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For those of us who want spells to pack as much wallop as possible, timing is everything. Element, Season, Moon phase, Day of the Week, Hour of the day, Color, Herb, Planet or "Following
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Various Collected Spells & Charms
Love
For love incense: apple blossoms, basil, catnip & rose petals
For love sachets: balm of Gilead buds, basil, caraway (lust), catnip & rose petals, clove buds, coriander seeds, dill weed, pink geranium flowers, jasmine flowers (spiritual love only)
Carry balm of Gilead buds to mend a broken heart.
Carry cyclamen blossoms to ease the grief of an ended love affair.
Grow cactus in the bedroom to preserve chastity.
Get an overly-ardent lover to smell camphor gum, and s/he'll lose interest immediately.
Use caraway seeds in charms for seeking a physical lover or to make one remember you.
Use lavendar flowers in charms to attract men for sexual affairs.
Use a light cinnamon lotion to stimulate the phallus. (Might burn!)
Use coriander seeds in a charm to find love.
Add a half-handful of dill seeds to your bath to attract women.
Mix ground orris root with crushed, dried gardenia petals. Lightly dust over body as an aphrodisiac for the opposite gender.
Use elecampane roots and leaves with mistletoe and vervain in love charms.
Wear fresh gardenia flowers to attract new friends and lovers.
Carry holly leaves and berries to heighten masculinity.
Fresh hyacinth flower sachets help you focus on love in the face of childbirth, or grief.
Give holly and ivy to newlyweds as a symbol of love.
Jasmine flowers attract spiritual love.
Wear a string of mature juniper berries to attract lovers who will not hurt you.
Eat lettuce leaves to cool lust.
Protection
For protection incense: avens herb, basil, dill weed, frankincense gum & cumin, horehound, hyssop
For protection sachets: burdock herb, dill weed or dill seed, garlic bulb or flower, hawthorn leaves, horehound, hyssop
Carry as an amulet: angelica root, balm of Gilead buds, avens herb, bay laurel
The avens herb is an amulet to ward against wild animals specifically, or as protection in general in a gris-gris bag or sachet.
Grow angelica, cyclamen, fern (shady), pink and red geranium, holly, lettuce and cactus in your garden or outside your home.
Grow ivy on a building's walls as a guardian.
Grow juniper at your doorstep.
Grow cactus in your home to ward against burglary and home invasion.
Grow cyclamen in your bedroom for psychic protection while sleeping.
Grow fern inside for general protection.
Carve an equal-armed cross amulet of ash, or garlic bulbs, to ward against drowning or shipwreck.
Carve dried burdock roots as protection against magic.
Carve hawthorn wood as an amulet against lightinging, and for good fishing.
Hang a little broom in your magic room as a protection.
Hang a cypress branch or cinquefoil herb at your door.
Wear a necklace of clove buds on a red thread, or hang near a baby's crib (out of reach!), to drive away hostile or negative forces and stop gossip.
Hand a bag of dried dill seeds near the cradle.
Hang a rope of garlic bulbs in the kitchen.
Spread burdock herb in a house or magic room to ward against negativity.
Fill a jar with cactus spines, rusty nails and old tacks, pins and needles. Add enough rue and rosemary leaves to fill the jar. Seal tightly and bury under your doorstep.
Use a little cinquefoil in protection spells, including spells to preserve or maintain money, health, wisdom and love.
Use three-leaf clovers in rituals for protecting youthful looks.
Carry a three-leaf clover or red geranium flowers for general protection.
Gather four-leaf clovers before dawn, then walk to the nearest hill. As the Sun rises, throw one clover to each of the four directions, beginning in North, calling upon the Elements to protect you from something specific (illness, military service, etc.) Pluck one more four-leaf clover as an amulet, and leave something in payment to the Earth.
Carry comfrey to protect yourself during travel. Put in every piece of luggage.
Scatter elder berries and leaves to the four winds.
Throw fern on hot coals for an aura of protection in the immediate area.
Dry unexpanded male fronds over the Midsummer fire. Carry these "lucky hands" as a protective amulet.
Add garlic flowers to decorations on a protective altar.
If outside, and in need of magical protection, draw a circle on the ground around yourself with a hazel twig.
Healing
Gather the first perfect bloom of anemone in Spring. Tie it up in a red cloth and carry to ward against disease.
For healing incense: apple blossoms, bay laurel, cinnamon
For a healing sachet: bay laurel, heliotrope, lavender flowers
Cut an apple in three pieces and rub each on a sick person's body or warts. Bury the pieces to banish the illness.
Burn asafoetida to drive away disease, colds and fever.
Hang a branch of fresh eucalyptus over the sickbed or in the sick room.
Carry a pouch of camphor gum around the neck to prevent colds.
Wear necklace of green eucalyptus pods to cure colds and sore throats.
Stuff a healing poppet or pillow with eucalyptus leaves. Include eucalyptus leaves in flowers sent to a sick person.
Ring a blue candle with eucalyptus leaves. Burn the candle for 3 hours.
Place fresh, peeled garlic bulbs in each room when disease threatens.
Clairvoyance
Burn acacia and sandalwood together to enhance meditation.
Burn balm of Gilead buds to create a material basis in which spirits may manifest during ritual.
Burn bay laurel leaves, frankincense gum or cinnamon bark to induce visions.
Put bay laurel leaves in a pillow for prophetic dreams.
Burn bistort herb with frankincense gum during divination.
Carry cypress wood to learn about all aspects of death.
Anoint eyelids daily with a simple infusion of eyebright.
Put heliotrope flowers under your pillow to dream of who robbed you.
Rub lightly crushed honeysuckle flowers on your forehead to heighten your powers of clairvoyance.
Carry lavender herb to see ghosts.
Altered States
Burn chamomile to induce sleep. Camphor gum in incense also induces sleep.
Add chamomile to incense to bring on a restful state for meditation.
Wear celandine to alleviate depression and lift your spirits.
Burn cinnamon bark and myrrh gum as incense for general magical working.
Use eyebright as a foundation for fluid condensers.
Burn frankincense gum to aid meditation.
Eat hazel nuts to gain wisdom.
To bring on a healing sleep, use a bath sachet of lavender flowers, then sleep on a pillow stuffed with dried hops herb.
Rubbing lettuce juice onto your forehead induces relaxation.
Add lemon verbena to any charm you want to strengthen, including to boost magical energy and to attract the opposite gender.
Cleansing
Bathe in a bath with a handful of anise seeds and a few bay leaves.
Burn avens herb during your ritual.
Burn betony herb at Midsummer in an outdoor fire. Jump through the cleansing smoke.
Purification
For a purifying bath sachet: basil, bay laurel, hyssop, lavender flowers
For purification incense: bay laurel, benzoin (general area), betony, broom, lavender flowers
Burn and scatter bay laurel on the floor during your ritual.
Use broom plant to sweep the surrounding area when working magic outside.
Consecrate ritual objects in the smoke of a cypress fire or frankincense gum.
Abundance & Fertility
Burn benzoin gum with cinnamon bark for business success.
Set bryony root on a piece of money to cause one's riches to grow.
Use chamomile in prosperity charms to draw money.
Place carnation on your altar for added energy.
Dry nine red carnations in the Sun, crumble the flowers. Pour one dram of carnation oil over the crumbled flowers, mix well and smolder on charcoal to generate energy.
On a Thursday after sunset during the waxing moon, mix together equal parts of cinquefoil, cinnamon bark, cloves, lemon balm. Add a whole tonka bean or vanilla bean. Carry in a rich purple cloth bag to increase riches.
A beauty wash: gather a lot of dew on May Day morning just before sunrise. Add three clover stalks. Cover the bowl with cloth and steep in a dark place all day. Beginning the next morning, and each morning until the water is used up, rub a little water on your face.
Add dragon's blood gum to any incense to increase its potency and effectiveness.
Gather two hazel twigs at night on Samhain. Tie them together with red or gold thread to form a solar cross. Use it as a good luck charm.
Hang a string of hazel nuts in your home for good luck.
A forked hazel twig makes a good diving rod for finding objects hidden in the ground.
Anoint High John the Conqueror root with mint oil and tie in a green or purple bag to attract money.
Add High John the Conqueror root to prosperity oils for anointing candles.
Ring green candles with honeysuckle flowers to attract money. Use the flowers in all prosperity sachets.
Use jasmine flowers in all prosperity rituals.
Pour apple cider over a newly-dug field.
Carry cyclamen flowers or white geranium flowers to aid in fertility.
Present brides with a bag of hazel nuts to ensure luck and fertility.
Carry an amulet of bistort if you wish to conceive a child.
Exorcism
Burn 1-3 during your ritual: dried angelica leaves, avens herb, asafoetida
For exorcism incense: basil, heliotrope
Prevent nightmares with a pillow of anise or betony.
Burn and scatter bay laurel on the floor during your ritual.
Use cactus spines to mark or write symbols on images of wax or roots.
Getting Rid of a Contaminated Object (by Rev. Su, 2008)
Things can easily still have attachments to former owners and their intents and lifestyles. If the item was manufactured under duress, it's already going to have bad vibes as part of its physical construction.Sea salt purifies especially when under direct full moon/sun light for three or seven days, and ritual tying can sometimes bind spirits into an object, but they are still there. Kind of like putting a lid on a moldy pot -- you can't see the mold anymore, and it's contained in one spot, but it's still there sending out microscopic spores into your environment.Burning is a good way to get rid of something, unless you think it is actually possessed, in which case burning can, in some cases, release the entity from physical binding to the object. No object, no boundary.I suggest burying. Let the Earth recycle it Herself.Use a crayon with a melted tip (candle flame, etc.) to write destruction runes all over it. (They can be Futhark runes alone or stacked/blended, or you can use the banishing air pentagram, or both!) Tie the statuette in a bundle, and write more banishing, purifying, destroying runes on the cloth, whatever makes sense to you. Put it in a hole that is at least three feet deep where it won't be disturbed by normal activity (so, not in a quarry or landfill or construction site). If anything else has been contaminated, do the same thing and bury it all in the same hole.Then make sure you say a prayer or charm to cleanse yourself. After doing all of that, you will have been in lots of surface contact with it, and you need some psychic hand sanitizer ;-)Then at home, change the way the room smells, rearrange things near where it was so it doesn't look like something is missing.
Weather & Seasons
Raise winds by throwing broom off a mountaintop.
Calm winds by burning broom herb.
Burn fern and heather outside to bring rain.
Throw henbane into water to make rain.
Carry bulbs of garlic on a mountain-climbing expedition for fair weather.
Cypress wood is a seasonal incense for Winter, or the Waning Moon.
Frankincense gum is useful in all sunrise rituals.
Throw lavender onto Midsummer fires as a sacrifice.
Spell Ingredient Substitutions
Blood = Apple cider
Wine = Apple cider
Poppet = Apple fruit, mandrake root, carved ash roots
Broom = Ash for staff, birch twigs for sweep, willow for binding
Wand = Ash branch, elder branch (defensive), hazel (divination)
Mandrake root = Bryony root
Moon = gardenia flower
Herbal Sources: Cunningham's "Magical Herbalism"
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Each planet in the solar system of the star, Sol (our sun), was assigned or displayed certain areas of control, enhancement or influence. In order to align a spell or ritual more to your purpose, it may serve you to choose a day of the week and even an hour of the day dedicated to the planet who "rules" your purpose. These correspondences are helpful, for instance, when a corresponding day is inconvenient. A day with a secondary correspondence may suffice if the act is performed in the primary planetary hour. It depends on how "hard core" you are. Some traditions "accept no substitutes." Other say, "Work with what you have at hand." Me, I'm a blend, but then - I'm a hedge witch, so it's only natural, eh?
There are plenty of references that have the list of Planetary Hours and Planetary Day Rulers. I would advise comparing three to see if you can spot the most common. (In my opinion, many authors tweak things just to be independent or unique without really thinking about the effect these changes might have on unsuspecting magic wielders.)
To find the exact sunrise and sunset times, go to the U.S. Naval Observatory web site. They've been doing that sort of thing for centuries. They can tell you the exact moment of twilight (morning or evening) and when the moon is directly overhead. You can printout charts for an entire year's worth of data! It is a veritable gold mine of solar and lunar timing data! If you get into that sort of thing, of course...
There are solar phases which occur on a daily basis: Dawn, Morning, Midday, and Evening. Darkness doesn't count because the sun is always shining somewhere on the planet, right?
Lunar phases take longer - obviously. Trinitarians try to correspond the phases to Maiden, Mother and Crone, although that leaves out the third quarter moon. In my Elemental tradition, there are four phases of life (you know, "as above, so below") so that would be Maiden, Mother, Queen, and Crone.
As with Planetary Rulers, there are p l e n t y of opinions about what each phase is for. So, go on, Grasshopper - you gotta read to succeed! Don't ever expect to find all the answers in one place!
This part can be tricky. Do you go with your own sun sign? The sun sign of the target, if it's not yourself? Or maybe you are waiting for the sun to be in a certain sign to achieve certain results. Of course, they only change every thirty days or so, which means quite a long wait in some cases. Anything you do will always be more powerful in your native sign.
Don't forget, the moon also travels through each sign, about every three days, in fact. Since the moon reflects the sun's light, it's a faster way to get what you need. Be careful though - being reflected changes the quality, so you get more emotive aspects of the sign than active aspects.
Also, there are days when the moon isn't in any sign, in other words, when the moon is traveling across bits of sky that don't happen to have a constellation of the Zodiac in them. That is called "void of course." Please don't waste your time doing any kind of magic during this time. Get into the habit of checking your magical datebook before any spell or ritual.
Earth, Air, Fire, Water - the four basic components of life. In the traditional Chinese system (of medicine) they use Wood instead of Earth, and add Metal. Many people add Spirit.
The four (or five) Elements can also correspond to the parts of the Witch's Pyramid, as shown below:
(c) 2008 by Reverend Su Leone
It is my personal theory that there is an opposite to "ire - to go" and a reflection of the pyramid that points down. This is a somewhat Kabbalistic worldview.
The names of the planets, with the exception of Earth, are also the names from the Greco-Roman pantheon. These planets also have alchemical symbols. Either the astrological or the alchemical symbol for these planet-gods can be inscribed on any number of ritual items to power or boost a spell.
Some people just wing it. They go by their gut (after all, there are neural clusters in your stomach and abdomen!) If it feels right, or you can rationalize it to your purpose, it will work. To work magic, all the brain really needs is a clear purpose and an altered state. It's GOT to make sense to the caster to work!