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body is well developed. He is a kind-hearted poet and generous friend while also being the spear carrier and the warrior of his tribe. This candle, once dressed properly, will be placed in a candleholder to the right of your bed.
    Now light both candles and stand at the bottom of your bed, facing the bed’s head; spread your legs apart and lift your arms into the air, palms open and facing out. Ground and centre, and attune your breathing to the ragged cycles experienced during an impassioned lovemaking session. Feel the passion and sensuality of bodies joining and enveloping each other. Feel the pulsing tides of energy as it moves between the bodies. Experience the waves of heat and energy as they sweep over you and spin you into a world of ecstasy and transcendence. This is the eternal spiral of the shaman’s dance.
    When the power reaches its peak, chant:
    Gods of love and passion rise
    Upon this night of Freya’s ties
    Fill this room as your sacred shrine
    My flesh is charged by this sign 10
    Five by rite and five by life
    Mark me well and cast out strife
    Union, joining, merging halves
    Imbue the air that shifts ’tween calves
    Lip to lip and phallus to womb
    Bless the spinning Lady’s loom
    Flesh to flesh and grail to lance
    Sacred is the lover’s dance
    Upon this night of Freya’s ties
    Gods of love and passion rise!
    Feel as the energy spirals to a pinpoint and then explodes over you in a shower of warmth, electricity, and passion. Now you may light the patchouli incense and begin, making sure that the candles’ flames are safely contained.
    Note: This spell can also be used for two gay guys or girls. You may like to stick with the original candle-dressing routine invoking both God and Goddess as symbolic forces of co-creation, which are inherent within both you and your partner, or you might like to focus on two specific male or female deities who are associated with homosexuality. If you are male, you could invoke Zeus and his lover Ganymede, the cupbearer of Olympus, or Apollo and Hyakinthos. For two girls, Artemis and one of her maidens are valid options. In any case, do your research on your chosen deities beforehand so you are familiar with their myths, their energies, and their characteristics.
    You may also like to change the wording of the chant from “Lip to lip and phallus to womb …” to “Lip to lip and limb to limb, weaving wonder as we sing. Flesh to flesh and heart to heart, no longer do our bodies part.” You can adapt the words to suit your own tastes.
    Both of the spells above are open to adaptation, and if you like, you can ask your partner to help cast the spells with you.
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    9 The Fivefold Kiss descends from the rites of British Traditional covens. When honouring the divine within each other, an initiate of one of these covens will kiss (in order) the Witch’s feet, knees, sex (phallus or womb), breasts, and lips. There are traditional words that accompany each kiss; however, they vary within traditions.
    10 Gesture the shape of the pentagram across your body. Use the first two fingers of your power hand and draw the arms of the pentagram as follows: from head to right breast, from right breast to left shoulder, from left shoulder to right shoulder, from right shoulder to left breast and from left breast back to head.

The word community is generally used to define a group of people who share a common historical and cultural background and live together in a specific area, interacting and weaving a complex web of interdependence, responsibility, experience, and power. However, in the case of Paganism, community does not imply that all Pagans must live in the same area—or, for that matter, interact.
    Think of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The “wizarding world” is almost exactly synonymous with the Pagan community in terms of how the phrases are used. Wizard in Rowling’s interpretation is a word