(Dark Moon Ritual March 29, 2025)

Join us Saturday night as we continue the uncoiling of the Year of the Snake with this month’s Dark Moon Ritual

10 p.m. Eastern / 7 p.m. Pacific, Friday, March 29, 2025

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Full ritual text

Piper: 

Greetings and welcome to the latest in our cycle of lunar rituals. We’re glad to have you with us.

Suggested materials are 

• a candle
• matches or lighter
• Incense
• a bowl or saucer of water or a mirror in which to see the flames reflection
• A piece of scrap paper
• Your sigil paper from before, or a new sheet if you’re starting fresh
• A writing instrument
• and a deck of cards

Though if you lack any of these you can simply follow along on the video stream. The candle will be lit in the ritual, the incense may be lit now. 

We will get started in just a moment.

*If you are not a member but are interested in getting involved, you can find a link to our Discord at capitalareasatanists.org  

Find a seated position where you can rest comfortably for about 20 minutes. 

(pause a moment)

Let us begin.

Casting the circle / calling the quarters / invocations

Felo: 

Take a deep breath, and let it out slowly.

Place your hands firmly and tenderly over your heart.

Breathe as deeply as feels comfortable

Allow your pulse to steady itself at this moment.

Feel the support of the earth beneath you.

Feel yourself firmly grounded in place. 

Strong and immovable by any will but your own.

Felo:

You may now light your candle. With the lighting of this flame, honor the gift of knowledge bestowed upon you and which you carry forward with you.

(Participants each light their candle)

With the ringing of the bell, feel the space around you, already a tenuous material reality, detach itself from the mundane world. Creating room for your own inner world to briefly manifest outward. 

As within so without.

(ring bell 3 times)

Piper:

We call upon Azazel, the scapegoat of the wilderness in the south 

to illuminate and strengthen this circle. 

We call upon Lucifer, the light bringer, the air above 

to illuminate and strengthen this circle. 

We call upon Lilith, the mother of demons in the north 

to illuminate and strengthen this circle. 

We call upon Hekate, goddess of the witches, queen of the underworld below, 

to illuminate and strengthen this circle. 

We call upon all kindred souls, equally important but not more so than our own, so often forgotten in Satanic rites gone by.

And so finally, call upon yourself, all those equally worthy parts of you, that which is at the center, to illuminate and strengthen this circle.

Divination 

Felo: If you have cards with you, cut the deck now.

1. Without looking at it, draw the top card and place it face down horizontally. May this hidden card represent the unknown and the unknowable.
2. Draw a card and place it face up to the left of the first.  May this card suggest where you stand now. 
3. Draw a card and place it overtop of the first. May this card clarify that which stands in your way. 
4. Finally, draw a card and place it to the right. May this card point the way to overcoming the obstacles in your path. 

Take note of meanings or connections which may intuitively come to mind.

(pause for a breath or two)

Statement of purpose

Felo: 

At the lunar new year we urged you to take time to focus on yourself,
Allow yourself to acknowledge your own anxieties and fears and discomforts. 

The ache you may have been feeling in your chest as the world fell to pieces around us.

Last month, we used that foundation of self-focus to ritualistically expand our circle of empathy to those closest to us.

Tonight, we expand our attention further still. 

This time to those in your life which you are less close with. 

Maybe you were once, but have drifted over time. 

Maybe you haven’t yet had the chance to get to know them better. 

Maybe they are comfortable acquaintances, and that’s okay.

The proactive among us may be going straight to thoughts of “what can I do for them?” 

But these ideas can come later. 

Right now try to simply hold in your mind the people and your connections – like invisible threads – to them.

Felo:

Before you are two pieces of paper. One is for scratch. The other for collecting your sigils throughout this lunar year. Either the one you’ve already begin, or a blank sheet if you haven’t

On your scratch paper, write down a word or phrase which embodies those connections to you or your feeling of connection to them. This will form the first extension out from the foundation. Spiralling out, not unlike the coiled snake.

The more specific, the better. However, if you’re having difficulty coming up with something, consider using a simple, a present tense “we” or “they” statement like “we are comrades” or “they are neighbors” (in the Mister Rogers sense). Or even just picking a word that embodies an emotion you feel most acutely when thinking of them in this moment.

(pause for longer than you think you need to)

From what you just wrote, strike out each vowel.

Strike out as well any redundant consonants, keeping only the first instance of each.

Write out the set of unique letters that remain.

Combine these letters into each other, forming a single character.
Try not to overthink this. There’s no wrong way to do this.

Now draw this character again, while adding your own flourishes to make it appear more like your idea of a sigil. Bending, adding, or omitting lines. The legibility of the original letters need not be preserved at this stage.

(again, pause for longer than you think you need to)

You will take this final form and draw it one more time in the center of your grand sigil sheet.

If your paper is blank, that’s fine. But a pristine sheet of paper can be intimidating, so before committing your first sigil to the sheet you’ll be keeping throughout this year, mar the sheet with a random pen stroke, or tear a rip along the edge, or crumple it slightly. Something to free yourself from any expectation of perfection you may be holding yourself to.

Take the final form of your shape and draw it one final time in the center of your imperfectred paper.

Gaze upon your sigil and concentrate on the meaning you’ve imbued it with.

(about a minute of silence)

With meanings set in place, allow your concentration to relax. Take a deep breath. With the slow exhalation, feel any tension releasing from mind and body.

Fold this paper so as to conceal the sigils, to be carried with you and added to in the next new moon. May it be of comfort and remind you to look after those you most cherish. 

One more deep breath, and put the sigil out of mind. Allow your focus to soften and return wholly to this moment. 

(pour water here) If you have a saucer of water, place it in front of your candle. We now call upon it to reflect the flame and aid our contemplation of the gift of knowledge it represents. 

Piper: I adjure you, O creature of water, by the Name of Lucifer the Bringer of Light, by the Name of Satan the ruler of Hell, and by the power of all the forsaken and damned souls in your charge, that you become water enlivened by the strength of the enemies of God.  Be empowered to lift up and unite that same rebel army with all its apostate angels

Look into the flame’s reflection upon the water’s surface and allow your gaze to soften.

Your muscles to relax. Your jaw to unclench, even slacken.

Listen to your breath. …

As you sit, allow your thoughts to flow freely by, undirected. If any worries or anxieties arise, acknowledge them, and let them float by.

We will now give way to 13 minutes of silence, that you may give your inner self the time to speak and be known.

(13 minutes of silence)

Dismissing the quarters 

Piper:

As we now come back into this present moment, you may notice some feelings of peace and calm. Or at least stillness. Now, imagine a peaceful, still calm flow through every cell of your body. As you imagine feelings of inner quietness, you can even imagine it growing into an inner patience that wasn’t there before. An inner peace, and inner tranquility. This would help you grow more peace and inner motivation in your mind. And this peace and quiet is something that can remain with you, and even grow stronger and stronger. See if you can imagine this feeling growing stronger and stronger as each day goes by. The strength of that peace can give you the confidence and will to continue our rebellions, be they small and daily or larger and momentous.

(pause for a breath or two)

Dismissing the quarters 

Piper:

We now open the circle and give our thanks. 

Depart in peace, guardian of the crossroads. From you we gain the keys to rooms deep within ourselves.

Our gratitude goes with you! Hail and farewell.

Felo: Hail and farewell.

Piper: Depart in peace, exile of Eden. Your example inspires us to guard our own autonomy.
Our gratitude goes with you! Hail and farewell.

Felo: Hail and farewell

Piper: Depart in peace, you bringer of light. Your winds have come and change has begun.
Our gratitude goes with you! Hail and farewell.

Felo: Hail and farewell

Piper: Depart in peace, you blameless sacrifice. May we pick up the trail of your flight to freedom .
Our gratitude goes with you! Hail and farewell. 

Felo: Hail and farewell

Piper: Extend gratitude to yourself for setting aside this moment of intentionality and reflection. If you so choose, repeat to yourself “I am at the center. I am the center. There is no god where I am.”

Felo: “I am at the center. I am the center. There is no god where I am.”

Ringing of bell 

Piper: 

With the ringing of this bell, return to the rational world renewed by your retreat from it and stronger for any insights gleaned and any resolve gathered.

As you work your will by the growing moonlight, think of others. Cherish those in your circle of empathy..

(Rings bell 3 times)

Until we see you under the full moon, go well and be safe. 

May the devil take you and keep you. 

Hail Satan!

Felo: Hail Satan!

Piper: So it is done.