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Before you seek the guidance and blessing of the Gods make, buy or seek out an offering for them. This could be a circle of plaited grasses, a single flower head, or perhaps a significantly shaped stone you have found on a walk. It could be a plant you have raised especially for the purpose. It need not be expensive, but should be something which has required you to make a special effort. Offerings to the Old Ones should always entail a sacrifice of time or effort. Of course, your major offering in any garden-related project will be the ongoing time and effort you place into creating and maintaining that area, but this will be a token of that effort.

At a time when you will be undisturbed, take your token out into your garden, close your eyes and visualize the Goddess and the God. Call upon them and ask them to guide you to a place of peace and tranquillity saying:

‘I call upon the Goddess and the God. Lord and Lady I seek a place in which to know you, a place in which to understand you. Show me the way, that I might draw closer to you in peace and love. Give me an open heart and a fresh mind that I might see your way. Blessed Be.’

Holding their image in your mind, turn slowly around three times and open your eyes. Look over the whole of your garden with these thoughts in your head and you will surely be able to see the best location for your new space. If you are considering placing your area indoors use the same invocation to help you to determine the best place. Once you have found the right spot, walk to it, close your eyes again and say:

‘I give thanks to the Goddess and the God for showing me the way. I undertake to work and tend this place in their name in gratitude for their love, and in token of this I make this offering. Blessed Be.’

Place your token in the centre of the area. If you have a particular deity or deities in mind then you can call upon these by name and choose your offering specifically with them in mind.

I find it useful to mark off any area I am about to work on with a few canes tied together with string. This has the effect of alerting my young son and his friends that this is not a play area, thus allowing me a clear working space and giving any plants time to establish themselves. It also encourages me to get on with the job, as sticks and string make it obvious that work has not been completed!

Having located your quiet area you need to work on it and to Dedicate it.