The Little Jar of Sand

 Want to safeguard your house or property against negativity?  Do this:
What you need:  Sand, jar with lid (if you have an Earthen Jar, that's even
better).
What to do:  Relax.  Pour the sand in the jar.  Recite this incantation
while visualizing the jar absorbing ALL negativity and warding all negative
entities from your property:
"Little jar of sand,
Protect my dwelling land
From all evil and from all I can't stand!
Little Jar of sand,
Confound all evil who enter my land
Protect me all you can,
Oh little jar of sand!"
Place the Jar of Sand outside somewhere hidden or place it in a prominent
place near the front door.

Anger or another negative emotion inside eating you up?  Burn it up! What you need:  Candle,  Paper, Pencil & Fire-Proof Container.
What to do:  Relax as much as you can.  Light the candle and place it on a table.  Put the heat proof container nearby.  It should be large enough to hold a piece of burning paper.  Sit at the table and take the piece of paper and pencil in your hand and write a letter about how your feeling.  Write about why you are feeling that way.  Pour all your heart and soul into writing this.  Be very specific and focus on the feeling while you are writing this letter.  If someone/something caused you to feel this way, you may start it out with Dear So-and-So if you so wish.  After you  have completed the letter (it can be longer then 1 piece of paper) take it and
catch it on fire with the candle.  Put it in the heatproof container and gaze into the flames.  See all your hurt, anger, sorrow, etc. being burned up by the cleansing flames.  Visualize this until there are no longer any flames or glowing embers left.  Repeat with 2nd paper if the letter is longer than 1 piece of paper. Remember to take your time when writing the letter.  There is no rush. :)  Snuff the candle when finished.

   Note: this ritual is an action whose end result affects another.    Please make sure the recipient of these healing energies actually
   wants them.

   Special Tools
   Three white candles
   A picture of the recipient (If you don't have one, write the
   recipient's name and birthdate on a piece of paper, and visualize  him/her)
   A quartz crystal (optional)
   Rose, Eucalyptus, Gardenia or Peppermint incense, for healing

   The Irish Goddess Brigid is a healing Goddess, as is the Sumerian  Goddess Nanna. You can invoke Her with either of these names before this rite for extra healing power.

   The Ritual
 Light the candles in a semi-circle in front of you.  Place the incense off to one side, and place the picture inside the
semi-circle, facing you, with the crystal on it.  Breathe deeply to center and then raise energy however works best for
you - chanting, singing, drumming, dancing, whatever  When you have reached your peak energy, direct it to the picture or
the piece of paper. I find it helpful to direct the energy through my  fingertips, visualizing a healing blue-white light streaming through  me and into the recipient.  Directing it through a piece of quartz enhances the distance the  energy can travel.
Visualize the candles forming a protective ring of fire around the  recipient, blocking all harm and pain.  Visualize the healing light coming through you and finding the source  of the illness or pain in the recipient, coating it, relieving the  pain and filling the recipient with energy and life. You probably will be very tired after this, so eat a piece of fruit or  bread and drink some juice or wine to ground and revive yourself.  Thank the Goddess, if you invoked her  It is done

     Invocation to the Goddess:

         " Gracious Goddess, You who are Queen of the Gods The lamp of night
          The creator of all that is wild and free; Mother of women and men
          Lover of the Horned God and protectress of all of the Wiccan;
          Descend, I pray, With your lunar ray of power Upon my circle here!"
 

     Invocation to the God:

          "Blazing God, You who are the king of the Gods Lord of the Sun
           Master  of all that is wild and free; Father of women and men Lover of the
          Moon Goddess and protector of all of the Wiccan; Descend, I pray,
          With you solar ray of power upon my circle here!"

Follow whoever it is you wish to love and when they step into a piece of  soil and leave their footprint scoop up the dirt and put it into a flower pot. Plant a sunflower in the pot and as the flower grows so will his/her love for you!

Bless this home and keep it free
of Harm, Bane, Negativity
Let it be filled with Love and Light
For those who dwell and who might
visit here, so let it be
This is my will
so mote it be

Aisling Sidhe MoonDolphin 7-23-00

use a White Candle for clarity and Truth and A Black one to absorb Deception, falsehood, or anything that would cloud my vision.  Use whatever incense and/or oil you think corresponds. My favorites are Sage and Dragons Blood

Cast your circle, call the quarters and say:

    "Light & Shadows
    Smoke & Mirrors,
    Remove These Things
    That I may see Clear
    Let no more deception
    Be hidden from me
    This is my will
    So mote it be"

Light the candles with their purpose in mind and sit and meditate until you feel collected and the confusion feels settled. Let the candles burn down and return the wax to nature.

WHEN LIFE HAS FAILED YOU:
To remove a condition, whether self imposed or inflicted by another, you need a black candle and 12 straight pins. Stick the pins in various positions on the candle until all the pins are used. Pour Saturn oil on the candle and burn the candle in a bowl of Goofer dust and Asafoetida. Burn an incense mixture of Agrimony, Mars incense,Star anise and John the conqueror incense and say over the candle as it burns:

    " Burn incense,
    Burn consume this curse,
    and turn the evil back,
    remove and defeat the lack,
    Burn candle burn,
    Turn candle turn,
    Remove the spears,
    Consume the fears."

As the candle burns the pins will fall, and the wax will mix with the powders. When all the candle has burned, Take all the wax, pins and powder and place in a plastic bag. Throw the bag in the ocean or burn far from your home..( for ecological reasons, I would place the leavings in a paper bag, especialy if throwing in the ocean. We wouldn't want sea animals getting hurt).

    " As this candle burns,
    so the illness turns,
    melted like this wax,
    cut like with an ax,
    remove and banished,
    all disabilities vanished,
    as my word you see,
    radiant health blessed be."

let the candle burn until done. Then bury ashes from incense and leftover wax.

    "Oh as I declare,
    Cleaning and despair,
    I call on you, Oh Goddess of the moon,
    Clean me and remove all despair,
    As I worship you."

Do this at least three nights in a row, and all jinxes or hexes will be removed. To make it stronger, as you dry yourself off with a fresh towel, stand in the moon's rays and repeat this chant: " If you belive it, it shall be."

PRAYER FOR PROTECTION
    "I dwell in the bright divine light,
    all goodness is attracted to me for my highest good.
    I am attuned with divine love and divine goodness,
    I give thanks for the divine light."

Things you need:
1 white working candle
1 burnt yellow candle anointed (anoint with the intention of bringing confidence)
Frankencense Incense
1 Flourite crystal (one that you feel attracted to--a size that you can carry in your pocket)
1 Quartz crystal (one that you feel attracted to--a size that you can carry in your pocket)
1 bottle of Rosemary Essential Oil
1 bottle of Lavender Essential Oil
1 Mirror (preferably hand held and one only used for magickal workings--if you purchase a new one, make sure you cleanse and consecrate it before you use it)
(If doing as a ritual...bring what ever you usually use to cast, cleanse and consecrate your circle.  Also have candles for each of the quarters.)
Go to your special place where you will not be disturbed.

Light your working (white) candle and incense. (If doing as a Ritual...cast your circle and call the quarters) Sit breathing deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth. Clear your mind of the outside world.  When you are ready.... Light the yellow candle while saying:

    "I will the forces of energy within this candle to flow freely throughout my being.
    I am at peace with my ability to succeed.  I bathe my mind and body with the light of confidence. "

Sit breathing deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth..see the energy flowing through your body bringing peace and confidence. Hold the Fluorite in your left hand annoint with 1 drop of Lavender Essential Oil while saying:

    "I will the forces of energy within this Fluorite to flow freely thoughout my being.
    May my conscience mind always recognize the confidence I possess."

Place the annointed Fluorite in your left pocket.  Sit breathing deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth..see
the energy flowing through your body bringing peace and confidence. Hold the Quartz in your left hand annoint with 1 drop of Rosemary Essential Oil while saying:

    "I will the forces of energy within this Quartz to flow freely thoughout my being.
    May my the power of this crystal bring the positive change of confidence into my being."

Sit breathing deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth..see the energy flowing through your body bringing peace and confidence. Place the annointed Quartz in your left pocket Hold the mirror and gaze into your eyes and say:

    "I will the energy contained within the universe to heal, harmonize, and balance my being.
    I am at peace with my ability to suceed.
    The universe will always provide me with the necessarry information to attain greatness.
    I bathe my body and mind with an aura of confidence.
    May light and love surround and protect me in all my endevors.  As I will it....So Mote It Be."

Let your confidence candle burn out on its own (only if in a safe fire proof location) If you called quarters & cast a circle....Please thank the quarters and take disperse your circle as normal.

Controlling a Situation  by Lady Ravens Lair
You need a brown candle, oil, parchment paper, and a black pen.
1) Write down your situation on the paper, underneath it write the outcome
2) Annoint the candle with oil
3) Put the paper under the candle, then light the candle
4) Visualize your problem and it being solved (meditate on it for awhile)
5) Let the candle burn itself out

Find a place to be alone. This place should be comfortably lit and free of smoke and fumes (this includes incense and essential oils).
Place two chairs (one comfortable enough to relax in) facing each other. Sit in the relaxing chair. Take two slow, deep breaths and
allow your eyes to fall naturally on the other chair. Now instruct your central 'self' (or your higher self, subconsious mind, or
whatever you use for non-consious workings) to form an image of the pain in that chair. REMEMBER TO BREATHE! As the image starts to appear, concentrate on making it as detailed as possible without letting your consious mind interfeare. Once the image is complete, note its appearance and then allow the remainder of your discomforts to flow into it (without otherwise empowering it or lending it your energy or essence). REMEMBER TO BREATHE while doing this. When the transfer is substantially complete, take two deep, relaxing breaths, stand up, and walk away (leaving the image in its chair). After an hour or so, the image will dissipate, making it safe to move the chair.. After you have successfully done this two or three times, you can start streamlining it and customizing it to suit your own tastes. If the effectiveness starts to fade, return to this method for a few times.

This spell can be used for a variety of discomforts, but it can also mask medical symptoms. In case of chronic or prolonged problems, CONSULT A DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY! 

You need:
· Money Drawing Oil
· A green beeswax Candle
· Candle Holder
· Three shiny dimes or other small silver coins
· A small piece of Malachite
· Pine or Patchouli Incense
· Incense holder
· A small table, shelf or North facing windowsill
· A green silk table cloth or a piece of green silk at least 1' x 1'
· Best time and day: Thursday at sunrise during a new or crescent waxing moon
· The spell has to be performed with lots of concentrated energy and without interruptions.

Preparation:
Have a refreshing shower and put your best power suit/dress on. Make sure that you are rested and alert. Have a light breakfast or at least drink a glass of juice before you begin.

The spell:
At sunrise, anoint the candle from top to middle and from bottom to middle with the oil, all the while  imagining money raining onto you from above. Facing North, place the candle in the holder on the table or shelf covered with the green silk. Place the coins next to the candle.  Set the Malachite in front of it.  Place the incense in the holder set it on the table and light it. Light the candle while saying:

    "Money, money come to me
    as I will so mote it be.
    And so it is."

Sit and watch the flame for at least 10 minutes, making plans how you will spend the money, knowing it will soon come. Let the candle burn for another hour or until it is spent.  Bury the coins in the ground.  Soon you will have a monetary gain.

Methods for Causing Rain

Use concentration and visualization. Actually feel the rain in the air before it comes. (Optional- Light orange candle.) Chant 3 times:

    "Oh Father Sky, Blessed of thy ages, Bring rain down, Onto thy sacred places."

A Spell to Bring Rain
By: Celedriel leFay
http://members.tripod.com/Celedriel2/faery.html

To ask for rain, take a handful of water and throw it up in the air while chanting three times:

    "Rain, rain, come our way.
    Fill our skies, refresh our land
    I give you water from my hand..."

When the water is tossed into the sky, it releases the energy to begin working.

repeat this 10 times asaying faster and faster A whipering woman and a crowing hen are nither good for god nor man

Take a feather you have found
Plant it firmly in the ground
Legend has it, so they say
That those winds will fade away!

Look at the Clouds and Chant 3 or 7 times:

            "Clouds of White up in the skies
             Cover the sun keep us dry"

 Wait for a few minutes and the sun will be covered. (Usally this spell is done when its HOT)

Get a rag, some water, and a stone.Dip the rag in the water and knock it on the stone once and say:

    "I knock this rag upon this stone,
    To raise the Winds in the Devil's name,
    It shall not lye till I please again!"

Do this 3 times.

In a dark place, or at night, set two parallel rows of candles,width the space of your outstretched arm for about 20 to 30 feet,
about a foot between candles, they must be white candles  fresh and never used before, after the aprox 20 feet make a circle of candles with circumference the same as the width of your arms outstretched the circle must be southern most. Light all the candles
except a few between the "path" between rows hold with you a white candle, lit same as the others you must also be wearing all white clothes light the candles after doing so (you did leave the ones in the path unlit right?)  kneel before the path to the south, ask for a blessing from the gods for your spell Walk with the lit candle slowly  until you get to the circle stepping over the unlit ones, turn, now facing the north, light the candles that were unlit. (ideally 3 there) blow out the candle in your hands, and look at the smoke it makes, feeling your old eye color float away with it you can sit or stand at this point in whatever direction feels comfortable.  Close your eyes and feel with your spirit all the candles of the circle and the path focus the light in your eyes shift it to the color you want your eyes when you feel the color staying a feeling of completeness open your eyes blow out the 3 candles to your north and exit the circle Use the candle that you walked with to relight the 3 candles and blow it out once more walk down the path feeling the power around you until you get out of the path kneel once more to the south thank the gods for their attendance and one by one in the order you lit them extinguish the candles

Ingredients:

*3 orange candles (change and attraction) or red candles (energy and attraction) *Hand mirror or free-standing mirror
 

On a Friday during the Waxing Moon Gather the ingredients above go to a place where you can be undisturbed for at least 15 minutes Light the three candles and place them in a triangle shape upon your altar Allow yourself to become calm and centered
When you feel ready place your hands over your hair  close your eyes Visualize the color of your hair fading and fading becoming white as the color drains from it Hold the color within your hands Slowly lower your hands above the candles  focus it into their flames Allow the color to transform within the flames becoming your desired hair color Hold your hands over the flames soak up the energy Place your hands over your head again allow the color to return to your hair turning it the color you desire Say the following charm:

    "Fire warm and Fire red,
    Charm the hair upon my head.
    Fire dance and Fire shine,
    From _____ to _____, this wish is mine.
    As I will, it now shall be,
    By Fire, Water, Wind, and Tree."

With this, open your eyes and look at your reflection If your hair has changed it will last only a couple of minutes or more
depending on how much energy you put into the spell If the spell was not successful the first time try it again another night It takes much practice and ability to focus energy for this spell to be truly successful

 If you wish to have a vision true,
 then put together this witches brew.
 Mix this oil, this sacred potion,
 charged with power and devotion,
 filled with Marigold, Rosemary, Clove,
 Mugwort, Lavendar, Jasmine and Rose.
 Make an incense of the same,
 to ignite the mind, the mystic flame.
 Smudge with incense and anoint with oil,
 to cleanse yourself of mortal toil.
 Chant this chant to start your mission,
 as a trigger for your vision:

 Vision, Sight and deep perception,
 mystic light and meditation,
 trance or conscious
 my eyes shall see,
 the other side shall come to me.

 Now sit in thought, in meditation,
 lost in mind, in consentration,
 wait for the vision that you desire
 to come to you within the hour.

 *One old wart cure consists of measuring a wart crosswise with a broom  straw, then burying the straw. The straw, so intimately connected with  the wart, will decay, and so too should the blemish.

 *Placing a broom across any doorway allows your departed friends and  family to speak to you if they so choose. As long as the broom remains  in place, they can communicate freely.

 *If you feel as though you are being followed and haunted by  unfriendly ghosts, stepping over a broomstick will prevent them from  disturbing you.

 Altar Candle
 Day Candle Ex: Monday-white, Tuesday-red.
 Offertory Candles: 3 Violet Candles, 3 White Candles

 Something cleansed to inscribe candles(or whatever you may use)  Crystal ball or clear glass of water  Incense (anise, cardamom, and coriander)  Oil (jasmine, lemon, rose and sandalwood  Best done during the Mercury hour of the day, although any hour should work.  Any moon phase is o.k. Prepare your ritual bath as usual & climb on in.  Breath deeply and build a ball of protective light around you, while soaking  in your ritual bath, meditate on the whole ritual: the steps you will take  and what you wish to say to your spirit guide when you make contact. Enter  the circle in the Hour of Mercury. Light the incense. With the oil, dress  the Altar Candle and the Day candle while concentrating on the purpose of  the ritual. Light your Altar Candle and Day Candle and state your intent:

    "I  am here to make contact with my Spirit Guide, and to acknowledge him or her."

 Inscribe Violet Candle #1 with the word "Spirit". Dress it with oil. Light  the Violet Candle #1, direct your energies into it and say:

    "Here do I light the first Lamp of Spirit.
     May its light reach out across the barriers from this world to the next.
     May it make contact with that world of Spirit into which we will eventually  enter."

 Take your censer or incense wand and swing it around, sensing the whole area  around the altar while rhythmically repeating the word "Merge" and building  up energy to focus. Replace the censer and pick up Violet Candle #2.  Inscribe it with the word "Spirit" and dress it with oil. Put it back on the  altar, light it and say:

     "Here do I light the second Lamp of Spirit.
     May its light also reach out across the barriers from this world to the  next.
     May it make contact with that World of Spirit and help spread the light,
     illuminating the passageway between our worlds."

 Again take the censer or incense wand and sense the entire area around while  chanting the word "Merge." Build up your energy to focus. Take Violet Candle  #3, inscribe it with the word "Spirit", dress it with oil, charge with your  energy, light it and say:

     "Here do I light the third Lamp of Spirit.
     May the light from these three lamps blend and grow,
    dispelling all darkness and lighting the way that my Spirit Guide may come to me and speak with me here today."

 Inscribe the three white candles with the word "Truth" and anoint each candle with oil. Light the three candles in the order of 1, 2, 3, and say:

    "Here do I build Truth.
     As these candles burn throughout this ritual,
     their power generating nothing but truth in all that transpires between this world and the next.
     Through these candles there is truth in all communications that come to me."

 Again sense the altar area while chanting "Merge." Replace the censer and  continue chanting. Sit comfortably while chanting, and gaze into the crystal  ball, or the clear glass of water. Continue chanting until you feel it is  right to let the chant taper off. Continue to quietly look into the crystal ball or glass, not trying to picture anything. Keep your mind blank, so whatever comes will appear and will come in it's own free will. Gaze into the center of the crystal, there is no need to try not to blink. Look into the crystal and blink naturally. Try not to notice anything in your peripheral vision, just the center of the crystal. Eventually a face or figure will appear. This may take a long time, or it may appear almost immediately. If it doesn't come at all within approximately 20 minutes,
 abandon this attempt, extinguish the candles in the order in which they were lit, leave the altar set up, and try this ritual again in three days. You should have results within a month at most. When a figure does appear, ask if he/she is your Spirit Guide. You will hear an answer, you may not hear it out, loud or even see the figures lips move, but you will be aware of the answer. This is how most conversations will proceed. You will ask your question's mentally (or out loud) and the answer will be clear inside your
 mind. Ask if you have more than one Spirit Guide. If yes, ask them to appear also. You may ask anything you wish to know, but it is better to establish a connection first where your Spirit Guide may appear to you at any time, or at specific times, so that you can converse with any other spirits through him/her. When you have finished speaking with your guide, thank him/her, and then sit for a moment with your eyes closed, meditating on all that you have learned. Extinguish the candles in reverse order to clear the circle.

 O Lady of Shimmering beauty,
  For whom the stars are shining jewels
  And the Universe Her creation and plaything,
  Weaver of destinies
 And protectress of things wild and free.
  Make me now, I do ask
  To be thy daughter.
  Make me one with thee
  And grant me thy far-flung power.
  Grant to this, thy Witch and Sorceress
  Strength within and without
  As eternal as the boundless sea;
  The calm assurance of my powers
  To make any do my bidding
  And the winds, waters, and fires,
  The hills themselves
  Lend willingly themselves to me,
  Give to me, who am of thy ancient Craft
  The wisdom of ages, the lore of eons
  Knowledge of light, knowledge of dark.
  Grant me beauty ever more perfect
  That I may reflect thee better.
  Build magick within me,
  Build power within me.
  Power be drawn, and power come,
  And make me one with thee
  Make me greater, make me better.
  Grant me strength and grant me power.
  O Goddess who is my friend and mother,
  I give you love and thanks
  O Beautiful One.
  May the magic I have summoned
  Return the stronger when I have need of it.
  May wisdom, strength, comliness and compassion
  Remain with me, growing ever finer.
  So mote it be!
 

 ~source unknown

Earth that gave us all this food
Sun that made it ripe and good
Dearest Earth,
Dearest Sun,
We will not forget what you have done.

 TRUTH REVEALED SPELL

 Moon and tide save help me now,
 I seek the truth here not yet found,
 For underneath the fog there lies,
 New possiblities for I,
 So let this night be unlike others,
 And let the noble show their colors,
 And let the meek and cowards run,
 For now the moon seeks out her sun,
 And by the power that is three,
 So as I will it, so mote it be.
 
 

 TRUTH SPELL
 Waxing moon - a spell to inspire honesty.
 You will need:
 A tall, deep-blue candle
 peony or lavender oil
 parchment (or paper if unavailable)

 On a waxing moon, anoint the candle with the fragrance of lavender or peony  by the purest moonlight. By this same moonlight - and this light only - inscribe the name of your lover  on parchment. Still by moonlight,use the name-paper as a taper to light the
 candle. Place the candle upon a fireproof surface, away from a window or  curtain, and rest while the candle burns low. As you lay down your head that  night, ask that your love be open and honest of his actions; ask that he  leave off flirtation and reveal true feelings for you if he has them. Before  a week has passed you will have a sign of his true regard.

Take a small clear crystal, an acorn, some rosemary and mandrake and a bit of green silk or cotton. It doesn't need to be a big piece. Cast your circle and creating a pouch from the herbs, bless them with each element saying

"While this dwells within, there will be protection without. Cleanse and charge this charm, element of against all who wish me ill!"

Now hang this somewhere not too obviously, like hiding it in a corner or over a window. This will protect you til next Samhain when you should burn it in the sacred fire, crystal and all. If it is not too tainted, the fire will just cleanse the crystal and you'll be able to retreive it from the ashes but I always recomend just getting a new one.

This is spell for people (like your's truly) with too many bills. You will need two green candles, one gold candle, a soft incense, and a fire proof container. Light the candles and meditate on how wonderful it would be to be without bills. Start with the bill you want paid off the most and move down the list of bills from there. On a blank piece of paper make up a statement that looks roughly like the bill. Write the total amount of the bill down and whatever else you need to make the bill seem real to you. Concentrate on this for a minute imagining that amount of money. This can be done by imagining a check written out for that amount or by imagining counting out that amount of money to the most evil bill collectors. Write with a red pen or marker across the bill in large letters
"Paid in full". Then burn the bill and say "As I will it so mote it Be!" Of course the money will not immediatly appear in your hand but I've notice that whenever I do this spell something always comes my way to help me out financially.

   Mix a tea of roses, Damiana, Ginger, Dong quai, Coriander, & Primrose  flowers.   Place the dry herbs in a green glass jar and place on your altar. On a night of Venus (Friday), take a bath in Lovage roots and Rose petals, dry   yourself and rub Musk oil into your skin.   Go to your altar nude and light a pink candle anointed with Venus Oil and   burn some Aura of Enchantment Incense. Place a small mirror on the  altar, gaze into it deeply and say,

   "Soft, my skin as Diana's
   Smoldering eyes as Aradia,
   Sensuous as a Goddess.
   Figures of fire that shift and change,
   Change me, now,
   To a creature of beauty,
   Blessed b the Goddess of Love.

   Repeat each night for 7 nights, leaving the tea on the altar until the spell is finished, then drink a cup daily and wash your face with rose water upon waking.

Items:
* Hyssop oil
* a bunch of daisies
* a green cloth
* 1 meter of red ribbon
* a green dinner candle
* a bank note in any currency worth about $1 in Us

Procedure:

Work this spell on a waxing moon & preferably on a Thursday.

* First prepare your alter by burning some hyssop oil and placing some freshly cut daisies on the green cloth.
*Wind the red ribbon around your middle finger of right hand and place on your breast.
*Concentrate all your force on a busy prosperous earning period ahead but don't allow greed to your head.
*Take the green candle and anoint with hyssop oil, then light the candle with the money and say,

    "Within one week, those things we seek will come within our power.
    All worries go and money flow in plenty from this hour"

* let the candle burn down safely during the day and just keep the stub (2.5cm) tied with ribbon in a bow for a week after the spell somewhere near or on the alter with the flowers

Herb baths are made by making tea of the herb, and using the tea in the bath. Generally, you take 1 teaspoon of the herb desired and pour a cup of boiling water over it. Steep until the tea cools to room temperature. Then strain out the herb. One cup of tea to half a tub of water is sufficient. Proceed with the bath using the directions previously discussed.

Basil
Regular cooking basil, either fresh or dried, may be used in a bath. It has a protective and cleansing effect, removing negativity and protecting against the accumulation of further negative influences. It has a powerful effect on certain people. It should be used when you feel threatened by others, victimized or soiled by contact with negative or overly-aggressive people. When using this bath, meditate on spiritual cleanliness and protection. Stay in the bath for 6 minutes and immerse yourself four times.

Cinnamon
Regular cooking cinnamon, in broken stick form, may be used to help resolve problems at work or at home. pour a cup of hot water over one or two sticks and let it steep as you would any other herb. It helps stop quarrels or dissension. It can also be used to improve your income. Stay in the tub for five minutes and immerse yourself four times. Meditate for protection and calmness, or for the improvement of your finances.

The Money Cinnamon Bath
Add 1 cup of cinnamon tea to 4 cups of parsley tea. Divide the mixture into five (5) equal parts. Take five (5) baths on five (5) consecutive days. Do a money spell for financial improvement. Don't be specific about the source of your financial improvement, but let the universe provide the answers. Stay in the tub for six to eight minutes and immerse yourself five (5) times.

Coffee
Coffee will assist in revitalizing an individual in the process of recovery from any physical illness. It may be used while the individual is still in a weakened condition, but recovering. This bath is an exception to most spiritual baths, in that if it is the FIRST tub bath taken after the onset of an illness, the coffee can de added to a soap and water cleaning bath. All you do is add three (3) to six (6) cups of strong coffee to the bath water and soak in it for at least ten (10) to fifteen (15) minutes. Please respect your bath, and make the coffee from scratch. This is not the time for any instant brand!

Coffee Hard Work Bath
The coffee bath, made by using three (3) to six (6) cups of strong coffee added to the bath water is also useful as a soaking bath following an extra-hard work week. It has the effect of assisting the natural vitality. As a HARD WORK BATH it should only be taken on a Saturday morning. Soak for at least eight (8) to ten (10) minutes.

Depression baths
If you regard these baths as a spiritual act and get involved as much as you can (you put all your heart into it) the results will be amazing. The bath tub has to be cleaned prior to taking the bath, the bathroom also should be clean and cleansed (smudge the bathroom with frankincense or sage). Take your time in arranging the tools you're going to be using (once again candles, essential oils, colors - food coloring if you want - crystals, music). After the bath DO NOT take a shower and don't wash your hair for 24 hours.

NUTMEG
"Powdered nutmeg used in a tea makes people more open to listening to you. It is said to increase one's luck, but what it really does is remove those negative thoughts which act to make you unlucky. The powdered nutmeg may be strained away from the tea by using a coffee filter. This is the kind of bath that helps one during times of personal stress such as that engendered when approaching an important interview, or when one is apprehensive about the result of an upcoming important conversation. It can be used when you are apprehensive about such important conversations as discussing your "druthers" with a mate who has been heretofore unresponsive to your needs. It can be used when discussing family matters with relatives who you feel will be unresponsive. It has a host of uses. Obviously, you will need to use it because you have been unsure about expressing your personality. As you take other baths listed here, and develop more self-confidence, you won't have as much need for this kind of a bath. Use a cup of the tea in your bath. Stay in the tub for 8 to 10 minutes and immerse yourself 6 to 8 times. You may wish to pray for the resolve and strength you need to obtain what you desire."

Love spell

Tie five chestnuts together with a red string, three knots between each nut, and as you tie each knot recite:

"I tie this knot to snare the heart of (name)
Let her (or him) neither sleep nor rest
Until she (or he) turns to me."

take a piece of paper  and write  {this is done as it was in the e-mail - I hope this hasn't been messed up in the e-mail}:

                                    s
                                t           t
                                         o                      o
                                     p                               p
                              o                     o

                                                t           t
                                                     s

in the middle draw a pentagram and touch it to the place where it hurts then burn the paper  and dispose of it

At night time light a small fire in a cauldron or what ever you have available to contain the fire. Write on a piece of paper that is 3 inches x 3 inches, the words BAD LUCK. Then write down any bad things you do not like in your life right now. Then draw a big X across the paper with a black marker. While doing this you should be thinking of how all these things are going to disappear from your life, never to return!  Place the paper in the fire and repeat the following words 3 times...

"Fire, fire burning bright
turn my darkness into light!
Take away my bad luck ill,
bring me nothing but goodwill.
Bad luck came and stayed to long,
be gone forever, be gone, be gone!
With this fire burning bright,
bring me good luck, bring me light!"
"SO MOTE IT BE!"

After repeating these words 3 times, sit for a few minutes and concentrate on the bad luck being gone and the good luck coming your way! When you are done extinguish the fire.

When the Moon is Waning, go outside and open your arms to Her. Silentlycommunicate your problems--how badly people treat you, how you can't seem to get ahead, and all the other rotten stuff that has been going onwith you. When you can think of nothing else to tell the Moon, say  thischarm:

Moon of finest silver, wane,
Take with you bad luck and bane.
As you fade into the night,
Bring new hope back into sight.

Go inside and straight to bed. When you awake the next morning, know that your troubles will cease and new hope will abound as the Old Moon disappears in the sky.

Change Your Luck Nutmeg Bath
From the book "Everyday Magic" by Dorothy Morrison

Though this bath is said to change luck, what it really does is cleanse the aura of the negativity that draws bad luck. It will also make others more accepting of your ideas, whims, and wants. Use it before employment interviews, important discussions, or before meetings with those you feel may be unresponsive. Using a coffee filter, place 6 teaspoons of ground nutmeg in the filter cup of the coffee maker. Add one cup of water and let the tea brew. When it is cool, draw a warm bath and add the liquid. Stay in the tub for ten minutes and totally immerse yourself six to eight times. With each immersion, think or say:

"Change of luck, come to me, As I will, so mote it be!"

Let your body dry naturally

Reverse any negativity or hex being sent your way. Annoint a purple candle with Rosemary Oil. On a piece of white paper
write the following in black ink: "All blocks are now removed." Fold the paper three times. Light the candle and burn the paper in a bowl, ashtray or any fireproof dish. Invoke the power of fire and it's elemental spirits. Repeat three times: "Firedrakes and salamanders, aid me in my quest, protect me from all evil forms, turn back the negativity being sent." After the third repetition say, "So mote it be."

If you feel you or your family has been cursed for a day or generations, use this spell to remove it.

1. Take a black skull candle annointed with spell breaker oil ( if skull is not available, use image or a black cat candle). Burn for 8 nights, starting at the full moon. Burn for 15 minutes a night while you concentrate on the evil being burned away.

2. On the 8th night, in the crevice of the skull made by the burning wax, place these herbs; Agrimony, dill, rue, Five finger grass(
cinquefoil), St. John's wort, and wormwood.

3. On top of these herbs place a seal of mephistopheles and seal all, the herbs and the seal with the drippings from a white candle. When the herbs are tightly sealed in the skull candle put the candle in a grey bag or some grey material and sprinkle with Graveyard dust and Goofer dust. Take it to a graveyard and bury it. That particular type of spell will be broken forever and no new evil spell of that type can be placed upon you or your family ever again.. ( I don't know just what goofer dust is myself, if anyone can help? ) Chandralin

From: Protection spells and charms by Jade

  Anoint a pink or red Image Candle of the lost one and inscribe his/her name on it. Burn the candle, and when completed, bury it in a new flowerpot. Also in the flowerpot place some hair, blood or nail clipping from the person you wish to bring back. Plant a sunflower.       Wrap with an article of clothing belonging to the person around the pot. Water every day.     As the plant grows, so will the love of the one you wish to bring back.
 

TO BRING A LOVED ONE BACK...

#1 Take his picture and with four pins, pin it facing against the back of the headboard, so the face looks "through the headboard" at the sleeper. That will fix his mind on you.
 

 #2 Take his or her photograph and place it face down on a table. Place a red candle on top of it. Burn red candles on it for three hours in the evening and three hours in the morning for six days. Turn the picture face up and continue the candle burning ritual for three more days. This will bring the person back.
 

 #3 Take the man's photograph and place it over the top of a small glass of water and put the glass under your bed. That will bring him back across the water to your bed.

 #4 After sunset, write the man's name on each of four pieces of paper at the four corners of your house. Put the pieces of paper under your pillow before you go to bed. Every night for eight nights thereafter, write his name on each of four pieces of paper at each of the four corners of your house and sleep on them. He will come back.

Ingredients:
Small, clean, jar such as a baby food jar
Honey. Enough to fill the small jar
Paper. A small strip that will fit in the jar
Pen. To write the person(s) name on small strip of paper
Candle. To drip on jar lid for sealing
 

All products connected with bees have magical powers (bees-wax, honey, pollen, royal jelly, propolis). It is believed that any bee product can hold and deliver a magical message or prayer. Best to do this on a full moon but can be done during the waxing. Write the name of the person or just men/women, people in general on the strip of paper. Place the paper inside the small jar. Now fill the jar with the honey. While you do this concentrate on your intent. Visualize the person or persons being kind to you the way you would like them to be. Now close the jar with the lid and seal it with wax. Place the jar on your altar or somewhere where it will be untouched. Every month re-charge the jar by placing it in the sun for a day. You'll want to bury the jar and refresh the spell with a
new jar about every 6 months or so.

carry a clear quartz crystal that has been empowered with this chant:

Magical power, rise and grow!
Be housed inside this crystal stone,
So I can use it as I need.
As I will, so mote it be!

As I lay snuggled in bed,
Pillow tucked beneath my head,
Maiden, bring me joyful dreams.
Mother, bring me peace serene.
Wisest Crone watch over me.
Until the light of dawn, I see.
And let me wake up safe and sound
Each day to this Earth, I'm bound.

materials:
--picture of the person (you are doing the warning spell about)
--small mirror
--glue

-Glue the picture face down on the mirror and say:

"Nerthus, my prayers heed.
The harm (name of that person here) intended, return times three.
Let him/her know first hand what he/she did to me.
Let my heart heal, and from sadness be freed."

Materials:
a thing of bubbles

"Bubbles, bubbles, away now fly.
Release my anger as they rise!
As they float away from me,
Anger gone, so mote it be!"

(you can change "anger" to anything...aka- depression, hopelessness, tension, etc. whatever you want to get rid of.)

You will need the following ingredients:
Strawberry tea (one bag)
Some salt (sea salt if you can get it!)
2 pink candles
a mirror
one pink drawstring bag
one quartz crystal
a copper penny
a bowl that is somehow special to you
1 teaspoon dried jasmine, rose, or strawberry leaves
Some rose, strawberry, or cinnamon oil

Charge all ingredients first by infusing them with your personal energy. On a Friday morning or evening, when the moon is either new or waxing and close to being new, take a bath with a small handful of salt in it, in the light of a pink candle. As you dry off and dress, sip the strawberry tea. Apply makeup or groom yourself to look your best. Cast a circle around a table with the other ingredients. Light the second pink candle. Mix all oils and herbs in the bowl. While you stir look at yourself in the mirror and say
aloud: "Oh, Great Mother Goddess, enclose me in your loving arms and nurture and bring forth the Goddess within me." Gaze deeply into the mirror after you have finished mixing the ingredients and say aloud,

        "I represent the Great Goddess, Mother of all things.
        I shine in the light of the Golden Wings of Isis. All that is great and loving only belongs to me."

Then put half the mixture in the pink bag and add the penny and crystal. Carry it with you always or until you find another love. Leave the other half of the potion in the bowl, out in a room where you will smell the fragrance.

place dried rose buds (not open ones), rue, lavender, jasmine, mistletoe and lady's mantle into a red or purple silk or cotton pouch. Tie it with a matching ribbon and while passing it through the smoke of some love/aphrodisiac incense say:

"pouch of mine
lovers hearts entwine
no more
Heal my heart
For we now part
goodbye
The pain I feel
I need to heal
be well"

This is a two-part spell I designed for people who have recently ended a relationship but feel that they just can't let go.
You will need: one egg
one pink candle
rose petals
lemon balm
honey
rose oil (optional)
Take the egg in one hand. Sit quietly and think about the relationship you have just ended, and your feelings about splitting up. Allow all your negative feelings, grief, frustration and loneliness to come to the surface. Cry, howl and bawl if you need to - the end of a relationship is like a death and you should allow yourself to grieve and not feel ashamed about it. While thinking about the relationship, take the egg and roll it gently over your face and forehead. Imagine that the egg is like a sponge which can soak
up your grief, your need, and all the negative emotions which are holding you back and dampening your spirits. Project all your unhappiness over the relationship into the egg and let it soak up all your negative feelings. When you feel that the egg has sucked up all your unhappiness and negative feelings over this broken relationship, take it to a plot of earth - preferably not your own garden - and bury it. If it must be on your property, bury it as far as possible from your house. Know that the negative feelings and depression you projected onto the egg are being absorbed and neutralised by the earth. Return to your house, preferably to your own bedroom or some place where you spend a lot of time. Make yourself some lemon balm tea with some of the rose petals, and sweeten it to taste with honey. Sprinkle the rest of the rose petals around the candle and yourself, if you have enough. Light the candle.
Imagine the warmth of the candle and the scent of the rose petals combining and filling the room with warmth, sweet rose scent and soft pink light. Let the pink light and scent fill you with loving warmth and comfortable feelings. If you have some, anoint your chest just over the heart with a little rose oil. Sip the lemon balm tea. Say quietly and with conviction:

'Gentle balm, soothe my heart
Bring to me your healing art'.

Imagine yourself surrounded by love and peace, sheltered from discomfort and loneliness. Know that you deserve love and that you are now free of your previous relationship and open to a new one. Gaze into the candle flame and imagine yourself happy and healed, living a joyful and fulfilling life without the person you have just broken up with.

Warding the Home

Supplies needed:
Rue (finely chopped or powdered is best)
Valerian root powder
Orris root powder
Asafetida powder
Kosher or sea salt

Instructions:
In a large bowl, mix equal amounts of rue, valerian root powder, orris root powder, and asafetida powder. Add to the mixture enough salt to equal the combined amounts of herbs. Mix well and consecrate. Starting at the Northernmost point of your property, move slowly counter-clockwise, sprinkling small amounts of the powder as you walk. Envision the powder marking the edges of an impenetrable bubble that rises  up to completely encompass your property. Say periodically,

"To they who think evil and plan evil, this house is invisible.
In its stead, they see only a grassy field and nothing more."

When you reach the Northernmost point again, sprinkle extra powder back and forth a few feet on either side of the point where you began, to reinforce  the seal in the "doorway" to your bubble.

Begin with a purification bath. Light the twin candles on the altar and burn a protective and/or cleansing incense. Fill your chalice with fresh water (be sure to consecrate it) and blessed salt. Kneel or assume the Goddess position as you say:

"Naked come I into this sanctuary
With love and faith
From those who have gone before.
Innocent am I in understanding
Holy and pure in my love of all good and blessed things.
Supreme Goddess, ruler of light,
Lord of all
Hear my prayer,
Help me now to dispel this thing of unholiness
This creature of darkness,
Who dooms itself to shame and unhappiness.
Save him if it is thy will to do so.
Send him to the light.
Mercy is the song I sing;
Forgiveness the word most precious.
In thy everlasting grace I say this.
In humility I ask this.
So mote it be."

Take up the chalice of salt-water, face the east wall, dip your fingers intothe water, raise your hand and say:

"Powers of the East
Powers of the daystar rising
And all fresh beginnings
I purify you with salt and with water
For good vibrations of friendship warmth and love."
Then sprinkle some extra water and proceed to the south. Say:
"Powers of the South
Powers of the summer sun
Which warms our bodies and our minds
I purify you with salt and with water
For good vibrations of friendship, warmth and love."

Repeat in the west:

"Powers of the West
Powers of the purifying and cleansing waters
From which all life comes.
I purify you with salt and with water
For good vibrations of friendship, warmth and love."

Repeat in the north:

"Powers of the North
Powers of the earth, the ground
On which we stand.
I purify you with salt and with water
For good vibrations of friendship, warmth and love."

Then proceed around the room sprinkling water over all the thresholds,windows, and doorways and in all corners. REPEAT IN EVERY ROOM. Add more incense to the burner, take up, and do the same thing, using the same verses substituting "fire and air" in place of "salt and water." As before, proceed around the room censing all the thresholds, windows, doorways, and in all corners. REPEAT IN EVERY ROOM. Take the fire candle (or a candle for this purpose) and your athame and, starting at the door or entrance, walk slowly CLOCKWISE through the house, through each room pausing at each door, window, and mirror and moving the candle across it, also pentagramming each window, doorway, and mirror with the athame. Proceed room by room spiralling clockwise. All the while chant the following:

"By the One Power
I hereby consecrate this space
To the Goddess and the God,
According to free will
And for the good of all;
I hereby release,
In all time and all space,
Any negative cause, effect, manifestation, form or essence,
Any negative event, thought, energy, idea or vibration,
And transform it to
And replace it with
Only positive, joyous good
In keeping with the Universal harmonies
Of the Goddess and the God.
This space is divinely protected
This space is perfectly safe.
Nothing and no one can enter this space
Unless I (or my loved ones) allow them to.
This space is sacred
Consecrated and dedicated to positive living
For myself and my loved ones
And for the work of positive magic.
No harm can come to this space, or anyone in it."

As you draw each pentagram say:

"Only good can enter here
No negatives can enter
All harm is sealed out."

When you are back at the entry point conclude:

"Love lives here
Health lives here
Abundance lives here
(Name self and loved ones) live here
We claim this space for ourselves, for the mutual good
And so mote it be!"

Take one regular sized coconut and place on floor in your home (sounds silly, I know but it works), start with one corner of the a room and every time you remember or see the coconut kick it gently with your foot to an other area of the room, the object is for the coconut to soak up all negativity in the home.

repeat to each direction (east, west etc)
To you my child, my body is open.
To you my child, my mind is open.
To you my child, my heart is open.
By Earth, Fire, Wind & Sea,
Into my arms you will be.
(last two lines are said while looking at your cradled arms)

I didn't cast circle or officially call on Quarters when I did it. but you should adapt it & do what feels right for you.

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Getting Pregnant Spell

This spell works! Don't do it unless you really really want to have children! and note: if you do not have a stable relationship or home life -this spell will not work!

You will need the following:
ace of wands                  10 of cups           the SUN
something for a baby you bought specifically for this ritual (a bib, a small blanket...etc.....)
9 red candles.

light the candles and lay out the tarot cards one by one visualize yourself finding out your pregnant - staring at a postive pregnancy test. and repeat the following:

"with these cards and with this spell- I call upon the good and helpful powers.
I desire to start a family - i desire energy and love to continue.
This small item (hold up the baby item) is the token of the committment we are ready to make.
we are ready to love our children - we are ready to teach our children and we are ready to have our children.
so it is - so it shall be! "

seal this spell with kisses and hugs followed by the actions necessary to start a family.(c'mon you know what i mean)

DEVIL SHOESTRING SPELL
This thin, elongated root was used in a number of ways; among them:
1. Place in a red bag and hang around the neck at night to drive away evil forces.
2.Cut the root into small pieces, put into a small jar and fill with whiskey and camphor. Whenever power of one sort or another is needed, take a piece out and rub in hands.
3. The root is carried in pocket or purse as a good luck charm, and as a gambler's "lucky hand." The twisted, twining root is
supposed to draw and 'clutch' money..

SDPNQCN
  DPNQCN
    PNQCN
       NQCN
          QCN
             CN
               N

"Oh, dear god of lucre, money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Spread some here at--------------( write in your addresss).
Thanks be to thee. Amen."

Sign your name. Sprinkle the dollar bill and note with coltsfoot leaves. Roll the husk up and tie together with green string or ribbion. Hang the token up above the entryway with green cord. That husk should bring ritches into your home or business by the bushel.

     AN ALL PURPOSE SPELL TO EFFECT ANOTHER:
This simple spell can be used for any purpose - whether it be to empower a person, to heal them, to bind them etc. Simply  choose the appropriate color candle and scribe the person's name and your intent upon it.  Anoint it with an appropriate oil (see my recipe section for some ideas). Light the candle and while watching it burn, repeat the following chant, focusing upon your intent as you do so.     THE CHANT : Powers that be, Powers of 3, Let N. be all I see.

     Blessed Goddess, most gentle one,
     calm my home for me.
     Relieve all tension, send it far,
     so from stress we shall be free.
     Touch my family with peace and calm,
     and the sweetest softest bliss,
     bless my home, Great Gentle Goddess,
     with your calming kiss.

Set the pouch with the candle. Allow the candle to burn down completely. Hang the pouch in your home, preferably in the room where everyone gathers the most. Whenever tension seems to build, repeat the above chant 3 times and envision peace and tranquility radiating from the pouch and The Goddess.

The following chant is a good all purpose chant that can be used for just about any spell:

     Witches power burning bright, tarot, rune and blade,
     Charge the spell, enfilled with might, here and now the magick's made.
     Wave and tree, hedge and flame, strength of the elements gather here,
     to bless this work and charge it well, to complete the spell now far or near.
     Mystic Moon and Brilliant Sun, send your power here this way,
     Gracious Lady, Mighty Lord, bless this charge that I lay.
     Powers that are, powers that be, gather round this spell I cast,
     empower my working three times three, send it forth to see it last! So Shall it Be!

1)List all your bills seperately on toilet paper and flush them down the toilet.

2)Open a window to banish negativity.

3)Throw out the old ashes in your fireplace to keep your bills from rising.

4)Scatter salt on the window sills to banish a run of bad luck.

5)Place an onion or garlic bulb on the window sill to collect negativity.

6)Add a little angelica to your laundry water to banish poverty from your family.

7)Cross two large needles under your front door mat to keep bill collectors away.

8)Once a week, on Saturday, take out your money, cleanse and consecrate with the four elements.

Hold a Rose Quartz crystal in your right hand and concentrate on what the ideal image of "you" is. In other words, how you want to see youself and how youI want people to see you. Concentrate on mystery and beauty. (You can charge two at the same time and put one in your makeup bag as well) When you  feelt the crystal is fully charged, put it into your bottle of body lotion.

For this to work it has to be a smaller crystal and the lotion bottle has to have a wide mouth.  Shake  up the lotion very thoroughly and leave it overnight.  Every morning,  put it on before you leave the house.

From Moonfire

In natural magic, knots and binding are ruled by the element of Earth.  A knot or binding represent both intangible goals (such as the return of loaned property) and they also absorb personal power.  This ritual isn't intended to force or coerce another to return the book, it affects the book, not the person the book is being loaned to.

Take the book, and hold it between your palms, sending personal energy into it.

By hill and wind,
By flame and brook,
By shining moon and sea;
I place a bind
Upon this book
That it will return to me.

Wrap one foot of plain white cotton string around the book, securing it with a knot.  Make sure the knot is tight, but not so tight that you cannot slip the string from the book.  As you make the knot, visualize the book returning to you, again chanting:

By hill and wind,
By flame and brook,
By shining moon and sea;
I place a bind
Upon this book
That it will return to me.

Slip off the knotted cord, and put it in a secret place or spell box.  As you actually loan the book, again repeat the chant (silently) while visualizing its return.  Once the book has been returned, untie the cord.It is done.

Judy Harrow

 Introduction
One of my near and dear once spent an hour in a therapist'soffice kicking an innocent throw pillow around the room and screaming out rageat his abusive father. At the end of the hour, he had a broken foot - and thefirst beginnings of a healed mind. But we have learned that magic works through symbols.Calling an object by your abuser's name and then abusing that object issympathetic magic used for the purpose of cursing. To throw a curse is toproject one's worst feelings out into the world of form, and to invoke upononeself the inevitable karmic feedback. It is not our way to blast the crops and sour the milk.Wiccan tradition and plain common sense both tell us to avoid the practice ofbaneful magic. But, as usual, it's not quite as easy as just saying no. Rape and child abuse, loved ones killed by muggers or drunkdrivers, emotional manipulation and betrayal, economic exploitation anddishonest office politics - people hurt and victimize other people in manydifferent ways every day. We are not immune.

At some point in our lives, probably every single one of uswill feel violated by some other human being. Often our feelings will be basedin fact. Whether they are or not, however, we need and deserve a safe way todischarge them. Symbolic baneful actions are also cathartic actions. Theydrain and clear our poisonous feelings and allow our own emotional healing tobegin. If we deny ourselves this outlet, what happens to the grief and pain andrage? If projection is bad for us, introjection is even worse.Unreleased bad feelings are a major source of stress. In a very real sense,stress cripples and kills. Ulcers, strokes, heart attacks and more are allheavily stress-related. A simple refusal to engage in baneful magic couldeasily amount to punishing a victim by adding serious illness to the originalharm. I am part of the All. "An it harm none" is about me too. Release of my feelings is my right. At first it seems like an insoluble paradox. But the same understanding of magic that forbids projection of our bad feelings can open a safe channel for those feelings.

Here's one possible form:
Understanding

Think about the Alcoholics Anonymous prayer. "Grant methe serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can change, and the wisdom to know the difference." People of any religion can recognize the wisdom in those words. This ritual is intended to ease emotional pressure. I believe that is a step towards granting all three of those things to ourselves.
If your hurt is ongoing, you must take steps to stop it -leave the abusive relationship, begin searching for a new job, begin rganizing politically to stop your oppression. What good this Circle does you will be temporary at best if you are not acting on both the magical and material planes to change the things you can change. But some of our pain comes from old, old injuries. And some of our feelings are not based on fact at all. The source of those hurts cannot be changed, but the pain can be. This particular working is to release any bad feelings, not to judge them. Don't worry about justice. You may be mistaken about who has hurt you, but nobody will be hurt by what we do here. All energy will be contained within the Circle. The object of this working is healing, not justice.
You deserve this healing simply because you hurt, and even if you are mistaken. Prevention and healing are human tasks; to do them is to change the things we can change. Justice - the evening of karmic balances - is the business of the Gods, and may take place across a span of many lifetimes. Karmic balance is a thing we cannot change.

Set Up
You have some decisions to make. The first one is whether you will work alone or ask one or more trusted friends to witness and facilitate your working. Some of us can only let our feelings go in strict privacy. For others, the presence of people who will make sure we don't hurt ourselves or our homes removes a source of inhibition. And sometimes simply being heard is part of the release process.

Next, exactly what kind of symbolic action will release your feelings? Will kicking a throw pillow suffice, or do you need to actually make a poppet? Or just screaming may be enough. If you want to work with a physical symbol, prepare it in advance, and be sure not to use anything you will want to keep after the rite or ever use again. Figure out whether you can either cast a Circle to include your bathroom, or leave a cast Circle for a period of time. This will depend on your particular training. If possible, have a warm
scented tub waiting for you. If not, a basin of warm scented water and a washcloth within easy reach just outside of your Circle will suffice. Also, a ritual meal should be prepared and waiting outside of Circle, and this should include something green and growing - I favor sprouts - and something sweet.

Procedure
Waning moon is a good time for this Circle, and the Dark of the Moon is even better. Cast the Circle and invoke the Watchers in your usual manner. Call on the Crone, on She who weeds and prunes and disposes of the obstructive and unnecessary. Just inside the Circle, like the membrane in an eggshell, cast a grounding shield. One possible image for this shield would be a black absorptive chain link fence, supported at regular intervals by fence posts that are lightning rods. Whatever happens within this space will be contained and grounded. Make clear to yourself what wound you seek to drain. Say it out loud, even if you are alone. Recall what happened to you in detail and let the feelings grow strong. Now, let go of yourfeelings. Do whatever will help you release what is in you. Beat on a pillow or rip up a doll. Scream till you cry. Don't stop till you are emptied. Then fling the thing you used as a symbol out of your Circle. When you are sure you are all done, all drained, contract the shield into a tight ball in the center of the Circle. As it contracts, it will gather all the negative energy from the Circle. Ground it. Affirm that you are sending this energy to the fireat the heart of the Earth - to Jarnsaxe or to Pele - to be purified in that blast furnace and cycled to wherever strong energy is needed.

Know that what you now let go is gone. Affirm this out loud.

Wash or bathe in a ritual manner, feeling the last traces of your bad feelings dissolve away. If others are present, allow them to wash and serve you. Rest a few minutes.Feel the peace of emptiness. Then invoke the Maiden's energy for new beginnings. Have your ritual feast, and otherwise indulge your senses. Gentle and joyful music would be effective, and you may want to switch to a weeter smelling incense. This is a time to dream dreams and plan plans. You have removed an energy drain from your life, now you will be able to ...? Thank and dismiss whatever Beings you have called on, throughout the whole ritual. Close your Circle as usual. Do not do any other kinds of working or worship within this particular Circle.

Follow Through
The final part of any effective magical working is "acting in accordance" on the material plane. By doing this, we give the magic a channel through which to manifest. For this working, there are three forms of follow through, and all are important. Remember that painful feelings are partly habitual. Acting in accordance with magic to banish such feelings requires you to stop feeding the habit.
Don't talk about the pain with anybody until at least the second full moon after the working. This gives the habit a chance to fade out. As much as you can, eliminate the topic from your internal dialogue as well. When you notice yourself dwelling on the old pain, gently and firmly change the subject. Thinking about action to change your life in the here and now is perfectly OK. The problem is reiteration of old feelings of frustration and helplessness that actually impede change. If the hurtful situation is current and ongoing, continue with any steps you were taking to change the things you can change. In fact, you will probably find you have more energy than you did before to devote to your projects. Be sure to use some of your newly freed emotional energy to reward yourself. Take time fo rfriendship, love, and pleasure. The object of the exercise is to clear space for the enjoyment of life, so start right now.

Judy Harrow HPs, Proteus Coven     http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos003.htm

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