Elemental Spells
Earth Spell
Spell for Prosperity
You will need: - a green pillar or votive candle - a container for your candle - patchouli or sandalwood oil
Ground and center yourself. If you have a symbol that represents prosperity, you can carve it into your candle. Take the oil and anoint the candle from wick to bottom to bring prosperity into your life. Lay the candle on your pentacle. Meditate for a few moments on what you are asking for and why you need it. While placing the candle in its container, visualize yourself after you have gained your prosperity. Continue visualizing your outcome, and light your candle. As you do this, say:
Great Lord, Great Lady,
I light this candle to help bring prosperity
to my life,
Please help me obtain my goal,
so long as it harms none.
As I will it, So Mote it Be!
Let the candle burn itself out. Once it has finished burning, you can take the remnants and bury it or throw it in the trash.
Air Spell
Spell for Creativity
You will need:
- two small squares of purple cloth
- needle, thread, scissors
- stone: lapis lazuli or ruby or sodalite or blue tourmaline or
black tourmaline (your choice)
- herbs: pick three of the following: anise seed, basil,
catnip, hawthorn, lavender, St. John's Wort, vervain
Ground and center yourself. Begin sewing your pouch with the two squares of cloth. Make sure you make it small enough to fit in a pocket. Leave a small hole in the pouch large enough for you to add the herbs and the stone. Once you finish sewing, place a pinch of each herb inside the pouch. Then, place the stone of your choice inside the pouch. After this is done, continue filling the pouch with herbs until full. Once you are finished, sew up the hole and place it on your pentacle. Meditate for a moment on why you need creativity in your life. See yourself at full creative force. Then say:
Great Goddess, Great God,
I ask you to lend me the creativity I need
in order to help myself.
Please help me in my endeavor.
An in harm none, So Mote it Be!
Carry the pouch around as long as you need it. Once you are finished with it, bury it in the earth.
Fire Spell
Mirror Spell for Self Knowledge and Self Healing
You will need: - a mirror large enough to see your entire face - paper and pen - white candle in cauldron or pot
Relax. Ground and center yourself. Once you are relaxed, gaze at yourself in the mirror. As you do so, see yourself how you truly are. Think about your good and bad qualities. Think about your tendencies and your habits. Think about the true you. After a few moments of thinking, write down the things that you would like to rid yourself of. Once you are finished, take your paper and set it aflame with the white candle and set it in the cauldron to burn. As it burns, visualize yourself getting rid of those attributes. Then say:
Great Goddess, Great God,
I ask for your help and strength to help overcome
these things I wish to rid myself of in order
to make me a better person.
An it harm none, So Mote it Be!
Water Spell
Simple Fertility Spell
You will need: - one red, one pink, and one blue small strip of material - needle, thread, and scissors - red candle-pillar or votive - patchouli oil - container for candle
Ground and center yourself. Begin sewing the strips together into a cloth and say:
Red for my fertility.
Pink for the girl child and the Goddess,
Blue for the boy child and the God,
In hope for one, thy stitching is done.
Once you have finished sewing, place the cloth on the pentacle. Then, take the red candle and anoint it with the oil, from wick to bottom to bring fertility in and say:
May the God and Goddess aid me in my fertility.
Put the candle in the container and light it. Then say:
As I light this candle, I send you my request.
With the aid of the Lord and the Lady,
An it harm none, So Mote it Be!
Carry the strips of cloth with you or put them under your bed sheet at night. Take the remnants of the candle and bury it.
Spirit Spell
Spell for Self Knowledge
You will need: - a white candle - a container for your candle - any incense you find appealing - any oil you find appealing
Ground and center yourself. Light the incense. Annoint the candle with the oil. Light the candle. Gaze deeply into the flame. See yourself as you truly are. See the bad qualities of yourself that you would like to get rid of. Once you have focused on these things, extinguish the candle and say:
Great Lord and Lady,
As this candle is extinguished,
so are my negative qualities.
May they be banished from me!
An it harm none, So Mote It Be!
Back to Book Of Shadows