Yule
(by Lady Svetlana)
Sound horn.
Priestess:
“This is the Aeon of Kore – season of Gaia and Uranus; Rhea and Kronos; and Hera and Zeus. It is the eve of the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year.
The moon is ideally full.
We are celebrating the throb of New Life within the warm womb of the Goddess and the beginning of the sun’s journey north toward the zenith of Summerland. The
Goddess awakens in the gloom of numbed earth. As the sun turns north once more, life jubilantly strikes its new spark from the naked elements.”
Opening of the Temple
(by Fred McLaren Adams)
Priestess:
She crosses her arms over her breast, right arm over left, her hands open and palms down. She intones the following recitation:
"Sun Door, Sun Door!
Thorn and Oak crossed with Holly! Open!
Revealing azure golden Day and archetypal Light."
She may draw an upward pentagram.
Her right arm and open palm swing out to the right to open the great Sun Door. With powerful radiance of kinaesthetic energy she intones:
"Moon Door, Moon Door!
Ash and Alder crossed with Willow! Open!
Revealing silver celestial seas in the Mystery Night!"
She may draw an upward pentagram.
Her left arm and palm swing out to the left to open the great astral Moon Door with the same windy blast of etheric force.
During the proceedings, the instructed should entertain inner ‘telesmatic’ imagery of humming spheres, trilling stars and the resounding road of the Galaxy: the so
called ‘Music of the Spheres’.
Priestess:
"The inner pneumatic precincts of this great Temple of Love,
Koreion (* name of your own Temple),
have been opened and hermetically unsealed.
May all great and harmonious Spirit Beings
who attend these Sacred Rites
assist us in our devotions of Love!"
She enters the Ring.
Invocation of the Cross-Quarters
(by Fred McLaren Adams)
One of the celebrants, preferably an Initiate, evokes the Cross-Quarters upon the four Cross-Quarter Points (points due Southeast, Southwest, Northwest, Northeast.
In accord with ancient Greek tradition, from Anaxagoras and Empedocles to the School of Hippocrates, Feraferia assigns the four Elements to the four
Quarters in the following arrangement:
Air – Spades - East; Fire – Clubs - South;
Earth – Diamonds -West; Water – Hearts -North.
Priestess:
Facing East she intones:
"Antheides, great Fays of the East, Dawn and Spring
Join us here and now in the Fairy Ring between worlds,
Through the Portal twixt moon and sun.
Re-enter your earth abodes from the far, far, Faerie land of stars."
Go around with the wand.
Facing South she intones:
"Ariadnes, great Fays of the South, Noon and Summer
Join us here and now in the Fairy Ring between worlds,
Through the Portal twixt moon and sun.
Re-enter your earth abodes from the far, far, Faerie land of stars."
Go around with the sword.
Facing West she intones:
"Hesperides, great Fays of the West, Evening and Autumn
Join us here and now in the Fairy Ring between worlds,
Through the Portal twixt moon and sun.
Re-enter your earth abodes from the far, far, Faerie land of stars."
Go around with the pentacle.
Facing North she intones:
"Hyades, great Fays of the North, Midnight and Winter
Join us here and now in the Fairy Ring between worlds,
Through the Portal twixt moon and sun.
Re-enter your earth abodes from the far, far, Faerie land of stars."
Go around with the cup or cauldron.
Invocation of Centre
(by Fred McLaren Adams)
Priestess, Priest or instructed celebrant evokes – and all assembled invoke – the spiritual Fount at the Centre of the Ring. She or he intones:
Priestess:
"Zenithides Kai Nadirides
Join hands and lips, bellies and hips
Here upon the white weddingstone of Earth;
Beneath the starry shade of the Cosmic Mill Tree,
Where all souls press into the echoing root of Touch,
There to enclasp living altar,
And to kiss pulsing Omphalos of the Bride,
From Whose shimmering, quivering Flesh, now and forever,
The Four Rivers of Faerie into all Worlds flow!"
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