Healing Before the New Years

Electric blue is a very powerful Fire element energy. It is the energy that forms galaxies, is the creator of the Four Elements, and is also the energy associated with most psychic vibrations. It is the same color that is at the base of a gas flame, very bright and very intense. If you have trouble controlling your magickal abilities in certain situations, you can focus on electric blue energy to stay in control. It is often used for creating protection shields around yourself or property and in other magickal self-defense type techniques. If you find this recipe interesting, be sure to check out our Healing Magick eBook!

The Electric Blue Spiral

Time Required: Thirty Minutes

Ingredients

• Electric blue color source
• A comfortable place to sit
• Ten to fifteen minutes of quiet uninterrupted time

Recipe Directions

1. Envision an electric blue spiral spinning inside your chest, near your heart chakra.
2. If you were to "look down" at the blue spiral, you want to see it spinning clockwise.
3. Some people see a laser-like spiral while others see more of an amorphous flame. The goal is to focus all of your magickal energy into that spiral.
4. When you focus on the spiral, your attention (and your energy) is fully contained within yourself. You are shielded, both from projecting your energy outward and from absorbing unwanted energies from other people.
5. See the electric blue spiral inside yourself attacking your health problem, illness or disease, and/or burning up whatever toxins or harmful substances are in your body.
6. You can do this for a short amount of time and then see the spiral stopping movement and dissipating or you can go for a longer time, keeping the spiral with you throughout the day.

How to Use the Results of Your Recipe

You can experiment with using the electric blue spiral in a clockwise rotation and a counter-clockwise rotation to decide which way feels best to you. It may be that with certain conditions it will seem best one direction, and with others it will seem best the opposite direction. With practice you can use this technique while you go about your day doing other things. It is also a very powerful technique to do in the “in between” period before you fall asleep and just as you start to wake up. This “twilight” time of consciousness can magnify the power of any magickal rituals you perform.

Shower and Bathtub Litany

Have you had a chaotic, crazy, hectic day? If so, then here’s a recipe for you! You can literally wash tension, strain and pain off your body in the shower or bathtub using the shower litany. Read more in Spirit Senses Magick!

Ingredients

• Access to a shower or other type of cool running water that you can stand under.
• Or a tub of cool water that you can drain the water out of.

Recipe Directions

1. Run water in your shower until the water temperature is cool (just below body temperature). Too cold creates tension and too hot won’t carry fire energy away.
2. Get in the shower with your back to the showerhead.
3. Move the showerhead so that the water is hitting you at the base of the skull and the water is able to run evenly over your back and front.
4. Stand this way in the stream of water and feel the tension or pain or other fire type energy moving down your body being absorbed by the water.
5. If you need to you can run your hands down your body to bring the tension and pain down to your feet.
6. Picture and “feel” the tension and pain mixing with the water and flowing down the drain, while simultaneously repeating the following litany aloud in a voice with authority and power.
• “All the tension, all the strain,
• All the pain with excess flame,
• Flow with water, down the drain!”
7. Keep saying the litany until you feel all the tension and pain leave your body.

How to Use the Results of Your Recipe

The shower litany will wash away any inflammation, pain, headache, tension or stress that you have accumulated during the day. Using it daily will help you avoid picking up fire energies such as stress, pain and anxiety throughout your day. Used daily, it can also help you feel more balanced and more energetic. Use reminders with laminated sticky notes that have the verse printed on them in your bathroom or in the shower so you don’t forget to use this recipe as a daily ritual. You can also do this ritual in a bathtub filled with cool water by seeing the fire energies flowing out of your body, being absorbed by the water and then draining the water from the tub and watching them flow down the drain. Say the litany in the same way as for the shower litany, remaining in the tub until all the water drains out taking the fire energies with it.

Does Spirit Senses Magick Actually Work?

Below, we have a customer testimonial about their journey into being more in touch with their Spirit Senses:

One of the things I love the most about Spirit senses Magick is that it starts with the frivolous and ends with the truly magickal. What I mean by this is that when I first started the Basic Magic Course (in which these skills are comprehensively taught), I was a definite ‘doubting Thomas’! I did not believe that magick really worked.

I was doubly doubtful when we started the ‘Come Along’ exercise, in which we were to ask the Universe to ‘show us’ a certain unimportant item, chosen by us for this purpose. That item could be anything from chocolate to a skunk to an actor’s name or a certain word.

First, I wondered if this would even work. And then I wondered what good it would do, even if it did work. So what if I could ask and the Universe would show me a certain word during the day. Could I make money from this? Would my life be happier? How would this really help me?

I really wanted to find out, so I asked my teacher. He smiled and didn’t answer my question directly. He asked me if I had developed a sufficient relationship with the Universe that my requests for ‘come along’ items were reliably honored. I answered that the Universe and I did indeed have a good working relationship. His smile got bigger.

He asked me to list the five biggest questions in my life, questions to which I could not get answers through normal means. He then asked me to pick one item off the list and to apply all of the Spirit sense magickal tools to the question until I received a full and satisfactory answer.

I doubted this would work, but at the time I did have a burning question about a situation in my childhood. With my teacher’s help, I began the process of applying first one and then another Spirit sense magick technique until I began to get a clearer picture of the actual situation from my childhood. I have to say that not only did I get the answers I was seeking, but the process of seeking those answers transformed me from a naysayer to a big fan of magickal Spirit senses. Now I use them every day in all kinds of ways. It’s super fun… and super effective!

~ Robert T., Montpelier, VT

If you are interested in being like Robert, please check out our eBook S is for Spirit Senses Magick on Amazon!

Finding Your Inner Silence (Protecting Your Peace)

One of the first things to do in awakening the Spirit senses is to get in touch with your inner silence so that you will be able to hear information the Universe sends you. This recipe gets you started on preparing your senses to receive information by engaging in a practice of meditation. If you are interested in more ways to awaken your Spirit senses, check out more recipes in the S is for Spirit Magick eBook. 

Ingredients

• Comfortable place to sit
• (Optional) candle, incense, or essential oils
• At least 15 minutes of quiet, uninterrupted time

Recipe Directions

1. For at least 15 minutes, sit in a comfortable position with closed eyes, hands in your lap with right hand cradled in the left.
2. While you are aware of your thoughts, remain unattached from them. Be aware especially of your sensations.
3. If you have trouble relaxing, try lighting a candle to center your concentration, burn soothing incense, diffuse essential oils, or sit near a running fountain.
4. Now begin feeling your natural breathing as the breath moves in and out of your body. Don't force your breathing or change it any way, just feel and be aware of your body's own natural breaths.
5. As you become aware of thoughts popping up in your mind, let them pass through without focusing your attention on them. Think of this as sitting on a shoreline watching boats pass by. If you find your attention drawn to one thought in particular or find yourself hopping on that boat to explore, get off and return to shore. Simply return your focus to your breathing and let the thought pass by.
6. After at least 15 minutes of sitting in this manner you can get up and end your meditation time.

If you are interested in hearing how to use the results of this recipe and other ways of being more in tune with your Spirit Senses, please check out our S is for Spirit Magick book on Amazon!

How to Self-Defend with Magick

As magicians, it’s important to study the area of self-defense carefully since we have considerable power and force. The inappropriate use of that power and force can cause Universal backlash. We must be especially careful to control our tempers and not use our abilities reactively. According to Western magical practice, “You have a right to be here and follow your own path so long as you hinder no one else in doing likewise.” This foundational principle asserts our right to exist and follow our own path and by extension, our right to defend ourselves against those who might seek to prevent us from walking our path. As you grow in magical ability, you will inevitably attract beings on different levels that seek to interfere with your path in some way. 

Here’s a good rule of thumb to use when it comes to self-defense: “In cases of direct and violent personal harm you are entitled to defend yourself by any means available, provided you did nothing to encourage or provoke the attack.” Let’s break that rule down into its component parts to study it in greater detail.

1. Direct: Upon your body, mind or spirit. A direct threat in a spiritual, magical and shamanic context includes attempts by any outside force or influence to drain your energy or impose their will upon you.
2. Violent: Anything that’s damaging to your physical, mental, emotional or spiritual well being. It doesn’t matter what the attacker’s intentions are, or whether he or she “means” to harm you. Remember, Rules of the Road states that the Universe does not care what a person intends to do, only what a person actually does.
3. Encourage: Creating or permitting unnecessary opportunities for a known hostile being to attack you.
4. Provoke: Being excessively pushy when you know someone has a sore spot or is under a lot of internal or external stress.
5. By Any Means Available: Using any means you choose to defend yourself when attacked. As long as the other parts of the above self-defense rule are met, the Universe does not care whether your response is excessive. In many spiritual systems, it is actually considered a crime to not defend yourself appropriately. In doing so, you are enabling the perpetrator to NOT learn spiritually appropriate behavior; therefore, prolonging his or her lack of growth. In general, any infringement on your sacred psychic or emotional space gives you the right to defend yourself.

We hope this helps you guys understand a little bit better when and where it is appropriate to use Magick to defend yourself. Learn how to defend yourself magickally by taking our Magickal Self Defense Course!

The Magick of Dayenu

    Today we will be teaching everyone the “Magick of Dayenu.” Roughly translated, Dayenu means "it would have been enough" or "it would have sufficed." This message opens the door to new blessings coming your way. People who are sincerely happy in spite of difficult situations are practicing the art of Dayenu. They look around at their world and say, "This is enough. This is good. We are happy." Or, to take Dayenu one step further, they say, "Not only is this enough, but the step before this would have been enough." Dayenu specifically says, "It would have been enough," not "it is enough." So the truly happy people who practice Dayenu look at their lives and accomplishments and say, "It would have been enough, and we can be happy, even if we did not get as far as we are now ... even if we had stopped at the achievement or happy moment before this one."

    Here is a real-life example of using the art of Dayenu. I have two friends who continually amaze me—they are married, so maybe that has something to do with why they are so happy. Both were hit one year with acute and chronic physical problems, which not only caused them a lot of pain, but also prevented them from doing a lot of work and earning the same income they usually do. The following year, they recovered somewhat from their physical problems, although they still had many doctor visits and healthcare bills. But they were incredibly, oddly, amazingly happy. I asked them, “What makes you so happy? So much has happened to you." They reply, "Yes, it has ... good, bad, ugly, and back to good. Look at where we live. It's a chunk of Heaven! That's enough. Just having this place to live is enough.” Explaining further, they tell me that their physical problems have forced them to have down time, which they would never normally take. They have spent this time with their horses, enjoying their land, and NOT working. They used to live in a big city and had to pay big bucks to relax with the help of massages and therapists, and so on. Now, living in the country, they can relax for free. If they had nothing else but this land, they said, it would have been enough. Do they have physical pain? Yes. Have they had to cut back on expenses? Yes. Do they still have bad days? Of course. But overall, they are living in the magick of Dayenu. On balance, they look for the happiness that comes from acceptance of current conditions, and appreciation of all that has come before that. They understand that even if nothing else good occurs in their life, all that has been in their life thus far “would have been enough.” This is the real definition of the word “Dayenu”. The beauty of Dayenu is that by living in appreciation of all that was good that has come before now, we always attract greater good into our future. Bumps in the road notwithstanding, appreciation of the past and acceptance of the present always (always!) leads to future good. It can be no other way.

If learning about The Magick of Dayenu interested you, feel free to check out the rest of these recipes in the B is for Blessing Magick book in our Kitchen Table Magick series. 

Manifesting Money into Your Life

 Often times, the best ways to invite positive energy or money into your life is through manifestation. One of these common ways is through the act of meditation! We will be teaching you how to complete the “Walking Meditation” ritual to help you with your Money Magick! If you enjoy, be sure to check out more of our Money Magick recipes!

Ingredients

• A place to walk each day at least the length of 2 city blocks (preferably outside).
• The time to not feel rushed on your walk.

Recipe Directions

1. Decide for how long or for how far you will walk each day.
2. On the first part of the walk you will do the talking. You can talk to your guides, your totems, your angels or the Universe in general. Talk about what’s on your mind, what’s going on in your life, or what you want or need. Talk about anything that’s important to you or that you need help with.
3. When you reach the halfway point in your walk, it is time for you to listen. Take in everything your guides or the Universe are trying to express to you. Feel your feelings, feel the sensations in your body, hear the sounds around you, smell the smells, and take in the sights. Be aware of any thoughts or feelings that come to you. Allow the magick to flow to you by becoming an instrument of listening and absorbing.

This recipe will help you develop a deeper connection and relationship with the Universe and the higher in yourself which will increase your trust and certainty that spiritual helpers are on your side.

Removing the Barriers to Love

Wanting to get to the love of your life this Valentines Day? Here is a recipe that will teach you how to remove the hidden blockages to your life. If you want to learn more about having a successful Valentines Day this year, check out Love Magick!

Ask Spirit of Owl: Remove Hidden Blockages to Love

Time Required: 45 minutes

Ingredients Needed:

• A quiet place free from distractions
• Paper and pen optional to write down discoveries throughout the day

Recipe Directions:

1. Say aloud or in your mind, "Spirit of Owl, I request your help."
2. Wait a few moments until you feel the presence of Owl (no more than a few seconds). Even if you are not able to feel the presence of the Spirit of Owl at this point, just know that Owl always appears when someone requests their presence and help.
3. State your request. For instance, if you need help seeing why you keep having negative love relationships, you might say, "Owl, please come with me today and show me what is causing these negative relationships in my life. Please show me in a way that I can clearly understand. Thank you in advance for your help." Appreciation is very important to this process. Appreciation before, during, and after the process is one of the best ways to honor a Spirit guide such as the Spirit of Owl.
4. Keep an open mind to what Owl will show you. Owl will ride with you on your shoulder, whispering in your ear, giving you knowing and understanding where before you had only blindness and confusion.

Grind the Negative Energy Out of Your Life

If you ever wanted to undo a mistake that you made or get rid of bad energy in your life, we have a solution for you. There is a stone called the Hematite stone which is a type of grounding stone that can be used to pull and attract the bad energy away from your life. It deepens your connection with the Earth and dumps your negative energy into the stone. If you found this ritual enjoyable, check out more Undoing Magick recipes in our eBook!

Grounding Stone Recipe

Time Required: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

• A sample of hematite
• (Optional) paper and pencil or pen to write Directors, Limiters, and verses
• Material made of natural fiber or a small bag made of natural fiber

Recipe Directions

1. Hold the hematite stone in your dominant hand (the hand with which you naturally point).
2. Focus on the problem or issue that you want to undo in your life and flow those unwanted energies into the hematite stone. This is not a thinking exercise. Just will it, feel yourself pushing that energy out into the stone, and it will happen.
3. When the stone feels tingly or warm, you have grounded the unwanted energies into the stone.
4. Wrap the stone in a natural material, like cotton or wool, or place in a small bag made of natural material to store it safely.
5. Put it away in a safe place where no one will find it and open it or bury it in the ground deep enough that it will not be found.

What are Magickal Tools and how do you use them?

When performing magickal rituals, you are often required to use a magickal tool to aide you in the performance. However, for beginners this can be a bit confusing when starting out. This blog will give a brief introduction to what are magickal tools used for and some information about each one! You can take this information later on and apply it in our T is for Tools Magick Rituals!

Magickal tools do have immense power if formed and used correctly. In fact, most magickal tools are simply extensions of the self so whereas you can do many of the same procedures with your bare hands, using a magickal tool extends the reach or adds more force. Many magickal tools could serve double duty as ordinary objects -- such as a Chalice that resembles a wine glass or an Athame that looks like a hunting knife. There is a special tool for each of the 4 elements that conducts the energies of that element.

• The Air element tool is the Wand, a stick or rod thought to have magic properties, held by a magician, fairy, or conjuror and used in casting spells or performing tricks.
• The Fire element tool is the Athame which is a ceremonial blade, generally with a black handle. It is the main ritual implement or magical tool among several used in ceremonial magic traditions.
• The Water element tool is the Chalice, when we talk about chalices in witchcraft and magic, we generally mean ceremonial goblet used in rituals and spells. Although often silver, you can use a wine glass, ceramic drinking vessel or even something carved from stone.
• The Earth element tool is the Pantacle or Plate is a talisman that is used in magical evocation, and is usually made of parchment, paper, cloth, or metal (although it can be of other materials), upon which a magical design (usually a protective design) is drawn. However, a plate will usually suffice.