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Building your own Grimoire (/ɡrɪmˈwɑːr/ grim-WAHR)
Creating a grimoire can be a very rewarding and personal experience. It is a place where you can store all of your magical knowledge, spells, and rituals.
Do you want to know who your future spouse might be?
A sweet and simple spell to learn the initials of your future spouse. Do you want to know? Are you game to try?
Mother Goose protection spell
Mother Goose rides through the air on a very fine gander. Today, Mother Goose is limited to the nursery, her rhymes intended to entertain only children, yet Mother Goose’s namesake bird links her to a host of powerful spirits: Aphrodite, too, rides through the air on...
Simple ritual to find your true love
On mid-summers eve, set a plate of flour under a rosemary bush at midnight. In the morning, you may find the initials of your true love traced in the flour.
Rituals for marriage
Because marriage, hand fasting, or any ritualized union is one of the major thresholds of life, it’s perceived as a time of tremendous power, promise, and vulnerability. The entire marriage ceremony, the arrangements preceding it, and postnuptial celebrations may be...
Manifesting with the moon
The presence of a full moon is an opportune time of the month for purging rituals to take place. The light the full moon offers illuminates those things that are interfering with our spiritual advancements. Once we have become enlightened to ways that are blocking us, the easier to let go.
Bride’s Anti-Evil Eye Spell
One of the psychic dangers inherent on the Wedding Day is that so much celebration and happiness will inevitably attract the envious eyes of jealous spirits, or the Evil Eye. Among those perceived as vulnerable to the Evil Eye, brides rank highest, right alongside...
Creativity Exercise – Image Streaming
Are you keen to find ways to increase your creativity? If so, you might like this exercise. I find it really gets you into a habit of thinking creatively, noticing rich details and really engaging your senses. You can do this exercise with a friend, or make a voice...
Activate an Engagement Ring
When choosing your engagement rings, emerald is by far the best choice for promoting and preserving love and long-term relationships. However the following ritual transforms any ring into an enchanted ring of love. Once you have obtained your ring, tie it to a red...
Bouquet spells
Presenting someone with a bouquet of flowers was once a method of delivering a spell right into your target’s hands. The “Language of Flowers,” whereby each type of flower represents a specific message, originated in the harems of the Middle East, where secrecy regarding romantic intrigues was crucial.
The Triple Goddess: 7 ways to connect the Mother aspect.
Mother’s Day. A day for all mothers, a day to celebrate the mother we have, the mothers we are, the mother we want to be, the mother that taught us, the mother that loved us, the shadow mother, the bearer of fruit, of creativity, of love and of joy. What does it...
How do I love the?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806–1861 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need,...
Pagan love doll spells to use in your wedding
Dolls are used for hexing but they’re also used for healing, protection, fertility, and romantic spells.
Spring boquets
I love weddings, I love spring flowers – So it’s the perfect time to share with you my 10 most favourite spring flowers for your bouquet.
Recipe for happy: 1 part synesthesia, 1 part Billi Eilish, 1 part magic headphones
My ears are in love and I have found the perfect recipe for brain joy. I take extreme pleasure in music (ok, not always pleasure, sometime its agony – but when its right – its ecstasy) because I have synaesthesia, specifically chromesthesia.
Finding the perfect bridesmaids dress
For decades, bridesmaids around the world have forcibly agreed to wear hideously tacky dresses in awful colours against their will…all for their bridezillas. I imagine each of these bridesmaids has faced herself in the mirror, taken a big swallow of pride, forced an...
Funerals and beliefs
I believe that funeral ceremonies, for those who want one, must offer greater emotional and, where appropriate, spiritual value. I believer that a funeral ceremony must reflect the person who has died and those that are grieving.
Creating your own new year ritual
New Year’s Eve is here!! What are you planning? I used to put a lot of pressure on myself to make December 31 the best night of the year, and to stay up late. That often led to disappointment. I look at it differently now. New Year’s Eve is not just another night, nor...
5 Things the Dying Want Us to Know
I originally read about this book Opening Heaven's Door: Investigating Stories of Life, Death, and What Comes After by journalist Patricia Pearson and thought it was quite interesting. I want to clearly state that I do not agree with all that Pearson states, but I...
Reading for a second marriage
They wanted their ceremony to demonstrate their belief that even though they had already lived full lives with their first partners, they still believed in the sacredness of marriage, and that they took their vows very seriously.
5 steps to secure your boutonniere
I love seeing a groom's boutonniere match the brides and bridesmaids bouquets. But have you ever thought about how you get them pinned on the suit lapel - it’s a bit tricky - but here are 5 quick steps to guide you. 1. Position the boutonniere on the left lapel...
Finding the perfect cake topper
it is essential that the cake topper reflects your style as well as the cake’s.
I will never be a well behaved woman
I would rather pass my days lying in the middle of dirt roads, staring at the full moon with a bottle of summer red in my palms. I would rather have kids when it suits me, not when society expects or throws shoulds. I would rather live in a hammock on a beach for six...
Transformation
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are
Thinking about transformation.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
The Spiritual Meaning of Colours
Colours are one of the most beautiful and also one of the most under-appreciated aspects of our physical realm. We are surrounded by colours, but how often do we notice the numerous subtleties in the myriad shades. One of my online course, 30 days of colour teaches us...
Writing and delivering a eulogy – 5 tips to make it easier.
Writing and delivering the a eulogy for a loved one can be and extremely difficult thing to do. For anyone preparing a eulogy for a loved one, this is my advice - keep it personal, and make it your own. 1. Try to make it fairly brief Keep telling yourself that...
Planning your ceremony
So much designing and planning goes into creating the perfect #wedding reception that it’s easy to overlook the most important part—your ceremony! Avoid wedding-day disappointment by getting started on your ceremony plans now. Here are some hot tips: Pick your music....
Art as a spiritual practice
Nancy Azara is a sculptor who has been teaching for 35 years. She came of age during the feminist movement of the 1960s and began a lifelong spiritual practice that has influenced her art and led her to teach and perform psychic healing circles. My personal goals are...
Mothers day – celebrating the mother in us all
To some, Mother’s day is just another day concocted by the greeting card and floral companies, a cultural holiday dominated by consumer pressures. For those whose mothers have died or are distant, and for those who have never been mothers, the day might touch deep...
Each of us have the ability to deepen our intuitive knowing.
When we develop this deep sense of knowing, we can make use of it to help navigate through the sometimes stormy waters of our daily lives; use it to help is make decision that are fulfilling; and most importantly, use it to discover a path that keeps us living in a life we love.
When we learn how to hone our skills and start to pay real attention to our inner voice, we soon discover that it points us in the right direction. Developing a strong intuition and learning to trust it gives us a new way of knowing or seeing the truth without need for explanation, double guessing yourself.