Midsummer

[Helen Milano]

-Need a cauldron filled with water in front of altar, heather branch beside altar
-Invoke:
"Great one of heaven, power of the sun,
I invoke thee in thine ancient names-Michael, Balin, Arthur, Lugh;
come again as of old into this thy land.
Lift up thy shining spear of light to protect me.
Put to flight the powers of darkness.
Give us fair eoodlands and green fields, blossoming orchards
and ripening corn. Bring me to stand upon thy hill of vision
and show me the path to the lovely realm of the gods."
-Make invoking pentagram above altar with the wand
-Raise both hands up highm then plunge the wand into the cauldron. Hold the wand up and say:
"The spear to the cauldron,
the lance to the grail,
spirit to flesh
man to woman,
Sun to Earth."
-Place wand on altar and pick up heather branch
-Sprinkle self with water from cauldron, using the branch, saying:
"Thus do I dance before the cauldron of Cerridwen, the Goddess,
being clessed with the touch of this consecrated water;
even as the Sun, the Lord of life, arises in his strength in the sign
of the waters of life!"
-Then say:
"Let the midsummer fires shine forth!"
-Place the altar candles in the centre of the circle, about four feet appart, along the East-West line
-Then pass between the two candles. Replace the candles on the altar.