Our brains are constantly changing and developing, and every challenge we face offers us a chance to learn. For this spell to encourage mental clarity and growth, you’ll need:* A purple candle and holder* A small open bowl or jar* A sharpened pencil* Matches* One or more of fluorite, amethyst, lapis, or tiger eye* One or more of fresh or dried peppermint, turmeric, basil, or green tea* A small bell Place the candle, bowl, and pencil on your altar. Light the candle safely. Place the gems ...
Today, collect nine autumn leaves that have already fallen. (If there aren’t any fallen leaves in your area, you can use rose petals instead.) Light a stick of cedar incense on your altar. Take some deep breaths, center yourself, and call on the Great Goddess. Bring to mind a problem, issue, or block from which you would like to liberate yourself. From your heart, ask the Goddess to help you heal, unravel, and dissipate this issue in all directions of time. Hold the leaves between your ...
Ac cording to Jewish tradition, today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It’s a good time for clearing away past mistakes and negative energy. Asking forgiveness for wrongs helps to heal relationships too. For this spell you will need a bowl of water, a pinch of salt, and a hand towel. Sprinkle the salt over the water and say:By the tears of the sea,Be pure and blessed be. Rinse your hands with the water and say:Where salt and water go,May sacred clearing flow. Sprinkle the water ...
Shakespeare invented a word that needs to be in wider use today: rudesby. It means exactly what it sounds like: an ill-mannered, uncivil person. Two of his strong female characters use the word. Katherine and Olivia dismiss hangers-on in their houses with “mad-brain rudesby” and “Rudesby, be gone!” So who’s been hanging around you lately? What pest is driving you berserk? Take or find a photo of the rudesby, set it on your altar, and speak the banishing ...