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The Tools of Wicca, The Altar, Preparation For Magick, Basic Rituals & Spells, Divination

Remember, a Witch's spells are personal use items used to help them in day-to-day life or in spiritual practice. Very few spells actually work by simply reciting a few words and performing specified actions. Those that do work so directly tend to be rather dangerous for an inexperienced Witch to attempt. Above all, spells are rooted in the technique; in other words, you should know how to use magick in a general sense before attempting them. Be careful and judicious in your use of magick, taking care with everything you do.

Rituals & Spells
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You may cast a circle first if you are strongly fearful or negative...

Stand with your feet apart in a comfortable manner with your hands at your sides and invision this: You have choosen an emotion, this emotion will be invisioned like a current or stream (or any other vision you wish to identify with the emotion to be remedied) traveling up the body and then released. Now envision this emotion and "watch" it move up the body.

(Example: Fear) ..... "Fear leave my toes, my legs, my knees, my thighs, my hips, my heart, my shoulders, my neck, my head ... fear begone!

Say it strongly or yell it; strong emotion is useful for this! If necessary (as you still feel fear, anger, or negativity) repeat this as many times as it is necessary

A Blessing for a Book of Shadows

Beautiful Goddess of many faces, bless this book that it may enchanse all who choose read it's pages; bless this book that my relashinship with you may countinue to grow; I pray to you that you will grace me with your love and blessing.

A Powder to Attract Love

Love Drawing Powder

1 oz. Sandalwood
1/4 tsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp. sweet basil
1 tsp. myrtle
1/2 dram Frankessence oil
3/8 dram Jasmin oil
1/8 dram Patchouli oil
4 oz. Talc

Blend together all the ingredients. Be sure to add Talc last. You will find many good uses for your powder in sachets or sprinkled in the right places to attract love.

Ritual for relaxation

Try this it works for me Lay down in a dark place and close your eyes imagine an orb of golden light at your feet now see it rise up your legs and to your stomach through your arms and chest then to your neck and head it also works to releave tension anywhere in your body.

Good Luck Spell

Write a letter to a friend. Wish them well, wish them wise, wish them luck through all their tie's.
Chant: I wish thee well, good luck will comsume you soon, Luck will follow thee through thick and thin. *Write (name) on any flower petal.
Earth: dirt, sand, or any kind of herb. Sprinkle a little on the petal and chat the chant above.
Air: Wave the flower in the air, still, saying the chant.
Fire: Light a white candle and hold the flower above the flame. (Be sure not to burn it) saying the chant.
Water: sprinkle, Spring, tap, fresh, etc. water on the flower saying the chant.

Send the head of the flower, (only the patels) to the person to whom you wish good luck.

To Dispel Negativity

To dispel negative thoughts, habits, or impressions: Write down the thing that is bothering you on a piece of paper, putting all your heart and emotion into the writing of it. If you wish, cast a circle. Now state that as fire transforms matter, the burning of the paper you just wrote is going to transform the negativity bound therein and turn it into light and positivity. Visualise this happening, visualise the smoke being those negative things turned positive and floating out into the atmosphere to help others. Then burn the paper. If you live near running water, you might wish to cast the ashes into the water to be carried away.

Candle Blessing Ritual

Using your bare hands, rub an anointing oil into the wax starting at the middle of the candle and working your way up to the top as you say:

I CONSECRATE THEE AS A TOOL OF MAGICK BLESSED BE!

Start again at the middle and this time work your way down to the bottom of the candle and say:

I CHARGE THEE WITH POWER IN THE NAME OF THE GODDES SO MOTE IT BE!

To see more of the godesses children.
Ice Dragon

For every animal you see thank it for displying it's talents to you. For example, a monarch butterfly, you thank it for showing you it's colors and flying abilitys. Gradually more will come to show off to you as long as you thank them or praise them.

To Get Rid Of A Sore Throat

To Get Rid Of A Sore Throat

1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
3/4 teaspoon apple cider
1 slice of onion

Mix together, and drink, saying "by the power of the goddess Diane cleanse me of this sore throat." You should start feeling better within a day of drinking this.

Full Moon Crystal Empowerment Chant

Place the crystal (eg: Amythest) where the light of the full moon will hit it (eg : window sill).

The chant: O Gracious moon so full and bright Empower my Amythyst with your lunar light Let this crystal serve me well to cleanse and protect for the longest spell.

Ritual Of The Mists

This ritual is intended to be done when there is lots of fog in your area. This Ritual and prayer is to bring you closer to Manannan Mac Lyr, Keeper of the Mist, Ruler of Tir Na Og, and keeper of the Well of Wisdom. Personally when I have done it I have felt strangly drawn into the mists as if the Ancestors were calling me into them to join them. Someday I might go ahead and go but as of yet, I haven't. If at all possible, try to do this ritual in a place with trees and open land. I have done it outside my home but my home is too connected to this world. I have done it in a park, and the effects are much much cleaner and crisper there.

Items needed: Staff Robe Object w/ Double spiral Object w/ Triskele Bread as a sacrifice to the land spirits First thing to do is to feel the mists around you, Alert your senses to it. Remember that the Mists are an In between area, not sky, not water. Get your bearings, realize that you are in an in between state. At this time you should be wearing your robe.

Becoming aware of the Center of the Three realms The first thing to do, is to become aware of the three realms. Land, Sea, and Sky. Hold the object with the Triskele firmly in your hand and do the following:

Bend down and touch the ground, and say - "I stand firmly upon the land" Stand up and hold your arms out to the sides - "The sea surrounds me." Bring your arms over your head and finally say - "The sky spreads itself above me" Bring your hands down over your heart and say - "I acknowldge the three realms."

Acknowleding the Mists: Take the staff and pound it on the ground three times. Take the staff and hold it straight out from your body (like it is an extension of your arms) and turn around three times (counter clockwise) as if you were cutting the mists in half.

Bring the staff up and wave it over your head three times. (This movement is like acknowledging the three realms. Hitting the ground with the staff contacts it with land, cutting the mists gives it contact with water, and waving it over your head give is contact with the air) Next face North (the direction of the four cities, and the place that the Tuatha de Dannan came from) Take the staff and draw a double spiral in the air, and say the following words:

"Manannan Mac Lyr, Lord of the Mist, Ruler of Tir na mBam, Keeper of the double gate of the otherworld. I am here seeking knowledge of the mists and the otherworlds. I come bringing sacrifices for the land spirits. I come in complete awareness and in harmony with the three realms. Watch over me as I travel the mists, keep me from harm as I travel here in the in between. Grant me, oh Manannan, the gift of knowlege from the well which is yours to protect, from which the five rivers flow, into which the nuts of knowlege drop, into which swim the salmon of knowledge. "

"I acknowledge the shroud of the mists, The mists that protect the otherworld the otherworld where the Well of Wisdom lies the Well of Wisdom that contains all knowledge knowledge, which is the key to our lives our lives that are in service to the Gods The Gods that live in the otherworld The otherworld that is protected by the mists I acknowledge the shroud of the mists."

Take the sacrifice, break it into several parts and then put them on the ground as a sacrifice to the land spirits. At this point the formal part of the ritual is over. What I will do is I will begin walking through out the park or the place I am at and seeking the mists. Becoming familair with how different the land is when the mists come and envelop it. When I am about to leave the place I am at, I then end with a prayer to the Gods and Goddesses of the Tuatha De Danann to keep me safe as I travel the mists back to my world.

Created by John K. Gibson, January 1994