Before the rite, create a small cloth pouch filled with herbs such as lavender, chamomile, St. John’s wort, vervain, or any of the Midsummer herbs. Spiritually pour all your troubles, problems, pains, sorrows and illnesses, into this pouch as you create it. Tie it shut with a red string. Place it on the altar for use during the rite. The cauldron should be there nearby. Even if you use candles to mark the quarters, the red candle in a holder should also be on the altar. For outdoor rituals, light a small fire and drop the pouch into it.

Arrange the altar, lights the candles and censer and cast the circle.

Recite the Blessing Chant
Invoke the Goddess and God
Stand before the altar and say, with wand raised:

I celebrate the noon of summer with mystic rites.
O great Goddess and God,
All nature vibrates with your energies
And the Earth is bathed with warmth and life.
Now is the time of forgetting past cares and banes;
Now is the time for purification.
O fiery Sun,
Burn away the unuseful,
The hurtful,
The bane,
In your omnipotent power,
Purify me!
Purify me!
Purify me!

Lay the wand on the altar. Pick up the herbal pouch and light it in the red candle on the altar (or, if outdoors, in the ritual fire). When it’s burning, drop it into the cauldron and say:

I banish you by the powers of the Goddess and God!
I banish you by the powers of the Sun, Moon and Stars!
I banish you by the powers of the Earth, Air, Fire and Water!

Pause, watching the emotions burning into nothingness.
Then say:

O Gracious Goddess, O Gracious God,
On this night of Midsummer magic
I pray that you charge my life with
Wonder and joy. Help me in attuning with
The energies adrift on the enchanted night air.
I give thanks.

Reflect on the purification you have undergone. Feel the powers of nature flowing though you, cleansing you with divine energy.

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

Scott Cunningham, Wicca A Guide For The Solitary Practitioner, (Llewellyn Publications, 1992) p. 136