ab:esbat.txt 13jan90


Esbat Ritual

Needs: Everything needed to cast a Circle,
Wand, Scourge, Priestess' Athame
Priest, Priestess

Here is the sequence of modules in a standard Esbat ritual.

Cast Circle
(optional; rare) declaim Ancient Call
Drawing Down the Moon
Charge
(optional; rare) HP declaims Ancient Call
Great God Cernunnos Invocation (generally omitted if Drawing Down the Sun) Witches' Rune (or other circle chant, eg. Ancient Call)
Cone of Power
---insert optional Circle work here (eg. Sabbat ritual)--------------
Wine Blessing
Cake Blessing
---relax and chat; Coven business discussion, teaching, etc. ---
Close Circle

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-A "standard" BOS usually lists its owner's standard modules so that they
follow each other, and optional pieces are probably given seperately with
no written explanation of how to put things together.
-Obviously, the term "modules" is not traditional.
-There are a large number of published sources for the Esbat ritual as a
whole.


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