Variants on the LBRP abound. It’s honestly one of the best places to start editing your own spin onto the practice, becuase it is a good circle casting, an elemental attunment, and a reaffirmation of your personal cosmology. So here is mine. The directions will no make sense unless you are familiar with the LBRP, so here are a few links to videos that can teach you the base. You should also do the base version at least once to feel the energy move. The newer you are to energy movements, the more times you should try the base version and versins written by expereinced practicioners before making changes. Just like cooking.
Credit to my partner Pidge Fletching for writing the Witch’s Cross.
Witch’s Cross
- Draw energy from Star Goddess into the head, down through your core into your pelvic bowl, then pull up from the earth into your pelvic bowl. “By the sovreignity of our bodies,”
- Draw from the core line into the right shoulder, then across to the left shoulder. “and the wisdom and pleasure of our ancestors,”
- Place your hands in a position of prayer or ressurection. “and the witch in the middle, so mote it be.”
Elements
- Face east, draw a pentacle in the air, and then push energy out to the eastern edge of your working area. Tone, “Air is sacred.”
- Make the sign of silence with a small stemp of the dominant foot.
- Draw a line from east to south. Draw a pentacle, and then push energy out to the southern edge of the working area. Tone, “Fire is sacred.”
- Make the sign of silence with a small stemp of the dominant foot.
- Draw a line from south to west. Draw a pentacle, and then push energy out to the western edge of the working area. Tone, “Water is sacred.”
- Make the sign of silence with a small stemp of the dominant foot.
- Draw a line from west to north. Draw a pentacle, and then push energy out to the northern edge of the working area. Tone, “Earth is sacred.”
- Make the sign of silence with a small stemp of the dominant foot.
- Draw a line from north to east.
Cardinal Demons
- Facing east, imagine a winged serpent. “Before me,” then tone, “Oriens.”
- Still facing east, imagine a lion behind you. “Behind me,” then tone, “Paimon.”
- Still facing east, imagine a large dark bird, “To my right,” then tone, “Amaymon.”
- Still facing east, imagine a bear to your left. “To my left,” then tone, “Egyn”
Benediction
“We are now between the worlds, and what happens between the worlds changes all the worlds.”
Witch’s Cross Reprise
– Repeat as before.