PROTECTION
Candle Spell to stop Harassment at Work or School
This is a really cool spell from Z. Budapest's 'The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries' Do this during the waning moon. Use a brown candle (an image candle, if you can) to represent the person who is harassing you. Write the person's name on the front and back of the candle. On a small piece of parchment paper, write:
'From now on, (insert name) will say nothing but sweet words about me and to me. By the power of Aradia, so mote it be!'
Put a drop of honey in the middle of the paper and roll it into a ball. Heat your athame, make a gash in the candle (in its "mouth", if you are using an image candle) and stuff the paper ball into it. Let the candle burn a little while every night for an odd number of nights, a maximum of nine nights. Throw the remnants into flowing water, but save some candle drippings or ash to sprinkle in the path of your oppressor.
Spell for Protection
The following spell may be performed at any time you feel the need for extra protection. First of all, gather together the following:
1 white candle implement for inscribing a candle protection oil (such as Lotus,Dragon's Blood, Frankincense, Sandalwood, or Rose Geranium) lighter candle holder 4 obsidian arrowheads (obsidian, onyx, or apache tears stones may be substituted) gather together any ritual items you feel necessary.
Next, cast your circle...if you need directions on how to do this, you should do more study before proceeding.
In the center of your circle, facing North, take the obsidian arrowheads (or stones) into your hand. Charge them with protective powers and place them around the candle holder, one in the North, one in the East, one in the South, and one in the West. Next, take the candle and inscribe a Pentagram on it (which is among other things a symbol for protection), along with your name, or the name of the person you wish protection for. Now anoint the candle with your oil, while concentrating strongly on your need for protection. Know that you are divinely protected, a child of the Goddess and God. See and feel yourself being completely safe and secure, protected in your home, car, workplace, etc. Continue to charge your candle and visualize until you feel the candle literally bursting with energy. Now set the candle in the candle holder and light it. You may wish to continue the visualization, or use whatever techniques you wish to send the energy out from you. When you are ready, close the circle and allow the candle to burn down completely.
Home Protection Spell Bottle
Ideally, such a bottle should be walled up in a new home under construction, or placed under the floorboards. If this is impossible, simply place it in a position of importance somewhere in the home.
Items Needed: 1 bottle with cork stopper 1/2 to 1 cup salt 3 cloves garlic 9 bay leaves 7 tbsp. dried basil 4 tbsp. dill seeds 1 tbsp. sage 1 tbsp. anise 1 tbsp. black pepper 1 tbsp. fennel 1 bowl
In the morning, ideally on a bright and sunny day, assemble all items. Place the salt into the bowl and say:
"Salt that protects, protect my home and all within it."
Add the rest of the ingredients, one by one, saying the above phrase. Just change the first word to whatever herb you are putting in next. Mix together the herbs and the salt with your hands and fingers, lend energy to the potent protective items. Visualize your home as a shining, safe, guarded, secure place of sanctuary.
Pour the mixture into the jar. Seal tightly and place in your home with the following words:
"Salt and herbs, nine times nine, guard now this home of mine."
Witch's Protection Bottle
Get a glass jar such as a Mason jar.
Fill the jar halfway with small sharp objects such as pins, metal scrapings, broken glass, razor blades, etc. Be careful when you are filling the jar!
Once the jar is half full with these objects, fill the jar up with a holy water mixture of salt and water. Put the top on the jar and be sure it's secured.
This jar should be buried in the ground at least twelve inches deep. As long as the bottle remains in the ground, you will be protected from harm that is sent your way.
If you bury the jar somewhere away from home, and you don't know if it will still be there in a year, then be sure to repeat this process each year.
To Protect From Nightmares
Fill a small pillowcase with anise seeds, dragon's blood, and lavender and place the pillowcase under your pillow when you go to sleep. Ask the Celtic Goddess, Mare (MAH-re), the bringer of dreams to only bring you nice dreams.
Spells to Protect Pets
With some level of emotion hold the image of your kitties being safe in your mind. Feel your desire for their continued safety. If one is gone from your side imagine what it will be like when your pet returns. Rough out the images as clearly as you can. You can incorporate this technique into other, more structured, ritual forms.
To keep your cats free from fleas, soak garlic in olive oil and mix a tablespoon of the oil in with their food daily. (I would add that, while you soak the garlic and whenever you place it in the cat's dish, you might visualize the fleas jumping off the cat and never coming back.)
Take some fur of the cat (shed fur will do nicely). Tie fur into a bunch with some red thread (silk preferred). Invoke the blessing of your patron deity. Place consecrated fur into a canister. The canister must be reflective on the outside, but NOT on the inside (If the canister is reflective on the inside, it will focus malicious intent on the cats!). Seal the canister with red wax (just a bit) Place canister next to cat's usual exit. Red is the color of protection, silk is an insulator, the reflective canister reflects malicious intent, the blessing is for extra whammy to the spell.
A Spell of Protection
Sit or stand before any fire. Look into the flames (or flame, if using a candle). Visualize the fire bathing you with glowing, protective light. The fire creates a flaming, shimmering sphere around you. If you wish, say the following or similar words:
"Craft the spell in the fire; Craft it well; Weave it higher. Weave it now of shining flame; None shall come to hurt or maim. None shall pass this fiery wall; None shall pass No, none at all."
Repeat this simple yet effective ritual every day when in need.
To Protect an Object
With the first and middle fingers, trace a Pentagram over the object to be protected. Visualize electric-blue or purple flame streaming from your fingers to form the Pentagram. Say this as you trace:
With this Pentagram I lay Protection here both night and day. And the one who should not touch Let his fingers burn and twitch.
To Keep Evil From Your House
Make a Magickal tea from any of the following herbs and then sprinkle some of it in the corners and doorways of your home to purify, defeat all wicked conjuring, and prevent evil forces from entering:
angelica root broom tops curry powder holy thistle poke root (which can also be added to your bath or cleaning water) tormentil
House Protection
This should be done on the waning moon, as close to the New Moon as possible.
Raise athame in salute to the Goddess and God, asking their assistance in your "house cleaning". Now, beginning at the front door, walk throughout your home, doesil [clockwise]. At each window, door or other opening, make an invoking pentagram with your athame. You may wish to chant as you mark these pentagrams. The one I use is:
"Lord and Lady of the day, Keep all harm far away, Set your guard ever near, Let no evil enter here."
After you have gone through your entire living space, visualize the three-dimensional outline of your home being completely made of, and sealed with, white light. Thank the Gods for their aid.
Close the Circle
A Mirror Spell of Protection for the Home
Compose an altar: place a censer in the center before an image of the Goddess. Have a 12-inch (or so) round mirror there as well. Ring the altar with 9 white candles. Burn a protective incense (such as frankincense, sandalwood, copal or rosemary) in the censer.
Beginning with the candle most directly before the Goddess image, say these or similar words:
"Lunar Light, protect me!"
Repeat as you light each candle until all are glowing.
Now, holding the mirror, invoke the Goddess in Her Lunar aspect with these or similar words:
"Great Goddess of the Lunar Light And Mistress of the Seas; Great Goddess of the Mystic night And of the Mysteries; Within this place of candles bright And with your mirror nigh; Protect me with your awesome night While ill vibrations fly!"
Standing before the altar, hold the mirror facing the candles so that it reflects their flames. Keeping the mirror toward the candles, move slowly, clockwise around the altar, watching the reflected firelight bouncing off your surroundings.
Gradually increase your speed, mentally invoking the Goddess to protect you. More faster and faster, watch the light shattering the air, cleansing it, burning away all negativity and all lines along which the ill energies have traveled into your house.
Charge your home with the protective light of the Goddess. Race around the candles until you've felt the atmosphere change, until you feel that your home has been cleansed and guarded by the Great Goddess.
When finished, stand once again before the image. Thank the Goddess in any words you wish. Pinch out the candles one by one, bind them together with white cords and store them in safe place until ( & if) you need to use them again for the same purpose.
To Remove a Hex/Reverse a Jinxed Condition
Although it is relatively rare that someone is truly hexed, it does happen. Also, it is important to note that the mind has a very powerful effect on the body, so if you believe yourself to be hexed, in effect, you are...This spell will remove any hexed or jinxed condition, whether real or imagined.
Fashion a puppet out of white felt or other white material. Stuff the puppet with Vetivert herb, and place on your altar. Inscribe your name on a purple candle and anoint the candle with an appropriate oil (I use my altar "personal" oil, but you can also use formulations on the market, such as uncrossing oil which will work fine). Visualize as strongly as possible the hex upon you...feel its power and the strength it has had over you...Now take a handful of garlic powder and sprinkle it over the puppet, while strongly visualizing the hex/jinxed condition being broken. Put as much feeling and emotion into this process as possible...now relax...allow the candle to burn down completely. It is finished...the hex is broken...so mote it be.
Breaking a Spell
First Saturday after Full Moon or on a Full Moon; One white & One black candle for balance; Props: protective nature (amethyst, apache tears or smoky quartz) - Say:
"On the Eve of (insert day )I cast a spell & the effect I created I must now quell. Specifically May this spell be lifted & I now be gifted Specifically with (insert intent)"
A Spell To Break The Powers of a Spell
If you believe that a spell has been cast against you, place a large black candle in the cauldron (or a large black bowl). The candles must be tall enough to extend a few inches above the cauldron's rim. Affix the candle to the bottom of the cauldron with warmed beeswax or the drippings of another black candle so that it will not tip over.
Fill the cauldron to the rim with fresh water, without wetting the candle's wick. An inch or two should remain above the water. Deeply breathe, meditate, clear your mind and light the candle. Visualize the suspected spell's power as residing within the candle's flame. Sit in quiet contemplation of the candle and visualize the power flowing and growing within the candle's flame. (Yes, the power against you) As the candle burns down, it's flame will eventually sputter and go out as it contacts the water. As soon as the flame has been extinguished by the water, the spell will be dispersed.
Break your visualization of the spell's power; see it explode into dust, becoming impotent.
Pour the water into a hole in the ground, a lake or stream. Bury the candle. It is done.
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