1. Fill a charm bag with the following herbal materials:
Five finger grass (cinquefoil); to inspire kindness and generosity from others
Deer’s tongue: to provide you with eloquence
Gravel root: the key ingredient, to provide employment.
Rue: to weed out false opportunities.
2. Add a lodestone to draw good fortune towards you.
3. If the bag is to be carried by a man, include a High John the Conqueror root; add an angelica root for a woman.
4 Sprinkle with magnetic sand and Crown of Success Oil.
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Fill a charm bag with three garlic cloves, nine distinct crumbs of bread, a lodestone and some magnetic sand.
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Dress with a touch of Magnet Oil.
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Wear or carry to job interviews, adding a new drop of oil prior to each one, if possible.
Potpourri is an excellent form of spell for peace: it is quiet and always present, just as we often wish peace to be.
Timing: Monday; Friday; moon in the second quarter; midday; hour of the Moon; hour of Venus; or your personal power time
Supplies:
Choose between three and nine herbs and flowers with the corresponding magickal properties of peace. Suggestions: lavender, rose, myrtle, chamomile, jasmine, violet
Bowl, dish, or jar
Steps:
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Empower each of the herbs and flowers for peace and tranquility.
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Place them in the bowl and mix the herbs gently with your fingers, visualizing your goal.
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To fix the scent and help preserve the potpourri, stir in a teaspoon of orris root powder. You may add a few drops of oil to enhance the scent, but do so carefully and blend well. If your potpourri is too damp, it will grow mold and mildew, and that not the king of green energy you’re looking for at all!
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Place the potpourri in a pretty jar or bowl and set it in a place where it will work its magick. Potpourri eventually loses its power due to a combination of releasing its energy and absorbing the ambient negative energy that encounters it. When the energy of the potpourri has faded or the goal you set for spell has been achieved, bury the mixture outdoors or add it to your compost heap.
Potpourri
Believe it or not, potpourri functioned and still does function as a slow-release spell. Combining dried flowers and herbs for potpourri is an age-old practice.
Many spellcrafters are paralyzed by the idea of making a mistake. They have some vague conception of their lives imploding if they add the oregano before the deer’s tongue grass, or if the candle is lit before the incense.
Part of the spellcrafting process involves having the courage to take your life into your hands and commit yourself to making a difference. There’s no way around that. In fact, it’s one of the greatest truth of accepted that he or she can make a difference in his or her life. As a spellcrafter, you possess the power to initiate change. If you’re petrified of doing something wrong, though, you’re not even giving yourself the opportunity to make a difference, let alone the chance to make a mistake–or to succeed.
Resolve right now to allow yourself to make mistakes. Mistakes are how we learn. “Be willing to look like a beginner in order to be an expert,” says creative coach Jill Badonksy and she’s right: everyone has to start somewhere. When you learned to ride a bicycle, you fell off and skinned your knees over and over until your finally mastered the trick of balancing on two narrow, moving tires. Spellcrafting can be a much less painful experience as long as you remember to come up with a clearly defined goal, to think through your spell carefully, and to consider the consequences. Practice gives you experience to apply to your future spells. Note, however, that practice does not make perfect in the subjective area of spellcraft.. Life is a work in progress, after all. Things are rarely perfect.
What about the magick of the moment? What about those times where you’re swept up by emotion and you perform a spontaneous spell right then and there?
Spontaneous spells can be lovely, deep, and very meaningful. There’s no rule anywhere insisting that every spell has to be thought and planned out to the last detail. If you’re standing on the seashore under a full moon and your heart swells, then by all means do what you feel inspired to do.
Just write it down when you get back home. Scribble down as best you can what you said and what you did. You can use a spell record sheet, or you can record it in a journal reserved for spellcrafting. A journal like this can also record meditations, questions, dreams and bits of research, and over time can become a beautiful and personal record of your evolution as a spellcrafter. Knowledge is power and the more knowledge you acquire from studying your success and failures, the more power you have over your abilities and your life.
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