PAN Full Moon - Midsummer 2007
by Jo Dunster

Setup
Altar
Quarters
Bowl of water in the centre
Basket of floating candles
Tapers
Central Candle/lantern/meths
Drummers
Cakes and Ale

During circle cast, quarter calls and invokations drummers drum a steady beat with a flourish at the end of each spoken piece.

Circle cast

Quarters

Invokations

HP and HPS begin to hand each participant a candle.
HPS gives intro
•	It is just past midsummer and the sun is at the prime of his powers. 
•	The power of fire and passion is strong within the land and within ourselves. 
•	The God's bright power can bring both growth to the land and the destruction of bush fire. 
•	But we also stand under the cool, watery moon. 
•	It is her love and her rains that nourish and protect the land and lend our passions restraint. 
•	Therefore tonight's ritual will focus on the balancing of the powers of Fire and Water, Sun and Moon, The Goddess and The God for the good of ourselves and to protect our fragile land. 

HPS leads through fire dance. HP monitors energy and participants
•	Take a moment each of you to breath deeply and to feel your connection to the earth. Allow yourself to ground and to centre. PAUSE (Drummers start to drum a slowly rising beat, think building up trance dance). 
•	Each of you holds a candle, a symbol of fire. Hold your candle and think upon fire.
•	Walk the circle, run if you wish or dance but begin to move with the sound of the drums and the spirit of fire. (Get everyone to start moving around the circle).
•	Think upon your life, think back to a time when you were powerful and fierce. When you wielded your own power in goodness and certainty. When you embodied the force and passion of fire, when the power of the God of the Sun shone through you.
•	Hold that memory (drumming starts to rise) and feel the power begin to rise within you again. Bring that energy through you, move with it and let it flow through you and  into the candle you hold.
•	Fill up with the memory of fire until you can remember your own power as clear as day. Let it flow out and into your candle. When you have filled you candle with all the energy of fire you can muster seat yourself by the bowl of water in the centre of the circle.

HPS waits for all to sit and then leads everyone through a water gazing. HP monitors energy and participants
•	Take a moment again to breath deeply and to feel your connection to the earth. Allow yourself to ground and to centre. PAUSE (Drummers start to drum a very slow rythmic beat, think waves crashing). 
•	You all sit before a bowl of water, catch your breath and think upon water.
•	Sway with the drums, or stay sill if you wish but begin to gaze into the water, let your vision become one with the spirit of Water.
•	Think once more upon your life, think back to a time when you were calm and restrained when all else was chaos. When you wielded your own inner strength in love and gentleness. When you embodied the ebb and flow of Water, when the power of the Goddess of the Moon shone through you.
•	Hold that memory (drumming starts to become louder but not faster) and feel the strength begin to rise within you again. Bring that energy through you, move with it and let it flow through you and into the water before you.
•	Fill up with the memory of water until you can remember your own strength as clear as day. Let it flow out and into the water. When you have sent all the energy of water you can muster, stand and form a circle around the bowl.  

When all have formed a circle the drummers slow down to a halt and join the circle in the centre.

HPS leads all in a blending of the energies
•	We have found the power and restraint, passion and love within us let the energies of fire and water be united and balanced. 
•	Hold your candles, feel the fire and the water. Let the blessings of midsummer be upon you. 
•	When you are ready light your candle and if you will, speak of your blessings then float them upon the water. 

All Hold hands once more.
HPS leads all in the blessing/protecting of the land. HP gathers and sends the energy raised out across the land.
•	The Goddesses moon shines above us. 
•	The Energy of the Sun radiates from the life around us. 
•	The land cries out for sun and rain.
•	Let us send some of the energies we have raised tonight out into the land. 
•	close your eyes and imagine energy streaming out in radiating lines from the bowl before us on the hill. 
•	see each ray, silver and gold move out and illuminate each one of us, each blade of grass, every tree. 
•	All around us shines with the blessings of fire and water, Sun and Moon, Lady and Lord.
•	Repeat after me
•	Blessings be upon all gathered here 
•	Blessings be upon this land 
•	May fire not burn what water cannot soothe 
•	May water not drown what fire cannot heal 
•	May the blessings of the Goddess and the God be full and of equal measure. 
•	In the names of our Gods and our Ancestors. 
•	So Mote It be!

Cakes and Ale

Farewell quarters

Close circle.