Spells/Blessings/Charms/Meditations/whatever:
Hold the Persephone candle and say:
The land begins to slumber,
The soil growing colder
The plants and animals being to sleep.
Persephone beginning her descent
To return to the Underworld,
The earth will slumber until your return
The nights growing longer and the days shorter.
Your mother, Demeter will mourn your loss
As we mourn for the shorter days that are coming
Winter will soon be upon us.
Place the Persephone candle back on the altar and pick up the Demeter candle and while holding it say:
In your despair, you looked high and low
Roaming the earth.
The plants died and the soil wouldn't grow
Life began to wither as your loss grew.
You traveled, grieving, searching for your daughter.
Leaving darkness behind you as you searched.
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As you search for the daughter you gave life too
We will welcome the darkness in your honor.
Cakes and Ale:
Open the pomegranate and remove 6 seeds. Place these on your alter and say:
Half a year of light, six months of darkness.
The earth slumbers to awaken again
Dark goddess, Persephone I honor you tonight
I embrace the dark, long nights and honor life of the Crone.
Blessed Be dark Goddess tonight and all others.
Now hold the grape juice meditate on the darker aspects of life and your own self. Think about the rage, pain, deaths, etc that may haunt you and how to move past them for a better self. When done say:
Without knowing rage, I cannot know love
Without knowing pain, I cannot know happiness
Without knowing death, I cannot know life
Without knowing the night, I cannot know the day
Great goddess of the dark, I embrace you
I thank you.
Now enjoy the grape juice and the remaining seeds, leaving the six for later. As you eat, take the darkness in yourself and set it free. Release the pain and rage inside your soul. When ready move forward.
Thanks to the Deity:
Snuff out the Demeter candle and
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