My Family’s Spells
on the Go
My family and I still do the quick fixes in this chapter when we’re in need. My mother has so much information in that little stubborn head of hers that she always surprises me, and the energies here have proved their worth time and time again in our family’s magical workings.
I know my Cuban heritage, and we Cubans tend to inflate problems. Conflicts and discord are fed to a frenzy, and guess what happens in my family next . . . well, immediately incense is burned, then out come the herbs, colored cloths, crystals, and candles. Then, to solve the problem, the scent of magic surrounds the room from years of know-how.
Now, in the meantime while all this is happening, my family has not stopped arguing and talking over each other. We are all trying to solve the particular problem that has suddenly arisen for one of the Abrev clan; it’s like a war zone! We all want to protect the one who needs protection, and finally we come up with a sensible magical medium and the spell is written, to be done by the one who is in need. But even though we help create spells for each other, we never do those spells for the person in need; we each do our own spells, as it has more meaning when you actually get down and visualize your own needs to the universe.
The following few spells are all quick fixes that my family uses and has used with positive results over the years. They are simple and at times strange, but these quick spells have been tested over and over again and shared with others for a particular need. I’m sure you will find something in my family’s spells on the go that you can use for your own needs.
My family’s spells on the go
Protection from negative entities
When you feel a negative entity is nearby, get a glass of water and splash some cologne inside it. On top of the glass, place a pair of sharp scissors. Light some frankincense incense around your home and also light a white candle. Then, when you are mentally ready, call out to the entity and say, “I’m cutting the energies you feed from and sending you into the light. You must leave me alone and go toward the light.”
Spell intention: The water is used to purify the room. The splash of cologne attracts lost entities and acts as a calling note. The frankincense brings protection energies against the entity, and the white candle attracts what is good in them. This spell is best done on a Saturday.
Other quick spells on the go for
protection from negative entities:
Place a laurel leaf under your pillow for protection.
Sprinkle ammonia around the house.
Light frankincense or dragon’s blood incense.
Light a black candle and a white candle together—the black for the negative entity to go away, and the white for it to go in peace and hope.
Cleansing the body
of negative energy
On a Monday, take an egg from your refrigerator and let it sit out all night under the moonlight. On Tuesday morning, go to a place where you can have some privacy—your bathroom will do—and take all your clothes off. Once you’re naked, take the egg in your right hand, or left if you are left-handed, and gently rub the egg all over your body. As you do, visualize the negative energy you wish to be rid of. Once you finish, take the egg and break it over your toilet. Let the yolk and egg whites flush down the toilet, and just throw the shell in the garbage can.
Spell intention: My family uses this method to rid ourselves of negative energy—negative energy that someone else has created for us or simply energy that we have created for ourselves.
As you rub the egg over your body, the egg absorbs all the negativity from your body. By flushing the contents of the egg down the toilet, you are flushing that negative energy as far away as you can. The toilet is a means of getting rid of waste, and with this spell you are getting rid of your negative energy waste.
Other quick spells on the go
for cleansing the body
of negative energy
Have a salt bath, or do a bucket spell with salt.
Light a black candle and blue candle together, and wish the negative energy to go away.
Carry with you a tiger’s-eye crystal.
Freeze those who do us harm
Fill a clear glass with water. Then, on a small piece of paper, write down the name of the person you know is doing you harm, and tarnishing your reputation, by means of gossip or anger. As you do this, visualize what you would like this person to stop doing, then place the paper with his or her name inside the glass of water. Add one drop of blue food dye, and with a small teaspoon stir together the paper and the food dye in the glass of water. Immediately place the mixture inside your freezer.
Spell intention: The water in the glass makes the connection with the name of the person, and then the blue dye cools off the person you want to stop. By placing the glass inside your freezer, you will freeze any negative intentions toward you.
This spell is one of my favorites, and it works every single time. Do not take this person out of the freezer until you feel his or her negativity has calmed down. If the negativity starts again, do the spell again—but this time add one peppercorn to the water, which will indicate that you mean business.
Other quick spells on the go for those who would do us harm
Light a red candle in the name of the one who is doing you harm, and visualize that person stopping it right now.
Carry with you a laurel leaf where no one can see it, or a few pine nuts.
Money
Carry with you phony paper currency—the higher the denomination, the better.
Spell intention: The universe is all about visualizing and staying positive. If you think negatively, you will bring nothing but negative energy, but the more you think in a positive way, the more good things you’ll attract. This goes for money, too: the more you have, the more you’ll get. Treat your phony paper currency as though it were real, and never, never give it away.
Other quick spells
on the go for money
Light a green candle every Thursday.
Carry alfalfa inside your purse or wallet at all times.
Carry with you a cowry shell.
Place cinnamon sticks in a decorative bowl and add to the bowl a cup of sesame seeds. Use the bowl as a centerpiece on top of your dinning room table. Refresh it as needed, as long as your money needs last.
Get a large bunch of fresh basil and caress yourself with it from head to toe.
Write yourself a check and don’t deposit it—but keep it with you at all times.
Fill a half-shell of a coconut with uncooked rice and place it behind your front door.
Place one drop of patchouli essential oil in your hands in order to take hold of your money needs.
Protection for the home
Find or purchase a clear or white spray bottle, although a blue spray bottle will also do. Once you’ve got your bottle, place inside it seven rusty nails, seven sewing pins, a tiger’s-eye crystal, two large tablespoons of rum, and one drop of blue food dye.
Now add water to the bottle, preferably rainwater, and then add four drops of basil essential oil and two large sticks of fresh rosemary leaves. Mix all this together and leave it outside on a full-moon night. Keep the spray bottle and the mixture inside it outside for three more days and three more nights. Let the moon give the bottle its protection strength.
Next, spray the water inside the bottle all over your home on Saturdays to keep your home protected and to magically clean up the negative energy.
Spell intention: In this spell are many protection energies, and once they are mixed together you create a powerful protection liquid that, once it is left under the moonlight and sprayed in your home, will give your home a protection coating that no negativity will be able to penetrate.
Other spells on the go for the
protection of your home
Sprinkle ammonia around the house when needed for negativity.
Burn rosemary incense whenever possible to keep negativity away.
Hang a bunch of garlic from the front door.
Behind the front door, keep a red bow.
Place in the four corners of your home four clear quartz crystals, with each of the points facing toward the outside of your residence.
Light blue candles for protection on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Mix together salt and aloe powder, and sprinkle it around your home.
Always have a clear quartz crystal around your home for protection.
Other family favorites
Protection for your children
Have your child wear an onyx or a tiger’s-eye crystal.
Visualize a blue light around your child at all times.
Never let your child wear red—instead, he or she should wear yellow or blue for protection.
To help your child
after a nightmare
Get your child a stuffed animal. It could be any animal your child can identify with, such as a tiger, a lion, or a bear. If your child has a bad nightmare, tell him or her to hold this stuffed animal and to visualize the toy as a real animal that will protect against that which has scared your child during the nightmare.
To attract a man
Sew a little red bow on the back of all your underwear.
Have a bucket shower with rose petals.
Carry with you a rose-quartz crystal.
To keep someone happy
and on your side
Write the name of the person you wish to have on your side and place the paper on a white plate. Then add honey on top and place the plate up high, where it cannot be seen by anyone. This spell can also be done for a person who needs some sweetening!
For study, research,
or concentration
Light a yellow candle.
Burn rosemary oil in your oil burner.
Carry with you a citrine crystal.
To thwart your enemy
On a piece of toilet paper, write the name of the person who has been causing you harm. Flush the toilet paper down the toilet, and whatever your enemy was doing will stop. Now, if you’d like to be more creative with the toilet tissue, please be my guest!