Winter Prosperity Spell
Gather your supplies:
A piece of ribbon from Yule in your favorite color at least 12 inches long.
A green candle
A bit of Myrrh oil
Ritual:
Rub a few drops of Myrrh oil into the candle and light it.
Tie nine knots in the ribbon while reciting this rhyme:
“By the count of one, this spell’s begun,
By the count of two, prosperity’s due,
By the count of three, I’ll have no more need,
By the count of four, abundance galor,
By the count of five, this spell’s alive,
By the count of six, prosperity’s fixed,
By the count of seven, blessings given,
By the count of eight, I seal my fate,
By the count of nine, praise the Goddess divine!”
Pass the tied ribbon through the smoke from the candle three times. Put the ribbon in a safe place for the next year looking and meditating on it if you need extra strength throughout the year. As the next year commences, burn the old ribbon and empower a new one!
Winter Ritual Bath
During the Winter Solstice/Christmas Season we often place too much emphasis on celebrating and sharing this joyous holiday. It is often helpful amongst all the stress to atune to a quiet, internal spirituality. To begin to do so, prepare a ritual bath with oils of rosemary, pine and orange. Add a touch of patchouli for grounding. Light gold and green candles and immerse yourself in the watery solitude to refresh your weary holiday spirit. Meditate on the Winter Goddess and her lesson of stillness. Find the cool and clean space she offers, free of clutter and activity. It is the season for centering and grounding and for defining who we really are. After the bath, take your journal and write down your goals by candlelight. Contemplate the coming re-birth and identify which direction you wish to channel your energies and focus your intentions.
-This bath was adapted by one written by Karri Allrich
This is a simple meditation to relax and rejuvenate.
First, find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. When you have done that, breathe in for 7, hold for 2, breathe out for 5. Do this for a couple of minutes. After about 5 minutes or so, imagine yourself under a tree, surrounded by nature. The sun hits you, and you feel a wave of energy pulsing through your body. It then leaves your body, and makes its way down deep into the soil and through the roots of the tree. That should have taken about 10-15 minutes. Ok, now breathe in for 7, hold for 2, and breathe out for 5. Take about 5 minutes doing that. Open your eyes, and SLOWLY get up. If you get up too fast, you could collapse because your body was “asleep” for a long time.
Hope you stay relaxed!
This is just a simple meditation. Great for beginners!
You might want to light some incense and/or candles if you have them.
Find a quiet place to sit, and get in a comfortable position. Clear your mind, only think about breathing. Breathe in for 7, hold for 2, breathe out for 5. Continue this for as long as you want. When you are done, slowly get up. If you get up too fast, you could collapse.
Take some time to meditate, especially the beginners!
The tides are another power source if you are anywhere near the sea, an estuary or a tidal river. The incoming tide or flow will attract and bring fulfilment of wishes or dreams: the ebb tide will take away negativity and also protect those who travel, especially those who work at sea. The slack tide between flow and ebb, which can last for up to an hour is excellent for building up power before the surge and moment of release at tide turn.
As the alter ego of the moon, the sun offers a significant source of energy for natural magick and solar energies often offers power for more instant magickal results.
Dawn is best for new opportunities, beginnings and people entering your life; noon for a burst of instant power, energy, success and prosperity. Dusk is for reconciliation or letting go. Midnight assists healing magick, psychic protection and in accepting what cannot be changes.
You can combine lunar and solar energies for a quick solar fix and the slower continuous lunar consolidation of the initial solar results in you life. Moon spells on the day of the full moon will get things off the starting block and keep up the impetus through the month. Often the moon and sun are in the sky at the same time (check your moon dairy or weather section of the newspaper or just look) and combine the energies accordingly.
Moon time is the oldest measurement of time used by humans and it accords with our natural rhythms in the lives of men as well as women. In magick we primarily look to the moon for timings.
The waxing or increasing moon from the crescent to the night before the full moon is potent for all forms of attracting magick, for the gradual increase of money, love, happiness or health and for fertility spells. These powers will grow daily as the physical moon size increases, to reach their height on the full moon.
The full moon represents a surge of power that can be plugged into for fertility, the consummation of love or commitment, a major money gain or for launching a creative venture. Also because the full moon is unstable, this day and night is good for initiating change.
The waning moon helps us to let go of what we no longer need or wish for in our lives and can banish pain, sorrow or a destructive influence: a perfect phase for starting diet spells. As the moon decreases in size so the pull that holds negative people or factors in your life likewise weakens.
If a need is urgent then you can work at any time and picture the full moon or rising dawn whose energies you need, even at a different time of the month or at darkest midnight.
Sometimes the nature of the ritual will dictate the timing. For example, a new beginning spell can be launched on any new date: the first day of the month, the first day of the year, any Sunday, the first day of the week, the first hour after dawn or at the crescent moon when it first appears in the sky. Best of all in the first hour after dawn on a Sunday, which is ruled by the Sun, and so offers a double dose of power for that new beginning.
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