The Blessing

This is a simple Rite to be performed when you are alone. Timing is a personal preference. You can look up all the right correspondences, but what really matters is how much you can put into it personally, if getting everything together for 3am on the New Moon, with a purple altar cloth on a stormy night and you are stressing way too much it is all for nothing, if you can't be at 100% it is better to do sunrise or noon or your birthday.

Prepare a Book Blessing

Keep it simple, stick to your normal pre-ritual routine and set your altar.

Altar Cloth, White Candle, Incense, Book and Pen. Music if you want it.

This does not require a full circle cast. Just a Cone of Power.

Normal Tool Consecration Visualization. Pass it through the Incense, light the candle and dedicate your BoS, then open the book and in the Witches Alphabet on the very first page, scribe your BoS's name and Say:

"Keeper of Knowledge, Lore and Magick; Book of Shadows, I name you _________"

Then raise your hands to the sky and you can say a blessing or modify this blessing over your Book of Shadows:

"In the realm of magick -this book- (or Books Name) shall reside.
No one but the chosen shall see what's inside.
If breath be to Air as passion to Fire,
Let harm come to none, this is my desire.
If life be to Earth as Water to emotions,
This book be filled with magickal potions.
May the Gods protect it, keep it from harm,
And upon it bestow power, magick, and charm.
No one without wisdom shall peer at its pages,
Or the knowledge inside handed down through the ages.
This book be it mine, it harbors no fears.
The knowledge obtained through blood, sweat, and tears,
My Magick's my passion, the spirit's my guide.
The book may she bless it with spiritual light.
And let only her children read of its rite.
That this is my will, so mote it be."

Modified From "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Wicca and Witchcraft"
by Denise Zimmermann and Katherine A. Gleason

Now Invert your Cone and focus all that energy into your BoS.

Write a more personalized blessing or command, a sort of instruction for your BoS to follow on the next page, along the lines of a classic evocation. Simplicity, I cannot stress it enough, keep it brief and poetic, it doesn't need to go on for pages.

Sit still for a moment and Ground any remaining energy.

If you would like to contact me personally for Q&A you can always comment or for private consult my email is listed in my business card, please note that I work at my own pace and you may see your answer in a blog post rather than a responding email.