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In the country, where you can truly experience the season, a sweet serenity settles over the land now. The harvest is underway, and nature begins to relax. This is also a good time for you to experience a little serenity. Perform this spell outside in the evening. If that’s not possible, perform it at your altar. You’ll need a calming herb, such as lavender, fresh or dried. Sit on the ground or floor. Inhale the herb’s scent and say: Earth spirit, serenity hassettled over ...
The Aquarius full moon is perfect for setting in motion positive changes that require a fresh perspective and an improved frame of mind, which includes breaking habits that no longer serve us. Ideally under the light of the full moon, stand on the earth barefoot. Hold a glass bottle of water in both hands. Relax and center your mind. Get in touch with the energy of the habit you want to break. Feel or sense it as roots, cobwebs, or cords in your aura, attached to the habit. Mentally send this ...
Take a cauldron or bowl (representing the future mother’s womb) and fill it with clean water, along with essential oils associated with protection (such as frankincense or cedarwood). To the water, add the energies of the elements via a symbol or token for each of them (such as air/feather, earth/stone, fire/ash, and water/seashell), along with symbols that to you and the mother are representative of possibility, health, and safety. Finally, add a seed to the bowl (to represent the ...
Lammas is the most important day in my personal ritual calendar (the anniversary of my initiation), along with being the first harvest. Prepare your ritual space, and have offerings of fresh-baked cornbread, grapes, and beer. Cast a circle with your wand, athame, or hand. Start in the north or the east. Use your tool to send out energy, defining the sacred circle you will use, turning clockwise until you end up in the direction in which you began. Then invite the directions, starting with the ...
