A CIRCLE IS OUR PLACE OF WORSHIP, PROTECTION AND MAGICAL WORKING.
 It is our Temple.
It is a barrier set up by ritualized and amplified will.

A Circle is said to exist between the worlds and out of the bounds of time. It’s a place between humankind and the Goddesses and Gods, between the psychological and the spiritual. It goes beyond the realms of duality into oneness, between the astral and the physical. It is a place where those in physical bodies and those of non-physical bodies can meet. It is also a barrier against unwanted psychic entities and forces.

A circle is cast or drawn deosil (Jay-cil) – clockwise.

When someone else is casting a circle you project energy from your solar plexus to the person drawing the circle.

Alters are in the middle of the circle or in the north – the sacred direction for many because in ancient times many Celtic people believed the north was the home of the Elder Goddesses and Gods.

 A Priestess & Priest or Priestess drew the “traditional” Circle in covens. Not because the Priestess is better then the Priest, but because the female energy (the womb of the universe) is the energy needed. The woman is the physical manifestation of the Goddess, just as the male is the physical manifestation of the God. When working the energy in circle female and male alike are to use their feminine (left) side.

In one of our most meaningful myths the God kneels and lays his sword and crown at the feet of the Goddess. He chose not to overcome her with his physical strength, but to open himself to her spiritual power.

In the circle between the worlds you must learn to leave the world of the intellect and enter the world of the subconscious, the unconscious, the world of spirit and intuition, the world of feminine energy.
Having once entered that world male energy may be used for many things, but the doorway in is through your feminine energy.