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© 2014 by Cassandra Eason

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Thanks to my wise friend, Kornelia Gold, who inspired and guided this book; to Josiane for testing weird and wonderful concoctions in the office kitchen; to my saintlike editor and adviser, John Gold; and to Kate Zimmermann for directing and shaping my enthusiasm; to my beloved children, Tom, Jade, Jack, Miranda, Bill, and their much-loved partners; to my magical granddaughters, Freya and Holly—also to my Australian adoptee grandchildren, Star and Ebony, who are truly amazing.

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the world of magic, where you can make anything happen in your everyday life. Using these easy-to-cast spells and the inner intuitive powers we all possess, you will be able to call to you what you want and banish whatever or whoever is causing you problems. Lighting a candle, chanting a simple but powerful rhyme to stir the energies in your favor, or maybe a swirl and twirl of an incense stick, and you can instantly make life much more the way you want it and attract the right opportunities, as bad luck and difficult people vanish with a zap. A clap and a stamp or two can release energy into the cosmos, to come bouncing back three times as powerfully with almost instant positive results.

A Spell a Day offers you 366 spells for every aspect of your life, from finding the right love, to receiving an urgent infusion of money fast, planning the trip of a lifetime or a fun day out, binding a smarmy relative’s tongue, or cutting the office bully down to size. All these spells use everyday household ingredients you will already have in your cupboard or can grab in the supermarket.

Just pick the right spell for you each day or whenever you need that extra boost of power, destressing, or a burst of good fortune. However, just for fun, you can always open the book and pick a spell at random—perhaps it will solve a dilemma you have been worrying about or bring new people and resources you lack into your world and prove what you already knew: that you were a bit of a witch already.

—Cassandra Eason

YOU WILL NEED: A sparkling crystal or a favorite piece of jewelry * A mirror large enough to see yourself in * A yellow candle * A small purse to carry the crystal if you use one instead of wearing jewelry

TIMING: Early morning

•  Stand facing the mirror. Place the candle in front of you so you are able to see it in the mirror’s reflection.

•  Hold the jewelry or crystal in your open, cupped hands and toss it into the air gently and rhythmically with increasing speed as you say three times faster and faster, Mirror, mirror, on the wall, I demand respect of all. I am worthy of admiration, I am worthy of consideration and so I take my place in the sun.

•  On the third time of saying in the sun, blow out the candle, throw the crystal high, and catch it.

•  Smile in the mirror at yourself. Wear the jewelry or carry the crystal in a little purse all day. When you doubt yourself, touch the jewelry and repeat the words in your mind.

YOU WILL NEED: A lucky charm, medallion, or favorite piece of jewelry or crystal (green is especially lucky) * An incense stick in a holder, preferably in a flower fragrance * A small dish of salt * A green candle * A dish of soil * A plant in a pot

TIMING: Saturdays

•  Put the charm in front of the candle.

•  Light the green candle and say, Good luck be mine.

•  Sprinkle a pinch of salt into the candle and say, Burn bright and light the way to amazing good fortune.

•  Light the incense stick from the candle. Holding it in your hand like a smoke pen, write in circles in the air around the charm, good luck be mine, saying the spell words at the same time.

•  Write and speak faster and faster, even if the letters are jumbling together. When you can write no faster, plunge the burning end of the incense stick into the soil and say, Good luck is mine.

•  Burn the candle and then wear or carry the charm. Keep it with any lottery tickets or whenever you need good luck, saying the words Good luck is mine as you touch it.

•  Pour the remaining salt under a running tap, repeating, Good luck is mine. Crush the incense stick and bury it in the soil in a planter or the garden.

YOU WILL NEED: Two matching candles in green, pink, or white * A bottle of your favorite fragrance

TIMING: Before entering a social setting

•  Place the bottle of fragrance in front of and in between the candles.

•  Light the left-hand candle and say, I call my love to find me this night.

•  Light the right-hand candle and repeat, I call my love to find me this night.

•  Pass the fragrance bottle around each candle in turn. Do the left candle first, nine times; three times clockwise, three times counterclockwise, and three times clockwise again. Then do the right candle.

•  Say three times as you do so, I call my love in fragrance and in fire to find me this night.

•  Take the fragrance and put a drop in the center of your brow, at the base of your throat, and on each inner wrist. Repeat, I call my love in fragrance and in fire to find me this night.

•  Return the bottle to its place and blow softly into each flame and whisper, Come, love, and find me this night.

•  Blow out each candle in turn, and repeat, Come, love, and find me this night.

YOU WILL NEED: A dark purple or blue candle * A small bowl of powdered pepper * A bowl of soil * A piece of red sewing thread, long enough to hold an end tight in each hand and the center in the candle flame

TIMING: Saturday evening

•  Light the candle, sprinkle just a few grains of pepper in the flame, and say, I seek release from [name the person or situation], that I may move forward to new life and love.

•  Tie a knot in the center of the thread and say, Bound be from troubling me.

•  Hold the thread tightly so the knot is in the flame and say, I cut the ties that bind me to [name].

•  When the thread breaks, drop it in the soil and extinguish the candle. Say, So am I free with the dimming of this light.

•  Pour the rest of the pepper on top of the soil.

•  Bury the burned thread still in the soil where nothing grows, or throw it in the garbage.

•  You may need to repeat the spell many times if the influence is great or you still feel love for the person, though you know it is destructive.

•  Use the same candle until it will no longer catch fire.

YOU WILL NEED: Six pink candles in a circle * A pink or red rose * A small heatproof dish

TIMING: Any Friday

•  Set your candles in a circle. On one side of each candle before lighting, trace with your dominant-hand index finger invisibly come to me on the wax. Say, Come to me, my twin soul, come swiftly and stay forever. Then light the candle you wrote on first and say, Twin soul, come swiftly and stay with me everlastingly.

•  Light each of the candles around the circle, repeating the spell words for each as you light them. Then take a petal from the rose and hold it briefly in the flame of the first lit candle. As it is singed, say, Twin soul, come swiftly and stay with me everlastingly.

•  Drop the petal into the heatproof dish and say, Twin soul, come swiftly and stay with me everlastingly. Next, turn a petal from the rose in each candle, saying the same words and doing the same actions. Then drop each of the singed petals in the dish.

•  Hold the dish of burned petals in the center of the circle above the candles and repeat the words, Twin soul, come swiftly and stay with me everlastingly. Blow out the candle circle quickly, saying, Come, my twin soul. Come swiftly and stay with me everlastingly.

•  Bury the singed petals in soil, either in a planter or outdoors, and scatter the rest of the rose petals on the ground.

YOU WILL NEED: Two small white candles and a larger central white candle; set the larger candle between the two smaller ones * A small bowl of dried herbs—rosemary, basil, or thyme, alone or in combination—such as the kind sold in the supermarket in glass jars

TIMING: Fridays

•  Light the left-hand candle and say, I light this flame for my love, [name], that we who now are two will become one.

•  Light the right-hand candle and say, I light this flame for myself that we who now are two will become one.

•  Sprinkle a pinch of herbs into the wax around the flames, first in the left, then the right, and say, Burn bright and light the way to lasting love.

•  Now hold both outer candles at the same time into the central flame and say, No more two but one.

•  Sprinkle a pinch of herbs into the central flame and repeat, Burn bright and light the way to lasting love.

•  Blow out the two outer candles, saying for each one, No more two but one.

•  Let the central candle burn through.

•  Scatter the remaining herbs left in the bowl outdoors.

YOU WILL NEED: Two candles, a small dark-colored candle to the left and a larger pale-colored one to the right * A black stone set in front of the dark-colored candle, and a white stone set in front of the pale-colored candle

TIMING: Any Sunday, just before darkness falls

•  Hold the unlit dark candle between your hands and say, May sorrow be gone from my life.

•  Light it and repeat the spell words, May sorrow be gone from my life.

•  Hold the unlit pale candle between your hands and say, May happiness return to my life.

•  Light the pale candle from the dark candle and repeat the spell words, May happiness return to my life.

•  Hold the black stone over the dark candle’s flame and say, Sorrow is done. No more of it.

•  Extinguish the dark candle in silence.

•  Now hold the white stone over the light-colored candle and say, Happiness is mine.

•  Let the light-colored candle burn through. Take the black stone and leave it on open ground.

•  Keep the white stone just inside the front door of your home. Every time you go out, hold it and say, Happiness be mine.

YOU WILL NEED: A needle or long silver-colored pin * An oval-shaped orange or red crystal or stone * A small pink soft cloth

TIMING: Every night from the crescent to the full moon

•  On the first night of the crescent moon, hold the crystal in your nondominant hand. Press the point of the needle very gently against the crystal and say, So are we joined in love and ask our beautiful child to join our family and grow with us in love and harmony.

•  Now place the crystal and needle slightly apart, but facing each other, on an indoor window ledge.

•  Repeat this every night until the night of the full moon.

•  On the night of the full moon, repeat the words and actions, but this time, leave the crystal and needle touching on the window ledge where the full moonlight or moon energies will fill them with fertility.

•  If possible, make love this night.

•  The next morning, wrap the needle and crystal together in a knotted pink cloth and say, So does our beautiful child join our family and grow in love and harmony.

•  Keep the cloth in a drawer in your bedroom.

•  Repeat the whole ritual on the next crescent moon or as long as necessary (hopefully not long at all).

YOU WILL NEED: A circle of six white candles * A bowl of salt

TIMING: Any Tuesday

•  Moving clockwise, light each of the candles in the circle in turn, saying, Shield me from all darkness with the eye of truth.

•  Draw an eye shape in the center of the salt with the index finger of your dominant hand. Then sprinkle a pinch of salt into each of the candle flames clockwise in turn, and repeat for each, Cleansed be of darkness with the eye of truth. So am I free.

•  Now draw one eye in the air around the outside of the candle circle and, with the same finger, directly in front of each candle.

•  Go around the circle three times in all and draw the eyes in the same place each time, saying continuously and firmly, Turn away the eye of envy. Think not of me, speak not of me, act not against me, so am I free.

•  Extinguish the candles one at a time, saying for each, May the eye of envy be gone with the dimming of this light.

•  Wash away the remaining salt under a running faucet, saying, Flow from me, go from me, eye of envy. So am I free.

•  Whenever you feel threatened, you can draw the eye in the center of your brow with your index finger and repeat internally, Turn away the eye of envy. Think not of me, speak not of me, act not against me, so am I free.

YOU WILL NEED: A pink candle * A bowl of pink potpourri or pink flower petals * A ring in gold, silver, or copper

TIMING: Fridays

•  Light the candle and say, Come my love and with me stay, stay forever and a day.

•  Scatter three circles of potpourri, or petals, around the candle, moving outward, saying softly and rhythmically three times, Come, my love, and with me stay. Stay forever and a day.

•  Now pass the ring over the candle flame (not too close to burn yourself), saying, Round and round the ring of truth, love in age and love in youth, love in sickness and in health, love in hardship, love in wealth, I call my love to with me stay.

•  Blow out the candle, hold the ring to your heart, and say, So long as the sun shines and the waters of the earth flow, which is forever.

•  Scoop up the petals and scatter them outdoors. Sleep with the ring under your pillow for nine nights.

YOU WILL NEED: A screw-cap glass bottle (dark glass, if possible) with a lid * Sour milk, vinegar, or cheap red wine * Dried mint from the supermarket cooking department (the kind sold in glass jars)

TIMING: After dark; especially on a Tuesday

•  Open the bottle. Hold it between your hands and say, [name], you will bully and intimidate me no more.

•  Add sour milk, vinegar, or red wine, and a few pinches of mint to the bottle, and put on the lid. Shake vigorously nine times while saying, Venom and viciousness, vileness and vitriol be gone.

•  Open the lid. Tip the contents of the bottle down the sink under a hot tap. Wash out the bottle thoroughly until the water runs clear, and say, [name], your power over me is gone. I am free. No more trouble me.

•  Throw away the bottle and pour any milk, vinegar, or wine you did not use down the sink.

•  Repeat the spell whenever you feel fear returning.

YOU WILL NEED: A piece of paper with the names or numbers possible in the draw, written on it in pen * A pendant or necklace that is significant to you * A green candle * A heatproof bucket or a large bowl of sand

TIMING: Before you need to place your bet or entry, especially if you have a lucky feeling

•  Light the candle and toss the pendant or necklace in your closed, cupped hands nine times. Toss the pendant higher and higher while chanting faster and faster, Lady Luck, reveal to me, the secrets that I need to see.

•  Throw the pendant or necklace high in the air, catch it, and say, Reveal the secret now to me.

•  Hold your pendant just a few centimeters above each number or name, slowly in turn. You will feel a tingling in your palm or the pendant will vibrate. Do this until you have the right number of names or numbers. You can do this up to twenty-four hours in advance.

•  Now scribble down the answers, set fire to the original paper in the candle, and let the paper burn in the bucket. Take it outside, if necessary.

YOU WILL NEED: A bowl with mixed small fruits such as berries or grapes, and edible seeds * Two white candles set far apart on a table

TIMING: Friday evening around dusk

•  Hold the bowl with small fruits and seeds and say, What has been lost will grow again even stronger than before.

•  Light one candle and say, Return to my heart and my life without blame or reproach. Eat a fruit, then a seed. Say, What has been lost will grow again even stronger than before.

•  Light the second candle and say, Return to my heart and my life without blame or reproach. Eat a fruit, then a seed. Say, What has been lost will grow again even stronger than before.

•  Move the candles a little closer together and repeat, Return to my heart and my life without blame or reproach. Eat a fruit and seed, then say, What has been lost will grow again even stronger than before.

•  Continue moving the candles closer together, as fast or as slowly as you wish. Each time, eat another fruit and seed, repeating the same spell words.

•  When the candles are almost touching, say for the final time, Return to my heart and my life without blame or reproach.

•  Take the fruit and seeds outdoors and leave them for the birds while the candles burn through.

YOU WILL NEED: Seven small white candles * A sharp paper knife or penknife

TIMING: Every day for seven days, starting on a Sunday

•  Set the candles in a circle. On each of the candles, using the knife, write success on one side from top to bottom.

•  Light the first candle of your choice and say, Sunday and every day, success come to me. Blow out the candle and say, So shall I shine successfully every day.

•  On Monday, light two candles, moving clockwise. As you light the second candle, say, Sunday, Monday, and every day, success come to me. Blow out both candles, one after the other, then say, So shall I shine successfully every day.

•  Each day light an extra candle and add the day of the week to the spell until, on the last day—Saturday—all seven candles are lit and all seven days of the week are named. Say, as you light the seventh candle, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and every day, success come to me.

•  Leave all the candles burning on Saturday. End the ritual by blowing softly three times into them, all in turn. Say, So do I shine successfully every day. Success has come to me.

YOU WILL NEED: Two small white tea light candles for each member of the family, including members who are far away or estranged * A vase in the center of the circle * A small flower for each member of the family, present or absent

TIMING: An hour or two before a family occasion—
especially if the family needs or lacks unity

•  Set up the first circle of candles, one for each family member, and going around the circle clockwise name each family member (write a list if there are a lot) as you touch his/her candle. Say for each one, You are welcome within the unity of the family.

•  Light each candle in turn and say for each one, You are blessed by the unity of the family.

•  Now take a flower for each family member in order, hold it over his/her candle, and say, You are the unity of the family. Then place the individual flower in the vase. When finished, leave the candles burning around the vase until they are burned through.

•  Before the family arrives, set up another circle, and as each person arrives, say to him or her, You are welcome and ask each to light a new candle for himself/herself in the candle circle.

•  Light candles for all those who are absent or estranged. Mention them positively. Give each present family member their flower when they leave. Keep flowers of absent or estranged members in the vase; let the candles burn through.