Not my most enthusiastic subject, but I ran through a presentation of the Sabbaths for my coven today. As a result, I threw together this presentation. It was made in a matter of minutes and it’s not perfect, but if it helps anyone else there here it is. Please don’t write to me telling me of spelling inaccuracies or that I have failed to include something only done in your coven in your small part of the world.
Because I am trying to teach traditional witchcraft which is different from my more normal high magic and sorcery approach, I tried to stick to the Traditional British Witchcraft of Gerald Gardiner including a lot of things that you would find in A Witch’s Bible by Janet and Stewart Farar. So there are regular references to the Oak King and Holly king, which hardly feature in my personal practice. Personally, I tried to incorporate them in the past, but then it felt like every bloody sabbath a king was dying or being sacrificed and a king was being born or resurrected and it was alway happening on some of the most busy rituals and never on the quieter ones like the equinoxes. Also, when enacting the fight between the two it felt very distracting from the ritual energy and clumbsy. So sorry, but not for me folks, but a respected part of Wiccan history being passed on.
For each Sabbath, I have included an optional psychological action to be worked into the ritual, which I feel is far more relevant to our modern life style than agricultural and fertility things. Also, as a queer magical practitioner, I tend to be off put by the constant references to fertility that is not natural to me, my body and the way I do love. So sorry if you feel my comments on psychology are not traditional, but they are relevant to many covens practice including two I have worked with. I tend to look at changes in the light representing joy and abundance in our lives and the darkness representing the more difficult times. I encourage people to approach joy and engage with life in ways that are not attached, ways that allow for reckless abandon through which we can achieve the very spiritual loss of ego. Ways that allow us to challenge our fears, celebrate our victories and break free of our cages.
Also below is a worksheet made for the ocassion: