The Real Witches’ Book of Spells and Rituals. Kate West

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      * Self-development and understanding.

      * Personal responsibility and control.

      * To live with nature and the elements, in balance and harmony.

      * The cycles of the seasons and how they relate to us today.

      * To comprehend the energies created by the phases of the Moon and the Sun.

      * How the elements relate to us, our lives and our personal balance.

      * To use the energies both within and outside of us.

      * How to personally communicate with the Divine.

      * To live as a part of the real world whilst enhancing our inner lives.

      * To focus our will and direct our intent.

      * When and how to use the above to create magic to change our world and our lives.

      * How to structure our magic through Rites and Rituals to make it work.

      In the Craft we use magic and spells to:

      * Understand ourselves and those around us.

      * Make personal change.

      * Understand the world and our place in it.

      * Bring inner peace and harmony.

      * Bring about physical, emotional and spiritual healing, for ourselves, our near and dear, and for those who seek it for themselves and others.

      * Ease communication and aid understanding.

      * Aid in study, tests and exams.

      * Find work, do well at it and achieve our potential.

      * Protect ourselves, our homes and our near and dear.

      * Find and nurture friendship, romance, love and partnership.

      * Work towards healing the land and protecting the life that grows from it.

      * Help us in all aspects of our lives, and the lives of those we care for.

      Many people think that magic is a question of saying the right words, in the right way, at a specified time. They’ve seen it on TV so it must be true! Others think that it is a question of mixing the right ingredients in the right way. But magic isn’t cookery and you need to do more! Some think it requires you to step back from real life, to insulate yourself from normal activities such as work, to isolate yourself from normal people by dressing strangely or behaving oddly. But a Witch must live as a part of the real world, not apart from it, to maintain her/his connection with life. A few still believe that magic involves selling your soul to some mythical devil and invoking hypothetical demons to do your bidding! Magic requires none of these, most especially the latter. Magic will only happen by working with, not against, nature to bring about natural change in life and the world. For magic to work it does not require special ingredients and words, but knowledge, effort, energy and understanding.

      

      In finding out how to make your magic work you will have to clear away your personal emotional baggage and come to terms with who you really are and what you can truly be, which is almost certainly more than you think possible now. You will come to understand and harness your personal energies, as well as the energies of the elements. And you will find that you come to know, and be known by, the Goddess and the God.

      In this book I have given you not only a series of spells which might be made to work, but also the foundations of the magical practice of Witchcraft, so that you can make your spells work if you are prepared to put the effort in. I know, even as I write this, that there are some readers who will want to go straight into trying the spells, and I cannot stop you. But I do offer the following caution; attempts to practise magic without a good understanding of the basic techniques can result in the magic failing to work, or working in a way that you did not intend. In magic, as in all things, you should be careful what you wish for, as you just might get it!

      Most of the magics practised by the non-Witch are done to ward off the bad things in life, rather than to bring on the good. But Witchcraft is not just there to fix that which has gone, or might go, wrong. If you work your spells within the practice of the Craft, you can take control of your life and make positive change. Just remember, magic does not happen ‘as if by magic’ – you have to work at it!

       TWO RITES AND RITUALS, SPELLS AND MAGIC

      MAGICAL TERMS

      There are many terms associated with the working of magic: spells, incantations, charms, rites, rituals, and so on. Before we look at actually how to create magic, I’d like to examine some of these terms, so that we all know what we are talking about!

      RITES AND RITUALS

      A Ritual is a series of thoughts, words and actions performed to bring about a specific result. A series of Rites can go to make up a Ritual. Rites and Rituals are not confined to Witchcraft or magical working, although these are the contexts to which we tend to relate these terms. To clarify: your ‘Ritual of getting up’ could be broken down like this: ‘the Rite of waking’, then ‘the Rite of visiting the bathroom’, ‘the Rite of making a cup of tea or coffee’, and so on. In the Craft we use the term Rites to define pieces of magical working such as creating the Sacred Space, raising power, working a spell, and so on. These Rites can then be placed together to form a Ritual for a specific purpose which could be the working of magic, the celebration of a life event, or maybe a festival.

      MAGIC AND SPELLS

      Magic is often defined as the ability to create change through the application of will. A spell is defined by the dictionary as a magical formula, but in the Craft we consider it to be more of a process, as magic is not just the doing or saying of things in a certain order. Many Witches do not use the word ‘spell’ to describe their magical working as it tends to conjure up somewhat simplistic images from fiction and mythology rather than expressing the true process of harnessing and focusing internal and external energies to create change.

      INCANTATIONS AND CHANTS

      Many people expect a ‘spell’ to be, or at least to include, a few rhyming lines which are repeated or even chanted to make something happen. This would be an incantation, and some Witches do use them as a part of their magical process. But it is not necessary to have poetic ability to make magic work.

      Chants are verses or songs, usually chanted by Witches working in a group. They are most often used in the Craft as a technique for raising power, that is the harnessing and focusing of the energies of the group. Some Solitary Witches also use chants, but often within their heads rather than out loud.

      CHARMS, TALISMANS, TOTEMS, ETC

      

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