Prepare the site
- Purify the area
- Start Fire
� Line with sacred Herbs
� Have a seer there to ensure the omens are correct
- Pour waters for the well
- Ritual briefing in leyline field
- Individual Meditation
Opening Portion of Ritual
� Musical chime to mark beginning of Ritual
� Process to site from field, clockwise around the house.
� Challenged at entrance to site � Individuals are smudged, ausperged and dabbed with mud. Then, take up position around tree.
Hammer Warding (Outdwellers) � Mikey
Earth Mother � Freyja � Puck - Grains
Grounding and Meditation � Karen (Ian)
Statement of purpose � Mikey
Creating Vertical Axis
� Fire � Crystal � Oils/Ghee
� Well � Michael (Puck) - Silver
� Tree � Ian � Horse Manure at base of the Tree
Gatekeeper � Heimdall � Karen - Coins
Bardic Inspiration � Bragi � Michael (Ian) � Poem/Story
Triple Kindred
� Nature Spirits & Fae � Puck - Milk
� Ancestors � Michael - Bread
� Gods � Celts� - Crystal; Norse � Michael; Greco-Roman � Ian; Offer to each of the bowl some of the mead that we will be drinking
Settling
Descriptive Invocation to Thor and Sif � Mikey
Statement of anniversary � Ian
Innukshuk Building � Mikey
Offerings to Thor and Sif
� Personal Offering
� Offerings of apples
Offerings to Other Gods
Omen � Puck
Sumbel
� Offer garnets to Old Timers first, then new tokens to those who seek membership
� As the horn is passed, you may state your past, present & future with the Grove
Thanking of Powers
Thor & Sif - Mikey
Gods � Crystal, Mikey, Ian
Ancestors - Michael
NS - Puck
Bragi - Michael
Freyja - Puck
Gatekeeper - Karen
Regrounding
Recession & Closing
� Participants process out from the Grove, returning along the same path they walked, returning to the leyline field.
� Statement of Success � Mikey
� Musical Symbol to end rite.
� Check people to see if they returned.
� Eat.
Submitted by Ian Clysdale on Sat, 23/06/2001 - 7:42pm.