Spring Maiden Ritual


Spring Maiden Ritual
By Lina-Elvira Back

Ritual tools
Chalice
 wild water (dew, springwater)
athame
 one white candle
crystals (onyx or tigers eye)
 sea-salt
nine fruits with lots of seeds (I use rosehips)

A place to be ALONE preferably outdoors

Preparations
Take a salt-bath, and add some peppermint oil (if essential oil, 4-5 drops).
Soak until the water gets cold. Dry off, put on dark clothes. Not too many
clothes, it will disturb your aura.

 Go to wherever you are holding the ritual. If it is snowy and chilly outside,
put on more clothes and jam your pockets with energy-raising crystals.

The ritual begins

Draw a circle of seasalt where you're going to perform the ritual.

 Place the four candles at the four cardinal points.
Place the wild water-filled chalice in the West, the candle in the South, the
athame in the East and the crystals in the North.

Invocation to Hecate

Hecate, min moder och mentor (Hecate, my mother and mentor)
Kom till mig i denna gryningen av en ny Ârstid. (Come to me at this dawn of a
new season)

Och dela med dig av Kraften (and share with me the Magick)
Jag skall Âterb–rda den trefaldigt (I will return it threefold)
Som det ar sagt (as it is said)
LÂt det ske! (So mote it be!)

Place some yellow flowers on your altar, while reading this poem.

VÂrjungfruns hymn
The Spring Maiden hymn
Gryningen kommer (Dawn comes)
och satter himmelen i brand. (and strikes fire in the sky)
Nu kommer Hon, (Now She comes,)
i en skrud gul som den uppstigande solen. (in a robe as yellow as the rising
sun.)
Undan viker vintern, (Away goes the winter,)
dar VÂrjungfrun gÂr fram. (where the Spring Maiden walks.)
Men latta steg kliver hon –ver myllan, (With steps so light she wanders over
the soil)
och i hennes fotspÂr gror fr–n. (and in her footsteps seeds grow.)
I sina gyllengula skrud, med armarna uppstrackta (In her golden robe, with arms
in the air)
valkomnar hon solens Âterf–delse. (she greets the rebirth of the Sun.)
Bland tussilago dansar alvorna (Among coltsfeet the faeries dance)
och vacker de andra blommorna. (and awaken the other flowers.)

If the ground isn't frozen, bury the nine seeds by a birch-tree (if you don't
have any birches in you area, choose another tree that speaks to you.)

Sacrifice

Med dessa nio fr–n (With these nine seeds)
och detta vilda vatten (and this wild water)
visar jag min goda vilja. (I pledge to you my good will.)
Throw out the wild water over the seeds. If it isn't too cold, sit outside in
your circle until dawn the next day. Light a fire if you like, but outside the
sacred circle.

When done; Thank the elements and Hecate. Dissolve the magickal circle. Go home.