Looking for simple solutions for today's problems: computer viruses, traffic that drives you crazy, and an overextended schedule?
There's an easy way to incorporate magic into your life without adding more stress to it. Everyday Magic updates the ancient arts to fit your busy lifestyle. It promotes the use of modern convenience items as viable magical tools, and it incorporates the use of easy-to-find spell ingredients—most of which are already in your kitchen cabinet. It discusses the items and forces that boost magical work, as well as offering a multitude of time-saving tips and a large assortment of recipes for creating your own incenses, potions, and powders. More than 300 spells and rituals cover the everyday concerns of the modern practitioner.
— Set your spell into motion and speed up the results with "magical boosters" — Magnify your focused intent and energy flow with herbs, flowers, trees, and stones — Learn how to perform ancient arts with modern tools: your coffee maker, blender and crock pot — Make your own magical powders, sachets, bath salts, potpourris, incenses and oils — Discover the secret to success in magical workings — Practical spells for more than 300 purposes
Materials 1 Purple Candle 1 Teaspoon dried mugwort or powdered cinnamon 1 Small piece of clear quartz, opal, or orange calcite Nagchampa, sandalwood, or dragon’s blood incense Vegetable Oil Begin by anointing the candle with the oil and rolling it in the mugwort or cinnamon. Light the candle and the incense, then ground and center by breathing in the grounding energy of the earth and exhaling...
From Everyday Magic, by Dorothy Morrison Rise well before daybreak and pour yourself a glass of orange juice. Taking the juice with you, go outside and sit comfortably, facing East. Just as the Sun begins to rise over the horizon, hold up the glass in salute and say: Oh Fiery Globe that rises high, I toast Your birth in the dark of sky! I greet Your bright and shining rays And thank You for...
Materials Length of black embroidery floss cut to the size of your waist Take the floss outdoors as the sun begins to set, and spend a moment or two thinking about the things that keep you from losing the excess weight. Then tie nine evenly spaced knots in the floss, saying with each: First knot: By knot of one, I now ignite A reduction in my appetiteSecond knot: By knot of two, my metabolism...
We are all feeling the effects of a tough economy and having to make difficult choices about how we spend whatever money we still have. And this concern can affect our Witchy lives as well as our mundane one. Let’s face it—Witchcraft can cost you a lot of money if you’re not careful: ritual garb and velvet cloaks, athames and wands, crystals,... read this article
