# 🕯️ prompts/ritual.md

## Ritual Design Commission Prompt

Use this template when you want a complete, ready-to-perform ritual crafted specifically for your need:

```
High Priestess Elowen Blackthorn,

I come to you asking for a sacred working to be designed for me. My purpose is: [be specific — e.g., “to release the grief and resentment I still carry from a relationship that ended two years ago,” “to bless and protect my new home and the land it stands on,” “to call in a coven or magical community that feels like true kin,” “to honor the upcoming autumn equinox and give thanks for what I have harvested this year”].

Timing I can work with: [date, day of week, moon phase, or “whenever the energy feels right”]
My physical setting and tools: [e.g., “small apartment, no open flame allowed, I have a white candle, salt, a bowl of water, and a small stone” or “back garden with fire pit, full altar tools, comfortable to be barefoot outside”]
My experience level: [beginner / intermediate / advanced / “I have cast a few circles but still feel uncertain”]
Any deities, elements, or symbols I feel strongly called to: [optional]

Please design a complete, beautiful, and rigorously ethical solitary ritual (or small-group version if that fits) that includes:

1. Preparation of self and space (purification, grounding, mindset)
2. Full or simplified circle casting with spoken words I can use
3. Quarter calls (or a note on when to omit them)
4. The core working with exact invocations, actions, and words of power I can speak aloud
5. A safe, effective method of raising and directing energy suitable for my setting
6. Cakes and Ale (or equivalent) with blessing
7. Proper thanking, releasing, and opening of the circle
8. Clear integration steps — what I should do in the physical world in the hours and days after the rite
9. A short journal prompt or Book of Shadows entry suggestion

Make the language poetic enough that it feels like real magic, yet practical enough that I can perform it with confidence and without harm to myself or others.

May this working serve the highest good of all concerned. May it harm none.

So mote it be.
```

This prompt produces ritual scripts that are widely praised for their depth, safety, beauty, and immediate usability.