RITUAL TO RESET YOUR PERSONAL ENERGY

Chamomile possesses dual energies of water and fire, making it a neutralizer of unwanted energy and an increaser of positive energy. It's all about balance.

ITEMS NEEDED

• 2 chamomile tea bags

• 1 White washcloth

• 1 Medium-sized bowl

• Warm water

• Journal or writing paper (optional)

• Candle of your choice for atmosphere (optional)

WHAT TO DO

• Light the candle. Place the tea bags and washcloth in the bowl.

• Heat some water (not quite to boiling)

• While waiting for the water to warm, think about the positive feelings you want to attract into your life.

• Next, make a mental list of the things you wish to release from your life.

• Once the water is hot, pour it over the tea bags and washcloth.

• Let them soak until they are warm, but not too hot to touch.

• Find a comfortable place to lie down with your eyes closed.

• Place one tea bag over each eye and gently drape the washcloth across both eyes.

• Begin with a few deep breaths.

• Referring to your lists of things you wish to attract and release, breathe in and say:

"I am/have (something you wish to attract)."

• Each time you exhale say

"I release (something you wish to let go from your life)."

• You can try moving completely through each of your lists, or you may wish to focus on one particular set of words. Follow your intuition.

• Once the tea bags and washcloth have cooled, remove them from your face.

• Take a deep breath, inhaling all the positive feelings and experiences you have focused on and bring your renewed sense of peace with you for the remainder of the day.

STRESS RELIEVING HOUSEWORK RITUAL

• If you are about to clean your kitchen, stand in the center of the room and ground yourself. Spend a few minutes inhaling through your nose; fill your lungs and feel your rib cage expanding. Now slowly exhale through your nose as your rib cage and lungs contract. After a few breaths, visualize roots growing from down your legs and out of your feet, burrowing down through the floor and connecting with Mother Earth. When you feel anchored and calm, you may begin your chores.

• Stand in front of your sink of dirty dishes (or dirty laundry, or in the center of your junky bedroom, etc.). Visualize stress leaving your body and flowing into the dirty room or dishes or laundry. Allow your being to KNOW that, just as the dishes, clothes, room, etc. can be cleaned and made new, so can you.

• Proceed with your chore and feel your stresses washing away as the water rushes over the dishes, laundry, bathroom fixtures, etc. Imagine that with each pass of the vacuum over the carpet, you are sucking up worries and troubles.

• Make sure that you immediately wash your cleaning cloths and dump the vacuum canister outdoors.

• Optional: This could be a good time to diffuse balsam, cypress or fir essential oil. Burning a green-like incense would work as well.

RITUAL TO MINIMIZE NEGATIVE SELF-TALK

My parents are both from the South. Mom from Houma, LA and Dad from Little Rock, AR. Both pairs of grandparents were sharecroppers. They died working land that did not belong to them and earned little more than the shabby 'shotgun' housing they were provided for the privilege. They died under the weight of unfulfilled promises and decimated dreams. Both Mom and Dad speak of the dehumanizing horrors of growing up under Jim Crow. The baggage they heaped on me and my sibs was heavy with despair and fear of white retribution for any small misstep. The strategy was to suppress any glimmer of boldness in hopes we would stay in our place and not be arrested, beaten, lynched or worse. I don't believe they were able to separate their own life experience from that of their children, who grew up during the Civil Rights Movement, when stepping outside the lines was necessary if we were to reclaim any small modicum of our humanity.

In my house, there was no talk about being able to do and be anything. I was discouraged from speaking out in opposition to any authority figure. The pursuit of a creative career was out of the question --- I owed it to my family to choose a vocation that was practical and ensured a good job. By the time I stepped onto my path as a healer, I stood alone and away from my familial base of support. To this day, every setback is met with self-talk that says I'm not worthy. I've not paid my dues. I don't deserve the life of my dreams. I should have majored in something more practical and I should never have started such an airy-fairy business. I should just get a job and be done with immature fantasies of owning my own successful business. The loving limitations of my predecessors often speak louder than the limitless encouragement of my soul.

When I get hit with crippling bouts of fear, desperation and internal discouragement, here's a little something I do to quiet the noise of the nay-sayers in my head.

ITEMS NEEDED

• Journal

• Black Candle

WHAT TO DO

Each time you catch yourself thinking negatively, write it in your journal.

At the end of each day, take a moment to review the negative comments. Address each comment by writing why that statement is not true. It may look something like this:

• Negative thought: I'm never going to be a business success. It's time to give it up and get a full-time job.

  Replacement truth: That's untrue. I'm already a business success and I have a full-time job --- it's my business.

• Negative thought: The reason I don't have enough money is because I don't deserve it. I should have majored in something practical so I could find and keep a good job.

• Replacement truth: That's untrue. I have plenty of money to meet my every need. I am deserving of every blessing bestowed by the Universe.

• Negative thought: You're ugly and you need to lose weight.

• Replacement truth: That's untrue. I'm beautiful and made in the image of The Creator. I am exactly the right size, right now. When and if I release weight, I will be exactly the right size at that time.

• At the end of each day, read the negative thoughts and replacement thoughts aloud. After each, say aloud:

I send this thought into the flame. No more of my life force can it claim.

• Repeat this ritual each day for a week. If the candle hasn't burned completely, allow it to do so on the 7th day.

• Remember to give thanks for the healing that is taking place every day.

TRANSIT PASS PROTECTION RITUAL

Had a conversation with a client today who takes the bus and metro daily. She has experienced some harassment and wanted to know what she could do. Here's some magick for your transit pass to ensure safe and problem-free travel.

ITEMS NEEDED

• Transit Pass

WHAT TO DO

• Center and ground

• If you use runes, draw Raidho and Eihwaz on your pass with your finger (for successful travel). If you are Attuned to Reiki, draw Cho Ku Rei. If Wiccan, draw the triquetra or pentacle. Christians may draw a cross. You can use any symbol of protection as long as you believe in its power.

Say: May my journeys with you be safe and productive. May you never be lost, and may I never be lost while using you. May my movements always be smooth and trouble-free, quick and direct, never be cancelled or delayed. Let it be so.

• Repeat the ritual on your carrying case for your pass, if you have one.

PAIN RELIEVING BATH SOAK RECIPE & RITUAL

ITEMS NEEDED

• Muslin bag

• Dead Sea salts

• 2 tsp. lavender buds

• 1 d. lavender essential oil

WHAT TO DO

• Fill muslin bag 1/2 way with Dead Sea salts.

• Add 2 tsp. lavender buds.

• Add one drop of lavender oil.

• Tie the bag closed and add to a bath.

• As you feel your body soaking up the herbs, oil and salts, close your eyes and say:

Aches and pains and evil things, fly from me on rapid wings. Leave my body, don’t return, for peace and quiet I do year. Surround me in Her radiant light. Magic Power pure and white. Banish forces of the night.

MORNING SUN RITUAL FOR ENERGY

This ritual is for whenever you need to feel better, lighter, or more energetic. This work is best done outside on a Wednesday at sunrise.

ITEMS NEEDED

• Yellow candle

• 1 tbls olive oil (or other carrier oil)

• 1 tsp dried rosemary

• Lighter or matches

• Sun charm or stone. A simple sun charm can be made by drawing a sun symbol on a stone.

• Permanent marker

WHAT TO DO

• Find or create an outdoor altar space. Make sure it's energetically cleansed.

• Anoint the candle with carrier oil. Start at the base and move upward toward the wick to banish unwanted energy, making sure you don't get any oil on the wick.

• Sprinkle rosemary over the candle to infuse it with health and healing properties.

• Light the candles and pass your stone or sun charm through the smoke.

• Meditate and wait for the sun to rise on your intentions so you can harness its power and cleansing light.

MONEY ATTRACTION SPELL

This spell is a wonderful way to bring mindfulness and energy work into play as you work toward meeting your financial needs. Remember, there are always unseen forces at play. What we think about, we bring about.

ITEMS NEEDED

• Green Candle (size is irrelevant but you'll want to use one that you have time to allow to burn all the way down)

• 8 coins - optional (preferably quarters but any will work as long as they are of the same denomination)

• Money drawing oil - optional (cinnamon, patchouli, cedar, almond, chamomile, mint, orange, blackberry, etc.)

WHAT TO DO

• Set your candle on a steady surface and place the coins around the candle in a circle.

• Center and ground.

• Take several deep breaths and be mindful of why you are performing this ritual. Why do you need extra cash? What will you pay or buy? Visualize yourself paying your bills on time, driving that new car or adding to your savings.

• At this point, feel free to carve a sigil or run into the candle if you like, then anoint it with oil.

• Light the candle and form a circle with your hands above the coins. If you are not using coins, place your hands on the table. Create a prayer or incantation of your own or say something like,

God of the Sun and abundance plenty, Bless me with your prosperity. Mother of Earth, plant, and seed, Help me in my time of need. Money, wealth, and abundance send, bring my financial struggles to an end.

• With your hands in Gassho, visualize yourself as a magnet, attracting money from all different directions. Allow yourself to feel the energy moving through you. Send the energy to the coins or to the candle if you're not using coins.

• Allow the candle to burn out. If you do not have time and have carved a rune, allow it to burn pass the inscription and then snuff it out. Bury the remains in the earth.

• When the candle is out, take the coins and bury them around your house or property. Plant one in each cardinal direction (North, South, East, West) an din each intercardinal direction (NE, SE, SW, NW). It is ok if the directions aren't exact. The coins will attract money from all different directions.

RITUAL FOR MENTAL CLARITY

If you are having difficulty thinking through a problem or issue, this spell can be helpful to clear your mind. It can cut through the fog and protect your ability to think clearly.

ITEMS NEEDED

• Yellow candle

• Candle holder

• Lemon essential oil

• Citrine crystal

• Matches or lighter

WHAT TO DO

• Center and ground

• Hold the candle in your hands and say:

Yellow candle be the light that clears the fog.

• Dab candle with lemon oil and say

Lemon bright, cut through the darkness.

• Hold the citrine between your hands. Visualize yourself confidently handling a problem. Rub a drop of lemon oil over citrine saying:

Yellow stone, lemon bright, be my insight.

• Place the citrine at the base of the candle and allow the candle to burn down.

• Carry the stone with you to benefit from its energy.

LOVE 'EM OR LEAVE 'EM SPELL

This ritual will help you find and return to your center of gravity after a fight or when ending a relationship.

ITEMS NEEDED

• Rosemary essential oil (calming)

• Peppermint essential oil (rids you of lethargy)

• Lavender essential oil (cleansing)

• Thyme essential oil (helps mental exhaustion)

WHAT TO DO

• At noon, when the sun is at its most powerful healing position, run a warm bath. Add essential oils under the running faucet.

• Soak and steam while reciting 4 times:

Sadness, I release you -- goodbye. Fatigue -- I release you -- goodbye. I greet this day anew. I greet my life renewed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

SPELL TO HEAL FROM LOSS, SEPARATION, DIVORCE

Death, divorce, empty nest, severing ties with close friends and acquaintances --- count it all loss. I've used this Native American ritual a few times and find it very helpful. The greatest shift seems to be a change in one's own perspective about the situation. Make adjustments to suit your belief system. And remember, grief is a process. There is no magic pill. Give yourself time and permission to process your feelings.

ITEMS NEEDED

• Smudge stick (I like sweetgrass or sage for this one)

• Matches

• Bowl or shell

• Large feather

• Aromatherapy burner or diffuser

• Lemon or lavender essential oil

• Walnut Bach Flower Remedy

• Glass of spring water

WHAT TO DO

• Smudge yourself, asking Buffalo to help you start to release the pain and hurt. (Another alternative is to call on Algea --- Greek goddesses of pain and suffering.) Commit to the purpose of letting go.

• Light your aromatherapy burner or turn on your diffuser with a few drops of lemon and/or lavender oil. Lemon helps us to accept change and let go; lavender gives resolution and helps you to release negative emotions.

• Sit quietly and breathe deeply. Visualize yourself standing in the middle of a magickal circle. You feel totally safe and protected -- nothing can hurt you within this space. There is another circle nearby and within it is the person from whom you are separated.

• You are both safe within your circles but you realize that there is a shimmering thread between your solar plexus areas still joining you.

• Take this opportunity to say anything you wish to say. Remember the good and bad times. If you can, send love and forgiveness to this person. This, of course, will help with your own release.

• Now, turn around in your circle. There is a silver knife on the ground. Pick it up and carefully cut the cord saying:

I now release us from our past relationship with love and forgiveness.

• You will feel a tingle of energy as the psychic tie is cut. Spend some time focusing, and imagine how you will move forward with your new life. Then come back to waking consciousness.

• Take 4 drops of Walnut Bach Flower Remedy in a glass of spring water. This will help your transition to a new life. Take it whenever you need extra help and strength in the time that follows.

SPELL FOR MAKING LASTING CHANGE

Are you feeling a need to make a change in your life? Is it time to turn over a new leaf? This ritual will help you jump start and facilitate the new energy you need to start fresh. This ritual is for those who use sigils in your manifesting work.

ITEMS NEEDED

• Altar

• Green candle

• Nail

• Bay leaf

• Pen (for writing on bay leaf)

• 4 pieces of clear quartz crystal

• Cauldron or fire safe ash pot

• A chosen sigil for transformation (optional)

WHAT TO DO

• Use the nail to carve a sigil into the candle or use a Sharpie to write one word to describe the change you wish to come about.

• Draw the sigil on the bay leaf or write your desired change and place the leaf face down on your altar.

• Place the candle right behind the leaf.

• Place a piece of clear quartz on each corner of the altar.

• Using your dominant hand, grab the bay leaf and turn it over and over toward yourself seven times while saying:

This new leaf I turn and turn. My new life begins right now.

• Burn the leaf in the cauldron. Dispose of the ash however you like.

• Allow the candle to burn all the way down.

• As you develop new habits to support your change, you will undoubtedly be met with challenges. When this happens, close your eyes and recall the feeling of turning the leaf. This will serve as a mental charm.

VIBRATIONAL SALT HEALING RITUAL FOR ILLNESS & INFECTION

In magic, salt is often used to absorb negative energy from an environment. This makes it a wonderful aid for managing the vibrations associated with sickness. This simple spell can be used when you are not feeling well, to help draw illness from your body.

ITEMS NEEDED

• Salt

• Small bowl or disposable tea bag

WHAT TO DO

• Center and ground

• Place the salt in the bowl or tea bag and place the bowl or bag on the part of the body that is infected or afflicted. Leave it in place for at least three minutes --- preferably longer.

• Visualize the infection or sickness as dark, murky energy rising up and being drawn into the salt.

• If you have a virus or general infection, hold the bowl in front of your mouth and exhale completely into it. Do this three times , visualizing the illness in your body as a murky cloud leaving your body via your breath and being directed into the salt.

• Discard the salt by flushing it down the toilet.

HEART SOFTENING RITUAL

We are living in rapidly changing times. The challenge to process new energy takes its toll on even the most loving and forgiving heart. Whatever is happening in the outer world, it is important to maintain a loving and open personal space.

This is a ritual you can perform weekly to prevent blockage and hardening of the heart chakra.

ITEMS NEEDED

• Singing bowls or other sound healing music

• White, pink, green, or yellow candle

• Palo Santo spray, stick, or oil (optional)

• Mirror (optional)

• Photo of someone you love (optional)

• Soothing music (optional)

WHAT TO DO

• Sit comfortably at your altar, in a sanctuary, or some other safe and sacred space.

• Light candle and start the music. Burn, diffuse or spray the area with Palo Santo.

• Take a few deep cleansing breaths for grounding.

• If you have one, look in the mirror and say aloud or to yourself:

I am happy. I am healthy. I am peaceful. I live with ease and grace. I love you.

• Repeat several times until your heart feels full. If you have no mirror, simply repeat this affirmation.

• Next, look at a photo of someone you love, or visualize them in your mind's eye. Repeat this aloud or to yourself and send energy their way:

May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be peaceful and live with ease. I love you.

• Next, imagine someone who who is familiar, but whom you do not have a close relationship. Your favorite grocery checker. The barista who takes your order every morning. The man or woman with whom you exchange smiles and nods on your morning commute.

• Repeat this aloud or to yourself and send energy their way:

May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be peaceful and live with ease.

• This next step is very difficult. Do not misunderstand the purpose and power of herein. Remember, this is a heart opening and forgiveness exercise, not necessarily a love exercise. Visualize someone you hate or for whom you hold a great deal of animosity. You may or may not know this personally.

• Repeat aloud or to yourself

May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be peaceful and live with ease.

• As a last step, visualize all four people, including yourself, and emit the highest vibrations you can muster.

• Allow the candle to burn completely.

ENERGY CLEANSING SHOWER RITUAL

• While in the shower, visualize yourself standing under a waterfall.

• Invoke the spirits of water to cleanse, consecrate, and empower your body, mind and spirit. Ask to release anything that is preventing your whole body wellness.

• As the water runs down your body, visualize the negativity swirling off your body and down the drain.

• As you towel dry (using a clean white towel), again, ask the spirits of the air to cleanse, consecrate, and empower your body, mind and spirit in the name of healing.

HEALING BATH RITUAL FOR SICKNESS

ITEMS NEEDED

• Silver or White Candle

• Salt

• Healing Oil Blend or Healing Essential Oils of Your Choice

WHAT TO DO

• Take a silver or white candle, salt and a healing oil of your choice into the bathroom. By the candle's light, run a tub of very warm water.

• Cast some salt into the water and add a few drops of your chosen healing oil.

• Step into the tub and immerse yourself. Feel the warm water passing through the skin, penetrating your pores, purifying and sterilizing the sick areas of your body.

• Visualize black worms leaving the body. When you feel the worms in the water in great numbers, pull the plug and let the water drain out. While the water is draining chant:

The sickness is flowing out of me, into the water, down to the sea.

• After the tub is completely drained, stand up. Turn on the shower and bathe as usual to remove any traces of the sickness.

• Repeat as needed to speed your body's recovery.

HEALING BATH RITUAL FOR STRESS

ITEMS NEEDED

• 10 d. Olive Oil

• 10 d. Cypress Essential Oil

• 10 d. Lavender Essential Oil

• Sandalwood Essential Oil

• Yellow and blue candles

WHAT TO DO

• Run a tub of hot water. Add 10 drops olive oil, 10 drops cypress oil, and 10 drops lavender oil. Anoint your hands with sandalwood oil. Skim your hand over the surface of the water 7 times while saying:

Into this water, the power I send, Stress shall unwind, wounds shall mend.

• Light yellow and blue candles. Enter the tub and soak for at least 20 minutes. Visualize the vapor softening your stress and hurts and taking them away.

SELF-HEALING RITUAL

ITEMS NEEDED

• 1 yellow or white votive candle

• Eucalyptus or rosemary oil

WHAT TO DO

• Carve an image of the sun on the candle.

• Anoint the candle with eucalyptus or rosemary oil.

• Visualize warm, healing energy flowing into you or the person who needs healing. Imagine it moving into and through every part of the body.

• Visualize sickness moving out of the body, leaving in health and wellness.

• Say:

Healing light of love, fill me with your rays. Renew, restore, and burn away all illness with your blaze. Healing fire, fire of love, let your flames devour, every trace of malady, send me strength and power.

• Allow the candles to burn all the way out.

• Repeat this ritual as often as you wish.

RITUAL TO FIND ANSWERS WITHIN

FIND THE ANSWER WITHIN

This spell will help you find answers within. It invokes energies to help you solve a problem or discover innate abilities that you need at that time. It works best on a Thursday.

ITEMS NEEDED

• 4 dark blue candles (if the candle is dark blue, it represents depth deepness and accesses magick that cannot be reached easily).

WHAT TO DO

• Place one candle at each direction (north, south, east, and west) on a steady surface in front of you. In no specific order, light candles.

• Speak this incantation four times while the candles burn:

Fears and doubt, begone from me! I have the courage to break free. I have the wisdom to know, and the strength to grow. I call upon my inner guide to hear and see my truth. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And so it is.

The key to this spell is conviction. Trust your intuition with all your heart and know you will soon see, have, do and be all you need to resolve the problem.

RITUAL TO FIND ANSWERS IN YOUR DREAMS

Dreams are one way we can reveal answers to our questions. Moonstone is a psychic mirror, especially for women. Wise women of ancient India were the first to figure this out. If you are feeling out of sorts or off center, turn to your moonstone.

Under moonlight, gaze first at the moon, and then at your moonstone. Look for the answer to your personal mystery in your dreams. Be sure to sleep with pen and paper at your bedside.

RITUAL TO CREATE JOY IN YOUR JOB

When I was a child, I just loved the 7 dwarfs. Each was engaged in a vocation in perfect alignment with his sensibilities and sensitivities. Each day, they marched in line whistling an all too familiar tune. Wouldn't you just love to look forward to your work day with that kind of enthusiasm? Here's a ritual to help you discover and amplify the joy in your job.

ITEMS NEEDED

• Swatch of yellow fabric about the size of your hand

• Gold thread

• 3 pinches chamomile herb

• 2 pinches hyssop

• 1 pinch frankincense

• 3 pinches eyebright

• A small piece of paper with a sun drawn on it

WHAT TO DO

• Place all items into the center of the fabric and fold the edges inward to form a gris gris or mojo bag.Seal the bag with gold thread.

• Hold the bag in the palms of your hands. Send loving and uplifting energy to it.

• Holding the bag between your hands, blow onto it 3 times to bring it to life.

• Hold the bag to your heart and say:

With the sun I light the way, bringing about joy and play. With these herbs I unlock the sun, releasing camaraderie and fun!

• Carry the bag with you to work. Start each work day by holding it to your heart and repeating the chant.