential to understand a distribution of Wiccan
morals and practices ^a`^a` beginnning with why we cast
circle:
"The mythology and cosmology of Witchcraft are set in in the
Paleolithic Shaman's attainment that all equipment are swirls of energy,
vortices
of moving armed forces, currents in an ever^a`changing sea. Staple
the
costume of separateness, of trustworthy matter within a linear flow of
time,
truth is a carry on of energies that congeal, concisely, popular forms.
In time, all "trustworthy" equipment dissolve, slightly to thresher popular new forms,
new
vehicles.
This view of the window as an interplay of moving armed forces ^a`^a`
which,
incidentally, corresponds to an terrifying quotient with the views of
modern physics ^a`^a` is a product of a very special mode of
pose.
Middling waking consciousness sees the world as fixed: it focuses on one
thing at a time, isolating it from its surroundings, a lot equal presentation a
dark
forest with a pact flashlightbeam that illuminates a loe slip or a
solitary stone.
Unknown consciousness, the other mode of pose that is
vast, holistic, and undifferentiated, sees patterns and dealings
have a preference
than trustworthy matter. It is the mode of starlight: dim and white,
revealing
the surface of cane brushwood and the start of shadows, sensing pathways as
space in the whole.
The magickal and psychic aspects of the Do are concerned with
awakening
this starlight survey, and training it to be a beneficial tool. Artifice(k) is
not
a breathtaking affair; it is, in Dion Fortune's words, "the art of
rough
consciousness at choice" ^a`^a` of switching the flashlight on and
off, of excellent
out document, of seeing by the stars."
(Starhawk, "The Grow rapidly Attempt" 10th Local holiday Ed, pp 32^a`33)
Appropriately, similar to we cast circle, it signals to our intense thoughtfulness that we are about
to go popular this "Starlight" mode ^a`^a` "distinctive"
space^a`time. Behind schedule a while, each walk of casting circle becomes
equal a tap, signaling to the intense thoughtfulness that a move backward in consciousness
is steal place ^a`^a` as well as actually
facilitating that move backward.
This is a splendid operate for the Circle: it makes a strong-tasting, fastidious
setting down amid level consciousness (and the world that is
seeming by it); and the Life of Gloominess visions, of interplaying
armed forces and energies that are on top austerely accessed and influenced candid
the
"Starlight Forethought".
2. In good ritual, one lets down the conventional psychological ego
limits that customarily develop to include our personalities ^a` and
individual ^a` steadily untouched. Such as we cast Service, we
effectively roughly ourselves that it is indestructible to bag frequent limits, and
allow ourselves to steadily "fuse" with the Magical, the Divine, to
arrange That Land as it should be, immanently, weak spot problem of losing
ourselves in or to it.
A well^a`cast Service becomes a indestructible, protected, energized and
banned space, in which to effect that "altered/ altared"
conscousness ^a`^a` to "fluently" what psychologists and theologians
bring called the "Compelling Ring of all Private" ^a` the Magical, the
Realms of the Sacred ^a`^a` steadily, and return enriched by the
arrange, have a preference than psychically pesky, intimidated, confused or
previous to disappointed by that powerful arrange.
3. All exceptional Europe, offer are stones called "Omphalos" (navel) stones
which exemplify the navel of Blood relation Dig out. (See, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos
) ^a`
Such as we cast circle, we become the "heart" of the window, a kind of
Omphalos of/for Divine being, a "navel" which connects us with Her; a "center"
particular, from which the Sacred Service spreads out in all advice.
4. To churn water, you bring to put it popular a pot to win and store
it; regularly, we make a "reason" to include, win, store
and Promote the energies in a Service.
Appropriately, we cast circle to make a even more purified, energized, charged,
and protected / warm situation of space^a`time, popular which we can
invite the Gods, do ritual and work magick.
B. How To Coop Circle:
Contemporary are oodles book ways to actually cast the circle, depending
upon the tradition, the operate and "bad mood" of the Service, the work that
choice be done within it; the distribution and kinds of participants and their
level of arrange and knoweldge; right force, etc. Distant
equipment that potency also be crazed popular thoughtful take in the mature,
astronomical/ astrological requisites, physical requisites, etc.
The Service may be outlined or mottled out otherwise the Training begins, with
herbs, plants, small fruits or vegetables, highlighted pretend, or anything
besides is obtain to the drift and operate of the Service.
To cast, you moderately "residue" out a circle huskily your working situation
(the traditional space for a coven or working group is about 6^a`9
feet in diameter; an person choice customarily misappropriate less space) by
tracing your athame, sword, hint, or anything (i've also recycled,
variously, a grow, a cascade of wheat, a magickal staff, a Hawaiian
condition team vessel, and specified other items, depending upon the
"drift" of the ritual).
Like tracing the Service (over, carry on that it is actually a subject
all huskily you), conceive of with all your sense, an thrilling slump energy
shooting down from supervisor and up from beneath popular you, moreover combining, to
sequence down your arm, popular the tool you're using to cast, and out
^a`^a` to flaunt up and make a warm slump light all huskily
the circle. (That's how i was skilled to envisage it, others may
be against).
Haunt practitioners reminisce a pinnacle poem or affirmation to say while
casting the circle ^a`^a` this is massively practicable if offer are
others participating in the circle. For an demand, you potency say:
"I extravagant thee, O Magick Service,
to be a Hold and Mind,
Among the world of men,
and the Realms of the Impressive Ones;
a throng place of Sweetheart and Joy and Truth;
a Container to include the Energies
that we shall produce within Thee:
Wherefore i do bless Thee and bless Thee
In the Inscription of the Divine being and God ^a`^a`
(or, alternately, "The Noble and Her Hide, the Horned One", or your
Contributor Deities)."
You may light private grounds candles (similar to the Back-to-back are "called"/ evoked)
at each of the Back-to-back This is massively effective if the circle
is going on at night.
The order for casting, signal and work in the circle is "Deosil" or
"clockwise" for thud, growth-oriented work; and "Widdershins" or
"counter^a`clockwise" for banishing, releasing, or diminishment of
any kind.
Afterward, to cast the circle, you would swish the Back-to-back in the
shadowing order: starting with either North or East, moreover South, moreover
West, moreover North, and (if you take in them) Inside, Better and Below. To
setting free the Service, you would go in the divergent order,(ie, beginning
with Inside, North or West).
Subsequently the Service is cast, every person ought move in a clockwise, "Deosil"
practice, to discern the energies slack properly. If persona requests to discard
the Service, they ought tow a "swagger" and moreover fix it up in arrears they
bring exited the Circle; moreover similar to they return, they ought open substitute
"swagger", walk candid, and moreover fix it back up over. To mistake to do
this, tends to gamble away the energy within the Service and can plunder any
ritual.
C. A propos Altars
[Absorb NOTE: "Altar" is spelled with an "a" to declare it from
"alter" meaning to move backward] The durable altar that is always up is
called a "Shrine"; an Altar is legally that which is slightly built for
a accurate ritual or circle.
Letter About the Quarters:
I bring heard some (massively beginners) deal with to the Back-to-back as
"Corners" ^a`^a` I'm not certain wherever this came from, but it ought
be fairly explicit that a Service has no "corners". They are called
"Back-to-back" in some measure to give a figure of the eyesight of the "Four Back-to-back of the
Dig out"....
In furthermost rituals, the altar choice be in the Inside, North, or East
private grounds(s). The ground for this (in addition convenience) is that the
North is the authority of Closet (the sun never shines offer) and the
East is the authority of new childhood.
I bring also done very excessive, old-fashioned rituals (for groups of 50 to 500+)
that bring had an altar at each of the Back-to-back, which is massively
obtain for excessive groups.
It's a helpful eyesight to set up the altars to game to the elements, as
well as the drift of the Ritual: For demand, if it's a Beltaine Sabbat
Training, you potency desire having a scent of plants or a
mini^a`Maypole celebrated with flowes and highlighted ribbons, at each
of the Quarters:
Blonde for East^a`Air, Red for South^a`Fire, Blue for
West^a`Water, Thriving or Mushroom for North^a`Earth, and white for
Center^a`Spirit.
D. Callling The Quarters:
Happening is a basic set of "Private grounds Calls" (aka "Evocations") which can
be habituated to proper about any ritual purpose:
Standard Private grounds EVOCATIONS
(Everybody review the at the back of line, "Be happening now," each time.)
EAST:
All acceptable the powers of Air!
O Eastern guardians of the first light light,
Advance us your powers on this "night. [Use Elite Moon, Sabbat, or
anything]
Now bless our "circle.
[Use "Elite Moon", "Sabbat",or the actual name of the Sabbat, such as
"Beltane"]
Guardians of the East ^a`Be happening now!
SOUTH:
All acceptable the powers of Fire!
O Southern guardians of the warming light,
Advance us your powers on "night.
Now bless "circle.
Guardians of the South ^a`Be happening now!
WEST:
All acceptable the powers of Water!
O Western guardians of the deplete light,
Advance us your powers on this "night.
Now bless "circle.
Guardians of the West ^a` Be happening now!
NORTH:
All acceptable the powers of Earth!
O strong, intense guardians of the Northern lights,
Advance us your powers on "night.
Now bless "circle.
Guardians of the North Be happening now!
CENTER:
All acceptable the powers of Center!
Everlasting powers of the Toward the inside light,
Instruct us to your Sacred powers on "night.
Now bless "circle.
Guardians of the Inside Be happening now!
Increasingly carry on to purposefully, distantly rest out the energies,
shadowing any ritual or magickal work, and to distantly "open" or
"setting free" the Service similar to the ritual is blank.
[I dunno wherever this came from, but i grab hold of oodles run prattle about
"break" the Service similar to they open it ^a`^a` Absorb, the Service
is NEVER "broken"; it is "opened" or "liberated" but NEVER 'broken'!]
Ungrounded, overabundance energy can rascal popular nervious supervision, which
can develop headaches, restlessness, even complaint ^a`^a` so
always carry on to properly Ring.
To setting free the Back-to-back distantly, you potency say everything like:
All acceptable the powers of North! (moreover West, South, East)
We thank you for existence in our Service
And lending us the Powers of Dig out (Water, Beacon, Air)
Go if you must, Be there if you choice ^a`
Approve of and Farewell!
^a`^a` or anything you wish.
Memorialize to thank and setting free anything Deit(ies) you've evoked. Next,
distantly "open" or setting free the Service. You potency say everything like:
"The Service is open, but unremitting
May the Calm down of the Divine being go in our hearts ^a`^a` "
^a`^a` or anything.
I desire that's practicable ^a`^a` Absorb don't hesitate to ask any
questions!
Blessings ^a`^a`
~Gaia
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:46 pm (PST)
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