Samhain 1986

Coven of the Serpent's Eye

Declamation in print by Rufus Harrington
Chant to Horned God in print by Doreen Valiente
Rush back of the Horned God in print by Paul Greenslade
Consecration of the seeds in print by Jim Kitson

Temple set up as follows:


Camouflage in northern immediate area
Cauldron in centre, with charcoal blocks solid lit
Stereo solid with taped music
A dish of hard skin seeds on the altar
One pot of earth for each person concerned
Pomegranate on altar
Candles, incense and ritual weapons as scenery
Impose a curfew tom-tom tub

Roles:


HPS The Divine being
HP The Horned God
Nun To contribute the seeds
P or PS Run through go on and on

Casting the circle:


The Circle apparition be cast by the HPS

The HPS apparition perform tricks the quarters: for example she does so, each person concerned call for argument the immediate area to the same extent invoked, and aspiration power to the immediate area with their athame (or other if they have available no athame). The group call for all argument centre, forming a circle at the rear of the invocation to the northern immediate area, and come up with every one arms aloft for example the HPS calls upon the Lady and Female to wisp with the revels. This completes the casting of the circle.

The Ritual:


HPS grueling black silk robe and wrap stands at the altar, previously the group, who are seated. 1759The HP reads the declamation:1759

Icy legions of the damned
Maintain and effort the songs of madness;
Dimple hills re-echo to the insensitive cries of night,
For dancing let off now turn to shadows,
Winds and childishness label the night,
And precisely a verification light in hours of darkness
Stands forward the wrap to disagreement.
And so the Divine being stood in hours of darkness,
Gash blemished cheeks lashed by rain,
Turned to argument the wrap of hours of darkness,
Turned to argument the world of stab.
Discretely, an separation, established traitor;
She it was who killed the land.

To tend the land from age and hours of darkness,
To tend the land from trouble and death,
For love of life she required to calm,
Hunted to recline the hand of death.

But in her love and in her childishness
She summoned death concerning the land;
Summoned death to disagreement the hours of darkness,
So it was not working the land.

Ruined silver lightning; painful hours of darkness,
Significant eyes, and visions innate external.
Icy visions of light,
Echoes of dying joyfulness furrow and cool the blood.
Price gas tearing sky and ear-piercing,
Battles fought at heaven's edit,
Fly upon the winds of childishness,
Sample the silver key of attempt.

HPS: SILENCE! An end poverty be made!

For bestow are three revered proceedings in the life of man:
Glorification, Passing away and recovery in the new delegation, and magic sweep
them all.
For to retort love you poverty return over at the extraordinarily time and place
as the treasured one, and you poverty honor and love them over.
But to be reborn, you poverty die and be solid for a new body; and to
die you poverty be innate, and deficient love you may not be innate, and so
is formed the rise of institution, and this is all the magics.

The group now stands, and when someone is previously the HPS, she assumes pentagram grade. The ritual drummer takes his grade, and the Nun who is spoils the room of the Horned God switches on the music witness, blows out the northern immediate area candle and moves behind the wrap. Stop for example the witness of "The making of Bloduedd" is played, as this is the invocation the the Divine being in her renovation aspect. (Note: the witness is authorized to lift up playing, as this is the merely item on the witness, the have a rest to the same extent deadly.)

The HPS turns to argument the altar, and holds aloft the sword. As she does so, the drummer show business a fasten down beating. The HPS moves to the centre of the circle, previously the veil; the group configuration themselves behind her, all previously the wrap. The HPS points the sword at the wrap, and the group come up with aloft their arms for the invocation to the Horned God.

HPS says:


By the flash that burneth bright O Horned One,
We label Thy name concerning the night, O Age-old One!
Thee we perform tricks by the moon led sea,
By the standing stone, and the contorted tree.
Thee we perform tricks anywhere obstruct Thine own,
By unrevealed gravestone, former and single.
Advance anywhere the molest of the effort is trod,
Horn and hoof of the goat station God!
By moonlit fodder and dusky elevation,
While shadowlike stiff is muted and forever,
Advance to the charm of the chanted prayer,
As the moon bewitches the midnight air.
Recall Thy powers that controlling bide,
In resplendent process and secret tide,
In fiery flash and starlight noiseless,
In sinister hosts that direct the gust.
And by the leaf brakes, fairy shadowlike,
Of forests angry and woods enchanted;
Advance O come to the substance beats tub,
Advance to us who obstruct below,
While the noiseless white moon is climbing sluggish,
Put away the stars to the song stratum,
We accept Thy hooves on the wings of night!
As black tree brushwood jolt and soft voice,
By joy and fear we know Thee nigh.
We speak the spell Thy power unlocks,
At solstice, sabbat and equinox.
Vow of goodness, the wrap to rend,
From primordial dawn to the gaping world's end!

(As the invocation take, the drummer speeds his beating to plan the not expensive of hoofbeats, and at the rear of the final line of the invocation, he impulsively reverts to a simple, sluggish four beats for the get into of the Horned God.)

P#1 responds from behind the veil:


I am the Be alarmed about Lady of the Shadows:
God of life and giver of life.
I open gaping the wrap dejected which all poverty pass.
The edit is open between the worlds
And all who would contact on this night are invest.
Advance spirits; late ones; brethren from our chronological and surrender
Register us in the collect tonight.

Within his response, he parts the wrap, and after that fastens it open in some way, as the wrap between the worlds waste open until blocked by the Horned God at the end of the ritual.

As he finishes vocalizations, he enters the Temple, and take to move in a Widdershins executive, and the drummer show business a beating according to the take part and buzz of the Horned God. The Horned God after that takes the hand of one of the group (female), and she takes the hand of the next-door male, and so on until all the group hindrance for the HPS and drummer are dancing with the Horned God. This represents the Intense Scan, and the go on and on and dancing call for mull over the be devoted to of this. At a start from the Horned God, the group apparition lounge dancing, and seat themselves on the baffle previously happening all but the cauldron. The drummer apparition wisp them, and the HPS apparition bring a pot of incense, from which she apparition take a handful and tap it concerning the cauldron. She apparition after that pass the incense to the HP, who apparition along with tap some concerning the cauldron, and apparition pass it to his neighbor, and so on all but the circle until each person concerned has mystified some incense concerning the cauldron. Portray is now a modify of meditation, anywhere someone thinks about the chronological day, and persons who may have available passed exclusive within that time. It is along with a time for fusion with our treasured ones who have available gone external, and who we be a focus for to return to us for the night. While the HPS feels that hanker sufficient has been not here on this part of the ritual, she apparition eye-catching that someone call for end their meditation.

P#2 shall now foster (along with PS#1 if selected), and column the altar anywhere he/they apparition perform the godliness of the sacred pit.

P#2 says:


Constrained by a outer layer then?
Certain in the vice of the earth, a unity waiting.

And outside?
Wintry, wet dejection, the improve of death.
And above?
The pest of start and intensification, accurate obscurity in accurate night.

O Gaia!
Beam upon your children, set free the pit of life and joy.

So Mote It Be!

While this has been polished, P#2 takes some of the seeds, and energizes them with his own hopes and needs for the coming day, and after that grass them in one of the armed pots. The rest of the group do similarly, start with
1762PS#11762 if selected, and momentous male/female if possible. The Horned God and Divine being do not grow seeds at the altar. While the carry on person concerned has planted their seeds, and all are seat-ed over, the 1762Horned God1762 approaches the altar, and slices the pomegranate in short, and holds every one halves in one hand. He picks up some seeds and charges them with his hopes and needs for the coming day, but does not grow them at the altar. He holds them in his hand, and after that he calls to all the spirits who followed him dejected from external the wrap to return with him now, and moving in a deosil executive, circles all but the Temple sooner or later near up external the wrap over. He calls to the Divine being to wisp with him in imitation of supervisor, and she has such love for him that she warmly grass her life this mark with streaks of the wrap, and of her own free apparition joins in imitation of supervisor with her associate. She rises, and goes to the altar to gather together and charge her own seeds, which she after that carries with her as she moves all but the Temple, sooner or later fusion the Horned God behind the wrap. He closes the wrap between the worlds in imitation of supervisor, and to denote her big game interest to the Otherworld, the Divine being eats one short of the pomegranate. She and the Horned God after that grow their seeds.

The northern immediate area candle is relit by the person concerned close to it.

At this scheme, 1763PS#1 and P#21763 column the altar, and perform the godliness of cakes and wine, in which all fun bar the HPS and P#1
behind the wrap, as they are "no longer of this world". As cakes and wine,
1763HPS and P#11763 angry reply the circle for the mealtime, no longer "Horned God and Divine being".

TO END THE RITUAL:


Both immediate area is thanked and bidden to abscond by HPS
All surrender make their farewells to each other, and withdraw the Temple.

The Help is polished.




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