Goddess candle
Green candle (Earth)
Blue candle (Water)
Red or orange candle (Fire)
Light blue or lavender candle (Air)
(always trim wicks to no more than ¼ inch)
Glass or goblet of spring water
Fruit of the season (apple, pear, pomegranate)
Light the other four candles. Take a moment, stand peacefully until their flames burn slowly and steadily.
Lie down on the floor on your back, with a pillow under your knees if that helps your back to be straight and comfortable. Look at the five candle flames, and keep that image with you as you close your eyes.
Breathe slowly and deeply, not straining. With every breath in, take in relaxation and calm. With every breath out, release tension and worry. After several breaths, breathing just enough to sustain yourself, let yourself drift.
Feel gravity pressing you on the floor and then through the floor. Sink slowly into the earth. Close your eyes and send your consciousness down through the room, down through the floor of the building, and down, deep down, into the earth. Be aware of the mass of rock that lies beneath the soil- shale, quartz, sandstone, granite; the black, white, and red-shot through with bands of minerals, darkly glittering; crystals that shine like stars within the stones ....Let your consciousness become one with the mineral kingdom: You might choose to become a mountain as old as the planet itself, once part of the seabed, thrown up by unspeakable forces now stilled, enormously, timelessly rooted in the earth, its head in the stars.........Or a minute grain of sand, one among trillions and trillions, endlessly shifting, sifting, with the ocean tides ...Or become a stone... the stone people are alive - it´s just that their hearts beat slower than ours ...
Now become aware of the plant kingdom: algae and seaweeds, forests of kelp, grasses blowing in a savanna wind, yellow and orange lichens on a rock in a wood, prickly pears, an oak wood, a rain forest blooming with delicate orchids, vines hanging with fruit ... Become one with the plant kingdom now - soft green moss on a rock by a stream, a mountain strawberry, a wild rose...........what does it feel like to be blown softly by the wind....or to split your husk and feel your seeds fall to the ground?
And now become aware of the animal kingdom.... listen to the voices of the wild: the roar of the tiger, the belling of the stag, the howl of the wolf; the cries of owls and the tapping of woodpeckers, the whirring of birds´ wings, the padding of soft paws.........become one now with the animal kingdom, with the salmon leaping upstream, the fox gliding through the night, or the snake shedding its skin...feel what your new body is like and what it feels like to creep, walk, climb, run or fly in free motion....
And now become aware of the human kingdom ...you are standing on two feet ...notice how different that feels: you can stand like a stone, grow like a plant, move like an animal, but you can now create with your mind and your hands and you can sing and dance and dream in your heart and make that dream real upon the earth ...and when you are ready, slowly open your eyes and come back to the room.
Slowly sit up, focusing on your candles. Say the following:
I have been the dust storm, the volcano’s lava;
Swum in your oceans, flowed in your streams.
I have been a fish, a bacterium,
Run with the wild brothers and sisters, howled at the Moon.
I have spun amongst the comets and asteroids,
Burned with creation’s fire, frozen in ice in the void.
Been music, the song of the spheres, the frequency of the stars.
I have been a human being and feel my connection
To every other thing that lives; everything has life.
For Your sake
I pray to heal You
I pray to cure You of what we have done
I pray to love You and protect You.
Drink the water, saying, “Thanks to you, Mother, for the water that keeps us alive.”
Eat the fruit, saying, “Thanks to you, Mother, for the food you give us out of Your own body.
Ground and conclude the ritual. It is done!