ELEMENT: "Earth"
OFFERING: "Go outside the community and find land to clean up."
DAILY MEAL: "Vegetarian"
ALTAR: Upon a green cloth place several large stones of different sorts, some in a clay bowl of water; a clay bowl of salt, a loaf of thick, nourishing black bread with herbs and vegetable gratings in it, a chalice of herbal tea, boughs of greenery, and four green candles.
INVOCATION TO TELLUS MATER
Our Mother lies beneath our feetAnd holds up our every step.There is nowhere that we can walkWhere She does not lie beneath us.There is nothing that we can eatThat will nourish our bodies,Those bodies that are made from Her clay,That does not come from HerAnd Her other children.We are born of HerAs we are born of woman,Each and every one of us.No matter who we are,No matter where we walk,No matter what we think,We are still Her children.Hail, Mother of All Things!Hail, bounteous one, giver of life,And taker of life back into your breast.From you we all proceedAnd to you we shall all return.
CHANT: "The Earth is our mother, we must take care of her,"The Earth is our mother, we must take care of her,"Hey and a ho and a ho na na"Hey and a ho and a ho na na"
(All join hands while chanting and move in a spiral dance around the room, four times in and out. Then the bread and tea is passed around. It is important that much work be done on the Earth today, both in and out of the community's land.)
Found in: Pagan Book of Hours
Credit: magic-and-spells.blogspot.com
