Koren #1 @7314
Thu Apr 19 12:51:46 1990

o Before you leave the power spot:
  - Thank the spirits,
  - Channel love energy,
  - Trigger your memory of the experience, and
  - If it feels right, leave an offering of tobacco, or beer and
    honey poured on the ground (or other suitable material).

o  Leave in peace and love.

o Proceed to other sites that were indicated by the spirits,
  doing similar meditations at each site.

o If you need something, like a staff, a Maypole, or a wand, you
  can also ask where you can find it and follow the guidance you
  receive (not slavishly, but as you would guidance from another
  Pagan).

o Before leaving the general area in which you found power spots
  and contacted nature spirits:
  - Channel love energy towards the receptive sites you found,
  - Thank the spirits of the land,
  - Pull back your roots and branches,
  - Ground any excess energy into the Earth (placing your hands
    on the Earth, breathe in any excess energy, and channel the
    energy down your arms, while visualizing and feeling the
    energy going into the Earth), and
  - Leave in peace and love.

o Naturally, you should leave the area at least as clean, and
  preferably cleaner, than you found it.

o If you work with techniques of Wicca or Ceremonial Magic, you
  may find that by casting a circle, calling the Elements, the
  Goddess, the Gods, and the local nature spirits while you are
  at receptive sites, you may be able to greatly increase
  communication.

o Through the use of drums and other power raising techniques, it
  is even possible to energize receptive nature spirits.  The
  results can be very interesting.  If with a coven, such circles
  can be done as part of a group attunement to a power spot you
  have located.

o If you do not get good feelings in response to your explanation
  of the ritual and are unable to come up with a ritual that
  gives good responses, do not try to force a good response.  You
  would only be fooling yourself.
  - Thank the spirits for their attention.
  - Ask them why they are not receptive (if it feels right and
    they are communicative).
  - Trigger your memory.
  - Pull back your "roots and branches," return any excess
    energy you feel into the Earth.
 -  If it feels appropriate, leave an offering of tobacco or
    other appropriate material, out of respect for the spirits.
  - Move to a more receptive site.

o If it is hard to find a site that is really receptive, you
  should:
  - Consider any impressions you got of why the nature spirits
    weren't receptive in the area you were in, and re-think your
    plans for a ritual, as necessary and appropriate.
  - It may also be appropriate to look for another general area
    in which to find a suitable power site that is receptive to
    the work planned.


WHAT TO DO WHEN RETURNING:

It can be very powerful to purify and center yourself and to
attune to the spirits of the land using the techniques previously
described for calling nature spirits immediately upon returning
to the site.

Often, individuals may have found small specific power spots to
which they have a special attunement, where the spirits are
interested in participating; but where the site is too small, has
too much vegetation, or is otherwise unsuitable for the main
ritual.  Individual attunement to the spirits in such areas and
inviting them to participate in the main ritual can be
worthwhile.

Then approach the main ritual site using the previously arranged
technique.  You should have the details worked out with the
spirits of the land.  An exceptionally powerful technique
involves doing a procession through or past receptive power
spots, inviting nature spirits to join as you pass each power
spot, and then moving to the central power spot for the main
ritual.  If participants are at individual power spots, they can
join the procession as it passes nearby.

When consecrating space in the wild, or casting a circle, do not
set up the perimeter as a barrier to all outside forces; it
should be a beacon to attract friendly nature spirits, a
container for holding magical power, and a barrier to spirits
who it isn't right to be with.