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Today is both a new moon and Chocolate Day (as part of the celebratory week leading up to Valentine’s Day)—which is a pretty tasty combination! The new moon is an excellent time to shift our focus inward, which can be great for healing but may cause anxiety as well, especially if we can only seem to focus on what we’ve done wrong. A little dark chocolate can help bring some sweetness and grounding to the energy. There’s a wide variety of dark chocolate bars and morsels ...
Try this with any problem for which no obvious solution seems to be in sight. Light a candle and call on the Goddess (or call on the Divine in another way). On a scrap of paper, write: Thank you for solving the issuewith ____ in an even better waythan I ever could have envisioned.I am so grateful that I neverhave to worry about it again. Fold or roll up the paper and place it in your cauldron or in a small box with a lid. As you literally close the lid on the problem, feel that you are ...
An altar provides a focus for mystical practice. It can provide a place for worship, spellcasting, or whatever else you need. In the process, however, it tends to pick up stray bits of energy. Over time, these can build up enough to become distracting, rather like bug spots on a windshield. So an altar needs to be cleaned and blessed periodically. Begin by removing all the things on the altar—candlesticks, statuettes, bowls, and so on. Take off the altar cloth. If it’s washable, ...
Use this spell to help cleanse your body of baneful energies and spark healing. Take a washcloth dampened with cool water and rub it slowly over your skin, beginning at your face and then going down your neck, across your chest and down each arm, down your torso, and down each leg. Then boil this washcloth in a pot of heavily salted water. As the washcloth boils, drink a glass of cold, filtered spring water, envisioning the refreshing liquid cleansing your body with each drink. Let the ...
