Love Magick

Spells for Amour

CASSANDRA EASON

AUTHOR OF 1001 SPELLS

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Introduction

Love spells have existed throughout the millennia and in different cultures from ancient Sumeria and Egypt onward, for most people want someone special to love and to love them in return. Though some do meet their true love when young and remain together all their lives (many believe this person is our twin soul, our alter ego, whom we have met in other lifetimes), others find this twin soul love, with whom there may be instant recognition, later in life. It may even be a childhood sweetheart from whom we parted and meet years later after other unsuccessful relationships, to find the spark is still there. Indeed, social media has led to a rapid increase in these reconnections, and love online is an ever-growing means of finding the right partner for those whose immediate environment may be socially limited.

Love spells work in two ways, first by drawing us telepathically to the person who is right for us. If we have experienced unhappiness in love, we consciously or unconsciously close down our love energies and so don’t attract love. Love spells open those energies to the right person. When you have been in a series of bad relationships because you are too loving and giving and attract flawed partners, I have suggested spells to open yourself to the right kind of love, rather than returning to someone who promises to change but never does.

But love magick also acts as an automatic radar, drawing us to the right place at the time when that right person will be waiting, often unexpectedly. Many who are drawn to a particular place where they meet their true love didn’t expect to be there at all; synchronicity or meaningful coincidence drew them together, strengthened by a love spell.

Love magick too can clear away a redundant or destructive love or the lingering hopes that, in spite of numerous betrayals, our partner will change for the better. Also in the book are spells to increase commitment in love and make a relationship permanent, if a potential partner has been hurt or is tied by other commitments to a past or dying unhappy relationship that needs resolving.

But reconciliation to start again after a betrayal or interference by others, where there is still love and goodwill, can be given a boost by spells to reopen the old channels but in a more positive way, especially where one partner is being stubborn, though s/he wants to try again.

Different chapters focus on love at various stages of life: teenage love; the frantic middle years, when in the modern world, not only may adult children remain in the nest but the older generation may need support. This can put stress on any loving relationship, especially when a couple was hoping to spread their wings. There is also a chapter on love in the golden years, where a new partner, perhaps after divorce or bereavement, may meet resistance from the previous partner’s family or a partner wants to stay home while we long to sell up and explore the world. Passion and sex magick offer ways of rekindling physical and spiritual love when work, money worries, family, and routine have dampened the early ecstasy.

By rekindling connection with the cycles of the moon, a couple may relax and conceive, whether spontaneously or with medical help. Reliance on ovulation charts and making love according to the calendar, and not desire, may take away the magick of a relationship and, ironically, make conception harder. Fertility spells focus on rekindling that joy and passion.

WHAT YOU NEED FOR LOVE SPELLS

Each spell in the book contains a list of what you will need for spell-casting, most of which you already have in your cupboard or toolbox, or which can easily be obtained from the local supermarket, garden center, or home improvement store. There is no need to buy specialty magical equipment, as many spell items are in everyday use. Candle snuffers, for example, are generally found in stores that sell candles, but you can easily use metal tongs to snuff out a candle or the back of an old spoon, and so extinguish a love you wish to banish from your life.

As with all spells, I specify the ideal candle colors, crystals, and fragrances, but you can substitute for whatever you cannot obtain. Pearls and rose quartz are good for gentler love, green jade is the universal faithful love crystal, any red crystal is ideal for passion, orange carnelian works for fertility, and apache tears or smoky quartz—dark crystals through which light can be seen if they are held up to a source of illumination—relieve old sorrows.

So, too, will any floral fragrance substitute for specific ones in love magick, though rose, lavender, and chamomile—ideal love fragrances—are easily obtainable. Fragrant flowers or flower oil, such as the sensuous ylang-ylang, are powerful for calling love and passion.

You can use fresh petals plucked from a flower or potpourri in floral love spells. Herbal tea bags, split open, will offer a whole range of herbs and flowers often used in love magick, as will the cooking section of your local supermarket. Empower herbs in a love spell and afterwards use them in cooking a meal for your lover.

You may wish to keep on hand a box with different-colored candles, incense sticks, incense holders, lengths of thin curtain cord and ribbons for love knot spells, scissors, and a letter opener for carving symbols in the wax of unlit candles.

Green and pink candles call and keep love, red is for passion and driving off rivals, blue for fidelity, and silver for moon love magick. But you can substitute an all-purpose white.

Candles used to restore, attract, or increase love can be burned around the home in the days after the spell, though those used for banishing or binding should be disposed of after the spell in environmentally safe ways.

Look in advance for places where you can bury small items after a spell. Also, find a source of nearby running water to cast petals or seeds (if necessary, use a bucket or bowl of water and pour out the water on the ground) and a place where you can scatter seeds or petals into the air (even from an upstairs window). For fire, think barbecue coals, bonfires, or candles in deep holders, so you can safely burn threads and scatter salt or herbs in the flame. For major burning of paper, set the paper in a large heatproof bucket outdoors, half-filled with sand or soil, so you can safely burn the paper in the flame.

Pick up a current datebook, listing dates with daily moon phases and the zodiac signs through which the moon passes each month, or get access to a good online site, for example, https://www.moongiant.com/fullmoons, which gives you the universal moon times so you can work out the moon phases in your own location, or http://starsignstyle.com/full-moon-calendar, which contains the zodiac signs of the different full moons.

The moon is a very powerful energy source, in all its phases in love magick, as well as other kinds of magick.

HOW TO CAST SPELLS

You will need a space, a table, or any flat surface, indoors or out, on which to place all your ingredients before starting a spell. However, there is no need to keep this just for magick. If you want to create an altar, you can find full instructions on how to do this in A Little Bit of Wicca (Sterling Ethos). In practice, however, for informal spells the kitchen table has been the site and source where magick has been carried out by ordinary people and community wise women and men for daily needs for centuries.

Look in the appropriate section of the book for the right spell, using the index to narrow down your choices.

PROTECTION WHILE SPELL CASTING

While in formal or ritual magick, quite elaborate preparations may be called for, such as casting a circle and closing ceremonies, the spells in this book are informal and cast for a specific purpose, rather than as part of a magical celebration or offerings ceremony. The exception are the two versions of the ancient Holy Grail Ritual in chapter 11 that offers a beautiful and spiritual prelude to sex magick. If you want to know how to set up a spell more formally, my book, A Little Bit of Wicca, takes you through the process step by step.

But the spells in this and, indeed, my other Sterling Ethos spell books follow the tradition of folk magick, carried out with good intention to harm no one and therefore contain built-in protection.

However, if you wish, before beginning you can hold a pointed crystal quartz or a clear quartz crystal massage wand in your dominant hand and face the area where you will be casting your spell. Alternatively, you could use the index finger of your dominant hand with the second finger joined to it, pointed horizontally outward, or the whole hand, fingers together and pointing outward, and facing the area where you will be casting your spell.

Hold the crystal or hand outward straight ahead and visualize drawing around you, clockwise and including the spell area, a circle of shimmering light from the ground, rising up like walls of light extending above the whole space like a shimmering star (include yourself within the light), then fading but present throughout the spell. Ask silently, May only goodness and light enter here.

When you finish the spell, reverse the process and, if you used a pointed crystal, wash it under running water.

Alternatively, picture directly ahead of you, as you face the spell table or the outdoor space in which you will be working, Uriel, archangel of the earth, in indigo robes with his torch of fire; then, to your right-hand side, Raphael, the healer archangel, in his robes of early morning sunlight; behind you the glorious red and gold Michael, archangel of the sun; and to your left the starry Gabriel, archangel of the moon. Ask the four archangels to cast their shimmering light all around you and the spell area and picture this brilliance extending as a star of light over your head and including the spell table or outdoor space. Afterwards, thank the archangels and the light will fade to be reactivated whenever you call upon them.

Using the Right Words and Format

Read the spell two or three times before beginning, and feel free to change words or actions that don’t feel right to you. Write down any key words you will be using and, if you wish, you can read the words during the spell. Memorize the order of the spell and have a run-through of the spell actions and words before starting to check that you have everything you need within reach. If possible, make sure you will be undisturbed unless someone is sharing the spell with you. Switch off all electronic devices or put them on silent and, unless it is a spell involving technological equipment, try to have these out of the room or cover them. All the spells can be cast equally effectively by male-female or same-sex partners, changing a word here or there to reflect your needs, if necessary.

For those who may be sharing a crowded apartment or facing the constant demands of small children, you can cast any of the spells in this book simply by reading them slowly at the appropriate time and visualizing them. For each spell is empowered in its creation and can be activated by the simple act of reading. Perhaps light a candle or hold an object you are going to endow as a protective charm as you read. It is possible with practice to do a spell entirely in your mind while working at home, taking a child to kindergarten, or in a noisy office. If you can memorize the words and say them in your mind, so much the better.

In the first chapter I have focused on spells to find your twin soul.

Chapter 1

Spells To Attract Your Twin Soul, A Soul Mate, AND TO Remove Soul Adversaries FROM Past AND Present Worlds

Your twin soul or flame, whom you don’t encounter in every lifetime, represents a love you may have experienced in other lifetimes and with whom you feel an instant deep connection, even though, in some cases, you may meet and part and meet again or even not connect until later in life. Twin soul relationships may be fraught with difficulty because in a particular lifetime, your twin soul may have a lesson to learn and so not be as spiritually ready to connect. Or s/he may have become entangled in a relationship with another person when you do meet, or you may live far away from one another. However, even if you don’t settle with your twin soul this time around, it may be that you will find great happiness with a soul mate, a close member of the group of souls who travel with us throughout different incarnations. You may also meet soul adversaries, those who masquerade as twin souls, but after a period of initial happiness can begin to destroy your self-confidence and cause deep hurt.

Spells can help you to protect your sensitive soul and to meet the right mate, one who offers you respect and devotion, whether a twin soul relationship or a less intense but equally lovely soul mate, and protect you from the users and losers who may be attracted to, and ready to take advantage of, your generosity and kindness.

To Call Your Twin Soul Into Your Life

YOU WILL NEED

Two identical rose quartz hearts or crystals * A bowl of salt * A pink drawstring bag * Dried rose petals

TIMING

During the crescent moon

THE SPELL

Outdoors, hold the crystals in your open, cupped hands, breathe on them, then say, Twin soul, I know not where you may be, but your life I wish joined to me. Find me and let love daily grow, for when we meet I shall you know.

Bury the two hearts with salt in the drawstring bag, marking the spot with scattered rose petals, saying, Our love shall grow deep, Mother Earth. As we sleep, give our love birth.

After 48 hours dig up the crystals, wash and dry them, putting them in the bag with the remaining rose petals.

Keep the bag near your bed.

If You Meet Your Twin Soul But S/He Is Already in a Relationship

YOU WILL NEED

Modeling clay, adding a drop of rose oil to the clay * Pink ribbon * A pink silk scarf

TIMING

The end of the moon cycle

THE SPELL

Create two figures with the clay.

With the ribbon, tie the figures face-to-face with three loose knots, saying, Twin Soul, I call you to my side, when it is right to be. That you will see, I am your love, and come willingly to me.

Untie the knots, holding one figure in each hand, and say, The bonds of love I do untie. Only you can make the choice. But when you are ready, I will be waiting, and you will hear my voice.

Wrap the clay figures together in the scarf, securing the scarf with the ribbon in a loose bow.

Keep them until the clay crumbles.

To Rekindle Love From a Previous Lifetime if You Feel Instant Recognition with Someone New

YOU WILL NEED

A space between two trees where you can sit quietly * Two pink and green unakite crystals, the twin soul stones * A necklace finding

TIMING

If possible, on a misty day or in soft sunlight

THE SPELL

Sit between the trees, holding the crystals in your closed hands and say, Between the worlds I call you, through the mists of time. Recall, reconnect, return in love. Remember how once you were mine.

Bury one of the unakite crystals in the center of the space, saying, I call back our love through this gateway of time. When you see the twin crystal, you’ll recall you are mine.

Attach the second unakite to a necklace finding and wear it as a pendant whenever you meet next.

If You Fear That You Have Lost Your Twin Soul in This Life and Suspect This May Also Have Happened in an Earlier Lifetime

YOU WILL NEED

A skein of green knitting wool * Green ribbon

TIMING

After a bad quarrel or if your love has backed off

THE SPELL

Unravel the yarn and tie one end to the back of a chair, saying, The link between us once unraveled. Since then through many lives we’ve traveled. I will not lose you ever again. This love once reconnected, lasting shall remain.

Wind the yarn around your hands, saying softly and continuously, I reconnect with you, [Name,] unbreakably. That in this lifetime together can we be, happily and permanently.

Untie the knot from the chair and secure the skein with green ribbon, keeping it in a safe place where it cannot be unraveled.

Reestablish friendly contact.

If You Have a Chance Later in Life to Reconnect With an Earlier Twin Soul Love or Childhood Sweetheart

YOU WILL NEED

A photo of the two of you together when young and also a recent photo * Seven green candles in a triangle, two at the bottom, two on either side and one at the apex, with the photos in the center.

TIMING

If you are hesitating

THE SPELL

Light each of the candles, zigzagging bottom to top, left to right, saying, Can the lightning flash of love strike twice? Can the Flame once dim, grow strong? Why should we hesitate? I have loved you my whole life long.

Extinguish the candles, placing the second photo face down on top of the first.

Relight the candles, saying, Twice as precious, a second chance, rekindled twin love, much more than romance.

Leave the candles burning.

Afterward frame the photos side by side.

If You Are Always Breaking Precious Items or Equipment at Home or Work

YOU WILL NEED

A delicate precious item from within the home * A large feather

TIMING

Saturday, the day of caution

THE SPELL

Stand in front of, but not too near the precious item.

Gently waft the feather in front of it, but not too close, saying softly and rhythmically, Cautiously, gently, softly, do not shatter, do not break. Do not splinter or cease to work under my touch, I ask this much.

Continue to walk around the home with the feather in front of anything valuable and fragile, repeating the spell words and actions.

If office equipment ceases to function the minute you touch it, before using it gently and surreptitiously move your dominant hand vertically nine times in front of it and say the spell words nine times in your mind, then approach it slowly and calmly.