Calendar of the Moon 11 Ngetal/Maimakterion Day of the Morrigan Colours: Black, red, white Element: Air Altar: Upon an altar decked in black, red, and white, place the figure of a raven, a spear hung with red ribbons, a black candle, a pen and parchment, and sterile needles. Offering: Blood Daily Meal: Poultry. Invocation to the Morrigan Hail to the Raven Goddess! Hail to the harbinger of Death! Under your black wings We turn to face our fears. Hail to the Lady of Battlefields! Hail to the harbinger of War! Under your red wings We learn of honorable conflict. Hail to the Lady of the Winds! Hail to the harbinger of Rebirth! Under your white wings We find the path through Chaos. Seven years of famine, Seven years of feast, Ranging over all the land Good and ill luck in your hand Challenge me, O Morrigan Test us like the warriors We hope to be, we need to be, Do not be gentle with us Else your servants drink our blood From our fallen forms On your red-soaked field. Song: O Morrigan (Each shall come forth and prick their finger with the needles, or have it pricked by another, and touch their blood to the parchment, and write thereon a Word of Power that is their offering to the Morrigan, along with their blood. Afterwards, the parchment shall be straightaway burned.) [source:paganbookofhours.org]