Nearly all formal craft rituals revolve around the Circle. The Circle is a sacred space that separates the physical world from the spiritual world. Not only that but it forms a protected area where space and time almost become irrelevant. A place where the "normal" world is effectively now in suspended animation. From this sacred space the spiritual world becomes accessible and almost all becomes possible. The possibilities are literally endless for the practitioner.

Nothing this special comes about without some work being involved. The Circle has to be planned, it has to be molded, it has to be shaped. It needs to be given substance, life, and of course, power. In other words you have to build it.

You don't just dive straight in to Casting a Circle. You need to ritually prepare for it. This means cleasning not only the area where the Circle will be created but cleansing your mind, spirit, and body. Why is all this necessary? Because if you want your magick to work you, as well as the Circle, need to be at your very best. If you're not at your best neither will the spiritual realm be. And that will definitely affect the quality of your magick. The Circle will cease to be an effective workspace and to all intent and purpose it will be useless.

The menu to the left will take you step by step through all the preparation needed for Casting the Circle and all the different stages of the ritual.

Despite what many would have you believe, there is no one right way to Cast a Circle, no one right ritual to perform, nor are any words spoken as part of the ritual sacrosanct. Thats's the beauty of Wicca and Witchcraft. It's what you want it to be, it's what works for you and what you make it. Wicca and Witchcraft are guidelines to a way of life. There is no one set of rules that have to be obeyed! remember the old saying... "Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools".