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ОглавлениеAny metaphysician will tell you that the most common request for help involve matters of the heart. Witchcraft is based on the knowledge that our destinies lie in our own hands, even where love is concerned. So why suffer the slings and arrows of love gone wrong when you can do something about it? Why spend a Saturday evening alone when you already know the object of your desire? And why doubt your own power to attract love when a little herbal chemistry can make you virtually irresistible? Magic not only influences desired outcomes but empowers one’s self and fosters personal growth. What better way to begin this process than with spells for love: spells that create the potential for love, draw the attention and devotion of a lover, strengthen the union between an existing couple, invoke sexual magic, heal a broken heart, and perhaps most importantly, fill your own heart with love and compassion for yourself. Inside this book are secret recipes for aphrodisiacs, ritual celebrations for the high holidays of love, and insight into the mysterious realm of the moon and the stars.
Your Shrine to Love
An altar is a place of power—your personal power—where you can make magic. It should be an expression of your deepest self, filled with artifacts that hold personal resonance. Allow your altar to be a work in progress that changes with the seasons and reflects your inner cycles.
To create your altar, find a small table and drape it in richly colored, luxurious fabrics—perhaps red satin or a burgundy velvet scarf. Take one red and one pink candle and arrange them around a sweet-smelling incense such as amber, rose, or jasmine. Decorate your altar with tokens that represent love to you: a heart-shaped chunk of ruby glass, potpourri made with rose and amethyst, a photo of your lover. Fridays are the time for spelling love, right before dawn. Before you light your candles, anoint them with a love oil you select from the following pages.
Scent your wrists, your throat, and your left breast over your heart with the same oil. Jasmine and rose have very powerful love vibrations to attract and charm a lover. If you desire sexual results, look into the flame of the red candle; if your desire is affection or flirtation, look at the pink candle instead. This simple spell, said aloud, will create loving magic:
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Venus, cast your light on me,
a goddess for today I’ll be.
A lover, strong and brave and true,
I seek as a reflection of you.
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Full Moon True Love Spell
To attract new love, two nights before the full moon, take a pink votive candle and place it inside your cauldron or any large metal pot. Lay a rose and a bell beside the cauldron and your altar. Use either rose or apple blossom essential oil to anoint the candle’s wick. For the next two nights, cup the candle in your hands and direct loving thoughts into its flame. On the night of the full moon, take a thorn from the rose and carve the name of your heart’s desire into the candle’s wax, reciting:
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I will find true love.
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Light the pink candle and ring the bell thrice, saying:
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As this candle begins to burn, a lover true will I earn.
As this flame burns ever higher, I will feel my lover’s fire.
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Ring the bell three more times and watch the candle burn completely.
Lunar Almanac—Twelve Months of Full Moons
Many of our full moon names come from medieval books of hours or from Native American spiritways. Here is a list of rare names from these two branches of traditions that you may want to use in your lunar rituals.
•January: Old Moon, Chaste Moon; this fierce Wolf Moon is the time to recognize your strength of spirit.
•February: Hunger Moon, the cool Snow Moon is for personal vision and intention-setting.
•March: Crust Moon, Worm Moon Sugar Moon; the gentle Sap Moon heralds the end of winter and nature’s rebirth.
•April: Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, Fish Moon; spring’s sweet Pink Moon celebrates health and full life force.
•May: Milk Moon, Corn Planting Moon, and Dyad Moon, as well as the Flower Moon provides inspiration with the bloom of beauty.
•June: Hot Moon, Rose Moon, the Strawberry Moon heralds summer solstice and sustaining power of the sun.
•July: Buck Moon, Hay Moon; this Thunder Moon showers us with rain and cleansing storms.
•August: Barley Moon, Wyrt Moon, Sturgeon Moon; summer gifts us with the Red Moon, the time for passion and lust for life.
•September: Green Corn Moon, Wine Moon; fall’s Harvest Moon is the time to be grateful and reap what we have sown.
•October: Dying Grass Moon, Travel Moon, Blood Moon, Moon of Changing Seasons; the Hunter’s Moon is when we plan and store for winter ahead.
•November: Frost Moon, Snow Moon; Beaver Moon is the time to call upon our true wild nature.
•December: Cold Moon, Oak Moon; this is the lightest night of the shortest day and is the time to gather the tribe around the fire and share stories of the good life together.
Attraction Action Ritual
I know this has happened to you, too. You met someone at a party, or you had a brief but meaningful moment in line for coffee, or perhaps you exchanged looks of longing on the train crossing town on your way to work. Now, your only hope is that chance will bring you together, right? Wrong!
Try this surefire attraction spell:
Take a man-shaped mandrake root (commonly available at herbalists and metaphysical shops), or any statue, photograph, or figure of a man. Place it on your altar and surround the figure’s base with red and pink rose petals, then add red and pink candles. Place two goblets of red wine beside this arrangement and burn candles every night for a week starting on Friday, Venus’ Day. Sip from one of the goblets and recite:
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Merry Stranger, friend of my heart,
merry may we meet again.
Hail, fair fellow, friend well met,
I share this wine and toast you,
as we merry meet and merry part
and merry meet again.
Make sure you look your best, as you will soon lock eyes again.
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Color Magic: A Guide to Choosing Candles for Your Spells
This list can be useful when choosing candles for magical rituals or spells, tinting bath salts, or designing entire rituals around herbal products. Some differences of opinion do exist, and color itself is a magical system. Use your instinct. Here is what each of the colors represents so that you can select the right ones for your magical ritual.
•White: Protection, purification, peace, truth, binding, sincerity, chastity, happiness, exorcism, spirituality, tranquility
•Red: Protection, strength, health, energy, vigor, lust, sex, passion, courage, exorcism, love, power
•Black: Absorbing and destroying negativity, healing severe diseases, banishing, attracting money
•Light Blue: Understanding, tranquility, healing, patience, happiness, overcoming depression
•Dark Blue: Change, flexibility, subconscious mind, psychic perception, healing
•Green: Finances, money, fertility, prosperity, growth, good luck, employment, beauty, youth, success in gardening
•Gray: Neutrality, cancellation, stalemate
•Yellow: Intellect, charm, attraction, study, persuasion, confidence, divination, psychic power, wisdom, vision
•Brown: Working magic for animals, healing animals, the home
•Pink: Love, honor, fidelity, morality, friendship
•Orange: Adaptability, stimulation, attraction, encouragement, all legal matters
•Purple: Power, healing severe disease, spirituality, medication, exorcism, ambition, business progress, and tension relief
Sowing Seeds of New Love in Your Life
Nature is the ultimate creator. At a nearby gardening or hardware store, get an assortment of seed packets to plant newness into your life. If your thumb is not the greenest, try nasturtiums, which are extremely hardy, grow quickly, and will spread to beautify any area. They also reseed themselves, which is a lovely bonus. Light the following candles, charging them with appropriate gems and stones:
•Green candle with peridot or jade for creativity, prosperity, and growth
•Orange candle with jasper or onyx for clear thinking and highest consciousness
•Blue candle with turquoise or celestite for serenity, kindness, and a happy heart
•White candle with quartz or limestone for purification and safety
Put the seeds under the soil with your fingers and tamp them down gently with your wand, the branch, which you should also stick in the ground at this time. Water your new moon garden, and affirmative change will begin in your life that very day. Get ready for the exquisiteness of new love. Ahhhhh!
Manifesting Magic Box: Sweet Herbs of Love
The sweet scent of petals and herbs can bring love when you cast this spell. Try to perform this spell during a full moon.
•A small lidded box
•1 rose quartz crystal
•½ cup fresh red and pink rose petals
•1 whole vanilla bean, chopped
•⅓ cup dried woolly thyme
•A pinch of ground cinnamon
•Piece of white paper and a pen
Mix the flowers and herbs together and fill the bottom half of the box with the mixture. Then write five qualities you want in a new lover on the piece of paper. They should be a mix of personality traits along with physical characteristics. For example, I did this in a few years ago and wrote that I wanted a love with long black hair. Sure enough, I met a handsome man with beautiful, waist-length black hair. This manifesting magic works! Fold the paper at least once so it will fit into the box. Fill the rest of the box up with the herbs. Nestle the crystal in the herbs right at the top, then close the lid. Each night, open the box up and take a sniff to remind you of your search for true love.
Heartstrings: Bind Your Love to You
On a small piece of paper, write the name of your would-be love in red ink and roll up the scroll. Anoint the paper with rose or amber essential oil. Tie the scroll with red threads, incanting one line of the following spell per knot:
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One to seek my love,
one to find my love,
one to bring my love,
one to bind my love,
forever bound together as one, so mote it be.
This charm is done.
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Keep the love scroll under a candleholder with red candles at the north corner of your altar until your will is done. Make sure of your desire; this spell is lasting.
Brew of the Beloved
Here’s a quick recipe to create exactly the right mood for a romantic evening.
Stir together in a clockwise motion:
•1 ounce dried hibiscus flowers
•1 ounce dried and pulverized rose hips
•½ ounce dried lemon balm
•½ ounce dried mint (ideally peppermint)
•½ ounce meadowsweet
Store this herbal concoction in a dark, lidded jar or tin. (It will keep for one year, after which you can recycle the herbs as a blessing for the hearth fire.)
When you are ready to brew the tea, pick your most sacred teapot and pour boiling water over the herbs; use two teaspoons for each cup of water. Say the following spell aloud during the five minutes it takes for the tea to steep, and visualize your heart’s desire:
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Herbal brew of love’s emotion,
with my wish I fortify.
When two people share this potion,
their love shall intensify
as in the Olde Garden of Love.
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Sweeten to taste with honey and share this luscious libation with the one you love.
Dreams of Devotion: Pillow Talk
To secure lasting love from a nascent romance, a love pillow can cast a powerful, binding spell. This spell works best if you use a soft, homemade pillow.
On a Friday, take two yards of pink satin fabric and stuff it with softest goose down and the dried petals of a red rose you’ve grown or received from your lover. Sew it with golden thread while you whisper:
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Here rests the head of my true mate fair.
Nightly rapture is ours to share.
So mote it be.
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Anoint the pillow with amber and rose oil, especially when you “entertain.”
Herbal Wreaths: Bring Love into Your Home
Oftentimes, your kitchen is the heart of the home. Something about cooking and sharing food brings people together. An herbal wreath hanging on the kitchen door can be a source of love and luck. You’ll need the following for your creation:
•Freshly cut herbs of your choice
•A wire wreath frame, available from most craft stores
•Either string or florist’s wire, ribbon, and perhaps a hot glue gun
This is truly one of the simplest craft projects you can ever make. Simply utilize the wreath frame as a base, and use string or the florist’s wire to anchor the fresh herbs into place. Finish it off with a colorful ribbon or other magical decorative touches you may want to add.
Heart Wreath: Don’t wait until Valentine’s Day to try this; love should be 24/7, 365 days a year. Invite love into your home by hanging a wreath full of love herbs on your door. Any combination of these will work beautifully and I recommend using herbs that personally resonate for you among these options: allspice, clove, catnip, fig, bleeding heart, periwinkle, tulip, peppermint, violet, daffodil, lavender, and marjoram. Adorn with pink and red ribbons to let the universe know you’re ready to welcome love into your life.
Tie the Knot of True Love
If you are truly interested in long-term love, this spell is for you. This love spell may not actually result in a proposal and marriage, but the rings are a powerful symbol to help bring true love your way. You’ll need:
•White rope
•1 fresh red rose, with stem
•2 plain gold rings (Rings in a gold color are fine)
•Fine white sand (easily available at a craft store)
You can use thick yarn instead of the rope, but string just won’t do. Tie a knot in the center of the rope around the stem of the rose. Slide the two rings down the two ends of the rope up to the knot, then tie the rope again to secure them.
On the floor (yes, on the floor), draw a circle with the white sand that is large enough to hold the rose. Set the knotted rose down in the center. Sit to the west of the circle and repeat the following:
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By this knot,
I stir the pot.
By this rose,
the power flows.
By these rings,
My love I bring.
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Put your hands together and focus your energy on the rose and the true love you want to bring into your life. Repeat the words another three times. Leave the circle and rose on the floor for one week afterwards.
An Enchanted Love Letter
Love letters are an ancient art that always deepens intimacy. What heart doesn’t surge when the object of affection pours passion onto the printed page? Magic ink, prepared paper, and magic wax will seal the deal.
Take a special sheet of paper (sumptuous handmade or creamy watermarked stationary is ideal) and write with a magical colored ink—red dragon’s blood is available at most metaphysical shops—or try the “Enchantment Ink” spell that follows.
Perfume the letter with your signature scent or an oil your lover has appreciated, like amber, vanilla, or ylang-ylang. Seal it with a wax you have also scented with one precious drop of essential oil and, of course, a kiss.
Before your letter is delivered, light a candle anointed with your preferred scent and intone:
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Eros, speed my message on your wings of desire.
Make my lover burn with passion and fire.
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Make sure you send your letter ASAP.
Binding Ink Spell
If you are lucky enough to live in the country or near a wild and weedy meadow, you can easily find pokeberries. Though poisonous when eaten, these magenta berries make wonderful homemade ink. You can imbue this wine-colored ink with magical powers with this simple spell.
During a waning moon, fill a vial with dark red ink and add the juice from the crushed pokeberries. Add a few drops of burgundy wine from the bottom of your love’s glass and one drop of a fruited essential oil such as apple blossom, apricot, or peach.
Adventurous witches sometimes prick their fingers and add a droplet of blood as well. Incant aloud:
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By my hand, this spell I have wrought.
With this sacred ink, I will author my own destiny.
And have the happy love I sought.
Blessed be.
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Now write the fate you envision for yourself and your lover with enchanted ink.
Your Love Grows Daily: Magical Garden
A great relationship can be cultivated, literally. By planting and carefully tending flowers that have special properties—like night-blooming jasmine for heightened sensuality, or lilies for lasting commitment—you can nurture your relationship along. During a new moon in the Venus-ruled signs of Taurus or Libra, plant an assortment of flowers that will surround you with the beauty and energy of sweet devotion. A few of my proven favorites are listed in the garden of Indra that follows.
Before you place your hothouse posies or seeds into pots or flowerbeds, bless the ground with a prayer of health for your plants, yourself, and your relationships.
Light a black candle to absorb and dispel bad energy and place it in the middle of a circle you have drawn with a stick. Dip your hand into a clay bowl of water and sprinkle drops behind you and before you. Sing out:
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Great spirit, I offer you this petition.
Please cleanse this land—you are the greatest magician.
With my hands, I will plant and sow.
Here, a healing garden will now grow.
Blessings to you and to the Guardians of the Earth.
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