As with all magickal operations its important to set things back as they were and not leave any "open" energy channels to drain out Thus the Quarters are thanked for their presence and dismissed formally at the end of the ritual. Again we like to have the same four people close each quarter as opened them. Sometimes the wording is altered to invite the elementals to "stay or depart as they please" - this is a matter of whim and mood when I am calling the quarters.
How it is done:
All present face the appropriate direction and make the gestures. The caller draws an appropriate banishing pentagramin the air and proclaims:
Hail to the Watchtower
of the [North, South, East West],
Element of [Earth, Fire, Air, Water]!
We thank ye for your presence here tonight,
Ye mighty ones of the [North, South, East West],
Guardian spirits of Witchdom.
We ask that ye depart in peace,
Returning from whence ye came,
To thy fair and lovely realms,
And harming none as ye go.
Guardians of the
[North, South, East West],
Lords of the [Earth, Fire, Air, Water],
Hail and Farewell!
[All] Hail and Farewell!