A Ritual to Symbolize Your Readiness to Open Your Life to a Child

No matter how much you want to have children, everyone knows that having a child is an adjustment and means change in your life. This ritual is to make the spirit world as well as yourself aware that you feel you are ready to meet this challenge. It will also help in the area of fertility if you need it to.

The ritual can be done alone, with a group or with your partner. I suggest with your partner if possible (change the Is to Wes). If it is done with your partner, I greatly suggest culminating the ritual with an act of love making between the two of you both as a sign of togetherness as well as a sign that you truly are ready and want to get started!

This ritual should be preformed in the spring or summer at night under a waxing or full moon and on a Monday if possible. (If you want to know why, look under the basics section of this site. All of the colors and timing are taken straight from that section.)

Gather together symbols of your readiness to have a child. Wear green or burn a green candle as a symbol of new life, growth and family. You might also want to burn a light to medium blue candle for harmony in the home and a purple or violet candle to symbolize a permanent life change. In addition if you are looking for help in the fertility department you could burn an orange candle or use an orange altar cloth. Burn an incense or diffuse a scented oil that symbolizes changes and new life (peppermint, dragons blood, woodruff, birch, etc) This is not a bad ritual to go skyclad in if you are comfortable with that.

Open your ritual however you are most comfortable. Face the East since that is the direction of new beginnings. If it is your style, feel free to invoke any Gods or Goddesses that you feel would be supportive of the intention of this ritual.

Spend some time meditating on your choice of and contemplating the meaning of the symbols you have chosen to represent your readiness. Why did you choose them? Why are they important to you? How do they show your readiness to bring a child into your life?

Take a couple of deep breaths. Say out loud, "I am ready to accept a child into my home and heart."

Address the powers that you have invited to your circle and say, "I am ready for this joyful task. Please aid me in any way you can and when the time is right make it possible for me to give birth to (or adopt if that is your intention) a healthy and happy child. So mote it be!"

Meditate or do as I mentioned previously if your partner is participating in this ritual. Above all enjoy the fact that you have made this choice official.

Finally thank the spirits and close the circle.

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