Create this altar using warming spices and sugar to sweeten your autumn. Go outdoors and clear a onefoot space; you can mark it out with chalk. In the center of the space, pour a small amount of sugar and shape it into a two-to-three-inch circle. Sprinkle the following four spices around the sugar in concentric circles, invoking the power of each spice as you work:

Cloves to cleanse body and soul,
Ginger for prosperity, silver, and gold.
Cinnamon for lucky starts,
Cardamom to lift my heart.

Now walk around the circles clockwise three times as you recite this chant to sweeten your autumn:

Cooler days,
Darker nights.
Sweet sugar,
Warming spice.
I love the fall!