A Self Dedication Rite
Prepare yourself by drawing a bath of warm water or use a shower. Add a few tablespoons or so of salt and a few drops of a sented oil such as sandlewood. As you bathe, prepare for the coming rite. Open your mind to higher levels of awareness, cleanse your mind as well as your body.
After bathing, dry and dress for the journey. Go to a place in the wild where you feel safe, where you won't be disturbed and where the powers of the Earth and the elements are evident. Take with you a vial of richly scented oil. When you arrive, remove your shoes and sit quietly for a few moments to calm yourself and free your mind of cluttered thoughts. Open yourself to the natural energies around you.
When you're calm, rise and pivot on one foot slowly and look for the ideal spot. When you've discovered it, sit, kneel or lie flat on your back, place the oil on the earth beside you.
Feel the energies around you, then call on the Goddess and the God in these words or any of your own:
O Mother Goddess,
O Father God,
Answer to all mysteries and yet mysteries unanswered;
In this place of power I open myself to Your Essence.
In this place and in this time I am changed;
From henceforth I walk the Wiccan path.
I dedicate myself to you, Mother Goddess and Father God.
[rest for a moment, silent, still. Then continue.]
I breathe your energies into my body, commingling, blending.
mixing them with mine,
that I may see the divine in nature,
nature in divine,
and divinity within myself and all else.
O Great Goddess,
O Great God,
Make me one with your essence
Make me one with your essence
Make me one with your essence.
After the invocation, wet a finger with the oil and mark these two symbols on your body somewhere. As you anoint, visualize these symbols sinking into your flesh, glowing as they enter your body and then dispersing into millions of tiny points of light.
Thank the Goddess and the God for their attention then sit and meditate before leaving the place of dedication.