This is an early effort at creating a charm and visualization for casting my circles. I didn’t mark my notes with a date. I am 
guessing circa late 1990’s:
O pure, uncreated light, I raise thee up
I spin thee round
I swirl thee bound
I weave you a’spiraling into a circle of power
A boundary for me
A place of perfect love…and perfect trust
O web of life in the name of the Golden Lord and the Silver Lady,
I command the circle is sealed.
We are between worlds…
The ritual is begun.
My visualization:
Raise pure light into the body and channel to the hands or athame. Let it pool. At “I raise the up,” push the pool into the upper extent of the future circle space. Spin it, swirl it…speaking in sync with the visualization and the action. As you do this, the light flows loosely into ropes of light. On, “I weave,” the ropes separate into white threads that look like a web woven into a quarter of the sphere. The web is drawn out around the sphere of the ritual space through each of the rest of the quarters. On, “the circle is sealed,” the web fills in with light to become an opaque egg with no seams and extending into the full space you’ve chosen for ritual area and a little into the earth beneath. Feel it anchor solidly for a moment and then let it become gossamer…then on the last two lines the declarations are made to the Wiccans.
Upon closing:
The web is revealed.
The boundary loosens.
The woven power swirls unbound.
It spins back round
As the Silver Lady and the Golden Lord command me, the light rides back and lets me ground thee.
The circle is open…our hearts unbroken…Merry meet…And merry meet again!
My visualization for how the web unravels is fairly obvious. It just comes undone the opposite it was formed. As time passed, I changed the traditional ritual ending phrases to what I’ve just shared. I prefer to speak very obviously of my viewpoint that the ending of the ritual is not the ending of the love shared with either the Divine, nor other participants. It is more honoring and magickal that way…to me at least. It also subtly speaks of the fact that there’s no separation between me and the Universe. We are one.
The inspiration for this change came from participation in pipe ceremonies. It is their way to make this relationship clear and that it extends far beyond ritual time and space.
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