Calendar of the Moon
3 Nion/Anthesterion
Day of Llyr
Color: Sea-blue
Element: Water
Altar: On a sea-blue cloth place a chalice of salt water, a skull, a dolphin, and a ship.
Offerings: Paper ships. Deal with fearful emotions that threaten to drown you.
Daily Meal: Fish or seafood.
Invocation to Llyr
We cross the sea at our own risk,
Be it the sea of water
Or the depths of our own
Internal tides of feeling.
We cross the sea at our own risk,
Knowing that the smooth expanse
Could at any moment become turbulent,
Degenerate into a vast whirlpool
And draw us screaming into the darkness.
We cross the sea at our own risk,
Navigating our way with signs
And symbols that have nothing
To do with the vast expanse we see,
But are just numbers, spun out of
The mind's vast abilities,
The world of air and sky,
And sometimes they fail us.
We cross the sea at our own risk,
But if we do not cross it
We will be separated forever
By those terrible watery chasms.
Ocean god, we pray to you for mercy;
Bear us up and do not let us drown
In any ocean, within or without.
Chant:
Born of water, cleansing, powerful, flowing, healing, we are.....
(Let one who has been chosen to do the work of the ritual come forward with the bowl of salt
water, and each shall dip their hands into it and mark themselves on their heart chakras and
their heads. Then the salt water shall be poured out as a libation.)
[Pagan Book of Hours]