NEW MOON


Insert after general Esbat and before cakes and wine.

You can dance around circle chanting the names of the goddess.

Chant ;  " Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna"

Chant as often as you like.

Then kneel before the alter and say

"Dark is the night as we reach this turning point.
Here is a time of death; yet a time of birth".

Endings and beginnings
Ebbing and flowing
A journey done; a journey yet to start.
I honour now the crone-mother darksome and divine.
I give of my strength and in return see rebirth.

Arms raised

"BEHOLD, the Lady of Darkness; Mother, Grand mother. Old yet ever young.

I honour and love you now and always. As the wheel turns we see birth, death and 
rebirth. I know from this, that every ending is a beginning; every stop a fresh 
starting point.

Maiden, Mother, Crone... you are all of these and more.

When ever I have need of any thing, I can call upon you and your Lord for you 
abide within me. Even at the darkest of times, when there seems no single spark 
to warm me and the night seems blackest of all, You are here watching over me, 
in strength and in love. You are she who is at the beginning and the ending of 
all time.
Blessed Be."

Go to cakes and wine.