Visitor's Rite

Visitors to the rite are welcomed in at the door by two of the Ritualists:
 
Ritualist 1: Who is it that knocks?
Who would come in?
Ritualist 2: A Traveller. (accompanies visitor)
Ritualist 3: You are most welcome.
Come in from the Night.

Once all visitors have arrived the rite proceeds.
 
Enter the Principal Ritualists
MC: Unbolt the Door and make clear the Path,
Welcome us in to share your hearth.

 

Circle Casting Rite

MC: Let all here know full well,
That none but Pagans here dwell.
We make the sign aright and averse,
A hex-mark that none can reverse.
(Making the sign of a unicursal hexagram.)
 
(Walking in a circle)
 
All: We mark this round and cast this rune,
Upon this site, in the Dark of the Moon,
Our bare feet mark this witches' round,
And thus it becomes hollowed ground.
 
(Passing a candle, say:)
 
(R)itualist 1: East by Air to North by Fire, the line is cast and the two are one.
R.2: North by Fire to West by Water, the line is cast and the two are one.
R.3: West by Water to South by Earth, the line is cast and the two are one.
R.4: South by Earth returning to the point begun, and all are one.
 
MC: This dark circle is now cast,
And I fix it here to holdfast.