Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry

for Nine Waves of blessings!

Cup your hands in the sea or in the bowl and splash the water over you, nine times in succession. With each splash call out a line of the following blessing, and really allow yourself to receive each blessing with each wave:

A wave of blessing for my body - may it feel powerful

and free!

A wave of blessing for my voice - may it be strong and clear!

A wave of blessing for my speech - may I be heard

and understood!

A wave of blessing for my livelihood - may I find joy

in my work!

A wave of blessing for my generosity - may it flow from

my heart and hands!

A wave of blessing for my desires - may they be fulfilled

for the greater good of all!

A wave of blessing for my wealth - may my life

be abundant!

A wave of blessing for my health - may it be strong

and vital!

A wave of blessing for my life - may it bring joy and

blessings to others!

Now call out:

Nine waves of grace and of blessing be upon me, waves of

the Giver of Health, Joy and Life!

Give thanks to the God and Goddess for the blessings of this ceremony and, if you are by the sea, finish by meditating beside the fire, listening to the crackling of the flames and the waves of the sea, feeling the blessings flowing through your being. If you are indoors, you might want to meditate, listen to music or enter sleep to allow the blessings to flow through you unimpeded by everyday thoughts.

A HOME BLESSING CEREMONY

The self-blessing helped you to be magically receptive. The following ceremony helps develop your ability to be magically active.

In order to work magic you have to feel at home in the world – you have to have a sense of centredness, of stability. To achieve this, it helps consciously to bless your home, so that the environment around you feels supportive, protective and clear.

One evening, or day, when the moment feels right, fill a bowl with water and have some incense (unlit to begin with) that you can easily carry around (if incense disturbs your breathing, or if you just don’t like it, use a candle instead). When you feel ready to start, decide where the hearth, the centre of your home is, and seated there, close your eyes and imagine you are looking at the Earth from outer space. See it floating in the vastness of the universe, with the sun, moon and stars shining. Then, move down towards the part of the Earth where you live, and imagine you are looking down on the area around your home. Sense the earth and sky, the rivers and stars all sending their special energies to your home and the land around it. Now see your home itself, and imagine a circle of golden light around it. Now come into the home and open your eyes and look around you. Say out loud:

O Great Spirit (or Goddess and/or God), I ask for your

blessings on this my home, my hearth, my household.

Then light the incense or candle and say:

O Brighid, Goddess of hearth and home, I ask that this

incense/flame might be blessed in your name, that it may

purify and cleanse this home, this place.

Then walk through your home waving the smoke from the incense, or the light from the candle, around the perimeter of each room, working sunwise (clockwise if you are in the northern hemisphere, or anticlockwise if you are in the southern hemisphere), around the home, and around each room. Then pick up the bowl of water and say:

O Brighid, Goddess of the well and the flame, I ask that

this water might be consecrated in your name, that it may

cleanse, purify and bless this home.

Then walk through your home sprinkling water from the bowl around the perimeter of each room, again always sunwise, around the home and every room. (If you want to be really traditional, and you can get all around your house outside, then you can sprinkle around the house nine times, returning to the hearth to light the fire.) Then say:

O Brighid, please bless this house: from site to stay, from

beam to wall, from end to end, from ridge to basement,

from balk to roof-tree, from found to summit, from found

to summit.

Then come to the place that feels most like the centre, the hearth of your home, and sit down and read, or say out loud, the following blessing. And as you do so, imagine that blessings are flowing from Brighid or from Spirit through you, to your house. Feel this energy of blessing actively radiating out into the world through you, as you say:

A blessing upon this home,

A blessing upon this hearth

A blessing upon this . . .

(If you have created a sacred space or sanctuary inside or outside your home now is the time to mention it. Use whatever term appeals to you, such as Sanctuary, Sacred Space, Sacred Circle or Place of Transformation/Meditation/Devotion.)

A blessing upon my tallest grass.