You will need a ritual dagger, a small cauldron, an apple, a piece of black cloth, and a small amount of salt, in addition to your regular ritual items. Put the apple in the cauldron and cover the cauldron with the black cloth. Cast your circle as usual.
With the wand in your power hand, tap the cauldron five times, say:
Hecate, Wise One, I ask your blessings.
Lift the Veil for me that I may greet my spirit helpers,
Long-ago friends from other lives, and those who are new.
Let only those who wish me well enter within this sacred place.
Uncover the cauldron. Take out the apple, raise it in offering, and lay it on the altar, say:
Hecate, your magick cauldron is the well of death and rebirth,
An experience each of us undergoes again and again.
Let there be no fear in me, for I know your gentleness.
Here is your secret symbol of life in death.
Cut the apple crosswise with the dagger. Contemplate the revealed pentagram in the core. Put the two halves back into the cauldron and cover them again with the black cloth, say:
Only the initiated may know your hidden Mysteries.
Put a pinch of salt on your tongue, say:
I am mortal, yet immortal.
Open my mind and heart and soul
Only the true seekers may find the spiral way.
There is no end to life, only new beginnings.
I walk beside the Goddess in her many forms.
Therefore, I have nothing to fear.
To the Deep Mysteries of the Cauldron, O Hecate.
Do a meditation on seeking the Dark Moon goddess. Listen to her messages. Be aware of any new guides and teachers who may come through to help you.
MM- DJC
