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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) High Priest 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
NOTES
- A "standard" Book of Shadows 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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