A Year of Ritual: Sabbats & Esbats for Solitaries & Covens

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Coloring Book of Shadows: Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I am a male Seax Wiccan Witch of many years experience. I have worn out two copies of this wonderful book and am happily using my third copy.

The rituals provided by Sandra Kynes are absolutely awesome. We use them as is and as inspiration for our own. I would love to see a hardcover be published! One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful.

As a new Wiccan, I am happy knowing that this book not only covers the major Sabbats, but it also includes the esbats. Very detailed and thorough, but makes it easy to understand to a new learning. By adding in the coven aspect along with the single person ideas makes it awesome to learn from! Love using this resource for my rituals. Both solitary or in a group setting. One person found this helpful. It will help me form my own rituals in workable manner.

This book is very helpful in learning about the Sabbats and different rituals that can be performed. I was hoping for a book that included some more ideas on how to celebrate the holidays with family, not just rituals. Perhaps that was my mistake while reading the description. Either way, it wasn't what I had hoped for.

The book does provide some nice rituals with lovely backgrounds for each holiday. Beautiful book on the Sabbats and Esbats, an absolute must have book for any practicing Witch or Wiccan. See all 20 reviews. Most recent customer reviews.

A Year of Ritual : Sabbats and Esbats for Solitaries and Covens by Sandra Kynes (2004, Paperback)

Swank Ivy Top Contributor: A Year of Ritual: A Year of Ritual. All of our paper waste is recycled within the UK and turned into corrugated cardboard. World of Books USA was founded in One way to bring our bodies, minds, and spirits into alignment is through ritual celebrations. A vital part of Wicca and Paganism, ritual strengthens our connection to nature and helps us enter the realm of the Divine.

Groups or solitary participants can use these easy-to-follow rituals straight from the book. Ideas, words, and directions for each ritual are included along with background information, preparation requirements, and themes. Everything's there about Brigid and milk and bonfires. I like that the themes--celebrate lengthening days, picking a path for the coming months, and asking Brigid for guidance--are all outlined at the beginning so you can figure out how to celebrate those yourself if you don't dig the rituals.

And, of course, we have a bit about egg decoration! I like that the background specifies that this ritual should be celebrated during the day. And the planting ritual carries through elements of the previous holidays very well. It's great that the author highlights this holiday's comparison to Samhain, because the veil being thin at this time is nowhere near as commonly acknowledged as it is for Samhain.

Here we hear about the elements of a traditional bonfire, the faery myths, and of course the maypole. And there's some discussion of the Celtic tree calendar and the Druid rituals. The ritual has two parts: The first harvest highlights grain myths, Lugh's withering, and the waning light. It's encouraged to focus on abundance and the importance of the harvest in ancient times.

The reflection reminds us we can just go to the store if we want to get food, but that we should remember how it got to us and forge some connection with that. I like that it reminds you transformation is coming. While celebrating the bounty, there's a reminder that the God is dying.

There's lots of lore here--probably because this holiday is so popular in the West, as Halloween. Topics that are touched on are ancestor honoring, the history of the jack o'lantern, the final harvest, hazelnuts, the Crone, and hibernation. The ritual has cord magic and a meditation about transition. To be perfectly honest, the rituals didn't do anything for me. I read through them and I think the author set them up well as things to grab if you don't have the time or inclination to write your own, but I think if I was still doing rituals for holidays I'm not, except I redecorate my house for every new season , I wouldn't have use for these.

The background information was a nice condensed version that wasn't too focused on any one tradition, but I didn't learn anything new from it.

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The next section is on Esbats, which are the moon rituals. The introduction to this section is particularly effective. As the author describes the magic of moonlight, you can't help but imagine the times you've been out in it and felt what probably made people worship the moon since antiquity. The intro explains that waxing moon is a time for growth and waning moon is a time for reflection. It also acknowledges that some people only celebrate full moons, while others also celebrate new moons.

I wasn't expecting separate Esbat rituals that are modified for each different moon within the year, though! Though I generally never changed my moon rituals much when I had formal moon rituals, it makes sense that you might contextualize them in between holidays and acknowledge the wheel of the year as you do. I guess I always thought of the moon as more consistent since it does the same thing in the same order monthly, but this is a useful way to think of it too.

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Each moon ritual gives you other names for the moon, Celtic Tree Calendar info, background, and both a solo and a group ritual. And as was the case with the Sabbat rituals, themes are provided for each moon, which was especially interesting to me. January's moon is about accepting winter and connecting with it, and taking time to assess your path.

February's moon is about divination for the coming months and strengthening your connection to the natural world.

A Year of Ritual: Sabbats & Esbats for Solitaries & Covens

March's moon is about spring cleaning and making room for the new things that will be coming and the ritual has a besom! April's moon is about water's importance, celebrating your own nurturing abilities, and honoring change. May's moon is about studying flowers' meanings and pondering gentleness. June's moon is about long summer days, dancing and drumming, and celebrating life.

July's moon is about fire's importance, honoring sacred flame and its transformative power, and visualizing renewal through fire. August's moon is about our ancestors' dependence on water and recalling summer memories. September's moon is about the harvest, abundance, and sharing of course. October's moon is about the power of storytelling--and this book recommends highlighting J. Tolkien and incorporating his work into your ritual weird. November's moon is about preparing for the darkness and contemplating the underworld.

December's moon is about reaffirming your spirituality and creating intentions for the year ahead. I think most of the moon stuff is kind of wild interpretation especially the Tolkien bit and I'm not sure whether to "give it points" for originality or if I'm just kinda shrugging at the whole thing. I guess I'll lean toward a thumbs up, because if you're going to write a book that condenses so many traditions and does what so many other books do, you've got to have your own swing.

There are some appendices, featuring stuff on ogham, a glossary, sachet-making tips, ritual prep, and a bibliography, but the first appendix is the most important. I like that the first appendix goes over what YOU should consider when creating your own rituals calling to worship, casting circle, calling quarters and deities, core of the ritual, grounding, and closing. The table of correspondences is really nice! I like how you can just use it to look up elements and how they correspond to directions with variations depending on what tradition you are , tools, powers, seasons, times, colors, trees, and so on.