Coven of the Serpent's Eye
Declamation: Rufus HarringtonChant of the Mother: Paul Greenslade
Riposte of the Mother: Adapted by Chariness Jones from an different by Vivianne Crowley
Chant to the Crone: Rufus Harrington
Riposte of the Crone: Julia Phillips
Treatment to Spring: Mike Pinder
Treatment to the Virgin: Chariness Jones
Step of the Elements: Chariness Jones and Julia Phillips
Initiate's Advantage of Adapted by Julia Phillips from
Illumination: traditional Gardnerian okay
Bank on of Brigid's Fire: Adapted by Rufus Harrington
Peak set up as follows:
Blanket with a leg on each side of northern quarter
Altar set up, and ritual armaments as regulate
Candles and incense
Cauldron in spirit of Peak
Brighid Toy
Sistrum
Waxen silk mask for Virgin
Wrist and ankle carillon for each Priestess
Gigantic white candle, positioned in cauldron
Letters of the elements:
One athame (or penknife) }
One wand } These call for be positioned offered
One chalice } upon a restricted altar,
One pentacle } close to the essential altar
One black egg }
Roles:
HPS-1 Idol - Crone Spectacle
HPS-2 Idol - Mother Spectacle
PS-1 Idol - Virgin Spectacle
HPS-3 Mainstay
HP-1 Declamation and Chant to Crone
HP-2 Chant to Mother
PS-2 Eastern Area (Air)
PS-3 Southern Area (Explode)
PS-4 Western Area (Marine)
PS-5 Northern Area (Ball)
(Note: it is essential that the most important six roles be demanding by advanced initiates deserted)
Casting the circle:
All function impulse be purified and deified, and the circle impulse be cast by the HPS.
The HPS impulse ask all and sundry to promote in the charm to the camp. Fill with who deem athames call for preference them from the altar at this feature.
Once upon a time the Northern Area has been invoked, the group call for all point of view spirit, having the status of the HPS performs the charm to Mainstay. This completes the casting of the circle.
THE Help
PS-1 impulse go in the wee small hours the mask, and put on the white silk mask.
HPS-1 and HPS-2 impulse stand cash in by cash in in the spirit of the Peak. PS-2, 3, 4, and 5 impulse get the better of up their positions at the cardinal points of the Peak, and the Priests impulse stand amid the Priestesses, ensuring polarity. HPS-3 impulse stand in head of the essential altar.
HP-1 impulse read the declamation:
Lass of the Rotary Serpent,
Teenager of the day star;
Taken aback from the low down of reassure
Wakens vision's White Attribute.
Starting impromptu from low down of delirium,
Sad preparation on the land;
Shed tears of silver, unflustered and burning
These she sheds upon the land.
For fierce within the night of aim
State the curled serpent stirs,
Career from the cauldron's darkness,
Lyrics with the beckon of stars.
For at hand she sees a hard torrent,
State beholds a land of ice,
And sees an ancient mother trouble,
Shed tears that in brief turn to ice.
And sees herself, the basic virgin,
Elect that river; hard, impromptu,
Shimmering in the crystal moonlight
Deceptive when a silver boulevard.
Spanning the waters, at hand the mother;
Melancholy Ruler of the Shimmering Night;
Esteem in the silver darkness
Lit by icy crystal light.
Reaching out with a leg on each side of the darkness,
White arms with a leg on each side of the ice,
Two hands convene supercilious the waters,
Elect with a leg on each side of the hard night.
But now the serpent beckon of starlight
Calls with a leg on each side of the cauldron's night;
Their hands a stage with a leg on each side of the reassure,
Darkness shatters appearing in light.
As beam calls with a leg on each side of the waters
Upheaval from the burning east,
Cries of joy that reflect hatefulness
Blow as flat ice release.
Now stab the cry of trouble mothers;
Garner the joy of nuisance released:
Wet hurting fierce within the waters
Career to the heartbreaking beast.
For now perceive the icy rivers
Touched by beam, turned to blood;
See the waters undemanding opportunely
And the gates of land and love.
HP-2 impulse move meddling, and perform the charm to the Mother aspect of the Idol upon HPS-2:
I request to you, Mother of all,
Ruler of our highest secret thoughts.
From dark and starlit flavor,
And fierce within the expensive earth:
Come to us crowned in ceremony - Come!
I conjure up you, and request upon you;
By the expensive earth and having a baby moon:
Come! Incline upon the person of Thy Priestess.
HPS-2 responds:
I am thy Goddess:
Not later than the beginning of time was I.
I completed the mountains appearing in peaks,
And laid with passive green coworker the valleys and the meadows.
Vision was the most important clear which trod upon the earth,
And anyplace I walked at hand sprang forth plant life.
Vision was the hole which gave ably to the most important beckon,
And the ducks listened, and heard, and completed return.
In the beginning of time
I skilled the sea its beckon,
And fund were the snuffle
That gave forth the most important rains.
Think about and stab Me!
For it was I who gave get going to you,
And in the low down of my earth
You impulse find rest and revival.
I impulse skip you forth once again,
A green jet to extravagance.
Affect Me; Warmly Me; Worship Me!
Lose yourself in Me.
For I am the cup of the wine of life:
I jab the senses;
I am the power. HP-1 impulse now perform the charm to the Crone aspect of the Idol upon HPS-1:
Melancholy Mother natural of reassure,
White Ruler of coil ice;
Garner the serpent's beckon of starlight
Summon with a leg on each side of the cauldron's night.
A name, a request, a key of shadows;
An ancient beckon from an ancient dream
Echoes fierce within the darkness,
Calls Thee from the low down minor.
For now I see Thy crystal coil,
Now I see the crystal web,
Shimmering in the cauldron's darkness,
Bringing life and bringing death.
And now I request upon Thee, Melancholy Mother,
To sink upon this the person of Thy servant and Priestess.
HP-1 bows down back HPS-1
HPS-1 responds:
Who calls to the Ruler of the Night?
(HP: "A worshipper")
Who calls to the boat of the thread?
(HP: "The Rotary Serpent")
Who calls to the Mother of the Serpent?
(HP: "A lover")
Who calls to the Mistress of the Trail Castle?
(HP: "Establishment itself")
If that man has not agonize in his basis, let him stand and point of view me now. (HP rises)
You deem called, and I deem answered, and now I shall teach thee a mystery: That if that which thou seekest, thou findest not within thee, thou bow never find it lacking thee. For perceive, I deem been with thee from the beginning, and I shall be with thee at the end. Divine Be. HP-1 income to his place in the Peak. The Mother and Crone impulse now "arm" each of the female guardians with the bits and pieces elemental weapon: The Crone impulse get the better of an athame from the altar, hand it to the Mother, who impulse function it to the Eastern champion. The wand impulse be given to the Southern champion, the chalice to the Western champion, the pentacle to the Northern champion, and the black egg to Mainstay.
Crone and Mother impulse now reach the veil: the Crone impulse part the mask, and say:
As the white eagle of the north is on high overhead,
And the browns, reds and golds of autumn lie in the drainage ditch, dead.
Memorialize along with that summer ducks with wings of fire flaying,
Came to declaration spring's new be interested in, natural of foliage falling to pieces.
As new life impulse come from death, love impulse come at leisure:
Warmly of love, love of life, and kindly lacking evaluate
Gives in return a wondrous yearning of a the makings in the region of seen.
Plank hand in hand, and together we'll stand
On the precipice of a dream.
Taking part in this, the Mother leads the Virgin to the centre of the circle, and on the gangster line, all three stand hand in hand.
Moreover the Mother unveils the Virgin saying:
Treatment Virgin to Life!
Treatment Virgin to Spring!
Let life skip from thine basis,
And out thine eyes.
Let joy perceive the dawn.
The Crone now instructs the Priests to turn improbable, as they may not declaration this stage of the female mysteries.
The Priestesses start to slowly circle deosil about the circle in The Step of the Elements. But this is leave-taking on, the Mother and Crone impulse extravaganza to the Virgin the point and power of each of the elements. 1755 Note:1755 This is an intrinsic part of the ritual, but cannot be in black and white as it is performed rashly by the Mother and Crone. The format is chiefly as follows:
Mother: I allow you the power of your get the impression
Crone: I allow you the power of initial stages
Mother: I allow you the power of will
Crone: I allow you the permission of air
and so on, keep going with each element as aspiration as considered necessary.
On involve from the Crone, the Step impulse break, and each Priestess impulse return to her respective fit. Now, the Mother impulse get the better of the Virgin to each Priestess in turn, starting with the East, anyplace she impulse be open with the elemental armaments. (i.e., armed with her prospect). Once upon a time each demonstration, the Virgin impulse dislocate the foil on the altar, to show her understanding and approval of this knowledge. Any Virgin and Mother impulse return to the cauldron, anyplace the Crone impulse function the Virgin with the Bride Toy, which she impulse tolerate, and place upon the altar. She along with income to the spirit, and looks appearing in the cauldron, anyplace she now finds a sistrum, which she picks up and shakes merrily uproar "Bride is Come, Bride is Welcome!"
This is the cue for the Priests to point of view centre just the once more. HP-1 starts playing the Bodrhun, and HPS-3 leads the listen. The Mother and Crone dead heat hands forcibly the Virgin in a symbol of protection. One and all chants 1756"Bride is Come, Bride is Treatment"1756 as the listen increases in scale, and along with HPS-3 impulse frogspawn the Witches' Rune next she feels the time is right. The listen impulse exact with arms meant aloft, and along with the Virgin impulse break out from amid the Mother and Crone, and get the better of the cauldron candle to the altar, anyplace she impulse light it from one of the altar candles.
She impulse turn to point of view the group having the status of HPS-3 leads the Initiate's Advantage of Sunlit.
The virgin now income to the East, anyplace she reads The Bank on of Brigid's Explode.
I am She of the golden hair, Ruler of the white hills, Restriction of the white cavort, and now stand at the precipice of my ceremony. I bring with me three gifts of fire: the most important is the flicker of Indication that is kindled within the basis of the seeker. The blaze is the flicker of purification; the cleansing flicker of truth.
The third is the flicker natural of the fires of love that brings the pelt of be interested in to all life.
Virgin now performs cakes and wine with a Priest of her limited.
The local holiday.
TO END THE Help
All get the better of their athames, and shore up HPS-1 as she esteem, and bids commencement address to the Area Guardians.
National training of the power.
All function make their farewells to each other, and abandon the Peak.
