How to Create a Ritual
The purpose of Full Circle Rituals is to provide a safe space for women to experience earth based women’s spirituality. Often times this is a haven for women to have time for themselves with out the demands of family or work. The importance of these moon celebration is that we have them, not necessarily the content. No matter what the level of experience, we all should feel comfortable in setting up a ritual. This page is designed to show you how simple it can be!
There are 10 steps, of which only one is unique and changes from month to month. Are you wondering how that can be, when each celebration is different from the other?
Here are the 10 steps:
1-Cleanse the area and participants
2-Cast Circle
3-Call quarters
4-Call Deity (Goddess and/or God)
5-Checking in (omitted for public or seasonal celebrations)
*6-Ritual Observance
7-Thank Deity
8-Thank quarters
9-Open Circle
10-Feast!
The web page “10 Steps of Ritual(coming soon)”explains each of the steps in greater detail. Number 6 is really the heart of the celebration, and it changes in length and content as the leader sees fit. Its what I refer to as the “cool crafty” part of ritual. Examples are: meditations, chants, creating scrying mirrors, charging candles, drawing, and dancing. All the other steps can be copied from past rituals. Mix and match from different months, or revise them to fit your own needs. How do you decide what goes in your ritual? Try to decide on a theme, like the season, or what the month means to us culturally/socially/or as women. Or choose something that is needed, such as in October the theme "Peace" was used since we all feeling distressed over the current events.
Be creative and have fun!