Casting the Circle Visualisation and Object Consecration (Southern Hemisphere Version) 

There are several stages to this circle cast... I have included a simple breathing exercise, energy cleansing, grounding and centering and energy tapping exercises that can be performed before the circle cast. Once these have been practiced they become very quick and automatic and available for use when casting a mental circle. You can ready yourself and tap into energies required with a moments thought. All these pre-circle cast exercises can be practiced individually as well. 

A Visualisation Exercise Part One 

Have the items to be consecrated nearby 
Sit quietly in the centre of a cleared space. Make yourself comfortable. 
Start with a breathing exercise.... in 2,3,4, hold 2,3,4, out 2,3,4, hold 2,3,4 etc. 

Repeat this breathing pattern until you start to feel relaxed, your heartbeat slows and your breath is all you are aware of... narrow your field of awareness down until the breath is everything.... 

Grounding Meditation (The Tree)

You feel yourself starting to take root in the earth... becoming one with the earth, the soil... your arms become branches of the tree as you reach out into the world around you.... your roots go deeper into the soil seeking and searching.. take note of what tree you become... you can use this tree as a shield... its branches protecting you the foliage thick or thin depending on how much you want to let in.... What is the tree.. remember... and what does it mean to you... 

There is a place in the centre of your being where you are calm and controlled... find that place....the place where mind body and spirit are one.... when you find that centre send a tap root down into the earth.... send the tap root to seek the place in the earth that matches your centre... when you find it .. link to it... centre to centre... your base.. to keep you linked to the earth... a place where you can shunt excess energy and draw from it as well.... you feel yourself drawing energy from your roots... energy from the earth.... this energy you will draw through your cleansed and open body to use in building your circle.... you are one with the energy... from centre to centre the energy recognises you as part of itself... it is a natural flow.... in the order of things.... 

Circle Cast - Part Two 

Feel the energy flowing through you.... use this energy to fuel your visualisations.... 
Cup your hands together... feel the energy pooling in your hands..... play with the energy.. when you feel that your hands are full feel the energy forming a tiny sword within the ball of the energy in your hands.... you open your hands and there is a glowing blue sword within them... you stretch your hands to either side of your body as you stretch the sword and make it longer and bigger... as it expands and stretches the blue fire within it glows brighter.... this is your sword... the sword of your imaginings.... you see the sword as real and you take it in your power hand.... visualise yourself drawing a circle around you... holding the blue sword.... you tread anticlockwise around the circle... from the tip of the sword comes witchfire.. the blue flame that marks the circle.... you visualise yourself returning back to the centre of the circle and sitting down.... and you place the sword in front of you. Now watch the flame and concentrate on it... build the flame into the walls of the sphere... above and below.... the sphere is made of blue flame.. it glows, it purifies and it contains energy.... the circle is where the sphere of flame cuts through the ground.... 

Slowly your gaze moves about the circle in an anticlockwise direction... as your gaze falls upon the sphere the flame takes on a darker blue glow as the powers of water add their energies to circle of energy you have created.... elemental energies cleansed by the witchfire.... now your circle flames with the bright blue of the witchfire with the merging flame that flickers with the deep blue of the sea... of the element of water..... you gaze around the circle once more... this time you feel the energies of earth merge as a green glow into the sphere.... your gaze moves about the circle and the green merges with blue.... your sphere of light and flame.. growing stronger with the added energies of the elements. Once again you gaze around the circle.. this time adding the powers of the element of air... with a vibrant yellow glow... it moves around the sphere following your gaze.... air cleansed by the witchfire and merged with water and with earth... once more your gaze travels around the circle... this time with the powers of fire.. . red glowing light... it merges with the elements present in the sphere... the red light that follows your gaze around the sphere... above and below.... your circle surrounds you..... the energies pulse the blues, the green, the yellow and the red..... they pulse and then in a flash of white light they become one and the circle is cast.... a white sphere surrounds you above and below... it contains the energies that you will raise, it is a protection against energies entering from outside and it is a place of peace and love and trust, your temple and a place between the worlds.... 

Look to the East... feel the air gathering there.. see the yellow glow appearing as a pillar.... as you invite with your mind the lords of Air to be present in your circle..... when the pillar glows strongly... they are here... 

Look to the North... feel the heat gathering there... see the red glow appearing as a pillar.... as you invite with your mind the Lords of Fire to be present in your circle... when the pillar glows strongly... they are here... 

Look to the West... feel the water gathering there.... see the blue glow appearing as a pillar... as you invite with your mind the Lords of Water to be present in your circle... when the pillar glows strongly... they are here... 

Look to the South... feel the earth gathering there.... see the green glow appearing as a pillar... as you invite with your mind the Lords of Earth to be present in your circle... when the pillar glows strongly... they are here... 

You have a circle around you... a glowing sphere of white... at each cardinal point there glows a pillar of elemental light.... feel yourself opening to the powers of the divine within you.... tell the Lord and the Lady that you have built this place for them... in perfect love and trust.... and invite them witness your rites..... 

Once again... feel the energies of the earth that flows through the roots you have made into the ground... see it filling the circle... the buzz and crackle in the air.... 

The energy flows... it is not pulled.... 

Consecration - Part Three 

Take the object you wish to consecrate.... and place it on the ground in front of you... take up your flaming sword (represented as your pointed finger if you are doing the actions as well) and draw over it an earth banishing pentagram (which starts from the bottom left point and moves to the top centre point.... down to the bottom right point.. up to the top left point and across to the top right point and back down to the bottom left point). As you draw the pentagram visualise all negativity being blasted out of the object... all ills and impurities of its spirit are banished.... now use the elements within your body to consecrate the object to you, your gods and to yourself.... place the object against your breast and feel it merge with the your body of earth.... lick your finger and touch the object to give a blessing of water, breathe upon the object as a blessing of air and rub your hands together to create heat and place your hands over the object and project the blessings of fire into the object.... finally see the object glowing with a white light as the elements become merged and it forms the blessings of the element of spirit.... 

Visualise yourself taking the object to each of the pillars and let the object be bathed in the light of each... as it is presented to and receives the blessings of each guardian of the elements.... 

Hold up the object before you and ask in your heart and mind that the Mighty Ones bless this object... state what it is to be used for and what it represents.... 

Feel the energy flow through you then.... 

The object is now consecrated.... 

Closing the circle - Part Four 

Visualise each of the pillars... starting with the yellow of air in the east....in your mind thank the Lord of Air for its presence and bid it hail and farewell... see the pillars shimmer and fade, do the same with each guardian.... Red for fire in the North, Blue for Water in the West, Green for Earth in the South.... 
Thank the Lord and the Lady and the Mighty Ones for their presence and blessings.... 

Then visualise your self walking around the circle clockwise... with the sword in your hand.... pierce the circle and then the energies of the elements and the circle are drawn through the flaming blade... back through you to meld with the flow of energies in the earth..... feel the power going back into the earth through the roots that connect you to her.... you take the sword and plunge it tip first into the earth where the excess energy is then put back into the flow of the earth.. the flame slowly goes out of the blade which then fades away all together.... as the energy returns to the earth once more.... 

You slowly disengage your tap root .. taking it back within yourself.... and letting the energy flow return to the earth without cycling through you..... but do this gently.... your tree is part of you now... to be summoned at will.. but you feel yourself returning to your human form... slowly... the roots retract back and your arms are no longer branches..... and you are human once more.... but you can still feel the shield of the tree if you wish it.... slowly become aware of your breathing... in and out in and out...when you feel ready and back in normal space.. open your eyes.... once more..... bang upon the ground 3 times... to return and ground and seal the energy.... 
It is done....So mote it be....