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Casting the Circle

Consecrate Tools (new) on altar (draw invoking pentacle with athame, sprinkle with salt/water and fire and air)


We call upon you Oh Creatures of Earth, Air, Fire and Water to protect this circle and aid in our rites. Wherefore we do bless and consecrate thee. So Mote It Be.
Repeat for all tools (first time use)


Light candles used for reading then cast circle. To cast circle walk deosil around circle three times. First with Earth and Water (saltwater) Second with Air and Fire (burning incense) and third with athame visualizing bluish white light from tip.



Oh Sacred Circle be a meeting place of love and joy
in Perfect Love and Perfect Trust.
A shield against all negativity and evil intent.
A circle of protection for all who stand herein.
Wherefore we do bless and consecrate thee
This circle is cast, safe and secure,
A sacred space for all that is pure.
So Mote It Be

Call upon the Guardians:
Guardians of the Watchtower gather near
Encircle our home and family with Perfect Love and Perfect Trust

Guardian of the North we beckon thee
Guardian of Knowledge and Information
Lend us your power; give us Perception and Understanding
Be with us now Powers of Earth

Guardian of the East we beckon thee
Guardian of All Things Bright and Beautiful
Lend us your power; give us Clarity and Vision
Be with us now Powers of Air

Guardian of the South we beckon thee
Guardian of All Things Warm and Living
Lend us your power; give us Energy and Intuition
Be with us now Powers of Fire

Guardian of the West we beckon thee
Guardian of Things Yet To Come
Lend us your power; give us Love and Protection
Be with us now Powers of Water

Light the candles on the altar (representing Goddess and God)
Invoke Goddess and God:
Hail to thee Sun Lord and Lady Moon
Grant us thy presence we beckon thee
Our rites are Never for ill Always for right
Be with us now this Blessed Night
Our circle is cast, safe and secure
Sacred space created for all that is pure
So Mote It Be.
Begin Ritual or Magickal Workings


Complete the ceremony with cakes and wine.


To close circle (snuff out candle flame as Guardians are thanked followed by Lord and Lady candles: 


Guardians of the Watchtowers we Thank thee.
Guardian of the West, we Thank you
Guardian of the South, we Thank you
Guardian of the East, we Thank you
Guardian of the North, we Thank you.
Sun Lord and Lady Moon, we Thank you for your presence.
This circle has ended
Our spell is cast; Our rite is done
This circle is free, released whole and pure
Open but Never Broken
This is our will
So Mote It Be


 Unknown Author

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How to cast the Witches circle How to Cast a Circle?
  • Firstly, how much space do you need? Think this through first! How many people need to be in it? How much room is needed to work? Obviously the amount of space you have in the first place is going to be a factor but don’t underestimate how big a space you need and then wind up feeling cramped. 


  • To actually cast the circle, you can visualise your space or physically draw it out if this helps you. Whatever makes you feel happiest. You can mark out your circle using your hands, an athame, salt water, a piece of cord, by walking round the edge with a candle - or choose a method that feels personal to you. 


  • Represent the elements - the earth in the north, air in the east, fire in the south and water in the west. 


  • To add some ceremony and state your purpose, now you need to officially invoke the powers of the divine. If you have a particular affinity to a God or Goddess then call upon them and perform a ceremony that draw their powers. Otherwise you can invite the all encompassing God and Goddess into your circle and humbly ask that they protect and bless you. 


  • If you want to say some words to complete the process, than you should choose your own. It will help to make it feel a personal place to you. 


  • Ensure that you do not step outside your circle until you are done. To leave, you need to cut the circle with either an athame or a cutting motion with your hand. This is showing due respect to the energies around you and acknowledging the realness of their presence. 




 
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The MAGIC CIRCLE provides a sacred and purified space in which all rites, magickal work and ceremonies are conducted. It offers a boundary for a reservoir of concentrated power and acts as a doorway to the world of the gods...Within the circle it becomes possible to transcend the physical, to open the mind to deeper and higher levels of consciousness."

The word magick is spelt with a 'k' in the context of the circle as a central part of many Mystery Traditions, to differentiate this use of the energies of the universe from stage-show magic and sleight of hand.


Many practitioners of the magick arts, both past and present, use a magick circle as a place of spiritual and inner reflection. Forms of magick circles were used in Babylonian magic, as did Ceremonial magicians of the Middle Ages and the renaissance, certain American Indian tribes also used the circle, although not for the same reasons. Mediaeval magicians considered the circle essential and great emphasis was placed upon its exactness. Many had elaborate design with multiple layers of complex symbology and words. It was also important that the circle was complete and contained no breaks. For the Ceremonial and Qabalist magician, the circle is a place of protection during magickal workings.

The word circle is a misnomer, however, as it is a spheriod and extends not just around the magician but also above and below, the circle only marks the point on which it touches the earth.

Defining The Circle.

There are many ways of looking at a magick circle and each practitioner will have a different method, view or use of it.

1. Altered State of Consciousness. The circle causes an alteration of the consciousness, transporting the mind from the mundane to the magickal.

2. Temple. The circle becomes a temple, a sanctified and sacred place for the communion with the divine.

3. Sacred Space. In a similar fashion to the Temple, the circle serves as a sanctified place for the consecration of objects and people or as a place to mediate or simply as a refuge from the mundane.

4. Protection. The circle becomes a shield or barrier against external forces.

5. Magickal Filter. Here the circle acts as a filter, allowing in those energies that are efficacious to the magickal working and keeping out detrimental energies.

6. Power Concentrator. The circle keeps in the energy created by the magician and focuses it into a concentrated Cone of Power, until it is released.

7. Redefining Reality. The circle becomes an island that the magician forms as the only true reality. The magician assigns directions to this new reality.

8. Space between Worlds. Here the circle is neither entirely in the material plane nor is it fully within the spiritual plane. It acts as a bridge connecting different planes of existence.

9. Omnipresent Now. The circle allows us to take advantage of non-linear time, while allowing the magician to remain with normal linear time. In the timeless reality, all things exist or have existed or will exist, in this realm the magician performs acts of scrying and divination.

10. Akashic Egg. The circle represents the eternal cyclic nature of the universe with neither a beginning or an end. The creative force is given form as a circle.

11. Extension of the personal aura. The circle becomes a projection or externalisation of the personal aura of the magician.

12. Crucible of Change. The circle changes the magician who enters it and the environment surrounding the magician.

13. Alchemical Catalyst. The circle forces the magician to re-examine self and true self, to realise our abilities and limitations and overcome them. The magician becomes part of the alchemical transformation of self into the image of True Self.

The way in which the circle is divided also define and effect the environment and the energies created within the magick circle. The circle is normally quartered, each of The Quarters or Watchtowers correspond to cardinal points on the compass. Each point corresponds to one of the four Elements, North - Earth, East - Air, South - Fire and West to Water. Each of the Elements has certain properties an energies.