Wicca Offertory Money

 

Money, as noted in the infamous film Cabaret,  makes the world go round. Many look upon money as both a curse and a blessing. It is a curse in that the lack of money can cause hardship. It is a curse because people can become obsessed in acquiring money. It can be a blessing when we can use money for good. There are many spells that exist in wicca that try to make getting money easier. Wealth spells can be found in most books on witchcraft or wicca. It is our belief most miss the point. Most spells for money seem to beg, demand, or whine for wealth.

 

It is our opinion that these spells are off the mark. The gods of the ancients were not slaves to humanity. Nor should they be. Our Fertile Mother Earth, Our Blessed Lunar Queen, and all the other spirits we honour and seek our worship, and also our acts of love to them. Offerings to the gods was an accepted and worthy part of any ritual and wicca ceremony. Often money was given as an offering to the gods.

 

When the rise of Christianity drove our craft underground it became necessary to make sure the symbolic tools of our religion were easily destroyed. It was dangerous to have a pentagram carved in stone. It was better to have this sacred symbol in wood or unfired clay. The role of unfired clay has not been greatly researched or mentioned in wicca histories. Perhaps it is because it was so effective as a means of protection. A wicca statue of unfired clay could be smashed, thrown in a river or even buried to become unrecognizable. Many wicca objects could be made out of unfired clay. Offertory plates, tokens, symbolic shapes and even wicca money are easily fashioned in clay. Being so fragile few if any examples exist today.

 

In the ongoing effort to make the craft as pure as possible some of our coven have rediscovered the old ways and are making wicca money out of unfired clay. The fact that it can be easily absorbed by the elemental water of the sea or a stream, or hidden within the earth to be reunited with her, or smashed into a power and cast to the four winds shows that Wiccan offertory money can be a powerful part of a ceremony or spell.

 

Another aspect is the long history of alchemy where magick was sought to turn something base into gold. This quest for making gold has become legend. There are countless stories where witch or wizard created gold. And no doubt much was done by the mischievousness of our religion to fool those of avarice into accepting fake gold in exchange for more important things like food and wine.

 

It is with all this in mind that our coven creates and uses unfired clay coins in our craft work. Some we use unadorned and some we paint to look like the alchemist's golden transformations. In reverence to the simple life most ancients lived we keep our wicca coins simple and primitive. Overly machined items lack potency.

 

 

Offering Ceremony to Luna

 

Raise your circle upon a full moon. This can be a day moon or a night moon.

Establish your circle as is your custom. Lay four wicca coins of unfired clay on the altar.

 

 

O Queen of the heavens

Who shines upon the waves

Who shines upon darkened leaves

Who shines in our happy eyes

Hear our words of thankful cries.

 

O Queen of the ether high

Thy beauty shines darkly as you rise

They beauty shines white on high

They beauty colours our skies

We thank thee with words wise.

 

High Priestess holds up wicca coins towards the moon.

 

O Luna fair of the fair

We wish to reciprocate to thee

We wish to give humble gifts

For you shine so high above us

We come humbly without venal lust.

 

High Priestess takes coins and pulverizes them between two stones or in mortar and pistil.

 

The four wynds be thy servant

Let them take our gift of sacred coin

Each in their own turn.

 

(Take powdered offering and cast some to each of the four compass points)

 

Accept our thankfulness for your love

And shine upon our hearts from above

Let your blessings come like a dove.

 

So mote it be.

 

Continue on with whatever circle work you wish to accomplish.

 

 

 

 

xxxxxxxx vvvvvvvvvvvsexxxxxxxxxxxby Enadus - May 18, 2005

 

 

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