Ritual Preparations
Add summer flowers to your ritual bath, and anoint yourself with their oils before the ritual. For the ritual itself, you will need a fir source, your favorite divination tool, some dew or rainwater from the night before, one stick of protective incense for every room in your house, a white candle, and a sun wheel.
Fashion the latter from grapevines or rose briers so the branches form a circle with an equidistant cross in the center. Decorate this with golden ribbons and symbols of the four elements. Gather together nine dried herbs in a bowl, each of which represents a personal (or group) need or goal. Nine is the number of completion.
The Altar
Cover the altar with a red or orange cloth to honor the sun. Decorate the top with daisy blossoms. The daisy takes its name from day's-eye, because it turns to follow the sun in its path. Use gold, red, or yellow candles to represent divine Fire. Place your fire source at the center of the altar with your divination tool in front of it, the sun wheel and water at one side, and the bowl of herbs, white candle, and incense on the other.
Invocation
If possible, this ritual should begin at noon, when the un is highest in the sly. A nice additional touch for this invocation is to have candles at all four compass points to represent the dominance of the fire element.
South~Fires of creation, within me burn, for the Wheel of Life has turned. Keep safe the sun's dynamic spark; throughout the world, ignite the dark.
West~Waters of Creation, within me flow, 'round again the Wheel must go. Keep safe the dew of dusk and dawn: let magick prance upon the lawn.
North~Loam of fertility, nourish me; the Wheel's lessons I wish to see. Keep safe the soil where roost can grow, while round the circle, magick sows!
East~Air of Insight, breathe in this place; the Wheel of Time shall guide your pace. Keep safe the winds of muse and mind; within this circle, the magick bind.
Center~Spirit of Truth, and psychic power, the Wheel has turned again this hour. Keep safe the light that warms the land; birth the magick where I stand.
If your fire source is not already burning, light it now along with the God and Goddess candles.
Meditation and Visualization
At the altar, take your divination tool in your weak hand. Dip the pointer finger of your strong hand into the water and draw an invoking pentagram in the air above the tool, saying:
"Powers of Insight, I invoke you. Let the power of light this day grant me sight beyond sight. Reveal the patterns of the Wheel as it turns, and the lessons I must learn."
Repeat this procedure on your forehead with the water and the invocation, then sit down with your tool.
Hold the divination tool in your hands and close your eyes. Open your senses and breathe deeply. Visualize the light in your aura filling the tool, and the energy of the tool filling your aura. This attunes your auric energy to that of the tool, and vice versa. Continue the visualization until the tool feels warm and welcoming in your hands.
Open your eyes and proceed with a reading. If possible, draw out six emblems to represent the rends over the next six months. Make notes of this reading in your journal and return to it at Yule and see how accurate it was.