Timing: after Sunset on 31 October.
Materials: a black candle, a white candle, and some food and drink
If you do wish to do some divination you will need to have ready your tools of divination, whether tarot cards, runes or whatever.
If you have undertaken a small challenge, you may wish to include some small reminder of it, whether you succeeded or failed.
Process:
When you are ready, settle down and call upon each of the four elements of Air, Earth, Fire and Water, asking each to be with you.
Next visualise the Goddess as Crone and the God as Hunter and ask them to join you.
Now light the black candle, which represents the passing year, and spend a short while thinking about what has happened in your life and the lives around you in the last twelve months. Give thanks to the Lord and Lady for the good things and successes. And consider what you may have learned from the failure and problems. Also remember anyone dear to you, whether human or pet, who has passed from this world in the past year.
Next light the white candle, which represents the New Year, and spend a short while thinking about the things you hope to achieve and see happen, and ask the Lord and Lady to give their blessings on these hopes.
If you wish to perform a divination, this is the time to do so, when both candles of the old and new are lit. Make sure you have a pencil (or pen) and paper to hand to record any thoughts you have and images you receive.
If you have undertaken a challenge, give thanks to the Lord and Lady for your success or state what your offering to the Lord of the Hunt will be.
Now you can put out the black candle and say a final farewell to the old year.
Give the food and drink to the Lord and Lady as an offering for their thanks for being present at your ritual.
Thank the elements individually in the same sequence in which you invited them, for their presence. Then thank the Lord and Lady for their guidance.
Your ritual is over and all that remains is to enjoy your feast.
