This is the quickening
of the year
Tuber, seed and root all quicken
Into the coming of the light
Into the growing of the year
This is the quickening
time of life
Tuber, seed and root all quicken
In the darkness, in the waiting
Quicken into life becoming
This is the quickening
of the time of Love
Tuber, seed and root all quicken
Gather strength in Love and Trust
And Blessed Be!
Farewell to winter,
turn the wheel
Here is our memory and our promise
This day the promise fulfilled
Hand and flower, thank and bless
In the sky and on the earth
This is beginning, this is birth
All that crawl or swim or fly
Here is newness, here is day
Here the goddess in her pride
Come in kindness to our need
Dancing water here divine
Is birthtime and her secret wine
Here we share in love and praise
That she may guide us in new ways
This is the day
of shining
Leaf and shoot and bud are new
In the goddess's hands newly made
Are Air and Water, Earth and Fire
Here we tread the
tread of spring
In our hearts may we be new
In our minds may there be light
In our spirits we rejoice
It is spring of
every year
Of every day, of every hour
Of every minute is infinite
All time in spring is blessed
In every shoot the
life increase
In every day the life grow strong
In Perfect Love and Perfect Trust
So mote it and most blessed be!
Lord of the Sun,
Lady of the Moon
Keep the wheel turing to our fortune
Bring us to the best of summer
And all thy riches:
Flowers to the flowers heart
Petals to the petals source
Life to life and life to life
Through the fire of the Sun
Let all that is newly born
In strength this middle year
Let earth be earth and fire be fire!
Goddess, mother
of the earth,
We thank thee
For the wealth of the year
For the ripeness of thy gifts
That we may ourselves have power to give
Each being in each other
Man in woman, woman in man
All are born and all will die
All are bound and all are free
In joy and gladness, Blessed Be!
With Water, Fire,
Earth and Air
God and Goddess, wealth of the year
In thy name we gather here
To receive the gift and bless the giver
Gifts of breath and gifts of light
In strength and power all is given
In every year, in every season
Yet in our acceptance, yet we bless
Each and other, here together
Taking hands and feasting
Blessed Be!
Blessings on the
dead that know
Blessings on the dead that are
Blessings on the dead that guard
Blessings on the dead that are
We call on ye to
bless and guard
In this season of the year
When all the dead most blessed are
We call upon the dead to hear
For all are born
and all must die
In life and light eternally
We merry meet and merry part
That we may marry meet again
This night once
more the wheel must turn
The turning year, the turning wheel
Earth and water, air and fire
Spirit in the height and deep
The sun is day, the moon is night
All the names and all the words
All the breath of all that breathes
Is life and all life is light
And all live on the wheel
Most blessed be!