The Housle
You will need:Dark Bread
Red Wine
A Cup
A Bowl
A Bell
Materials to Cast a Circle
Place:Outside, near a place of power ispreferable.
Gather your materials and casta circle. Then invoke the powers
you will share this rite with. Say the blessing for the bread with
you left hand over it:Here is the bread,the life of the
earth,Blessed to give us life and strength.I consecrate it in the
name of ____.With myleft hand I bless it.With my left hand I shall
eat it.
Ring the bell again, and say for the wine, while lifting the
cup:Here is wine, filling the cup with abundance.I consecrate it in
the name of ____.With my left hand I lift it.With my lefthand I
shall drink it.
Holding the cup in your left hand still, bring it near your
lips, and say: I drink this cup in myLadysname:she shall gather me
home again.Then drink a little. After you have shared from the cup,
tear or cut your portionof the bread. As you bring the bread to
your lips, held with your left hand, say:I eat this bread in the
unknown name,for fear and care, and want of Him.Then eat.The rest
of the wine should be poured into the same bowl containing the
bread, mixing the two together. Dip your finger into the mixture
and anoint your head with it. When that is finished, hold up the
remains and say The Declaration of Giving:As some is taken, so is
this givenby a son of the family of the Old Faith.I give itto the
ground.I give it to the Pale People Below.That Above and Below will
become one.For what is taken is truly given,and what is given is
truly taken.The day and night are wedas the living and the
dead.Here is shown a Mystery.
