To Make Anointing Ointment

Take a glazed pan half full of grease or olive oil. Put in sweet mint leaves bruised. Place pan in hot water bath (or double boiler). Stir occasionally. After four or five hours pour into linen bag and squeeze grease through into pot again and fill with fresh leaves ...

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Window Spell

An inscription to be written on a windowpane:

Darkness lies

Where it is born,

But Sun flies

To light this room...

This spell can also be found at my new website, Book of Shadows, here: Window Spell for Happiness

Banishing Grief

This spell is said to help one let go of painful feelings of grief. It is for those times in life when it seems impossible to feel joy again, such as after losing someone close to you.

Items Needed:

• A smoky quartz gemstone
• Bowl of water
• Three tablespoons of sea salt...

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Cobwebs and Magick

Picture a traditional Witch's cottage and the chances are that you will imagine cobwebs. Now this could be because the folklore image of the Witch is as a poor old woman, possibly no longer able to clean her home.

But I like to think it may have something to do with the uses of cobwebs, for not only are they brilliant works of art and nature's highly efficient fly traps, they have been used in healing and in healing magic....

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The Opiconsivia

August 25th is the Opconsivia, the harvest festival of Ops, the Roman goddess of wealth.

• Themes: Opportunity; Wealth; Fertility; Growth
• Symbols: Bread; Seeds; Soil

About Ops: This Italian goddess of fertile earth provides us with numerous "op-portunities" to make every day more productive. In stories, Ops motivates fruit bearing, not just in plants but also in our spirits. She also controls the wealth of the gods, making her a goddess of opulence! Works of art depict Ops with a loaf of bread in one hand, and the other outstretched, offering aid.

To Do Today:

On this day, Ops was evoked by sitting on the earth itself, where she lives in body and spirit. So, weather permitting...

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Morning Glory Love Spell

You will need:

• White or pink candle
• A length of morning glory vine - long enough to weave into a circle
• Small mirror - preferably round
• A morning glory leaf
• A morning glory flower
• Small magnet or lodestone

Light the candle. Take the piece of morning glory vine and weave it into a circle.  As you weave the vine, chant the following...

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Morning Glory Tea

To cure dysentery or diarrhea, take the blue flowers of the “corihuela” (morning glory), make a tea, sweeten with sugar, and take a cupful every morning...

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Morning Glory Magick

• Ruler: Sun, Apollo
• Type: Plant
• Magickal Form: Flowers, Vine, Leaves, Seeds

With it's lovely flowers, heart shaped leaves, and clinging vine, the morning glory plant is definitely something to consider when constructing a love and/or relationship spell....

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Sign of the Morning Glory

"I bring you clarity."

If you were born between August 22 and September 22, you were born under the sign of the Morning Glory. Morning glory zodiac flower signs are thoughtful and reflective. You tend to think and plan first before you take any action. You are organized and very observant. You have a natural eye for detail, and can be very analytical...

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Sun in Virgo

The Sun is in Virgo from approximately August 21 to September 20, depending on the year.

• Ruler: Mercury
• Season: Summer
• Modality: Mutable
• Metal: Mercury
• Stone: Sapphire
• Color: Blue, Beige
• Flowers: Aster; Morning Glory
• Anatomy: Intestines, the nervous system
• Keywords: analytical, intelligent, reserved, critical, helpful, conscientious

It is rare to find the stereotypical nitpicky, exacting, "clean freak" in modern-day Virgos. Although the sign of Virgo has evolved with the times, there are some unmistakable traits that remain. Virgo people are generally respectable, hard-working individuals who have a love of knowledge and know-how....

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Festival of Consus

On August 21, the ancient Romans celebrated the Consualia, a festival, with games, in honour of Consus, the god of secret deliberations.

It was solemnised every year in the circus, by the symbolical ceremony of uncovering an altar dedicated to the god, which was buried in the earth. This was because Romulus, who was considered the founder of the festival, was said to have discovered an altar in the earth on that spot.

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Spiced Wine Love Potion

Pour red wine into a pot or cauldron and add anise, cloves, rosemary, ground cumin, honey, and orange zest. Add two candied rose geranium leaves. (Substitute candied violets, angelica, or ginger if the geranium isn't available.)

Stir the pot, let the wine come to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer gently while you focus on your desires....

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Door Unlocking Spells

There are many, many good reasons that have nothing to do with theft for why one would need to open a locked door to which one does not have a key. Of course, should one possess the right to enter, summoning a locksmith might be easier. Just in case, however, you find yourself outside a locked door without a key, without anyone willing to let you in, and without access to a locksmith...

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Spring Remedy for Diarrhoea

• 2 fresh, young nettle tops
• 1 tablespoon fresh, chopped blackberry leaves
• 1 sprig fresh peppermint...

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Meadow Queen Fairy Song

The Song of The

Queen Of The Meadow Fairy

Queen of the Meadow

where small streams are flowing,

What is your kingdom

and whom do you rule?

"Mine are the places

where wet grass is growing...

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Queen of the Meadow Candle Divination

Place a Queen of the Meadow root inside a glass of water.

Place this glass beside a burning white candle.

Gaze into the flame, to obtain visions of the future.

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Getting God's Attention

How do you get God’s attention? Try sweet talking his girlfriend.
An amazing prayer by Rob Breznsy:

This is a perfect moment. It’s a perfect moment because I have been inspired to say a gigantic prayer. I’ve been roused to unleash a divinely greedy, apocalyptically healing prayer for each and every one of you, even those of you who don’t believe in the power of prayer....

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Invocation of Hekate

You have eyes of bulls,

the voice of dogs,

you hide your form in shanks of lions.

Triple-pointed, triple-faced, triple-necked

and goddess of the triple ways, who hold

untiring flaming fire in triple baskets

and rule the triple decades, unto me...

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Hekate Responds

Lo, I am with you, moved by your prayers, I who am the mother of the universe, the mistress of all elements, the first offspring of time, the highest of all deities, the queen of the souls, foremost of the heavenly beings, the single form that fuses all gods and goddesses; I who order by my will the starry heights of heaven...

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Day of Hecate

Today, August 13 is the Day of Hecate. Here's a Hecate Ritual from “Moon Magick” by D.J. Conway. While this ritual can be done on any day, I thought it might be something interesting for today:

You will need:

• a ritual dagger
• small cauldron
• a wand
• an apple
• a piece of black cloth
• a small bit of salt
• other ritual items you might choose to use....

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The Blessing of Light

May the blessing of light be on you -

light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you like a great peat fire,
so that stranger and friend may come and warm himself at it.
And may light shine out of the two eyes of you,...

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Canticle of the Sun

Most high, all-powerful, all good, Lord!

All praise is yours, all glory, all honor

And all blessing.

To you alone, Most High, do they belong.

No mortal lips are worthy

To pronounce your name....

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Blessing Of The Sea

From Llewellyn's 1994 Magical Almanac, we have the following description of this summer holiday:

"A beautiful city was once believed to have risen gracefully off the shores of a small French village in Brittany, France, only to have been washed away in a high tide. Every year, on the first Sunday in August, the priests go to this fabled spot and ...

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Hazel Magick

Ruler: Hermes, Aemgus, Artemis, Diana
Type: Tree
Magickal form: branch, nut

Hazel wood is excellent for making all purpose magickal wands, it is one of the most powerful wands for divination. Wands made of this wood symbolize white magick and healing. Dowsing sticks (forked sticks) are used to find water, buried treasure, and locate lost objects.

If you are outside and in need of magickal protection quickly draw a circle around yourself with a hazel branch. For protection while walking, wrap hazel twigs or branches around your walking stick or cane....

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Sign of the Hazel

If you are born under the energy of the Hazel Moon in Celtic astrology, (August 5 - September 1), there is a good possibility that, you are highly intelligent, organized and efficient. Like the Holly, you are naturally gifted in academia, and excel in the classroom. You also have the ability to retain information and can recall, recite and expound on subjects you’ve memorized with amazing accuracy. You know your facts, and you are always well informed. This sometimes makes you appear like a know-it-all to others, but you can’t help that; you’re genuinely smart and usually know the right course of action because of your impressive knowledge base.

You have an eye for detail, and like things to be “just so.” Sometimes this need for order and control can lead to compulsive behaviors if left unchecked.....

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Gypsy Fetish for Successful Sales

Teeth which have been buried for many years, serve to make a singular fetish. They are mingled with the bones of a tree-frog, and the whole then sewed up in a little bag. If a man has anything for sale, and will draw or rub this bag over it, he will have many offers or customers for the articles thus enchanted...

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Old Gypsy Cure For A Toothache

To cure toothache the Transylvanian gypsies wind a barley-straw round a stone, which is thrown into a running stream, while saying:

"Oh dukh ándre m're dándá,

Tu ná báres cingerá!

Ná ává kiyá mánge,

Mire muy ná hin kere!

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More Teeth Lore

Gypsy lore surrounding teeth is as follows:

• A child's first tooth must, when it falls out, should be thrown into a hollow tree.
• Those which come out in the seventh year are carefully kept, and whenever the child suffers from toothache, one is thrown into a stream...

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Festival of the Tooth

The Festival of the Tooth - An extended and lavish holiday which commemorates a holy relic of Buddha, his eye tooth.

Kandy is a beautiful city in Sri Lanka. On a small hill is a great temple which was especially built to house a relic of the Buddha - his tooth. The tooth can never be seen, as it is kept deep inside may caskets. But once a year in August, on the night of the full moon, there is a special procession for it. But other festivities occur on ten days leading to that final day....

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Lammas Ritual Potpourri

Ingredients:

• 20 drops clove bud oil
• 25 drops sandalwood oil
• 1 cup oak moss
• 2 cups dried pink rosebuds
• 2 cups dried red peony petals...

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A Solar Wheel for Lughnasadh

You can create a Solar Wheel or a Corn Man Wheel using a wire coat hanger, cardboard, and several ears of Indian corn complete with the husks.

The wheel can then be used to decorate your altar, or you could hang it on your door as a decoration and a celebration of the wheel of the year. Corn is a symbol of fertility, and a Solar Wheel invokes the power of the Sun to bring health and happiness to your home....

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