Drawing Down the Moon
Priest and Priestess stand facing the altar and raise their tools in salute to the Lord and Lady.
Priest proceeds to Draw Down the Moon on the Priestess. She stands with her back to the altar, with the wand in her right hand, and the scourge in her left, held against her breasts in the Osiris position - the two shafts grasped in her clenched fists, her wrists crossed, and the shafts crossed again above them. He kneels before her.
The Priest gives the High Priestess the Fivefold Kiss, kissing her on the right foot, left foot, right knee, left knee, womb, right breast, left breast, and lips. (When he reaches her womb, she opens her arms to the "blessing position.") As he does so, he says:
Priest:
Blessed be thy feet, which have brought thee in these ways.
Blessed be thy knees, that shall kneel before the sacred altar.
Blessed be thy womb, without which we would not be.
Blessed be thy breasts, formed in beauty.
Blessed be thy lips, that shall ufter the Sacred Names.
For the kiss on the lips, they embrace, length-to-length, with their feet touching each others.
The Priest kneels again before the High Priestess, who resumes the blessing position, but with her right foot slightly forward. The Priest invokes:
Priest:
I invoke thee and call upon thee, Mighty Mother of us all.
By life and love do I invoke thee
to descend upon the body of this thy servant and priestess.
The Priestess draws the Pentagram in the air in front of him with the wand, saying
Priestess:
Of the Mother darksome and divine
Mine the Scourge, and mine the kiss;
The five point star of love and bliss
Here I charge you, in this sign.
With this, the Drawing Down the Moon is complete.