Mojo… a little bit of this and a little bit of that — Graveyard Dirt, what’s the “scoop” on that, how do you gather it, where in the cemetery should you collect it from, cemetery etiquette. Honey Jar Spell, let’s do that… & more!
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This is one of my personal favorites, a book that I experienced and wrote at the same time. I languished delightfully in all the possiblities of this spiritual realm, and the possiblities that I wanted to tell you about. Let’s just say it’s a journey that we’ll take together, and it’s a journey that I’ve been working on for six decades. This is a book that will help you explore a segment of spirituality that you might not have even realized exists. This book will lift the veil, exposing ancient secrets and remarkable choices that are yours to make. It also does something that is often overlooked for pagan and occult paths, it puts a spotlight on just how normal and beautiful, enjoyable and uplifting this ancient of ancient spiritualities can be. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, you’ll find this book at Amazon, in print and kindle. The print edition is in full color and is gorgeous, and you’ll find lined pages so you can add your own notes.
The Little Handbook of Spiritual Awakening includes:
The Spiritual Journey
Exercises, activities, & explorations: creating your personal journal; exploring gods and goddesses; reconnecting with animals and trees; taking a spiritual nature walk
The Witch’s Spirit
Exercises, activities, & explorations: exploring earth, air, fire, and water; how to write your own spell; creating a magical recipe; a look at neo-pagan founders
Preparing for Your New Spiritual Life
Exercises, activities & explorations: getting rid of baggage; drawing positive energy to you; forgiving yourself with a blessing; opening your energy centers
Botanicals and Pagan Spiritualism
Exercises, activities, & explorations: making four thieves vinegar; making black cat oil; growing your own herbs; blessing your garden
Pagan Spiritual Practices
Exercises, activities, & explorations: house cleansing; a basic candle spell; how to use a pendulum; setting up your personal altar
Introduction:
Everyone’s spiritual journey is unique unto them. My grandmother had me secretly baptized in the Catholic Church, against my parents’ wishes, when I was seven years old. I remember the pink frothy party dress, standing at the fountain and bending over so a robed man could sprinkle salt on my tongue and pour water over my head.
This baptism would herald an on again off again connection with the Catholic Church at my grandmother’s whim, including a 7th and 8th grade stint in a Catholic Parochial school.
At thirteen, I wanted to be a Jew.
Every Friday evening, I secretly lit a brass candelabra of white birthday cake candles in my bedroom and recited words of my own design, in order to honor the Sabbat (is that the right word?)
At seventeen, consumed with romantic revenge, I cast a nasty magic spell in secret in my grandmother’s basement. It involved red candles, red ink, and a photograph of the boy. It involved some emotional words, spitting, and a dramatic moment when I drew a large red X over the midsection of the image.
It worked.
And with this spell I felt, for the first time, total satisfaction with a spiritual path, a spiritual experience, and all the fallout that followed.
It scared me silly at the time, but it also reinforced in me that I was cut from a different spiritual cloth than most people in my circles. I was certainly different, although it would take years of reading, learning, and practicing to realize just how different.
What did I learn from my experiences?
I learned that, spiritually, there are a lot of options out there. I learned that it’s fun to explore. I learned that it doesn’t matter what other people believe, or how they choose to practice their spirituality, even if they think it’s the only way. I learned that you never stop learning, and the paths you can take are endless, amazing, surprising, unpredictable, and life altering.
Now it’s time for you to explore your spiritual path. This book will help you do that.
Keep an open mind, believe in the unbelievable and the unseen. Don’t be afraid to tread where other people fear to go. Don’t be afraid to explore the deepest parts of yourself. Believe me, when you finally find your ground, the journey will have been well worth it.
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The Little Handbook of
Spiritual Awakening
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The element of Air: Where earth energy envelops the physical, air energy is purely mental. It encompasses that which cannot be seen, but which makes us who we are and gives substance to our existence– our intelligence, mentality, our ideas that lead to creativity, our assumptions, thoughts and spark of genius. All of this and more stems from the element of Air.
Air, the element, touches us whenever we pursue knowledge, seek answers, ponder the universe and our place in it, when we write, draw, paint, and compose. Because of the element of Air, within all of future humanity, resides unwritten novels, unpainted masterpieces, sculpture, music, medical discoveries, inventions, and creations as yet unperceived and unrealized.
And when the Elements dance their dance, when Air mingles with Earth, all of these wonderful things will be given a pathway into the physical world.
Correspondences for Air
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I answer questions sent to me by viewers, and this one is really quite common because it coddles personal fears.
Disclaimer: I look at questions like this from BOTH a mundane aspect as well as a magickal one.
Even before “The Gray Witch’s Grimoire” had been sent flying across the pond to my publisher in England (Moon Books/John Hunt Publishing), I was knee-deep in writing my next witchy book, “Natural Magick the Gray Witch Way”. The second book I published independently with Amazon through their KDP program under Pink Orchid Publishing — which is me. But for one brief insane moment, there was one of those slow-motion experiences when the little voice in my head said, “Wait a minute, you should combine these books.” It was absolute basic laziness which resulted in my reaction, which was “Nope, don’t think so, there’s so much material here.” So I didn’t.
One book went one way, on its destiny overseas, where it would eventually become a best seller. And the other book has found it’s spot at Amazon, happily ensconced among the witchy tomes of neo-pagans around the world.
I have always said, and I’m saying so again with emphasis, that these two books make great companion books and will get along quite well on the book shelf together. Whatever I didn’t include in one, can be found in the other. Below you’ll find an overview of the contents of each book and links to purchase. Both books are available in print and kindle at Amazon.
Preface…
The Gray Witch
Part 1 ~ Knowledge… 5
Magickal Principles for the Gray Witch… 6
Code of Ethics… 7
Symbols of Witchcraft… 11
Thirteen Powers of the Witch… 28
The Witch’s Alphabet… 28
Initiation…29
Your Craft Name… 34
The Metaphysical Laws of Witchcraft… 35
Power Words… 40
The Tools of the Trade… 42
Magickal Correspondences… 45
Moon Phases… 51
The Moon Divine: The Triple Goddess… 54
A Moon for Every Month… 56
Herbal Correspondences… 66
A Stone’s Throw… 79
The Wheel of the Year… 87
Part 2 ~ Rituals… 97
Circle Casting… 98
Calling the Quarters… 101
Cakes and Wine… 103
Self-Initiation… 104
Drawing Down the Moon… 108
Wiccaning… 109
Handfasting… 113
Croning/Eldering… 116
Summerland Ritual… 119
Part 3 ~ Spells… 123
Love Spells… 125
Lilith’s Lust Spell
Nutmeg Fidelity Spell
Strawberry Sex Spell
Bloody Love Spell
Asunder You Shall Go: Dividing Lovers
The Face of Your True Love
A Mid-Summer’s Eve Love Spell
Beauty Spells… 129
Shed Your Skin Spell
To Summon… 131
Call Me
Summoning Powder
Rosemary Summons
To Beckon
Summoning Spirits
Health & Healing Spells… 136
Basic Candle Spell & Correspondences
To Cure an Illness (Knot Magick)
Healing Crystal
Command & Compel Spells… 139
Commanding Oil
Do My Bidding Spell
Court Case Spells…141
Basic Candle Spell & Correspondences
Magickal Options for legal Spells
Beef Tongue Court Case Spell
Money Spells… 144
Basic Candle Spell & Correspondences
Money Bottle
Keep It Flowing
Spells for the Tongue… 147
A Poppet to Stop a Gossip
Seal the Mouth
Cat’s Got Your Tongue Spell
Keep My Secret
Liar Come to Light
Protection Spells… 153
Basic Candle Spell & Correspondences
A Vehicle Blessing
To Spite Your Face
The In-Law Spell
To Ward Off Negativity
Banishing Spells… 160
Basic Candle Spell & Correspondences
Ditch It Quick Spell
Hexing, Cursing, Binding Spells… 161
Return to Sender
A Hex
A Binding
Binding Negative Behavior
Freeze They Enemy
Feel My Wrath
Divide and Conquer
Breaking the Spell… 172
Bind Me Not
Reverse the Curse
Breaking Another Witch’s Spell
How does real magick work?…10
Forms of Magick…13
The Mysteries of Magickal Manifestation…19
Creating Magickal Space…26
A Checklist of Magickal Supplies…53
Charging your Magickal Tools…65
Twelve Months of Magick…72
Seven Days of Magick…104
Animal Magick…115
Magick for Love n’ Money…144
· Love Spells…151
· Love Potion #9
· Rose Spell
· Smooth Marital Turmoil
· Hot Sex Spell
· Makin’ Tracks
· Love Spells for Men…157
· Make Her Behave: Pubic Hair Spell
· Magickal Male Enhancement
· Love Spells for Women…161
· Keep Him Faithful Spell
· Attract Your Man
· Irresistibly Spell
Money…166
· Money Spells…169
· Silver Coin Spell
· Loose the Miser Spell
· New Business Money Mojo
· Sugar Honey Jar Spell
· Home Money Spell
· Pocket Money Spell
Mojo Magick…182
· Poppets…184
· Mojo Bags…207
Magick Oils/Potions/Powders…226
Crystal Magick…270
Candle Magick…297
Magickal Alphabets and Symbols…314
· Runes…316
· Witch’s Alphabet…325
· The Pentagram…329
· The Elements…334
· Planets…341
· Astrological Symbols…354
Witches’ Bottles…366
Essential Oils…386
Kitchen Magick…392
· Recipes…405
· Strawberry Love Salad
· Lady Amythyst’s Pumpkin Pie
· Gingerbread
· Litha Peach Cobbler
· Full Moon Biscuits
· Deviled Eostre Eggs
· Lammas Loaf
· Midsummer’s Night Tea
· Garden Magick Soup
· Green Man Cake
· Beltane Bean Dish
Good Luck Charms…439
Questions and Answers…447
· What is the difference between white and black magick?
· Is it possible to dwell too much on a spell you’ve cast & ruin it?
· Who can do magick?
· What is a familiar?
· What is neo-paganism?
· Do All witches practice their religion the same way?
· Who is the Wiccan Goddess?
· When did you first know you were a witch?
Magickal Substitutions…467
Terms and Lingo…473
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It’s finally here! Today is a beautiful day—my brand new book, The Essential Guide to WICCA for Beginners, is officially out in the world for you all to read and enjoy. Thank you again for all of your support. It really means the world to me! I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I loved writing it! This book @ Amazon:
The Essential Guide to Wicca for Beginners includes:
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I can’t believe it —The Essential Guide to WICCA for Beginners launches TOMORROW!! I’m so excited to be in the home stretch, and I can’t thank you enough for all your support! It’s the best feeling to know that you all will have actual copies in your hands and start reading it soon.
Still need to get your own copy? Pre-order it here (every pre-order counts!): https://amzn.to/2FIOU1f
Personally, my favorite part of my new book is Chapter 3, Discovering Your Wiccan Power, because this chapter introduces the new Wiccan to those things that will make up their spiritual practice:
I’m curious what your favorite part will be!
You can find out by pre-ordering this book at this link: https://amzn.to/2FIOU1f
Look what came in the mail — my author copies! What is the first thing you’re going to do with my new book once it arrives in your hands?
If you haven’t already, be sure to pre-order your copy at this link: https://amzn.to/2FIOU1f
One of the most challenging aspects of your Wiccan practice and an important choice you’ll make is the decision to either remain a solitary practitioner, or to join a coven. As a solitary Wiccan you will have the freedom to build a spiritual path that is uniquely personal; as a coven member, you’ll be expected to meet coven rules, obligations, and milestones within a specific time frame. That’s why I included this helpful tip in chapter four of my new book, The Essential Guide to WICCA for Beginners. There are tons more tips and tricks like this all throughout The Essential Guide to WICCA for Beginners.
If you find this helpful, take a moment to pre-order your copy on Amazon at this link: https://amzn.to/2FIOU1f
Let me know if there are any other tips you’d like me to share!
Miss Marbles can’t put down her copy of my new book.
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This has been an exciting week for me: I finally announced that my new book The Essential Guide to WICCA for Beginners is available for pre-order! Soon I’ll start sharing sneak previews of what you’ll find in the book. I can’t wait to hear what you think! It would mean so much if you would show your support by pre-ordering a copy.
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Did you hear? I wrote a book and the first copy from my publisher is finally in my hands! In case you missed the big announcement, the book is called… The Essential Guide to WICCA for Beginners.
“Wicca represents a life time of learning, experimenting, reading, and practicing, leading to amazing magical milestones.” You can begin your journey on this spiritual path with this book.
BOOK LAUNCH!… You Can Now Pre-Order Your Copy
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After a LOT of hard work behind the scenes for the past several months, I’m so excited to finally announce that I have a new book coming out, The Essential Guide to WICCA for Beginners — “Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Wiccan life… Explore the roots of Wicca with comprehensive information about how it began and where it originated… Discover straightforward spells and rituals” I would love you to support my book. Stay tuned for sneak peeks in the coming weeks! I’m so excited!
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Pinch me! Here’s an actual, real-life, print copy of my new book, Green Witchcraft Grimoire. It’s been a long time coming to fruition, since I began this book last December. I’m delighted to share it with you now. Want to show your support?
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“My Magick Box” ~ specialty item, only one available.
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This box is loaded with magickal goodies for the new witch, and would be the perfect “Starter Kit”. This box would also be just the thing for the seasoned witch who wants to add some new items to her magickal cupboard. It is the perfect witchy gift!
1) Candles ~ 3 white votive candles, ready to set with any intention; and three black votive candles ready to disperse negative energy, uncross crossed conditions, and to provide protection
2) Oils ~ uncrossing oil; money oil; love oil; protection oil; black cat oil
3) Herbs ~ rosemary, sage, mint, cloves and rose petals; for beauty/blessing, cleansing, money/prosperity, protection, and love
4) Incense ~ 12 Nag Champa cones
5) One rose quartz pendulum in a black velvet bag ~ the perfect divination tool
6) Four stones ~ one for each of the four elements; Earth, Air, Fire, Water
7) Voodoo Dollies ~ red, for love; green, for money or health; black, for protection.
8) Book of Shadows ~ a pink leather bound journal (pen included)
9) Other items included: straight pins; ribbons…white, red, green, black; 8 white gauze drawstring bags; sea salt; cemetery dirt; coffin nails
Below is a list of magickal oils, potions, n’ powders you can find at my website, The Witch’s Corner ~
Health & Healing Oil
This ointment is used to “dress” candles used for healing or to maintain continued good health. Annoint a green candle with this oil for healing of the body; a yellow candle for healing of the mind; a red candle for the physical healing of the reproductive system– a yellow candle can be burned along with the red one for mental healing of sexual abuse victims.
Exorcism/Purification Oil
Annoint a black candle with this oil to exorcise those demons that are bothering you– whether the irritation is physical or mental. Annoint a white candle with this oil and burn it to purify your physical space or your mental/physical state. I’ve used this oil to exorcise entities haunting my home, and I’ve used it to exorcise people from my life who were causing problems.
Mars Astrological Oil
This ointment promotes courage, strength, aggression, sexual energy, healing after surgery, exorcisms, and defensive magick. I’ve found this to be an especially effective and strong magickal tool, and I want to caution you that this oil can also banish. Use it wisely.
Witches’ Oil
This is an “all purpose” oil which can be used to annoint the body prior to rituals or spell casting. It can also be used to dress candles.
Psychic Oil
Annoint your third eye chakra with this oil before doing divination of any kind, or annoint a lavendar candle to call up and strengthen your psychic powers.
Sex Oil
Carve your name and the name of the one you desire on a red candle; annoint it with this oil to ignite passion and lust. Then stand back and be prepared for some fireworks! This oil can be made to accomodate a monogamous couple, instilled with herbs to maintain fidelity. If you wish, you can email me with your personal preferences. We can work together to create a unique oil with the qualities that you desire.
Prosperity Oil
This oil is used to annoint candles for money magick. It can also be used to annoint stones conducive to wealth and prosperity and carried in your purse or wallet. It will enhance and draw the energies that stimulate the acquisition of money in many ways.
Summoning Powder
This powder does just what its name suggests– it summons someone to you. If you are in possession of a piece of clothing belonging to the individual you wish to summon, particularly intimate apparell, sprinkle it with this powder. You can also sprinkle this powder on a piece of correspondence you send to this person– although in this day and age of terrorism, I would be cautious about sending anything through the mail that has a powdery dust on it.
Black Cat Oil
Black cat oil is used to break bad spells and hexes, to attract the opposite sex, and to call in the spirits– benevolent, magickally oriented spirits. The ingredients in black cat oil is slightly different to attract the opposite sex, so make sure that you select the correct pay pal button.
Four Thieves Vinegar
Four Thieves Vinegar is a crucial component in many banishing and commanding spells. It can also be used to banish illness. It’s reputed to drive away danger and rescue its user from disaster.
Graveyard Dirt
This item is exactly what its name implies– soil taken from the consecrated ground of a cemetery. Graveyard dirt is a necessary ingredient in many hexing/cursing spells. On the flip side, it is also the key ingredient in many benevolent spells, including those for health and healing.
Banishing Oil
Banishing oils are generally used in banishing spells, whether you’re trying to rid yourself of undesirable people, situations, habits, or things. Just make sure that what you think you want banished, you really do– getting something back is much more work than making something go away.
Command & Compel Oil
“Commanding Oil” is generally used in binding spells– to get another to bend to your will and do what you want and to gain control of a situation. This oil has a strong history in voodoo and New Orleans hoodoo culture and is used almost exclusively to exert your will over others.
Uncrossing Oil
This oil is most often used to remove hexes/curses placed upon you. It’s also brought into service to turn bad luck around and is used in spells for just such results.
New items! ~
Money Wash
Sprinkle money wash across the threshold of your front door or business to attract money. Sprinkle a little money wash in your mop water and scrub those floors to bring in cash. Use it in a variety of ways for your own unique magickal practices.
Ancestor Oil
This magickal oil is filled with the herbs and special items used to connect you with the spirit world. Use this oil on a candle, or on yourself, when you wish to thin the veil between the world of the living and those who’ve passed. This is the perfect oil to use before divination, séances, or the practice of mediumship.
Warning
These oils/potions/powders are NOT meant to be ingested! Most of these oils could be applied to the skin, but there may be an occasional potion that contains a skin irritant…so if in doubt, just don’t!
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Magickal Body Products
December
Oak Moon
Herbs: cedar wood, juniper, sage,
star anise, carnation
Stones: lapis, smoky quartz, lazulite
Scents: violet, patchouli, frankincense,
myrrh, rose geranium
Colors: red, white, black
Trees: pine, fir, holly
Deities: Hathor, Hecate, Athese
Astrological Signs: Sagittarius, Capricorn
Elements: Fire/Water
Crafting Your Magic:
Balance carefully the energy of the traditionalist and that of the free spirit. Cast magic to seek knowledge from your ancestors, or to contact your spirit guide; cast magic to temper loyalties, and to reveal true feelings. Use magic now to throw light on shady situations and to call upon the energy of male divinity– the God. Magic for transitions are potent during the time of the Oak Moon. Work on long term projects; now is the time to put into motion spells that will come into fruition with the Spring Equinox.
The information in this blog post is an excerpt from my book:
“The Gray Witch’s Grimoire”
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