Spell For Friday – Increase Memory and Focus

Increase Memory and Focus

This spell features some of our favorite ingredients for increasing memory and focus! If you find yourself unable to focus with a side effect of a bad memory, like me, this spell will work wonders on you! This memory spell utilizes rosemary, an herb well known for repairing the memory; it’s also great for protecting your confidence, which plays a large role in our ability to recall things!

We’ve incorporated a few different types of crystals, depending on your specific need, and we’ve also brought in some symbolism and numerology to aid in the energy of the work. The number 4 vibrates stability and focus, as does the shape of the square.This spell is best performed on a Sunday or during the hour of the Sun. Keep in mind that you will still need to perform real-world follow-up.

Spell Ingredients

Orange Candle

4 Crystals [Carnelian for analytical focus. Citrine for creative focus. Regular or Orange Calcite for learning new things.]

1.5 tsp. Dried Rosemary

Teacup

Tea ball or tea bag

Crystal Grid or Flower of Life Grid, optional

Boline or an item to carve into your candle

Spell Instructions

Bring your water to a boil. In the meantime, create your sacred space by cleansing with sage, followed by palo santo or sweetgrass. You may also cleanse your candle, crystals, and rosemary with the sage.

Bring all of your ingredients into your sacred space. You may choose to cast a protective circle, if that’s part of your practice.

Hold your hands over the Rosemary and visualize remembering everything. Say “To increase my memory.

Pour the Rosemary leaves into your tea ball. While continuing to visualize your memory working better than you think it will, pour the water over the Rosemary leaves.

Hold your hands over the steaming cup once more. Say “To increase my memory.

Hold your hands over the crystals, and visualize yourself successfully focusing on your work. Say “To increase my focus.

Arrange the crystals in a square around the coffee cup. Imagine the energy of the crystals forming a solid square around and through the cup. This square represents a solid foundation of focus, empowering the tea with the energies of focus.

Hold your hands over the square of crystals and tea. Say “To increase my focus.

Using your carving tool of choice carve “+ Memorae” down one side of the candle. Say “Memorae. To increase my memory.” Again, visualize that your memory is recalling everything it needs to and more!

On the other side, carve “+ Focus”. When you are done, say “Focus. To increase my focus.” Again, visualize that your focus allows you to complete your work perfectly!

Place the candle above your crystals and tea. Hold your hand over the candle and chant “Increase my memory. Increase my focus!” until you feel convinced that the spell is working! You’ll feel your hair stand on end, you may feel slightly faint, or you may notice that you’ve begun chanting very loudly! Say “Increase my memory. Increase my focus” one last time and light the candle.

Visualize all of the energy from chanting is the light of the candle, the spark of the spell. Visualize that energy going down the candle, drawing a straight line to your square grid and into your cup.

Know that the energy of the spell is now in your cup. Drink your Memory and Focus Tea and feel your mind opening, your memory working, and your focus kicking in.

Clean up, say Amen, say So Mote It Be, close your circle, do what you need to do and enjoy the effects of your tea!

You can let the candle burn out or extinguish it and use it for the same spell. You can also use it for a quick memory boost later.

Divination Journal

Tarot Card

Source: tarotx.com

Queen of Rainbows – Flowering – Major Arcana

The Explanation of Queen of Rainbows Osho Zen Tarot

The Queen of Rainbows Osho Zen looks like an imaginary tree that is at its peak of flowering and freshness. She is very erotic, lively, and full of surprises. She snapped her fingers to the music of love, the zodiac necklace was cleverly placed so that the Venus symbol would be at her heart. Her sleeves contain lots of seeds, and when the wind blows through, the seeds will be scattered to take root where they may. She didn’t care whether they land on the soil or on the rocks – she just scattered them everywhere while enjoying life and love. Flowers fall on her from above, in harmony with her own flowering, and the stream of emotions swirled mischievously beneath the flower on which she sits.

You can feel blessings from everywhere like being in a flower garden at the moment. Welcome the bees and invite the birds to drink your nectar. Spread your joy around for all to share.

The Energy of Queen of Rainbows Osho Zen Tarot Based on Osho’s Teachings

Zen wants you living, living in abundance, living in totality, living intensely – not at the minimum as Christianity wants you, but at the maximum, overflowing. Your life should reach to others. Your blissfulness, your benediction, your ecstasy should not be contained within you like a seed. It should open like a flower and spread its fragrance to all and sundry – not only to the friends but to the strangers too.  This is real compassion, this is real love: sharing your enlightenment, sharing your dance of the beyond.

Animal Spirit Guide or Helper

Source: whatismyspiritanimal.com

Unicorn

Unicorn Table of Contents

Unicorn Symbolism & Meaning

Spirit Animal

Totem Animal

Power Animal

Native American Symbolism

Celtic Symbolism

Astrology & Zodiac

Unicorn Dreams

Far Eastern Symbolism

Rune

Source: TheRuneSite.com

Os

Sound: “o” as in “home”
Stands for: Mouth
Casting meaning: This rune, like Aesc, is a God rune. Os belongs to Odin in his aspects of a master communicator through language and writing. Os denotes the creative power of word in all its forms – in poetry, song, oral tales, and written literature.

Witch’s Rune

Source: GroveandGrotto.com

The Crossed Spears

(Mabon)
Opposite viewpoints.  Conflict, arguments, negativity.  A stalemate or pause in action.  In readings, “probably not.”

Ogham

Source: druidogham.wordpress.com

Mor

Change, shift, the sea, maps, realm of the subconscious, great undercurrents

Tree: Witch hazel (Hamamelis spp.)

Letter: X

“Sea change” is a term for profound or holistic change. Change is the foundation of existence. The interplay of opposing forces creates and destroys ad infinitum. Mor bookends the concept of change introduced by the first Ogham, Beith. The intention that sowed an action reaped a habit, the habit reaped a character, and the character reaped a destiny. The new track in space has been laid and change is inevitable.

When you draw Mor, look for the changes in and around you. These are not necessarily good or bad. Often, drawing this Ogham can mean something as basic as “oh look, the season of Spring is arriving”. Mor doesn’t have to indicate any kind of drama, although it could. Mor calls out to you to look at overarching influences, new factors or people, and to examine the permutations and possibilities of how they affect the environment.

Mor is a bird’s eye view of opposing forces in our lives rather than being upswept by the random forces that weave in and out of our daily existences. Understanding your own subconscious gives you the ability to calmly deal with challenges that come your way. The work you do on understanding yourself is the sails you build on your boat in the great sea of life. You still need to figure out which way the wind is blowing, of course, but knowing a thing or two about your own position, your tendencies, desires, faults, and strengths will give you the power you need to dodge rocks and survive storms.

I Ching

Source: ichingonline.net

Hexagram Seventeen/17

Sui / Following

Thunder beneath the Lake’s surface.
The Superior Person allows himself plenty of sheltered rest and recuperation while awaiting a clear sign to follow.

Supreme success.
No mistakes if you keep to your course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Thunder from the Lake — the lulling, rhythmic roar of the faithful tide, eternally wearing away the stone of the shoreline, forever obedient to the phases of the moon.
The pull of the moon on the tide is the Following called for now.
As mighty as the tide is in its own right, it is ever the puppet of the invisible, irresistible gravity of the moon.
What cyclical forces pull you along?
Are you futilely attempting to resist a natural attraction?

Numerology

Source: worldnumerology.com

Seventeen

It is spiritual growth, faith, and balance. It is also wealth or bankruptcy. It is an inner struggle to remain true to spiritual and moral values, while at the same time dedicating itself to the material world – one of the most conflicting numbers.

 

May 17 and 18, 2024 Current Moon Phase for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else was born.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

Source: MoonGiant.com

Northern Hemisphere

May 17, 2024

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full MoonThis September Full Moon will be the forth and final supermoon of 2023.

During a Waxing Gibbous the moon rises in the east in mid-afternoon and is high in the eastern sky at sunset. The word Gibbous first appeared in the 14th century and has its roots in the Latin word “gibbosus” meaning humpbacked.

Visit the May 2024 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Phase

The Waxing Gibbous on May 17 has an illumination of 69%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On May 17 the Moon is 9.17 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

Phase Details

Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 69%
Moon Age: 9.17 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 405,370.96 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,328,884.92 km

Southern Hemisphere

18 May 2024

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full MoonThis September Full Moon will be the forth and final supermoon of 2023.

During a Waxing Gibbous the moon rises in the east in mid-afternoon and is high in the eastern sky at sunset. The word Gibbous first appeared in the 14th century and has its roots in the Latin word “gibbosus” meaning humpbacked.

Visit the May 2024 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Phase

The Waxing Gibbous on May 18 has an illumination of 77%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On May 18 the Moon is 10.06 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

Phase Details

Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 77%
Moon Age: 10.06 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 405,389.69 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,359,338.80 km