Introduction To Rituals

(December 1, 2025) To get into a spiritual mood and to set the right mood for the desired ritual, a sacred space should be created. This is a time to forget about normal day to day existence and focus on the spiritual and eternal. This done by darkening the area, cleansing the area, "calling the corners," and lighting a fire or candles. Optionally music and scents are added.

Calling the cardinal direction using some meaningful correspondences begins to focus the mind while simultaneously defining the ritual space. The classical element correspondences work well:

Earth

1. Confidence
2. Stability, Grounding, Practicality
3. Home, Comfort

Air (ancient languages used the same word for air and spirit)

1.  Insight, Awareness
2.  Empathy
3.  Motion, Spirits (winds of change) 

Fire

1. Passion, Energy, Motivation
2. Heat, Primal Feelings
3. Transformation

Water

1. Cleansing 
2. Life Flow, Focus (moving waters, blood, sap, rivers)
3. Life Birth and Death, Reflection (still waters, womb, ponds)

If in a group then circling a central alter with a chant is a good technique. If solitary then a habitual grounding and centering practice like some simple meditative yoga moves is also good in which feeling awareness starts at your core with breathing and then moves outward to your extremities and beyond.

(July 8, 2022)  Rituals can be either for listening (meditations, yoga, tarot) or generating spiritual energy. This is a guide for spiritual energizing rituals.

Effective energy rituals come from generating feelings. Only non-material conscious feelings have any chance of transmission into the spiritual realm. Participants reading from a prepared script do not generate much energy. Rituals must be done from the heart.

Every ritual has a start, middle, and an end. The start is all about getting in the mood by raising generalized spiritual energy. The middle focuses and narrows the energy with props, music, visuals, scents, whatever. The end is a time of quieting-down, reflection, and thankfulness. 

Every effective ritual must meet four conditions:​

1. Do you feel you have the needed wisdom?  - Do you feel emotionally comfortable with the ritual's intent? Do you really know what you are doing? 
2. Do you feel you have the needed insights? -  Are you able to really connect to the emotions needed at this time? Can you focus?
3. Do you feel you have the needed confidence? -  This is not a question of believing hard enough. This deals with our emotional conditioning and in making sure we have removed all relevant emotional blockages to the conscious thought flow. 
4. Do feel you have the passion? - Are you really motivated and energized for this?

Significantly, the apostle Paul listed three of these ritual conditions in his manifestations of the spirit section of 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 (along with healing, prophecy, and miracles). This whole passage suggests that the earliest Christians were still doing magical rituals in accordance with the teachings of Jesus. Only with the rise of the apocalyptic viewpoint was this magical practice suppressed. Puritanical Paul only left out passion. This is his list which the Holy Spirit could aid in manifesting:​

1. Attunements (logos) of Wisdom (Greek sophia)

2. Attunements (logos) of Insight (Greek gnosis)

3. Attunements (logos) of Confidence (Greek pistis)

So Mote it Be (used to close rituals focused on motions and the shifting luck/fate)

(December 1, 2025) This ancient ritual closing phrase may be derived from an the Druid Akkadian magical phrase Ma'u-Tu meaning "push with astrology-magic" or more loosely as a ritual ending "May this be pushed with astrology-magic." Astrology magic was used to shift fate.

 This phrase defined the Old English word "Mote." (https://www.etymonline.com/word/mote)

The word "mote" was the King James Bible word assignment for the Greek noun karphos meaning "withered thing" like a raisin.

Amen (used to close life or fertility rituals)

The word "Amen" also seems to come from the Druid Akkadian phrase AMu-ENu meaning "Reed-Boat reassign" or more loosely as a ritual ending "May the Reed-Boat reassign."

 The "Reed-Boat" is an epithet for the crescent moon goddess Ayu who edits the life network to direct the flow of life powers to earth. She can reassign the life power flow to other places. That is what this ritual ending is asking.

As a phrase "Amen" could be used either at the start or ending of a statement. One example of its use at the start of a sentence is preserved in one passage in the Hebrew Scriptures.

In Summary, we have the "So Mote it Be" ending for rituals involving changing the motion powers and the "Amen" ending for rituals involving the life-powers.