Verbal Magic
It is not always possible, necessary, or desired to conduct a full-fledged (or even a scaled-down) magical ritual. Luckily, there are simple spells that can be cast by simply focusing your energy and speaking them out loud. You first need to relax and move into a meditative state. Then, focus on your goal and the feeling you wish to have when your goal is reached. Speak your spell and mentally infuse the spell with your energy and intent. Blessings are the main focus of verbal spells, but they can also be used for protection, healing, minor banishing, “invisibility,” growth, luck, and attraction.
Touch the infant on the forehead with blessed water and chant:
New little spirit, may your life be blessed;
May your words ring true and your mind be sharp;
May your heart know love and your body be strong;
May your path be gentle and your life be long.
Blessed be.
Blessing before Divination
This can be spoken before any form of divination to help channel the correct energy and protect you from not only the negative energies that may be present but also from any positive energy that might be present. Though not necessarily harmful, foreign energies might not be in harmony with your goal and could act as a hindrance (which is harmful to your work). For this blessing, chant:
I call upon the all-knowing Goddess to bless
my work with safety and success.
Please protect me from all positive and negative energies and forces that would come and do me harm and grant me knowledge of the past, present, future, and the other worlds.
For the good of all and with harm to none, I dedicate
this work to you.
Visualize yourself successfully completing a task before you while you chant the following:
Luck and skill light my way,
Pave my path with grace.
Blessed be myself this day,
As I complete [task], this task I face.
Blessing before a Voyage
When you are in or on a vehicle (car, boat, whatever), visualize a protective bubble around yourself and the entire vehicle and chant the following to yourself:
Earth beneath please guide my steps;
Stars above please light my way;
Bless and protect me on my journey,
Keep [me/us] safe through night and day.
House Blessing
Bring a special gift to the house such as a new broom (whether practical or decorative) or a “kitchen witch”-style poppet. Charge this gift with protective qualities beforehand, and once you place this gift in its new home, you are ready to begin the blessing. To work a house blessing, you attempt to fill each room in the house with warm, loving, welcoming energy to fill the energetic void left in the house from a lack of occupants. Go from room to room in a clockwise direction, beginning and ending at the front door. Say the following chant with outstretched arms, projecting the loving energy from your hands:
Living space, you are pure and free;
Peaceful and happy, a nurturing den;
Filled with warmth, blessed be,
A place of joy, a home again.
This spell can be said over plants in your garden. Cup your hands over the plant and focus on the plant in a sturdy, full bloom state as you chant:
From seed to shoot to bud,
Your journey paved with magic power.
Grow strong and healthy, stretch high above,
Root and stem and leaf and flower.
Neutralizing Negativity
If there is a difficult person in your life causing negativity and conflict, this spell can be used to neutralize their influence without causing them harm. Visualize the person in your mind (it helps to have a photo of the person in front of you) and see them wrapped in white cords as if they are being bound. See these cords shift in color to gray; gradually, the person is nothing more than a gray shadow. While visualizing, chant:
The lines blur, your power falls;
Force of conflict, turn to gray;
With harm to none, for good of all;
Your influence negated and swept away.
If you feel in need of protection, visualize yourself surrounded by a bubble of white light that condenses and “solidifies” into a shining, mirrored orb that repels any and all negativity and danger. As you visualize, chant the following:
Shield of power, protect me from harm,
From threat of danger, negativity, and storm;
Glowing power, mirrored might,
Keep me safe with your magic light.
Invisibility
This spell is useful when you wish to be left alone. Now, I must emphasize that this spell will not make you physically invisible—sorry! Rather, it will “take you off the radar” by blurring the energy you send out so you are much less noticeable, and in many instances, people will not see or notice you until you actually touch them. To start off, close your eyes and visualize yourself encased in a glowing bubble of silvery-white light. When you have this image in your mind, begin to see the bubble of light blur and fade. As the light fades, the image of yourself should also fade until you are completely invisible in your mind’s eye. As you are doing this, chant the following:
Surrounded by the magic light,
Cloaked within its mystic blur,
Invisibility wrought through your might,
Until I wish my form returned.
When you wish to no longer be “invisible,” you must visualize the invisible bubble gradually becoming more and more visible and definite. Once the bubble is clearly seen, visualize the energy dispersing, leaving a clear, solid image of you. Then open your eyes.
This spell can be used to send away a bothersome person, entity, or animal without causing harm. You must remain neutral in your intention, wishing only to send them out of your life. While casting this spell, in your mind’s eye, see the target of the spell cupped in the two hands of the Goddess. As you speak the words, see her drawing the target of the spell away from you until you can no longer see them anymore.
Goddess rid me of this conflict,
Take away my strife;
Rid me of this block,
Remove it from my life;
Without harm and blessed be,
May we both be now set free.
Healing
This type of healing would only be used for the relief of minor aches and pains or to speed the healing of cuts and scrapes. For larger ailments, full-scale ritual would need to be performed (or, of course, a trip to the doctor). For a quick burst of healing energy, go into your meditative state and hold your projective hand over the area of the body to be healed and send energy out from your hand into the injury. While doing so, chant:
Harmony, strength, and balance,
The body heals and is restored;
Soothe and relax, heal and mend—
Painful suffering at an end.
Fill your mind with a pleasant inner calm, using one of the meditations given in Part 1 if desired. Visualize things going your way and feel the peace and happiness that will bring you. When you are ready, chant:
My path before me, with hope I tread;
Good fortune shall to me be led;
With open heart to light my way,
Good luck to me throughout my day.
Attraction
If you wish to surround yourself with an aura of enchantment that will attract others to you, visualize yourself surrounded by a pink bubble of light and chant the following three times:
Sparkle, glow, and glamoury,
Does here and now envelop me.
Drawn like a magnet, moths to a flame,
Attraction my goal, attraction my aim!