| This form of circle casting is adapted from Laurie Cabot. This is her version, which might be different from your own. It's just an example. 1. Remove all animals and small children from the area, also any furniture that you do not want to be inside your circle. 2. Set up your altar before you cast the circle. 3. Locate magnetic North with a compass and holding the wand (or athame, or staff, or even hand) out from your body, go into alpha and see the wand's aura extending out from it, especially at the tip. 4. Visualize the tip of the wand creating a circle of light and engery, like a laser, as you walk deosil (clockwise) three times around the area. The circumference drawn by the wand's tip will be the edge of your circle. Project the white light out from the wand to create the circle as geometrically perfect and say to yourself that it is. 5. Walk the circle the second time around and say outloud: "I cast this circle to protect me from all negative and positive engegies and forces on any level that may come to do me harm. I draw into this circle only energies and forces that are right for me and the most correct for my work." Walk the circle the third time and say: "I have created a sacred space. So mote it be!" 7. Inovoke the four directions and energies of the elements, angels, and powers that reside in them by using the athame, wand, sword, or index finger to draw an invoking pentagram as you face each direction. Use a ritual spell of invocation or one you write for yourself. 8. To open the circle, hold the wand out over the circumference of the circle and beginning at magnetic North, walk once around the circle Widdershins (counterclockwise) as you say: "I send this circle into the cosmos to do my bidding. The circle is undone but not broken." |