Release Psychic Ties Spell
incantation
Past is finished
What’s done is done
There’s nothing to be
Lost or won
It’s severed and
The cord is cut
I’m free and light
No nagging gut
Found my truth
Learned my lesson
Welcome freedom
Release all tension
Ingredients
- • Ten of Swords
- • Necktie
- • Fabric shears
- • Black candle
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Leaving a person or
situation can be understood
as a metaphor for death. The Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexico and other Latin cultures today. Skulls, skeletons, and roses are symbolic of this celebration that pays homage to the dead.
Are you obsessed or consumed by the past? Even if the person or situation is no longer physically present in your life, you may be psychically tied to them if they remain a constant fixture in your thoughts. This spell releases psychic ties so you can invite fresh possibility to your reality.
The Ten of Swords represents endings. A necktie may be picked up in a thrift store. Be very clear that you are cutting psychic ties, not imposing physical harm on anyone. The color black represents death. It absorbs all energies.
Gather all ingredients. Place the Ten of Swords. Enter the card. Consider the figure lying on the ground. The body represents your good/bad/indifferent feelings in regard to your situation. Ten silver swords align the body’s spine. Grab hold of the first sword, feeling the cold steel in your hand. Bring up an emotion you feel when you think of this situation. With all your strength, grind the sword deeper into the body. When the sword won’t go any deeper, pull the sword out. Throw it off the cliff. You have just severed a tie. Continue doing so with the remaining nine swords, finding a different emotion or attachment with each.
After the tenth sword has been removed, look toward the yellow dawn rising in the distance. Feel the tangerine light on your skin. Allow yourself to bask in freedom.
Take the tie in hand. Cut into ten pieces using your shears. Bury the pieces in the earth.
Light the black candle. Utter the incantation.
November • 2
Five of Cups Connection Ritual
incantation
Five of Cups
Empty loss
What to do
Which river to cross?
Turn around
And drink some more?
Or stand there
Looking at the floor?
- • Five of Cups
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Enter the arcana of the Five of Cups.
The Five of Cups was called the Lord of Loss of Pleasure by the magicians of the Golden Dawn, who assigned it the time period of October 23–November 2.
Fives imply challenge. Fives are the halfway point, the turning point, the space in which a new chapter begins. What has manifested up until this point begins to build on itself. This required challenge provides perspective for the ultimate outcome in the finality of the ten. Inside every challenge lies a gift. Can you discover it?
A dark-cloaked figure stands across from you, oblivious to your presence. His head is bent. It is unclear what he is doing with his hands. What would his face look like if he turned to you? Is it ravaged by time or the desperate look of youthful ignorance? You assume he is male, but perhaps it is a cloaked female? Step back.
Three golden chalices are knocked on their sides. Green and red liquid oozes from the cups. Two cups remain upright.
The figure might drink out of the remaining cups, thereby continuing their current path. They might cross the stone arch bridge, pass over the river, and enter into the distant reality of a small fortress surrounded by cypress trees. Or they can remain immobile, making no decision at all.
The air of expectation hangs. Consider the nature of emotional cups themselves. Emotions act as filters to the physical world around you. The fives of tarot ask for us to give something of ourselves so that we may grow. It is the toughest cards that invite evolution, change, and growth.
You walk forward and select a cup while the figure remains impassive. Inside is an emotional attachment. Inside is an illusion you can release. Look inside the cup. What is there? Once you see it clearly, walk to the river and pour it in.
Watch the waters dissolve it. You are now free.
3 • November
Block Unwanted Sexual Advances Spell
incantation
Begone with you
Away, away
Nasty come-ons
Don’t haunt my day
Focus elsewhere
Offer respect
My beautiful body
I protect
1. Ace of Wands reversed
2. The Lovers reversed
3. Nine of Cups reversed
- • Turnip
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Today is Saint Winifred’s feast day. Winifred had decided to enter a convent. Her suitor become so enraged, he cut off her head. It rolled to the bottom of a hill, a healing spring appeared, her head reattached, and she came back to life. Her suitor was swallowed up by the earth.
Is someone getting a little too close for comfort? Are you routinely bothered by snide sexual comments and inappropriate men? Sick of cat calls? Cast this spell to make it stop.
A reversed Ace of Wands extinguishes passion’s fire. Reversed Lovers severs romantic ties. A reversed Nine of Cups extinguishes all hope. Ozark folklore states that turnips act as illusion breakers. The triangle of cards is used to form a cone of energy.
Sit on the floor and place the cards in a triangle formation. Face the Ace of Wands. Imagine the hand holding the wand is floating before you. See the flaming wand turn over. It is ground out like a cigarette in an ashtray on the floor in front of you.
Face the Lovers. Imagine shadowy figures of leeches and sexual predators walking away from you. Face the Nine of Cups. Imagine a table with nine cups sitting on a blue tablecloth before you. Walk up to the table. Knock each cup over, spilling the liquid and dashing any hopes.
Turn away from the cards and focus on yourself and the triangle of energy you have raised. How does it feel? What color has it taken on? Make a mental note of exactly how it feels. In daily life, place this cone of protection around you to protect you from unwanted advances.
Imagine unwanted energy dissipating as you scrub and clean the turnip. Place the turnip in your handbag for extra sexual repellent.
November • 4
King of Wands Connection Ritual
incantation
King of Wands
Man of fire
See me, bless me
Forge desire
Hot to touch
Skin like flame
Your burning heat
Will never tame
- • King of Wands
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Enter the arcana of the King of Wands.
King Tut’s tomb was
discovered on this day in 1922. This desert king re-sparked the fascination with all things Egyptian. It is an excellent day to connect to the King of Wands, the master of fire and passion.
Heat—immense, dry desert heat—seeps through every inch of your skin. Your sandaled feet step over grainy sand. Palm trees offer generous shade from the noonday sun. Heat waves appear on the horizon.
A salamander slips over his desert domain. His rosy body moves from dark depths to the light. His eyes gleam with intelligence and wisdom, and he moves as a cohesive unit.
You follow the salamander and he leads you to a figure seated on a golden throne. Rosy red flames lick; a crackling sound is heard. The flames of hunger are never satisfied. They will devour everything in their wake. Cleansing and purifying heat enters you. Everything is taken from your body, moved out with sweat, and dried upon the hot air.
The king commands the rays of the sun, bringing life to the world and passion to lovers. He is on fire. The king’s throne is engraved with lions and salamanders devouring their own tails, symbols of eternity. His right hand holds the wand of transformation. Salamander rings decorate his cape, yellow like his throne; his gown imitates the orange, fiery pallor of the sun.
His eyes, focused on the dry horizon, turn toward you. You find yourself unable to move as they devour you. His predatory nature consumes you. Should you step forward and embody the nature of this king, there is nothing you would not have, nothing that you could not own, no desire that would not be granted, and no passion forbidden.
But like Icarus, who lost his wings when he flew too close to the sun, what could melt away if you gave yourself entirely to the flames of passion and desire?
5 • November
Attract Positive Energy Spell
incantation
Fire’s passion
Flames that lick
Bring the light
Let it stick
Darkness seeps
Like water to well
As I craft
This lovely spell
- • Triple wick candle
1. The Moon
2. Ace of Wands
3. Eight of Wands
4. Three of Wands
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Bonfire Night is
celebrated tonight in Britain, marking Guy Fawkes Day with massive bonfires, feasting, and fireworks.
This spell creates a glow of positive energy around you. Positive energy can be stoked and fed like a fire; like attracts like.
The triple wick candle is a miniature version of a bonfire. The Moon card offers the magnetic pull of gravitation. The Ace of Wands represents a fresh primal spark. The Eight of Wands represents the manifestation of the energy of attraction, while the Three of Wands marks its return.
Light the candle’s wicks. Focus on the flames as beings of light. You are about to send a message to the universe. Contemplate the flames while you consider everything you are grateful for. You may make a handwritten list of gratitude if you like.
When you are filled like a helium balloon with as much pleasure and happiness as possible, send it into the flames. Watch it rise through the light and smoke. Your intention of positivity has been sent to the world.
Place the Moon card before you. Enter the card and feel the magnetic attraction pulling positivity back toward you. In your mind’s eye find the actual moon’s position in relation to where you sit. Glow as white as the moon and feel your gravitational pull.
Place the Ace of Wands under the Moon card as an image of your spark of gratitude. Place the Eight of Wands next to the ace. Feel your positive energy moving out and around you from every possible direction. Place the Three of Wands. Feel the energy you put out being returned in the form of energy, people, and opportunity.
November • 6
Hanged Man Reverse the Situation Spell
incantation
Round and round
Our life does turn
Fate’s fingers like
To mix and churn
No victim, I stand
Strong and true
It’s my life
Time to undo
I switch and alter
Now reverse
And as I do
I lift this curse
1. Eight of Wands
2. The Hanged Man
3. The Tower
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Plutonium, an ingredient
used in the atomic bomb, was first produced on this day in 1944.
There are so many things we may wish to undo. While we can’t always change the past, we can reverse our experience of it. The Eight of Wands gathers and directs energy. The Hanged Man represents being hostage to a particular situation. The Tower is used as an explosive blast of energy to reverse a situation.
Place the Eight of Wands. Enter the card. Feel each wand and the momentum they carry as they fly toward their target. Place the Hanged Man where the eight wands are headed. See the hanged man as he sways back and forth. Can you hear the creak of his rope? He swings like a pendulum, caught like an insect in a spider’s web. Let the halo surrounding his head remind you of the power he contains to free himself. All hope is not lost.
Envision the situation you wish to escape. Enter the philosophical side of the Hanged Man. Realize what you have learned by being held in this situation. What new lesson have you learned? This predicament has taught you to look at life from a new perspective, like the Hanged Man. Once you have grasped your lesson, you are ready to exit.
Place the Tower card beneath the Hanged Man. Watch the wild energy travel up the tower, shaking its base. A lightning bolt strikes the top, releasing the crown, causing a huge, hot, thundering explosion. It reverberates through you, your table, your entire space. With the force of this blow, take the Hanged Man card and physically reverse him.
Your situation has now changed. Look through the Hanged Man’s eyes as he looks ahead with new vision.
You are now free.
7 • November
Tarot’s Shamanic Art Exercise
incantation
Artist’s brushstrokes
Shadows and light
Reveal your secrets
To my sight
Give me a message
Let me see
Story unravel
In front of me
- • Art museum/gallery/piece of art
- • Tarot deck
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
New York City’s Museum of Modern Art opened on this day in 1929.
Art is the mystical and invisible made physical and visible.
It is extremely pleasurable to enter a painting. You can intermingle with the brushstrokes, experience the painting though the artist’s eyes, or even experience the painting as others have while observing it. Each journey is different.
Journey inside a painting the same way you might journey into a tarot card. There is, however, one important difference. Unless your tarot deck is handmade, tarot cards are printed on computers and covered with a thin plastic veneer. Paintings and sculptures bear a tactile history that bear the hands of the artist and carry a strong life of their own, especially when on view to the public.
A painting emerged from the brushstrokes of the artist who breathed, made love, smoked cigarettes, ate fruit, and drank coffee in front of it. Who knows where the painting has hung or what it has seen? You can dive into the art (and perhaps the artist as well) and discover previous owners, those who have gazed and lived their lives in front of and around it.
What secrets would your personal art collection whisper about the things you have done in front of them?
Find a museum or gallery where you can sit comfortably and observe a painting for at least thirty minutes.
Set the timer on your phone (quietly) and observe the painting, allowing yourself to fall inside of it.
When you are finished, pull a random tarot card as a message from this piece of art.
Journal and record your thoughts.
November • 8
High Priestess Card Connection Ritual
incantation
High Priestess
The silence inside
To you I’m true
Will never hide
Authenticity flows
With your water
I am bound
Your faithful daughter
- • The High Priestess
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Christian mystic Julian
of Norwich, credited with
authoring the very first
English language book by a female, was born on this day in 1342.
Enter the arcana of the High Priestess. The holiest of incense, frankincense, myrrh, and sandalwood mix with saline ocean air. She sits perfectly still in inky blue darkness, illuminated by flickering torches, the fire of eternity.
She sits, the center pillar between the B and J pillars. Move close to her. Touch her robes. Their silk has been spun by silk worms who glow with the luminescent power of the moon.
Her silence is deafening. It is part of every sacred tradition. Profound mysteries are brought forward by her stillness. The High Priestess’s silence roars against words that seek to define, yet fail. Words came to be after the silence. Her antiquity predates language. The High Priestess moves through what cannot be contained, uttered, or stated. She simply knows, as do you.
She need not speak because she understands in a glance. She knows the most important things are not spoken. They are understood and inferred.
The gentle lap of water breaks below the two of you. The water meanders, knowing it will get to its destination with no rush. The water enjoys reflecting the stars like the High Priestess enjoys being reflected by you.
Her crown moves. Like the moon it waxes and wanes, the ever-moving cycle of the tides matching your heart’s beating.
The scroll upon her lap is the story of your life—secrets of your soul scratched across crisp parchment. You can’t read this language but simply know the story is there. The scroll extends; you write the story with each passing moment of your life.
9 • November
Skull Transformation Ritual
incantation
Skull of bone
Card of Death
I honor you with
Every breath
Your lesson lives
I do not fear
Miraculous transformations
Will appear
- • Incense
- • Candles
- • Skull jewelry or item
- • Death
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
The Day of the Skulls is celebrated today in Bolivia. Similar to the Day of the Dead, the skulls of ancestors are honored, blessed, and bestowed with flowers. Select a personal skull decoration or jewelry. This ritual provokes the wheels of transformation within you.
Near La Paz, Bolivia, the witch’s market is found. Small shops and street carts sell charms, talismans, and potions to ward off evil and attract good fortune. Burning a dried starfish is said to bring luck. Small llama corpses are procured and buried to bless a home. Fortunetellers divine by scattered cocoa leaves and owl feathers. Mother/daughter witches cast spells of any sort—for the right price.
Open the energy of your space by lighting your candles and incense. Place the Death card before you. Enter the card. Cast your eyes to the fiery sun rising between the two towers above the cardinal’s head. Contemplate how death, like the morning sunlight, transforms the darkness of night with its glowing, crystalline, ruby-red light.
The wheels of death, like that of transformation and transmutation, are simply the transfer of one state into another. The more you embrace your fears, the more you love, the more you let go, the more transformed you will discover yourself to be.
The skeleton of this card and the skull on your table, though frightening to some, are stark reminders that the physical nature of the world is temporary. This skull will inspire you toward action, and through action you will find yourself transformed. Through your transformation, you transform the world.
Pass the skull through your incense to bless it. Place on your body or in your home. Every time you notice this skull, let it remind you that you are an evolutionary creature whose journey will never end.
November • 10
Six of Cups Connection Ritual
incantation
Six of Cups
Heart-centered place
This card is full
Of love and grace
Gifts of the heart
Are always free
Love others freely
Peace returns to me
- • Six of Cups
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
The Six of Cups was called the Lord of Pleasure by the magicians of the Golden Dawn, who assigned it the time period of November 3–12.
Enter the arcana of the Six of Cups.
Six implies advancement. The challenge of the five has been met. Allies support forward momentum. A hierarchy is achieved.
Fresh orchids, flowering cactus, and star flower scents fill the air. An ancient medieval town surrounds you. Stone towers and edifices rise in a fortress that has offered protection to its residents for hundreds of years. Six cups stand before you. Unlike other Cups cards, these cups do not contain drinks or liquid. Rich vegetation, flowers, and lush green leaves spring from the cups, the manifestation of love.
Hot summer sun beats down on top of your head and fills the courtyard with yellow light. A boy wearing a red hat hands a delicious cup of blooms to a young girl. She is tiny, compact, and smiling. Dressed in a peasant costume, she accepts the gift graciously.
You note a similarity between the postures of the figures and the six of wands, swords, and pentacles. In each six card one figure towers over another, implying rank. Each card relates actions of giving and reception. Somewhere in the back of your mind, you recall the number six relates to the heart on the Tree of Life.
Their exchange of love is apparent. In the distance a soldier figure walks away. He carries a staff, implying his role as a guard or soldier. The children are free and safe to express themselves now that he has left them in peace. Their gifts of love have elevated them past the need for protection or rules, for love is the highest emotion, greatest gift, and loftiest joy.
11 • November
Compassionate Divorce Spell
incantation
Stars of night
Heal this blight
Dry my tears
Release my fears
Compassion come
Marriage undone
I am free
Peace fills me
1. The Lovers reversed
2. Two of Cups
3. The Star
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
This spell has been created to move forward throug
Today is Armistice Day, celebrating the official end of World War I. It is marked by two minutes of silence on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of November.
h the process of divorce with compassion for your former partner and for yourself.
The reversed Lovers card implies your current situation and the split between the two of you. The Two of Cups implies partnership. The Star card carries rejuvenation and new inspiration.
Place the reversed Lovers card before you. Enter the card. Allow yourself to feel every emotion that bubbles up for the situation at hand. Look at the reversed figures. Imagine you and your spouse as you once were. See yourselves at your best. See yourselves at your worst. Allow any and all feelings to seep through. Emotions cannot hurt you, no matter how intensely they are felt. Experience your emotional spectrum. Love yourself for feeling it so deeply.
Place the Two of Cups beneath the Lovers. See the couple coming together in complete peace. You and your spouse came together to learn essential lessons from one another. Goodness and decency still exists. You can’t fault someone for being essentially who they are, nor can you fault yourself for being who you truly are. Look to discover the common ground between the two of you.
Place the Star card at the top of the cards. Allow the Star’s healing waters to wash over you. Forgive yourself. Find forgiveness for your partner.
You can face this situation with compassion and caring. You got this.
November • 12
Time Traveling Journey
incantation
Time’s an illusion
The present’s here
Yet inside
I move to any year
Travel freely
Greet my past
So the present’s
Peace will last
- • Personal effects
- • Rosemary crackers
1. The Chariot
2. Ace of Swords
3. Card representing the place you will travel to
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Marty McFly returns to this date in 1955 in the classic 80s flick Back to the Future.
The best time travel machine is our own consciousness.
Decide what time period, place, or person you would like to visit. Your senses will be your gateway for this journey. Think of how you are transported by a whiff of perfume or the scent of your favorite childhood food, a song, or an old friend. Find music, movies, toys, places, scents, food, clothing, and pictures that remind you of the place you’d like to go. Pinterest boards can serve as excellent inspiration for past decades.
Rosemary is used for remembrance. The spell effectively begins the moment you begin collecting things of the past.
Go to the physical place you have chosen to perform the journey. Nibble on a rosemary cracker. Place the Chariot before you. Enter the card. Take the reins and journey to the place you wish to go.
Place the Ace of Swords to direct you to that place. Look down the blade of the sword to see your final destination. Place the card representing where you are traveling to. Do you wish you had said something or done something different? Do you need to discover information or talk to your younger self? Would you like to give or take advice from your former self? Perform the actions you desire in this place.
Meditate on this as long as you like.
Reverse all actions to come back to the present.
13 • November
Friday the 13th Good Luck Spell
incantation
Craft my penny
Pick it up
All day long
I’ll have good luck
Share to others
Fortune found
Great luck is spread
All around
- • The Wheel of Fortune
- • 1 penny
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
The oldest reference to the bad luck of Friday the thirteenth was documented on this day in 1868.
You’ve heard the old saying, “Find a penny, pick it up; all day long you’ll have good luck.” The Wheel of Fortune represents a change in one’s luck for the better.
Place the Wheel of Fortune before you. Enter the card, hearing the spin of the wheel. Does it sound like a wheel at a country fair? Does it sound like an electronic slot machine? See the wheel spinning and recognize the forces of fate surrounding you at all times. Contemplate the figures in each corner of the card. These are your spirit guides and guardian angels. Thank them for looking out for you.
Contemplate the sphinx at the top of the wheel who holds the secrets of the universe. Feel the wind of destiny blowing through the card. Feel the wind at your back, nudging you where you need to go. You don’t need to know where. It is enough to trust.
Pick up the penny. Shine it with your thumb. This penny is the beginning of material abundance—the pure symbol of luck. Place the penny inside the Wheel of Fortune card and inside the wheel. To persevere the winds of fate, stay centered on the wheel, just like this penny.
Leave this card and penny in sight until night falls. When evening blankets the earth, your spell is complete.
To seal this charm, take the penny with you tomorrow and flick it on the sidewalk or a heavily trafficked place. Share the wealth and luck of the penny with others to make it grow.
November • 14
Seven of Cups Connection Ritual
incantation
Seven of cups
Options aglow
Some bring happiness
This I know
If what I want
Is best for me
As time unfolds
I suppose we’ll see
- • Seven of Cups
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Enter the arcana of the Seven of Cups.
The Seven of Cups was called the Lord of Illusionary Success by the magicians of the Golden Dawn, who assigned it the time period of November 13–22.
Seven is a mystical number, a lucky number. There are seven notes on the musical scale, seven days of the week, seven planets in our solar system besides Earth, seven deadly sins, seven seas, seven colors of the rainbow, seven continents, and seven wonders of the ancient world.
The scent of fresh popcorn mixes with recycled air as you stand in the dark. Your feet are sticking on the floor. The ceiling is high, and the spread of seats suggests you stand in a movie theater. The whir of a projector sounds behind you. A blue screen alights. A dazzling array of golden cups appear before you.
A gentleman jumps to his feet, excited by the images. He reaches for the selections, as beguiling as they are intriguing. A snake flicks his tongue and descends from a golden palace. Next to him, a ghostlike figure covered in gauze opens her palms to the sky. The third cup displays a sweet, carved face of youth and tender beauty. Beneath this cup, glorious towers extend from a cup and reach toward the sky. It sits next to a cup flowing with jewels; you almost shield your eyes from the sparkling gem glory. A victory bay wreath escapes another cup. A mysterious dragon crouches from the final cup.
More cups crowd the sky. There is an infinite amount of cups, as the choices you can make are as infinite and as varied as the people who make them.
Which cup would you choose? How will you know what is right?
Choose from within. Choose from your deepest desire. Choose as many as you like. Life is for the living.
15 • November
Greater Mysteries Meditation
incantation
Powerful answers
Are always right there
Handle the knowledge
With great love and care
These cards with the combined
Magic of three
Relinquish their secrets
And hand them to me
1. The Hierophant
2. The Hermit
3. The High Priestess
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Two Spanish ships land off Easter Island on this day in 1770 and discover over 900 monolithic statues. How they were moved and why the island was deforested remains a mystery.
Perform this when you seek a deeper meaning of your chosen spirituality. Expect messages via dreams, experiences, and divinations following this meditation.
This spell calls for the wisdom of the big three Hs of tarot. The Hierophant represents the gatekeeper to higher mysteries of collected human consciousness, the Hermit is the shaman who travels highways of imagination and the occult, and the High Priestess is the gatekeeper to personal mystery.
Lay the Hierophant. Enter the card. Smell the burning incense as the chanting of monks rises among the pews. You have entered sacred space. It is the space of worship every human being has entered. Transcending cathedrals, this space exists in nature, mountains, and people. The Hierophant’s crossed keys rise up before you. They glimmer in a golden glow, becoming larger, until they have passed right through your skin and are absorbed by your body.
Place the Hermit card. Enter the card. Feel the cold blast of air and see the gold keys reflected in the lantern’s light. You are pulled at the speed of light, the molecules of your body rearranged. Travel on this highway of space and time. Absorb ancient knowledge.
Place the High Priestess. Enter the card. Her cool, lapping waters carry you off the astral path and back to earthy reality. She floats in and out of focus as you move forward to embody her. You take a seat between the pillars, secure in the knowledge of who you are and why you are here. Time, space, and swirling lights collect around you. You are the center of your universe. You are the conduit. You have awoken the mystery of yourself. Contemplate this knowledge for as long as you like.
November • 16
Hecate’s Shamanic Meditation
incantation
Hecate, crossroads
Lower gate
Burrow deep
And excavate
Guide me deeper
With precision
Grant me with
A brand-new vision
1. The World
2. Ten of Pentacles
3. The Moon
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Tonight is sacred to Hecate, the goddess/witch of magic, witchcraft, and necromancy. Hecate connects to many Western shamanistic practitioners because she moves through the darkness of the lower worlds.
Modern shamans travel to the upper, lower, and middle worlds. The traveler usually imagines a great tree, staircase, or ladder connecting all three worlds inside the tree. In this meditation you will construct gateways to these worlds and enter them using three tarot cards.
The World card represents the upper world. As you might suspect, it is the dwelling space of the celestial beings, angels, and spiritual wisdom. The Ten of Pentacles represents the middle world. This is the world we live in, but shamanically it is the subtle world that mirrors the actual world we live in. It is also the ego and our conscious self. The Moon card reflects the lower world. It contains the essence of organic matter, plant energy, animal spirits, darker goddess archetypes, guides, our own subconscious, and creativity.
Music can be a powerful link for shamanic travel. Play drumming, chant, or singing bowl music if you like as you perform this exercise.
Pick your entry point and enter the tarot as if through a gate.
Allow Hecate to present herself to you inside the Moon card. She will have a message for you. What is it?
17 • November
Courage and Charisma Public Speaking Spell
incantation
Spark of fire
And delight
Fill my words
And face with light
Queen of Wands
Your siren call
Brings together
One and all
As words pass
Across my tongue
The audience listens
And I’ve won
- • Queen of Wands
- • Cardamom
- • Almonds, crushed
- • Vanilla ice cream
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Today is Accession Day, a series of feasts and festivities marking the day in which Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne in 1558.
Cast this spell for courage and charisma for any public speaking engagement. Perform this spell after you have created, written, and researched your topic. Cast within a few days of delivering.
The Queen of Wands is the most charismatic card of the deck. Cardamom is used for eloquence and to charm a crowd. Almonds carry a masculine energy, sacred to Mercury, which clears succinct speech. Vanilla ice cream is moon food. It connects to a balancing feminine energy.
Sprinkle cardamom and crushed almonds over a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Allow the ice cream to melt as you place the Queen of Wands before you.
Enter the card. Feel the hot desert wind and walk toward her. Reach down to pet the warm black fur of her cat, who purrs pleasantly at your touch. Stand before this radiant queen, tan and golden. She may have been carved from gilded gold. Her radiance makes every grain of sand sparkle. She exudes the fire of the sun, her aura completely electric. It reaches to the far boundaries of her kingdom.
Sit down in her throne. Become this queen; look through her eyes. What do you see before you? Feel your energy reaching the boundaries of your kingdom. How does it feel to have your fiery energy reach that far? Feel the inner glow bursting through your skin. Feel a wand in your right hand, a sunflower in the other.
When you give your speech, speak it as the Queen of Wands.
Look at the melting ice cream before you. When it is completely melted it will be putty in your hands, like the audience. Scoop it up and devour it.
November • 18
Reveal Hidden Truth Meditation
incantation
Devil’s darkness
Priestess light
Reveal truth
By moon’s light
1. The Devil
2. The High Priestess
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Today is Occult Day.
It recognizes all occult groups, aims, and practices. The word occult means “hidden” and is derived from the Latin occulere, which means “to hide from view” and “to conceal.”
This meditation is meant to reveal a hidden truth. What covers these truths? Your own perceptions. To cultivate a new hidden truth, you must open your perception. Dispense with hallucinatory drugs; a tarot deck will suffice.
The Devil is the trickster who veils and confuses truth and information inside his darkness. The High Priestess represents all inner truth. The key to this meditation is what happens after it is performed.
Place the Devil before you. Enter his dungeon realm. Molten lava reflects in the caverns behind you. Moans and cries of the cursed echo as you stand before the great beast. He waves to you and smiles. You grin with the knowledge of a shared inside joke. You know he is not the scapegoat the world has chosen to project their fears onto. You know he is the essence of power and control inside each person, including yourself. With all this power, he reaches toward you, taps you on the head, and pulls a dark veil from your head.
Place the High Priestess card over the Devil and watch the entire scene transform into her shadowy realm. The book of secrets on her lap contains a hidden truth that will be revealed to you, but lean closer—she has a message:
“You with the eyes of a child—do not look at things as you have been taught to see them. See them as they really are. Disregard labels, names, and words. Find your eyes. Observe the world, and then you will find a profound truth.”
With her words comes a sound like the tinkling of chimes in the wind. Exit the card and explore your new reality.
19 • November
Star Card Connection Ritual
incantation
Star of light
Star of night
Fill my heart
Embrace my sight
Pastoral, sweet
And feeling free
The essence of you
Lives in me
- • The Star
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Enter the arcana of the Star.
Jodie Foster, Meg Ryan, Calvin Klein, Ted Turner, and Indira Gandhi all share a birthday today.
The landscape is illuminated as if a million candles burned at once and reflected the soft earth around you. Sweet purple clover and hay fill the air. A flaxen-haired woman hovers above the ground before you. Her soft, creamy flesh is uncovered by clothing. She pours two jugs of liquid. One stream pours into a blue pool of water. Cascading circles echo the circular path of the planets, each revolving around the star of their solar system.
You realize in this moment she is the source of magic, energy, and fire that ignites the life of a star, but she is also you. You understand that you contain the same combustible energy. Your life is a solar system revolving around you.
She pours an essence onto the earth that fuels manifestation in the material; it is how she feeds the conscious.
The sky is so black that it’s blue. A blanket of diamonds dots the sky. The stars twinkle to remind you of the infinite possibility of their light. They brim with inspiration and ideas, and you carry the ability to channel them.
A single star chooses you. She is your guide. Think of her brilliance and feel her light to communicate with her.
How can a star differ from a sun if stars are, in fact, suns? Perspective is your answer. Remember, things can be spotted easily at a distance. Some things are so close you can’t see them, but with distance comes perspective.
The Star card offers you a quiet spot of reflection. This sacred pool is yours and yours alone.
A high, beautiful song escapes the bird who sits in the tree. She sings to remind you of your connection to the natural world.
You are made of star stuff.
November • 20
Happy Children Cupcake Spell
incantation
Happy home
Children roam
Endless play
Fills our day
With love and light
And sweets to come
I do declare
This spell is done
- • Your favorite cupcake recipe
- • Cherries
1. Ten of Cups
2. Page of Wands
3. Page of Cups
4. Page of Swords
5. Page of Pentacles
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Today is Universal Children’s Day.
Prepare your favorite cupcake recipe. Pop them in the oven, and as the scent of sugar, butter, and sweetness envelops your kitchen, create a mandala with your cards.
Place the Ten of Cups. This is the place you create. You set the tone and the energy people discover in your home. You lead by example, exuding happiness and security. It teaches the children around you to cultivate their own happiness and security.
Place the Page of Wands. Consider how passionate your children are with every single day—how excitable and how much energy they contain and express. Think of these gifts in your life.
Place the Page of Cups. Meditate on the qualities of emotion your children exhibit. Hear their laughter in your ears.
Place the Page of Swords. Reflect on how clever your children are. Are they adventurous like this page? Do they find unique ways of doing things you never would have thought of?
Place the Page of Pentacles. Consider how your children learn, study, and read. When was the last time you read like an eleven-year-old?
Ice your cupcakes. Pop one cherry on top of each one, whispering a wish to the cherry.
21 • November
Optimism of Sagittarius Spell
incantation
Divine joy
Fill up my cup
Inhale life
I drink it up
The cup runs over
Life’s a gift
Enjoyment fills
My spirits lift
1. Ace of Cups
2. Two of Pentacles
3. Ten of Cups
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Today is the first day of the astrological sign of Sagittarius, the archer and adventurer. Ruled by Jupiter, generous, and intelligent, Sagittarius’s lucky day is Thursday and lucky color is intuitive purple.
The Ace of Cups represents renewed optimism. The Two of Pentacles reminds us that every action we take is a choice we make. The Ten of Cups represents the ultimate happy ending.
The card’s layout should be placed like the archer’s arrow, pointing toward the sky.
Place the reversed Ace of Cups before you. Look at all the water draining away. Turn your card right-side up, repeating three times:
“My cup is full.”
Place the Two of Pentacles before you. Watch as the figure juggles his pentacles back and forth, repeating three times:
“I have a choice.”
Place the Ten of Cups before you. Lay your dream at the end of the rainbow, repeating three times:
“Follow my heart.”
Perform any small act encompassing personal happiness. Step toward it by watching a movie, drawing, or journaling about it.
November • 22
Hierophant Card Connection Ritual
incantation
Pontiff, preacher
Vicar man
I’m in the space
Your presence spans
Higher secrets
Dwell in me
I don’t need
The priest to see
Divine nature
Belongs to all
Passions, potentials
Are my call
- • The Hierophant
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
In 498 the Roman papacy was up in arms. The previous pope died. Two different popes were elected by opposing factions, setting off a dramatic series of events leading to one pope fasting himself to death.
Enter the arcana of the Hierophant, which was called the Pope in early tarot decks. Enter the card and cross the threshold into sacred space. Hundreds of men—monks by the look of their red caps—span the pews of this great temple. A massive Hierophant towers over this divine place. You move before an ancient priest who sits high on a throne. All known religion and dogma is left behind. Myrtle and mugwort incense burn, their smoky tendrils winding and climbing through the air, moving along the columns into the highest reaches of this temple. Beings populate the darkness and look down from above, their watchful eyes upon you.
A humming grows in your ears. It is the call and response of monks in prayer. Their voices echo through the great chamber, opening a vibrational channel within you.
You step forward to the center aisle. The monks to your right are adorned by gowns covered in white lilies. Sweet white blooms have been placed in jugs and vases filling the space as far as the eye can see. The monks to your left bear cloaks of red roses. Their side of the temple is filled with the fragrant red flowers. You stand in the intersection of passion and potential.
Passion and potential are the keys crossed at the Hierophant’s feet. He sends these keys to you, one representing the lily of pure white potential, the other, the red rose of passion.
This combination unlocks the Hierophant.
He sees that you hold the keys. He stands up and vacates his throne. The throne slides back; his pillars part. You are invited to take your passion and potential and walk straight into the heart of the Divine.
Will you proceed?
23 • November
Banish Loneliness Spell
incantation
Waters wash my
Tears away
In your space
Good feelings lay
Loneliness gone
Goodbye, so long
A new life
Begins to dawn
1. Five of Cups
2. Ace of Cups
3. The World
- • Black candle
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
A boat steward named
Poon Lim went overboard
on this day in 1942. He survived 133 days alone at sea in the South Atlantic and inadvertently set a world record. His loneliness and pain can only be imagined.
Black candles absorb negative energies. The Five of Cups reflects desolation of spirit. The Ace of Cups inspires rejuvenation. The World card reflects integration.
Light the black candle. Allow it to absorb your loneliness.
Place the Five of Cups before you. Enter the card. Become the figure in black. Allow yourself to feel the dark, scary, and negative feelings. Dwell in the darkness. You may feel fear, sadness, lack of connection, or any variety of uncomfortable feelings. Acknowledge them. Feel them. Allow them to move through you.
Turn around. Notice two cups are standing behind you. Reach down and pick up one cup. Allow healing waters to flow out, falling over your hand and across your arm, filling you with warm light.
Place the Ace of Cups over the Five of Cups. Enter the card. Healing waters wash away what is left of sadness. Know that emotions can’t hurt you. Sit with them. Let them pass like water; you can move through them. Let sadness wash away.
Place the World card over the Ace of Cups. Enter the card. Observe the environment. You are part of the world, and the world is part of you. There is no separation. All is one. The separation of your ego is but an illusion. Focus on the World card to remember this truth.
Select one thing that brings you joy.
Do it.
November • 24
Queen of Pentacles Domestic Goddess Spell
incantation
Doors spring open
Welcome guest
Giddiness spills
Across my chest
Extend my magic
What’s mine is yours
And giggle behind
The closed doors
1. Queen of Pentacles
2. The Emperor
3. Six of Wands
4. Nine of Pentacles
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Romans greeted winter’s long nights with the festival of Brumalia celebrated on this day. Drinking and merriment honoring Saturn, Ceres, and Bacchus brought life to the lengthening nights.
Cast this spell when you are expecting guests, a date, or visitors to your home. It should be performed before you begin cleaning, shopping, cooking, or preparing for their arrival.
Place the Queen of Pentacles before you. Enter the card. Sweet, fertile earth richness fills the air. Flowers and tart little berries pepper the card. Sit in her throne. Feel the richness of her garments, the silk of her sleeves, the heavy velvet of her red dress, the dazzling, heavy weight of her crown. Fields and lush forests fill your vision, their bounty awaiting your expert touch. You are the queen of your realm, and everything is at your disposal.
Place the Emperor at her feet. Slip into his card. Note the care and order that he brings to the Queen of Pentacles’ universe. He is activated and ready. His organizing energy fills you; no detail is overlooked.
Place the Six of Wands. Hear the crowds roar in appreciation and excitement. This will be the feeling your guests emulate when they connect to your generosity and bounty.
Place the Nine of Pentacles. Everything you craft, cook, and create for others feeds your own soul. Let the female inside the vineyard remind you to stop when you are tired, pause when you need rest, and realize when it is time to say no and retreat into a cocoon of comfort for yourself.
25 • November
Empower/Mentor Another Spell
incantation
Cards of knowledge
Bringer of light
Someone’s close
Who needs insight
Share the wealth
Shed my grace
Transform the world
To a better place
1. The Hierophant
2. The Sun
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
International Day for
the Elimination of Violence Against Women is celebrated worldwide today. The fastest way to end violence or oppression is to empower people.
Mentoring and empowering another person is satisfying and builds rich relationships. It also extends an energy to the universe in ways you might not comprehend or expect. Cast this spell when you’ve made the decision to mentor and attract the right “mentee” into your life.
The Hierophant is the ultimate mentor. The Sun represents a young person with the glorious solar energy of expansion.
Place the Hierophant before you. Enter the card. Stand between his two priests. Streams of sunlight move the air, which is thick with myrrh and copal incense. The light filters through a rose stained-glass window above the Hierophant.
Standing at the foot of the Hierophant, consider your life. Consider the knowledge you possess and have accumulated through the years. Think about the people who helped you along the way. How did they open doors for you? Who revealed possibilities? How did they change your life?
Step up and take the Hierophant’s seat.
Place the Sun card in front of you. From the Hierophant’s throne see the child and horse moving toward you. The brilliance of the sun shines behind them, outlining their figures. Welcome the student into your life.
November • 26
Attitude of Gratitude Ritual
incantation
Ace of Cups
Water of light
I shine with abundance
And gratitude tonight
My well flows over
Good people are near
I’m thankful for each and
Every gift this year
1. Knight of Cups
2. Page of Cups
3. Ace of Cups
4. Card representing you
- • Paper and pen
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
George Washington was
responsible for the first
American Thanksgiving.
It was celebrated on this day in 1789.
Place the Knight of Cups. Think about all the glorious gifts that have been given to you by others. This is the poetic knight. What has the gift of romance brought to you? What physical gift have you recently received? What beautiful emails, texts, phone calls, or words have you recently heard?
Place the Page of Cups. What talents do you possess? What gifts has your magical practice brought to your life? What gifts of nature have you received? How does art make your world a better place?
Place the Ace of Cups. Feel gratitude filling you, spilling from you. Look closely as the abundance of your life is reflected in the crystal-clear waters of this iridescent card. Feel the waters of generosity and abundance falling all over you.
Place the card representing you. What about yourself are you grateful for? Why are you thankful for your body?
Take your paper and pen and list your gratitude for as long as you like.
You could take this gratitude practice a step further and make it an excellent way to start your day. Select a like-minded friend and commit to writing a morning email to one another with a list of reasons you are grateful.
27 • November
Inherit the Good Stuff Spell
incantation
[Name],
I love you much
Today I hope
Your soul I touch
Thank you for
Your gifts and love
Together we fit
Like hand in glove
- • Photograph of departed
- • Cards representing their qualities
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
On this day in 176 Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius bestowed the rank of Supreme Commander to his son, Commodus, granting him command over all Roman Legions.
Do you have the strength or inclination to change your family bloodline? Did you know you can alter the lives of those who live before and after you? This can be accomplished by living a life that is truly authentic to who you are.
Our families form and shape every aspect of us, from the financial space to the angles of our face and luster of our eyes. Inherited qualities do not negate the unique individual and separate qualities we are born with.
Teen years give us the courage to break away from our familial identity. Growing older, it is easy to spot themes and narratives playing out in our lives that are a direct result of our connection to those who came before us.
To focus on the extraordinary qualities of your family, select a relative who has passed on. Find a photograph of them or an object they owned. Make a list of the qualities you admire in them. Choose corresponding tarot cards that embody these qualities: Star card for glamour, Wheel of Fortune for success, Ace of Cups for compassion, etc.
Place the photo before you. One by one, place the cards that match their qualities. Meditate on each card. As you place each card, consider how the family member embodied the energy of each arcana. Consider how you can do the same. Move clockwise until you have moved through your cards.
To perform this spell for a living family member, make a date to take them to lunch. Luxuriate in their wonderful qualities, ask them for advice, and open your energy so that you may absorb as much of them as possible. Perform the card meditation when you come home.
November • 28
Right Job for Me Spell
incantation
Job for me
Out there you lie
Come to me
I want to fly
I want it, need it
Come close soon
I find you by
The next full moon
- • Pen and paper
1. Two of Cups
2. Two of Wands
3. Eight of Pentacles
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
The Secret, the book companion to the film of the same name, was released on this day in 2006. It became an instant bestseller by explaining the law of attraction.
The law of attraction is the same as the Hermetic doctrine of “as above, so below.” This spell attracts the job of your dreams. Don’t know what that job might be? Befuddled by what field you should be working in? No worries. Focus on the qualities you desire, the broad strokes of a life you want to live, then let your magic take care of the rest. The key is to believe. Keep your mind open to unexpected possibility.
Twos in tarot imply duality and a coming together. The Eight of Pentacles is happiness in work.
Make a list of all the qualities you seek: hours, atmosphere, salary, vacation time, what sort of people you want to work with. List every single quality. The more specific, the stronger your spell will be.
Place the Two of Cups. Recall the last time you felt a perfect fit and a swell of recognition with something. Imagine a job, a work situation, that is a perfect fit for you. Imagine this takes shape as the male figure in the card. Walk up and bid him hello.
Place the Two of Wands. Feel the energetic ties of passion bringing you closer to the right situation. See it coming to you inside the globe as if it were a crystal ball.
Place the Eight of Pentacles. Feel the pleasure of work done well. Enjoy the satisfaction and accomplishment washing over you. Meditate on the mandala of cards until you feel ready to repeat the incantation.
29 • November
Eloquence Spell
incantation
King and Queen
My perfect pair
He controls water
She commands air
Within my soul
You both live
Manifest through me
Like a sieve
1. King of Cups
2. Queen of Swords
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Louisa May Alcott was
born on this day in 1832. Alcott gained fame for many books, including the classic Little Women.
The art of self-expression may always be refined. Like the Temperance card, we can work on it, making it better, clearer, and more precise. Doing so, we can express ourselves in simple and true ways.
The King of Cups is the master of the imagination. The Queen of Swords is also the goddess of articulation and expression. These two cards will guarantee your personal expression is inspired, succinct, and to the point.
Enter the King of Cups. Feel the rolling expansiveness of the ocean. The card is wet, deep, and brimming with life and ideas, just like your brain. The king sits on his throne and prevails over the seascape. He controls what comes to the surface. By the time an idea appears, it is inspired. Feel the thoughts, rich and rolling in your subconscious. He is bubbling with creativity, and so are you. Sit on his throne. Look at the world through his eyes.
Enter the Queen of Swords. She directs and commands her outward expression. Her hand is open, happy to receive information that aids her. Her sword points upward to the space of inspiration. Her cape matches the sky. She drapes herself in expansiveness. Through her, you cultivate what you need to say. Thoughts form quickly on your tongue. You are not afraid to speak your mind from your heart. Sit on her throne. Look at the world through her eyes.
November • 30
Hecate Crossroads Power Spell
incantation
Power of Hecate
Hear my plea
Change is what
I want to see
Help me, power me
Share your spark
As I bestow gifts
In the dark
- • The Hanged Man
- • Bulb of garlic (an offering sacred to Hecate)
- • Sea salt
- • Wine or cider
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Romans set aside two feast days for Hecate, ancient goddess of magic, witchcraft, the moon, and necromancy. Today is one of them.
Hecate is the goddess of the three-way crossroads. Crossroads are potent thresholds of magic where paths intervene and choices are made. Opposites collide and power converges at a crossroads. Said to be the gateway to the underworld, crossing roads were thought to be the place a person could sell their soul to the devil, and ancient criminal and suicide corpses were disposed there.
The Hanged Man is representative of the three-way crossroad, as seen on his hanging post. He is often a signpost of change. This spell should be performed after midnight.
Place the Hanged Man before you. Enter the card. Bring your attention to his hanging foot. Shrink yourself so you are the size of an ant. Stand above his toe and survey the road of your life. Look back at how you’ve moved and traveled. See the crossroads. What new opportunities do you want to usher in? What powerful, life-changing magic would you like to make use of? Say it out loud; state it to the Hanged Man. He glows in response to the knowledge of your intention.
Take the Hanged Man, garlic, sea salt, and wine/cider to the closest crossroads. Repeat your desire aloud. Leave the garlic, sprinkle the salt, and pour the wine/cider into the ground as an offering to Hecate.