Full Moon in Gemini
Midsummer Celebration
Ritual written* and led by Janine Donnellan(December 12, 2008)
This Gemini Full Moon is a time to celebrate our diversity in oneness; it is a great time for a party and to be the radiant Light that we all are. Tonight is a time to show gratitude for the blessings of our life and the abundance that we receive.
Tonight we will connect to the Fey. Long ago, in a time and place as different from now as day from night, the Midsummer was a time that stirred the Faerie folk to come and interact with the mundane world and the humans. It is a night when the Fey roarn the land, for though they come and go as they please, they are still a part of the other realm and this is a particularly strong time to for them to contact us.
Tonight, we will be focusing our attention on our Faerie friends, those elemental beings who inhabit both the physical and the ethereal realms.
The Faeries have great wisdom to teach and joy to bring to the mortals. It is a fact that when you believe in faeries, you encourage them to visit you. It is said that the more you believe in faeries the more often they will come to visit you.
There are fairies of all types and some Faeries are, a little more mischievous than others, so care and consideration are always advisable when dealing with them. The faeries of course love a good party, and the night of the summer solstice was a night when the faeries and the humans got together to celebrate the universal oneness of their being with dancing, singing, chanting, drumming, trance work, meditation, fires, divinations, rituals, and of course eating and drinking, especially good faerie mead or English beer!
Tonight we will invite the fey to join us in our Midsummer celebration, we will invite them to participate with us in opening to the wider powers of the universe. We will be safe and happy and at one with Spirit in this rite, receiving and giving back to the Universe, and the Divine in ourselves, and in each other.
Opening circle clockwise...
By the power of the dragons may this circle he cleansed and sanctified. ...while everyone visualises electric blue energy flowingfrom the athame and the light expanding to form a dome, encompassing the whole ritual area, and extending down into the earth, forming into a complete sphere ofpulsing glowing light.
Three times the Circle round
Three times the Circle bound.
Oh mighty Lord Paralda, King of the Sylphs,
Spirit of Air, Wisdom and Intellect.
I call upon you to attend this circle and guard this Fairy Ring between worlds,
and bring light and air from the east to illuminate and enliven it.
Hail and Welcome!
Oh mighty Lord Djin, King of the Salamanders,
Spirit of Fire, Passion and Creativity.
I call upon you to attend this circle and guard this Fairy Ring between worlds,
and bring light and fire from the north to illuminate and warm it.
Hail and Welcome!
Oh mighty Lord Nicksa, King of the Undines,
Spirit of Water, Transformation and Flow.
I call upon you to attend this circle and guard this Fairy Ring between worlds,
and bring light and water from the west to illuminate and cleanse it.
Hail and Welcome!
Oh mighty Lord Ghob, King of the Gnomes,
Spirit of Earth, Strength and Stability.
I call upon you to attend this circle and guard this Fairy Ring between worlds,
and bring light and earth from the south to illuminate and strengthen it.
Hail and Welcome!
My honoured Lady, from you all things emerge,
and unto you all things return.
Please bless this work we do now,
That we may feel it flowing from your pleasure and bounty
And boundless intelligence.
Welcome
So mote it be.
(light left altar candle)
My honoured Lord, from your radiance we perceive the light of the Divine
Bring us your mysteries and your vision
So that we shine with our own unique divinity.
Welcome So mote it be.
(light right altar candle)
Nature Spirits! Shining Ones! Welcome! We meet here at the Sacred Centre at the gates to the Otherworlds. Please come and share in our laughter in our world and in our time. Come in peace and good will.
Ring bells and percussion to entice them to play.
Lighting the sparklers or using the glow sticks write in the air all the things that you wish the earth should receive over the next twelve months. Expressing love and joy.
Nature Spirits! Shining Ones! Thank you for meeting us here at the Sacred Centre. Thank you for your insights. Now go in peace and good will. Hail and Farewell.
My honoured Lady, from you all things emerge,
and unto you all things return.
Thankyou for joining us here tonight,
And for you boundless intelligence.
Hail & Farewell
My honoured Lord, we all shine from your divine light
Thankyou for joining us here tonight,
And for showing us your mystery and vision.
Hail & Farewell
Hail and farewell Lord Ghob, King of the Gnomes,
Spirit of Earth, Strength and Stability.
I thank you for your presence
Depart in peace, let our will be done
So mote it be!
Hail and farewell Lord Nicksa, King of the Undines,
Spirit of Water, Transformation and Flow.
I thank you for your presence
Depart in peace, let our will be done
So mote it be!
Hail and farewell Lord Djin, King of the Salamanders,
Spirit of Fire, Passion and Creativity.
I thank you for your presence
Depart in peace, let our will be done
So mote it be!
Hail and farewell Lord Paralda, King of the Sylphs,
Spirit of Air, Wisdom and Intellect.
I thank you for your presence
Depart in peace, let our will be done
So mote it be!
