Remove all animals and small children from the area, and also furnitures you do not want inside your circle.
Set up an altar before you cast a circle.
Locate magnetic North with a compass and holding the wand out from your body, go into alpha and see the wands aura extending out from it, especially from the tip.
Visualize the tip of the wand creating a circle of light and energy, as you walk 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.
Walk the circle the second time around and and say out loud:
"I cast this circle to protect me/us
from all negative and positive energies and forces
on any level that may come and do me/us harm.
I draw into this circle only energies and forces that are right
for me and the most correct ofor my work."
Walk the circle the third time and say:
"I have created a sacred space. So Mote it Be!!"
Invoke the Four Directions and energies of the Elements, angels and powers that resides in them using the athame, wand and the sword, or index fingerto draw an invoking pentagram as you face each direction. Use a ritual spell of Invocation or one you wrote yourself.
To close the circle, hold the wand out over the circumference of the circle and beginning at the magnetic North, walk once around the circle counter clockwiseas you say:
"I send this circle into the cosmos to do my bidding the circle is undone but not broken"