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DEDICATION

To my beloved children Tom, Jade, Jack, Miranda, and Bill, and my grandchildren, Freya and Holly, who have all helped me through serious illness this year to finish this book. To John Gold, my subeditor, protector, and mentor; and Konnie Gold, my inspiration and wonderful friend; to dearest Debbie, my website guru; and my Goddess daughter Caitlin Waller, with whom I tried out many of the spells; and, not least, to Kate Zimmermann, my editor who has kept faith with me as I have written my way back to health.

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to 1001 Spells, the culmination of forty years of research and spell casting. The book contains a few of my old tried-and-tested spells, which cannot be changed without losing their essence. But by far the majority of the spells in this book are brand-new or total rewrites of earlier spells in new formats that have worked far better than the originals.

Here you will find everything from love rituals to spells to combat those who play mind games at work, from selling your home fast and profitably to making money from your long-hidden creative talents, from removing nasty spirits to countering the intentions of those who are jealous of you and wish you ill, from old Egyptian rites made new to modern computer spells. The terms rituals and spells are used interchangeably, since both, in essence, mean following a formula to achieve a particular aim.

Each spell will tell you what you will need to carry it out or cast it—all simple materials you’ll find in your kitchen cupboards, the garden, the supermarket, or online; the best time to cast the spell; and step-by-step instructions to guide you from the beginning to the days and weeks after the spell to ensure that the spell’s effects last.

If a spell does not feel quite right for your circumstances or you cannot get a particular ingredient, crystal, or candle color, then make substitutes to fit with your lifestyle and needs. Spells are templates, formats to guide you; they are not written in stone. So change the words and actions until they feel right for you. We all possess the innate powers to work magick. If in doubt, white will substitute for any color, clear quartz for any crystal, and lavender for any fragrance.

Each spell follows sound magical practices, harms no one, and if it is banishing something or someone destructive from your life or the life of a loved one, will remove or bind the bad behavior or danger caused to you or your loved ones without hurting the perpetrator. Such justice is for karma, though, sometimes by showing people in their true light, earthly justice will swiftly follow.

If you want to know more about how magick works or why I have chosen particular days or times for a spell, read my Book of Shadows, published by Sterling Ethos, which has plenty of blank pages for you to write your own adaptations of your favorite spells. If you want to delve even more deeply into the realms of magick, take one of my step-by-step magick or psychic development online courses, available at my website: www.cassandraeason.com.

Use the different sections to find exactly the right spell. After a short time, you will notice that your personally created spells, based on mine, come quite naturally into your mind, and you are creating your own magick.

Above all, enjoy magick and don’t worry if you go counterclockwise instead of clockwise or a candle won’t light. True magick comes from the heart, soul, and mind, and if you work with good intentions and the spell really matters to you, there is no wizard in the sky to mark you on a scale of 1 to 10.

This book has been a huge undertaking for me because in the middle of writing it I became seriously ill and needed major surgery. But as I inched my way back to health, I had a notebook and a pen smuggled into the hospital (I was banned from using my computer) and my darkest hours were illuminated by creating beautiful spells filled with hope and promise. Here I am, six months later, having completed the culmination of my research as well as a major step on my life’s journey.

So enjoy the book and you will hear me in every word, teaching you what I love so passionately—magick—the power to make a difference in our lives and the world.

Cassandra Eason

CHAPTER 1

LOVE MAGICK

Here are spells for attracting new love; rebuilding trust if you have been betrayed; finding your twin soul; increasing love and commitment; sustaining marriage; living together with lasting love; ensuring fidelity; restoring passion; reconciling; and ending love peacefully.

SECTION 1:

FINDING NEW LOVE

1

A LOVE-CALLING SPELL

You will need:

One green candle

Your favorite piece of jewelry

One rose or lavender incense stick in a holder

Timing:

Fridays

The Spell

♦ Put the jewelry in front of the candle.

♦ Light the candle, look into the flame, and say: I call my love to find me and stay with me faithfully and lovingly as long as the sun shines and the waters of the earth flow.

♦ If you already know who the person is, refer to him or her by name throughout the spell.

♦ Light the incense stick from the candle and write the same words in the air over the candle and jewelry, using the incense stick as a smoke pen.

♦ Pass the jewelry in a clockwise direction three times above the candle flame and repeat the same words.

♦ Blow out the candle, repeating the same words once more.

♦ Wear the jewelry whenever you go on a date or to a place where you hope to meet someone new.

♦ Cast the spell again any Friday you wish to keep the energies flowing.

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FOR CALLING YOUR TWIN SOUL, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN

You will need:

Six pink candles in a circle

A pink or red rose

A heatproof dish half filled with soil

Timing:

Fridays

The Spell

♦ Before lighting, trace the following sentence with the index finger of your dominant hand on one side of each candle: Come to me, my twin soul, come swiftly and stay with me everlastingly and faithfully.

♦ Light the candle you wrote on first, repeating the words aloud.

♦ Light each candle in turn, repeating the words at each lighting.

♦ Take a petal from the rose, holding it briefly in the flame of the first candle you lit. As it singes, repeat the words again.

♦ Drop the singed petal into the dish.

♦ Burn another petal in each candle in turn, repeating the words and actions.

♦ Drop each singed petal in the dish of soil.

♦ Hold the dish of burned petals above the center of the circle of candles, repeating the words once more.

♦ Blow out the candle circle as fast as you can.

♦ Bury the singed petals outdoors and scatter the remaining petals plucked from the rose.

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A VICTORIAN MIRROR SPELL

You will need:

A mirror large enough to see yourself in

A floral-scented candle

A hairbrush

Timing:

Midnight

The Spell

♦ Just before midnight, light the candle. Make sure the light is reflecting in the mirror.

♦ At midnight, gaze into the mirror, brushing your hair gently and rhythmically. Count silently to 100.

♦ At 100, continue brushing, whispering continuously these age-old words: Come my lover, come to me, over river, over sea, over mountains, far or near, in this looking glass appear.

♦ When you are in a dream state, put down the brush, touch the mirror with your lips, and close your eyes.

♦ Open your eyes slowly and blink. Behind you, reflected in the glass, you may momentarily see the face of the one who will love you in the future or someone you have met already.

♦ If you see nothing, shut your eyes again, count to 100 quickly, and imagine the candlelit mirror in your mind.

♦ Blow out the candle. Your lover’s image will come into your mind.

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A TRADITIONAL CRESCENT MOON SPELL TO ATTRACT NEW LOVE

You will need:

A map of your city or country or of the world for a cosmopolitan lover

One box of pins

One magnet

Timing:

Any night from crescent moon until full moon

The Spell

♦ Scatter the pins over the map, saying, Near and far o’er land and sea, a lover true, I call to me.

♦ Circle the magnet clockwise over the map, collecting all the pins.

♦ Say continuously, So do I draw love to me, as pin to magnet joined are we. So I call my lover true, come before the next moon is new.

♦ Put the pins in the unlidded box with the magnet inside on top of the unfolded map near a window.

♦ On the night of the full moon, leave a silver candle to burn so that candlelight and moonlight shine on the box.

♦ Leave everything in place until love comes or repeat at the next new moon, whichever comes sooner.

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AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF HATHOR LOVE-KNOT RITUAL TO ATTRACT AND KEEP LASTING LOVE

You will need:

Seven red ribbons of equal length, one for each daughter of the love goddess Hathor

A red candle

Timing:

The hour before sunset

The Spell

♦ Light the candle, placing the ribbons one in front of the other next to it.

♦ Tie the nearest two ribbons (ribbons 1 and 2) together with a knot. As you do so, say: Daughters of Hathor, I ask that my true love may find me and stay with me lovingly. Mother Hathor, guide the way.

♦ Tie the third ribbon to the second, repeating the words.

♦ Do this for each ribbon, tying the fourth to the third, the fifth to the fourth, the sixth to the fifth, and finally the seventh to the sixth. Each time, repeat the words.

♦ Let the candle burn through. Set the chain of ribbons on your bedroom window overnight.

♦ In the morning, tie it to a tree and repeat the chant seven times.

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TO FIND NEW LOVE, ESPECIALLY AFTER BETRAYAL OR IF YOU HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF

You will need:

Two green, pink, or white candles

Your favorite fragrance

Timing:

Before going out socially or logging on to a dating site

The Spell

♦ Place the fragrance between the candles.

♦ Light the left candle, saying: I call my love to find me this night.

♦ Light the right candle, repeating the words once more.

♦ Pass the fragrance bottle around each candle, left first, nine times: three times clockwise, three times counterclockwise, and three times clockwise again.

♦ As you do this, say three times: I call my love in fragrance and in fire to find me this night.

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

♦ Return the bottle to its place, blow softly into each flame, and whisper, Come, love, and find me this night. Do not blow the candles out while doing this.

♦ Blow out each candle in turn, repeating, Come, love, find me and stay with me.

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A ROSE QUARTZ HEART TWIN-SOUL RITUAL IF YOU NEVER SEEM TO MEET THE RIGHT PERSON

You will need:

One pink candle

Matching rose quartz hearts set in front of a candle

Dried or fresh rose petals in a bowl

One pink drawstring bag

Timing:

Any Friday

The Spell

♦ Light the candle, and say, My willing heart I give to you, a heart so gentle, heart so true, come love and find me.

♦ Scatter rose petals in a heart shape around the candle and quartz hearts, saying continuously, Like moth to flame, butterfly to flower, I call true love now at this hour.

♦ Put the crystals and some rose petals in the drawstring bag, repeating both chants.

♦ Close the bag and pass it nine times clockwise over the candle, still chanting. When you finish the final chant, blow out the candle.

♦ Carry the bag with you when you go out on dates or to meet new people.

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A SLAVIC LOVE WISH RITUAL TO BRING THE RIGHT LOVE IF YOU HAVE BEEN ALONE FOR A WHILE

You will need:

A large silver-colored bucket or glass bowl half filled with water

Seven small moonstones or small pure white stones

Timing:

A bright full moon night or the nights before or after the full moon

The Spell

♦ Position the bucket or glass bowl to catch the image of the moon or moonlight within it.

♦ Gaze into the silver light, and say: Father Moon, I would not hold you captive a moment longer than I need. Send to me my lasting gentle love and go on your way with blessings.

♦ Drop the moonstones into the water one at a time, repeating the words for each stone.

♦ Thank Father Moon and leave the water all night in the moonlight.

♦ In the morning, pour the water into small glass bottles to use in love baths and showers in the month ahead before socializing.

♦ Carry the moonstones as a love token in a silver bag.

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TO CALL YOUR TWIN SOUL, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, TO FIND YOU

You will need:

Nine silver coins

Nine white flowers

Nine small fruits

One small basket

Timing:

Early morning

The Spell

♦ Carry your basket of coins, flowers, and fruits to the edge of a lake, pool, ocean, or pond.

♦ Call out across the water: I seek my true twin soul and no other, by the power of the flowing waters, to find me, that instantly we may know each other.

♦ Cast the coins, flowers, and fruit into the water one by one, chanting softly and continuously: Twin soul, this morn I call to thee. Find your way home to me. From far off shores or nearer lands, come, love, swiftly and take my hands.

♦ Hold your hands high above your head and then outstretched toward the water to touch your twin soul magically across the waves or the next street.

♦ Collect small offerings from the shore, placing them in the basket, and repeat all the chants.

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FOR NEW LOVE AND TRUST IF YOU HAVE BEEN HURT BY A PREVIOUS LOVER; CAN ALSO BE APPLIED AFTER A DIVORCE

You will need:

A thin silver ring that fits on your wedding finger. Treat yourself.

Timing:

The crescent moon in the sky or, if cloudy, the first day it is visible

The Spell

♦ Face the moon. Place the ring in the palm of your nondominant hand, circling over it six times with the other hand, repeating six times: One for love, you moon above, send love to me. Two for love, you moon above, fidelity. Three for love, you moon above, eternally. This ring I wear secure in self until new love shall find me.

♦ Place the ring on your wedding finger and repeat the words.

♦ When you marry or if your new love buys you a ring, you can change the moon love ring to the other hand.

SECTION 2:

INCREASING COMMITMENT

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A KNOT RITUAL TO INCREASE LOVE BETWEEN YOU AND SOMEONE YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW BETTER

You will need:

Two small dolls or two tiny featureless figures crafted from modeling clay

A pink ribbon and a green ribbon

Timing:

Monday

The Spell

♦ Give one doll your name and the other doll your would-be lover’s name.

♦ Hold a doll in each hand, closing your hands with the dolls inside, saying: I seek to become closer in love with [name].

♦ Tie the two dolls face to face with the ribbons, making three knots, saying for each knot: Three times the lover’s knot secures, firm be the knots, long the love endures.

♦ Keep the knotted dolls under your pillow for three nights. On the fourth morning undo the knots one by one, shaking each ribbon free, saying: Three times the lover’s knot flies free, the love is bound with him/her and me.

♦ Join the ribbons loosely at the top with a single knot. Hang the ribbons behind the bedroom door. Keep the dolls face to face near the bed.

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A CHEEKY ENCHANTMENT WORKPLACE SPELL TO INCREASE THE LOVE VIBES WITH SOMEONE WHO SEEMS NOT TO NOTICE YOU

You will need:

A mug for your would-be beloved

Tea bag, herbal tea, or coffee

A long metal spoon

Timing:

Any natural break (you may have to make coffee for everyone, but enchant only one)

The Spell

♦ Add the tea or coffee and hot water to the mug to be enchanted.

♦ Begin stirring clockwise with the spoon in your dominant hand, moving the other hand counterclockwise above the mug (not too close), chanting softly: Look on me with eyes of love, let lasting bonds between us grow. I bind and wind connection in, that lasting love we may soon know.

♦ Make your words (even in your head) become softer and stir more slowly until all ends in silence and stillness.

♦ Offer the drink to your would-be beloved and say in your mind: With growing love from me to you.

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AN INSTANT WORKPLACE CONNECTION SPELL

You will need:

Any food on a plate: a cake, biscuit, a pile of files, a computer disk, keys, or a tool you hand over to the person you would like to connect with romantically.

Timing:

As often as possible

The Spell

♦ The essence is speed. Offer the object slowly, passing the other hand around it, and say in your head nine times faster and faster:

Love grows with every touch,
Love knows there can be much,
Between us, desire flare and flame
Meet my eyes, touch my heart,
Passion starts as I speak your name.

♦ As you hand over the item, unobtrusively brush against him or her with your hand and say the person’s name aloud conversationally, meeting his or her eyes.

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A WHITE FLOWER AND MOON SPELL TO HAVE YOU NOTICED BY SOMEONE YOU LIKE

You will need:

A clear glass or silver-colored bowl half filled with water

Nine white flowers

A smooth stick or pointed crystal quartz

A pink ribbon

Timing:

A later waxing moon; if it is dull, add silver candles to reflect in the water

The Spell

♦ Go outdoors if possible. Moving clockwise, encircle the bowl with the white flowers.

♦ Stir the water nine times clockwise with the stick or crystal, saying,

Moon of increase, let love grow,
That [name of person] may love show,
Moon shine down your beauteous light,
Make me beloved to his/her sight.

♦ Leave the water outside overnight.

♦ In the morning, sprinkle nine drops of moon water over the ribbon, repeating the chant three times.

♦ Wear or carry the ribbon for nine days and thereafter on any occasion when you know the person you like will be present.

♦ Bottle the remainder of the water to splash on your wrists when your love is near.

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A TRADITIONAL THREE-NIGHT CANDLE AND MIRROR RITUAL TO STRENGTHEN LOVE

You will need:

One pink candle

One green candle

One round or oval mirror

Timing:

Three nights before the night of the full moon, after dark

The Spell

♦ On the first night, light the two candles, pink first and then green.

♦ Place the mirror on a flat surface, reflective side up. Place the candles near the edges of the mirror.

♦ Say: Flame and flare, connect us lovingly and everlastingly, myself and [name love].

♦ Gaze between the candles into the mirror, calling your love’s name softly.

♦ Move the candles closer, saying: So do we move nearer to each other’s heart and soul.

♦ Blow out the green candle and then the pink, looking into the afterglow in the mirror and calling your love again.

♦ On night 2, repeat the spell exactly but move the candles even closer.

♦ On night 3, follow the spell words and actions as before and move the candles so close that they touch.

♦ As you look in the glass through the candles, say: Our hearts entwine and we are one. Picture yourself and your love on your wedding day.

♦ Let the candles burn down.

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A SEVEN-DAY MAGNET SPELL TO INCREASE ROMANTIC COMMITMENT, ESPECIALLY LONG DISTANCE OR OVER THE INTERNET

You will need:

Two black magnets with positive/negative poles at the ends

A red candle

Patchouli or any fiery essential oil, such as dragon’s blood

A small red drawstring bag

Timing:

The hour after sunset for seven days, beginning on a Friday

The Spell

♦ Light the red candle behind the magnets with the poles repelling.

♦ Burn the candle until one-seventh of it has melted down, saying: Friday is the day of love; may my lover ever closer move.

♦ Turn the magnets so that they jump together. Blow out the candle, repeating the words.

♦ Do exactly the same for the next six evenings, separating and then joining the magnets but changing the name to the appropriate day of the week.

♦ On the next Friday put the joined magnets in the drawstring bag, adding three drops of oil, saying: May we never be parted by time, space, or circumstance.

♦ Take the magnets out of the bag every Friday and repeat the spell, anointing them with one drop of oil.

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A HAIR AND RIBBON BRAIDING SPELL TO INCREASE COMMITMENT IN A SLOW BUT LOVING RELATIONSHIP

You will need:

Seven red ribbons

Seven strands of hair from your love’s head (you can get them from a hairbrush or comb)

Seven strands of hair from your head

Timing:

Friday early morning

The Spell

♦ Hold the seven ribbons together in your nondominant hand, allowing them to blow free.

♦ Pass your other hand over the ribbons seven times clockwise and say: Seven by seven the power I raise, calling love and joyous days, days of lasting love and bliss, sealing love with one sweet kiss.

♦ Braid the ribbons together and wind in the hairs, one of yours knotted with one from your love, repeating the words softly and continuously as you wind and weave.

♦ When you are finished, kiss the ribbon braid and pin it near your heart where it cannot be seen. Repeat the words as you do this.

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A VENUS MEDITERRANEAN LOVE-JOINING RITE

You will need:

A bunch of ripened grapes

Timing:

At noon, in sunlight

The Spell

♦ Pick a grape, saying: The vine it binds and twines our love.

♦ Eat the grape.

♦ Pick another grape and recite: Your heart to mine.

♦ Eat the grape.

♦ Pick and recite: The vine it winds and finds us one.

♦ Eat the grape.

♦ Pick another grape and say: Our hearts entwine and you are mine.

♦ Continue the cycle until you have eaten all the grapes or can eat no more.

♦ If possible, share the grapes with your love and say the words in your mind.

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A WINDY NIGHT LOVE-CALLING RITUAL

You will need:

Nothing

Timing:

A windy night

The Spell

♦ Open your bedroom window and stand directly in front of it, facing the direction of your beloved’s home no matter how far away.

♦ Whisper his or her name three times into the wind and then say:

Winds from the sea,
Bring to me,
This love that will last,
Until time is past.
Hear, love, and return me this sign.

♦ Wait and you will feel the link. Make actual contact with your love by phone or mail as soon as possible.

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AN APPLE SPELL TO GET A LONG-TERM LOVER TO SHOW COMMITMENT

You will need:

An apple divided almost exactly in half. If your lover does not like apples, find another fruit you can divide in half.

A silver-colored knife

Timing:

During the waning moon (also a good time for picking fruit)

The Spell

♦ Wash the fruit under running water, saying:

Fruit sweet, as he/she does eat,
move [name] to lasting state.

Fruit sweet, as he/she does eat,
let him/her not hesitate.

Fruit sweet, as we do eat, no longer wait to say I do,
Me and you, our lifetime through.

♦ At an opportune time, cut the fruit in half and share it with your lover, reciting the words in your mind three times.

♦ Retrieve any leftovers you can and bury them with other fruit either in the ground or in a pot, reciting the words again.

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A TWIN-RING SPELL FOR A LONG-TERM COMMITMENT OR MARRIAGE, ESPECIALLY IF THERE ARE OBSTACLES OR OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE

You will need:

Two matching thin gold or silver rings

One green candle

One bowl of dried basil

One green drawstring bag or purse

Timing:

The night before the full moon

The Spell

♦ Light the candle, circling the flame three times clockwise with each of the rings in turn, holding them above the flame, saying:

Around and around the ring of truth,
love in age and love in youth,

Love in sickness and in health,
love in hardship, love in wealth.

Come, my love, and with me stay,
stay forever and a day.

♦ Let none come between us.

♦ Blow out the candle and send the light to your love, picturing yourselves exchanging rings.

♦ Keep the rings in the bag under your mattress until your commitment, betrothal, or wedding, when you can wear them on a chain around your neck.

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A UNITY CANDLE MARRIAGE OR COMMITMENT SPELL

You will need:

One large white pillar candle

Two smaller white candles in separate holders

Timing:

Before or during a commitment or marriage ceremony. Alternatively, you can cast the spell yourself before you move in together or marry, in which case say both sets of words and do both sets of actions.

The Spell

♦ You and your lover light a white candle, and as you do so, each of you says: My love and faithfulness I give to you, fidelity my whole life through.

♦ Both simultaneously light the pillar candle from each other’s candle and say: No more two but one, one light, one inspiration, one heart.

♦ Extinguish the separate candles one after the other, and as you do so, say in turn or twice if alone: No longer two but one, willingly united in love and fidelity, in trust and in harmony, in unity to remain eternally.

♦ Let the pillar candle to burn down.

♦ Have separate small candles for children and light the central candle from their flames.

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TO KEEP OR RESTORE PASSION IN A COMMITTED RELATIONSHIP

You will need:

A red candle

A strawberry, rose, or musk incense stick

Dried rose petals or rose potpourri in a bowl

Timing:

Fridays

The Spell

♦ In the bedroom, light first the candle and then the incense from the candle; as you do so, say: Candle of love, incense of desire, I call my love in fragrance and in fire.

♦ Take a handful of rose petals with your dominant hand.

♦ Pass the closed hand containing the petals three times over the flame, then three times over the incense smoke, saying: In flower and fragrance, in fragrance and in fire, three times I call my love’s desire.

♦ Scatter the handful of petals, first in a clockwise circle around the incense and then in the same direction around the candle. Use all of them, saying: I call my lover, with fragrance and with flower. At this hour my beloved, in passion and in fire.

♦ Extinguish the candle and let the incense burn through. Scoop up the rose petals and hide them beneath the mattress.

♦ Burn the candle during lovemaking.

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A SOLO LASTING ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COMMITMENT RITUAL

You will need:

Two red candles

Two incense sticks of cedar, frankincense, or myrrh

A pot of sand

Timing:

Sundays

The Spell

♦ Etch invisibly with the index finger of the hand you write with on each candle the Ankh, the Egyptian lasting love hieroglyph of Osiris and Isis, the divine Egyptian couple.

♦ Light one candle and then light the other from the flame of the first and say: I dedicate these candles to our Ankh love that will endure like the sun shimmering perpetually over the oasis waters.

♦ Light each incense stick, holding one in each hand, from each candle in turn, repeating the words.

♦ Draw the Ankh symbol in the air first with the left incense over both candles and then with the right, repeating the words.

♦ Draw spirals with both incenses over the candles simultaneously, reciting the words, making the Ankhs larger and the words louder and faster. With a final burst of power on the final waters (you will know when the power is ready), plunge both incenses into the sand and blow out the candles together.

♦ Say, Our love is sealed perpetually by the power of the Ankh.

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A WEDDING CEREMONY DREAM RITUAL TO TURN A COMMITTED RELATIONSHIP OR LONG-LASTING BETROTHAL INTO A MARRIAGE

You will need:

A prayer book containing the wedding ceremony (the traditional version is best)

Two red and white ribbons

A sprig of lavender or fresh rosemary or a long-stemmed rose

Any ring that fits your wedding finger

Timing:

Before you go to bed, especially the last day of the month

The Spell

♦ Open the prayer book at the marriage ceremony at the place where it says, With this ring I thee wed.

♦ Repeat these words six times and put the ring on your wedding finger.

♦ Place the rose, lavender, or rosemary in the prayer book to mark the place; close the book; and bind the books with the knotted ribbons to signify union in marriage.

♦ Put the prayer book by the side of your bed and go to sleep picturing your wedding and calling your love.

♦ If you do not dream of the wedding, repeat the spell when you wake.

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A TWIN CANDLE SPELL TO KEEP LOVE STRONG THROUGH THE YEARS

You will need:

Two beeswax or real wax candles

A flat metal tray

A paper knife

Timing:

Friday, as evening falls

The Spell

♦ Light the first candle, melting a little wax on to the tray to secure the candles as they stand side by side.

♦ Light the second candle from the first and say: As this wax melts, so melts his/her heart. As the candles burn, so burns his/her love for me, inflames and kindles desire and fidelity from year to year.

♦ When both candles have burned and melted, as the remaining pool of wax cools, before it is solid, use the knife to draw a large heart in the wax.

♦ Write both your and your love’s initials within the heart and say, May love grow stronger and endure from year to year.

♦ When the wax is almost solid, cut around the edges of the heart so that you can lift it.

♦ Keep the heart wrapped in silk in a drawer until it crumbles.

♦ Replace the heart and bury the crumbled one.

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A FIDELITY RITUAL FOR A MARRIAGE IN LATER LIFE OR ONE IN WHICH YOU HAVE COME TOGETHER WITH ONGOING DIFFICULTIES

You will need:

A pot of trailing ivy (or, as noted, honeysuckle or vine)

A bowl of water

Your engagement or wedding ring or any ring to symbolize unending love

Timing:

Thursday or any anniversary

The Spell

♦ Pick off nine ivy leaves, starting at the top of the frond, and as you pick each one, say: Ivy, ivy, I love you, keep my lover true, though I would not bind him/her, I now our vows renew.

♦ Surround the ring with the nine leaves, one at a time, and say for each one: Our hands and hearts with one consent, have tied this knot until time does end.

♦ Add the leaves to the water one at a time, saying for each: Ivy, ivy, I love you, keep my lover true. Though I would not bind him/her, I now our vows renew.

♦ Swirl the water nine times clockwise and bind the two leaves that move closest together with some of the ivy frond.

♦ Cast them into flowing water, repeating all the spell words.

♦ Bury the other seven leaves.

♦ If you cannot obtain ivy, substitute honeysuckle or vine.

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MAKING A FIDELITY HERB CHARM

You will need:

Three of four of the following lasting fidelity herbs, dried, the kind you buy in supermarkets: yarrow, rosemary, sage, basil, caraway seeds, or thyme

A small bowl of salt

A blue drawstring bag

A bowl and spoon

Timing:

Thursday

The Spell

♦ Slowly mix a small quantity of your chosen herbs in the bowl with three pinches of salt, saying softly and continuously: Earth, air, water, fire, for me alone my love’s desire. Fire, water, earth, and air, may he only for me care.

♦ Continue mixing and chanting faster. When you feel the power in the herbs pulsating, mix more slowly and chant more softly until your words fall into silence and the mixing is still.

♦ Put the mixture into the bag, close it, and hold it, repeating the words nine times.

♦ Wash away any spare herbs under running water.

♦ Hang the bag over the marital bed until it loses its fragrance and then renew it.

♦ Tip the old herbs to the four winds.

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FOR BRINGING A SECRET LOVE INTO THE WORLD SO THAT YOU MAY BE TOGETHER FOREVER

You will need:

Dried or fresh chopped rosemary leaves

A bowl

Timing:

Wednesday morning

The Spell

♦ Go outdoors.

♦ Scatter a quarter of the rosemary to the winds, saying: By the power of rosemary, bring this love now hidden in the shadows into the light of glorious day that we may be together openly forever.

♦ Cast a quarter of the rosemary onto open ground or soil, repeating the words.

♦ Throw a quarter of rosemary into running water, a stream, a river, or the sea or under a cold tap, repeating the words.

♦ Sprinkle a little rosemary into the flame of a large red candle, saving just a few grains in the bowl. Or cast it into a bonfire or on barbecue coals, saying the words again.

♦ Put the remaining grains on your finger and eat them. If you are pregnant, tie it in a small cloth, saying the words three more times.

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A BASIL CELL PHONE FIDELITY SPELL

You will need:

Your partner’s cell phone (if you are the one going away and your partner will be at home, you can empower the home phone as well)

A jar of dried basil

A small lidded jar

Timing:

The night or early morning before you or your partner goes away on a trip

The Spell

♦ Sprinkle a clockwise circle of basil around the phone(s), saying nine times: Be only for me, think only of me, and when we speak let it be lovingly, until you/I return faithfully.

♦ Sweep up with a small broom and pan and keep the basil in the lidded jar.

♦ Every morning and night, add another pinch of basil, shake the jar nine times, and repeat the words.

♦ When you or your partner returns, tip all the basil to the four winds.

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TO KEEP YOUR PARTNER FAITHFUL UNDER TEMPTATION IF YOUR PARTNER HAS A ROVING EYE

You will need:

A rich blue candle and a red candle, side by side

A silver paper knife or engraving tool

Timing:

Midnight

The Spell

♦ Etch on the blue fidelity candle, love forever, and on the red roving eye candle, temptation be gone.

♦ Light the blue candle, saying, May love burn eternal between me and you. May none come between us, blaze faithful flame true. None ever have, nor ever will do.

♦ Light the red candle from the blue one and say, Be as a shield against all false fire, burn only for me, make me your desire.

♦ Extinguish the red candle with a snuffer or cup and throw it away.

♦ Let the blue candle burn out. Collect any wax and engrave your own and your partner’s entwined initials on it, placing it in a sealed glass jar in the kitchen.

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TO STOP SOMEONE SPECIFIC FROM TRYING TO STEAL YOUR PARTNER

You will need:

A red candle and a blue candle, the blue candle to the right

Timing:

Preferably midnight or whenever you know temptation will arise from the other person

The Spell

♦ In this stronger version of the spell above, using the index fingernail of the hand you write with, lightly scratch on one side of the blue candle, BANISHED BE, and on one side of the red candle, YOU WHO WOULD DESTROY OUR LOVE.

♦ Light the blue candle and say: As this wax melts, united ever shall we be. Let none come between us or take your love from me.

♦ Light the red candle from the blue one and say: False passion burn, burn away. Temptation turn away, you shall not stray. Grow cold like this flame I now let die.

♦ Extinguish the red candle.

♦ Blow softly three times into the blue flame and say your lover’s name after each breath.

♦ Blow out the blue candle and say: Be only for me. Look only on me. Think only of me with love and fidelity. So must it be, banished be all others.

♦ Clap over the blue candle.

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AN ANTIEMOTIONAL VAMPIRE SPELL IF A RELATIVE, EX-PARTNER, OR CHILD FROM A PREVIOUS LIAISON IS INTERFERING IN YOUR CURRENT RELATIONSHIP

You will need:

A ball of red children’s play clay

A red candle

A bowl of garlic salt

Timing:

Tuesday

The Spell

♦ Form the clay into a featureless figure to represent the person who is destroying the relationship deliberately or unconsciously. Create one figure for each individual source of interference.

♦ Set the figure(s) in front of the candle.

♦ Light the red candle, hold the figure(s) in your hands, and say: By this flame, I burn away your power to drain our life, love, and energies.

♦ Return the figure.

♦ Drop into the flame a pinch of garlic salt and say: [name of interference] drain our life, love, and energies no more by thought, word, and deed.

♦ Let the candle burn, saying: Burn away, turn away, fever of intensity, your power over our love is gone.

♦ Roll the figure back into a ball and bury it with any leftover candle wax, saying: So is your power over us through, no more of you.

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A WHITE ROSE AND CANDLE SPELL FOR A TWIN-SOUL LOVE THAT CANNOT BE REVEALED BECAUSE OF RACE, RELIGION, OR PRIOR UNBREAKABLE COMMITMENTS

You will need:

Two white candles

A long thorn to engrave the candle

A white rosebud

A vase filled partway with water

Timing:

Any cloudy night

The Spell

♦ With the thorn, inscribe your initials and those of your secret love on the first candle. Draw a rose shape around them. Light it.

♦ Light the second candle from the first, extinguishing the first candle, saying, Within the secrecy of the white rose must we live, under the secrecy of the white rose must we love.

♦ Pick up the rosebud and whisper, Yet will our love endure within the white rose.

♦ Blow out the candle and in the darkness hold the rose, repeating all the spell words softly.

♦ Place your rosebud in the vase, between the candles.

♦ Every evening, relight both candles for five minutes.

♦ Hold the rose in the light and repeat the spell words three times.

♦ When the rose has died, cast the petals into flowing water. You will find that opportunities to be together increase.

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TO INCREASE THE DEVOTION OF A PARTNER WHO IS FREQUENTLY ABSENT AS A RESULT OF WORK, FRIENDS, HOBBIES, OR OTHER COMMITMENTS

You will need:

A box with a lid

Some earth on which you have treaded

Some earth on which your beloved has treaded

A spoonful of sugar

Marigolds or other fast-growing flowers

Timing:

Thursday

The Spell

♦ Scoop up both types of soil into the box, sprinkling the sugar over both items.

♦ Close the box and shake six times, saying: Our busy lives they barely touch, but deep within our hearts so much love connects us. May love daily grow in sweetness and mingle as togetherness.

♦ Place the mingled soil in a plant pot or the garden. In it, plant the flowers, saying: As these flowers grow and flourish may our mingled love daily grow in sweetness.

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IF A PARTNER’S BAD HABIT, ADDICTION, OR EXTRAVAGANCE IS DAMAGING THE RELATIONSHIP

You will need:

A soft wax candle

Two long, strong pins

Dried sage

Timing:

Every Saturday evening until the problem improves

The Spell

♦ Light the candle and say, As this candle burns, so burns away [name problem] that mars our happy union.

♦ As the candle begins to soften, insert the two pins, pushing gently but firmly through the center of the wick to form a cross.

♦ Say, Within these pins do I bind [name problem] that mars our happy union.

♦ Sprinkle a pinch of sage in the flame and say: ‘Tis not these pins I wish to burn, but my lover’s weakness turn. Into the wisdom of wise sage, that [name problem] as pins fall, banished be what mars our happy union.

♦ When the pins fall, extinguish the candle, disposing of candle and pins.

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TO BURY THE BONE OF CONTENTION, ISSUE, OR TABOO SUBJECTS THAT CAN BE MAJOR FLASH POINTS IN A RELATIONSHIP

You will need:

A small spade

A matching bone or stone for every major issue affecting either of you

A permanent marker or sharp knife

Flowers or flowering herbs, such as lavender

Timing:

Just before dusk

The Spell

♦ Dig a hole in the earth, saying: So do I lay to rest [name all the issues] that cause seemingly irreconcilable differences in our relationship.

♦ Write or scratch on each bone or stone a word or symbol to represent the main problems you are burying on behalf of both of you. They may include people who cause trouble.

♦ Set the bones or stones in the ground one at a time, saying for each, Rest in tranquility, no more to trouble thee or me, but grow and flourish as new love and life.

♦ Cover the hole with earth and in the soil set your flowers, saying: New love from old sorrow, and so a new tomorrow.

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TO OVERCOME UNREASONABLE JEALOUSY OR POSSESSIVENESS BY A PARTNER

You will need:

A doll for the jealous partner, relative, or ex; you can make it from modeling dough

Red wool

Scissors

Timing:

Saturday morning

The Spell

♦ Loop three pieces of red wool around the figure representing the jealous person and around three fingers of your nondominant hand.

♦ Cut the loops one by one from your fingers, and as you do so say:

Jealousy binds,
Cut, unwind,
Leave me free,
So must it be.

♦ Tie the same three pieces of wool around the figure, making nine knots to secure the three pieces to the figure, saying: Bound is jealousy, setting us free, may pangs of fire cease, possessiveness decrease, bringing us peace, the weaving is spun, the stranglehold gone.

♦ Bury the figure on the banks of a river or lake.

♦ Repeat the ritual when necessary, making the loops on your fingers looser and the knots tighter each time.

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TO RESTORE FUN, PASSION, AND LAUGHTER TO A RELATIONSHIP THAT HAS HIT A DULL OR DOWNBEAT PATCH

You will need:

A ceramic bowl

Dried mint

Powdered cinnamon

Dried ginger

Lavender

A red bag

Timing:

Sunday

The Spell

♦ Add all the ingredients to the bowl in the order given above, saying, Mint for excitement and surprises, ginger for passion for life and for love. Cinnamon to make our hearts glad and our eyes sparkle. Lavender for laughter and childlike fun and all that is spontaneous.

♦ Swirl the bowl faster and faster, reciting the words louder and faster until they jumble.

♦ With a final swirl and fun, scoop some of the mix into the bag, close it, and toss it nine times higher and faster, repeating the words and then slowing them down to silence and stillness

♦ Plan a trip or weekend away and keep the bag with a picture of the two of you in natural sunlight.

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TO REKINDLE WHAT BROUGHT YOU TOGETHER IN TIMES OF TROUBLE

You will need:

A wedding, betrothal, or special occasion picture

Twin red roses

Twine or red wool

Rose essential oil in a lighted burner or diffuser or a lighted rose incense cone

Timing:

Friday

The Spell

♦ Set the roses so that they cross over the picture and say: Roses of eternity, together can we overcome adversity.

♦ Bind the roses loosely with three knots so that they are still crossed on the picture, repeating the words.

♦ Pass the bound roses through the vapor or incense smoke three times, saying: For better for worse, our vows are strong, in spite of adversity, our love will be long.

♦ Then do the same with the picture, repeating the second set of spell words.

♦ Take the roses outdoors, still bound, and hang them upside down on a tree, repeating the first set of spell words and allowing the wind to carry away the petals in its own time.

♦ Let the incense or oil burn through and each night hold the picture and repeat all the spell words.

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AN ANCIENT SEA SPELL FOR THE RETURN OF A LOVER WHO HAS LEFT YOU

You will need:

The sea, a tidal river, or any flowing water

A gold earring, thin gold ring, or gold-colored coin

An empty glass bottle with a screw-top lid or cork

Timing:

Mondays

The Spell

♦ Visit the water source before twilight. Cast the gold into the water as an offering to the benign guardian essences of the water.

♦ Scoop some water in the bottle, and as you do so, say: Lady Ocean, Mother Sea, I take of yours not willingly, but as a token of what I lack. I ask your help to bring him/her back.

♦ (Use sea even if you’re using a stream, for ultimately all water ends in the sea.) Hold it and call your true love’s name nine times and say, Lady Ocean, Mother Sea, carry him/her home in love to me.

♦ Tip the water back into the water source, saying: Lady Ocean, Mother Sea, I return what is yours; return mine to me.

♦ Go home and make contact.

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FOR RECONCILIATION AFTER A QUARREL OR PARTING

You will need:

A bowl with mixed small fruits, such as berries, grapes, and edible seeds

Timing:

Outdoors, Friday evening as the light fades

The Spell

♦ Hold the bowl and say: What has been lost can grow again even stronger than before.

♦ Eat a fruit and say, Return to my heart and my life without blame or reproach.

♦ Scatter a seed on the ground and say, What has been lost will grow again even stronger than before.

♦ Continue eating fruits and scattering seeds, repeating the words.

♦ When all the fruit is gone or you have eaten enough, tip the rest of the fruit and seeds on the ground, saying, Return to me willingly, come back to me lovingly, without blame or reproach, for what has been lost must and shall return stronger than before.

♦ Let the fruit and seeds take root in the earth or leave them for the birds to carry away and germinate.

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A POTPOURRI SPELL FOR THE RENEWAL OF LOVE WHEN ONE OF YOU HAS RETURNED TO THE MARITAL HOME AFTER A SEPARATION

You will need:

A large bowl of lavender- or rose-based potpourri

Three or four small bowls

A feather or fan

Timing:

Soon after the return

The Spell

♦ Pass the feather or fan in your dominant hand in clockwise circles over the bowl of potpourri and your other hand in counterclockwise circles a few inches above it.

♦ Chant softly, slowly, and mesmerically: My love, I give my love to you, a love more precious once renewed. Once more we join our hearts as one, willingly until time is run. You are my love and ever will be. I call you, love, in love back to me.

♦ Divide the potpourri between the four bowls and set them around the home, especially in rooms in which you have quarreled.

♦ Repeat the movements with feather, hand, and words weekly over each bowl.

♦ When the potpourri loses its fragrance, scatter it outdoors and repeat.

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A PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY, AND THYME SPELL TO CALL A LOST LOVE BACK WHEN ALL ELSE HAS FAILED

You will need:

A fast-burning deep red candle

Old photos and mementos from happier times with your love, including music you both enjoy

A deep-lipped or flat metal tray to collect candle wax

Mix of dried rosemary, parsley, sage, and thyme

A piece of white silk

Timing:

Midnight

The Spell

♦ Light the red candle. As it burns, look at the old mementos, listening to the music.

♦ After the candle burns out, sprinkle the dried herbs in the shape of a heart into the pool of melted wax, repeating until you have finished. Say: By parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, call back, I ask, this love of mine.

♦ Gently wrap the heart in silk with a picture of you and your love, adding a few more loose herbs, tying it with white ribbon, saying: By parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme, I hold your heart entwined in mine.

♦ Each week unwrap the picture, add a few more herbs, and repeat the spell words until your love returns.

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A BUBBLE RITUAL FOR SENDING LOVE IF YOU PARTED IN ANGER OR BITTERNESS AND YOUR PARTNER IS BEING STUBBORN

You will need:

A child’s large bubble blower and soapy water or a ready-made bubble set

Timing:

Wednesday, best of all on a windy day

The Spell

♦ Face the direction in which your true love currently is.

♦ Blow a bubble, holding it on the bubble blower, saying: Return in love, to my heart and my arms, let once more laughter rise. I send only love and welcome to you through the skies.

♦ Blow the bubble gently and repeat the words.

♦ Send five more bubbles skyward, waiting until each bubble has dispersed before creating the next and repeating the chant each time.

♦ As the last bubble flies away, call your love’s name six times and say: We will know joy once more; I will never close the door.

♦ Make a loving gesture; if you have heard nothing after six days, repeat the spell, using twelve bubbles.

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TO RID YOURSELF OF AN UNWANTED ADMIRER OR EX-LOVER WHO WILL NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER

You will need:

A gray candle and a white candle close together

Timing:

Three nights, beginning on Saturday

The Spell

♦ Light the gray candle for yourself and say: No more notice me. I am free, surrounded by the mists of invisibility.

♦ Move the unlit white candle away from yours, saying: No longer desire me or seek connection. My rejection though kindly is clear. Find love and life new, the binding is through, and you shall no longer be near.

♦ Blow out the candle.

♦ On night 2, light the gray candle, repeat the first words, and move the unlit white candle farther away from yours, repeating the second words.

♦ Again blow out the candle.

♦ On night 3, move the unlit white candle as far away as possible from yours, saying: Follow your own path in joy; no longer walk along mine.

♦ Light the white candle and let it burn through and then light the gray candle, saying: May the mists of invisibility remain between us perpetually as you go your way and I mine.

♦ Extinguish the gray candle and dispose of it and any wax from the white candle.

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FOR CUTTING THE TIES OF A DESTRUCTIVE RELATIONSHIP OR ONE THAT IS GOING NOWHERE

You will need:

A dark blue pillar candle

A length of thin red curtain cord or strong thread

A container of soil

Timing:

Saturday after dark

The Spell

♦ Light the candle and say: By the power of fire, I am set free.

♦ Tie a knot in the center of the cord and say: Tie and wind and seek to find freedom from [name the destructive person or situation].

♦ Hold the knot over the flame with the cord taut in both hands.

♦ Say:

The cord between us was long.
The cord between us was strong.
But now it is decaying, fraying,
Burning, breaking.

♦ Drop both burned halves into the pot of soil, letting the flame burn out, saying: The link is broken, and I am free.

♦ Bury the charred cords where nothing grows, still in the soil from the spell.

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AN ANCIENT SCOTTISH STONE OR CAIRN (STONE PILE) SPELL FOR LEAVING A LOVER WHO NEVER CAN BE YOURS

You will need:

A plot of dirt or a very large plant pot if necessary

A stone for every day of the month ahead

A packet of flower or herb seeds or small seedlings

Timing:

The beginning of a calendar month

The Spell

♦ Each day place a stone so that they make a circle and plant a few seeds around or beside each stone or start your stone pile (cairn).

♦ Scratch a symbol with meaning for you and your love on each stone, saying: Today I walk without you, talk no more to you nor speak your name. I place my stone and plant my seeds in memory of what we shared.

♦ Make a small positive plan to be fulfilled by the next day when you place the next stone. Whenever doubts creep in, walk your stone cairn or border and touch each of the stones, saying, May you and I walk in happiness apart.

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A HAND-PARTING SPELL

You will need:

A dark red cord about three to six and a half yards long

A tree

Timing:

The hour before sunset

The Spell

♦ Wind the cord around a tree nine times, securing it with a very loose knot, looping the other end over your hands.

♦ Slowly unwind the cord from the tree, moving in circles farther and farther from the tether, chanting: Hand part, my heart; hand fast, not last; let go, unwind, unbind, untie, release, too tight bonds now must cease.

♦ With a final tug, pull the knot free, unloop your hand, and as you do so, say: Unbound, unwound, hand parted, and so life begins anew; the ties are through.

♦ Loop the cord over the tree so that it will decay naturally.

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A CANDLE RITUAL TO MARK A DIVORCE OR OFFICIAL SEPARATION

You will need:

A large white candle

Two smaller white candles

A small square white candle (if there are children or a continuing joint business venture)

Timing:

The time of the decree nisi, decree absolute, or final break

The Spell

♦ In silence, light the large white candle, saying:
The unity between us now is ended peacefully.

♦ From the large candle, light the two smaller ones, saying: So you and I go our separate ways without bitterness or recrimination.

♦ When you feel able, extinguish the marriage candle, saying: The flame of love grows dim, and so we part, with thanks for happy times we shared.

♦ If you have children or a business, light the square candle from both small candles in turn, saying: That we will always be united in the love of our children/business.

♦ Let the candles burn through.