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Ritual for Accepting the Blessing of Travel

18/2/2016

It is common to have second, third, and fourth thoughts about whether to travel. One of the most empowering quotes of the 20th century came from a reticent traveler. W. H. Murray (on the right in the photo) was a Scottish mountaineer who contemplated a trip to Nepal to climb Mount Everest but the plan stalled. Finally he booked passage on a ship and the universe rearranged itself to support the trip. Here is what he said:

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Do Something to Begin
Even if you do not know how you will accomplish your goal, set an intention to go on a specific journey. Write out your intention and place it somewhere that you will see it every day. Then write a postcard from your destination to a friend back home telling them what a wonderful time you are having. Fill it with detail and really feel the sense of being on your great adventure.

Create an altar that expresses your intention to journey to that place and show your friends your altar, describing the symbolism on it. Here is a very simple altar of mine that has symbols of Greece and Ireland on it. It was an effective altar for me!

Firmly Commit
For most of us, a big step like an international trip, is a growth producing event long before the actual trip. So it is with putting down a deposit. It starts the growth, the faith, the anticipation, and the excitement, well in advance of the trip. Send in your deposit in some ceremonial way like writing an affirmation on the check, or taking a picture of your on-line deposit. Know you are beginning your adventure and who knows what unexpected blessings are in store?

W. H. Murray had an unexpected blessing in a very surprising
way. He was captured in World War II in Africa by a German officer. Here is what happened in Murray’s own words:

To my astonishment, he [the German tank commander] forced a wry smile and asked in English, 'Aren't you feeling the cold?' ... I replied 'cold as a mountain top'. He looked at me, and his eyes brightened. 'Do you mean – you climb mountains?' He was a mountaineer. We both relaxed. He stuffed his gun away. After a few quick words – the Alps, Scotland, rock and ice – he could not do enough for me.

Know that fulfilling your desires expands all life in the universe!

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Balance Ritual of Giving and Receiving for the Autumn Equinox

3/9/2015

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The time of the equinox, when light and dark are exactly the same, is a time of moving toward balance in every area of our lives where there are opposites or dichotomies. As the time of the Fall Equinox is the time of harvest, it is the perfect time to practice balance with giving and receiving, both of which are essential for a life well lived.

This is a ritual for two people. A pair of people can take turns being the “leader” or if there are more people at the ritual, it can be done in a circle, with paired people turning to one side and then the other so everyone gets to lead and respond. Alternatively, there can be one leader in front of a group of paired people, giving the directions and everyone following. This ritual can even be done with just one person going through the ritual contemplatively.

The leader stands in front of the person to respond with her/his left hand facing up and right hand facing down, and says, “In esoteric knowledge your right hand and right side represent giving forth and sending on and your left hand and side are for receiving and receptivity. Place your right hand on my left hand and your left hand under my right hand. Focusing on your right hand, tell me what you have to give to the world in loving contribution.” The respondent does this. Then the leader says, “Focusing on your left hand, what is your heart’s desire to receive from the universe?” The partner responds.

The leader, the one who has asked the questions, then brings all four hands together so that his/her left hand is on the bottom and right hand is on the top, cradling the respondent’s hands between and says a blessing of giving, receiving, and balance of inflow and outflow. “I bless all the ways you contribute and give to the world. I know that you possess unique and miraculous gifts that are made to be given out again. You do this with love and generosity. I also bless all that comes to you to nurture, sustain, inspire, and fill you. May your giving be in love and balance and your receiving be in true receptivity and harmony. May there be joy in your giving and receiving. May you live in balance now and always. Blessed be.”

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Ritual for the First Harvest

3/8/2015

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On August 1st, we celebrate the ancient holiday of Lughnasadh, the first of three harvest festivals for our kin of long ago. At Lughnasadh the Earth Mother celebrates and mourns for her grain and vegetable children as they are harvested. The Great Mother knows that some children are sacrificed to feed other children, and that is the way of giving and receiving nourishment on earth.

This ritual can be done in a group or in a solitary state of thanksgiving for the bounty of the nourishment that the Divine Mother provides.

Materials: Freshly baked bread and wine or another beverage made from the fruit of the season.

Leader: “Welcome to a wonderful ritual of thanksgiving for the generosity of the Earth Mother in making food available for us, her children. I have here a loaf of fresh bread that we will share. I will break the bread and send around the halves. Break off a piece of bread for yourself and hold it in your hands. (Everyone does this.) Before eating our bread, let’s really appreciate it for the miracle that it is. Shortly before this time, just days, really, this bread was growing, live grain, blowing in the fields. It was rooted in the Mother and was blessed by water and sunlight. The Earth Mother is the Goddess of the Harvest, allowing us to take her grain children so that her two leggeds might thrive. Reflect for a moment, that real food is living and that life sacrifices itself so that we might live. Life for life; that is the way it is on earth. So, we eat of the Goddess’s children and are grateful that we may live another day, to, in turn, give of our life force to others. Pause for a moment and think about how the life force of the grain will move through you and back into the world again in great service. Let us share some of the ways we will use our life force from this bread in positive ways.”

Everyone shares how they will give back again, using the energy from their bread.

“Now, smell this wonderful bread and reflect that each of our senses is engaged when we really enjoy food. We see it, touch it, smell it, taste it, and actually hear ourselves chewing it. The life of the food pleases our bodies in all these ways before we even are nourished by its food value.

“So we give thanks for these gifts. May this bread nourish us and may we give beck into the world the energy that it creates in our bodies. Eat now ponder all the ways we are grateful in this moment.” (Everyone enjoys the bread.)

Leader: “Now we will share the fruit of the vine. Each of you has a glass of wine. As we did with our bread, let us deepen our gratitude for this beverage that was living inside grapes not so long ago. Vineyards are ancient and tending them is an analogy for a life well lived. The vines are protected when young, watered and cared for as they grow. They are pruned to take off dead branches and non-producing growth, just as we prune ourselves and let go of ways of being that do not serve us or others. For a moment, let us share some of those ways of being that we have gladly pruned away from ourselves. “

Everyone shares some ways that they have lessened the negative impact they have had on themselves and the world.

Leader: “We have eaten the bread and now we will drink the wine, partaking of the body and the blood of the Goddess. She nourishes us and blesses us. Let us drink and then we will speak of other blessings that we appreciate at this time of harvest.”

Everyone shares other blessings that they enjoy as they eat and drink.

Leader: “We are so blessed. May the energy from the Mother’s food and wine nourish our bodies, minds, and spirits. May the world be better because we are in it. May we use our energy for peace, love, and kinship all the days of our lives. Blessed be."

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July Ritual of Freedom

2/7/2015

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In July, when we celebrate freedom, it is a good time to participate in a ritual, which expands the freedom we feel as we release ourselves from self-imposed habits. This ritual can be done with a leader guiding the participants through the following process, or it can be done by an individual as a body prayer.

Go to a favorite place in nature and feel the energy of the place. Sit on the ground. Imagine that your feet and hips have roots that grow down into the earth and your head opens to the sky with tendrils of silver branches and leaves emerging and reaching toward the sun’s rays. Know that you are the connection between heaven and earth and that the wisdom and gifts of both realms are open to you.

Repeat: I am free in my mind.
I am free in my affairs.
I am free in my body.

If you are like most of us, what comes up in your awareness is where you do not feel free, when you claim freedom. Bring this picture or feeling of bondage, constraint, or limitation clearly into your awareness. Rather than trying to logically tell yourself that this image has no power over you, simply view the scene or feel the feeling and then let it dissipate or dissolve into nothingness. Shake your hands as if you were shaking off a substance you do not want. Do this process several times. First repeat the statements, then observe your mind, then let the image or feeling dissipate. Shake your hands.

Repeat: I am free to create.
I am free to be happy.
I am free to accomplish good.

As any picture or feeling of creation, happiness, or goodness comes into your awareness, say to yourself, “I am free to accept this or greater.” If an argument or limiting thought comes into your mind, go back to the previous part of the meditation. As images, which appeal to you, come into your awareness, make sweeping motions with your hands and arms, bringing the gifts into your heart. Have a notebook and writing instrument ready to capture any vision that tickles your fancy.

Remember you are an unrepeatable miracle, capable of the most amazing things. You are here for a shining purpose that only you can accomplish, which is for the great good of all. You are a blessing to the world.

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Summer Solstice Ritual

4/6/2015

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The longest day in the northern hemisphere is the Summer Solstice, this year on June 21st in the United States. Many ancient cultures worshiped the sun as the bringer of life. Many pantheons of antiquity had a sun god as their major deity. Examples of sun gods from ancient world wisdom traditions include Apollo, Helios, Lugh, Mithras, Ra, and Sol.

Drawing in the Sun

Let your own heart and your entire body open to the sun on this holiday. Feel the holiness that our ancestors felt for the light bringer at the center of our solar system. Either as a solitary celebrant or in a family or group go outside as the sun is still high in the sky, but past the noonday peak. Make a container for the sun with your hands, either holding it as a ball or encircling it with your hands. Close your eyes and see the light of the sun through your closed eyelids. Remember that everything that is created is sunlight changed into form. Bring your hands to your face, as if you were drawing the sun close to you. Whisper to the sun what you would like to manifest. Then imagine that you are taking the golden sun inside your body. Feel the liquid sunshine move throughout your entire body, inspiring you to do your part to manifest your desire.

Appreciation of the Temporary

Immediately following the moment of greatest light is the beginning of the of the growth of the darkness, which continues through the balance point of autumn Equinox until the Winter Solstice. This holiday, therefore, reminds us that what is vital, valuable, and in form on this earthly plane, will one day change and will one day fall away. Contemplate yourself (if you are a solitary celebrant) or share with your family or group something that is so precious to you in the now, that will one day fall away. Enjoy this process as the sun sets on this wonderful day of sunlight.

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The Power of Love Beltane Ritual

2/5/2015

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The power of love is undeniable…all kinds of love from friendship affection, through romantic love, to the esoteric practice of sex magic. There are many cultural teachings and countless customs about the power of sex magic, from the ancient Gnostics to the more modern and flashy Aleister Crowley, who spelled it “magick.” Whatever kinds of love you enjoy and practice, this ritual is for you.

Materials: a glass of wine, or preferred beverage, and a knife for each participant.

If you are working in a group the leader reads the following information. If you are working as a pair or in solitary, read through these introductory directions.

Leader: “Before each of you is a symbol of the sacred feminine, the chalice with the wine. This is the representation of the womb of the Goddess from which all creation comes. You also have a knife, the sacred symbol of the great God, whose seed impregnates the Goddess. All creation – a project, a book, a baby – comes into being with the balanced participation of the sacred masculine and sacred feminine. Every creation requires the idea, the commitment to and the declaration of the idea, and the nurturing of that idea until it manifests. This is the holy balance of Beltane: the equal and necessary participation of the masculine “going forth” and the feminine “caretaking.” We all have both of these skill sets within us; that is the reason each of you has the chalice and the knife.

“Each of you will complete this statement, ‘I send forth the power of my love to heal __________.’ As you make this declaration feel the love within you welling up. Dip your knife in the wine as you make this statement as a symbol of the masculine and feminine creative power coming together. Then reflect a moment on what masculine or feminine quality is being called from you to support this great healing.”

All participants follow these directions.

Leader: “Once more we will invite the coming together of these great forces of creation, the masculine and the feminine. Complete this statement with the same symbolic bringing together of the masculine and feminine representations as you speak and dip your knife in the wine: ‘I send forth my love to bless ______.””

All participants follow these directions. After this second round of declarations, encourage some general sharing about what came up for each person about what qualities are being called forth in them.

At the conclusion the Leader says: “Great work of love and creation has been done this day. I encourage all of you to follow the inner promptings that came to you to facilitate these healings and blessings. If any of you romantic pairs would like to try the next level of healing through love, let your next time of lovemaking be dedicated to that which you have called forth. Simply hold the healed or blessed state firmly in your mind as you make love. At the climax of your lovemaking, imagine that the explosive energy goes forth to accomplish your goal with power and holiness. And may your sex magic heal our world. Blessed be.”

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Ritual for Cleansing the Senses

5/4/2015

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This is a special spring cleaning ritual for you; it is a ritual to cleanse and bless your senses. Hearing, sight, taste, smell, and touch bring the divine world into our awareness. Deepak Chopra wrote, “Our body-mind makes ‘premature cognitive commitments’ that limit our experience of life.” Enlarge your commitment to experience your precious world this spring with this ritual.

Materials: Holy water, fragrant flowers, strawberries or another natural and delicious bite.

This ritual can be lead by someone who speaks these directions to a group or it can work with a single ritualist doing the ritual on their own for themselves.

Blessing our Hearing

“Close your eyes and allow all the sounds of the environment to come into your awareness, especially the words of this ritual. The sense of sound allows the world to speak to us. Caress your ears with some of the holy water and allow gratitude for this most intimate sense to flood your mind and heart. Give thanks for those tiny little parts of your hearing mechanism that bring birdsong, music, whispers, and the sound of spring breezes into your experience. Imagine that there is a very small vacuum cleaner that can get in all the places in your ears to clean out all the static and discouraging voices that are lying around. As the vacuum cleaner eliminates all the debris that muffles your perfect hearing, imagine that it also can vacuum all the harsh words that you have heard and the frightening news of the world, leaving only harmony. Remember now your favorite sounds…the bark or meow of a beloved pet, the sound of a loved one’s voice, your favorite piece of music. Hold your hands over your ears and repeat:

           I bless my ears. I open my awareness to hear the beauty of my world
         and the clear message of each person I meet. I am aware of the
         sounds of beauty and love from every person, animal, plant, and
         weather system. All the sounds of life are beautiful and clear to me.

Blessing our Sight

“Bless your eyes with some of the holy water and reflect on your most precious sights. You might take some time to share with others, if there are others performing this ritual, the most beautiful sights of your entire life. As you speak or remember these visions, give thanks for your sight. Imagine that there are spiritual windshield wipers that move back and forth over your eyes, cleansing your vision. They enable you to see love and beauty everywhere, as well as those situations that seem less than perfect, which you can make better with your own positive effort and love. Make a vow to yourself that with your cleaned sight, you will take time to appreciate all the beauty that there is to love in the world…and another vow that you will strive to heal anything you see that is painful in the future, remembering that love is the universal healer. Repeat:

         I bless my eyes and their clear seeing. I see love and divinity
         everywhere and share my seeing with others. I see worthiness,
         equality, connection, peace, and positive potential in all situations.
         I see the beauty of nature and all people. I appreciate the miracle of
         color and texture. Beauty and clarity surround me and I am so
          blessed.

Blessing our Taste

“How wonderful it is to taste the flavors of spring…the green taste of fresh asparagus, the red taste of a strawberry, the purple taste of a grape. Take a strawberry now and eat it slowly, savoring the sweetness and the tartness of this gift. Remember the most delicious flavors you have ever tasted and ponder the analogy of ‘tasting life to its fullest.’ Share precious food memories in your group or remember them in full detail for yourself. Imagine that there are little scrubbers in your strawberry that cleanse every part of your sense of taste so that flavors are brighter and more wonderful. Repeat:

         I bless my sense of taste and appreciate the complexity and variety of
         all that I savor. I release any negative memories about eating and
        enjoying food. I vow to appreciate this lovely, earthy sense to the fullest from         this moment forward, and treasure each morsel that I put in my mouth. My         body is sustained by food and blessed by flavor.

Blessing our Sense of Smell

“Take a deep breath through your nose and let the smells of this place stimulate all the little olfactory parts of your nose and sinuses. Bless your nose and face with holy water and remember the most beautiful smells of your life in their fullness. Share these memories in your group. Scientists tell us that the sense of smell can stimulate the oldest memories of our life, long before the acquisition of language. Imagine that little sensory scrubber gently cleaning in all the crevices of your facial airways and brightening the connection of nose to brain so that all smells are distinct. Take a long whiff of the fragrant flowers from the altar and give thanks. Repeat:

I bless my sense of smell and I also bless all the smells of the world.
I appreciate the multitude and complexity of smells. At my choosing, I lift all cultural judgment of smells and simply appreciate the incredible variety of smells of human bodies, animals, cooking, gardening, industry, and that which we call fragrance. I am so grateful to be able to take every smell in and experience them all fully.

Blessing our Sense of Touch and Feeling

“Take some holy water and bless your skin, the largest organ of your body. As your hands run over your arms, face, and other parts of your skin, feel the pleasure of the hand and feel the pleasure of the skin that the hand is touching. Recall the complexity of the sense of touch, which includes the receptors for pleasure, pain, pressure, temperature, and tickles. Let your own gentle touch of your skin heal any sensory memory of pain inflicted by yourself, another, or through the adventures of life. That memory lifts and is gone, leaving a sensory willingness to experience pleasure through every square inch of your skin. Along with this realization is a new promise to only give pleasure through your touch, to yourself and to others – two leggeds, four leggeds, and the entire natural world. Repeat:

I bless my sense of touch and my gift of touching`. This sacred sense, which so clearly exemplifies the principal of reciprocal action, is holy in its giving and receiving. I lean into the physical and spiritual gift of pleasure and vow that my touch is always for love. May all beings be touched with love,
through hands, hearts, words, and intentions. May physical closeness bring emotional and spiritual closeness so that all are blessed in this physical life on earth. So be it now and always. Blessed be.

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Ritual for Welcoming Spring

3/3/2015

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This is a ritual for inviting the luscious, verdant, fertile, youthful, bright energy of spring into your life. Do this ritual outside, if weather permits and feel the change coming in the air and the land.

Materials:
Spring tonic made from cider vinegar, honey, and water, in equal parts
A dark shawl for each person
Some spring bulbs for each person
Writing instruments

Prepare your spring tonic and sip it throughout this ritual. If the recipe above is too strong, you can add some more water. This tonic is good for cleansing your blood, aiding digestion, balancing your body’s ph, and it feels like it banishes the sluggishness of winter. My grandmother swore by it!

With your shawl wrapped around you, contemplate (if you are alone) or tell (if you are leading a group) the story of Queen Persephone, daughter of Demeter and Queen of the underworld. Persephone has spent the time since the autumn equinox underground with King Hades. She has been the guide for the heroes and adventurers who visit the underworld in the winter. She is friend to all brave explorers and wife to the king. But, as spring approaches she finishes her work in the underworld and prepares herself to join her mother on the land and usher in the riotous colors and energy of spring. Demeter is preparing for her daughter and the energy of the pull of mother and daughter is felt throughout the natural world. Picture the excitement of Persephone as she moves throughout her underground castle blowing out the candles and divesting herself of her queenly robes. She becomes younger and girlish as we see her; she is, after all, just a maid when in the fields with her mother.

Feel yourself youthing as you contemplate Persephone. Feel yourself young with dreams, possibilities, and new beginnings. What is the new beginning that wants to come through you right now? To remind yourself of how it feels to be young and thrilled with life, knock gently on your heart and remember. Then with the greatest intention knock on the earth and say, “Persephone, come to me. Fill my heart with your youthful exuberance. Plant new dreams in me.” Picture Persephone hearing your knock and your invitation. Picture her throwing off her gown and in her white shift she flies up through a crevice, which opens above her, flying up onto the land to her mother and into your heart. Throw off your dark shawl and feel the miracle of rebirth in springtime!

Write your dreams on the spring bulbs and plant them in a pot or in the ground and watch your garden and the garden of your life grow!

Welcome Spring!

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Valentine Ritual for Lovers and Others

31/1/2015

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This is an intimate ritual that a loving couple may perform together. There are two other variations for people who want to find their true love and for others who love that there is love in the world. The ritual is a blessing of hands, mouths, and eyes. It is designed to magnify love in our lives at the season when valentines abound and we are reminded of romance, love, and commitment.

Materials:
Container of scented hand lotion
Container of maple syrup
Container of sacred water

Ritual for Lovers

Taking a good amount of lotion, each lover massages the other’s hands and blesses them, saying their wish for the Beloved’s hands and their own: “May your hands be blessed by everything they touch. May our touching be so complete that there is no boundary between us. May my hands bring you only pleasure.”

Taking maple syrup, the lovers touch each other’s mouths and bless the words that come from their lips, saying something like: “May only sweetness pour from your mouth. May my words always empower and honor you, my Love.”

Taking some drops of water, the two lovers bless each other’s eyes, by putting a drop or two on each closed eyelid, and saying their wishes for their seeing, something like this: “This pure water washes any shadow from your sight; you see me as I am with all my divine qualities and all those good qualities yet to be expressed. I see in you the highest and greatest aspects of your soul and all the ways you struggle. May our sight be washed in love so all that we see in each other is precious. In your eyes I see lifetimes of love. Thank you for being in my life now.”

Variation for People Wanting Their True Love

Take some lotion and rub into your hands and say, “I bless my hands and the loving touch they are capable of. I accept the hand of my lover in mine.”

Put a drop of maple syrup on your lips, taste its sweetness and say something like this to yourself, “I bless the loving words that come from my mouth. I speak only the truth to myself and all. I accept the companionship of my lover so that I may speak words of love to my Beloved.”

Put a drop of water on your closed eyelids, then open your eyes and say, “My seeing is blessed. I recognize my Beloved as we are drawn to one another. Together we see the world as infinitely beautiful and loving.”

Variation for People Who Love that There are Lovers in the World

Take some lotion; rub it into your hands and say something like this in your own words, “I bless all lovers everywhere. May their touching bring lasting love and peace to this planet. May my own hands always be a blessing of compassion to anyone I touch.”

Take a drop of maple syrup and touch it to your lips. Say, “I bless all words of love spoken the world over, in any and all languages. I bless the connection that comes from a declaration of love. May words of love and compassion pass through my lips daily.”

Take a drop or two of water and put the drops on your closed eyelids. Say, “I bless the seeing of all lovers everywhere. May they be so infused with love that they transform the seeing of all who are near them so that humankind sees only love. Everywhere I look I see the face of God.”

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Ritual Honoring Janus for January

4/1/2015

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January is the traditional time for New Year’s resolutions, most of which are forgotten in short order. We can, however, call upon an ancient deity of change for support, one who animated new beginnings for our ancestors and can for us as well; the deity is the two-headed god, Janus of the Roman pantheon. Janus looks backward and forward and is the god of change, new beginnings, motion, and thresholds. His duties were myriad in first century Rome, but we will use him to support us in our new beginnings and to bless the comings and goings from our home throughout the year.

This ritual is designed for a family, but a class, group, or an individual could also perform this ritual.

Materials:
A large wooden tongue depressor for each person
Tubes or vials that can fit on the tongue depressor
Smaller, flat wooden shapes available in any craft store
Paints
Small decorations such as flowers, gems, coins
Writing instruments and paper

All participants sit comfortable around a table with the materials and writing instruments.

Leader: Tonight we will begin the movement into this New Year and the desires we each have for accomplishment and enjoyment. We will call upon the powerful support of a god who guarded all of the entries into and out of ancient Rome. Janus, the god who sees the past and the future because he faces in both directions, presides over actual gateways and the gateways in our hearts that cause us to leave the old and to strike out in a new direction. So, Janus is both our protector and our support as we choose our new paths for this year.

The Leader then takes the family or group into a meditation about the new direction for the coming year, arriving at some concrete desires of action or being. He or she leads the participants to the answers to the points below.

Leader: Taking a piece of paper, please write your desire for yourself for the New Year succinctly. Then write the following:

·      How it will benefit you
·      How it will benefit those close to you
·      How it will benefit the world
·      What you must release to bring this about
·      What you must become to bring this about
·      The support you request from the archetype of new beginnings, Janus.

Now, you will create an art object which you will attach to the door frame where you most often enter and leave your home. Ultimately, the little vial will contain the paper you just wrote. The vial will be attached to the tongue depressor and decorated with symbolic items. This, in turn will be attached to the door frame just where you can touch it coming in and going out of your home, so that your desire for change and newness may always be in your awareness, as well as the assistance from Janus. This object will be precisely in the power place for Janus – your home’s threshold.

Everyone sets to work to create this threshold blessing object. When the project is complete all participants share their experience and their art piece. Then the Leader continues if the experience is a workshop. If the ritual is for a family, this next part is best accomplished the following morning as people leave for their day and their threshold blessing object is already put in place.

Leader: Your new beginning starts now. As we leave this place tonight we leave through a threshold. This doorway is blessed by Janus; he is present now. As each person steps through the doorway to leave, make a declaration in honor of your new beginning and know that Janus supports you in every way you could possible need. As you leave tonight, you step into your new life. Are you ready to take this first step into the new expression of yourself? Then please come forward.

Each participant makes their declaration as they exit the ritual space and pauses outside the space to embrace and wish each other well.

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Ritual for Accepting the Blessing of Travel

Balance Ritual of Giving and Receiving for the Autumn Equinox

Ritual for the First Harvest

July Ritual of Freedom

Summer Solstice Ritual

The Power of Love Beltane Ritual

Ritual for Cleansing the Senses

Ritual for Welcoming Spring

Valentine Ritual for Lovers and Others

Ritual Honoring Janus for January

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