Pentagram chalice, stainless steel, 4 3/4″

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Cakes and ale: wine or juice is blessed in the chalice and shared at the close of a rite, with the last of it poured on the earth as an offering.
• Great Rite: the athame is lowered into the cup to bless the drink in symbolic union.
• Moon water: filled and set on a windowsill under the full moon.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Elemental Water: placed in the west of the altar as the tool of Water, used for asperging and for scrying when filled.

A Simple Working

• Fill the chalice with red wine or grape juice.
• Hold it up in both hands and say: ‘Fruit of the vine, be blessed.’
• Lower the tip of an athame into the cup.
• Say: ‘As the blade to the cup, so the god to the goddess.’
• Drink a little, leaving some in the cup.
• Pour the remainder onto the earth outside as an offering.

Pairs Well With

• An athame: the chalice’s partner in the Great Rite.
• A pentagram altar tile: to set beneath the cup.
• Spring water: for offerings and moon water.
• An altar bell: to open and close the rite.

What You Receive

Stainless steel chalice, 4 3/4″ tall, with a detailed stem and base, a prominent pentagram on the front and a smaller pentagram on each side.

Origin & Lore

Ritual cups are among the oldest temple vessels, used for libations, offerings and shared drink. In modern witchcraft the chalice stands for Water, the feminine and the womb of the Goddess, and holds wine, juice or water for blessing and sharing. This stainless steel cup can be used for drink and cleaned easily.

Cup and blade together are the heart of the Wiccan Great Rite: the chalice receives, the athame descends.

Libation, pouring drink for gods and the dead, was central to ancient Greek, Roman and Near Eastern worship. In Wicca the Great Rite is most often performed ‘in token’ with athame and chalice, a practice written into Gardnerian ritual in the mid-twentieth century.