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For the opening and closing rituals at a Pagan Pride Day, I was asked to perform the invocation of the center. This is what I wrote.
I took two bowls, one large and one small. For the opening ritual, I filled the large bowl with mead, and for the closing, with milk. After the closing ritual, someone came up to me and said, “So, ADF?” I said I was, and he pointed to himself and said, “OBOD.” Is there some sort of druid radar?
Each time I invoked a direction (i.e., “power to the…” and “May there be peace in …”), I took the smaller bowl and used it to cast the liquid in the appropriate direction.
The Opening:
We stand, pillars, in the center of the world,
while all else turns about us.
In the center, Chaos enters Cosmos.
It endangers and enlightens it,
gifting it with power:
Power to the south
Power to the west
Power to the north
Power to the east,
the place of prayer, the place of light,
the place of the Holy Ones.
And power to the center,
where we stand, pillars,
while all else turns about us.
The Closing:
We stand, pillars, in the center of the world,
while all else turns about us.
In the center, Cosmos gifts Chaos.
It gifts it with order and with peace.
May there be peace in the south
May there be peace in the west
May there be peace in the north
May there be peace in the east,
the place of prayer, the place of light,
the place of the Holy Ones.
And there be peace in the center,
where we stand, pillars,
while all else turns about us.
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