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Words are sacred tools used for incantations, spells, and enchantments. To celebrate the birthday of the eighteenth century champion of the limerick, Edward Lear, write your own five-line rhyming poem using an A, A, B, B, A pattern of rhyme. Use your words to engage and entertain, educate and involve. Use your words to make magic, altering consciousness at will. Like the traditional mummers who shaped group energy, and magical practitioners who craft spells and incantations, use your words ...
We've all had the experience of loaning a book to a friend but then forgetting who we loaned it to. To help your book find its way back home, carry out this simple binding spell. Measure the book from top to bottom. Add four inches to this measurement, and then double the total. Cut a red cord or ribbon (for empowerment) to this length. (Example: If your book is ten inches tall, you'd calculate 10+4 = 14 x2 = 28.) When you're ready to loan the book, hold the cord in your hand and say ...
May is here and the bewitching season of spring is in full swing. To celebrate, why not bless your enchanged gardens with this garden Witch's charm? Go outside and walk around in your garden. Find your favorite spot and hold your hands out above the young plants, flowers, and herbs. Then visualize your loving energy streaming fron your hands and down into the plant life. A Garden Witch's magic begins with the earth, Bless these herbs and plants with power, health, growth, and ...
This is one of three days the ancient Romans practiced a ritual of exorcism to dispel the lemurs, ghosts of the restless dead. If anyone had these spirits lurking in their homes, they would lure them out by leaving a trail of black beans, throwing them over their shoulder without looking back. This should be done at midnight. Some say the homeowner should be barefoot while doing this; others say he should spit black beans from his mouth, and some say the person should walk backward. Mondays are ...
