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202 Creating Circles & Ceremonies
196. Green Season Quarter Calls
Air that blows idea-songs,
Breath of Gaia’s sing-along,
The world exalts with voices ringing
Air! take our spirits winging!
Fire at growtime’s blazing heart,
Quickening every living part,
We who dance to fan the flame,
Ask, Fire! let partner be your name!
Water shining in rain and river,
Thou nourisher and comfort giver.
We ask of you, Oh mother of flowers,
Gentle floods of life-stream power.
Earth, Thou art both bird and nest,
With spring-song filled and new life blessed.
We who call you are living eggs.
Earth! hatch and hold us we happily beg.
—Olwen Fferyllt
197. Springtime Call to the Goddess
The Crone has sighed and passed us by.
The Maiden blushes near,
In Grain and Fruit that bursts with life,
And the turning of the year.
We hear you on the whispering winds,
We see you in the flower,
This maiden of light, she now descends
To bless us with her power.
Lady of blossoms, of field and hearth,
We celebrate your youth,
Be with us as your fertile Earth
Brings forth a life renewed.
Blessed Be!
—Crow Dragontree
198. Ostara Goddess Invocation
Come to us, Holy Maiden,
Cloaked in the green and yellow of daffodils.
With your smile thaw the frozen springs,
Let the waters gush out,
The birth waters of the world.
Bless the buds on the apple trees, and the seeds
We hide in the dark, moist womb of our Mother.
Dance the lengthening days of Spring,
And sing the Summer into being.
—Carolyn Clark
199. How does one come to know the Fey?
When the journey of the day is done,
Dim twilight, soft approaching comes—
While circled round the fires some say—
“How does one come to know the Fey?”
And I dreamed of spirits, shimmering free,
Like moonlight beams that dance on streams,
In sweet Harmony’s shared serenity.
There I first looked within to seek
The hope of peace that beckoned me.
So fair was she that called my name,
She shone and smiled, devoid of shame—
Beauty walks as in a candle-flame.
And once I knew this mystery,
Outside myself I then could see—
That all is Spirit, and I confess
That Life’s in love with its own caress.
When the tranquil light of Spirit shines
Divisions of the realms subside—
Like the bubbling foam of surf on sand
Both here and gone, within your hands...
I ride the fragrant nightbloom drifting,
Like a whisper on the breeze.
And hear the music of a hidden world—
Of drums and pipes with source unseen......
And join the song of wonderment,
Free in Faery merriment!
I feel them as they touch my Spirit,
To find my color and my shade,
And dance with them rejoicing—
Oh, the nature of the friends I made!
They are servants of our Lady-Life
As we who turn the Wheel.
So when you come to know the Fey,
Trust deeply what you feel.
—Bob Gratrix, Ostara, 1999
200. Goddess/God Invocations
Hail Diana, Queen of Witches!
Huntress with Your golden arrows,
You were first of all Creation;
Walk with us between the worlds.
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Hail Silvanus, God of mountains,
Lord of wild and sacred forests!
You who preserves the oak and laurel,
Walk with us between the worlds.
—Sanura & Diane DesRochers