Earth Ritual
by Blayze

Circle cast
1/4's, Central Invocation
Witches Rune

There are two guardians.

Everyone stands around the circle. Guardian 1 walks around the circle and gives each participant a stone. The Guardian speaks to each person in turn with inspired utterance of Earth or using some of the lines below.

I am the stone, the foundation
I am the seed that lies at the centre of all
I am the darkness of midnight
I am the bud bursting forth
I am the unfurling leaf
I am the bones of the earth
I am the growth and the growing
I am the green and the greening
I am the desert at night
I am the shield and the strength
I am the nurturing one
I am the shelter
I am the Earth

With each person holding onto their stone, Guardian 1 leads a slow spiral walk at a measured pace. (This will be performed to a drumbeat).

When the music stops, everyone sits down in the spiral pattern and is instructed by Guardian 2 to close their eyes. Guardian 2 leads participants through the Earth meditation.

Meanwhile, Guardian 1 sets up the earth altars at the side of the circle (South if possible). There is a large shallow bowl of sand with a crystal ball half embedded in the centre. There is also a smaller bowl of soil and a bowl of seeds.

At the end of the meditation, each person is called individually to the Earth quarter. They are asked to make a small hole in the soil with their stone. They place a seed in the hole and then fill the hole with some more soil. This is their offering to the Earth.

They are then asked to draw an earth invoking pentagram in the sand with their stone. The centre of the pentagram will be filled with the crystal ball.

After they have drawn the pentagram, they scry through the ball into the sand looking for their truth of Earth. When they are finished, Guardian 1 instructs them to take their stone to Guardian 2 who will help them place their stone in a cairn. Participant then returns to the main circle and sits down.

Cakes and Ale
Farewell quarters
Close circle.