Pagans are familiar with celebrating the eight Sabbats of the Wheel of the Year with rituals, but are often at a loss of how to create rituals to celebrate other special occasions in their lives.
The Pocket Guide to Rituals helps you create these rituals, to honor events from birth, marriage, and death, to seasonal miracles such as the first snowfall or the first spring blooms.
Connor breaks down the process of creating rituals one step at a time to help you create complete, cohesive rituals to perform by yourself or in groups. She covers dozens of different kinds of rituals, eliminating the guesswork while encouraging creativity.
The Pocket Guide to Rituals also shows you the benefits of celebrating with ritual and how to plan a ritual celebration, making the process both easy and enjoyable.
The entry for each ritual includes details on six elements: theme; colors; crystals and stones; incense, oils, and herbs; altar decorations; and a sample of a completed ritual. To celebrate an engagement, for example, you could select the theme of joy and use its corresponding color (yellow), amazonite crystals, neroli and orange oil in a colorful celebration of merry making, dancing and feasting!
The book concludes with a chapter on how to write the words to your ritual and worksheets to record each one.
Covered rituals include:
Rituals of Life
Birth
Menstruation/Puberty
Birthdays
Adulthood
Paganing
College
Engagement
New Car
New Job/Promotion
New Home
Handfasting/Marriage
Menopause
Retirement
Passing Over
Rituals of Nature
Sunrise
Sunset
First Snow
Changing of the Leaves
Spring Blossoms
Summer Warmth
Solar Eclipse
Celebrations of Water
Celebrations of Earth
Celebrations of Air
Celebrations of Fire
New Moon
Full Moon
Lunar Eclipse
Meteor Shower
Mini Paperback 176 pages.
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