Naming Ceremony
This Ceremony can be used for the purpose of taking on a Magickal name or can be adapted for the Naming of a Child.
HP/S challenges the person to be named with the following
Who are you who would enter this circle?
(answers with given name)
How do you enter?
(In perfect love and perfect trust.)
Are you prepared to meet the challenges of your chosen name?
Then enter before the Lord and Lady.
HP and HPS perform the Fivefold Blessing.
Next the person is taken to be introduced to the five elements. At each the HP and HPS speak of the male and female aspects of each. After which the person being named introduces themself, using their chosen name.
AIR~
HPS- I am the Goddees of hte sky whose breath gives you life. Know me as you inhale my essence.
HP- I am the God of the sky that holds your wings aloft. Know me a as your dreams take flight.
FIRE~
HPS- I am the fire that breeds passion and anger. Know me as the force that transforms you.
HP- I am the Lord of the Dance. Know me in the fire of the Sun and in the energy that moves you through life.
WATER~
HPS- I am the Goddess whose water of life flows through your body.
Listen to my voice in the urrent of life.
HP- I am the God of the Water whose essence carries the seed of
New Life. Listen to me in the sound of the rain.
EARTH~
HPS- I am the Earth Mother from whose body you were formed.
Know me in teh ground beneath your feet.
HP- I am the Lord of the Wildwood and the grain whose life fills the
wilderness and gives you bread. Know me in teh touch of the tree
against your hand.
SPIRIT~
HPS- I am that which links all that is in the Cycle of Life. Know me
in the turning of the Wheel.
HP/S- We are blessed by the God and Goddess by their attendance at this naming ceremony. Know that (given name) is your child (chosen name). May the God and Goddess bless (chosen name).
