Need a boost of confidence, energy, and power at any time? This spell’s for you. This is a simple solar enchanted charm that anyone can do.
What’s needed:
Something red that you’ll wear or carry on your person (see notes)
Sun water (see notes)
Pinch of any of these: coffee, burdock, calendula, cinnamon, cinquefoil, dragon’s blood, rosemary, thyme (see notes)
Take your red item and set it in the sun for about an hour. When you put the item down in the sun, say “Open yourself to sunlight and become powerful. You gain energy be simply being.”
About an hour later, pick up the item (carefully, it might be hot) and say, “You’re as powerful as the sun.”
Sprinkle a bit of the selected herb over the red item and say, “You grow in power without being drained.”
Lightly sprinkle sun water across the red item and say, “Your power remains strong, even when tested.”
Dry the item thoroughly and put on the item or carry it in your pocket. Then say, “Your power confers to me. I am powerful, full of energy, and bright as the sun.”
This item is now an enchanted item and grant you power and energy just by carrying it. To re-energize it, simply place it in the sun.
Notes:
Anything red will do, such as a piece of clothing (even underwear) or jewelry, but it can be a small red charm or piece of decoration. A cellphone case is another good choice.
Make sure your red item can handle direct sunlight and can’t be damaged by water.
Sun water is water that has been set in pure sunlight to gain solar energy
Any of the herbs and ingredients will do, but be cautious. Some, such as coffee, cinnamon, and dragon’s blood, can stain cloth.
This spell is for cleansing yourself as part of the grieving process after discovering your lover has cheated on you.
This spell is for cleansing yourself after discovering your lover (spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, significant other, etc) has cheated on you. They were having an affair without your knowledge or consent.
When this happens, there’s a number of spells that can be helpful to you, such as cleansing, healing, protection, revenge, and so on. This specific spell is intended for the later stages of the grieving process, as it’s meant to smooth the way for letting go and moving on.
When to use this spell: You’ve had your falling out, you’ve broken up, you’ve given back each other’s stuff, changed the locks, had your bitter words with one another. You’ve grieved the relationship, have little to do with your now ex-lover, and are mostly ready to move on.
If you’re using a curse in your acts of revenge, use this spell after cleansing yourself from the curse.
What you’ll need:
Moon water
Lemon
Knife
Sea salt
Luxury bath/shower stuff (see notes)
Taglock / target’s personal item (optional)
First, stir one tablespoon (or about 15 grams) of salt for every cup (8 ounces) of moon water until the salt is entirely dissolved. This creates clean salt water. You can add more or less salt to your preference. You can also gently heat the water to make the salt dissolve more easily, but my personal preference is to do it without heating the moon water.
Next, take the lemon and carve the name of your ex-lover onto it. If you still have something belonging to that ex-lover (the taglock), you can roll the lemon over that item to really connect it to your target.
Now, focusing all of your rage, shame, embarrassment, betrayal, and whatever else you’re feeling, cut the lemon into as many pieces as you can/ want to. Just be careful when handling the knife!
Take the lemon and the taglock item and throw it in the trash. You can use some tasteful (or untasteful) words here to express how over you are with that ex-lover. You’re kicking them to the curb, spiritually and emotionally.
Once done, it’s cleansing time. In the bath or shower, pour the salted moon water over your body. Don’t get it in your eyes or face. It will be cold, so you may wish to pour the water on a body sponge or washcloth and wash your body with that.
During this time, avoid thinking about the whole ex-lover situation. If your mind drifts towards your ex-lover, intentionally bring it back to a neutral or better headspace. Instead, work on thinking about your next steps that you’re feeling positive about or looking forward to.
Finally, it’s time for some personal care of your body. Take a luxurious shower or bath. Whatever that fantasy is for you, do it. Maybe it’s sipping wine while in a foamy bubble bath and listening to some tunes. Or it’s a flower petal strewn tub and a good book. It could be a steamy shower and a silky sugar scrub. This is something that should make you feel amazing about yourself, something completely indulgent to reclaim your energy and appreciate yourself and your body.
You can repeat the salted moon water cleansing followed by the fancy shower/bath any time you feel particularly emotional about you ex-lover or you have to deal with them.
Notes:
I specify throwing the lemon in the trash, rather than the compost bin or something similar, as you want to remove this person from your life. To me, adding the lemon to your compost bin may give them the chance to come back when you don’t want them to.
The luxury bath/shower things is entirely personal to you. Examples of stuff you might use in a much-needed indulgent shower or bath: sugar scrubs, flower petals, fancy soaps, body oils, bath bubble liquid, your favorite book, a good saucy book, bottle of wine or alcohol, aromatherapy oils, candles, and so on. Whatever feels luxurious to you.
If you’re thinking about changing up your look by dying your hair or cutting it, do this after the moon water cleansing but before the bath/shower.
Make sure you either home grow your flower petals, get organic flowers, or otherwise thoroughly wash your flower petals. Commercial growers may have used pesticides in the growing process, so it’s best to wash the petals when using them in rituals that will have the flowers touch your skin.
This spell is inspired by “Apple Romantic Cleansing Spell” found on page 695 of Judika Illes’ The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells, Harper Collins 2008 edition.
This spell is to increase communication between former lovers. This spell isn’t intended to bring your ex back, but it’s intended to open the lines of communication to see if reuniting is even possible.
What you’ll need:
Yellow candle
Something to carve the candle with
Carve the name of your ex in the candle’s side. It doesn’t need to be deep, large, or beautiful. Messy and tiny is fine.
Light the candle and say your ex’s name then the following:
“Let’s talk and share the good times.
I want attention from you.
I want to keep the conversation going.
I want to start anew.
Please, talk to me.”
Blow out the candle and repeat once day until the candle runs out. If they don’t call or talk to you before the candle runs out, then accept that it really is over and they do not want to talk to you.
Notes:
You can add additional sympathetic magic to this spell. A lock of hair, an old sweatshirt, a picture of you together, whatever. Place these items around or under the candle.
Fire safety is important. Make sure your candle is in a candle holder or on a candle plate.
Originally, this spell’s first draft was written as this:
“Let’s talk and share the good times. / What can I do to get attention from you? / What can I say to keep the conversation going? / Can we start anew? / Please, talk to me.”
If that sounds/feels better to you, use that. It will change the spell, as it’s closer to a divination or a entreating than commanding.
A simple knot spell to cleanse and protect your space every time you open the door.
The best part of this spell is that it will cleanse and protect the space daily. It’s also super easy for beginners and simple to customize.
Make sure you read the notes for color variances and tips!
What you’ll need:
Five white pieces of cord, yarn, embroidery floss, rope, etc.
One brown piece of cord, yarn, embroidery floss, rope, etc.
One black piece of cord, yarn embroidery floss, rope, etc.
One blue piece of cord, yarn, embroidery floss, rope, etc.
One green piece of cord, yarn, embroidery floss, rope, etc.
One yellow or gold piece of cord, yarn, embroidery floss, rope, etc.
Bell
Collect your cords together and knot them once at the top while saying “This spell has begun.”
Make second knot while saying, “This space is home.”
Make third knot while saying, “This space is mine.”
Make a fourth knot while saying, “This space is happy.”
Make a fifth knot while saying, “This space is safe”
Make a six knot while saying, “This space is protected”
Make a seventh knot while saying, “This space is clean.”
Make an eight knot while saying, “This space is cleansed.”
For the ninth and final knot, slid the bell onto the cords and knot it along or above the final knot. Do this while saying, “Every time this bell rings, this spell begins again.”
Nail or pin the knotted spell above the door or on the door knob.
Notes:
Use your own color association to pick cord colors.
You can always add more while or just use plain while cord for this spell
You can enchant each cord first for your purposes.
You can soak the cord material in cleaning water, moon water, or enchanted water to add a bit of extra magic. You can wash the bell the same way.
The bell doesn’t need to be big or fancy, but brass is a good choice if you’re going to buy a bell specifically for this spell.
You can write or engrave on the bell for added magic.
You can add beads to the cord, but make sure they aren’t beads that will break or annoy you when banging into the door.
If you’d prefer, you can braid, crochet, or otherwise interweave the cords in whatever way you like. I usually braid it, but to each their own.
I like to work in a finished loop at the top of the cord spell sometimes to give the cord spell something to hang from, not unlike a loop in a macramé plant hanger, but I’ve also just used a push pin to pin the spell to the wall.
Tying it on the doorknob works well, but make sure it won’t get in the way of opening and closing the door.
Rosemary for health, quick thinking, making memories and friends
Cinnamon for trade, money, and success
Garlic for protection while traveling
Pick whichever of these you’ll need: All-spice for determination, Borage for courage, Mugwort to avoid weariness during travel, Eyebright to see opportunities, Snapdragon to protect against scams and theft
Any of the following: Mullein, Comfrey, Apple blossoms, Nettle, Cannabis, Thyme, Rose, Basil, Clover, Cinquefoil, Peppermint, Rue (optional)
Strainer
Baking sheet pan
Drying rack (optional) (see notes)
Gather the herbs you want to use and steep them in solar water for at least 15 minutes. You only need about 3 ounces (1/3 cup) of solar water. When steeped and cool, strain the tisane.
Place your piece of paper on a baking sheet pan. Pour the tisane over your piece of paper until the paper is soaked through. Then, carefully put the piece of paper on a drying rack or somewhere it can dry. It may take a day to fully dry.
While the paper is drying, sit down and write out on scrap paper or on the computer the kind of adventure you want to have. This is your chance to get the wording of the written spell as perfect as you can.
The adventure can be anything. It could be a going to a retreat, school trip, museum, road trip, or flying to a new city for vacation or visit a friend. It could be smaller, such as going to a new bar, dance club, or even a book club. Try and phrase it like it’s a job description, contract, advertisement, or an even invitation. Make sure to add any specifications you want, like expenses paid, it harms none, or something similar. At the end of the paper, write “I agree to this contract.” and draw a line for you to sign your name on later.
Once the paper is dry and you’re happy with your wording, copy the written spell onto your dyed paper.
Now, sign your name on the blank line you made earlier. You may use your real name or a magical one. The choice is yours.
Notes:
Solar water or sun water is water that has absorbed sunshine. Set a clear jar of water out in the bright sunlight for at least an hour.
Remember, the more constraints and restrictions you add to a spell, the less chances it’ll work. You can write “all expenses paid”, but that’s less likely then “the trip will cost less than $300”. How many free trips are there? That being said, it does happen! I’ve used this spell with the simple addition of “as cheaply as possible” and visited a city to do a favor for someone with my only expenses being a coffee run for myself.
You can add any herbs that make sense for your purposes.
You can use a magical ink to copy the written spell over or sign your name
A spell to create a temporary protective bubble around an object or person.
There are many types of protection spells out there – wards, barriers, and so on. This spell is essentially an energy barrier. It’s intended to be raised quickly, burn on energy expended to create it, and then dissapate over time. A couple of hours or maybe a few days at most.
If you’re particularly skilled in energy manipulation, you can create energy barriers quickly without the extra steps this spell offers. It’s more of a technique than a spell. For example, I can take the roof of my car twice to create a barrier around the entire vehicle, making sure I arrive safely despite the snow storm I’m driving through. I do this very regularly, as I’m often driving through crappy weather in the dark. It lasts less than fifteen hours or so when done without any extra effort and has a risdual protective effect for another few days after that. Then I’d either renew it, as needed. After a while, the object that is continually protected (the car, in this example) will contain protective energy for longer periods of time. It may even eventually become passively protective and require no renewal processes.
Regardless, that’s not the point of this spell. This is the spell version of that energy manipulation technique.
What you’ll need:
Clear ball of any size and made of any material (plastic, glass, stone, etc ) that reminds you of a bubble. [see notes]
This first step can be skipped. If you’re skilled at energy manipulation, casting your energy over and through it, making it familiar to you. You do not wish to warm it. The energy should be slightly cool. By this I mean the energy cast should be directed or forced so much as passively passed to the item. Rubbing it or simply holding it should do the job. If the energy is warm, don’t worry about it. Leave it sit for a few hours until the energy feels cool and slightly less active then continue with the spell. The idea is to remind you of a cool, protective, slightly irridescent bubble when you look at this object.
On a full moon night, take the clear ball in your hands and hold it up so the full moon is visible through the clear ball. Say the following:
“This is a bubble of moonlight.
It protect all it encircles.
By my power and the power of the moon.”
Dip the clear ball into the full moon water. You can, alternatively, pour, sprinkle, or brush the water on instead.
Let the clear ball dry in the moonlight. Take it away before sunrise.
When ready to deploy the spell, take the clear ball in your hand and say:
“Moonlit bubble,
Encircle this [target]”.
Place the clear ball inside or on top of the object you’re protective. If it’s a person, they should hold the clear ball or stick it in a pocket. If it’s a car, then it should be placed somewhere in the vehicle, like the middle console or a pocket behind the seat.
Ideally, what should happen is the target now has a bubble-like protection spell around them. It will keep them relatively safe from all types of harm for a short period of time. The more damage the spell takes, the faster the spell will die.
The spell is not intended to be used for long-term. After the usage or several usages, the clear ball will need recharging. Cast the spell again.
Notes:
The clear ball here is to imitate a bubble. Clear irridescent coated glass would be perfect for this, but plastic is probably the more practical (and cheaper) choice. Any clear ball of whatever will work though – even a small round quartz crystal bead would be good. For most practical usages, the smaller the better to make it easy to carry and use. Ornaments (like the ones used for holiday trees) are probably the easiest to acquire cheaply in whatever size you want.
If you use clear plastic ornaments, the kind tht are hollow inside, you could even fill the ball with protective herbs or sigils, BUT the whole point of the clear ball is to resemble a bubble. If the ball is full, it no longer looks like a bubble, so you may want to avoid filling it. Use your own discretion here.
You could use bubbles themselves as the clear ball here. I chose to use a more physical object because that’s easier and less messy than bubbles are. But this spell totally works with actual bubbles.
When it comes to moonlight, the more direct the moonlight, the better. Do as best you can.
This spell can be cast for you by This Crooked Crown.
A shower cleansing or renewal spell or meditation is a commonly run into concept. People have been using them for years and similar concepts are found all over the place, some deeply rooted in religion and tradition.
This spell is not new grounds. It doesn’t have to be. If it resonates with you, then it does its job.
This is less a cleansing spell, and more of a renewal spell. It lives firmly in the arena of energy manipulation. Once you get use to doing it, the practice will feel less forced and more seamless. A part of the showering experience.
First, go ahead and prep for your shower. This can be pinning up hair, undressing, getting the towels out. Whatever. Try and keep your mind serene during this time. If you’re use to meditation, the idea of recognizing the thoughts and letting them go should apply here. It’s not that you don’t want to think, it’s that you don’t want to linger on any speciic thoughts right now.
Once you’re in the shower, go ahead and rinse off first. While doing this, imagine all the grim and sludge running off you. Think of the bad experiences you’ve had, the unpleasant emotions you’ve held onto, the resentments, regrets, and so on. Any unwanted energy should slid of you.
Once you fee like you’ve cleared the energetic sludge from yourself, go ahead with your usual showering stuff. Soap, shampoo, conditioner, etc.
When you’re about finished with the shower, picture yourself drawing energy from the water itself. The water is its own element, so draw power from the strength and gentleness water can provide. Cycle this energy up and down your body, moving it along your limbs and blood stream. This is energy manipulationIf you’re familiar with auras, then it will feel like your aura has been cleansed and balancing.
If you’re unfamiliar with how energy manipulation works, concentrate on a part of your body, such as your hand for a moment and push internally, focusing the energy to gather in your hand. It may feel warm or tingly.
When you’ve cycled the energy through your body a few times, you can finish up your shower and get on with the day.
NOTES:
You can use affirmations, meditation, chanting, or spellwork during the shower to focus the ritual.
Using different scented shampoos, soaps, etc to double up on your purpose for the day is also a good idea. Use vanilla for a meeting and fruit or flower scented stuff for date night.
Moon water is often used in spells for hair growth. This hair rinse will help with hair growth.
It may not work for all hair types, so do a test with a bit of hair first to make sure you don’t have any negative reactions. Also, I’m a witch, not a doctor, so nothing’s guaranteed.
Ingredients:
Waxing or new moon water
Rose petals
Lavender
Rosemary without the stems
Hibiscus petals
Gather a half a cup (4 ounces) each of crushed rose petals, lavender, rosemary, and crushed hibiscus petals. Simmer in one cup (8 ounces) of new moon or waxing moon water. Strain and let cool.
Pour over your hair somewhere in your hair care routine, probably after shampooing but before leave in-conditioner, but it depends on your hair care routine.
As you pour the water over your hair, say or think the following,
“Water flows The moon grows My hair flows and grows and never slows.”
Notes:
My hair’s long, so I put as much hair as possible, ends first, into a large bowl until dripping wet. Then I slowly pour or scoop the rest of the water over my scalp in small passes. This is also good if you don’t like being shocked, as the water in the bowl will probably be colder than your shower water.
Essential oils can be used in place of the herbs. Just add a few drops of the essential oils in a cup of moon water.
You can an oil using castor oil, coconut oil, avocado oil instead of water. Create a double boiler with 1 cup of oil and half a cup each of rose petals, hibiscus petals, rosemary without the stems, and lavender buds. Simmer for 15-20 minutes, strain the oil into a glass jar. Let the infused oil sit in waxing moonlight or under a new moon.
Infusing distilled water into moon water and adding essential oils will allow you to add it into a spray bottle. This option is nice as you can use the water daily at night before you go to bed or as part of your styling routine.
This spell’s intention is to help you get a good night’s sleep. It’s not intented to keep you asleep or cure insomnia. It’s more of a “I have a job interview and want a good night’s sleep”.
What you’ll need:
Lavender flowers
Vervain
Mugwort (or wormwood)
Calendula
Chamomile
Cloth bag
Gather the above ingredients and place them in the bag but don’t close it yet. Say the following:
“Good sleep, find me“
Wrap me in warmth and darkness and dreams“
Close the bag up and say the following:
“I wake at my desired hour
Full of good dreams and energy
Full of life and vitality
Good sleep, find me.“
Notes:
Do not use anything you’re allergic to. I feel like this should be obvious, but it needs repeating.
If you like, you can swap some of the iggredients out for sweet smelling flowers you like or herbs that make you feel sleepy. Think, sleeping in a warm field (but safe from bugs and other pests).
This cloth bag does not have to be special. It can be hot glued or stapled together. It can be that one lone sock that the Sock Monster in the Laundry Room ate the pair to. It has to be something that’s soft to go under or near your pillow but also not a jar.
Happy Halloween! Here’s 13 spells to use on Halloween. There are many spells that are suppose to work best on Halloween. There’s wishing spells, love spells, luck spells, divination, and more. Most I’ve pulled from Judika Illes’ The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells and I’ve included the sources when possible.
I’m mostly sharing spells that would be fun to try in a secular context, spur of the moments, or with little prep. Most of them are easy enough beginners, laypersons, or the curious can try with little to no knowledge or tools. A few can even be tried at parties or with children.
Additionally, dumb suppers or dumb dinners are very common on Halloween as a means of ancestor worship. Depending on the tradition, either a table setting is placed for the person you wish to invite at your regular sit-down dinner, or a special meal is planned with the exact intention of inviting a spirit or spirits or ancestors. A more casual approach would be to set a plate, glass, and utensils off the side at a party so the spirit may help themselves. There’s lots of rituals posted about this rituals, so have a quick google to see if one of these rituals is right for you.
Fallng Leaves Wish
“If you can carch a leaf falling from a tree before it touches the ground, on Hallowe’en, you can have a wish.”
Source: Opie, Iona & Tatem, Moira. A Dictionry of Superstitions. Oxford University Press 1992 edition. Page 230
Note, other versions of this supersition say it can be done any time of the autumn season and that it grants good luck, a good day, or a good year instead of a wish.
Halloween Wishing Spell
“At midnight on Halloween stand naked before a mirror in a room lit only by a single candle. Silently make your secret wish. Don’t speak until morning.”
Source: Illes, Judika. The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells. Harper Collins 2008 edition. Page 763.
Halloween Apple Luck Spell
“After nightfall on October 31st, each member of the household receives and apple. Apples may be distributed by hand or you may bob for them, as desired. Everyone must eat their one for a year of good luck.”
Source: Illes, Judika. The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells. Harper Collins 2008 edition. Page 738
Halloween Candle Luck Spell
“At midnight on October 31st, burn orange and black candles. Allow them to burn out naturally to receive a year of good luck.”
Source: Illes, Judika. The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells. Harper Collins 2008 edition. Page 738
Halloween [Love] Spell
“1. Write your romantic affirmations and aspiration on a piece of paper.
2. Fold it up over either a lump of dragon’s blood resin or some dragon’s blood powder.
“Get a candle, set it up, and light it, and stick pins in it – every pin has to have a ‘ditty’ said (this ‘ditty’ is forgotten, unfortunately, but each pin seems to stand for a separate man known to the charm worker.) The candle burns down first to one pin then to another ehen it gets to the right man the door will open and he will appear.”
Source: Opie, Iona & Tatem, Moira. A Dictionary of Superstitions. Oxford University Press 1992 edition. Page 55
Three Dishes Divination
“Take three dishes, put clean water in one, foul water in another, and leave the third empty: blind-fold a person, and lead him to the hearth were the dishes are ranged; he (or she) dips the left hand: if by chance in the clean water, the future husband or wife will come to the bar of Matrimoney a maid; if in the foul, a widow; if in the empty dish, it foretells, with equal certainty, no marriage at all. It is repeated three times, and every time the arrangement of the dishes is altered.”
Souce: Source: Opie, Iona & Tatem, Moira. A Dictionary of Superstitions. Oxford University Press 1992 edition. Page 120
Wind Divination
“According to Welsh tradition, anyone going to a crossroads on Hallowe’en and listening carefully to the wind may learn what the next year has in store and, when the church clock strikes midnight, will hear a list of the names of those who are to die in the locality over the next twelve months.”
“The following Hallowe’en charm was practised recently, to satisfy a morbid desire to know if any member of the family would die during the coming year. An ivy leaf was taken for each one and placed in a bowl of water, to remain all night. The leaves were marked, so that each person knew his or her own, and it was believed that any to die soon would have a coffin marked on the leaf in the morning.”
Source: Opie, Iona & Tatem, Moira. A Dictionary of Superstitions. Oxford University Press 1992 edition. Page 214
Love Oracle (13) Halloween Daphnomancy
“1. Sit before a low but steady fire in the fireplace. Gaze into the flame.
2. Focus on your beloved or on your desires. Formulate your question.
3. Have a small supply of bay leaves at hand. Without taking your eyes off the fire and your mind from your desire, toss a small handful of bay leaves into the fire.
4. Chant:
“Laurel leaves that burn in the fire.
Draw to me my heart’s desire.”
5. Once the flames die down, repeat again for a total of three repetitions.
If the flames shoot up, or leaves crackle and pop, you’ve received very auspicious signs: your wishes will be fulfilled. However, quiet leaves and dim flames counsel patience or perhaps a change of plans.”
“Take a candle, and go alone to a looking-glass; eat an apple before it and some traditions say, you should comb your hair all the time; the face of your conjugal companion, to be, will be seen in the glass, as if peeping over your shoulder.”
Source: Opie, Iona & Tatem, Moira. A Dictionary of Superstitions. Oxford University Press 1992 edition. Page 252
“Stand before a looking-glass, combing your hair with one hand and eating an apple held in the other, when the face of the man you are to marry will be seen in the glass looking over your shoulder.”
Source: Opie, Iona & Tatem, Moira. A Dictionary of Superstitions. Oxford University Press 1992 edition. Page 252
“Superstition suggest that, if a girl stands before a mirror while eating and apple and combing her hair at midnight on Hallowe’en, her future husband’s immage will be reflected in the glass over her left shoulder.”
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