Paying the Spirits

Once all is done and your supplies are cleaned up, stand at the heart of the place where your work was performed and make a final payment as a gesture of thanks. Press a coin, gem or trinket into the earth, a crack in stone, the hollow of a tree, or the dark mouth of water. As you do, say:

Spirits who watched, spirits who heard,
Spirits who stirred at whispered word,
By root and rock, by leaf and flame,
I leave this gift in honored name.

Not for debt and not for due,
But for the paths I’ve walked with you.
Coin for shadow, coin for kin,
A witch’s toll for where I’ve been.

Take this token, fair and free,
And let no ill remain with me.
No chain to pull, no thread to bind—
What was given, now is thine.