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ab:drawmoon.txt 16jan90
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Drawing Down the Moon
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Needs: Wand, Scourge, Priestess' Athame
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Priest, Priestess
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Follows: Casting Circle
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Witches' Rune
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Next: The Charge
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HPS stands in God position in N. before altar, holding scourge and athame.
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Coveners are in S. facing altar.
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HP kneels before HPS and salutes her with the Fivefold kiss (as he kisses
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her womb, she opens into blessing position).
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HP again kneels before HPS who stands in Goddess positon (right foot
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slightly forward). HP invokes the Goddess, saying:
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HP: "I invoke thee and call upon thee,
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Mighty Mother of us all, (touch right breast)
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bringer of all fruitfulness; (touch left breast)
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by seed and root, (touch womb)
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by stem and bud, (touch right breast)
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by leaf and flower and fruit, (touch left breast)
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by life and love (touch womb)
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do I invoke (raising wand)
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thee to descend upon the body
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of this thy servant and priestess.
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Here, speak with her tongue,
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touch with her hands,
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kiss with her lips,
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that thy servants may be fulfilled."
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As he invokes, HP touches HPS gently with wand upon r. breast, l. breast,
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womb and upon the same three places again.
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As he finishes the invocation, he spreads his arms in adoration (still
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kneeling) and says:
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HP: "Hail, Aradia ! From the Amalthean Horn
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Pour forth thy store of love; I lowly bend
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Before thee, I adore thee to the end,
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With loving sacrifice thy shrine adorn.
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Thy foot is to my lip [kiss], my prayers upborne
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Upon the rising incense smoke; then spend
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Thine ancient love, O Mighty One, descend
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To aid me, who without thee am forlorn."
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HP stands and takes a step back. All adore in silence as HPS traces
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invoking Earth pentagram in air before them with athame, saying:
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HPS: "Of the Mother, darksome and divine,
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Mine the scourge, and mine the kiss,
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The five-point star of love and bliss -
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Here I charge you, in this sign."
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This completes Drawing Down the Moon. HPS and HP now face the Coven
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and deliver the Charge.
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-Lots of published sources
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eg. Janet and Stewart Farrar's "The Witches Way"
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