So Mote It Be Bumper Sticker

So mote it be is how the craft closes: the phrase that seals a working the way amen seals a prayer, inherited into modern practice from Masonic usage and carried back, by that route, to the oldest English ways of saying so may it be. Wiccan ritual ends on it, spellwork signs off with it, and the words have become the practice's most recognizable declaration, which makes them a natural bumper sticker: the seal of the working, riding where the traffic can read it. It suits the practitioner whose car already knows what they are. The sticker seals nothing on its own, as we say plainly of the vinyl shelf; it announces the practice's amen, and the workings stay the practitioner's.