Brown Sugar Healing Spell

Supplies:

• Brown Sugar
• Jar with lid 
• Picture of sick person

As you sit and prepare for the spell, visualize the person who is in need of healing. Hold them in your mind as you take their picture in your hands. Place the picture to the side and scoop out some brown sugar. It should fill the bottle half way. If you have other ground healing herbs (cinnamon or  lavender work well), drop a little bit of those in as well. Take the picture of the person, a piece of paper with their name can substitute, and place it in the jar so it sits in the sugar. Cap the jar tight and visualize the energy brewing within the jar. Begin shaking the jar up and down say,

"Sweetness bind your blood and bone,

Sweetness to your strength

Sweetness build you up and up,

Sweetness dull your pain."

Say this three times as you shake. When you are done, go outside. Take the cap off the jar and pull out the picture, or name, of the person.  Pour the contents of the jar out on the earth. Keep the picture for yourself or give it to the person.

Best done on a waxing moon.

Its a Good Day for Love Spells

Today is a good day for love spells! With the moon coming to full its a great day to bring about love in your life. Here are a few simple love spells.

Taking in Love 

Write a list of the qualities you want on a boyfriend/girlfriend. Now get yourself a few strawberries, or a plum, or an apple. Hold the fruit in your hand and close your eyes. Visualize your fruit glowing with the energy of love. As you hold that visualization say, 

"For a lover, in thee I want."
Then say what is on your list. After you are done, eat the fruit.

 

 Rock Solid Affection
Get some plain rocks and an outdoor bowl. Get a marker and write a good quality on each rock. As you write visualize the way you think your ideal relationship would be. DO NOT think about the ideal person or specific person, just how a relationship would feel. Write the name of your favorite love god/goddess on the bottom of the bowel. Once you have finished writing qualities on the rocks, decorate the rest you have and put them into the bowl. Place the bowl on your porch or outside your door, visualizing your lover coming into your life.

Melting Hearts
Cut out a paper heart and write your name on it. Get a bowl and fill it with water. Drop in your heart along with any other items they remind you of love. Place bowl in the freezer. Once it is a solid piece of ice, place the bowl outside your door or on your porch. Visualize all your love and the love you want in your life trapped within the ice. As it melts that energy and desire will be released into the world.

Suggested herbs for love:

Lavender

Lemon Verbana

Raspberry leaf

Web of Life

As we draw closer to Samhain let's remember our interconnected nature not only to nature but with our fellow human beings. We are linked in ways we are not even sure of. Here is a great activity you can enjoy with friends, family, and spiritual brothers and sisters.

Weaving the Web:
Supplies- 
People
2 spools of back ribbon

Get a group of people, be it your friends, family, or coven. Form a circle with space in the middle. Pick one person to stay in the middle of the circle, two if the circle is more than 15 people. The person in the middle is our spider, they take the ribbon and tie a loop around someone's finger. From there the spider will weave the ribbon through the people. Behind a head, in front of the next head, behind a head and repeat. If you have a second spider have them start at the same place as the first spider but go opposite directions. As they weaver the spider should say,

"Wane and wax,
Web of Life,
Restore and renew."

Once both spiders have made a complete circle, or the one has done a double back, have the people hold hands. The spider says,

"Web is mended and rekindled,
Let the love within us never fall apart."

If you want to chant, sing, dance, or other energy raising activity give it a try. When you are done cut the ribbons. Let everyone have a small piece to carry with them.


Please enjoy the blogs of two of the Collective:
Secrets of the Faery Realm
Angel Updates

Protect Your Right to Worship

In California a law is trying to be passed to make Wicca and other minority religions 2nd class. They argue these religions are unworthy of the freedom and protection they have. What this means is that if the motion is passed pagans in California could be fired from their jobs for their beliefs, children could be taken from parents, covens would be disbanded, and public practice would be illegal. Visit the link below and you'll see. Sign the petition to protect your religion and others'. If it passes in California, who knows where it could be passed next.
Article and Petition

Spirit Communication

It can be difficult to differentiate between your thinking ego and the messages from spirits. Over time you can learn to tell what experience is you and what is the spirit. The only draw back is when you believe everything told to you in a literal sense. If you do not learn to keep your guard up and and stay grounded you can begin to weave an energetic reality within your mind that can unbalance you. Being able to walk that fine line is an important skill. We are beings of spirit and flesh, so we need to be able to function in both. Instinct, common sense, and a skeptical eye can held guard against a literal take on what you encounter with spirits.

Here are a few tricks you can use to help weed out good spirits from bad and keeping grounded.

Testing
Testing spirits is a great way to find the difference between your ego and a spirit. Asking for signs is a usual method. The spirit may say, "look for a red flag" or may show you images to keep an eye out for. Alternatively you can ask it questions that not even you know. Example: "My new friend's middle name begins with what letter?" Its ok to test spirits, good ones understand your caution.

Name of Deity
Bad spirits are cautious of the names of Deity. Most can not stand to be around when people utter them. When used with a push of energy behind it the name of Deity can be used to ward off bad spirits. This is another way to test the spirits you come into contact with. It doesn't matter what name you use for Deity, if it is sacred to you it can be used this way.

Shields and Protection
If you keep your shields up and the protection on your home up to date then there is a good sign your spirit may not be bad. Neutral spirits and good spirits are not always susceptible to the protection we place in our home. Especially if our intention is to keep "those that wish harm" out. Make sure to keep your shields up and have a space that you protect from all spirits just so you can get some peace.

Research
Researching about the spirit is the number one thing to do when you discover it talking with you. Everything it says should be recorded and checked to make sure it really has happened. Or if its telling you how things work in the afterlife, research who they are and if they have any room to talk.

Beware the False Spirit
Bad spirits can be very alluring and charismatic in how they approach us. They can take on any appearance or tone. Some will even mimic the other spirits around people and try to gain their trust. This is why testing is important, even after developing a bond with a particular spirit. Intoning a spirit's name can weed out a mimic from the true spirit. Also using the name of Deity can be useful in getting rid of disguised spirits.

Use of Names
Once you have the true name of a spirit it is easier to clear out the who is who. The best thing you can learn from a spirit is its name. Not only does this help in your research, but also in weeding out mimics.

Shadow
During your life and path you may experience something with spirits that just feels a little 'off.' It is not exactly bad, but its as if what you are getting isn't the whole truth. Sometimes your shadow, the subconscious side of us that carries our doubts and fears, can manifest or interfere with your intuition. It can block or distract you from true communication. It can also push you further from a grounded, stable state of mind. Your shadow isn't bad or evil, it is simply manifesting our doubts, fears, and anger. Working through your emotional problems is the best way to keep yourself balanced and your shadow from interfering.

Mending Your Broken Heart

For most people the risk of falling in love is being left by that person. It can be a real shock to find out one day that its over for them and you. Trying to make it work or force the relationship on further strains everyone. Although things can seem terrible or hopeless, as long as you are still alive there is hope. Once your emotions are spent clean yourself up in a good shower or bath. Anoint your wrists with a cleansing oil and smudge your home of that person's energies. Take a day, no more no less, to eat your favorite foods, drink your favorite drink, and watch the mindless action films that get our spirits up.

Lift My Spirits

Bless and charge your beverage with positive energy. Know that by tomorrow, your heart will begin to mend. Bless your drink in the name of the Lady and Lord, knowing that you are always in their care.

To Let Go

Tie a red ribbon around your pinkie finger. Tie it into a bow with no tail. Take a few deep breathes, remembering your relationship. The good things and the bad. When you are ready say,

"I release, relinquish, and refuse."

Cut the red ribbon off your finger. Let it drop into the trash can and forget about it.


Good luck to those that mend their hearts.

Visual Devotions

Showing a dedication to your path is important for nourishing your spiritual growth. Today, why not create a devotion for the God or Goddess? Instead of writing something try creating something. If you are an artist draw or paint. If you are more into crafting jewelry or wands, create something with deity in mind. Or if you like baking or cooking, stir up something you can dedicate to deity. As many people say, "actions speak louder than words." When you use or eat your devotion you are bringing that love and faith into your own heart.