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Lesson #6

Casting a Circle & Invocations
part 5

Wiccan Adventure of the Week

Casting Circles & Invoking

	Practice Casting and Opening a Circle, once a day, until you can do it without looking at the paper. (Then, when it's time to do a ritual, you will be comfortable with the Circle Casting part and be able to focus on the ritual itself.)
	Each time you Cast a Circle, invoke the Elements and a Deity or two, just to get aquainted. Go with what you already know about the Elements and Deities from previous lessons; it doesn’t need to be long or fancy. Use this opportunity to offer them thanks for their presence and gifts in your life. (What better way to start a relationship?)
	Casting a Circle may take a bit of time in the beginning, but by the end of the week you should be able to do it fairly quickly. Don't skimp on feeling it, though. If you're just going through the motions without tuning in to the energy, you're not really Casting.

Shielding

	Twice a day, when you wake and before you sleep, Cast a Personal Circle as a Shield.
	Pay attention to how it feels before and after you create your Shield. Also, notice how your day, and night, are different when you've Shielded. You might notice people around you seem different, or that the same old things don't bother you as much. You might notice that you're behaving differently in some ways — why do you think that is? You might notice that you feel better, clearer, lighter, happier. You might notice you sleep better, or need less sleep, or your dreams are different.
	Make notes in your spiritual journal or Book of Mirrors about whatever you discover.

Grimoire-Building

As always, make notes in your Grimoire on...

	How to Cast and Open a Circle
	How to do a basic (personal Circle) Shield
	How to empower your invocations
	And whatever else you feel might be important to your Wiccan practice

The Inner Adventure

	Reflect on what you think about this lesson — Casting, Shielding, Invoking, Devoking, Declaring, etc. Does what you learnt here resonate as true for you? Are some parts of it new and surprising, exciting, frustrating, unpleasant, mystifying, uplifting...? Why do you suppose you feel this way about these things?
	Reflect on your own experiences in the practices of Casting and Opening, Invoking and Devoking — how they felt, how they affected or changed you.
	Reflect on how the Shielding went for you and what you think of it.
	How might you use these practices to improve your life, or the world?
	Reflect on how your life might be different, if you went through it with the inner authority and confidence (yet without the arrogance or entitlement) of an Empress. How far from where you are now is that calm, confident, empowered stance? Do you think it's within your reach? What might help you access that inner authority and confidence in yourself? What action-steps can you take to get there? Commit to doing at least one every day for a full cycle of the Moon.

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Circle & Invoking:

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