Drawing Down the Moon
Drawing Down the Moon is a ritual ritual of invocation, from the Wiccan Modern tradition. It has 4 steps and opens with: The coven forms the circle and calls the quarters.
Drawing Down the Moon is a possession-adjacent rite of the Wiccan tradition; it is recorded here as the tradition practises it, not as a technique to be copied without a lineage and a circle.
Practice
- Purpose
- Invocation
- Difficulty
- Advanced
Nature and meaning
- Category
- Ritual
Details
- Timing
- at the full moon, in a convened circle
- Optimal Timing
- Moon phases
- Steps
- The coven forms the circle and calls the quarters.The high priestess stands in the centre and the high priest invokes the Goddess into her.The priestess speaks the Charge of the Goddess or a received utterance.The power is grounded and shared, and the rite is closed with thanks.
- Keywords
- GoddessFull moonInvocationWiccan
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