by Elia » Tue Dec 29, 2015 5:07 am
How to start your BOS, and what are some of the different sections it could have. I would like to talk about how one can write their own rituals for their personal BOS.
There are many different ways one could organize their sections, or have multiple notebooks with their own section. Remember to, at the very least, date when you wrote down the ritual, and credit the author (ie. which webpage or book), or give yourself the credit if you wrote it. My BOS has a mixture of rituals I’ve found, and ones I’ve written myself. One rule I always adhere to is that I try the ritual out beforehand, maybe a couple of times, before I write it in my permanent BOS. You don’t want to make the mistake of writing a ritual down in pen, then trying it out and finding that it falls flat, and you don’t feel anything when performing it.
It takes a lot of courage to begin to write your own rituals. The most common question is, how do you get started in the first place?? What I’ve found that works best is researching what other people have written for that ritual. Say, for example, you want to write your own circle casting. The first step would be to look all over the Internet for varying styles, and search your books for an author that you like the wording for. Try out a couple of different circle castings, and see which you like best. Do you like to begin in the North, or the East? Do you like the feel of invoking the Watchtowers, Archangels, or Elementals into your circle? Each decision you make regarding your casting makes a difference on how you would write it. Do you like flowery language, or simple yet powerful phrasing? Once you know all the different aspects of the ritual, now you are set to write it! Does anyone have any circle castings, or any other ritual for that matter, that they have written and would like to share?