Dark Moon Ritual - April, 2005
by Blayze

Props
For cleansing
	Bowl of Water & Aspergum
	Censer and Feather
	Drum
	Candle/Lantern
For Banishing
	Broom
	Cauldron and tripod
Large black bowl
5 small black bowls
Black Jug
Water
Black Cloth
Altar and Elemental Lanterns

Ritual
Cast circle
Call in Quarters
Central Invokation
Witchs Rune

Cleansing of the Elements
Using the round robin style of the Elemental Balancing 1 person stands in each Quarter with the 5th person in the Centre.

Air comes forth with the Censer and Feather and cleanses the person in the centre.

"With the powers of Air I do banish all ills and impurities of the Spirit - So mote it be."

Air returns to East

Fire comes forth with Lantern and cleanses the person in the centre.

"With the powers of Fire I do banish all ills and impurities of the Spirit - So mote it be."

Fire returns to the North

Water comes forth with bowl of water and aspergum and cleanses the person in the centre.

"With the powers of Water I do banish all ills and impurities of the Spirit - So mote it be."

Water returns to the West

Earth comes forth with Drum and cleanses the person in the centre.

"With the powers of Earth I do banish all ills and impurities of the Spirit - So mote it be."

Earth returns to South.

Centre person moves to Air, Air moves to Fire, Fire moves to Water, Water moves to Earth, Earth moves to Centre and the cleansing process starts again.

Once everyone has been cleansed the cleansing materials are placed on the ground in the quarters.

Circle is swept and a gateway opened to sweep out all of the banished / cleansed energies.

Each person does one more turn and ends up back in their original quarters.

Starting with Air and ending with Spirit, each person takes up a black bowl and fills it from the Cauldron.

They return to their quarters and meditate on the hidden aspects of their element. They then ask their Element to bless the water with the mystery.

Each person then pours their water into the jug saying something suitable.

Spirit is blindfolded and spun around. 

She  stops on one of the participants and this will be the person to scy.

The water from the jug is carefully poured into the black bowl which is placed on the ground in front of the scryer.

Everyone else begins to hum  as the scryer is tranced down looking into the waters of the hidden realms.

Scrying.

When scrying is completed all to have cakes and ale.

Close circle.