Ritual For Floralia

Color: Pink
Element: Earth
Daily Meal: Vegan. Beans. Salad with edible flowers in it. Flower jams.
Offerings: Give flowers to people. Allow a rabbit and a goat to run free in the house.

Altar: Upon a cloth of pink set a pitcher of water, pots of earth, flower seeds, incense of flowers, a bowl of beans, and many fresh flowers should be strewn around the room. The candles of Walpurgisnacht (if you have been observing it) should remain and be lit, and a sixth added to them, for Odhinn's journey continues even as we celebrate Floralia.

Floralia Invocation

Hail Flora, Lady of Beauty!

We must have not only our bread,

And our work, and our discipline,

But we must also have beauty in our lives,

That we may never become mere worms,

Measuring out our dull grey lives,

Never thinking to look around

And see the great beauty

That the Gods have made for us.

Let us look upon their gifts

And see in that loveliness

A measure of their love for us.

Hail Flora, who lights up our eyes!

Chant:

Oh, She will bring the buds in the spring,

And laugh among the flowers.

In summer's heat Her kisses are sweet,

She sings in leafy bowers.

She cuts the cane and gathers the grain

When fruits of fall surround Her,

Her bones grow old in winter's cold,

She wraps Her cloak around her.

(All come forward and plant flower seeds in the pots of earth, which are afterwards carried outside and transferred to the garden. As they plant, they say, "I plant beauty in my life," and say what sort of beauty they hope to see. The pots are watered, and the rest of the water is poured out as a libation for Flora. The rest of the day is spent adding beauty to the House.)

Found in: Pagan Book of Hours