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The Rural Dionysia was a festival of fertility, travel, and entertainment. People baked phallic bread loaves and poured offerings of wine and water. They traveled from town to town visiting friends. They held games, contests, plays, concerts, and other revelries. During the modern holiday season, people also travel, so now is a good time for a blessing. For this spell you will need wine or grape juice, plus a bit of ivy, such as a sprig of silk leaves, a metal brooch, etc. Raise the ivy to ...
Grief and heartbreak cannot be rushed. Still, you can magically bolster the heart-healing process by cutting cords of attachment to your former partner and removing unhelpful patterns from your energy field and subconscious. Today, add 1/4 cup rose water to a warm bath along with 1/4 cup sea salt and a rose quartz. Swirl the water in a counterclockwise direction to dissolve the salt. Light an unscented or rosescented soy candle and get into the bath. As you soak, call on the goddess Aphrodite. ...
This year, a very important Thai festival of lights takes place today. Loy Krathong is a beautiful way of engaging and making offerings to water spirits while doing personal magick. Rivers and waterways are the most appropriate place for your ritual, but some people also use lakes, canals, brooks, and streams. What you will do is write down your trouble(s) and then watch them float away on a candlelit floral vessel. Make a small boat using a loaf of banana bread or cork as the bottom. Insert ...
During today’s lunar eclipse, the earth will float between the Sun, Mercury, and Venus and the Moon and Uranus. This may cause turbulent emotions, but it can also reveal a unique perspective. This portal spell jar requires a translucent jar, water, parsley, flower petals, grain, loose change, a magnet, and a fingernail clipping. You will also need paper and a writing utensil. Under the light of the full moon, combine all the ingredients in the jar except for the water. Write down all of ...
