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You need to come away with at least the tentative hope that, in fact, witchcraft is real. You need
to suspend your disbelief long enough to give yourself a fair chance. As far as I know, anyone
can do witchcraft, with the exception of those who are mentally incompetent, intoxicated or
those too young or too old to focus their will effectively. White witchcraft, above all else, is
about focusnot just mental focus but your entire Being.
Can you really do witchcraft? Can you really cast white magic love spells? Hey, if Secret
Spells Barbie can do it why not you?
But seriously, I often give the following Wicca for beginner spells to acolytes to help get their
astral feet wet, so to speak. The first two came to me from a totally non-magical source years
ago. I was taking a car trip by myself; and as is my habit, listening to books on tape. The one I
had in the player was about the ways of successful people. I dont remember much about the
course but that at one point the author strongly recommended visualization and belief to get what
one wanted.
The first example was about waking up at a specific time without an alarm clock. I remember
thinking that anybody can do that, its not magic, not witchcraft, just a fact that were not
completely unconscious when we sleepfar from it, in fact.
The other two examples, however, were from the authors wife. This, I thought, was a
completely different story. This involved external reality. The author may not have been aware
of it but his wife was probably a bit of a white witch, at least. Lucky him. I still use both
witchcraft spells and include them here to give your innate abilities a warm up.
The first one involves the everyday frustration of finding a parking place. The first time I used
the spell I decided to give it a real test and try to use it on the worst place I knew to park, outside
my yoga/dance class. It was typical to have to park blocks away in this busy downtown area.
The spell is simplicity itself. No tools, ingredients, witchcraft symbols, or invocation prayers are
needed, though you can add anything you like if it helps your focus.
Always remember: whether you think you can or can't, you're right. This goes triple for spells
and witchcraft.
Simply visualize the parking space you want and know that you will have it. When you get there
it will usually be free. The trick is to invoke the white magic spell at least an hour before you
arrive. If you pull up and have forgotten to cast the spell you cant expect a Buick or Toyota to
levitate out of the way, though it will often happen that a car will pull out just as you pull up if
the other.
Their theory is that if the ability to control chance--magic-- exists it's also intrinsic to the human
condition and everyone must have it to some extent. This produced a wide range of results from
people who couldnt influence the outcome at all to people who could and some who influenced
the result in the opposite way they willed. After literally hundreds of thousands of results, all
cataloged electronically so there wouldnt be any bias slipping in to cloud the experiment (as is
often charged in parapsychology experiment) they tabulated the result. And yes, there was a
small but statistically significant correlation: people could actually influence outcomes with the
power of their mind.
What stuck me was that there shouldnt have been any correlation at all. The rigid manner in
which the data was collected and analyzed over such a huge number of trials should have
washed out any chance occurrence and resulted in a perfect 50/50 split. I reread the book several
times and gave it to a statistician friend of mine who was equally impressed with the teams
rigorous approach. You can read it yourself but be warned the statistical part is pretty dry. It
gets much more interesting in the latter part of the book where they conduct experiments in
astral projections. In this one, there was still room for doubt, as there are with so many
interesting paranormal investigations. But the electronic coin toss was pretty much air tight.
Ordinary people can influence random chance with the power of their mind.
Nor
did
it
surprise
me
that
the
results
weren't
greater.
People have to learn to focus their wills. A great help is a rite or witchcraft spell that has been
tested over countless ages to produce the higher state of consciousness that Wiccans call
"Journeying Between the Worlds". That's why we do ritualistic witchcraft and cast spells. The
best of us would be at a disadvantage put in a room with a black box and told to make an
invisible digital coin come up heads. Reminds me of those old Masters and Johnson
experiments where they would wire people up in a laboratory and tell them to have sex. I dont
know about you, but video cameras and wires would tend to spoil the mood for me every time.
So dont let the taint of coincidence hinder your efforts. Perhaps it was your workings that made
the thing you want happen. Perhaps not. But does it really matter as long as it happens? After a
while you will see coincidence as the mechanism by which witchcraft works and is concealed in
the laws of Nature at the same time.
The next practice witchcraft spell was also on the motivational tape from the authors wife. Here
I was just a bit incredulous. Apparently, she can find four-leaf clovers any time she wanted. I
had always presumed that four-leaf clovers were something of a myth, like lepricons. I
happened to mention it to a sister adapt and she said that yes, she too could find four-leaf clovers
any time she wanted.
This I had to see.
It took her no more than a minute to locate the first four-leaf clover on my front lawn. I
wondered if she wasnt having me on--but it wasnt a fake--a common three-leaf clover with an
extra leaf glued on or something. I asked her to do it again and of course she did. So I thought
maybe there were more four-leaf clovers around than I thought, though I had searched for hours
to find just one when I was a kidnever had. Not one. I told you I had no luck.
So I got down on my hands and knees and tried to find one. There were clovers there but no
four-leafed ones. I counted every one to make sure: one two three, one two three, one two three,
one two three, FOUR! But no, it was a leaf from another clover mixed up with the one I was
looking at.
I gave up. She simply checked the same spot I had carefully searched and came up with one,
then another. I repeated the experiment and every time I came up dry and every time she came
up with at least one four-leaf cloveronce a five-leafed clover! (I still have it pressed in a book
somewhere). The next day I came to the conclusion that there were four-leaf clovers
everywhere, I was just missing them . . . . somehow. So I spent the afternoon, Im a bit
embarrassed to say, on my hands and knees with a magnifying glass searching every inch of my
lawn. Not a one.
All I could do was push the problem out of my head, filed under unexplained phenomenon like
when you consult a Ouija Board and you know youre not moving the pointer but for the life of
you its moving by itself. But the four lead clover I had yet to find was always there, like a sore
in my mouth that I couldn't help sticking my tongue in even though it hurts.
One day I was walking in a mall parking lot when it came to me.
My problem was that I wasnt willing the four-leaf clovers to appear. Of course! How obvious.
In which case I could make one appear anywhereeven the weed choked meridian I was
crossing. So I got down right there and took a look. At first I didnt see anything but litter. But
then I closed my eyes and simply visualized a four-leaf clover and knew it was there. When I
opened my eyes there they were. Not one but three in all before I had to get moving or be late
picking my son up from school. I still have those first four-leaf clover pressed in the same book
along with Suzannes five-leafer. And now I can find four-leaf clovers any time I want.
Heres a Wicca for beginner spell to get money fast from Janet and Stewart Fararr's "Spells and
How They Work". Simply say, Trinka-five five times. Hows that for easy? And it works.
If you are like me, naturally unlucky--unaided by witchcraft--you will love this simple spell.
Find a coin from the year of your birth. Wrap the coin in a cabbage leaf then tie the package
with a green ribbon. Place the little bundle in a location where it will dry without molding
during the waxing (becoming greater) phase of the moon. When the leaf has completely dried
remove the coin and wrap the coin in a natural fabric. Carry it with you and you will have good
luck.
\Heres another handy spell for fixing broken machinery, including computers. Simply stop what
you are doing and sit quietly until you feel at ease and the frustration the damn thing is causing
fades away. Now see the machine functioning as it should. Hear what it should sound like.
Benefit from its operation. Will this to happen. It will. Not every time but I have much better
training-wheels spell to deal with her boss a while before. It had worked well and since then she
was cautiously optimistic. Of course, the old truck roared to life and off she went to the dump
with her old swimming pool liner.
Heres an easy spell from Silver Ravenwolf in her excellent beginners book To Ride A Silver
Broomstick
for
finding
lost
articles.
I know it from another source, slightly different, but what I like about her take is the way she
relates to crystals or gems. She says to close your eyes and visualize the lost item and surround
it with golden light, then attach a silver cord which you pull in until the object is in your hand.
Now, forget about it and it should appear within an hour. If this doesnt happen you can either
wait longer or do the spell again.
But this is the part I especially like: Gems and stones should never be considered lost. When
you have outgrown them, they pass on to others who need them more. Never be unhappy over
the loss of a crystal or other favorite gem. Know it has gone to where it is needed most.
This happened to me when I lost my Dingle Diamond. I could not find it anywhere. I looked for
days and cast every finding spell I could muster. This crystal was sacred to me because of the
way it had arrived.
Years before I was walking the beach on the Dingle Peninsula in southwestern Ireland. This is
one of three places in Ireland were the Celtic tradition still lives and breathes fire. The fog was
so thick you couldnt cut it with an athame. When suddenly a clearing opened and revealed at
my feet a piece of quartz about two and a half inches long. Other than that, the pebble drift was
bare, just perfectly featureless wet sand. . . and the crystal.
Silver Ravenwolfs admonition not to grieve lost crystals helped me get over the loss. Two years
later the diamond appeared right where I had last seen it in one of the slots of an antique printers
type case I use to display stones and crystals on the wall of my temple (dining room at other
times). To the best of my knowledge, no corporal Being took it and then brought it back.
Well, that was all I needed to begin work on a new white oak wand with the diamond at the tip.
Its been my favorite wand ever since. That's it in the picture.
Heres one you probably know already, even though you may not know you know it. Simply
think of a person you want to contact you. Send them an invitation astrally. They will call just
as soon as they get a chance. Think this is coincidence? Ask the person when they got the idea
to call. If they remember you will usually find it was the same time you sent the astral invitation
but don't forget to factor in time zone changes. This spell also saves on your long distance bills
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Try these spells a few times. If you can do one or the other or all you are beginning to tap into
the Power and are ready to visit witchcraft-love-spells. Enjoy!
One final word: the acts called for in a spell and the exotic ingredients may at some times seem
like the people who discovered the spell want to make doing it as difficult as possible so we
fail--instead of blaming them for giving us bullshit disguised as magyc. It's often crossed my
mind; like when I was trying to procure a thimble full of hummingbird tongue or dragon scales.
But stuff worked and pretty soon I started paying more and more attention to the details of a
spell. I would try to make it letter perfect. The better the spell, the better the magyc. And then I
realized why. Of course, it wouldn't have mattered if I hadn't figured it out. Often in magyc we
do things simply because they work. Like the girl in the movie Bull Durum who had her
boyfriend wear her panties when he was on the pitching mound . It worked, he became a big
baseball star, though neither one had the slightest idea why. Magyc is often like that.
But what I finally realized was that magyc is in the doing. Doing hard and strange stuff for a
worthy purpose strengthens resolve and focuses the will--the exact stuff of magyc. How else
would you do it?
Also, a good spell that has been handed down for hundreds of year has stood the test of time (the
only one that matters). For whatever reason these particular acts and workings somehow extract
the desired result. Go with what works.
Even when you create the spell from scratch--where just as much if not more care should be
given as for a traditional spell--it's often advisable to incorporate established traditions. You just
give it a personal spin all your own.
The main thing is to get totally into the spell as it unfolds. That's what works best.