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Ancestor Ritual for Samhain



Purpose: To honor the ancestors and friends whom have gone before us. This ritual also gives honor the witches and pagans that died before us in the Burning Times.





Tools and Ingredients: One large black candle in a high sitting holder, birthday candles (white), sand, a cauldron, a God and Goddess candle.





Procedure: Gather all the supplies and place them on the altar table. Put the sand into the cauldron.





Cast the circle.

Call the quarters.

Invoke the deities.



Say "Crone, Goddess of the Cauldron of rebirth, on this night when the wall is thin we invoke you. Lady of the Summerland, matron of death and rebirth, in this rite we honor you and our ancestors. We invoke ye wise crone! So mote it be!"



"Lord of winter and of shadowed sleep, co-ruler of the under world we invoke thee! So mote it be!

Light the black candle."



Say: "We light this candle to all the witches and pagans that died in the Burning Times. We honor their sacrifice for our freedom. So mote it be!"





Say: "We call our ancestors and other positive spirits to this circle to share in our honoring rite. We stir only those who can and wish to come. This rite is in your honor."





Anyone present may light candle(s) in memory of friends, family, pets, etc. and place them into the cauldron. Feel free to say a few words or remain silent.





Thank the ancestors.





Thank the deities.





Thank and dismiss the corners.





Uncast the Circle.





Say: "And So Mote It Be"

Supplies:



Besom or Decorative Broom (plain, or decorated to match your decor or the current season; or a cinnamon broom, smells nice too!)

Nail to hang it on (Hammer to mount the nail)



Hang the besom or broom on the back of the door and say:



As you hang upon my door, Remember what a door is for

Letting in and keeping out, Is what a door is all about.



As we travel on our rounds, Help us return safely to our grounds.

But whether we're in or whether we're out, Please keep want and trouble out."



Make the sign of the banishing pentagram* on the inside of the door, and the sign of the invoking pentagram* on the outside.

Bubble Healing Spell

By SunFeather MoonLite Orcan



Prep work:



5 small bowls

Incense [burn spearmint and allspice on charcoal]

Bubbles and bubble wand

Food coloring: green, blue, red, yellow



[Mix each color of food coloring in each bowl with a portion of the bubble solution, and in the 5th bowl add a small portion of each color to a portion of the bubble solution]



Cleanse your sacred area, cast the circle, call the Quarters, invoke the God and The Goddess, and light the incense. Begin by meditating on the purpose of the bubbles and healing. Visualize the healing within each bowl and see the solutions glow with a white light.



Either with a picture of the sick person or with the actual person at hand, blow the red bubbles and say 3 times:



Fire from above and Fire from below,

Take the illness and pain,

And into the fire we watch it go,

Burn it away as this life will not ail but gain



Blowing the blue bubbles, say 3 times:



Water from above and water from below,

Washing away the burnt illness and pain,

Taking it from this physical form,

Wash it away as this life will not ail but gain



Blowing the yellow bubbles, say 3 times:



Air from above and Air from below,

Blowing far away in the shape of a bubble the washed illness and pain,

Keeping it all trapped in the bubble and drying the body and the soul,

Blowing it away as this life will not ail but gain



Blowing the green bubbles, say 3 times:



Earth all around and Earth from below,

Bury this bubble that trapped the illness and pain,

Keeping it from harming any friend or foe,

Bury it deep far away as this life will not ail but gain



Blowing the bubbles of all 4 colors, say 3 times:



Within these healing bubbles,

I have called the power of the corners to heal,

Taking away all the ailments and troubles,

No more pain or ailment for this body and soul to feel



Thank The Goddess and The God, release the Quarters, and close the Circle.