Dark Moon Ritual – The Cauldron Of Cerridwen
Divination & Directed Trance Scrying
by Blayze

•	A cauldron full of water is placed in the centre of the circle. 
•	A candle is placed (unlit) within the cauldron
•	A basket sits next to the altar. It contains black cloth wrapped bundles with an object and a question calligraphied onto paper. (See the list within the ritual for what the bundles contain)
•	A taper is ready upon the altar to transport the flame to the cauldron.

Circle cast
Call Quarters
Central Invokation
Witches Rune (around cauldron)

Introduction

HPS:	It is the dark of the moon, a time of mystery and stillness, of reflection and peace. A time to search for that which is hidden, the hidden face of the Goddess, the hidden parts of ourselves.

She takes up the basket of offerings.

HPS:	We stand in a world between worlds, with the cauldron at the centre of all. That which holds our past, our present and our future. So tonight we make an offering to the cauldron, an offering that represents a question, a riddle.

Everyone takes a bundle and unwraps it. They look at what is written on the paper and at their object.

List of objects in bundles (1 bundle of each)

•	What of the bud before the flower? - Rose Bud
•	What of the dawn before the day? - Round of Copper
•	What of the seed before the grain? - Grain seed
•	What of the dusk before the darkest hour? - Round of black cloth
•	What of the wave before the shore? - Shell
•	What of the spark before the flame? - Chilli
•	What of the birth before the name? - Small blown egg
•	What of the thought before the speech? - Bell
•	What of the wall before the breach? - Stone
•	What of the feather before the flight?- Feather

HPS:	Please offer your object and your question to the Cauldron. It is to this subject that you direct your scrying.

When all objects have been offered to the Cauldron, the HPS takes and lights taper from the altar and declaims:

HPS:	No Sun no Moon
	No light doth cast
	But shadows dance from first to last

	All is still
	No Wind no Rain
	But secrets shine where the Gods hath lain

She lights the candle within the Cauldron

	Within the Cauldron
	Black and deep
	We seek the dream of enchanted sleep

	Dark the Moon and dark the night
	Bring the gift of second sight.

Everyone takes up the “Dark The Moon” chant and begins to dance around the cauldron. When ready, they drop to the ground and scry into the cauldron, or sit at the edge of the circle and trance.

When ready, all are called back with...

HPS:	Still the wind and still the earth, still the flame before the birth. Return ye now from whence ye came, from moon and star to earthly plane.

Candle is extinguished

Cakes and Ale
Farewells
Close circle