JUNGIAN NEW MOON RITUAL A new moon ritual with some Jungian and Craft themes follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Participant: We are surrounded by and permeated with a universe of consciousness and awareness. As the island raises itself up and separates itself from the ocean, and as the ego raises itself up and separates itself from the sub-conscious, likewise so do we hereby with this circle separate ourselves from our immediate surroundings and our mudane states of awareness. (Walks deosil three times in a circle to cast the circle.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Participant: Each individual relates to and interacts with the world around him through the four Jungian powers or functions. We empower each function within our circle to enable us to interact with the archetypes and energies around us. Likewise we invoke the direction that corresponds with each function. (Faces east:) Function of Thinking, Direction of East, Elemental Archetype of Airy Sylph, we bless thee and welcome your powers of Clear Thinking and Judgment into our circle this night. (Faces south:) Function of Feeling, Direction of South, Elemental Archetype of Fiery Salamander, we bless thee and welcome your powers of Fiery Passion and Emotion into our circle this night. (Faces west:) Function of Intuition, Direction of West, Elemental Archetype of Watery Undine, we bless thee and welcome your powers of the soul's inner knowing into our circle this night. (Faces north:) Function of Sensation, Direction of North, Elemental Archetype of Earthly Gnome, we bless thee and welcome your powers of Pure Sensuality into our circle this night. (Faces upward:) We call upon the the Lover and the Beloved, the God and the Goddess, the highest positive animus and the highest positive anima to complete the feminine and masculine elements in our circle this night. In addition, we honor and regard the memory and presence of Carl Gustav Jung. May his ideas continue to enlighten us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Participant: This night is the night of the new moon -- a time of spiritual retreat, rest, and recovery. We use the energies of this time to draw within ourselves to strengthen our inner Unity, our inner wholeness. Similarly we use these energies to strengthen, harmonize, and balance the Many within ourselves -- the different inner archetypes which often compete against each other. I will now lead us in a guided imagery session that will help put us in touch with both the One and the Many within us. (Play ocean sounds on a tape player. Read guided meditation -- beach scene from William Fezler's _Guided_Imagery_): Take a few moments to relax and to take some deep breaths. Every sensation that you've ever experienced is recorded forever. You have the ability to relive those sensations as vividly as the first time you experienced them. You are now going to take a 3D sensory voyage. You are going to construct a scene in your mind's eye so vivid it will be as if you are actually there. You are walking along the beach. It's mid July; very, very hot; five o'clock in the afternoon. The sun is getting low on the horizon, although it has not yet begun to set. The sky is a brilliant blue, the sun a blazing yellow. Feel the heat from the sun against your face, feel the warmth of its rays against your skin. You are barefoot. Feel the hot, dry sand beneath your feet. Walk closer to the water. Feel the wet, cold, firmly packed sand beneath your feet. Hear the beating of the waves, the rhythmic crashing back and forth, to and fro, of the water against the sand. Hear the loud, high cries of the gulls circling overhead. You continue walking. Suddenly you come to a sand dune, a mound of white sand covered with deep pink moss roses, bright yellow buttercups. You sit on the mound of sand, you look out to the sea. The sea is like a mirror of silver reflecting the sun's rays, a mass of pure white light. You are gazing fixedly into that light. As you continue to stare at the sun's reflections off the water, you begin to see dots of purple, darting flecks of violet. There's a violet along the horizon, a purple halo around the flowers; everywhere purple and silver. Now the sun is beginning to set. With each motion, with each movement of the sun into the sea, you go deeper and deeper relaxed... And when the sun has sunk into the ocean, you will be in a profound state of relaxation. The sky is turning red, crimson, scarlet, gold, amber, as the sun sets. The sun represents your ego sinking into the ocean -- the awareness of your soul and subconscious mind. You are engulfed in a deep purple twilight, a velvety blue haze. You look up at the night sky, it is clear, filled with stars... A brilliant starry night... The soft, low roar of the waves, the taste and the smell of the salt. The sea, the sky, and you. And you feel yourself carried upward and outward into space, at one with the universe. You can now come out of your meditative state. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Participant: As the ocean constantly sculpts the landscape of an island, so does the subconscious and the surroundings constantly sculpt the ego. As an island may be submerged and re-exposed by the sea over many millenia, so is the ego constantly born, killed, and resurrected in a new form. Listen to the wise words of the Craft. Read the Legend of the "Descent of the Goddess": Throught the waxing and waning light of the sun and moon, the flowing of day and night, we see the changing forms and faces of the Great Mother in our world. But, in the night sky, as the moon fades from sight for three days and three nights, our lady also withdraws from the world and descends where the living cannot go. For when our God disappears within the dark womb of the earth, through the passage of horns, she follows in secret and arrives at the gates beyond which the living cannot pass. The guardian of the portal challenges her with his sword, "Remove thy jewels, lay down thy garments, for naught may ye bring into this our world!" She removed her garments and jewels, and was bound as one of the dead who enter death's realm. Even beyond the realm of day and night, her beauty was as dazzling as the stars and moon in the sky. The horned one of shadows taken with her radiance, knelt at her feet, kissing them as he said, "Blessed be thy feet that have brought thee in these ways. Leave me not; abide with me always, and let me put my cold hand upon thy heart!" But she answered, "I love thee not, why doest thou cause all things I love and delight in to fade and die?" "Lady" he said, "tis age and fate against which I am helpless. Age causes all things to wither; but when they die at the end of time, I give them rest and peace and strength so that they may return; but you, you are my heart's desire. Return not, and abide with me." "I love thee not," she answered. "As you receive not my hand on thy heart, you must receive death's scourge." "It is fate, better so, " and she knelt. Death scourged her, and she cried, "I know the pangs of love!" The horned one gave her the five-fold kiss, saying, "thus only may you attain to self-knowledge." For three days and three nights she remained in the land of death; the moon in the night sky did not shine; all the world was thrown into darkness. And in the powers of night, beyond the eyes of mortals did they enact the rites of love that sustained the world. Finally, she took up his crown of death and it became a necklace of acorns which she placed around her neck saying, "behold -- the circle of rebirth. Although all passes through you out of life, all passes through me to be reborn. All must die; all must fade; but even thou are not eternal. I am the dark womb of earth, I am the primal mystery of life. Behold, for within me is the cauldron of rebirth; enter into me; know me, and you will be free from all fear for as life has become a journey into death, through my grace death shall be a journey into life. Into me the circle shall ever turn." Through love, he entered into her, and was reborn into life; this is the greatest of all magicks. And this magick, this union and passion between the Lord of Death and the Goddess of Life, controls all events on earth; birth, love, and death. For to fulfill love you must return again at the same time and the same place as your loved one and you must remember and love them again. But to be reborn, you must die and be ready for a new body, and to die you must be born; and without love you may not be born; and this is the secret of all magick! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Participant: (Faces north) Function of Sensation, Direction of north, we bless thee and release thee. (Faces west) Function of Intuition, Direction of west, we bless thee and release thee. (Faces south) Function of Feeling, Direction of south, we bless thee and release thee. (Faces east) Function of Feeling, Direction of east, we bless thee and release thee. (Faces up) Goddess and God we bless thee and release thee. Participant: The circle is open yet unbroken, we have merry met, let us merry part, and merry meet again. May the love of the Goddess go ever in our hearts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------