These are among the spells that give magick a bad name: spells that convince others to do your bidding, spells that allow one to exert one’s will despite opposition, spells that enhance one’s influence beyond natural limits, spells that persuade others to bend over and ask what they can do for you.
Domination spells are not hexes: no harm is intended towards your target. Ideally everyone lives happily ever after, just according to your rules. Obedience, cooperation and compliance, perhaps a little flexibility, is the desired goal. In today magickal climate, these are not politically correct spells. Modern Wicca and Wicca-influenced magick frowns upon the entire topic of domination magick because the goal of these spells is to deprive another of free will. Practitioners of other magickal traditions might say that that’s the whole pint of spell-casting so this has evolved into a major philosophical issue within the occult community.
Domination spells are in general fueled by the inherent dominating properties of specific herbals, most notably sweet flag/calamus, licorice root, bergamot, High John the Conqueror and vetiver.
The other crucial component of domination spells is the intensity of the spell-caster‘s desire and desperation.
Purple is the color of power and dominance. Incorporate that color into candle spells or whenever appropriate.
Snails can spell as well as roosters can. This divination method traditionally uses fireplace ashes. A more potent version might involve writing your queries on paper, burning them and using those ashes instead. For a quick fix method, use flour.
Make a smooth, even bed of ashes or flour.
Gently place a snail in the center of this bed.
Allow the snail to wander as it will and leave the circle when it chooses.
The shape of its trail will indicate initials, letters or images to provide your oracle.
Book are formed from words, words are formed from letters. One school of Kabbalah suggests that the Creator formed the entire world from Hebrew letters. Individual letters, of any alphabet, may be used to provide an oracle.
When moving into a new home, do not bring your old broom with you. Do not use any brooms the old inhabitants may have left behind. Start with a brand new broom.
Obtain a new broom to use exclusively in your new home.
The first time it’s used, soak it in salted Florida Water and sweep away.
Hyssop and vervain are particularly ancient space cleansers. Hyssop is cited in biblical accounts of Temple cleansings, although there is some doubt as to whether the herbal species now identified as hyssop is actually the same as the one in the Bible. Regardless, what we know today as hyssop has been used as a potent spiritual cleanser for centuries.
Vervain was used to cleanse the temples and altars of ancient Greece and Rome. Effective separately, the two herbs share an affinity and combine well together.
Make a strong infusion from the herbs.
Add this to a bucket of salted floorwash water together with white vinegar.
Make a single use broom, particularly from vervain and/or hyssop. Use it to asperge and scrub with the infusion.
When you’ve completed the cleansing spell, dispose of the used water outside your home. Take the boom apart and scatter the parts outside.
Any broom may be used in this spell, homemade or commercial, however it must be discarded at the conclusion of the spell.
Add an infusion of lemongrass and some white or rice vinegar to a bucket filled with water. (If you have time to make lemongrass vinegar, this is even more effective than the infusion.)
Dip a broom into the bucket of floorwash and sweep the area from the center working your way outwards. This does not need to be a commercial broom. A branch with attached stiff herbs is fine, however a mop may not be substituted.
When complete dump the wash water outside and discard the broom at a crossroad.
This spell incorporates a single-use magickal purification broom.
Use one or any combination of the following herbals: broom, cedar, fennel, hyssop, rosemary, sage, vervain.
Arrange the herbs and tie them to the bottom of a branch with raffia, visualizing, charging and knotting. (Any branch may be used, however an ash branch is considered particularly powerful.)
Sprinkle with salted water or any preferred purification formula.
Sweep the area.
Disassemble the broom outside, away from the cleansed space.
Bury the components in the ground or toss them into living waters, flowing away from you.
You thought witches’ brooms were only for flying? Or perhaps they’re for ambience? Think again: a broom is as effective a spiritual cleanser as it is a household cleaning tool. Some maintain special ritual brooms for magickal use only. Some spells call for really special ritual brooms, intended to be used only once then destroyed, while other spells utilize any available broom, including the one you use for regular daily sweeping.
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.
Ground and Center before all magickal work to avoid depleting personal energy levels. Begin by being still, gathering within and releasing through the fee (and palms if need be) into the ground all static, chaotic internal energies. Now feel the inner calmness, centered around the heart, and draw up through the feet strong Earth energy (through the floor if indoor), feeling the power and energy rising up and intertwining with your own energies up through the legs, body, arms, neck, and head, out the top, circled around and up again until all portions of the body are in balance. Once this power is felt and is in balance, then Circle Casting, Ritual, Divination, and Spell Work may begin.
Grounding after all magickal work to avoid overload of personal energy levels; touch the Earth/floor with palms of the hands after magickal work and feel the excess energy drain out, leaving a balance of personal energy, augmented only by that amount of Earth necessary for healthy functioning of the body. Too much retained energy will result in headache, depression, or irritability. Too Little will result in fatigue, depression or faintness. You must find the inner balance and adjust according to how you feel.
Lost and Away powder (recipe below) has various uses, in addition to banishment. It’s also used to establish personal and psychic boundaries, as well as to prevent someone else from encroaching on those boundaries.
Write your target’s name thirteen times on a square of paper.
Sprinkle Lost and Away Powder on this paper.
Fold the paper up, always folding away from you.
Seal it with sealing wax, preferably red.
Bury this paper but mark the spot
Leave it buried for thirteen days, watering daily with War water
On the fourteenth day dig it uup and burn it .
Lost & Away Powder Recipe
Dirt from a crossroad
Mistletoe
Sulfur
Orris
Sage
Sometimes it’s not clear what or who needs to be banished. There’s just a prevailing sense of evil that needs to be expelled. This spell is most effective during the Dark Moon. An iron hammer is required, as is a flat rock and either a coffin nail or an old rusty nail.
Hammer the nail against the rock. The goal is not to pierce the rock but merely to score it three times across the face. Visualize what you are dispelling while you hammer.
Bury the stone far away.
Carry the nail in a red mojo bag, together with some crossroads and/or graveyard dirt.
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