OUTLINE OF A RITUAL FOR THE SOLITARY WITCH
- Ritual Preparation
- Define purpose
- Write ritual
- Gather necessary tools
- Prepare area
- Prepare body
- Open Circle
- Find compass North
- Set up door between the worlds
- Call the Watchtower/Elemental Quarters
- Invocation to the Deities
- Align self with deity
- Invoke Deities
- Statement of Purpose
- Actual Working or Act of Honor
- Working
- Complete preliminary manual or visual tasks
- Raise power/energy
- Focus Power/energy
- Ground power/energy
- Honoring
- Complete preliminary manual or visual tasks
- Dedicate cake & wine
- Partake of cakes & wine
- Meditation
- Thanking the Deities
- Closing the Circle
- Mentally & verbally close the circle
- Physically close the circle
- Clean-up
- disposal
- Washing of plates & glasses
- Putting away tools & other implements