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Magick of Honor to the Goddess As we enter the Ash moon, it is a reminder of sacredness to the Goddess. It is a month of Ritual, Compassion, Love, and honor to the Goddess in respect for Her return to our conscious attention. Reverence is a way for us to align with our Deity. Reverence is a way of gratitude. Reverence is a way to open our hearts to the sacredness of all life. I would like you, throughout the month, to remember the Goddess in all that you do. Every act that you experience throughout this month, offer it to the Goddess. Begin with the act of awakening the Goddess in you and offer your gratitude and gift of life to the Goddess. Offer your work throughout the day to the Goddess. Each step you take, walk the steps for the Goddess. Everything you do, offer it to the Goddess. Then, come Full Moon, hold a ceremony to Honor She Who Gives Us Life, WomanSpirit, THE GODDESS. To help you, the following full moon ceremony is provided. The full moon is February 25 th at at 12:26 p.m. PST. It will be good to do ceremony on that day evening. . Spirit of Purpose Honoring the Goddess m The time before your ceremony (at least three days before hand) spend contemplating what honoring the Goddess, WomanSpirit, looks like, feels like and how you would like to express this honor during ceremony. m Establish the Spirit of Purpose (i.e. How you want to represent your Spiritual Essence through your time of honoring); m Establish date and time to perform your magickal ceremony. The full moon is Feb 25th m Gather specific components for your assisting ritual. Choose the color white, violet or pink in the candles, for these colors offer of the pure unadulterated expression of the Goddess (white) and a high spiritual intent (violet), while pink offers love. The essences of Rose is always a wonderful aroma to use in honor of the Goddess. 1 © 2001 Katherine Torres, Ph.D., Transpersonal Development

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Page 1: Magick of Honor to the Goddess - Faces of … the Goddess 2013.pdfMagick of Honor to the Goddess As we enter the Ash moon, it is a reminder of sacredness to the Goddess. It is a month

Magick of Honor to the Goddess

As we enter the Ash moon, it is a reminder ofsacredness to the Goddess. It is a month of Ritual,Compassion, Love, and honor to the Goddess in respect forHer return to our conscious attention. Reverence is a wayfor us to align with our Deity. Reverence is a way of

gratitude. Reverence is a way to open our hearts to the sacredness of all life.

I would like you, throughout the month, to remember the Goddess in all that you do. Everyact that you experience throughout this month, offer it to the Goddess. Begin with the act ofawakening the Goddess in you and offer your gratitude and gift of life to the Goddess. Offer yourwork throughout the day to the Goddess. Each step you take, walk the steps for the Goddess. Everything you do, offer it to the Goddess. Then, come Full Moon, hold a ceremony to Honor SheWho Gives Us Life, WomanSpirit, THE GODDESS.

To help you, the following full moon ceremony is provided.

The full moon is February 25th at at 12:26 p.m. PST. It will be good to do ceremony on thatday evening.

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Spirit of PurposeHonoring the Goddess

m The time before your ceremony (at least three days before hand) spend contemplatingwhat honoring the Goddess, WomanSpirit, looks like, feels like and how you wouldlike to express this honor during ceremony.

m Establish the Spirit of Purpose (i.e. How you want to represent your Spiritual Essencethrough your time of honoring);

m Establish date and time to perform your magickal ceremony. The full moon is Feb25th

m Gather specific components for your assisting ritual. Choose the color white, violetor pink in the candles, for these colors offer of the pure unadulterated expression ofthe Goddess (white) and a high spiritual intent (violet), while pink offers love. Theessences of Rose is always a wonderful aroma to use in honor of the Goddess.

1© 2001 Katherine Torres, Ph.D., Transpersonal Development

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Diamond or Mother of Pearl give honor to the Goddess.

m From the moment you know what you want to create, consciously place keep thisenergy in your heart and send it into the Heart of the Great Mother through the Heartof the Moon.

m Three days before your ceremony begin your conscious practice: (Three is used fromthe Law of Three–that which you put out is that which returns three fold. Honoringthe Divine Action (mind, body and spirit in one center of focus), Receiving (energyof the Universe seeping into your cells) and Manifesting (the final result revealed inyour personal awareness and activities of your life because you and the universalenergies are one).S Use aroma in your home and every where you go (Rose oil).S Begin an affirmation process (repeat this every day until your ritual)

uI honor the Great Motheru Every thing I do I do as an act of Prayer for the Great Motheru My Love for the Great Mother emerges and expresses through my openheart and action to and with everyone and everything.

S Two days before the ceremony carve the symbol of infinity and the Goddess on thecandle. This is a symbol reveals the infinite Love and Power that flows from theGoddess.

S On the day of your ritual acknowledge with affirmation: “I honor the GreatMother; Everything I do I do as an act of Prayer for the Great Mother; Mylove for the Great Mother emerges and expresses through my open heart andaction to and with everyone and everything.

m One day before, gather all the elements and tools for your altar, (include yourplants–roses, oils, stones, candles, and altar elements ). Place them in a bag orcovered with your altar cloth. Choose to maintain a sacred attitude about what youare doing. On the day of your ceremony uncover them and your altar.

S Create an incantation that will be used in your ceremony. It is best done with

your own words and written in your own hand.

S An example of an incantation: “Brighid, Flower Face, Morgan Le Fay,Venus, Ishtar, and Pele. I call you all in this circle tonight. Open MyHeart and hear my plight. I wish to vow my love without in to the GoddessWomanSpirit, who’s light is within. Circle around me the wind and fireand let the water flow through me to inspire. Inspire my love for the GreatGoddess everywhere that I might see Her in water, fire, earth and air.

2© 2001 Katherine Torres, Ph.D., Transpersonal Development

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S Write out your complete ceremony that you wish to follow. Write it in yourmagickal spells book (from beginning to end). Include a space within theceremony where you can spend time allowing yourself to feel and impressyour mind and emotions with your soul power to let the Goddess know ofyour love.

m An hour or so before your ceremony begin by preparing yourself and placing all itemson your altar.

S Self Purification - (bath/shower, sage or other cleansing incense/elixir)S Cleanse the place where ritual will occur (sage or other incense to clear the

area, i.e., elixir for room clearing, symbolic sweeping with a broom)S Set an altar with a cloth to place your items for symbols of fire (candle with

specific color), water (in cup or shell), air (incense or double edged knife) andearth (a stone or pentacle symbol) as well as sacred items that align your heartand mind with the Spirit of Purpose.

S Clear your mind of other thoughts and activities. Bring a vision of your purpose intoyour mind, feel yourself ready to enter the deepest part of your inner being. Centeryour mind and emotions into the purpose of your magickal alignment. (Veryimportant component.)

S Create a sacred vortex (a conduit for energy to be mixed and aligned withGod/Goddess, the Spirit of your Soul Purpose, and the most sacred vibration of themanifested desire). Mind and emotions must maintain the focus of purpose.

S Align with the 4-quarters. Sanctify the circle by honoring the elements/elementals.

Call in the Goddess, deities and the Spirit of Purpose in the manner that is mostcomfortable for you, but always with clarity and deliberate focus of purpose.

S Speak out your incantation for what you desire. Raise energy (feeling and sensing

a rise of energy from your womb, begin to visualize it forming a ball of light (i.e., forlove it would be pink or red), hold tight your sphincter muscle and let the energy rise to your heart, then with a large exhale, direct the energy ball of light from your heartinto the circle, knowing that it forms the spirit of your purpose).

S Meditate in the energy you have created. Visualize the manifest complete and utilizethe powers of knowing that it is so: Feel it, put a smell to it, a taste, sound, and seeit so. When you feel it deep within, end your meditation.

S Give gratitude to the Goddess, deities, elements and elementals, the 4-quarters andconduit alignment above and below. Acknowledge that all is within you now.

3© 2001 Katherine Torres, Ph.D., Transpersonal Development

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S Close your circle by snuffing out your candle, and walking in the opposite directionthat you set your circle to gather all energy unto yourself.

S Say Awen (So it is, So Mote it Be, It is complete).

The following may provide you information for setting your circle afteryou have cleansed the area and set your items on the altar (cleanse them as well).

Draw a circle by standing in the center of your space, face West (the symbolic place of the GreatMother), allow yourself to draw in white light from the heart of WomanSpirit to your heart. Feel itwell up inside like a ball of light, release this light into your right index finger, and circle clock-wise,releasing the light as you complete one full turn around the circle. As your return to the West begingiving honor to the 4-quarters and calling in the elements as well. At your altar touch your sone andacknowledge the Spirit of Earth that allows you to flow with the essence of love, light the incensefor air, light the candle for fire, and sprinkle water from your cup across your altar to honor theblessings of water. Then begin your opening:

Facing the west:

WomanSpirit, I stand here to align with the light of the westWomanSpirit, I ask that this door be open and the flow of your love enter this circleI ask to align with the enchantment of water (touch the water and sprinkle it across youraltar)WomanSpirit, I ask that the angels and goddesses of sacred inner realm enter my circle andassist my travels through your womb of nurturing fluid.WomanSpirit, I ask that I may become one with you in the Sacred Waters of Life.

Face the North:

WomanSpirit, I stand here to align with the light of the northWomanSpirit, I ask that this door be open and the sweetness of your manifested reality beone with me.I ask to align with the enchantment of the earth (touch the stone)WomanSpirit, I ask that the angels and goddesses of the Sacred Place of Your Magick,Earth, enter this circle now.WomanSpirit, I ask to become one with the grounding forces to maintain the connection withearth and to be one with your Manifesting Powers as I travel the earthly paths each andevery day.

Face the east:

WomanSpirit, I stand here to align with the light of the east

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WomanSpirit, I ask that this door be open and the sweetness of your vision be my visionI ask to align with the enchantment of air (light the incense and let it flow around you.)WomanSpirit, I ask that the angels and goddesses of truth and clarity assist me in holding the vision of Your presence in my life.WomanSpirit, I ask to become one with Your vision of Life that I might hold the respect andhonor of it as You desire.

Face the south:

WomanSpirit, I stand here to align with the light of the southWomanSpirit, I ask that this door be open that I might know Your Great PurposeI ask to align with the enchantment of fire (light the candle)WomanSpirit I ask to align with the angels and goddess of purpose, and intent to allow therelease of your Purpose through me and all my actions.WomanSpirit, I ask to become one with the purpose of Your Love and radiate it through myheart to All.

The invocation to the Goddess. Stand with arms raised and legs separated revealing the stance ofa five pointed star that honors the Goddess and say:

At this time and in this hourI call in the moon’s most sacred power (pause and feel the moon energy align with you)

Great Goddess, WomanSpiritQueen of all the realms,Lady of my SoulI call your presence here and nowMay I be blessed by our union and the sacredness you express in All Life.Great Mother, pierce through this moment and cast upon me Your loving gazeand the blessings.(Pause and feel the energy of WomanSpirit align with you)

Lay on the floor in a prone position with your arms and legs outstretched revealing the Five PointedStar. As you lay there, create prayers from your own heart that reveal the love you have forWomanSpirit. Let the Goddess hear you, feel you, and know the honor you have for Her. Tell herof the Service you desire to be do for Her. When you are complete, stand and offer the Symbol ofAnu as a direct honoring of the Goddess. Feel the knowing that you are a Divine Woman in thecenter of WomanSpirit’s Womb/Heart.

Symbol of Anu is a Five Pointed Star within a Circle.

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Then Call out to all the Goddesses.

Goddesses be the ever present guides to assist me as I serve WomanSpirit, The GreatGoddess. Provide me the perpetual awareness to maintain the attitude of love forall life. Assist me in living in a state of Prayer–honoring the Goddess in everybreath, thought, word and action. Teach me how to maintain a sacred attitude in allthat I do for others. Help me to bring blessings of WomanSpirit to the plant, animal,mineral and human forms of life.

Proceed to the incantation: (yours or the suggested one)

“Brighid, Flower Face, Morgan Le Fay, Venus, Ishtar, and Pele. I call you all in this circletonight. Open My Heart and hear my plight. I wish to vow my love to the Goddess

WomanSpirit. Circle around me the wind and fire and let the water flow through me toinspire. Inspire my love for the Great Goddess everywhere that I might see Her in water, fire,

earth and air.

Raise energy (feeling and sensing a rise of energy from your womb, begin to visualize itforming a ball of light (i.e., for health and vitality, orange or red, green or blue), hold tight yoursphincter muscle and let the energy rise to your heart, then with a large exhale, direct the energy ballof light from your heart into the circle, knowing that it forms the spirit of your purpose and willperpetuate the Love of the Goddess through you and the world).

S Meditate in the energy you have created. Give honor to the sacred power you havecalled forth. Know you will use it with integrity, love of the Goddess, and love ofyourself. Give honor for all that you experience and will experience.

S Give gratitude to the Goddess, deities, elements and elementals, the 4-quarters andconduit alignment above and below. Acknowledge that all is within you now.

S Close your circle by snuffing out your candle (or blowing it out knowing that thelight goes out to the world), and walking in the opposite direction that you set yourcircle to gather all energy unto yourself.

S Say Awen (So it is, So Mote it Be, It is complete).

Awen – It is so! So it is!

6© 2001 Katherine Torres, Ph.D., Transpersonal Development