your bed, or can be extended to include your house and property. It will dissipate by dawn and you can walk through it without causing problems if necessary (like to go to the bathroom).
This ritual is great for a lot of things besides just going to sleep :). It's a particularly powerful form of banishing/cleansing ritual both for an area and yourself.
Sleep circle:
Fifteen years' worth of students doing psychic stuff out there -- not a single one harmed while sleeping in a circle. Several were troubled when they forgot or neglected to circle the bed, tho...
Oh, for those of you severely into doggerel, it goes:
Conjure circle round the bed
Where I lay my weary head
That in its gold and silver light
I will spend a peaceful night.
So Mote It Be.
Free e-books (can be downloaded):
John Yarker - The Anglo Saxon ChronicleEdward Smedley - The Occult Sciences
William Frederick Poole - Cotton Mather And Salem Witchcraft
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