Whether or not you know it, the entire time you have followed this ritual, you have been raising energy.  Everyone of us who have followed the ritual has also formed a spiritual bond with each other,  only for this moment. Now when the High Priestess decides enough energy has been raised. She will clap her hands and you are to direct that energy inward.

Repeating the words:

Ripen fruit, ripen seed
Harken to my inner need