{"collection":"bos","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bos/bos004.htm","path":"bos/bos004.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bos/bos004.htm","text":"Internet Book of Shadows, (Various Authors), [1999]\nThe High Priestess goes to each of the four directions in turn and draws a Banishing Pentacle, saying:\nGuardians of the East (South, West, North),\nPowers of Air (Fire, Water, Earth), we thank you\nFor joining in our circle\nAnd we ask for your blessing\nAs you depart\nMay there be peace between us\nNow and forever. Blessed be.\nShe raises her athame to the sky and touches it to the earth, then opens her arms and says:\nThe circle is open, but unbroken,\nMay the peace of the Goddess\nGo in your hearts,\nMerry meet, and merry part.\nAnd merry meet again. Blessed be.","title":"Internet Book of Shadows: Opening (ending) The Circle","type":"page"}