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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.
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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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    Karyl Huntley is an original ritualist and understands the power of sacred ceremony to effect change.

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