New Moon Ritual

Priestess stands with head bowed and her arms across her breast. Coveners start 
to move deosil around the circle, chanting the name of the Goddess. They move 
around completely three times then stop.

Priest stands before Priestess.

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

Covener: Endings and beginnings

Covener: Ebbing and flowing

Covener: A journey done; a journey yet to start

Covener: Let us honor now the Crone-Mother darksome and divine.

Covener: Let us give of our strength and in return see rebirth.

Priest: Behold, the lady of Darkness, Mother, Grandmother. Old yet ever young.

Priestess slowly raises her head and spreads her arms outwards and upwards

All kneel

Priestess: Hear me! Honor me and love me now and always. As the wheel turns we 
see birth, death and rebirth. Know, from this, that every end is a beginning. 
Every stop a fresh starting point. Maiden, Mother, Crone. I am all of these and 
more. Whenever you have need of anything call upon me. I, and my Lord, are here, 
for I abide within you all. Even at the darkest of times, when there seems no 
single spark to warm you and the night seems blackest of all, I am here, 
watching and waiting to grow with you, in strength and in love. I am she who is 
at the beginning and the end of all time. So Mote It Be

ALL: So Mote It Be

Priestess folds her arms again. There is a moment or two of silence.