Day: January 11, 2011
Kitchen Witch Hand Soap
This soap recipe is a great formula for kitchen cleanup. The mixture of tea tree oil and botanical provides a wonderful, natural antibacterial formula.
4 cups glycerin soap base
2 teaspoons dried basil
2 teaspoons dried oregano
2 teaspoons dried parsley
2 teaspoons dried sage
10 drops tea tree essential oil
4 vitamin E gel caps
Lemon, lime or orange fragrance
Dye to match fragrance
Grind herbs together. Melt soap base. Add tea tree oil and desired fragrance. Add dye. Cut gel caps and pour liquid into mixture. Add herbs. Whisk until near gel. Pour. Cool. Remove from mold. Wrap after one hour.
Double Reversible Cleansing Candle Spells
Burn double reversible candles every week to maintain standard house cleansing
Hold the candle in your hand to charge with your purpose prior to burning.
Coconut Candle Cleanser
Coconuts possess an aroma that many find pleasing, sensuous and evocative. Releasing the scent of coconut into the air provides long-term spiritual purification in a relaxed, fragrant manner. Unfortunately what is commercially available is almost invariably synthetic, thus the fragrance may be pleasing but the power is nonexistent. Make your own coconut candles.
The simplest method is to use pour-and-melt wax from the craft store. White or brown are the preferred colors. If you are a skilled candle maker, however, choose any method or wax you prefer.
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Prepare the candle shell prior to melting the wax. You may use any type of container you choose; however, a hollowed out half of a coconut shell is ideal.
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Melt the wax until liquid
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Stir in pure coconut extract. The quantity depends upon the desired intensity of fragrance.
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Make sure that the wick is attached securely to the container, either by holding it in place until the wax hardens or by attaching it to a pencil or stick laid across the top of the container.
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Pour the scented wax into the container.
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Allow the wax to harden.
Peony Root Cleansing
Make a strong infusion by pouring boiling water over peony roots. Asperge as desired.
Ocean Water Asperging Spell (2)
Blend ocean water with Indigo Water. Sprinkle as needed using fresh rue as the asperging tool.
Ocean Water Asperging Spell (1)
Unless you live by the sea, this spell may involve more work and preparation than sprinkling with salted fresh water, how the potential power is also greater.
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Carry ocean water to the area to be cleansed in a glass or metal flask. (For maximum effect, request permission and offer thanks to the Spirits of the Sea).
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Asperge as needed, ideally with a rosemary or sea lavender wand.
Black Cohosh Cleansing
Make an infusion by pouring boiling water over black snake root/black cohosh, asperge with a rosemary wand to erase evil influences.
The Magick Square
Squares have a strong folk magick tradition; a magickal square would be marked in a field with hoes, rakes or other agricultural implements. In times of persecution squares could be consecrated as a magickal space, but were much easier to disguise as magickal working than circles. Some were undoubtedly used to mark as sacred land where a former sacred Roman temple stood, just as a circle of stones or tree stumps beneath a church or cathedral might mark a former sacred Druidic grove.
In Scandinavia, the magickal square formed the outline for a grid of nine squares, three by three. These were made by the seior, the witch seers of the Norse world who channelled wisdom from the spirit world, specifically from Helheim where the Crone Goddess Hel cared for the deceased. The seior sat on raised thrones within the grids and travelled astrally to Helheim to talk to the ancestors and receive advice for the living. Only later did the Goddess Hel become demonized and in recent years there has been a revival of seior craft.
The water witches of the West Midlands also used a magickal square, or mill as they called it, for magick. They were people who came from the Netherlands to live and work on the Midland canals in the 1800s. They practiced an ancient form of folk magick that did not die out till the mid-1900s and there are still a few practitioners remaining. Rituals were practiced by these canal people on a square of land adjacent to the canal bank with a triple magickal square. Each square was joined by four lines and constructed from wood and was known as the Mil. Only women entered the sacred area under the leadership of a senior female water witch, through the chief male, known as the master, standing at the edge, summoned a spirit entity to assist in the ritual.
In modern Iceland, the Landvaetir or Land guardians often have particularly sacred square fields that cannot be built on, where offerings are left in order to bring protection to the homes and farms around.
Magickal Squares and Circles In Magick
Magickal squares and circles date back to prehistory. Megalithic stone circles were created from around 3,500 BCE and set out according to precise geometric and astronomical measurements. They were used for rituals of all kinds by the Neolithic tribes especially on the seasonal change points to invoke the ancestors for fertility of crops, animals and people and continued to provide the setting for magickal gatherings through the millennia.
In Sweden and Norway the sacred square grid has formed a magickal device for more than three thousand years. It was used originally on the great seasonal fire festivals, at midwinter, midsummer and harvest. Nine turf squares were etched in the earth and eight removed, leaving the middle one to form the center of the ritual fire.
The magick circle and square also have their place in modern magick. Both shapes occur naturally in forest clearings and can be drawn in sand, earth or snow, or formed out of twigs, branches, shells, flowers, or even crystals.
Both act as markers for the main directions, the circle as though on a clock face and the square halfway along each side, both giving equal segment for the elements.
What Is The Difference Between A Spell and A Ritual?
In practice the terms “spell” and “ritual” are used interchangeably in magick and through many Traditions as an umbrella terms for magickal workings.
A spell tends to be a less formal kind of magick, usually cast for a specific purpose or need, for example to protect a named traveller (maybe yourself or a family member) on a particular journey or trip for a specified length of time. The energies are raised, and then released so they will bounce back to activate the purpose of the spell which has been represented by a symbol of that journey. This physical focus of the spell might in magick be a feather of some chopped fennel herbs to symbolize travel.
In contrast a ritual is usually based on a more general or long-lasting focus. A ritual may be carried out at specified times, for example, the first day of spring or to celebrate the birth of a baby. A ritual follows a more structured format.
What is more, whereas a spell builds up to a climax and release of energy, the ritual may release energy more evenly throughout the weeks and months ahead.
Flying Creatures Blessing
Flying Creatures Blessing
Today, look at the sky and observe. What kind of flying weather is it today? Consider all creatures that fly, and how they will deal with today’s weather. Light some incense, and get out your favorite feather or air talisman, saying:
Let all who fly be safe and free. May my heart soar as my feet are firmly grounded on the earth. Blessed be the creatures of the air. I celebrate the skies and its creatures!
Wave your feather in the air, breathe deeply, and proclaim: “So mote it be.” Wear something yellow today for the element of air, or something blue or gray for the sky. Focus on breathing as you go about your day, and be joyful for the ability to breathe.
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