A symbol of the season, snowflake, a white flower, or some snow in a container can be placed on the altar. An orange candle rubbed with musk, cinnamon, frankincense or rosemary oil, unlit, should also be there, Snow can be melted and used for the water during the circle casting.

Arrange the altar, light the candles and censer, and cast the Circle.

Recite the Blessing Chant or your own words.
Invoke the Goddess and God.
Say such words as the following:

This is the time of the feast of torches,
When every lamp blazes and shines
To welcome the rebirth of the God.
I celebrate the Goddess,
I celebrate the God;
All the Earth celebrates
Beneath its mantle of sleep.

Light the orange candle from the red candle on the altar (or at the Southern point of the circle). Gradually walk the circle clockwise, holding the candle before you.
Say these or similar words:

All the land is wrapped in winter.
The air is chilled and
Frost envelopes the Earth.[
But Lord of the Sun,
Horned One of animals and wild places,
Unseen you have been reborn
Of the gracious Mother Goddess,
Lady of all fertility,
Hail Great God!
Hail and welcome!

Stop before the altar, holding the candle in the air. Look at its flame. Visualize your life growing with creativity, with renewed energy and strength.

If you need to look into the future or the past, now is the time.

Works of magic, if necessary may follow.
The circle is released.

Scott Cunningham, Wicca A Guide For The Solitary Practitioner, (Llewellyn Publications, 1992) p. 130