Drawing Down the Moon - Wiccan - http://maxpages.com/velvettsky/Drawing_Down_the

In this ritual the Goddess becomes incarnate in the High Priestess. The High Priestess stands in frount of the altar withher back to it. She holds the wand in her right hand and the scrounge in her left hand. She crosses her wrists and crosses the wand and the scrounge above them while holding them close to her breast. The High Priest stands in frount of her and says:
"Diana, queen of night
In all your beauty bright,
Shine on us here
And wiht your silver beam
Unlock the gates of dream
Rise bright and clear
On Earth and sky and sea
Your magick mystery
Its spell shall cast
Wherever leaf may grow
Wherever tide may flow
Till all be past.
O secret queen of power
At this echanted hour
We ask your boon.
May fortunes favor fall
Upon true witches all
O Lady Moon!"

The high Priest kneels before the HIgh Priestess and gives her the Five Fold Kiss; that is he kissed her on both feet, bohe knees, womb, both breats and the lips, starting with the right of each pair. He says as he does this:
"Blessed be thy feet, that have brought thee in these ways.
Blessed be thy knees that shall kneel at the sacred altar.
Blessed be thy womb without which we would not be.
Blessed be thy breasts formed in beauty.
Blessed be thy lips that shall utter the Sacred Names."

For the kiss on the lips, they embrace, length to length, with their feet touching each others. When he reaches the whomb, she spreads ehr arms wide and the same after the kiss on the lips. The High Priest kneels again and invokes:

"I invoke thee and call upon thee, Mighty Mother of us all,
bringer of all fuitfulness by seed and root
by bud and stem by leaf and flower and fruit
by life and love do I invoke thee to descend upon the body of this,
thy servant and priestess."

During this invocation he touches her wiht his right forefinger on her right breast, left breast and womb, repeats the set and finally the right breast. Still kneeling, he spreads his arms out and down with the palms forward and says:

"Haiil Aradia! From the Amalthean Horn
Pour forth thy store of love; I slowly bend
Before thee, I adore thee to the end
With loving sacrifice thy shrine adore.
Thy foot is to my lip
(he kisses her right foot)
my prayer up borne
Upon the rising incense smoke;then spend
Thine ancient love, O Mighty One descend
To aid me, who without thee am forlorn."

The High Priest stands up and steps backwards. THie High Priestess draws the Invoking Pentagram ofEarth in the air with the wand and says:

"Of the Mother darksome and divine
Mine the scrounge and mine the kiss;
The five point star of love and bliss
Here I charge you in this sign."

The HIgh Priestess should be in a trance now. This is a good time to do the Charge or the Witches' Creed. When the Charge or Creed is finished, the Goddess must be dismissed. It is bad magickal practice not to do so.

The High Priest faces the Priestess and says:

"We thank you Our Lady for attending out rites. We bid you farewell till next we call you. Blessed Be."

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