What are the most crucial rituals in your life, the ones you could not possibly live without?

I have developed a lot of rituals that are integral parts of my life and livelihood.  I enact theatrically many self-generated scripts that are meant to enlighten, inspire, amuse, empower, and entertain myself and those few friends and family members who have been privy to these.  I have a prop box that is a handmade pine box that looks like a small coffin.  It has my initials on it in raised wood.  It is stained mahogany and has brassy handles on the sides.  Also, it has a lock.  Within this box, it is lined with crushed velvet.  I have many articles within:  a reiki rattle from Peru, sacred oils (amber oil for protection, dragon's blood oil also for protection...), a special mugwort salve to open the third eye chakra, various jewelry pieces (including an Egyptian ankh [the cross of life]), candles for the four elemental directions, candles for other purposes, herbs (such as elder flowers for blessings), holy water (thunder water from a first Spring rain and White Christmas healing water from snow on Christmas Day), a Pandora's box, Russian sage that I harvested from my garden, tea sets for fairy rituals (I offer them berries and make fairy bubble baths with tiny towels and amenities), and much more.  I have a redwood wand from Alivan's master wandmakers.  I have a wand that glows.  I have a selenite stone wand.  I have a collection of some rocks, including pyrite for prosperity ceremonies (it is the fool's gold) and a geode from Mexico that symbolizes harmony, balance, and completion.  I have imbued these objects with my own psychic interpretations, as well as some more conventional ones that I have gathered from my studies of world religions.  These items are essential for my theatrical rituals.  I have sacred books that are stored in a locked bookshelf.  I have sacred books that are not locked up as well.  I have a personal library, complete with my own library cards, stamp set, and inventory list.  I select the books like a curator.  The most essential books are in a reference section.  The most sacred and potentially harmful ones to younger persons or those who cannot comfortably explore such occult and esoteric subjects are locked away.  So, those are the props for my theatrical rituals.

The scripts of my dramas (and comedies) are usually self-generated, sometimes recorded, and sometimes improvisational.  Sometimes I pull a ritual such as the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram from a book.  Some of the rituals that I perform are derived from the Abydos Passion Play.  THese rituals usually reference Teutonic gods and goddesses.  The most empowering ritual that I have performed was above the Parthenon.  The punch line was:  "Osiris, slain and risen!"  Another line was:  "You are young again, and you live."  Here is an example of one of myself-written recorded rituals from one of my books of shadows:

1.  Set up altar

2.  Light candles.

3.  Ground and center (yogic breathing).

4.  (Begin at North candle.  Walk clockwise once around area, pointing wand downward, slowly raising rod.  By the time the third pass is completed, the wand should be raised to the sky.)  While walking circle, first round, intone:

(North) Black and red, white and gold

(East) Rising circle taking hold

(South) New moon's blessing bright and clean

(West) Full moon's magic sight unseen.

Second Pass:

N:  North is earth, and east is air.

E:  Mighty ones, attend me here.

S:  South is fire and west the sea.

W:  Ancient ones, please be with me.

Third Pass:

N:  Rise, O circle, Queen's great cloak

E:  Hunter's might and Witch's Oath

S:  Planets spin and kiss the stars

W:  Hearken to the Witch's charge!

(Stationary @ North)

Make the magicK; make the change.

Nothing is beyond my range.

Between the worlds this circle sealed.

(Tap rod once)

And naught within shall be revealed.

As above and so below

As I say, it shall be so!

(Face North)

Ye elemental gates open here.

Bring your special powers here.

(facing North)

Earth!

(facing East)

Air!

(facing South)

Fire!

(facing West)

Water!

Hail, Mistress of the universe!

I, Pythia Parnassus, your daughter of the Craft of the Wise, do call thee forth and beseech you in mine own name as your earthly child, who is in need of your assistance.  Great Mother, lend me your ear in this situation:

O Mighty Lady of Light and Love, I come to you for guidance with humble supplication as your child.  My heart is troubled, and I trust my fate unto a mother's eyes.  My voice is like an unborn babe in your sea of a womb.  The seeds of my dreams are like the seeds that my Father, your lover, planted in the sky, as numerous as the stars.  Take charge of my course, and steady my will.  Please warn me of heartaches and keep me from danger, chiding me when I stray from Truth.  I offer my midsummer's eve pouch on this wintry eve.  The new moon is set, and the morrow is Lovers' Tryst.  I did slumber with this pouch beneath my pillow two seasons hence, and no dreams issued forth.  I beseech you to guide me to the safety of my intended's sight, and I implore that my love be selected by maternal sight.  You, in the crown of the stars with my heavenly father, take kindly to my request, I ask.  Please, under this red, red sky with the dreams of the new moon do make the tie.  As you delight in the face of my father, O Great Mother, bring my match to me.  Let his love be revealed by the light of your perfection.  In your wise craft, I do trust my selection.  As I will, so mote it be!

North star high

And earth below

Fidelity and love

Do bestow

As a mother's eye spies

A son of another

Reveal the disguise

Of my true lover

Set my heart in beats

Matching his own

Spirit lifting words

As works lift stone

(Arms to sky.)

All gratitude to Spirit!

(facing West)

Ye elemental gates,

Begin to close;

Your gifts were welcome;

Your energy goes.

(Walk clockwise once, sucking the energy into the rod or wand.)

(Walk widdershins, lowering wand from sky to ground.)

(@ North)

This circle is open,

But never broken.

So mote it be!

(Conclude with a libation and witch's cakes.)

So, that is what the scripting is about in my personal rituals.  As for the audience, it is small.  My family and friends witness these rituals, and each observer gets a gift, usually a glow in the dark necklace.  I have had friends ask me to include them in a ritual at times.  In such a case, I write a script that is appropriate for what the seeker needs, as in prosperity or love.

These rituals are essential for my life.  They are my own book of dreams, desires, passions, and petitions.

Blessed be!