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USAGE: To End a Ritual
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You will need:
The four quarter candles
The God and Goddess Candles
A candle snuffer
Leader:
"We met this day/night in love and peace, and our rite was blessed by the light of all within this circle. May the goodness, energy and light within be reflected in our lives without. Blessed be the Lord and Lady, in all the ways they were reflected tonight, as hope, as promise, as healing and as the sacred mother and father to whom we owe our existence."
East:
"From the East we were granted air, and the first rays of the sun, from the east came light, and from there is shall return. (snuff candle)"
South:
"Holy fire from the south cleansed and tempered us, to there let the fires return.(snuff)"
West:
"Water that is life, brought from the west to nurture, cleanse and uplift, to the west return(snuff)"
North:
"Earth, from which we came, housed in the North, to the North return (snuff)"
Leader:
"Lord and Lady, sacred parents, sacred lovers, sacred children, may your light grow ever stronger, lifted into the heavens as moon and sun, and reflected in the eyes of all who can gaze skyward with the light of the Law within them. (candles snuffed)"
Now is our rite complete, May the circle be open, but ever unbroken!
