Establish one room in your house as the temple. Ideally, it is the
room in which you normally keep an altar or sacred shrine. In any
case, you should create an altar in the center of the space. Place
four small tables in the four corners of the directions and place
four evenly spaced candlesticks between the tables. Place a loaf of
freshly baked bread (bread you have made with your own hands
is best) in the east, a bowl of apples in the south, a bottle of wine
in the west, and a sheaf of wheat or a bundle of dried corn in the
north. Upon the main altar, place a candle, a plate of sweet cakes
and a goblet. Light incense and place it in front of the cakes. Before
your ritual, take some time for contemplation. Think about what
you have achieved during this busy year:
What have you done?
What do you need?
What remains to be done?
What are your aspirations?
Write down your thoughts and feelings and the answers to those
questions.
Read what you have written and ponder it. Look for
continuing ideas or themes and make notes of these on a piece of
paper. Light the candle on the altar and use this candle to light all
the other candles in the temple.
Now go around your temple space in reverse order and extinguish
all candles. Then declare your temple closed. The common wisdom
is that you should place the apples, bread and wine in your garden
as an offering the next day, as a blessing to all of nature.
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