A spell jar is a small container you fill, layer by layer, with things that stand for what you want. Here’s how to build one, seven recipes to start with, how to recharge a jar, and what to do with it when the work is done.
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Protection Spells: Simple Spells to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and the People You Love
Protection spells for beginners, including a protection spell jar, spells for yourself and your home, rhyming spell words, and what to use.
Freezer Spell: How to Do One, What It Does, and How to Undo It
A freezer spell is a binding spell that uses ice to stop harmful behavior in its tracks. Here’s what it does, how to cast one, how to keep it ethical, which jars are safe in the freezer, and how to undo it.
Full Moon Ritual: A Simple Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
A full moon ritual is a short ceremony on the night of the full moon to give thanks, let go of what’s finished, and charge your intentions. Here is a complete ritual, step by step, with the words to say and five more ways to work with the full moon.
Return to Sender Spell: How to Send Negativity Back Where It Came From
A return to sender spell sends harm, ill will, or a jinx back to whoever sent it, without adding anything of your own. Here are the words, three ways to work it, and what to do afterward.
Spiritual Bath: What It Is, How to Take One, and Recipes for Cleansing, Protection, Love, and Money
A spiritual bath is a bath taken for the spirit rather than the skin: water steeped with herbs, salt, or flowers and taken with a clear intention. Here is how to take one, what to put in it, and five recipes to start with.
Dumb Supper: How to Hold a Silent Supper for the Ancestors at Samhain
A dumb supper is a meal eaten in total silence with an empty place set for the ancestors. Here is where the Samhain tradition comes from, how to hold one, and what to put on the table.
Honey Jar Spell: How to Make a Sweetening Jar for Love, Work, and Family
A honey jar spell sweetens a person or situation toward you. Here is what to write on the petition, how to fill and seal the jar, which candle to burn on top, and how long.
The White Light Decluttering Ritual: How to Remove Negative Energy From Your Home, One Item at a Time
Every object in your home holds energy. This white light decluttering ritual turns your next cleaning session into a house cleansing practice: release each item, fill the empty space with radiant light, and choose your color based on what you’re calling in.
A Spell for Sadness: A Ritual for Transforming Tears into Your Next Goal
A Plentiful Earth spell for sadness: visualize a plant, name it for a goal, and let your tears nourish it. A working with blue candle, lavender, and selenite.
Road Opener Spell: Clear Blockages & Invite New Opportunities
Feeling stuck? Like life has you paused at a crossroads with no clear direction forward? Road opener work has deep roots in Latinx folk magic, where it is known as Abre Camino after the plant of the same name, and in African American hoodoo, where removing blockages...
Winter Solstice Traditions: Old Yule Customs and Rituals to Try
Winter solstice traditions celebrate the longest night and the return of the sun. Here are eight old Yule customs and six rituals you can do at home, including a longest-night candle ritual and the 13 wishes ritual.
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