We now appear to be moving from the La Niña phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) into the warmer and drier (here, at any rate) El Niño cycle (see here, here, here, here, and here), which brings an increased risk of bushfires (see here, here, and here). That means it is time to link to the bushfire prevention ritual I prepared back in 2010, after these events.
The full ritual is at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2010/07/containment-putting-out-management.html, but as a minimum I aim to use the core chant once a week.
The chant is:
Artemis, Baba Yaga, Pachamama
and Cernunnos,
help us connect to the wild places
- show us all the beauty of all the life there,
human, animal, plant or mineral,
help all who touch these places,
to truly know and care for them,
for their own innate worth.
Brigid, Maeve and Isis,
inspire and help all those who care for the bush or fight bushfires,
let them fulfil their duties with passion and inspiration;
and inspire and heal those tempted to do harm
to such responsibility and caring
that they can NOT commit such sacrilege,
but may Ma’at bring swiftly to justice all who do.
Nu Kua, bringer of order to chaos,
bring your ordered way to the wild places;
let the rains fall and the winds blow when and where they are needed;
Durga, protector against demons,
set boundaries on any fires which may occur,
and protect the wild places from the demon “bushfire”;
Cerridwen, transform all harm and damage done into growth: death into rebirth.
Gyhldeptis,
we call on you to help synthesise all these threads,
love, responsibility, inspiration, justice;
ordered rain and wind, protective boundaries, transformation;
help these many ways become one great whole,
for the good of all the wild places, and all the wild life.
throughout this coming bushfire season and beyond.
Artemis, Baba Yaga, Pachamama, Cernunnos,
Let us love the wild places;
Brigid, Maeve, Isis and Ma’at,
Heal and inspire responsibility and justice;
Nu Kua, Durga and Cerridwen,
Tame and bound the demon bushfire;
Gyhldeptis,
Bring all this together.
Kenaz, Nauthiz, Tiewaz, Berkana, Mannaz, Wolfsangle, Erda,
May it all be so.
Obviously, given these events, I cannot claim that this is infallible or guaranteed - in fact, I never have, but it will, in my opinion, help to do what can be done by magic.
Assumptions / basis
In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following:
- magic exists, and nonphysical work can have an effect;
- those effects can be “good” or “bad”, and the “bad” effects can be ameliorated and the “good” enhanced, and ritual is one of those ways;
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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