About Power Animals

Power animals are great advice givers, often representing our higher selves that we haven't been paying attention to lately. In a meditative state you can ask for their assistance on problems that have been nagging at you. Sometimes, if they want to, two power animals might work in conjunction with each other.

Power animals can assist you in the waking state as well. Perhaps you are trying to teach someone a particular theme and they are having difficulty understanding. Power animals are not limited to mammals. The reptilian and insect kingdoms can be just as helpful....

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Invocation for a Sick or Injured Pet

You can perform this ritual for animals recuperating at home, as well as for those at the veterinarian. Light a white candle, and visualize a protective dome of warm soothing light surrounding your pet.

When your emotions are calm and your thoughts are still, ask the Great Mother for her assistance...

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Wandering Pet Protection Spell

Spread out a white handkerchief. On it, place a clipping of your pet’s hair and a picture of your home or one of you and your pet together. Imagine your pet back in its favorite inside place, sleeping contentedly....

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Pet Memorial Ritual

To hold a memorial for a special pet who has passed on, place a picture of your pet (preferably taken when it was in its prime) on your altar. Light directional candles, and place them around the picture. Light a black candle, and place it next to or on top of the picture....

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Creating a "Familiar"

This rite it designed specifically for cats, but may be employed with any animal you wish to make your familiar spirit. Each night during the cycle of the waxing Moon, sit closely with the animal. Arrange it so that you are both facing toward the horizon where the Moon shall rise...

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The Witch's Familiar

The concept of the familiar has been a vital component of various cultures throughout man's history. The Romans, for example, believed that each household was protected by a familiar whose job it was to keep the family from harm, and shamans and medicine men of various tribal traditions have long honored the spirits of animals for their wisdom and assistance in magickal workings.

Yet despite these positive influences, when we think of a familiar the most common image is that of the evil witch with her fearsome-looking black cat. This archetype, straight from the fairy tales of our childhood, has its roots in the fear and superstition of the Dark Ages, and it bears no resemblance to the modern-day familiar...

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A Simple Shapeshifting Exercise

Here is an exercise in trading places (mentally) with a dog, a cat, or other animal. Once you become adept at this exercise, you will find animal communication, animal healing, and contact with power animals and guides much easier to accomplish...

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Meditation to Meet Your Power Animal

This guided imagery is about meeting your power animal. Like the ancient ones, the power animals come from deep within the consciousness of our Earth Mother. Power animals are our deepest memories. We all share DNA with all the animals alive on earth. A lion has the same DNA as we do for many systems. We can, in our memories, see out of the lion's eyes. We are them. They call to us deeply, loudly.

Power animals are easier to contact than ancient ones. Their voices are louder. They are easier to see. They will come and speak to you when you need them. The animals are helpers. Like ancient ones they are guides. They tell you what you need to know. They give you their immense energy. No shaman would ever go into sacred space without their animal helper....

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Finding Your Power Animal

Think about animals to whom you've always been attracted - and remember that "animal" includes birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects.

• Do you collect owls?
• Draw pictures of dragons?
• Live for the sight of horses?
• Swear that you would never want to live without a cat? (I believe that Cat is one of the most popular (and certainly one of the most accessible) power animals, closely followed by Dolphin and Wolf.)...

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Magickal Powder for Information and Communication

This magical powder uses the power of Gemini and Mercury to quickly and easily find information and/or to encourage the smooth flow of communication. It can be used by itself, or added to other forms of magick, such as at the bottom of a candle, sprinkled on a written spell, etc....

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Good Fortune Spell

Aloe vera is thought by the people of Africa to bring good luck to those who possess it. To create some good fortune of your own, place an aloe vera plant on your altar. Place pieces of agate in various places around the aloe plant, and place a yellow candle in front of the plant....

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Avoid family problems

Bad luck at home can be avoided by never washing blankets during the waxing May moon. According to the saying:

"If you wash blankets in May,
you will wash a loved one away."

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Luck Jar

If you are unlucky enough to break a mirror, collect all the pieces, put in a glass jar and stand on your window sill, the shards deflect all the bad luck away from the house.

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Essential Oils For Prosperity

Essential oils for prosperity and abundance can draw more than just money; fertility, time and opportunities are also included. Basil, pine, patchouli and jasmine are effective when used in spells to bring abundance in your life, as long as you program the action with intent. For example, dab a drop of basil or peppermint oil inside your wallet to draw in more money while imagining your wallet filling with crisp $20 bills.

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Note: The Aromatherapy for Prosperity page over at my new website, Magickal Ingredients, has a lot of information on this subject. If you are interested in using essential oils to bring in money, it's worth taking a look at.

Essential Oils for Psychic Awareness

To enhance your natural psychic tendencies and help you tune in to the thoughts and feelings around you, vetiver, sandalwood and rosemary oils are best for psychic awareness spells. For complete relaxation and contemplation, try valerian oil or lavender oil.

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More information about essential oils and magick can be found at my new website, Magickal Ingredients.

Essential Oils for Protection and Courage

We all have days when we feel vulnerable; peppermint or cinnamon oil will boost your magical protection and self-confidence, while pennyroyal oil used in a courage spell will smooth out the day ahead, allowing you to be at your best.

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More information on essential oils for Magick can be found here: Magickal Ingredients

Power of the Sun - Invocation

Great One of Heaven,
Power of the Sun,
we invoke thee in thine ancient names -
Micheal, Balin, Arthur, Lugh;
come again as of old into this thy land....

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To Honor The May Queen

Make an offering of a floral crown, or a libation of honey and milk, to the Queen of the May during your Beltane prayers.

The leaves are budding across the land
on the ash and oak and hawthorn trees.
Magic rises around us in the forest...

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Flower Omens of Spring

The day you find the first flower of the season can be used as an omen:

• Monday means good fortune,
• Tuesday means greatest attempts will be successful,
• Wednesday means marriage,
• Thursday means warning of small profits,
• Friday means wealth,
• Saturday means misfortune,
• Sunday means excellent luck for weeks.

More Flower divination information can be found at my new website, Divination.

For Sunny Weather and Clear Skies

Take a small blue container and pour some water into it, preferably mineral water or spring water but any will do. Then put some salt in it and leave it in a warm place near (or on) a windowsill....

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Spell to Encourage Sunshine

You will need:

• suntan lotion
• carnelian or red jasper
• orange candle...

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Gypsy Life - Not As Romantic As It Sounds

A pipe-smoking mother tends to her children in a rather windswept Romany encampment on the Epsom Downs, circa 1910.

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A Superbly Wicked Spell

Taking the Law Of Three into consideration, this is how to make a spell for revenge or to hurt someone back who's hurt you or someone you love, but at the same time how to remain perfectly safe and serve the highest good of all concerned.



Here's how:

• Think about the person in question, paying special attention to their shortcomings, and the hurtful things they do....

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Ancient Etruscan Love Spell

The origins of this love spell are obscure, but there is a litany in archaic Italian of which I have provided an English translation. It is a ritual that requires a bit of effort and a lot of herbal materials as well as a profound belief in its success. Otherwise, its nothing more than empty words. The materials can be obtained readily in any food store, herb market or metaphysical supply store.

Herbal Mixture:

• 3 parts lavender
• 3 parts damiana
• 3 parts patchouly
• 1 part Dragon’s blood resin...

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Essential Oils for Cleansing

When you feel surrounded by negativity or weighed down by bad habits, use such essential oils as lemon or sage for cleansing; all citrus oils are especially good for stimulating creativity and giving your mind a fresh, clean slate to fill with positive thoughts. Thyme oil is also effective for an energy reboot, and the calming, reassuring properties of lavender will help you stay on track with new, positive habits.

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More ideas for using essential oils can be found at my new website, The Magickal Apothecary.

Vervain Water

Vervain was known in many legends as one of the herbs sacred to the Druids. Although it is often associated with the Summer Solstice, the vervain plant is highly potent in late summer, around the time of Lammas.



In Hoodoo and other folk magic traditions, vervain is used to make Van-Van oil - this is simply a blend of vervain and a base oil, simmered and strained. This oil is used to provide magical protection, and clear away evil energies. In many forms of folklore, vervain is associated with workings that decrease lust - however, the scent of vervain is a well-known aphrodisiac.

In addition to matters of the libido, however, vervain is commonly incorporated as a cleansing herb. You can brew up a batch of vervain water to cleanse your magical tools, asperge around a sacred space, or purify your altar for ritual....

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St Agnes Eve

January 21st is the Eve of St Agnes. There are many traditions associated with both this night and tomorrow night, all intended to bring dreams of the future husband. Here are some of them.

• Walking thrice backwards around a churchyard in silence at midnight, scattering hemp seed over the left shoulder....

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