Magickal Protection

I receive a surprising amount of letters asking for ways to protect oneself-- magickally.  People seem to be just as afraid of those invisible, yet persistent, entities and energies as they are of the mundane dangers in life.  People also want to know how to protect themselves from negative energies tossed at them by other people, both negative thoughts and the more deliberate hexes and curses.

Here are few tips-- some of my own, as well as techniques picked up from other sources...

Mirrors

On our property, at the the four compass points, we have buried mirrors, facing outward-- this is an old, old custom to "reflect" all negativity tossed your way-- both intentional and unintentional negative energy/thoughts and deliberate hexes and curses.  When we dug the holes for the mirrors, I tossed in some rosemary, sage, garlic, and sea salt.  These herbs clear, cleanse, exorcise, and repel.

Those who wish us bad thoughts or deliberately try to use black magick against us will have their own negativity thrown back upon themselves, often with devastating and unexpected results.

 The following is a spell to create a 'Witch's Bottle'.  These magickal charms can be created for many purposes, but this particular one is made to reverse any negative spells cast against you and to protect you from those who may wish you harm:

1.  Fill a bottle or jar with sharp items:  nails, needles, pins, broken glass, etc.

2.  Cover it with your urine.  You may also add menstrual blood.

3.  Seal it shut tightly.  (You may want to create a red wax seal as well.)

4.  Bury this bottle deep in the earth and leave it undisturbed.

Protection Bath:  Basil

This spell repels malevolent magic targeted toward you, repairs a damaged aura, and helps erect a personal protective shield.

1.  Make a strong infusion by pouring boiling water over fresh basil leaves.  Once it cools, strain the leaves out and discard.

2.  Bring the bowl of basil-infused water to the bath or shower.  Stand naked in the tub or shower.  Dip a clean white cloth (a handkerchief or hand towel) into the infusion and, wiping downwards and out, cleanse your body.

3.  Repeat daily for nine days.  After the final bath, throw any remaining water (and make sure there is some!) out the front door with an aggressive motion.

4.  If this isn't possible, toss the liquid into a pot filled with Earth.  Remove it from your home and dispose of it immediately, perferably at a crossroads.

Protection Spell Conjure Bag

(A mojo hand to protect a child from harm, this conjure bag is a spell in progress.)

1.  Place an angelica root together with chamomile and flax seed in a charm bag.

2.  Add a coin minted in the child's birth year, together with a small piece of silver.  Traditionally the child's initials are scratched into the metal.  An initial bead or a charm with the child's name engraved upon it may be substituted.

3.  Collect any baby teeth and add them to the bag.  It's not necessary to have every single baby tooth; even one is sufficient.

4.  Keep this charm bag in a safe place until the child is old enough to inherit it.

I hope the above spells are of some help.  They hardly scratch the tip of the iceberg; there are oodles of protection spells out there for about any circumstance you can think of.  If anyone needs more assitance or a more precise form of protection, contact me.

 Tarot Card of the Month

10/Wands

 
This is a card of heavy burdens, a big load of responsibility and hardwork.

For some who are reading this, this will not be a carefree month of lazy summer days.  People depend on you and there are important tasks to be accomplished-- work to be done, responsibilities that need to be shouldered.

Know that you're being watched as you work, your performance being evaluated.  With this point in mind-- do your very best.

I hope you all continue to enjoy this summer because it's heat and long lazy days are a link--  both to those summers of the past and all the memories they hold, and to the future and all the new memories these long hot days will create...

 Celtic Women:  "Fairies"

Fantasy Fairy Photography

Pandora's Box

 Isabella has added more of her beautiful jewelry to her shop.  This is an  "upclose"  look at her handiwork.  To visit Pandora's Box, click on the image...

 Tiger Eye/Stone Necklace

 The stone pendent on this necklace was picked up by Isabella while she was hiking in the Rocky Mountains.  There is also genuine tiger eye beads in this creation.

 

These are pictures I took in mid-May, while in the midst of getting the gardens set up for this year...

You've heard of the "parking lot fairy", that mythical creature that helps you find a decent parking spot?  Well, this is the "golf ball fairy"-- she helps you find your lost golf balls.  ;)

Put a silver coin in the large flower petal this fairy holds and she'll grant you a wish.

This frog is standing at the west gate of the garden.  As those of you who practice The Craft know, it is the gate of water...he holds a rain gauge to measure the bounty from the sky.

This year my gnome is guarding the north entrance of my garden, the north gate-- the gate of earth.    Place a silver coin beneath the gnome to insure that you will always have enough money to cover life's necessities.  It's not about greed and gluttony and getting rich-- it never is.  It's about always having food on your table, a roof over your head, and clothes on your back.

Tarot Card for June

Knight of Cups

This card flipped out of the deck as I was shuffling it-- which is always an indication...something is trying to tell you something; a message of some kind-- however important or trivial-- is trying to come through.  And what a fitting card this is for June-- the month most popular for weddings!

The Knight of Cups is the card of relationships, suitors, lovers.  It can also refer to the proverbial "knight in shining armor"-- as long as he presents himself to you upright, and this knight-- this time-- was indeed heads up.

This card also brought another message with it, one that goes a bit beyond the surface of the general meanings for this Knight:

 It told me that many of us are so busy straining our necks to see what lay ahead of us-- always looking to the future-- that we don't feel the warmth of the light shining on our backs.  We are not aware of what's right next to us...Enjoy what you have now, in the present.

 The Goddess Grove

The Goddess Grove has undergone a complete facelift.  It is still reserved as an online Pagan Circle for women only, and it is a path to the Goddess...this it shall always be.

 Although men are not added to the friends list nor allowed to post public comments on the blogs-- that does not mean that they can't "lurk"...they can stand in the shadows and quietly take in the world of the feminine.  Maybe it will lead to a new understanding and appreciation.


Click on the image below to enter the sacred grove:

Hedgewitch Hollow: Episode 1-Introduction

Hedgewitch Hollow-Episode 2: Incense Holders and Censers

Hedgewitch Hollow: Episode 3-Bells and Chimes

 

Mother's Day...in honor of mothers and motherhood:

 I know that we all lead busy lives outside this internet world, but I would love anyone who has the time and is able to leave a favorite poem, quotation, memory, picture, etc. of what motherhood means to you, or your feelings about your own mother or a woman who has mothered you, etc.

And thank you to all the ladies who have already left beautiful artwork, photos, and sentiments!


just click Here.

It's a dark and rainy day here in Nebraska and, believe it or not, if the rain lets up, there's lillies I'm itching to transplant to another garden spot and an azalia bush to plant in the front yard-- I said I would never learn!

 

Bright Blessings to you all, Amythyst


To enter The Goddess Grove, click on the image below:

 

 

A Beltane Recipe

Vanilla Aphrodisiac Smoothie

       1 cup milk
       15 whole cloves
       15 cardamom pods
       2 cinnamon sticks
       1 vanilla pod, split
       1 cup vanilla frozen yogurt
       honey to taste

       Place milk, cloves, cardamom, and cinnamon in a saucepan. Scrape in vanilla seeds from pod. Heat milk but do not boil. Remove from heat and allow to cool, then refrigerate until chilled. Strain milk into a blender goblet and discard spices. Add frozen yogurt and honey to taste. Blend until smooth and frothy.
Delicious!

 My readers who practice The Craft will recognize the spices used as those which will inspire love, lust, and passion!

 "Our House"

We live in a house that has always been very active with ghostly paranormal activity.  So much so, that I began recording some of these events, and now I’m sharing them with you...

 To read about our experiences and for more information on haunted cemeteries, poltergiests, the Bell Witch, TAPS, and more...

click Here.

 I'm a member and one of the administrators of a lovely site called:

"Blessed-Be-UK Network"

It's a wonderful place for pagans of all paths...To enter this site, click on the image below:

I'm also a member of:

"The Psychic Lair"

(Quote) "This Network was created for people with interest in Occultism, Parapsychology, and Spirituality.  On this site you will find professional psychic readers, tarot, runes, reiki & spiritual healing, paranormal topics, mediums, pagans, and witchcraft et cetera.

The Psychic Lair can offer information on diverse topics.
Share your knowledge or learn to embrace different aspects and perspectives as a community. There are no limitations to what this site can provide.  Do not hesitate to start discussions on any subject, join the Psychic Lair chatroom, upload images or create groups. Everyone has something to offer." (Unquote)

To enter The Psychic Lair, click on the image below:

I'd like to introduce you to my very dear and talented friend:

Tink

 


Click on the image above and prepare to be bewitched and beguiled by her creations and artistry.

Tarot Card of the Month:

 7/Wands (R)

Differences will be resolved this month.  Those who are seeking confrontations, who are deliberately causing problems or "spoiling for a fight", will be silenced.

Their arguments will be shown for the punitive opinions that they are.  If you have any enemies-- this month their true colors will be revealed to all.

To receive a tarot reading from Lady Amythyst,

click  Here.

"Temple of Diana"

The Temple of Diana is a feminist organization of Dianic Wicca dedicated to the celebration of women's magick and mysteries.

(Quote) "Temple of Diana was created to help heal, empower, and celebrate women by offering personal and public community rituals, classes and workshops in the tradition of Dianic Wicca. Temple of Diana's spiritual tradition is a Goddess and woman-centered, earth-based, feminist denomination of the Wiccan religion. Dianic tradition is a vibrantly creative and evolving Women's Mystery tradition, inclusive of all women." (Unquote)

 A new page has been added to The Witch's Corner:

Chakras

click  Here.

There you will also find a link to Ambika Wauter's site:

"The Institute of Life Energy Medicine"

I've started a new subject box on the Journal page titled:

Dreamscapes

click  Here.

 This box will contain entries from my personal dream journal.  It will be, as everyone's dreams are, a look inside my subconscious-- that inner part of yourself that makes its presence known in the dark recesses of your mind.

Magickal Shops

click  Here.

My daughter Isabella has many more pieces of handcrafted jewelry ready to be put up at "Pandora's Box".  I'll try to get those up and available to you as soon as possible.

At "The Attic" you'll find "big little books" dated from the 1930s and 1940s:

Astrology

Taurus

The Bull
April 21 to May 21

Traditional
Taurus Traits

Patient and reliable
Warmhearted and loving
Persistent and determined
Placid and security loving

On the dark side....

Jealous and possessive
Resentful and inflexible
Self-indulgent and greedy

The Taurean's characteristics are solidity, practicality, extreme determination and strength of will - no one will ever drive them, but they will willingly and loyally follow a leader they trust. They are stable, balanced, conservative, good law-abiding citizens and lovers of peace, possessing all the best qualities of the bourgeoisie. As they have a sense of material values and physical possessions, respect for property and a horror of falling into debt, they will do everything in their power to maintain the security of the status quo and be somewhat hostile to change.

Mentally, they are keen-witted and practical more often than intellectual, but apt to become fixed in their opinions through their preference for following accepted and reliable patterns of experience. Their character is generally dependable, steadfast, prudent, just, firm and unshaken in the face of difficulties. Their vices arise from their virtues, going to extremes on occasion, such as sometimes being too slavish to the conventions they admire.

On rare occasions a Taurean may be obstinately and exasperatingly self-righteous, unoriginal, rigid, ultraconservative, argumentative, querulous bores, stuck in a self-centered rut. They may develop a brooding resentment through nursing a series of injuries received and, whether their characters are positive or negative, they need someone to stroke their egos with a frequent, "Well Done!" Most Taureans are not this extreme though.

They are faithful and generous friends with a great capacity for affection, but rarely make friends with anyone outside their social rank, to which they are ordinarily excessively faithful. In the main, they are gentle, even tempered, good natured, and modest and slow to anger, disliking quarreling and avoiding ill-feeling. If they are provoked, however, they can explode into violent outbursts of ferocious anger in which they seem to lose all self-control. Equally unexpected are their occasional sallies into humor and exhibitions of fun.

Although their physical appearance may belie it, they have a strong aesthetic taste, enjoying art, for which they may have a talent, beauty (recoiling from anything sordid or ugly) and music. They may have a strong, sometimes unconventional, religious faith. Allied to their taste for all things beautiful is a love for the good things of life pleasure, comfort, luxury and good food and wine and they may have to resist the temptation to over indulgence, leading to drunkenness, gross sensuality, and covetousness.

In their work, Taureans are industrious and good craftspeople, and are not afraid of getting their hands dirty. They are reliable, practical, methodical and ambitious, within a framework of obedience to superiors. They are at their best in routine positions of trust and responsibility, where there is little need of urgency and even less risk of change, and a pension at the end. Yet they are creative and good founders of enterprises where the rewards of their productiveness come from their own work and not that of others.

To continue reading more about Taurus, click on the image below...

May is also the month to pay homage to

"Mothers"

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers...new mothers, old mothers, those women who bore no children of their own yet mothered someone else's child, for mothers who struggle to fulfill this role and mothers who harbor a natural nurturing instinct...

We wish them all a wonderful Mother's Day.

 Blessings, Lady Amythyst

To view the PSG website, click here.