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Search out some Pagan and Wiccan chants; the Witchcraft Museum at Boscastle produces a CD and my own Coven has also released one of their own. Look for chants which are simple to learn, and repetitive. Learn a couple of these and practise them with, and without, drumming or clapping. Start slowly and gradually increase the pace until you are chanting as fast as you can. The advantage of producing your own music is that you can vary the pace to build the energy you develop.

In the Craft we tend to use a sequence of three or four chants, each repeated several times, and often ending with a repeat of the first. To give you some idea of this, the following is a sequence we might use, each of the chants being repeated four times before moving on to the next:

‘Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna.’

‘Lady of the Moon, Lady of the Moon. Come to us, be with us, Lady of the Moon.’

‘Power of the music, Power of the song, Power of the magic, Pass the magic on.’

‘Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna.’

If you have worked through the above exercises you will know how it feels when energy has been raised and should also be aware of the effect it can have on your magic.