Samhain '96; Bardic-Well-Deities (via Brid)

Bardic Invocation

Hear me!
I speak as the bards have spoken since words began;
I am the whispered voice in stillness
I am the secret moonlight pathway
I am the crackling sap in firewood
Who but me knows the changing wonder?
Who but me, the season's mystery?
The flaming wildness,
Life's last outrush
Mystery and mazement,
And then ingathered
Inspiration
In the stillness-
Listen!
Drink the moment--
To all who hear these words, three blessings:
Eyes that see deeply
Ears that hear gently
Tongues to speak with truth and beauty, the wonderous gifts of the heart.

Well

The summer's power is banked now,
The water rises within us
Feel it still and deep amid the rush
Come we now, to the well,
To give thanks and seek blessings and vision.
Here, now, I open a passage deep,
Deep within the earth, down,
Where all the waters of the world meet and flow,
And join with the wild waters around.
Silver I offer, and sweet oil,
That the voices and visions arising from this deep and ancient portal may give true counsel and kind seeing,
as the ancient and wild powers dance among us.
Let the well be opened!

Deities

These we call, we invite, we invoke,
Great and shining ones who live ever in our hearts:
First are Bi/le and Danu, first father and mother of all, spark and fertile seed.
Then Dagda and Bri/d: in your names we offer feast and fireside.
Ar'n, lusty one, and you nameless, high-antlered, lordly one, in unceasing alternation,
And Lugh, our patron, father, protector, guide and teacher.
And to all you myriad gods and goddesses, named in the hearts of our people, be welcome among us, feast and delight in the praise that we offer.
Failte, deithe 's bandeithe, Failte!

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