Halloween Festivities

Can I just say that I love autumn? It’s strange, because never before would I have considered it my favorite season until now. I’ve missed it, but I didn’t understand how much I missed it until it came back around. There are many great things about fall, from the food to the pretty colors of the leaves to the fun activities.

So, for this blog post, I’m going to talk about fun ideas I’ve brainstormed and some other ideas that my friends have mentioned to shake things up this fall, but particularly, this Halloween.

1) Jack-o-lanterns: Carving pumpkins has always been a fun part of this holiday for me. They always look really cool on Halloween night and making pumpkin pie out of the carvings and eating the seeds is always fun. This year, why not try to empower the pumpkins with protective energy? Try putting dried herbs in them like rosemary. Also, you could empower the pumpkins to provide welcome vibes to your home for all those who bring good energy that come by.

2) Scarecrows: I’ve never made one before, but I can imagine this would be a fun activity, as I saw many people around my college campus making them today. You could also empower these for protective energy or use them as giant poppets. Stuffing them with straw and herbs for your purpose could also help the process along.

3) Apples: These fruit are harvested in this season and are perfect for a lot of magickal work. The apple has a lot of representations, some being love, health, and temptation. This weekend, my girlfriend and I made apple cider cupcakes and empowered them with love and cozy warmth. We shared them with our friends and everyone really liked them.

Those are the few things I thought of and I hope you find them useful. I also wanted to mention a really cool book I found in the discount bookstore in my college town. It is called Everyday Sun Magic by Dorothy Morrison. I didn’t end up buying it, since I didn’t have the funds to do so, but I did look through it and hope I can save up enough to buy it. It’s a book all about the sun and the God and has some great spells to do with the sun. If you’re interested in learning more about sun magic, that book may be a good option. It inspired me and I hope to be performing magick with the sun as well as the moon. Maybe I can connect on both levels instead of only one. I know when to work with the moon, but now I want to know more about working with the sun. I’ll probably keep my findings posted here when I discover something I’d like to share, be it a spell or information.

For those of you who know about my playdough runes that I made, they still have yet to turn completely dry. I’m not sure what’s taking so long, but I know they’re getting there. I think it’s because I made really thick runes and now the moisture is taking longer to escape. Oh well, they’re almost there! So for those of you making amulets and talismans or anything else with your magickal playdough, keep in mind it may take awhile to dry out!

Blessed be.  

The Magick of Playdough

So, these past few days have found me running around like a chicken with its head cut off. After being smacked in the face with a few holds on my enrollment, everything else sort of disappeared. My mind went into overdrive trying to accomplish everything at once and the time whizzed by at the speed of light. Only after getting a hold on my life did I realize that my college Wiccan club was going to make runes for Monday night. We were asked to bring items to make runes with, rocks, bottle caps, whatever suited our fancy. I had this grand adventure planned out to go search for the right rocks, but as it turned out, daylight was scarce, and my recuperation time took the form of sleeping and being in the company of friends.

Monday morning rolled around and I didn’t have anything to make runes with and did not have time to go rock hunting as I had planned. So, feeling a little distraught and looking for sympathy, I talked to my girlfriend about the issue. She said I should use playdough.

I have to say, I didn’t expect this answer, but it was a stroke of genius. She told me I could make playdough really easily and so I looked up a couple recipes online. I used the one that I had time for and went about making my playdough. It was a very pleasant experience and brought me back to childhood in a way. Did you know there is a lot of salt in homemade playdough? You could dehydrate a cow with how much salt is in it.

Still, the playdough worked to make my runes, though I made them thicker so that when they dry and turn a bit brittle, they won’t break too easily. Right now I’m waiting for them to dry and I am very excited to use them. Making these runes also has led me to think of the other magickal things one can do with playdough. One can make amulets and talismans, goddess and god figures, one can even use playdough as a stress reliever, and also to represent the changing of a situation. One can scent playdough for different purposes by using different extracts and oils, and one can also dye the playdough colors using food dye. It was amazing to discover all of these possibilities and I am looking forward to using the rest of my playdough in my magickal endeavors.

So, if you ever find yourself in need of clay, but cannot make the trip to the store, try using a homemade playdough recipe instead. Enjoy and happy crafting!

Blessed Be

Potato Healing Spell

When stress and sickness hits your home in the second month of school, you have to figure there’s a problem. In my dorm this month, everyone was stressing themselves out so much that it started to get them sick. I myself haven’t been feeling on top of my game as of late either. So, that’s why, for this past full moon, I decided to write a healing spell.
When I was writing it, I wanted to keep it simple, and for some reason I felt the need to bury a potato for it. Now, I have looked up spells before that involved burying potatoes before, so this wasn't a stroke of intuition. I just remembered reading about it before and decided to look it up to see if I got my facts straight.

The idea of burying a potato is an old one. I couldn’t tell how old though. The idea behind it is you take a potato and imagine the potato symbolizing something you wish to get rid of. Then, you bury the potato in the ground and ask the earth to help you with your problem. As the potato decays, so the negativity (put in the potato) will as well. I’d never tried this kind of sympathetic magick before and decided to give it a try. I do hope it works out for the better for my dorm and I hope everyone is less stressed and sick. Below, I include the spell if you ever find any need for it. Happy casting, and happy Autumn also!

Blessed Be

Potato Healing Spell:

Supplies: Quarter representations, potato, something to dig with

1. Cast circle, call quarters.
2. Look up at moon and say:

Mother full and Mother bright

I sit in your loving light

Sickness and stress have struck my house

And sucked all happiness and health like a louse.

I ask you Mother, please hear my plea,

Please take this negativity away from all those in my home and me.

3. Hold potato in your hand and say:

I hold this potato in my hand

And with this spell, sickness ban.

In the ground this potato will go,

And sickness and stress will no longer grow.

As in the Earth this potato will decay,

May the sickness and stress also decay and go away.

4. Bury potato in the ground. Thank the Earth for its help. Thank the Lady in your own way, or by saying:

Thank you mother for hearing my plea.

With harm to none I cast this spell,

So mote it be.

5. Dismiss quarters and dismiss the circle.

P.S. The last two lines in the thanking section belong to Silver Ravenwolf. I did not write them. I take no credit.