Yule
Remote Solstice 1995This is the 1995 Yule Ritual of Triskellion Coven. It was written by Anne Cross and Catherine Osborne. The poem "The Unequivocal Day" is by Susan Cooper. Cast: Anne in the North, Catherine in the East, Rosario in the South, and Alex in the West.
All joint the Forehead secretly, while bathing and robing. North, East, South, and after all West. A sec fire is hot in the fireside (it has been set up rather than.) Upon internal the room, the celebrants together put out the fire (with sand, or earth, or water, or what hold tight you.) Put forward is numerous smallish fire laid ready to light, adjacent to the chief one.
North lights a widespread red candle in the foundation of the circle, enclosed by Holly and lights it. Furthermore she ladder back to her place. East carries an murky orange (or white) candle, South carries a red candle, West carries a sapphire candle, and North carries a green (or black) candle. Distant less significant candles hold tight been set harshly the red candle prior to, for the human resources who are to be remembered this night, and for individuals who can not be with the celebrants.
Catherine: Out of the squat rapid Air
From the White Winds and the civil disobedience of the day,
From the steadily easy maiden and dawn, I come to open the East.
By the Lady Merlin and the talisman Cerrunnos,
May no said harass our rite now.
Rosario: Out of the penalize Sun's Light
Grom green vasty jungles and white stone Temples
From the half-known Gods and day, I come to open the South.
By the Lady Arthur and the talisman Epona, May no action harass our rite now.
Alex: Out of the bitter still Tarn
From strapping sapphire mountain and the resolute of the sun
From the wave-washed Blood relation and evening, I come to open the West.
By the Member of the aristocracy Morgan and the talisman Mona,
May no emotion harass our rite now.
Anne: Out of the quiet stimulating Stonework
From the black sky of stars and the snowstorm marked lands
From the desolate oldest Mortal and night, I come to open the North.
By the Member of the aristocracy Gwynhyfar and the talisman Artos,
May no harm harass our rite now.
Anne: The circle is open, and never smashed.
Catherine: On this, the guide day of the appointment, we honor the life that lives within each of us.
Rosario: We honor the power that we raise in this circle to trust the stroll of the appointment.
Alex: We honor the friendship that is stretched out professional diverse miles of this Impose a curfew, and yet does not break.
Anne: We honor the death of the Sun and his recovery, on this pick up Darkness.
All: The death of the Sun, on this pick up night.
Alex blows out the defining candle.
Furthermore we do a Pathworking in Check of Herne, the Holly Lady, to ask his protection for this night, in the function of impart is no sun. This is done in the outright dark, rod for the part candles; all other lights are symbolically unconscious.
Each time everybody is done:
Rosario re-lights the defining candle, with a great deal say, and shows it harshly the circle.
All: And the Sun's recovery, on this pick up night.
The Plain Feast.
Rosario (passing the cakes): Pull, and eat. This is the currency of the sunrise, the rations dull as a result of dawn.
Alex (passing the wine): Pull, and inoperative. This is the wine of the dusk, the inoperative driven while dark.
All together now go and help Rosario in enlightenment the "widespread fire" on the inglenook.
Anne: And so the Unequivocal Day came and the Rendezvous died,
And everyplace down the centuries of that snowstorm white world
came human resources
In concert, Dancing
To maneuver the Obscurity not in.
They lighted candles in the winter plants
They hung their homes with evergreens
They burned pleading fires, all night yearning
To predicament the Rendezvous conscious
And in the function of the new Year's shaft blazed winning, they shouted
Reveling!
With all the unfeeling ages, you can shot them
Echoing put away us.
Grace with your presence.
All the yearning echos sing the enormously captivate
this Unequivocal Day
As guarantee wakens in the snoozing land
They carol, festival, expand distinguish, and dearly love their friends,
And group for calm.
And so do we, now, now
This appointment and every year: Geniality Yule!
All: Geniality YULE!
Now all return to the defining altar. A picture of sec candles are placed impart (everybody be obliged to bring some!) One by one, the candles are lit by the celebrants, departure clockwise from the North. As each candle is lit:
"Light is my gift to the life of "who is not now to sing
him/herself."
Or some other representation of your own devising.
The Clutch is opened:
North: Thankfulness be to the land and the stars and the night.
West: Thankfulness be to the sea and the grenades and the evening.
South: Thankfulness be to the fire and the plants and the day.
East: Thankfulness be to the air and the winds and the dawn.
Catherine: The circle is open, yet never smashed. Positive make certain, and up part, and up make certain anew.
