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Rituals can be a hard task for teens, apart from dealing with time management due to school and other commitments; most of us also have to deal with parents and lack of resources due to small pockets. This can become a bit of a strain and causes us to pull away from our crafts. So, to help ease the tension, I have come up with teen ways to approach rituals with little no to resources and without drawing a great deal of unwanted attention.

Tools
ƒ Elements
----Water - a glass of water
----Air - incense
----Fire - a candle
----Earth - a dish of soil or salt
ƒ God/dess - gold ring or jewelry for god, silver for goddess. Or another form of representaion, even little plastic toys, if need be.
ƒ Crystals - when buying crystals it is best to buy multi purpose crystals like clear quartz, amethyst, etc or stick to the chakra stones.
ƒ Wand - a stick from the garden
ƒ Herbs - raid the pantry
ƒ String - raid the sewing kit
ƒ Oils - buy common use oils like, Bergamot (money, success), Cinnamon (attraction, speed, enhancing), Frankincense (purification, luck (and myrrh) - protection, purification, spirituality), Honeysuckle (money, psychic powers), Lavender (healing, peace, love, sleep), Patchouli (love, money, fertility), Sage (wisdom, purification, clarity), Vanilla (love, lust, relationship) and Ylang ylang (opportunity, peace, spiritual balance).
ƒ Pencil
ƒ Paper

Books and resources
Instead of buying books, borrow them, or use the Internet to make up your own from what you take and with your personal views. This is better than any book because it will have all that you want in the one place, keep this book as a reference book only, separate from your ritual and workings book.

Sacred space
Well, as teens, most of us have our room as our castle, it is a bubble filled with our own energy, it is where we spend a great deal of our lives (even if its just while we sleep). So if you don't have anyway to run away for some privacy, you can generally find it in your room. I mean, its nice if you can find a place of peaceful and secluded land close to nature, but most of us run on a time schedule and whilst we are learning, its best to make it fun and not a pain in the ass.

Raising energy
This is simply done by dancing around to music in your room, singing along to it, clapping your hands and just jumping about, all with your intent in mind.

Casting a circle
I found a simple way to cast a circle was to stand in the centre of where you wish to work and point to the ground beneath you, and as you spin around (sun-wise) raise your arms up slowly (whilst visualising a sphere), until they are pointing directly above you. Do this then with your arms going down and then finally up again (so it is sealed three times). Or stand in the centre and with your finger "draw" a wide circle on the floor around you, then from the point you started from go along the diameter as if drawing under the ground and up and above you to complete the circle back where you started from. As if "zipping" yourself in with two circles, repeated three times.

Calling the quarters
You may or may not wish to do this, if your new and still learning, just focus on the positive energy within the sphere, but if you are open and willing to call the quarters and dedicate it to the god/dess (or however you choose), go for it. If not, just do something simple like thanking the elements and spirit.

Deities
Whilst you are still learning, it may be easier to refer to the spirit as the god/dess plain or just as spirit. It is unwise to call upon the powers of deities that you have not researched properly. Before calling on their help, make sure that you know the stories they are connected with and their pro's and con's or you might have adverse effects!

Simple rituals
Simple forms of magick are candle, petition and knot magick.

Some examples
Banishing ritual (good for healing, addictions, unwanted attention, negative energies, etc)
A simple ritual requiring little resources is to write your objective on a piece of paper and as you face each direction, subject a quarter of the paper to each of the corresponding elements asking for the properties to aid you (I would suggest fire last). Eg, "Powers of earth, help me to bury my problem of ___. (air - blow away, water - wash away, fire - burn away)" Or "Air for imagination", "Water for vision", "Fire for courage", etc. It's all to do with your aim. And make sure you are near a fireproof dish!

Simple everyday rituals
You may choose to
ƒ Light a candle every evening (if its in your room, make sure its in a fire proof dish and away from flammable things like curtains, I learnt that the hard way!).
ƒ Cultivate a herb garden, even if it's just the culinary herbs your folks use for dinner.
ƒ Start and end the day with a simple chant. For example, Here's the sun to light my way, bringing with her another day, to the lord and lady I do pray, keep me safe throughout the day. So Mote It Be. Or, Day is done, it's time for bed, Goddess bless my sleepy head, peaceful moon do shine your light and bring sweet dreams for me tonight.
ƒ Have a purification bath at night (and before a full ritual).
ƒ Take a garden walk.
ƒ Eat healthy, and thank the god/dess, earth and sun etc for your meal.
ƒ Dedicate time to study your craft.
ƒ Watch the last 5 mins of the sun going down (or first 5 rising!).
ƒ Keep cut flowers in fresh water everyday.
ƒ Feed the birds (or the insects).
ƒ Clean your room (!!!) and clean out the negative energies.
ƒ Dress each day by the colour correspondences.
ƒ Keep a journal (diary, dream, both, etc.)
ƒ Or other simple tasks that involve nature, life and positive energies.