Eclipse Rite / Ritual before Samhain

Samhain (Halloween) is a special time for all Pagans.  It is the birth of our new year.  Enjoy the below as you celebrate the Pagan New Year!

Eclipse Rite before Samhain

Bright the moon shadows
That softly steals the light
As the eclipse of Autumn
Runs round tonight

Greetings Great Mother
on this night of power
May your love shine bright tonight

Hail blessed Father
on this night of shadows
May your wisdom help us see the light

Wisdom we seek
Enlighten us we pray
before the eclipse has faded away

Like the passing of moments
day by day does tread
So too our lives, let not one moment be shed
Lost like the wisps of forgotten lament

Light high the fire
May the warmth be blessed
We seek the lights of wisdom
May fires light caress

Lift high the Chalice
Full of Autumn wine
We seek our souls tomorrow's
in the reflection of thine

Pile high the fruits of Earths bounty
May no man know hungers bite
We seek full bellies of enlightenment
May the souls food be right

Hear the leafless trees clatter
In the wind so bright
May we hear the song of understanding
In the winds winter song tonight

Light and dark the moonlight flows
Open are we to the new and the old

A time of changes
A time of light
A time to make choices
A time to shine bright

A time to reflect on the year gone past
A time to seek forgiveness for trespass
A time of deciding what is really true
A time to settle ills and all things we rue

A time to let go of illusions and lies
A time to seek out wisdom that gives us the will to fly
A time to seek our freedom
A time to seek out what lasts

A time to spend in the timeless moment
Between tomorrow and the past

Hail Great Mother on this night of nights
We seek to be filled with your light
Show to us the pathway
Show to us the Right
Let the stones of the years past pains
Be swept from our path tonight

 We Lit high the fire
By the warmth we are blessed
We sought the lights of wisdom
Blessed is the light that caressed

We Lifted high the Chalice
Full of Autumn wine
We sought and found our souls tomorrow's
in the reflection of time

We Piled high the fruits of Earths bounty
 No man knew hungers bite
We sought full bellies of enlightenment
We found the souls food to be right

 We Heard the leafless trees clatter
In the wind so bright
We heard the song of understanding
In the winds winter song tonight

Blessed be