Solitary Ritual for Beltaine by Karen Thoms

Materials needed:
flowers (seasonal to your region);
candle (white or yellow);
wine or juice;
fresh fruit, berries, or good chocolate;
scrying instrument if desired;
small dish of birdseed -or- container of wildlife flower seeds.

Although I give words and procedures, alter them to fit your own practice as needed.  For example, I start the circle in the North.  You may change to East and/or change the words. 
If you have a relationship with one of the particular goddesses invited, you may only use her.
Physical and medical limitations should always be considered.

Altar set-up is with the candle in the center;  wine and fruit to the left; seed to the right;
flowers in a pleasing arrangement above the center and overall. 

(facing North)
I call to that beneath my feet;
the bones and flesh of  Mother;
Earth-being I call you present.

(facing East)
I call to that within my breath;
the song and sigh of Mother;
Earth-voice I call you present.

(facing South)
I call to that within my heart;
the desire and will of Mother;
Earth-knowing I call you present.

(facing West)
I call to that within my veins;
the creativity and sustenance of Mother;
Earth-blood I call you present.

As it is through time and space,
as it is in this world and all others,
this circle is cast and complete.

(light candle)
I invite you, Freya, Aphrodite, and Astarte to join with me
in this celebration of love, fertility, and delight.
Bring your joy, your passion, your glorious abandon;
renew this place from a time of cold and bring new life.

**At this time scrying may be performed.  As Beltaine is
one of the times the veil between the worlds is thinnest, contact between
worlds is most clear.**

This next portion of the ritual is an invocation of happiness.  Hold the bowl of
seeds/birdseed in your hands and actively think about things that have made
you happy and brought you joy in the last week.  Even something as small as a
bird that sang outside your window.  Concentrate and focus on the happiness
felt at those times.  Charge the seed with happiness and repeat the following:

My blood, my womb is creation;
I am love; I am Goddess;
I am the tree and I am the flower;
I choose to embrace beauty and
I choose to embrace life.

Replace the bowl on the altar.  Drink the wine and eat the fruit while meditating
on finding pleasure in all things.  Save a bit as a libation and offering to be
scattered outside. 

Thank the Goddesses for their presence and release the elements each in turn. 
Unmake the circle.  Take the seed outside and scatter.  (Birdseed where the birds can
safely eat; flower seeds where they can grow naturally and undisturbed.)

Sapphire, 2008
HPS, Order of Avalon
Co-chair, HLC Witches
Co-director, Great Lakes Regional Open Circle

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