Spell A Day July 30, 2018

Spell A Day

Cleansing with Sugar and Salt

Spell Date:  Monday, July 30, 2018

Color of the day:  Silver

Incense of the day:  Narcissus

To add a bit of cleansing magick to your daily routine, acquire a small jar of sea salt and a small jar of pure cane sugar. Get a vanilla bean and cut it in half. Bury half of the bean in the sugar and the other half in the salt. Enchant the salt by focusing energy with your right hand while drawing the energy from the cosmos above with your left hand. Focus your mind on the mighty healing powers of the earth element. While you do this, say:

"Creature of salt, of sea, and of
earth, I empower you with purity
and protection. So mote it be!"

Do the same with the sugar, but say:

"Creature of sugar, of tropics, and
of earth, I empower you with
sweetness and grace. So mote it be!"

Cap both jars. You may choose to add the sugar to food and drink so that you can invoke its gently cleansing vibrations. You may choose to sprinkle the salt at your doorways to allow only the good stuff inside your home. There are numerous possibilities, so follow your intuition and have fun!

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Nightly Meditation

It can't rain forever...

Magical Night of Craft- The Making of a Grimoire

The Craft work done last night was a handmade Grimoire. My husband and I have been doing bookbinding for several years, but we ran across a video on YouTube about 'long stitch' binding to make journals, tomes, or in my case a new Grimoire.
If you have read one of my previous posts ( What I Lost, What Has Been Reborn) you might understand why I wanted to create a new Grimoire. So.....I started one it. 

First I started with newsprint paper (18x24) and double folded them.  I wanted enough pages to equal or as close to 413(the day my familiar passed on to the Goddess)as I could.  Each sheet, once folded makes 8 pages to write on, front and back. 52 sheets were double folded.

I then put 4 of the folded pages together to make a signature, and ended up with 13 signatures. (Another 413) 

Next step was to gather matte board, the embossing thread and needle, contact glue (E6000), fabric for cover, and scissors and get started putting it all together.

Matte board was cut about 1/8 in taller and wider than the pages.

My chosen fabric for the cover was then marked with the matte board aligned and a small hammer and nail was used to punch tiny holes on every intersection of the 13 lines drawn for the 13 signatures.

 

 Once all the holes had been punched into the fabric, they needed to to punch into each of the signatures as well.

Once all holes had been punched it was time to sew the signatures to the cover.  With the long stitch method, there is no hard spine.

A work still in progress, but it shows how the long stitch looks.  Once all signatures were sewn into the fabric, all that was left was to add the front and back cover (matte board).

 

 I cut the fabric at an angle to get a clean corner.  E6000 was used to glue cover to the matte board once it was lined up.

This procedure was done on the front and back. The Grimoire was basically done. I added a few decorations to front cover. 

 

 The finished Grimoire spine.  I love the long stitch look. And decorative brads were placed on the front cover.

One of the other adornments was decorative corner embellishments that I lightly glued and sewn into the front cover. 

 

...and here it is!  My new Grimoire.  I still have some small decorating I want to do... but for most part I like the simplicity of it. 

Crow's Lesson...

Spell a Day July 29, 2018

Spell A Day

Fellowship of the Ring

Spell Date:  Sunday, July 29, 2018

Color of the day:  Amber

Incense of the day:  Heliotrope

Today in 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien published The Fellowship of the Ring, wherein we learn that Bilbo Baggins’s “precious” is a manipulative weapon, charged with the energy of the evil Sauron. Of course, there are other rings imbued with positive power, giving their wearers the strength they need to deal with the challenges they have to face. You can do the same.

Ask your fellowship—those whom you call your closest companions—to imbibe a token with their energies so you can carry them with you. Select a piece of jewelry that holds meaning for you (it does not have to be a ring). Have each friend hold the piece, breathe on it, and say:

"To this token I give some grace,
Let it stand for (your name) in my place."

Wear and feel the power of friendship. You can do this ritual as a group to multiply and share support.

 

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What I Lost, What Has Been Reborn

6:20pm on April 13, 2015 I lost my familiar; Leroy. He was one of seven kittens born, and a sibling survivor of his brother Oreo. The other five did not have the strength to survive with a momma cat who knew so little of taking care of newborns. Looking at Leroy and Oreo you could see that Leroy was definitely the runt. He however, had a will inside him that his other siblings did not possess and with help from his human momma and substitute cat milk in a bottle he thrived.

Through the years I experienced several tragedies, marriages, divorces, major surgeries, and more and he was always there for me. The loss of his brother; Oreo on Jan. 6, 2008 sent him and I into a severe depression and agonizing grief... but we still had each other!

Through everything, I started questioning my spirituality and faith that had been instilled in me from a young age. I started researching and studying all kinds of religions, until I found a path that calmed me and made me feel complete in a sense that I hadn't felt in a very long time.  I devoted myself to this path, this faith, this belief, this new life.  Like a phoenix being reborn from the ashes, I had become a Witch. A Pagan. A follower of the Old Ways. Leroy, without coaxing or initiating in any way was at my side if he saw me studying or if he saw me preparing for a ritual. When there was a circle cast, he was there. For over a decade he was my familiar, my companion in not just this physical realm we resided but as well as the spiritual. He was my strength, my guide, my protection, and my calm. 

At 6:20pm on April 13, 2015, I lost more than, what some humans would say; a cat or a pet. I lost my familiar, my strength, my guide, my baby boy...and more, than I have cared to admit or acknowledge, until now.  I lost faith. I have felt lost in the 3 years since his passing and have not practiced any rituals, celebrated any Sabbaths, or even touched my Grimoire. 

My life has been what seems life a whirlpool and I am in the center, bobbing up and down trying to keep my head above water, to only be pulled down in the quick moving swirl of the world. 

Had I been forsaken? Had I been turned away? Had I been forgotten?

 I admit, I felt I had experienced all those things, if not more since Leroy's passing, until I realized I am the one who turned away. I am the one who forgot who and what I was. 

With Leroy and the Goddess always in my heart and soul, my path was never blocked by anything other than my own self-inflicted pain and suffering.  

By Nature's sacred law, each life must end so others may be born upon this Earth. Each soul is made unique and lives awhile before returning ti the womb from which all life is born. Although we all must die, we're always sad to wish a friend good-bye. May the Goddess protect you on your way from us, your loving family and from light of day. 

Remembering this sacred law, I am reborn...

A Truth...

From Granny Weatherwax

Spell A Day July 28th 2018

 

Spell A Day

A Shell Spell

Spell Date:  Saturday, July 28, 2018

Color of the day:  Indigo

Incense of the day:  Ivy

This spell will bring any wish into your life. You’ll need nine seashells and your ritual cup filled with bottled spring water. Place the cup on your altar or a table and fill it with the spring water. Surround the cup with the shells to form a circle. Think of your wish, then ground and center. Hold your hands over the shells and cup, and say the following charm:

"Shells, set in a circle so round,
To me, let my wish be bound.
Shells, totaling the sacred number nine,
Let my wish be mine."

Take a sip from the cup and set it back in place. Leave the shells and cup undisturbed for a day. The next day, place the shells with your ritual tools to use again. Use the water to water a plant. Return the cup to its usual place. The spell is now working in the unseen realm.

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The Four Rules

I. Live each day as if it were your last, for one day you will be right.

II. Love yourself first and foremost. For when you truly love yourself, loving those around you will come as easily as breathing- and we all must breathe.

III. Learn your life's lessons, each as it comes....for that is the reason we are here.

IV. Enjoy your life because of you do not, then most likely someone else will enjoy it for you- then your time here will have been wasted.

The Law-
Harm None

Funny punny

I asked a French poodle if it had ever played video games.
It just looked at me, smiled and said Wii.