Instructions:
1. All Hails are followed with a Hail from All Members participating.
2. As the blade is passed to you please respond with the oath as made by Our Spiritual Father/mother until the blade is returned to the Elder Father.
3. As the chalice is passed please do the same. If you do not wish to participate feel free to “pass” and it shall most certainly be respected.
4. Once the Ritual has begun, the Ritual space is considered sacred space, and we would ask that it be treated as such until such time as the Ritual is completed.
5. We are “Intolerant of Intolerance” here at the Temple. We would ask All Members to be respectful of one another.
Thank you for your participation!
Spiritual Father: Welcome to the Ritual of the Dark Moon, we are glad to have you!
Spiritual Mother: It is a blessing to have you with us tonight.
Spiritual Father: Layla (Lilith), Dark Mother, tonight is the Dark Moon. Many things are revealed in the Darkness, and as we are Seekers, this is our time. Tonight we seek to remember the spring, both within the mundane world, and within our Spiritual Selves. Soon enough, the time for Renewal will be upon us. Tonight we seek to prepare for that Renewal.
Spiritual Mother: We are more than our physical selves alone. And while we love and respect our physical vehicle, we also recognize that we are ever Awakening, and it is now the time to reconnect with our spiritual bodies, with our spiritual Self.
Spiritual Father: I take this chalice and I fill it with my intent to better know the facets of my spiritual Self that have lain sleeping and dormant. I pass the chalice to our Spiritual Mother.
Spiritual Mother: I take this chalice and I fill it with my intent to better know the facets of my spiritual self that have lain sleeping and dormant. I pass the chalice to ______
(Next Member)…
*All Members I take this chalice and I fill it with my intent to better know the facets of my spiritual self that have lain sleeping and dormant. I pass the chalice to ______
(Next Member until it is returned to Our Spiritual Father...)
Spiritual Father: I drink of this chalice, and I take into myself, the clarity to Awaken. I now pass the chalice to our Spiritual Mother…
Spiritual Mother: I drink of this chalice, and I take into myself, the clarity to Awaken. I pass the chalice to ______ (Next Member)…
*All Members following suit, or passing, as the chalice is passed to them until it is “returned” to our Spiritual Father…
Spiritual Father: I draw this blade, and I with it, I stir that which sleeps within me. I shall not fear that which is but a part of me, and I shall not deny myself. Hail!
Spiritual Mother: Hail! *All Members Hail!
Spiritual Father: I draw this blade and I with it I stir that which sleeps within me. I shall not fear that which is but a part of me, and I shall not deny myself. Hail!
Spiritual Mother: I draw this blade and I with it I stir that which sleeps within me. I shall not fear that which is but a part of me, and I shall not deny myself. Hail!
*All Members I draw this blade and I with it I stir that which sleeps within me. I shall not fear that which is but a part of me, and I shall not deny myself. Hail!
(Passing around the circle until the blade is “returned” to our Spiritual Father).
Spiritual Father: Hail the Divine!
Spiritual Mother: Hail! *All Members Hail!
Spiritual Father: Thank you for being with us here for this month’s Ritual of the Dark Moon!
Spiritual Mother: Thank you!
Spiritual Father: Dark Blessings as The Ritual is now Closed…
© Rev. Samilyn and Rev. JP DDG