Creating Sacred Space

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Creating Sacred Space
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Waterhouse, Magic Circle
If we wish to travel between the worlds, the first step is to create Sacred Space. Magic is based on pattern
making, and one of the primal patterns of magic has to do with the four directions North, East, South, and
West.
The first thing we do when we plan to enter the Otherworld is to draw a Circle around ourselves. This is done
for protection (to keep undesirable spirits and energies out), and to create a container for our energies so that
they do not scatter. Building the Circle helps with focus and defines intention. Dancing around the Circle is a
traditional way to raise the Cone of Power by which a magical working is energized and enchantments are
cast.
Creating the Magical Circle
The Circle is built in various ways, depending on one’s style. For a Ceremonial Magician, or Wiccan the cir-
cumference of the Circle is inscribed in the air with a Sword or Athalme (dagger) respectively. For Faery
Witches, who don’t like metals, it is enough to use the index finger to direct a blue flame in a sunwise ring
around oneself, and then envision the ring igniting in a circle of blue flames. There are other ‘styles’ of Circle
visualization, such as the Druid, Irish Faery, and Medicine Wheel that will be discussed in future articles.
It is wise for beginners to perform Magical Workings at night because it is easier to see spirits in the dark.
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Because of the ethereal transparency of spiritual beings, sunlight makes them harder to see. Think of how
faint the light of a candle flame is in a sunny window.
Once the Witch has placed herself in the center of her Faery Ring, she can charge each direction by invoking
its traditional Correspondences. These are qualities found in Nature, for all Magical People know that Nature
is the veil behind which the Magical Powers dwell. By calling forth the Powers of the Directions, the Witch
creates a Portal or Doorway into the Unseen.
Upon the doorway in each direction an Invoking Pentagram is drawn in blue flame. This five-pointed star is
traced in the air starting at the topmost point and working in a clockwise direction. This sign protects and seals
the space so that no undesirable entities can interfere with the work.
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Sylphs
Watchtower of the East
Standing with her face towards the East and pointing her Magical Weapon, the Witch traces an Invoking
Pentagram in the air and calls:
Guardians of the Watchtowers of the East, I beseech you to grant me your presence at my Circle tonight. Spirits
of the sky and air, send fresh breezes to charge my Circle. Fill them with birdsong, and the rays of the sun, as it
moves above the horizon at dawn, to brighten the wild flowers that cover the low hills sparkling with dew. I
called the Winged Ones: birds, butterflies, bees; Angels, Sylphs, the Grey-Eyed Beings of Wind and Wildness, the
Magical Child with the Morning Star on his brow, The Keepers of the Sacred Sword that rises from the ground in
the circle of tall stones. Bring me the gift of refreshment, aspiration, inspiration, rebirth, and the power of elo-
quent speech. I invoke you, oh Guardians of the Watchtowers of the East to attend my working this night!
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Richard Dadd, Magical Child
If you take this speech apart, you will see the elements that correspond to the Magical Direction East.
Dissected, as with the Sword of Reason, these are:
Elemental Air
: breezes, wind, speech, music, the sense or hearing, ideas and thoughts that fly on the air. Even
dreams, with their tendency to slip away on waking have a quality of air.Air ranges everywhere. It is difficult
to contain. It brings all other Elements together through communication.
Sylphs:Personifications of Air. One could think of them as fairies, ethereal, transparent, young, winged.
Dawn:Birth and rebirth, newness, infancy and early childhood.

As the air goes everywhere and unites all things, so the child wants to explore its new environment.
Spring:wildflowers, birdsong, bees, birds returning from their wintering grounds,
Sword:The sword is like thought. It is bright and keen but can cut, like words, either way. It has a point. It ex-
presses clarity. Once it is thrust for destructive reasons, it inflicts wounds that cannot be taken back. If used
consciously, it brings focus, discernment, depth; it cuts to the chase.
The colors for the East are: yellow, blue-grey, violet, or clear.
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Further meditation will reveal more of the brilliance of the correspondences. For instance, the word
Inspiration speaks to a function of air which is breath, inhaled, exhaled, inspired.
Watchtower of the South
We turn facing South, raising the Wand, and call out:
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Guardians of the Watchtowers of the South, I beseech you to grant me your presence at my Circle tonight.
Spirits of fire, ignite my working with your brilliant Light, spark my Magic with your flames of strong desire,
illuminate my powers of vision so that I might see into your Sacred Realm. Salamanders, dance with me in the
rose garden of summer under the bright sun. Fill me with strong sexual energy so that I might make my magic
come alive. Grant me the strength of my bloodline, the heroism of my ancestry in the prime of their youth. Roses,
thorns, fire, and blood, great cats, snakes, lizards, those with claws, those that adore the hot sun, enter my circle
tonight. Keeper of the Bright Staff, the Sacred Lance, grant me the gifts of Clairvoyance, creativity, youth, energy,
and love.
Charge me with Right Action so that my Magic may come to pass.
This is the meaning of the Sun at Midnight. Oh Guardians of the Watchtowers of the South, appear! Motivate and
empower my working tonight.
The Correspondences for the South may now be seen to include:

Elemental Fire and heat
Salamanders
The sense of Sight
Roses, summer flowers
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Green trees and grass

The Sacred Staff
Youth
Sexuality and Romance
Blood and bloodlines
Clawed animals and cold blooded reptiles that love the sun
Action, energy
Light
Its colors are red, orange, white, or green
See how it works?
Watchtower of the West
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Grail Maiden
We move on to the West and raising the cup,

call out:
Guardians of the Watchtowers of the West, I beseech
you to grant me your presence at my Circle tonight.
Spirits of the oceans, rivers, waterfalls, and rain, wash
into my Circle tonight with your cleansing power. In
the gathering twilight, as the sun sinks below the sea,
the dying light reflects in the red-gold leaves of the
trees. Undines, sing your siren songs from the rocks as
the waves crash around you. The cauldron of the
ocean bubbles with froth and phosphorescence. The
Goddess of Love and Healing walks upon the tide with
the evening star on her brow and the horns of the
rising moon at her back. Come quietly along the path
strewn with fallen leaves, sit around the Sacred Well
and gaze into the waters of memory, for the Path that
has been trodden is longer than that which comes
before.
Swan, Pelican, heron, sea tortoise, dolphin, whale, all
those who live between earth and sea and sky, enter my
Circle with your shape shifting powers of transition
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and transformation. Fill me with the longing of poets,

make me one with the rhythms of the tides of nature,
give me the taste of salt and the smell of decay among
the roses and the trees, so that I may know the
fleetingness of life. Send me away on a ship with a
purple sail to Avalon, where the deeper Mysteries are
found. Come, Guardians of the Watchtowers of the
West, and charge my Circle with Enchantment.
Sirens, Burne-Jones
Again, the Correspondences for the West and

Spiritual Water are:
Elemental water and tides
This resonates with the Moon as Mistress of
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the Sea and Tides

Undines, sirens, mermaids
Autumn
Sunset, twilight
Cauldron of Death and Rebirth, Holy Grail
Sea creatures and water birds, amphibians
Ships and boats
Poetry, dreams, imagination, memory
Middle Age, experience, reflection, nostalgia
Shape Shifting, transformation, transition
Healing, cleansing, letting go
Music
Senses of taste and smell
Colors: blue, aqua, silver, rose pink, gold
Watchtower of the North

Now we come to the North, direction of
Magic, Mystery, and Manifestation.
Raise your Pentacle, dish or mirror and call
out:
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Guardians of the Watchtowers of the North, I beseech

you to grant me your presence at my Circle tonight. As
the snow falls upon the forest, the North wind howls
down form the mountains, and the Road of Stars
stretches across the moonless sky, bring me your
Divine presence tonight. The lake has frozen so that it
shines like a mirror and in that mirror we gaze and see
our death. In the darkness we hear the cry of the wolf,
the bear sleeps and dreams in his cave, the white stag
runs through the dark forest to harvest the souls of the
Wyze. Welcome, gnomes and dwarves! Teach me the
ways of the Underworld, lead me to the Underground
Halls of Faery so that I might dance the cold winter
away. Show me where to find treasure that will last in
the Upper World as my wishes are intensified and
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shaped into matter.

The Goddess of Death comes out from behind the tall
stones. Carrying a mirror incised with a pentagram,
she points the way down the winding path that goes
beside the White Trees, and leads into the Labyrinth.
There the long Dance of Death begins, the dark
banquet among the ancestors. We sleep, we dream, we
rest beside the flickering fire, we tell the tales of old,
and turn about to gestate another life. Come
Guardians of the Watchtowers of the North, enter my
Circle with your power to shape unseen forces into
tangible forms. Let me feel the cold, the wind, the
mountain, the tree, the softness of white fur, the
solidity of my body in time and space. Empower
manifestation now!
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Correspondences for the North:

Earth
Winter
Night
Dark Moon
Horned and Hoofed animals, white animals,
animals that hibernate
Goddess. of Death and Rebirth
The Mirror
Ice and Fire
Forest, mountain, rocks, caves, crystals
Sense of touch
Gravity, solidity. differentiation
Labyrinth
Gnomes and Dwarves
Hidden treasure
Pentagram
Learning to Invoke the Spirits of the

Directions
These invocations are but a guide; it is not
necessary to memorize them. Rather, once
the Correspondences are learned by heart,
and their imagery internalized, you will be
able to make your invocations up as you go
along.
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Once the Four Directions are invoked, your

Circle is protected and charged.
***
There are three more directions to consider.

Whereas the Four Directions create a
horizontal space, flat in the Earth, the
addition of the Center, Above and Below
establishes a sphere.
With these Seven Directions around you,
anchoring you in space and timelessness,
you will already have shifted your
consciousness into the Magical Realms.
The remaining Three Directions will be the

subject of the next article on Magical Pattern
Making.
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Waterhouse, Magic Circle

Creating the Magical Circle

Watchtower of the East

Richard Dadd, Magical Child

Dawn:Birth and rebirth, newness, infancy and early childhood.

Spring:wildflowers, birdsong, bees, birds returning from their wintering grounds,

Watchtower of the South

We turn facing South, raising the Wand, and call out:

The Correspondences for the South may now be seen to include:

Green trees and grass

See how it works?

Watchtower of the West

We move on to the West and raising the cup,

and transformation. Fill me with the longing of poets,

Again, the Correspondences for the West and

the Sea and Tides

Watchtower of the North

Guardians of the Watchtowers of the North, I beseech

shaped into matter.

Correspondences for the North:

Learning to Invoke the Spirits of the

Once the Four Directions are invoked, your

There are three more directions to consider.

The remaining Three Directions will be the

To be updated on my Magical methods,

Post from: WINTERSPELLS: Life on the

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