Calendar of the Sun
Aequinoctium Vernum
Colors: Yellow and light green
Element: Earth
Altar: Upon cloth of yellow and light green set a pitcher of rainwater, small dishes of seeds (as
many as there are people), a vase of budding branches, and a single green candle.
Offerings: Seeds to be planted in the garden.
Daily Meal: Vegetarian
Aequinoctium Vernum Invocation
Earth, you begin your awakening
To the touch of the life-giving Sun
Whose rays stroke you like a lover.
Earth, your joy in awakening
Springs forth first golden
And then the green of life.
We awaken to your new life
And your new season,
And you help us to believe
That no matter how long the winter,
Spring will always come again.
We stand in the time of the year's morning
And, like all living things,
We reach upwards for the sky.
Chant:
We open Earth and
Earth receives you
She gives you life and
We believe in you
(Each takes a pot of seeds and goes to the garden, and hoes or otherwise prepares a space for
planting, and then plants their seeds, chanting while doing so. The pitcher of rainwater is
carried out and ritually poured onto the seeds.)
[Pagan Book of Hours]