--cord athame cauldron to burn stuff in;
--I also used quick-light charcoal with frankincense, myrrh and sandalwood for purification
--cakes and wine
Casting circle: (using athame)
I cast this circle
To protect me from negative energy and positive energy that would work against me
I raise this circle
To create a time that is not a time a place that is not a place in a world all its own
I draw this circle to erect this temple
Wherein I perform this rite, sacred unto myself
Quarter calls:
Hail spirits of the east Join me here for parting feast
Hail spirits of the south Partake this ending food with fiery mouth
Hail spirits of the west I end this here, let me be blessed
Hail spirits of the north I need to bury energy in thy earth, so I call thee forth
Tie cord around your waist. Make on knot for each person, item or incident you wish to
free yourself from. Invocation:
Plouton, god of good fortune, god of death
I ask thy presence and thy boon
You see these bonds around my waist that I shall be breaking soon
Carry these energies back to Hades
Give them a place in the land of the dead
Each knot around this cord on my waist represents something somehow unresolved.
By enacting this rite, I am naming myself free!
I cut you from me (name names, name sins, etc.) I am free of you
(place knot in burning cauldron)
Repeat as necessary for each person. (cut off all of cord, with athame).
throw in cauldron. Over cauldron:
Plouton, as these connection burn
Let their power forever wane
Take what's left of them with you to the underworld
I have had from them what I can learn
Cakes and wine
Good-byes:
Plouton, sacred ruler of the dead I have finished my ending rite
Thank you for hearing what I have said
Goodbye, travel well to your eternal night North and earth,
carry the energy I raised here bury it, let it lay fallow --
I am done with this rite West and water, cleanse away these stagnant lines wash them away --
I am done with my rite South and fire, transform these old energies into something healthier and happier --
I am done with my rite East and air, blow these old lessons away from me I am ready for new paths --
I am done with my rite I cast this circle, thus neutralized, into the universe that whomever needs this
energy may take it and I re-enter the time that is a time and the place that is a place
so mote it be