Wine Blessing


Male: The male holds the power and is the reservoir of power.

Female: The female taps the power in him and channels it.

Both: Neither one can work without the other; one without the other is 
incomplete.

Male: The god is a god of life and death.

Female: The goddess is of birth and renewal.

Both: To learn you must struggle, to live you must be born, to be born you must 
die; the beginning, the continuation and the end, over and over and over.

Male: The sun gives forth light.

Female: The moon holds it in darkness.

Male: As above

Female: So below

Male: As the athame is to the male.

Female: So the chalice is to the female.

Both: And together joined they are one in truth, for there is no greater power 
in all the world than that of a man and woman joined in the bonds of love.