Under the full and swollen moon, when the whole sky hangs like a granary filled to bursting, the old fullness listens closest. This is a rite to set a place for it at your table.
Every house that overflows was first thanked before it was filled. This working reaches toward abundance by honouring it as a guest already arriving, a feast laid for the spirits of grain and hearth, so that plenty finds your door already open, already welcoming, already set for its coming.
The Working
- When the moon rides full, lay a small table with a white cloth, set for one unseen guest, in the light of a single window.
- Place upon it a whole loaf of bread, a bowl of grain or beans, and a lit candle at its head.
- Kindle incense of frankincense and a little dried bay, and let the smoke wander across the offering.
- Take up a bell and ring it three times toward each of the four quarters, calling the granary-spirits in from every road.
- Break the bread with your hands, leaving the larger half for the guest, and speak the incantation over the table.
- Sit with the offering in silence until the candle has burned low, asking nothing further, only keeping the guest company.
- At dawn, carry the guest’s portion outdoors and leave it for the birds and the earth, closing the rite.
The Incantation
Full is the moon and full be my board,
a place at the table, a share for the lord
of the granary, the grain, and the gathering-in,
come to my house, and be welcomed within.
Eat of my bread, and remember my name,
and fill what I offer a hundredfold-same.
Guest of the harvest, I set you a chair;
find my door open, and leave your plenty there.
Never repeat this rite from hunger or greed, only from gratitude, for the granary-spirits give most freely to the house that thanks them first. Keep the white cloth folded away against the next full moon.