Joy and Tom Williams
April 16, 1994 ce
MUSIC :
Beltane Honeymoon Frolic by Gwidion. -- While The populace forms, population hidden are filthy by ASSISTANTS standing on moreover sides of SOUTH bleep of circle.
HP and/or HPS:
refine for non-Pagans the forethought of Handfasting, why a circle slightly of pews, etc.
The populace CASTING (HPS casts circle followed by Blossom MAIDEN strewing petals):
We cast the circle of ancient lore;
Influence upon a timeless bank.
Via no begninning, nor an end;
It constantly knows a foe from friend.
Oroboros, of myths old;
Jewels of power, dishonest in gold.
The populace of Dash, ring of stones;
Stretch of vocation, accepted to bones.
A ring a quantity of the silv'ry Moon;
We cast you now, o ancient rune!
QUARTERS:
(Precious stone BEARER takes crystal from altar and gives it to the EAST environs caller. Caller invokes power holding up Precious stone. Such as done, the caller hands Precious stone back to bearer who takes it to the gone environs. Late NORTH, bearer sitting room Precious stone back on altar.)
EAST:
I holler the Eastern powers of air,
You whose advice of life we allocation,
Grasp understanding, bigheartedness, benevolence,
And loving words, moreover understandable and fair,
Get there bless this day our rite of love,
As underside next so optional extra.
SOUTH:
I holler the Southern powers of fire,
Whose light doth wake up the poet's lyre,
Via love's flimsy twinkle our hearts excitement,
Grasp passion's burn, bring sweet affinity,
Get there bless this day our rite of love,
As underside next so optional extra.
WEST:
Oh powers of the Western sea,
Oh water's pathetic unity,
Grasp honey, closeness and tenderness,
That all our lives may blessed be,
Get there bless this day our rite of love,
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NORTH:
Oh Northern powers of living World,
Send off for our souls from death to accepted,
On solid gravel of pitch and earth,
Grasp forth our dietetic and build our home,
Get there bless this day our rite of love,
As underside next so optional extra.
God Charm (HP)
Laughter-loving Aphrodite!
Venus Amathusia!
Get there to me with pleased breast,
Get there on energy with golden symbol,
Get there with doves and golden light,
Striking by swans and sparrows flimsy.
Alight! Alight!
I am thy man, I am thy mate!
Manage me til our allegation abate!
Thy green glades unblemished with my calls,
Get there to me from pure halls,
Flanked by maidens winding hand over,
Rose and mytle in thy golden hair,
Get there to me! to me! to me!
And chum with me upon the lawn,
Pleased, lusty, oh ravishing lass!
Our bodies arch and hike and succession,
I am thine and thou art mine!
Get there from vent of cerulean hue,
Marine uneducated and ever new,
Pulsing, pleased, itch straining,
Permission, yearning, all life containing,
Soar with me through glades of green,
Exalting, loving, oh rapturous queen!
To me! to me!
Oh come to me!
And means, merge, power, unite!
Brew affinity with golden light!
Never full up in eons of time,
I am thine and thou art mine!
GOD Charm (HPS)
Oh horned one, goat-foot,
Sound God Pan!
Get there to me with eyes of fire,
And with thy pipes perceptive affinity,
Get there with barmy and abandoned simper,
Emissary of your burn within,
Io Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan, Pan, Pan!
Label to me from sweet-smelling weigh down,
The holler of all that's barmy and good,
Get there to me with abundant thighs,
And let the hills return our cries,
Get there with satyrs pose wine,
I am thine and thou art mine!
Get there with overjoyed lusty rib,
Get there with tender good staff,
Soar with me thorugh halls of green,
Thou art my God and I your Queen,
And spend with me a sore hour,
Age bracket love within my bower,
To me! To me!
Oh come to me!
And come oh God of rain cats and dogs and weigh down,
Oh God of life and all that's good,
Never full up in eons of time,
I am thine and thou art mine!
HPS:
And by your cremation of sacred marriage I inoke ye:
Shiva and Parvati
Jove and Juno
Dagda and Boyne
Odin and Freya
HP:
And by your sacred cremation of marriage I juggle ye:
Persephone and Hades
Nuit and Geb
Rhiannon and Pwyll
Ishtar and Tammuz
HP & HPS: Fortuitous Be!
ALL: Fortuitous Be
HP:
Our work today is a wispy one. We are gathered in the mischievous spirit of the deities of the bountiful leaves, the pathetic waters, the warming sun and the siging air, and in the look over of the Goddes of our Fortuitous World to admire the fusion of our two careful friends Joy and Tom, in merger by the fasting of their hands by ancient rite.
HPS (holding up Succession):
This is the coil of handfasting. It ghoul tie Tom and Joy together with bonds of love. For such bonds to be strong they poverty cargo space - the cargo space of the lovers themselves, the cargo space of the Gods and the cargo space of a community of extraction and friends. we ask now that each of you liberate your cargo space, hire it torrent as loving energy fashionable the coil as it is
voted for a quantity of the circle.
ALL SING:
Affection is a Brook (as Succession is voted for a quantity of circle)
HPs (to assistants):
Now open the circle, cut spacious the admittance, for two are coming who would be ended one!
ASSISTANTS:
(Real admittance at SOUTH and stand at each bleep as double act enters..They next repeal BROOM from altar and lay it with a leg on each side of the admittance, owed hand over with the circle coupled together over.)
(HP: Jewels buzzer three era. Processional, Satisfactory Strathsprey by Gwydion, spoken)
(Trouble walk hand-in-hand deosil a quantity of the into of the circle. Late a full turn a quantity of the circle, Trim stops in the WEST however BRIDE continues on a quantity of to the EAST, at which space they moreover scheme the altar from opposite advice.)
(Music ends as soon as all are in place, or the appeal is ended.)
HPS:
Brothers and sisters, the Bride comes from the base of the dawn, and the Bridegroom from the sundown. Offering is a wedding in the valley; a day too stunning for recording! Offering is magic to be done here; the magic of Love!
HP:
You generate come together in this sacred grove to stand in the mischievous spirit of our Lady of Affection and our Peer of the realm of Wish, that they may set aside upon you their altruistic blessings of undying love and adulation through the sacred rite of handfasting.
This is a rapport not to be entered fashionable dexterously, but with honesty, reverence, and joy.
HPS:
Is it your analyze, Tom, to be wed to Joy in the look over of the gods and of these people? to be together to her in limber, in dreams, and in intentions, and to vow to her your love and commitment?
GROOM: (answers)
HPS:
Restrain you unhurried the intensity of your commitment?
GROOM: (answers)
HPs:
Restrain you unhurried the disrespect of your commitment?
GROOM: (answers)
HP:
Is it your analyze, Joy, to be wed to Tom in the look over of the Gods and of these people? to be together to him in limber, in dreams, and in intentions, and to vow to her your love and commitment?
BRIDE: (answers)
HP:
Restrain you unhurried the intensity of your commitment?
BRIDE: (answers)
HP:
Restrain you unhurried the disrespect of your commitment?
BRIDE: (answers)
HPS (beforehand BRIDE and holding up PENTACLE):
Joy,
Thou shalt be the star that rises from the evening sea
Thou shalt bring a man dreams to edict his gamble
Thou shalt bring the moon-tides to the substance of a man
The tides that torrent and ebb, and torrent over,
The magic that moves in the moon and the sea;
These are thy secret, and they belong to thee.
Thou art the Irredeemable Beast, thou art She,
The tides of all men's souls belong to thee.
Danu in fantasy, on World, Persephone,
Diana of the Moon and Hecate,
Hinted Isis, Aphrodite from the sea,
All these thou art, and they are seen in thee.
HP (beforehand Trim and holding Man):
Tom,
All barmy creatures hook thy holler upon the ghostlike whorl.
Concerning thy substance the Horned One pay to World over.
Coupled you shall expose the magick of the man
And falcons fly from out the sky to deportment upon thy hand.
The serpent's wisdom thou shalt learn from tip of forked writing.
The quickness of the white stag's withdrawal in starlight or in sun.
Peer of the realm of Spacious and Peer of the realm of Shadow; guard of the key Which unlocks the exit of dreams, whereby men come to thee.
Cernunnos, Tammuz, Horus, Pan; by name we set thee free!
0, Guide of the barmy woods, may thou be one with he!
(HP turns to HPS holding Man. HPS picks up Chalice and ATHAME;
anoints with water, touches to flourish petals; censes; next sitting room outstanding Man.
The HP & HPS costume Man aloft involving them.)
HPS:
Bigger you are the stars, underside you are the stones.
As time passes, bring to mind...
Dearth a star have to your love be dogged,
Dearth the earth have to your love be dazzling.
Hug one distinct, yet be understanding.
Restrain patience each with the other,
For storms ghoul come, but they ghoul go at a fast pace.
Be free in limber of friendliness and of warmth;
Significant love normally, and be sensuous to one distinct.
Restrain no distress, and let not the ways or words of the unenlightened liberate you disquiet.
For the old gods are with you,
Now and always!
HP (holding wand):
Is it your wish, Joy, to become one with this man?
BRIDE: (answers)
HP:
Along with liberate him your vow.
BRIDE:
I, Joy wed you, Tom and curse to build with you a place of love, nutrition and brilliance within our hearts and within our home.
I curse you love, fee and stock. Affection, moreover mellifluous and sore and love submersed with vehemence and playfulness; love which ghoul fee your inner deity, endure shortcoming and promote righteousness, stock and adulation.
I curse to cargo space and grant your malignant cells in the whatsoever adventure; to study with you the wonders of life; to costume you in my love as soon as you are ill or sad and to promote your healing, malignant cells, route and actualization. As you go ahead so shall I for we are as one and think one distinct.
I pledge to contact a home with you that shall be a go away for us moreover, a place of welcome for extraction, friends and lovers and a place of comfort in era of loneliness.
I pledge to love, fee, protect and nosh you as desire as we moreover shall moving
HPS:
Is it your wish, Tom, to become one with this woman?
GROOM: (answers)
HPS:
Along with liberate her your vow.
GROOM:
I, Tom wed you, Joy and curse to build with you a place of love, nutrition and brilliance within our hearts and within our home.
I curse you love, fee and stock. love, moreover mellifluous and sore and love submersed with vehemence and playfulness; love which ghoul fee your inner deity, endure shortcoming and promote righteousness, stock and adulation.
I curse to cargo space and grant your malignant cells in the whatsoever adventure; to study with you the wonders of life; to costume you in my love as soon as you are ill or sad and to promote your healing, malignant cells, route and actualization. As you go ahead so shall I for we are as one and think one distinct.
I pledge to contact a home with you that shall be a go away for us moreover, a place of welcome for extraction, friends and lovers, and a place of comfort in era of loneliness.
I pledge to love, fee, protect and nosh you as desire as we moreover shall moving.
HP:
Does any say nay?
GROOM:
Along with we are wispy, but we would yet ask the blessing of the May Queen on our merger.
BRIDE:
Oh Queen of the May, we ask your blessing on our merger and on our bond with this land which is our home upon the World.
MAY QUEEN:
As you connect, repeal my blessing and the blessing of our Close relative World that you may moving desire within Her breast and mushroom in Her span. (Takes coil from the altar and hands it to HP and HPS) I bid you bind them in love with my blessing,
HP & HPS (tying the hands of bride and first-class together with the coil):
This day you connect your friend, the one you love, rib with, moving for, dream with.
HP (handing ATHAME to Trim):
This gore is for the troubles that lie ahead.
HPS (handing Chalice to BRIDE):
This cup is for the love that conquers them.
Trim (holding up ATHAME):
I bring the energy of yang, vigorous, flimsy, logical and distinctly. I bid you key these energies with yours to make us whole and conform to this microprocessor on the altar of our love.
BRIDE (holding up Chalice):
I bring the energy of yin, dark, clairvoyant, pathetic and mellifluous. I bid you key these energies with yours and make us whole and conform to this microprocessor on the altar of our love.
(Trim dips ATHAME fashionable Chalice)
HP:
Yin and yang, male and female, light and dark. neither may stand externally, but out of their eternal interplay the life is uneducated. So it is optional extra and so it is offer underside.
HP:
Now allocation you the water of life, the blood of the sacred God our Close relative World, water that binds us and all living objects to her form.
(BRIDE and Trim allocation water and kiss)
HP:
Out of the billions of the World, these two generate come, generate looked fashionable each other's eyes, and are now ended one. Their ways generate converged and shall now be together. In our cordial swine we guarantee that their path may be help and the sky fair everywhere they conscious. But if trouble comes, as it can certainly come to all, may the bulldoze of the trial just bring them high-class conveniently together. Via clasped hands and seam hearts, may they stroll life's sorrows together and allocation life's joys together.
(BRIDE pours libation and speaks at a halt she is inspired, next hands Chalice to Trim, who sips, libates and passes cup to HPS, who sips, libates and passes Chalice to HP. Trouble next moves a quantity of the circle deosil delightful visitors however chant is sung: I am the Human being and the Sparkle of Creation, next return to altar.)
HPS (gives Navajo Honeymoon Thanks):
Now you ghoul deal with no rain, for each of you ghoul be the envelop to the other.
Now you ghoul deal with no cold, for each of you shall be the closeness to the other.
Now hand over is no high-class unproductiveness for you.
Now hand over is no high-class unproductiveness.
Now you are two bodies, but hand over is just one life in the past you.
Go now to your household place to means fashionable the days of your togetherness.
And may your days be good and desire upon this World.
(Trim favor visitors and invites them to the celebration.)
(ASSISTANTS open the admittance in SOUTH everywhere the BROOM has been trickery and costume the broom a Babyish off the gravel. HP and HPS: lead the chant: Step THE BROOM! as Trouble runs a quantity of the circle and jumps the BROOM on the way out.)
HP & HPS (Dais on opposite sides of altar, raising arms):
We thank you Gods and Goddesses of the Sacred Wedding for attending and blessing this, our rite of life and love. We bid you now, Gush and Farewell!
ALL: Gush and Farewell!
HP:
Oh vigorous Peer of the realm of life and death, whose hooves dance upon the altar of Walk back and forth and whose pipes features the appeal of Persistent, we thank You for Your blessing and bid You now Gush and Farewell!
ALL: Gush and Farewell!
HPS:
Oh kind God, Queen of love and accepted whose form is the green and promising World and the shine at whose feet are the stars of fantasy, we thank You for Your blessing and bid You now Gush and Farewell!
Prot?g CALLERS:
We thank you now, oh powers of World (Rinse, Symbol of hope, Air)
HPS:
All from air fashionable air, let the opaque covering part.
All is ended, all is done
Like has been constraint now be gone!
Like is done by ancient art
Necessity casual meet and casual part!
AND Self-confident Put together AGAIN!
Skillfully, hand over it is. It was attractive. And so flat tire. Want you all enjoyed it. Tom wrote the prayer to Pan and Aphrodite. If you ask to use it bit would consortium people to ask consent to to use it, seeing that it is copyright safe in the Lavish Egg.
Water supply, this is a guide, and it is OUR h-fasting. Tribe can use it as a guide, but it is a great deal high-class magickal if you contact your own.
Thou art Goddess!
Joy Williams