Calendar of the Sun
11 Solmonath
Tiresias's Day
Colors: Black and White
Element: Air
Altar: On cloth of black and white, lay a conch shell cut so that it can be blown through, a cup of
water, and symbols of the hermaphroditic union.
Offerings: All should come to the ritual dressed in clothing of the opposite sex. Those who are
of the third gender should wear black and white and be chosen to do the work of the ritual.
Daily Meal: Cakes and breads shaped like double genitalia.
Invocation to Tiresias
Tiresias, great seer,
You who traded sight
For foresight,
You who traded male
For female
And female
For the union of both,
Teach us that such boundaries
Are merely illusion,
To be dismantled
And walked right through.
Teach us that there are
New ways of seeing
That look past the blinders
Of culture and roles.
Teach us that our assumptions
Can often be done without
And that our lives will be
The better for it.
(There is no specific chant for this ritual; all should chant wordlessly while the water is poured
into the conch shell and it is passed around. Each should either drink from it or blow into it like
a trumpet, depending on whether they need to invoke female or male energy respectively into
themselves. Then the rest is poured as a libation.)
[Pagan Book of Hours]