All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
Ruth rRoss
How did this practical book on prosperity magick come to be? Well, our story begins a few years ago with one frustrated and annoyed Witch getting out of the house to take a break by checking out seasonal Halloween decorations. I was aggravated at yet another delay with a writing project, and in order to preserve what was left of my sanity, I had decided that a change of scenery was called for. As it was early September, I knew that the stores would be chock-full of fun seasonal decorations. With thoughts of my family’s upcoming annual gothic Halloween party, I went to the store to check out the Halloween décor—just to look and cheer myself up.
That year in particular had been a tough one financially for my family. My husband had been laid off for six months, and the savings I had so carefully put away for taxes was wiped out to pay for little things like the mortgage, health insurance, the car payment, and groceries. My husband had finally found a new job with good benefits a few months prior, but he (like so many others in this economy) had to take a large pay cut. Money at home was beyond tight, and I had started to think that I might need to go out and look for a part-time seasonal job after my book tour was over in late October.
With out-of-state events looming in my schedule, I could not imagine a prospective employer being willing to work around an employee who could not work most weekends. Also, I had been writing full time for the past seven years; it’s a little tough to get a job when you’ve been out of the workforce for that long—and then there was the whole “well- known author who is a Witch” thing…
I decided that my best course of action was to promote my online classes. A few months prior I had opened up a little online shop selling our handmade pentacles and jewelry. They had done well for us. I remember pushing away from my computer desk at home that day in September and deciding that, since it was a Thursday and a waxing moon, it would be a great time to do a quick little prosperity spell. I knew my husband would be on board for it, so I included him as well.
In my mind I thought the spell would increase online class sales and we would acquire more wholesale orders for the pentacles, and that maybe the magick would snag my husband a pay raise. I quickly gathered my herbs from the garden, rounded up my supplies, and started composing a spell verse in my mind. I set up a seven-day candle with corresponding crystals and the fresh herbs. I tucked a recent pay stub from my husband’s new job into the setup, added one of our handmade pentacles and a class transcript, and got ready to cast.
As I was worried about our finances and impatient to get the spell rolling, I worked my magick quickly. I recall vividly that I said, “I am willing to work for the money, Goddess—whatever it takes to improve the money situation so we can catch up on these bills.”
I finished the spell and cleaned up. I tucked the stones, crystals, and then the jar candle inside of my large cast-iron cauldron—where the candle could safely burn for the next seven days—and patted myself on the back.
See? Simple, quick, and easy. All done, and now it was time to go window shopping.
As I drove to the store, Tess, an author friend of mine, called me. We chatted about energy and magick, and I told her how I felt a bit stuck these past few months. Then, as I pulled into the store’s parking lot, she asked how the current delayed project was going, and I unloaded.
Bless her heart, she listened to me complain about the delays and dramas, then quietly said that she felt an entire change of scenery was called for. I laughed as I climbed out of the car. Lugging my purse and still talking on my cell phone, I remarked that with Samhain being around the corner, I was looking to change the scenery into something more gothic and dramatic.
I breezed into the store and headed for the Halloween decorations, enjoying my chat with Tess as I perused the displays. She suggested I start a new book project—something different—and I brushed that suggestion aside; I had my hands full as it was. (I should have listened to her. She’s a wise woman, that Tess.) But she cheered me up and made me laugh at myself. I felt so much lighter after talking to her.
I put my phone away, mood lightened, and then found a hilarious “Witch & Famous” sign that was half price. It was so snarky and cute that I thought it would be funny to hang in my home office year-round. I picked it up and headed for the checkout counter. As I walked through the store, I ran into a friend of my daughter’s.
“Hey, Ellen!” she said as she popped out from around an endcap. I have known Amelia since she and my daughter, Erin, were in elementary school together. I refused to think about how old that made me.
“Well, hey!” I gave her a hug and reminded myself that these days Amelia, a recent college graduate, was one of the managers at this store.
“I heard you talking on your cell phone.” Amelia winked at me.
Oh, hell. I had kept my voice down. No, really—I can do that.
I wondered if somebody had heard me talking about Witch stuff and freaked? Nope; apparently Amelia had been following me around the store for a bit, wanting to talk to me, but waited until I had finished my conversation.
“Are you still a floral designer?” Amelia asked.
Confused by the question, I answered, “Well, yes. I will always be a floral designer. Why?”
Amelia explained that the store was in desperate need of one. The current designer was going on maternity leave in mid-November and would only be coming back part-time. All of the managers had been told to be on the lookout for a designer, so when Amelia saw me, she pounced.
I explained about the tour dates throughout the month of October. Amelia assured me that this would not be a problem as the other designer was not leaving until the middle of November. I tried to tell her that I didn’t think it would be a good idea… She told me to fill out an application online and to call her and let her know once it was in the system.
Amelia had me program her cell phone number into my phone, and I left the store and thought about it. Filling in for another woman about to go on maternity leave made me a bit nervous; I figured the job would be temporary. I did not want to work full time with several book projects going on, but I guessed that during late November and December, while the other designer was on maternity leave, it would be close to forty hours a week.
When I returned home, the first thing that caught my eye was the large stack of bills in the mailbox. My stomach sank. Then I saw my calico cat, Brianna, sitting on our brick hearth next to the cauldron. I could see the spell candle flickering away, and with a jolt I heard my own voice come back to me from the spell I had cast only an hour or so earlier: “Goddess, I am willing to work for the money…”
I had to laugh at myself.
What the hell, I decided. So I went online, filled out the application, and sent it in. It certainly couldn’t hurt to check it out. I did not have to take the job, I told myself. As a matter of fact, I did not even tell my husband about it.
As promised, I called Amelia and let her know that the application had been filled out. She gleefully told me to expect a phone call and an interview in the next few days. Oh jeez. I stammered and, for once, was at a loss for words.
Two days later I went in for the interview. I explained my tour schedule to the general manager and described what sort of books I wrote. (I figured it was best to put all my cards on the table, so to speak.) The manager brushed that aside, assuring me the job would be three days a week until the other designer left for maternity leave in mid-November. This would be a part-time job, she promised. I was asked to come in and work up a few floral arrangements so they could see what I could do design-wise.
So I went in, met the other floral designer, and worked up a couple of arrangements. I printed out the dates I was unavailable in September and October and gave them to the store manager so they would be on file. I figured they would be a deal breaker, but a few days after that I was offered the job, and at a much better pay rate than I would have imagined. I was informed they would work around my tour dates. No problem. Oh and by the way, could I start that week? They wanted me to work with the other designer for a few months before she went on maternity leave, to help them get ready for the huge amount of holiday arrangements that were needed.
Smugly I congratulated myself on my spellcasting prowess. One quick and simple spellcast, and no waiting for results. Boom! Less than an hour after I cast it, a job offer dropped into my lap…a week later and I was employed.
This prosperity magick stuff was so easy…
The Witch Goes Back to Work
Please remember that your difficulties do not define you; they simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
maya angelou
For the first month it was a whirlwind, and soon I was working five days a week—which I was not happy about, as the manager had promised me three days a week when I accepted the job. The other designer was a challenge to work with, and it was an uncomfortable atmosphere. The poor thing had absolutely no sense of humor. I was tempted to check her for a pulse a couple of times… There was a definite diva quality to her behavior, and privately I started thinking of her as the pregnant princess. Management certainly treated her that way.
By mid-October I came to the unpleasant realization that the job sucked. I admit that I have no patience for office politics. I only wanted to work part time, do my job, and go home. The majority of the employees were female, and it was a nasty brew of gossip, office politics, competition, and daily dramas at the store. I ignored it as best I could and wondered what in the world I had gotten myself into. Had my spell backfired?
Then I started to have vivid recurring dreams about the princess going into labor early. As I don’t often have recurring dreams, especially about folks I don’t know well, it made me pay attention. When we rolled closer to the end of October, I told the princess that I felt she would never make it to her mid-November due date. That baby was coming soon—as in before Halloween.
She smirked at me, commented it was nice that I thought I was a psychic and all, but whatever. She laughed about it to the management, and I endured a good week of jokes and laughter about the “witch” at work. Shortly thereafter, I was proven right. The baby was born a week before Halloween and over three weeks before its due date. Nobody at work talked to me for days. There was a lot of whispering and folks studying me from afar… It may have had something to do with it being right before Halloween, or it may have been from me rubbing my hands together and cackling occasionally.
Some folks simply have no sense of humor.
The general manager, now that the pregnant princess was on maternity leave, dropped her nice façade, and I soon realized why all the teens and college students who worked at the store were very cautious of her. I remember thinking to myself one horrid afternoon after the manager had been in my face that nobody in their right mind would ever want to work at this store. The atmosphere was toxic, and I hoped the manager would just go away, leave me alone, and let me do my job in peace. I even energetically sent a little nudge toward that outcome.
Damn it. I know better than that.
With the stress of the writing projects and working more hours sooner than I had anticipated, I simply did not think—I only reacted. And I believe that the gods were listening because the next day, the store manager tearfully announced that she had to take an unplanned medical leave starting a week before Thanksgiving and would be out for at least six weeks.
I was so relieved. Working retail over the holiday season is always horrible, but working with that manager breathing down my neck would have been ghastly. I also realized very quickly that I should have been more careful with my wishes and energy nudges, but there was nothing I could do about it after the fact.
On the plus side, the atmosphere at work was much better with the manager on leave. I had started taking the pay from all the extra hours I was working and stashing it in my savings. Maybe the original money spell had worked out okay after all? The cash was certainly flowing…
A replacement manager from another store was assigned to us a few days later, and he and I got along very well. I cranked out hundreds of holiday floral designs and told myself to enjoy being creative in a different way with the silk flowers. It was busy, chaotic, and insane. It took me over and I was simply on autopilot: get up, go to work, bust my ass, deal with or dodge store dramas, be polite to insane holiday shoppers, come home, scrape off glitter, and repeat.
When it was time for the replacement manager to go back to his own store, he gave me a hug and his cell phone number, and told me that he would love it if I worked in his store’s floral department. When our store manager returned from medical leave in early January, she stormed in, stopped, and glared straight at me. To say she was hostile toward me after her return was an understatement. Hello, karma. Note to self: watch those wishes and energy nudges, Ellen.
The mood in the store took a nosedive. Everyone was unhappy with our store manager being back and on a tear. So much for my spellcasting prowess…I had landed a job and brought in some serious cash, but obviously I had done something wrong because I was absolutely miserable for the five months I was an employee at that store.
Turning Mistakes into Success
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
mark caine
I turned in my resignation within two weeks of the cranky store manager’s return. What a relief! It took about three days and a lot of energetic cleansing to start feeling like my old self again. I kept at it, scraping off negativity from that job the way I once scraped off holiday glitter.
Still, there was a bright side to the experience. I had brushed up on my floral design skills, and that could come in handy if I ever needed to pick up another seasonal job. I had also caught up on bills and had actually managed to put away enough extra money in my savings for my husband and I to fly down to Florida and spend a few days on the beach for our thirtieth wedding anniversary. Bonus!
Also, I had to admit that working in that drama-filled, crazy store gave me plenty to think about when it came to prosperity magick and how it truly manifests. Five months of misery gave me lots of time to look at the situation and figure out where the original spell had gone wrong. I spent my evenings digging through magickal reference material and studying harder than I had in years.
I discovered that effective prosperity magick is so much more than lighting a green candle and asking for money. After almost thirty years of practicing Witchcraft, I had made a major rookie mistake. In my arrogance, I had forgotten something very important about spellwork. My oversight was that I was frustrated, aggravated, and stressed out when I cast the original money spell—which, in turn, brought more frustration, anger, and stress into my life when the magick manifested. How many times have I told other folks to be calm, centered, and businesslike while casting their own spells? This is what you call ironic.
That spell had certainly brought money into my life, so on one level it was successful. However, it was unsuccessful on many levels, as it brought more drama, tension, and unhappiness into my world as well. Those crazy five months and that whirlwind turn of events are what really got me to thinking about prosperity magick from a different perspective. Prosperity magick is a perennially favorite topic with Witches and other magick users, and it seems deceptively simple at first—however, it is not.
The more I researched it, the more interesting and layered a topic it seemed to be. I asked myself: How could prosperity magick work more effectively? How could I make it more user-friendly, smarter, safer, and more practical? By carefully examining how this variety of magick manifests, I discovered more of the nuances that can come with this type of spellcasting.
And what do you know? It is deeper and more complex than I ever imagined. Just doing an “I need money” spell without thinking about those nuances may land you a job, but it can also bring chaos and anxiety into your world—especially if you are not thoughtful and deliberate with your prosperity spellcasting. You need to be practical, and you need to really understand just what it is that you are inviting into your life on an energetic level.
What You Will Find in This Book
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”
helen exley
If you want to learn how to correctly work magick for positive change and to bring prosperity into your life, then this is the book for you. This book does indeed have spells, charms, and rituals, but it also has the foundational material that you will need to understand prosperity and abundance magick and all of its degrees and complexities.
To begin, we will use the framework of the four natural elements to explore the topic. In the first chapter, which aligns with the element of earth, we will explore the foundations and fundamentals of magick. We will tackle the seven Hermetic laws from a down-to-earth perspective and explore the law of attraction. The elements of spellwork and ritual are here for you to build upon, providing you with a strong foundation from which to advance your prosperity magick studies.
Then we will look at the other natural elements and learn how they apply to prosperity magick and how their energies combine and enhance your prosperity work and your attitude. We will explore happiness and success, motivation and transformation, wealth and the magick of manifestation. There will be chapters on good luck charms, talismans, coin magick, and attracting abundance, as well as a chapter on removing obstacles to your success. You will discover how to solve common magickal snafus and what your personal magickal energy, or PME, is. There are chapters on herb and crystal magick, with a bountiful amount of new prosperity and success spells for you to try throughout. Plus there is information on planetary magick, theurgy and thaumaturgy, and deities that correspond with prosperity and abundance. You will discover spells for the solitary Witch as well as a prosperity ritual you can work with your coven or group. To wrap it up, there are also two appendices, both pertaining to prosperity work.
There is plenty of practical magick for you to work with here. If you are ready to advance your Craft and expand your magickal skills, you have come to the right place. Practical Prosperity Magick can help to correctly bring success and abundance into your world with smart and smoothly manifesting magick that improves the quality of your life. Let me show you how.