The Book of Blessings and Rituals - Athena Perrakis PDF

The Book of
Blessings and Rituals
M AGIC AL INVOC ATIONS

FOR HE ALING , SE T TING ENERGY, AND
CRE ATING SACRED SPACE
Athena Perrakis, Ph.D.
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“Beautiful blessings. Beautiful illustrations.

Beautiful book.”
—Yasmin Boland, author of Moonology

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Dedication
I dedicate this book to my Spirit Guides Finally, I dedicate this book to my
and the Plant Teachers, as these blessings grandchildren and all generations
and invocations were channeled from forward. These words belong to you,
another realm, anchored in a wisdom that and I hope they will guide you in your
far exceeds my own. To my husband Dave, practice. Always remember that magic is
my children Nick and Zoe, and my Sage real; you simply need to trust, believe, and
Goddess community who bring so much surrender. In body and one day in spirit,
love and beauty to my life. The words here I am honored to be your ancestor and am
have led and nurtured us through many doing my best to leave this planet in the
beautiful turnings of the Great Wheel of best possible condition for you and yours.
Time. I also dedicate this book to my How I look forward to seeing where you
team at Sage Goddess for their assistance take my magic as you embrace your own
in bringing the imagery here to life. unique destinies. A’ho and on we go.

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Contents
Introduction 6 Becoming the Mother Invocation 35
Project 4: Spring Equinox
(Ostara) Ritual 36
1 January Project 5: Balance Grid 39
The Month
of New Beginnings 8 4 April
Smudging Prayer 10 The Month
Four Directional Invocation 11 of Healing and Wellness 42
New Year Intention-Setting New Moon Healing and
Blessing 14 Balance Invocation 44
Universal Support Invocation 15 Recovery and Addiction Blessing 45
Chakra Affirmation and Physical Wellness Invocation 46
Activation 16 Project 6: Home Healing Altar 47
Project 1: Intention Altar 18 Project 7: Flower and Herb
Project 2: Law of Attraction Mandala 50
3D Crystalline Vision Board 21
5 May
2 February The Month
The Month of Prosperity and Power 52
of New and Universal Love 24 5/5 (May 5) Prosperity and
Valentine’s Day Blessing 26 Ease Invocation 54
Love Draw Invocation 27 Beltane Blessing 55
Imbolc Self-Love Invocation 28 Sacred Box Dedication Prayer 56
Project 3: Love Draw Project 8: Prosperity Altar 57
Medicine Bag 29 Project 9: Money Draw Incense 60
3 March 6 June
The Month The Month
of Emerging Life 32 of Balance, Cycles,
Spring Equinox (Ostara) 34 and Celebrations 62
Blessing and Invocation Handfasting Ceremony 64

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Honoring the Cycles Blessing 65 10 October
Sacred Tool Elemental Blessing 66 The Month
Litha (Summer Solstice) of the Dead 106
Blessing 67 Entity Removal Prayer 108
Project 10: Summer Solstice Diwali Blessing 109
5 Ritual 68 Protection Blessing 110
Project 11: Sacred Union Grid 71 Samhain Blessing and
6 Invocation 111
9 7 July Project 18: Ancestral Altar 112
The Month Project 19: Protection Bundle 115
of Eternal and
Soul Mate Love 74 11 November
2 Recommitment Blessing 76 The Month
Soul Mate Attraction of Gratitude 118
4 Invocation 77 Thanksgiving Blessing 120
5 Project 12: Bedroom Altar 78 Universal Prayer Offering 121
6 Project 13: Inner Fire Perfume 81 Project 20: 11/11
47 (November 11) Wishing
8 August Scroll Ritual 122
0 The Month Project 21: Gratitude Altar 124
of the Shift Toward Darkness 84 Project 22: Karmic Release
Lammas Blessing 86 Offerings 126
Project 14: Despacho Ritual Project 23: Mulling Herbs 129
2 to Pachamama 87
Project 15: Lammas Ritual 91 12 December
4 The Month
5 9 September of Grace 132
6 The Month Christmas Blessing and
57 of the Harvest 94 Invocation 134
0 Rosh Hashanah New Year Yule Blessing and Invocation 135
Prayer and Invocation 96 Project 24: Sacred Yule Votive 136
Fall Equinox (Mabon) Blessing Project 25: Yule Ritual 138
and Invocation 97
Project 16: Fall Equinox Conclusion and Closing Prayer 141
2 (Mabon) Ritual 99 Acknowledgments 142
4 Project 17: Honey Blessing Jar 102 About the Author 143

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Introduction
This book is a collection of blessings, rituals, and
invocations I have crafted since I gave birth to Sage
Goddess in 2011. I have woven them into a sacred T
tapestry in hopes that the union of them will bless,
inspire, and guide you. •
I did not set out to write a book of hemisphere. But brothers and sisters of •
blessings and rituals, which in many ways the southern hemisphere, simply follow
is what makes it so profound. These are it in alignment with your cycles and you
not esoteric teachings sans applicability will find resonance and power within to
or relevance; these are uttered blessings support you.
and projects that have guided me and
my students toward transformation and Energy work is real, and all energy is •
healing. Now, they belong to you. composed of both light and shadow
aspects. Although certain basic
This book is a doorway to your own ceremonial protocols are woven into
magic. Enter with caution, gratitude, each project and ritual included here,
and excitement. May the threshold you you should always take the following H
are about to cross be a blessed one, my precautions before any sacred practice: to
friend, and may you always remember the re
power of words. Choose them well and say • Smudge with cleansing herbs such as th
them with strength. In that way, you will white sage, sacred trees such as palo m
find your wisest voice and your deepest santo, or resins such as copal and myrrh. d
authentic truth, and on that same path you • Open a sacred circle by taking a m
will bring honor and healing to your line. selenite or other wand and opening a o
circle in the air, clockwise, asking that
Please note that this book is written in only energies in service to the Highest
alignment with the cycles of the northern Good be allowed to enter therein.

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• Invite and thank the Guardians placed. The power of an altar waxes
INTRODUC TION
of the Four Directions to attend and wanes with the moon, and is thus
your workings. Anchoring the four strongest at the full moon; do not move
directions helps you create a tight or clear your altars within forty-eight
container for your work, in which the hours of a full moon or during an eclipse,
energy you raise will be stronger and if possible. Keep your altar free of dust;
more likely to yield a good outcome. sacred space is worthy of your attention.
Then, after any sacred practice: Take care to honor important protocol
in your practice. Not only will you be
• Release the Guardians of the Four safer doing so, but also your magical
Directions with gratitude, thanking work will be more efficacious. Consider
them for their presence and wisdom. the guidance here a series of general
• Release your sacred circle by turning directions, however, and if your practice
your wand counterclockwise in a circle guides you differently, trust what feels
(either in the air or on the ground in right and accurate.
front of you), giving thanks to the
energies present for your work and In preparation for our work together,
releasing them with gratitude. a prayer:
• Smudge and ground your own energy.
Almandine garnet, when held in each Great Spirit, Wakan Tanka, Father God,
hand, is an excellent anchoring crystal Mother Goddess, Source, Creator, please
after a ceremony. activate the words on these pages so they
embody the medicine and magic needed
How long you work with an altar is up in the moment and reveal what must be
to you. If you feel called to keep it as a known to the one who reads them. Let it be
reminder and space for meditation, honor understood that it is the spirit of the reader,
that instinct. Clean your altar at the new his or her unique essence, that brings my
moon, recharging it with intention if you words to life. May the one who reads these
h. desire. Take altars down, also at the new words be blessed in all ways, always.
moon, by removing items in the opposite
order in which they were originally Amen, A’ho, and On we go

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burns. This is the time to indulge your creative

senses and set a powerful course for the year
ahead. You get few clear shots at your dreams each
year. This is one of them. Aim well, spirit traveler.
But let your arrow go, eventually. If you spend
your whole life aiming, you might as well not
even engage the bow.
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Trust in yourself is what makes January Take a moment now to be with the
JANUARY
a dual blessing and challenge. When you beginning of this new calendar year,
released the fruits from your vines last present to both its possibilities and its
September, you were rich with inspiration challenges. Imagine yourself celebrating
and gratitude. But now as you gaze across twelve months from now the desires,
the vista of life, it is a darker and more successes, and experiences you most seek.
barren place you see. In winter, hope must What do you need to allow, surrender,
come from within. Relying on others, or invite right now to achieve your goals
expecting outside reward or motivation, for the rest of the year? Ask your spirit
is risky now. Everything you will build in guides, higher self, and all light beings to
n, the year ahead already resides within you surround you, support you, and sustain
today. Now is the time to create, but in a you. May you receive all that you long for,
passive way—for example, visualizing and in perfect time and full alignment with
setting intentions. Intentions are best set your intended path.
k at the new year and the new moon, so you
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10 - Prayer -
Smudging
THE BOOK OF BLESSINGS AND RITUAL S
To clear and cleanse your As we burn your herbs, resins, leaves, T

sacred spaces, including and limbs, in
temples, sanctuaries, we invite you to come into our space o
homes, and classrooms and release energies that are stuck or slow,
freeing us to move and grow B
Guardians of the Plant and Tree Kingdoms, in alignment with our path, purpose,
sacred medicines of the jungle floor, and vision. th
the outback, the desert, and the We thank you, plant teachers
river’s edge. Maestros de la Selva Oscura th
We call upon all of our plant teachers for your wisdom and love.
to share your wisdom, blessings, and
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- Invocation - 11
Four Directional
JANUARY
The original Sage Goddess ancient voices speaking in familiar
invocation to the Guardians tongues.
of the Four Directions To the chilly blast of winter’s breath,
, to the hurricanes that destroy so we
Between day and night, we gather can re-create,
and seek and to the currents that support the
the wisdom of the elders, the ancients, wings of the seagull.
the guides, To the winds of my dreams, carrying my
the ancestors, and humbly in their hopes for tomorrow,
presence, we seek the knowledge we and to the storms of my heart, violent
are ready to integrate. and tempestuous.
For this is the hour of magic, To desert gusts, where lightning strikes
and now is the moment of possibility. and thunder rumbles.
Gatekeepers of the Four Directions, Be here with us tonight, element
thank you for turning your gaze of air, and let the power of your
toward us this evening. gentle force fill our lungs, open
We honor your sacred presence our minds,
and thank you for your guidance. and lift our spirits.
For you are welcome here. I call to the guardians and gatekeepers
I call first to the guardians and of the South,
gatekeepers of the East, and to you, Aries, Leo, Sagittarius.
and to you, Libra, Aquarius, Gemini. I call to Fire,
I call to Air, to the dry heat of the desert
to the white clouds wandering across a that burns under a flaming orange sun.
pale blue-violet sky To the courage of the lion whose red
and to the air that lifts them. mane dances in golden majesty about
To the breeze that blows across his face,
my face, and to the energy that burns within me
to warm summer currents that bring and within you.
scents of sea and sand. To the sparkles of fairy magic
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To the flickering of the candle as it burns, and to destiny as we gaze out over to
and to the lava flowing from wild and endless seas a

untamed volcanoes, that divide and connect us.
native and free. Be here with us tonight, element a
To the bonfire around which we all gather of water, and let the power of your B
and vision quest together. graceful force wash us clean and
To the warmth of unconditional love we teach us
offer in this space, and to the sage we to swim with the tide
burn to clear, clean, and consecrate. rather than resist its pull. re
Be here with us tonight, element Last, but never least,
of fire, and let the power of your I call to the guardians and gatekeepers
mighty force warm our hearts, release of the North,
our fears, and to you, Virgo, Capricorn, Taurus.
and destroy our resistance to growth. I call to Earth,
I call to the guardians and gatekeepers to the fields of winter grasses and the
of the West, deep woods,
and to you, Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio. blanketed in moss.
I call to Water, To the dry leaves of summers past
to the deep blue-green waves that rush that signal autumn and colder nights.
the shore. To the many mysteries and secrets
To the dolphin who weaves in and out held aloft
of the purple sea, by the jeweled tapestry of black tree
daring to explore the deepest waters, limbs in the night sky.
and to the mermaid who is bound to To the silent trail of the stag as it weaves
the depths, its way
personifying flow and grace. through the dark of the forest,
To the awesome power of currents that and to Gaia, our great Mother,
carry me forward, spiraling and who holds us all in her bountiful
gasping, into a future I dare to meet. embrace.
To the raging river running wild like To the fruit on your trees, Gaia,
my heart, the nourishment of your plants,
and to the azure lake where my children the blessing of your sacred herbs.
run at the water’s edge. To sand, soil, salt, and spice.
To the rain in which we dance, together, To rock and mountain where
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to remind ourselves of our own potential, silence and our connection to land,
JANUARY
and to vistas far and wide, landscapes to each other,
green and brown, to all forms of life.
arid and tropic beauty. May the delicate and precious
Be here with us tonight, element balance of these four elements
of earth, and let the power of make itself known to you, now
your grounding force call us into and always.
present time,
reminding us of the gift of Amen, A’ho, So it is

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New Year Intention-Setting
To summon in new energy and may I be in divine service to all A

streams for the year ahead my kind. fo
I come to you, Great Spirit, for wisdom jo
As you meditate on the year ahead, speak about my path.
these words at the first new moon of the I seek information, insight, and vision A
new year. as I move in the world, en
helping to align my efforts and actions b
As you inhale, visualize your dreams and with my soul’s purpose for incarnating in su
goals for the upcoming year, and on your this lifetime. th
exhale, let go of the past year as you repeat Help me correctly interpret the signs an
the following blessing: you reveal,
and guide my hand as I aim my arrows I
I seek to align myself ever more deeply in of hope and beauty. fo
the year ahead I ask for the strength to move
with my Creator’s plan for my life, gracefully and I
accessing my deepest wisdom purposefully toward my becoming. to
and most authentic power. May the year ahead th
Great Spirit, I ask for your blessing upon be blessed in every way.
my intentions. And may I effortlessly attract the
Please offer me the strength, courage, and resources I need I
resolve to pursue my dreams, even when to do your will. a
I am afraid or unsure of my steps. I
May my efforts support the Highest Good Amen, A’ho, So it is
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Universal Support
JANUARY
A calling for support from the and the grandmothers who encourage
four directions to guide your my trust.
journey in the year ahead I receive strength from the South,
and elements of courage to empower me.
As you read these words aloud, imagine I receive inspiration from the East,
energy gathering from all directions, and fuel for the long journeys ahead.
bringing with it resources you need to I receive wisdom from my Creator,
support you on your path this year. Know the essence of all life, and I allow that
that you are always guided, seen, held, knowing to flow
and nurtured by forces near and far. and move freely through me.
I root deeply into Pachamama,
I set my vision for this new year, trusting that she can hold me steady
focusing my will and intention on the during the storms of life.
dreams within my heart. And I connect powerfully with Source,
I open my mind and spirit attuning to universal frequencies of love.
to receive and allow energies to flow As above, so below.
that will co-create my intention in full As within, so without.
alignment with my Highest Good and I welcome universal support from
the Highest Good of all beings. all directions,
I receive support from the North, and give thanks for spirit guidance.
and the elder spirits who bring me wisdom.
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To open, balance, and align “I scry and seek the knowledge of my

the human energy centers ancestors, channeling this wisdom to A
for a year of vibrant health heal others and myself.”
As I repeat this mantra, I activate the a
Speak these affirmations aloud while you Third Eye chakra
touch the space of each chakra with your for inner knowing, Source guidance, A
dominant (or writing) hand. and precognition.
At the Throat, I activate my truth with a
Begin 12 inches (30.5 cm) above your conviction and clarity
head, at the Soul Star or Angelic Gateway. and I speak my truth with conviction. “I
“I hear and honor my voice as I speak
At the Soul Star chakra, I activate my my words I
connection but I also wield the power of conscious
to the Star Systems, Star Beings, and silence.” A
angelic frequencies. As I repeat this mantra, I activate the
“I am vast, I am expansive, and I am timeless.” Throat chakra fo
As I repeat this mantra, I activate the and my authentic truth, embodied fully
Soul Star chakra and freely.
for healing, peace, and bliss. At the Heart, I love and accept myself as
At the Crown chakra, I activate my I am today
connection to my spirit guides and to and extend that gracious acceptance
Source frequencies. to others.
“I am guided, I am loved, and I am held.” “I grow and expand every day, a model of
As I repeat this mantra, I activate the love for others,
Crown chakra radiating compassion for all beings.”
for soulful connection and union with God. As I repeat this mantra, I activate the
At the Third Eye, I activate wisdom across Heart chakra
time for compassion, abiding love, and soulful
and am initiated as a seer of all things. connection.

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At the Solar Plexus, I am a person of At the Root, I am safe and secure,
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power, and I have learned that wherever I am
stronger and more energized every day. is home.
“I am the author of my life, writing the “I take up my space with pride and
words of the sacred texts of my unapologetic wisdom.
existence in flowing inks of love and I have enough. I am enough. I know
gratitude.” enough.”
As I repeat this mantra, I activate the As I repeat this mantra, I activate the
Solar Plexus chakra, Root chakra
and I forgive the past, for my power is in for stability, protection, and safety.
this moment only. At the Earth Star, I am anchored in Gaia’s
At the Sacral, I am a fountain of crystalline matrix, and I gather my
creative potential, strength from the stone people.
and desire flows to and from me in all “I receive wisdom and energy from the
directions. crystals around me,
“I create life, I deliver life, I am and through them, I attune to the cosmic
life itself. frequency of truth.”
I glow from within, a reflection of the As I repeat this mantra, I activate the
Divine.” Earth Star chakra,
As I repeat this mantra, I activate the and in doing so I align my energy to the
Sacral chakra energy of all life.
for passion, creativity, and physical
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Intention Altar
To open a sacred container Gather:

for your dreams and visions • A chalice or vase of fresh flowers
for water
You can use this Intention Altar to raise • Bowl of palo santo, copal, or white sage
energy for what you desire this year. for smudging
Ideally, you should represent the four • An altar cloth or beautifully printed
cardinal elements on your new altar. scarf (optional)
• A feather
An altar designed to represent intentions • Crystals for earth
of wealth, fame, or love should be placed • A candle for fire
in the south, while an altar designed to • A lighter
raise energy for spiritual growth, work • Divination tools, such as a pendulum,
success, or travel should be placed in the oracle cards, tarot cards, runes, or
north. You can combine several intentions casting stones (optional)
on one altar by placing a single item • A journal and pen (optional)
representing each intention in the corner • Your personal power crystal or other
aligning to the appropriate direction for power tool (optional)
each intention. When in doubt, follow • A statue of a deity aligned to your
your intuition. intention (optional)
continued • I also like to include an item to
represent the element of love, such
as a love crystal or a pink candle,
which should be the anchor for all
energetic work.
• I like to include a wand or two for
directing energy; wands represent the
element of spirit.

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Look at the items you have chosen and feel the center or in the direction to which the
your heart expand with gratitude toward deity corresponds. Items that represent
them. Clear your space with the smoke of the heartspace and love can be placed in
white sage, palo santo, or copal. Lay your the center of your altar as well; I like to
altar cloth across your table or space. Be use an amethyst or a quartz heart for this
attentive to the details and the process purpose. Power crystals should be in the T
here: Straighten edges, wipe off any center as well, so they can draw power a
leftover ash, and bring attention to your from the four directions. Wands can also P
breath so you stay mindful. be placed at the center of your altar, or to
the east. B
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from east to north, so I begin with the Once you feel satisfied with the order, an
placement of my easternmost items: balance, and beauty of your altar, smudge w
feather and smudging herbs. Then, one more time, bringing the smoke of the u
I place my candles and lighter in herbs and resins up, over, and through all li
the south. In the west I organize my the items. Then, bow your head and bring u
divination tools, which align to the your hands to prayer position at your Y
element of water, flowers, and herbs. In heart, giving thanks for the gathering of it
the north I place my journal and crystals, magic before you. May it serve you well. b
which represent the stone people. If you
have a deity statue, you can place it in Amen, A’ho, So it is S
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JANUARY
3D Crystalline Vision Board
To attract what you seek Gather:

and engage the Hermetic • A candle to burn while crafting,
Principles for creative power preferably in shades of indigo to open
the Third Eye (optional)
By mentally connecting with an image or • Essential oil to anoint your board for
set of images over and over, consistently extra energy (optional)
and with intention, you begin to set • A large piece of cardboard or poster
e wheels in motion, chains of events board, at least 12 × 18 inches (30 ×
e unfolding in micro steps so small you will 45 cm)
l likely not even know things are happening • 20 to 30 clippings of images to align
g until, well, they land on your doorstep! to the energy of your intention
Your mind is a powerful thing. So let’s put • Chip stones or crystals to make your
it to work by making a powerful vision board 3D (optional)
board, shall we? • Liquid cement or glue stick to adhere
your images
Select magazine clippings or printouts to • Palo santo, copal, or white sage
create your mental collage or crystalline for smudging
vision board. Include images of nature,
which can represent primal and elemental
energy on your board.
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As with most sacred work, this project a sacred perfume aligned to intuition or
must begin with an intention. Remember channeling, if you desire. And then clear
that the ethics of intention setting require off your board. Look over your clippings
two considerations: First, your intention and chip stones or crystals, clustering
must be for you alone. We do not ethically them if you feel called by a theme or
work magic for others, even if our color and gluing them in place. Turn on
intention is to help. Second, your intention some music that inspires you and let the
must be in alignment with the Highest magic unfold.
Good, not only yours but the collective.
Causing harm to others, intentionally or Smudge a little just because it feels good to
unintentionally, is not your right. do sacred work in a clear energetic space.
Enjoy the process—don’t place rules or
Set an intention for yourself and what you restrictions on what you put together.
wish to enjoy or experience. Ask that you Trust that a higher power is guiding your
be able to enjoy this arrival freely, without hand. Sing or laugh a little. Watch with
encumbrance or fear. Allow yourself to wonder as a message emerges. When your
step into this vision for a moment in your vision board feels complete, smudge it,
mind. How does it feel to create or receive bless it, and hang it where you can see
what you desire? Fill your heart and mind it. I like to blow my breath of life across
with the energy of that juicy connection my vision board each day, affirming my
to your dreams. commitment. May yours bring what you
seek in perfect time and remind you that
Come up with one phrase or sentence magic is real.
that captures the essence of what you wish
to envision into reality. Say it out loud. Amen, A’ho, So it is
And then, light your candle. Anoint with

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celebrate. Much of nature is pregnant with life, which A
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is reflected by the holiday Imbolc, February 1. Imbolc
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means “in the belly,” and you are invited to think
about what is gestating inside of you. Are you kindling
your inner fire? Love has brought us through the
cycle of conception. Now, the waiting begins. It isn’t
yet time to burst forth into the world with all your
dreams fully materialized. Prepare as much as you
can for what is coming. Turn your gaze inward, and
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This month, energy streams of self-love has its opposite, and like and unlike
FEBRUARY
and universal love are easily accessible. are the same. We must know both love
Invite them in by gently bringing your and its opposites to understand it. On a
attention to your breath, speaking your practical level, you will experience hate,
full birth name out loud, and then asking disgust, and sorrow while you welcome
self- and universal love energies to come love. That is law.
into your heart. Imagine your heart
opening wide to receive them. Welcome And is why one must be vulnerable in
these energies and thank them for their love; it is the only way to really feel
presence. The blessing, invocations, it. You might get terribly hurt along the
and project in this chapter are designed way. But you might also get terribly loved.
to attract general love energies to you. May you feel and embody both love and
Are you ready to serve as a channel and its opposite with grace, now and always.
conduit of love? By choosing yes, you also
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Valentine’s Day
To invite love in all I in turn summon and welcome this love A

its forms to pour out from within me, th
so that I too become not just the recipient
I seek love, and I know but also the channel I
that love is also seeking me. for this divine love energy. a
Love is the tie that binds, Love comes to me from the east, I
the force that unites, and I welcome its breath of inspiration.
the frequency that heals, Love comes to me from the south, to
and the wisdom that grounds us. and I welcome its passion. I
Beyond all judgment and limitation Love comes to me from the west, a
exists a love that knows no boundaries, and I receive its healing. it
a love that knows no fear or hesitation. Love comes to me from the north, fo
Today I summon and welcome this love and I rest steadily in its embrace.
of force, magnitude, and creation T
to enter my life and bless my soul. Amen, A’ho, So it is a
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Love Draw
FEBRUARY
A calling to summon Please, Great Spirit, bring this
the Twin Flame love to me,
so that I might spend all my days
I call to the winds of the four directions, in the sacred embrace
and draw them toward me. of the one who knows me from within
I ask you, Great Spirit, to guide true and and without,
immortal love from above
toward my heart and home. and below.
I seek the love of my lifetime, Let me be still and be loved
and I know that because I seek it, by the one who sees me
it is also seeking me, and whom I see
for no desire is placed upon the human with tender clarity.
heart in vain. I summon this love and, once found,
The love I seek, I vow to cherish it until my last breath.
a partnership that nourishes me, For the Highest Good of all,
sustains me, honors and supports me so it shall be.
is the love they call “I feel the life force flowing
the Anam Cara, the soul’s mirror, through me,
The Twin Flame: and I am a healthy open channel for it
A beloved I shall recognize from lifetimes to manifest
of connection, in human form.”
remembering him or her across seas of
longing and belonging. Amen, A’ho, So it is

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A gathering of energies for I light a candle to Brigid, goddess of the T

wellness and self-care eternal flame. y
I am grateful for Mother Earth and
The turning of season from winter to her gifts. T
spring is a sacred occasion. Use this I invoke the radiant energy of the sun, a
invocation to honor Brigid, goddess of as I feel the days growing longer. th
middle winter, and invoke the element The sun’s gentle return, the flame, re
of fire in her sacred flame. its rays spreading warmth across the land, F
across my heart. b
Today at middle winter, I feel a stirring. I am the light. I share my light with others.
All around me, signs of life emerge And in doing so, my light expands. C
from beneath blankets of snow and ice. May all that I touch grow, bloom, p
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Love Draw Medicine Bag
FEBRUARY
To attract new love into • White sage or palo santo to cleanse
your life and clear your space
• Selenite or quartz wand to open
The items you gather for this project are sacred space
all sacred to both Venus and Aphrodite, • Dried hibiscus leaves
the Roman and Greek goddesses of love, • Patchouli essential oil or dried herbs
respectively. Ideally, gather the items on • Rose petals
Friday (Venus day), or create the medicine • Dried rosemary
bag on a Friday, or do both on Friday. • Balm of Gilead bud
• Dried damiana herb
Center yourself and call your energy into • Rose quartz
present time by speaking your full birth • Magnetite or magnesite
name out loud three times. Take a deep • Small bowl
breath, enjoying the delicious inhale fully; • Rose essential oil
on the exhale, release all inhibitions you • Rose geranium essential oil
may be holding toward love. Let go of • Small magnet
fear, feelings of unworthiness, or anger • A strand of your hair as an object
about past wounds. You are setting the link (optional)
stage for a new love to reach you. Focus • Almandine garnet, jet, hematite, or
on him, focus on her. Focus on what is onyx to ground your energy upon
becoming, not what has been. The magic closing your space
you work will be more potent, energized, • Small organza bag in either pink,
and durable. burgundy, or green
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Use as many or as few of these items as exhale, or your life force, across the
you feel called to by your spirit guides. bag, infusing each ingredient with
As you gather each item, gaze up to Father your unique energetic codes and
Sky and give thanks to Source for the frequencies. This medicine will only
blessing of its growth, its presence, and be as powerful as the intention you
its wisdom. Once you have arranged your set while creating it. Stay there: Don’t
items, smudge them. doubt for a moment how powerful
this work is, and how powerful you
Open your sacred space (see page 6). are as the magician. Allow this to be
Mix your herbs together with your a moment whereby you simultaneously
hands, gently massaging and crushing create magic and reify your own
them to release their oils and fragrance, personal commitment to your life
then combine the herbs with the crystals path and force.
in a small bowl. Feel the textural
juxtaposition between herb and stone, May it be so. For it is done.
enjoying the earth-based alchemies they
hold and represent. Once the mixture Place this Love Draw Medicine Bag upon
is combined to your satisfaction and your primary altar if you only have one,
complete pleasure, pour a few drops of or on your love altar. Give thanks to
each essential oil over it. Allow yourself your spirit guides and ancestors, release
to fully delight in the union. them, and prepare for love to come in
perfect time.
Place everything into the organza bag
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warmer, happier days of hope and laughter are
ahead once you get past the labor, the birth,
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Nothing beautiful is born without toil. inspiration, for in the months to come
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That is the lesson of childbirth. But there you never know which of them will bear
is beauty in the struggle. Can you see the the ripest fruit.
sacred in the situations of your life? March
is an invitation to find balance in your The quality of balance you strike in
life, as it anchors the spring equinox in March will dictate the strength you have
the northern hemisphere. Where in your in summer to support your own growth.
life do you need to seek and discover What you do this month really counts.
balance? Are you aware of your light and Be mindful about your words and your
shadow, and do you honor them equally? time. Try to create a better 50/50 split
This month, energy streams of integration between work and play, knowing and
and preparation are activated. Now you trusting that often “play” is devised by
are called to take the wisdom of your spirit to inspire and enhance your work.
winter slumber and turn it into active Good ideas don’t come under duress.
knowing. Your spirit guides are leaning Create space for beauty.
closer to you now. Will you listen to them?
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Spring Equinox (Ostara)

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A calling to connect with Bless me as I seek to cultivate my dreams
all forms of new life with inspired vitality. I
I celebrate fertility of all kinds lif
Ostara represents the reemergence and honor my existence as a sexual being, a
of the goddess from the underworld, capable of giving and sustaining life. to
manifesting the physical rebirth of With each new sunrise, th
springtime. This is a time for celebrating! Gaia finds her balance.
Recite the following blessing aloud to Masculine and feminine, united, entwined, I
honor this new cycle of life. and I watch now a
as light overtakes the darkness. h
As the Wheel of the Year turns east, All of life reaches now ca
the air warms and sweetens, for the sky, for liberation, I
and the sun dances in the sky. for expansion and healing. to
The ice of winter has become a I sing the song of spring
flowing stream, and kindle hope in my heart.
nourishing emergent life. I ask for blessings
I call to you, Ostara, goddess of of fertility and beauty
the dawn, upon all of Gaia’s children.
to help my intentions grow and blossom
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Becoming the Mother
M ARCH
A calling to summon fertility as I become the Mother
and Divine Feminine beauty and create a container of beauty
for a new soul to incarnate.
I feel the call, Teach me, divine mothers,
life seeking to be born through me, how to become a profound vessel
and I feel the connection to Gaia, of sacred and divine fertility.
to the essence of the Mother Bless the seeds within me as they
that abides in all forms of creation. take root
and thrive, bringing new forms of life
I celebrate fertility of all kinds, and creative possibility into being.
and the potential to create, All life flows through me,
honoring my existence as a sexual being and within me,
capable of giving and sustaining life. all life is nourished.
I call upon Gaia, Mary, and Quan Yin
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Spring Equinox (Ostara) Ritual
For rebirth and renewal Gather:

of spirit • White sage or copal for smudging
• A wand to open your circle (optional;
Ostara is an equinox, a state of natural you can always use your hand instead)
equilibrium. It is time for you to find your • Altar covering (optional)
equilibrium, too, and languish in energies • A beautiful vase or mason jar
of renewal and restoration. • Fresh flowers (2 or 3 bundles of a dozen
each to give yourself some freedom for
Reimagine what Ostara means for creativity, with stems at least 6 inches
you. Maybe in addition to a traditional [15 cm] long)
practice, you’ll purchase a brightly • Crystals and materials that represent
colored dress or plant bulbs in your growth and fertility, such as garnet,
garden. Whatever you do, your focus aventurine, quartz, or coral
and intention are key: What new life are • A white candle, which represents life,
you birthing this year? What resources and a blue candle, which represents
will you need to make it happen? This open sky for expansion
ritual’s sacred offerings to Ostara are • Essential oils for spring, such as
tangible prayers for growth, rebirth, lavender, ylang ylang, rose de mai,
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Smudge all the items you have gathered, in the world? Enjoy the process of
giving thanks for their energy and what imagining your future into being. If
they offer to your space and to you. Clear it feels right to you, recite the Ostara
the space energetically, burning white Blessing and Invocation in this chapter
sage or copal and waving the smoke of aloud. Then, extinguish your candle, T
the herbs around you, your space, and all and with a heart full of gratitude, release o
your tools. Then, with your wand or right the Guardians of the Four Directions
hand, open your circle of energy to create from your circle, in the opposite order G
a powerful container for your ritual. Invite in which you invited them. o
and welcome the Guardians of the Four ra
Directions (see page 7). Clear the surface Wave your wand counterclockwise to
upon which you will place your Ostara release the circle of energy, imagining it G
offerings, laying down an altar covering scattering like tiny stars of beauty and •
if you want to. Then fill your vase with possibility out into the matrix where
fresh water and flowers to represent your each one of your visions will anchor, root, •
intention for emotional rebirth, placing a and begin to grow. Keep saying thank you.
crystal inside to represent your intention Thank you, thank you, thank you. •
for growth.
With your feet firmly on the floor, send
Light your candle, which represents your any residual energy down into Gaia’s belly,
intention for strength and courage, and where it can be transmuted into usable
anoint with your sacred oils to represent white light. •
your intention to manifest beauty in the
world. Take three deep cleansing breaths, May your growth, your rebirth, and your
envisioning your growth, rebirth, and expansion be blessed.
expansion. How will you grow this season, •
what will be born or reborn through you, Amen, A’ho, So it is
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Balance Grid
M ARCH
To honor the dualities Think of grids as compasses, anchoring
of equinox the energies of the four cardinal
directions: north for wisdom; east for
Grids are energy vortexes; they are places new beginnings and new life; south
of power and magic. Are you ready to for courage and strength; and west
raise energy for your dreams? for emotional balance, healing,
detoxification, and grief. You can make
Gather: a simple grid using a generator in the
• Palo santo, copal, or white sage center and four crystals at the quadrants;
for smudging or you can “cut the quadrants” into
, • A quartz generator, obelisk, quarters, making cross-quarters, and
u. or pyramid expand the energy, increasing the number
• Gemstones aligned to balance: of crystals to eight, and then sixteen, and
lepidolite, sodalite, blue kyanite, then thirty-two. Each time you expand
fluorite, sapphire, turquoise, larimar, the circle by multiples of four, you radiate
y, chrysoprase, and blue opal are a higher frequency.
good options
• Herbs or flowers of balance and Begin by smudging the crystals.
equalization (optional): lotus root, Place your generator in the center of
hydrangea, rosemary, and thyme are your grid, visualizing a beam of white
good options divine light flowing from beneath it,
• Double-terminated quartz point through it, and out toward the heavens.
Then working clockwise, place stones
around your generator. If you have four
stones, place one at each of the cardinal
directions. If you have eight, you can
place two at each direction or one at
each direction and each cross-quarter
direction (e.g., NE, NW, SE, SW).
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From there, with each additional four grid, forming a spider’s web of energy
stones, you can cross the quarters again around the grid. Once you return to the
into eighths, making a mandala design, or center generator, stop, close your eyes, and
you can extend the limbs of a basic four- declare that the energetic field of the grid
directional or eight-directional grid. Base is open. In doing so, you allow the flow of
your decision on the aesthetics of your energies to begin.
grid or on the energy. Including more
stones in fewer directions will empower If and when you decide to close the
the energy streams more directly. Add energy of this grid, open your
herbs or flowers as desired. circle, remove and bless items in a
counterclockwise direction, and smudge
Once your grid feels complete, charge it and thank each item for its service.
with a double-terminated quartz point. This is best done at a new moon or
Touch one end of your point to the during a waning moon phase.
generator in the center of your grid, and
then touch the easternmost crystal in Great Spirit, we thank you for blessing
the center of your grid. Focus your our sacred work and honoring our need
energy and attention on your intention for balance at this time.
for building this grid, which is balance.
Moving clockwise, touch the center Amen, A’ho, So it is
generator and then each crystal in the
Are you ready to raise energy

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through trees full of tender green leaves. The fullest T
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display of nature’s beauty awaits you, of course; the
most heavily scented of her flowers have yet to spread
their petals. Your heart flutters with optimism when
you see life emerging and flourishing. Much that
seemed to wither last winter has come back to life
in new and surprising ways, reminding you not to
discount the healing powers of rest and surrender.
Warmer days are luring you outside. Heed that
invitation; sink your feet into grass and feel your
worries melt and flow down into Gaia’s thick roots
away from you, leaving you lighter and happier.
Whatever you have carried over from winter, make
one final release here and now.
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April is a month of hope and a month and begin to integrate your wisdom,
APRIL
of healing. April is the triumph of light you will finally access that healing you
over darkness, and it represents your have waited on. Healing is an outcome
own ability to persevere through intense of love. And the most important person
challenges. Think about it: You have who needs to love you is you. Use the
survived them all! You are a warrior, a invocations and blessing in this chapter
survivor, and a teacher. You are a creator, to call in the healing you seek on physical,
a builder, and a steward. Honor the emotional, and spiritual levels. Living
fullness of the expression of life that you a well life is your birthright. Now is the
are. How many people have you helped time, and you are ready. Once you engage
along this path? your faith, nothing is impossible.
This world is better because of you. Once Y A’ho

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New Moon Healing and Balance
A calling to your healing I channel the sacred life force. T

angels for healing, balance, I am aware of my access b
and alignment to All Wisdom across All Time,
and my ability to unlock healing codes In
To begin, purify your space with white at this new moon o
sage, and place four pieces of smoky for my wellness and Highest Good. b
quartz or Himalayan salt crystals (one in Source, Mother Goddess, Great Spirit, a
each corner of the room) where you will Father God, fr
be performing your healing ceremony, I call in your breath of life of the east,
as these are detoxifiers of space. your healing waters of the west, I
your sacred fires of the south,
At this new moon, I seek wellness your grounding trees of the north so
and balance to heal, transform, and protect me I
of body, mind, and spirit. from harm. m
I call in alignment, health, and peace. Now and always, A
Blood and bone, clean and pure may it be so. I
free of disease frequencies.
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Recovery and Addiction
APRIL
To remove energetic I call on Archangel Michael
bonds of addiction and Archangel Raphael to heal energies
of addiction.
In my frailty, I have become reliant Great Spirit, please relay your divine
on sources of energy guidance
beyond my own so that I may know purity of mind, body,
and I seek now to heal and transform, and spirit,
free of the bonds of addiction free from all negative bonds.
and pain. I no longer give power to those bonds,
I surrender my pain and all my fear for they do not serve my Highest Good.
to Source, I call back my power
so I may be held, and healed. and choose only what is healthy and right
I recognize my humanity, for me.
my imperfections, and my flaws. I am here, I will survive, and
And although I face challenges, I will rise above any circumstances
I love and accept myself, as I am in that deter me from my soul’s true path.
this moment. I claim my wholeness and my wellness.
Nothing to change, nothing to fix. I claim my alignment, my place,
Great Spirit, I ask you to aid me in and my connection with God.
releasing my bonds.
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Physical Wellness
A calling to invite strength, and peace. T

physical well-being Help ease the physical challenges
and discomforts of life, F
Great Spirit, I thank you for this so I can pursue my path se
human lifetime with vitality and courage. sp
you have bestowed upon me, I ask that you keep my bones strong, h
for the vitality and energy that surge my blood pure, o
through my veins. my mind centered, my lungs clear, d
I thank you for my senses and my heart full.
~ sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste ~ I ask for this blessing of wellness G
and the access they offer to this so that I may move in the world •
beautiful world. free of pain, worry, or discomfort
I am grateful for the unique gifts you and bless others along the way, •
have granted me, sharing with them
the connections with others I know what you offer so freely and graciously
and love. to me. •
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I receive my physical healing,
with gratitude.
I ask that you continue to bless me with
physical health, Amen, A’ho, So it is •
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Home Healing Altar
APRIL
To bring health to your family Green is the color of healing, so place your
altar in a green room or use a green cover.
First consider what kind(s) of healing you According to principles of feng shui, the
seek to manifest: physical, emotional, ideal location for a healing altar within
spiritual, or karmic? Self-healing or your home or sacred space is in the center,
healing for others? For family members though a family healing altar belongs in
or clients? Gemstone choices may change the east.
depending on your decision.
Consider the elements as you begin to
Gather: organize them. Then, smudge each item.
• Smudging herbs for healing (such as (I also recommend smudging your entire
palo santo or white sage) home or sacred space before setting up
• A crystal generator aligned to healing this altar.) You might say, “With this
(hematoid quartz, clear quartz, smoky smoke I clear any energies in this space
quartz, or aventurine) that are not in service to my Highest Good
• 4, 8, 12, or 16 natural or tumbled or the Highest Good of those I love, and
healing crystals aligned to healing need those who reside here. I call in universal
(you can choose crystals for relevant White Light of love and truth to replace
chakras or health concerns) any energies I remove today. Amen, A’ho,
• A healing wand made of prehnite, So it is.”
aventurine, Tibetan quartz, or
danburite (optional) Place your crystal generator in the center
• A feather or smudging fan (optional) of your altar, and surround it with any of
• Healing oils and herbs (e.g., rosemary, the other crystal healing stones to form a
eucalyptus, sage, thyme, basil, and aloe) mandala. Add one stone at each direction:
• A glass or chalice of fresh water north, south, east, and west. Or use eight
(optional) or sixteen stones, cutting the quarters into
• A statue of a healing deity or symbol cross-quarters, expanding the circle of
(Quan Yin or the shamanic Healing your mandala.
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Place your smudging herbs or resins Last, place your candle in the south
in the east with your wand, smudging of your altar, and give thanks to the
fan, feather, or any other air-element southern guardians.
offerings. Give thanks to the eastern
guardians for their support. Next, add Smudge one more time. Bow your
any healing oils to the western corner head and bring your hands to prayer
of your altar, representing water. You position over your heart. Give thanks
can also use a glass of water to represent for the wisdom and inspiration that led
health and hydration. Give thanks to the to your altar’s creation. May you enjoy
western guardians. If you have a healing perfect health in your home or sacred
statue of a deity, place that in the center space, always.
or in the north to represent wisdom.
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Flower and Herb Mandala
To raise energy for beauty, and through the act of meditating upon
wellness, and ease the energy they hold.
Making a mandala is a meditative Smudge all your gathered offerings, and

exercise, one that invites simplicity, yourself, focusing on your hands. Place
contemplation, and gratitude. your generator at the center of your
mandala space, and place four flowers
Gather: or gemstones at the cardinal directions,
• Palo santo, copal, or white sage for anchoring them with gratitude, a song, or
smudging a prayer. For example, “Great Spirit, thank
• A quartz or aventurine generator, you for the gifts of these crystals, flowers,
for magnification and new growth fruits, branches, and leaves. I gather them
• Flower petals and leaves in service to you and in gratitude for your
• Tumbled gemstones or chip stones greater blessings. Amen, A’ho, So it is.”
(optional)
• Tree branches (optional) Work outward from the center, adding
• Fruit or other edible offerings items that lend balance and texture, color
(optional) and energy, such as tree branches and
fruit offerings. Then take a moment to
Clarify your intention: What is your fully appreciate its beauty and your own.
need or desire, and how might this Meditate, perhaps calling in wellness
mandala represent a gateway to a new and ease for yourself and for our planet
level of awareness? Mandalas are creations as well.
of beauty and harmony but can also
transport you to higher dimensions May you always walk the beauty path.
of consciousness, both through the
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cinquefoil plant, which attracts prosperity. Five is se
a number of completion and wealth. And in the
fifth month of the year, there is a palpable energy
of abundance. Work with this energy to enhance
flow of financial resources ahead of the growth and
harvest seasons to come.
When you think of prosperity, do you think of

yourself as entitled to it or blocked from it? Does the
idea of material wealth make you uncomfortable?
Where do your ideas about money come from?
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A river flows without thinking about A sincere desire for wealth is a desire
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how big it is, how another river might for wealth of all things for all beings
compare to it, or whether it is entitled to at all times. When I open a portal for
flow freely, expansively, and powerfully prosperity, that energy becomes available
along its path. Nature models wealth to us for the collective. I delight when I see
in every way—abundance of flowers and others call in prosperity, for all benefit
fruits, vistas so wide and colorful your when one benefits. So ring your bell, light
eyes can’t fully take them in. Why, then, your candle, summon your guides, gather
might humans feel conditioned to stay your crystals, bathe in salt, and let go of
small and take up minimal space? And fear. Stake your claim to what is yours
how does this mind-set of smallness using the blessings and projects in this
serve us? chapter to guide you.
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A calling to summon an abundant being p
material wealth and flow overflowing with beauty, possibility,
and infinite wisdom. A
On the 5th of May, a power Thank you, Great Spirit, for the many gifts
day for money magic, read this you have bestowed upon me in a
invocation aloud. this lifetime.
Help me to use them well, in service of all, to
I envision a life of prosperity— and bless me so that I can do my
a life in which my energies, soul’s work
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easily and freely through me. I am a being of light, child of the Divine, R
I allow my heart to open, and prosperity is not merely my desire to
and inspiration to pour through, —it is my absolute birthright.
shining light upon channels of abundance I claim my prosperity now,
ready to support me beyond my dreams. and it is done. A
I recognize that I am,
like all of nature, Amen, A’ho, So it is a
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Beltane
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To celebrate fire, I am a being of power, maturity, passion,
passion, and fertility and wisdom,
ripe with the fruits of Beltane.
At Beltane, we honor the culmination I am manifest potential, and my creative
s of spring fire burns.
and the sacred union of the God Today and always,
and Goddess I ask that you help me feel and fan my
to bring forth new life. Our ancestors inner fire.
invoked the wild, animalistic energies Today and always,
of the Green Man on this day, I ask that you bless me
while dancing around the Maypole. with the continuous love of the one
Repeat the following blessing aloud whose touch I have known
to celebrate fertility and the midway point for a thousand years.
to summer. May the flames, ashes, and smoke of the
Beltane fire
At Beltane, I ignite the sacred flame protect, strengthen, and inspire me
within me, while they seduce, inspire, and
activating my fertility, my magic. nourish me.
I dance around the fire with my beloved May the fire
honoring the abundance we hold as that ever burns within me
a union. also ever burn between
At this pinnacle of spring, I honor me and my soul’s twin.
my growth,
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Sacred Box Dedication
To bless and consecrate And when the time comes T

sacred tools for blessings I will surrender them back to you, a
on the season ahead into the arms of another keeper as
you designate, A
These tools are my offerings, or onto another great journey. th
my ways into the circle. For now, I am their keeper. ab
These tools are my guides, I honor their journey, and mine, the o
my escorts into the sacred. entwined path.
Great Spirit and Mother Earth, No other shall use these tools G
I thank you for bringing my tools to me. for as long as they serve me. •
I thank you for showing them to me, In your presence, I dedicate and
and for the blessing of being their guardian. consecrate them •
May they hold the energy, and this vessel to my work,
stir the field, keep the wisdom, to the mysteries, to the great secrets •
and tell me their stories. they keep
Help them to strengthen me in times and to which I bear witness.
of fear,
reassure me in times of the unknown, Amen, A’ho, So it is
and nurture me in times of great joy. •
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Prosperity Altar
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To raise energies of wealth Smudge your space and offer a prayer
and financial gain for prosperity. Focus on what you seek,
as specifically as you can, as you set
A prosperity altar is a powerful vortex your intention.
that attracts energy streams of wealth and
abundance. Put it in the southeast corner Place your generator at the center of your
of your home or sacred space. altar. Bless it as a bringer of prosperity
and abundance energies. Give thanks for
Gather: its work. Place four tumbled stones at the
• Palo santo, copal, or white sage for corners. Use four of the same stone to
smudging create balance, or alternate stones to create
• A large quartz, citrine, or aventurine visual interest. If you would like, cut
generator the corners into cross-quarters, placing
• Tumbled stones aligned to prosperity: stones between the four directions. Place
natural citrine, aventurine, hessonite your chalice in the west, where it will
garnet, yellow apatite, yellow fluorite, nourish the spirits of the west who bring
pyrite, emerald, jade, and green clearing and purification, along with your
tourmaline perfume or oils. Take one of your quartz
• A fountain or chalice of water or citrine points and lay it at each of the
• Perfume or essential oils for wealth four directions as the outermost objects
(e.g., patchouli, myrtle, basil, cinnamon, in your grid. Turn the points inward to
orange, and myrrh) ensure that the prosperity energy you’re
• 4 or 8 clear quartz or natural citrine raising stays anchored in your space; by
points (not tumbled) turning the points outward, you raise a
• Herbs associated with wealth: more general frequency of prosperity that
cinquefoil, basil, cinnamon sticks, or is allowed to extend beyond your space
patchouli (optional) and bless the broader planet. Place any
• Pieces of currency herbs between the crystals, adding their
• A statue of a deity associated with elemental energy. Next, add your coins in
wealth (optional) the western quadrant of your altar, as west
• A green or gold candle governs water and flow. Place your statue
• A double-terminated quartz wand in the center or in the eastern quadrant to
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welcome its energy into your space. Then wand around your altar in a clockwise
place your candle at the southernmost circle. Set the intention that energy is
point on your altar, and see if anything flowing through you and all your tools,
else feels called to be present. opening a portal for connection to
Source. Imagine it flowing from every
You are ready to charge your altar corner of our universe, directly to you.
(optional). Light your candle, calling in Your hand will likely become warm. As
the elemental guardians of the south. you bring your wand back to its starting
As you gaze at it, imagine the prosperity point, closing the circle and sealing the
you desire, and inhabit the depth of that blessings, bow your head and bring your
emotion for a moment. How will you feel hands to prayer position. Give thanks for
when you receive your abundance? Let the abundance already on its way.
yourself feel it now. With your right hand,
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Money Draw Incense
An offering to attract blessings in your life on all levels? Write your

of wealth and material success intention down or speak it aloud.
You can use this incense every day or Place your herbs, one at a time, into your
during rituals that welcome energies of mortar. As you grind them, bless each
abundance and wealth. and thank it. Smell the blend frequently,
making sure it’s pleasing. Add a few drops
Gather: of essential oil and grind. Don’t weight
• Dried herbs and flowers associated with your incense down too heavily with oils;
wealth and attraction (e.g., patchouli, use them for their energy and as a gentle
cinquefoil, basil, cinnamon bark, binding agent.
orange peel, bay, orange blossom/neroli,
and catnip) Place your quartz point or crystal into
• A mortar and pestle the incense. Place both hands over your
• Essential oils associated with wealth mortar and send gratitude through your
and attraction (same list as above) hands into the blend, asking that it bless
• A quartz point or other crystal you and anyone who works with it. For
associated with wealth (e.g., aventurine, the highest good of all, may money come
citrine, peridot, and hessonite garnet) to you from sources seen and unseen.
• A small, tight-sealing, beautiful jar Store your incense in a jar. To use, place
a pinch on a charcoal disk, allowing the
Clear your space and focus on your smoke to move through your sacred
intention. Why are you drawing money space and bless you.
energy? Is it for a specific purpose, or are
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penance. This is a month for you to begin for you and hopes you will notice before
tasting some of the sweet fruits of your it’s too late. All of nature hopes you will
desires and your hard work. Enjoy the notice, enjoy, stop, give thanks, take a
unfolding of the season of becoming. breather, stretch out, lounge around,
and yet still make sure she has what she
How will you use the summer days? Some needs, for much of her domain cannot
of them should be syrupy, slow, and sweet. speak to you in words. Nature speaks
Some of them should be long and arduous in flowers.
because you are still tending your crops.
Some of them should end with warm May your garden overflow with color
r nights full of laughter and sweet toasts and beauty all season long, my fellow
to tender moments. Bring new flowers Soulscaper.
from the garden into your home because
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For a magical and ancient present to witness your union: earth, F

wedding celebration air, fire, water. d
Do you welcome these elementals
Handfasting is an ancient Celtic to witness and honor your union today? A
tradition to bind the hands of a couple If so, please say, a
in marriage. A ribbon, traditionally of WE DO. n
tartan, is used to signify the joining Handfastings can last for a year and one O
of families and clans. The following day or a lifetime. Beloveds, how long en
ceremony is a modern take on an do you wish this handfasting to bind Y
ancient practice that has been used to you together? a
marry couples from all faith traditions. If it is a lifetime you seek together, A
This ceremony involves the use of four please say, LIFETIME. w
gemstones to be placed on the wedding So it is.
altar in front of the betrothed couple. [Officiant wraps the fabric around I
For earth, you can use petrified wood; husband/partner 1 left wrist and wife/ I
for air, you can use citrine; for fire, you partner 2 right wrist.]
can use carnelian; and for water, iolite is Once wrists are bound, I
recommended. Use your intuition when please repeat after me:
choosing alternatives. “With this bond, I share with you my family, to
my ancestral line, my blood, and all that
Beloveds, do you give this ribbon freely I am.”
today to share your lineage with It is done.
each other? And so shall it be forever,
If so, please say, such that no mortal force may separate
I DO. what God has joined here.
Today we are using four gemstones
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Honoring the Cycles
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For elemental support I draw in the element of water to move
during change through me
as I allow these deepest feelings of sadness
All that begins must end, and loss
and yet energy is neither created to come forth and flow like the rivers.
nor destroyed. I draw in the element of fire to cleanse me
Our souls and our spirits roam in eternity, as I release and surrender what can no
endlessly rediscovering each other. longer be.
You and I are old and young I draw in the element of air to usher in
and we have traveled many roads together. winds of change.
As I say goodbye to one Sadness is a precursor of joy,
who must leave this human form and the cycles of life always prevail.
and space, To the Earth and the Stars
I honor the cycles and the seasons. we shall all one day return.
/ I am reminded of the preciousness I have known you since we left the stars,
of life. and I shall recognize you
I draw in the element of earth to ground when we reunite there together again.
me as I mourn,
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To summon and anchor the Element of fire, direction of south, F

four sacred directions encourage and energize my work,
motivating me and driving me, L
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with your candles, gems, perfumes, Spirits of the south, infuse your magic into b
pendulums, or other sacred tools. You these tools. th
may also use these words to dedicate new Element of water, direction of west, w
tools when you receive them or to charge you flow through me and my work, in
existing tools with new and refreshed guiding me,
energy. You may choose to physically directing me, helping me move effortlessly I
turn to the directions when reading, or along my path. w
simply sense the energies of the directions Spirits of the west, infuse your magic into
as you speak the words. these tools. si
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Great Spirit, Divine Creator of the you steady me and ground my work, p
Universe, holding and supporting me, A
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to do my soul’s work on this Earth Spirits of the north, infuse your magic a
and manifest my gifts for the good into these tools.
of all. Thank you, Elemental Spirits, I
for being present to me.
Element of air, direction of east, I seek to honor each of you
you breathe life into my work, inspiring me, in the ways I manifest and mirror
moving me, helping me imagine new your magic in my work,
beginnings. my offerings, and my practice.
Spirits of the east, infuse your magic into
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Litha (Summer Solstice)
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For the growth season ahead and I channel the divine masculine
within.
Litha is the dawn of summer and the Great Spirit, I ask you to show me
longest day of the year. To honor and the realms
o bask in this light-filled day, repeat where the fae run free, my ancestors reign,
the following blessing aloud, preferably and my deepest wisdom resides.
while sitting in the southern direction Here my branches stretch
in direct sunlight. skyward, free to grow tall and strong,
and here my soul finds freedom
I come to this day of solstice as a seeker, to express itself fully.
watching the sun return to its seat I activate my Solar Plexus and
of power, Sacral chakras,
signaling summer’s start. my deepest sources of human power
This season of fertility and growth and latent potential.
promises rich reward. May the last flames of Litha’s sun shine
At Litha, a portal opens, brightly on me,
the wheel turns south, and unleash my sacred potential in
as divine light shines on the longest day abundant ways.
of the year.
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Summer Solstice Ritual
For expansion and growth Set an intention for this longest day.
to honor the sun’s power How will you use the power of this
occasion? Where in your life does the
On the summer solstice, the sun is sun need to shine more powerfully,
king, and your focus is on his power, casting his warm and intense gaze upon
his direction, and his growth. A simple, what has previously been hidden in the
elegant, and sacred ritual to honor shadows? Which plants in the garden
this day of longest sun is to drum up of your soul need the sun’s warmth to
or down the sun. grow stronger in the season of expansion
ahead? Call upon Grandfather Sun to
Gather: bring his brilliant illumination and bless
• Palo santo, copal, or white sage you with an abundance of his energy.
for smudging Speak your intention aloud or write
• A representation of the sun it down, and take a moment to honor
(e.g., a carnelian or garnet ring, the integrity of your desire. Before you
a sun-colored dress, or gold) begin drumming, smudge your space
• A drum or rattle with clearing herbs and set an intention
for this longest day. Feel into what you
seek, and allow yourself to experience
its energy as if it is already happening
in this moment. From this illuminated
space, hold the solar power piece you have
chosen to represent the sun in your right
or masculine hand. Feel the sun's rays
charging your sacred tool with power.
You can choose to wear this piece while
you drum or place it on the floor in
front of where you will be standing.
Then, when you are ready . . .
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Stand and face east. Bow to the east, a human teacher but from the spirit of
giving thanks to the guardians of the drum itself.

air and their gift of the breath of life.
Turn south and bow, giving thanks to Drum up high, and drum down low,
the guardians of fire and their gift of thanking the sun, the moon, and all T
courage. Turn west and bow, giving the stars for their presence. Thank all lo
thanks to the guardians of water for of life for being present to this moment
their gift of healing. Turn north and of creation. Let yourself be free in this If
bow, giving thanks to the guardians expression of energy and transformation. ce
of earth for their gift of protection. Surrender a bit to your wild side. This is li
Turn your gaze skyward, and thank your time to let loose and dust off what yo
Father Sky for his blessings of faith has been covered, hidden, or obscured by a
and illumination. Last, turn your gaze fear. Drum until you feel your heartsong a
earthward, and thank Pachamama is complete, and then, bring your drum p
for her blessings of wisdom and before you, to your heart, and bow one sh
grounding. When you are ready, begin last time. With this final bow, your o
to drum, following your heart’s own offering to the sun and your summer st
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Sacred Union Grid
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To honor and protect what Gather:
love has joined together • Palo santo, copal, or white sage for
smudging
If you desire love, or if you wish to • A perfume or essential oil blend with
celebrate the love already present in your notes aligned to love and protection
life, building this grid will strengthen (angelica, rose de mai, ylang ylang,
your connection and align you to receive vetiver, jasmine, neroli, and cedarwood
all love with a more open heart. Your love are a few options)
altar or bedroom is a natural choice for • A pink or light green candle
placement. According to principles of feng • A rose quartz generator or obelisk
shui, love altars placed in the southwest • Gemstones aligned to love (e.g.,
of your home or sacred space attract the rhodonite, rose quartz, pink opal, pink
strongest resonant frequency, and thus tourmaline, rhodochrosite, morganite,
will yield the best results. prehnite, or Botswana agate)
continued • 4 or 8 quartz points for the outer edges
of your grid, to guide the flow of energy
• Roses or other love flowers to embellish
your grid (optional)
• Statue of a love deity such as Venus or
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Center yourself, call your energy into Begin by placing your rose quartz
the present by taking a few deep breaths, generator at the center or heartspace
and focus on your intention. Are you in of your grid. From there, working
search of love, or do you seek to protect clockwise to open energies, place your
and strengthen an existing relationship? additional gemstones at each quarter,
Write your intention down or speak it building from the center outward in
out loud, to raise the frequency of your radiating lines of energy. Once you
work and begin to open a portal of energy. have placed all your stones and you
All magic begins with your affirmation. feel good about the balance, symmetry,
and composition of your grid, place your
Smudge the crystals and tools you have quartz points at the outer edges of the
gathered. Anoint yourself and/or your four directions, and smudge once more.
stones with your love perfume, and if you You may activate your grid by saying
desire to hold all the elements in place out loud, “With this grid, I anchor and
while you build your grid, light your attract energies of love and protection
candle as well. Smudging represents the of my heart.”
element of air; anointing and placing of
fresh flowers represents the element of May you be blessed in love forever.
water; your crystals represent the element
of earth; and your candle represents the Amen, A’ho, So it is
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desire—your desire—and all the things part of your dharma, or soul purpose for
you want deep down inside. So much incarnating in this lifetime. You are meant
of your soul, your unique fingerprint, to want what you want. Stop fearing your
and your soul’s true mission live in your desires and start getting excited about
innermost desires, and if my mission is to them. View your desires as keys to your
understand your soul, then I must know future, your purpose, and your happiness.
what is lingering in there. If you start loving and supporting
yourself, you will begin attracting that
Your desires are not just yours; as the higher level of love toward yourself too.
famous Rumi quote suggests, what
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Recommitment
For vow renewal among soul On this day, I repeat my sacred vows T
mates affirming their love and recommit to the promises I have made in
to honor our joy, our passion,
Many seasons and lifetimes our endless connection. T
I have known your soul. The true beauty of your soul inspires me. a
Great storms we have weathered, I listen, fully present, to your truths, W
pure strength we have found, and above all, and with an open heart I will always a
true love we have shared. speak mine, I
We walk hand in hand, two paths so that we may hear and receive each
intertwined, other. th
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together. and I am blessed to share my life with you. a
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the energy between us is boundless, and strength. w
defying space and time. I will love you from this day P
To my soul mate, my Twin Flame, until my last. so
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my commitment to you is as strong today
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Soul Mate Attraction
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To welcome a deeply Bring us to this space together and join
e intimate soul connection our hearts
that we might spend the rest of our days
The time has come and nights
and my heart has been readied. in each other’s tender embrace.
With open hands and arms, I prepare my mind, body, and spirit
a tender heart, and deep gratitude, to receive love in the presence of the one
I seek the touch of my beloved, my whose being completes my own.
Anam Cara, I surrender to a love so deep
the one with whom my soul can rest. it will take this lifetime and beyond
Great Spirit and all of my guides, just to explore it fully.
ancestor spirits and guardian angels, For the Highest Good of both parties
I call upon you and ask with gratitude and all kind,
for you to help guide us to the place I seek this love
where we will find and recognize each other. and even before it arrives,
Please connect us in perfect time, I am grateful for its presence.
so that we can be together
and offer us a clear path to our union, Amen, A’ho, So it is
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Bedroom Altar
For passionate connection Gather:

with your beloved • Palo santo, copal, or white sage for
smudging
July brings energy of intense passion • Altar covering (optional)
and eternal love, so why not harness • A gemstone sphere that represents
those energies in the bedroom? Choose passion and desire (e.g., orange calcite,
items that will not disturb your natural green garnet, vesuvianite, sunstone,
sleep cycles. or peach moonstone)
• A feather or wand to represent air
Gather your items during a waxing or energy (optional)
full moon phase. Smudge your tools, your • An orange candle
bedroom, and yourself, and release any • A perfume or massage oil blend
energies that are not in alignment to your made with oils aligned to love and
deepest soul mate connection. If you have passion (e.g., ginger, rose de mai,
had disagreements or arguments in the damiana, ylang ylang, patchouli,
bedroom, pay special attention to those pink lotus, and jasmine)
areas when you smudge. • Crystals aligned to your passion
continued • Rose petals (fresh or dried, optional)
• Damiana herb (fresh or dried,
optional)
• Small bowl for holding passion
herbs (optional)
• A photograph of you and your beloved
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Choose a location for your bedroom altar. you are in a relationship now or seeking
The southwest corner brings love and to attract one.

partnership, while the westernmost corner
represents love and family—optimal Close your eyes, place your hands on
placement if you are trying to conceive. your sphere, and call into your mind an F
Clear the location. Place an altar cover image of you and your beloved enjoying to
down (if desired) and set your gemstone your relationship more than you ever have
sphere in the center or heartspace of before. See yourself and feel yourself so E
your altar. To the east, place your in love that your entire body tingles with es
smudging herbs, feather, and/or wand; excitement and anticipation. Infuse that w
to the south, place your candle. To the energy into the sphere, imagining it full p
west, place your oils or perfume and fresh of sweet love and explicit desire. Now, p
flowers or live plant; to the north, place open your eyes, release the sphere, and say th
any other crystals aligned to passion thank you to your passion guides.
and desire as well as your dish of herbs, U
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photograph behind your sphere, and passion space with a night of soulful su
then say a prayer for peaceful and lovemaking. Cheers to your passion, o
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beloved. The Recommitment Blessing a
and Soul Mate Attraction Invocation from Amen, A’ho, So it is b
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Inner Fire Perfume
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For Sacral chakra energy Essential oils and absolutes aligned to
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Essential oils are living, vibrational • Cinnamon
essences of plant teachers, and they hold • Damiana
wisdom, power, and potential. This • Ginger
project will help you craft a new sacred • Jasmine
perfume to honor the inner fire during • Neroli
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• Patchouli
Use your intuition to choose essential • Pink peppercorn
oils for this perfume. At right are my • Rose de mai
suggested essential oil and carrier oil • Styrax
options. You will also need a 1-ounce (28 • Ylang ylang
g) container, and I recommend adding
a tiny chip stone or quartz point to the Carrier oils for high-vibrational
bottle to bring crystal energy. perfume making:
continued • Avocado
• Fractionated coconut
• Hemp
• Jojoba
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Gather the oils that call to you, either does it require something more? If not,
from the lists on page 81 or from your stop here. If something more is needed,
own experience. Then, choose a small choose the next option that speaks to you.
clear glass bottle for blending before First smell the opened bottle next to your
decanting into your perfume vessel. Say a blend to test the partnership. If you like
prayer and invite elemental guardians and it, add a little, a few drops at a time. Stop,
spirit allies from the south to be present swirl, and smell. Inhale, exhale. Relax and
with you for this work, because they allow yourself to be with the unfolding
govern the enchanted realms of desire. essence of this perfume. Is it speaking to
you? What secrets does it contain?
Begin with your essential oils and
absolutes; you will add your carrier oil Continue testing and adding until the
after. Start with the two essential oils that final blend has revealed itself to you. Place
call most strongly to you when you think your crystal into your perfume bottle
of your inner fire, your sexiest self, your (optional), and add your blend, slowly,
ultimate seduction. Blend them, a few enjoying the view and the scent. Allow
drops at a time. Stop, swirl, and smell. Do yourself to be seduced by it.
you like their rhythm, their partnership?
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It is a bittersweet farewell, for most of our flowers. Give back something small in
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growth potential of the year has already return: a song that you sing, a sprig of
been realized. Our main achievements dried herbs, a small gemstone, or another
of the year are behind us. For some, this organic treasure. Some like to burn herbs
realization is a source of sadness; for and smudge while they gather their crops.
others, this surrender opens a gateway to Others prefer to bake bread to honor
abundance and other blessings, including First Harvest. However you celebrate,
gratitude. We learn to appreciate what remember that this is a time of reflection
we have. and appreciation, not only for what has
come to pass but also for what has been
Leave an offering behind, a gesture of lost, for both have taught you valuable
thanks and a gesture of faith for what has lessons and advanced you on your soul’s
yet to unfold. Offerings are your way of developmental path.
contacting Pachamama, the Great Mother,
and letting her know that you are working All harvests are good harvests through
with her medicine. At Lammastide, on such a lens.
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For blessings in the Gather:
harvest season ahead • Palo santo, copal, or white sage for
smudging
A despacho is a profoundly meaningful • A piece of paper or a paper bag,
prayer offering traditionally practiced by unfolded, upon which to create your
Q’ero shaman in the Andes Mountains mandala of offerings
of Peru, where the Apu spirits of the • Leaves from local trees to represent
local mountains continue to guide ritual prayers (Traditionally, coca leaves
and ceremonial practices. A despacho from the Amazon would be used here,
offering can be made anywhere, and at but barring access to those, please
any time, and should include items you choose leaves with meaning to you from
have at your disposal; what matters most your local garden or forest.)
d, is the intention beyond your offering, • Organic items to represent gifts (Grains,
not the specific items you include, sweets, shells, gemstones, flowers, and
though traditionally you should include herbs are beautiful examples.)
something sweet and leaves that have been • String to tie your despacho
infused with your breath or life force, the • Firepit or other source if you wish
two sweetest medicines in a despacho to burn your despacho in the traditional
bundle. The purpose of a bundle is to way (An alternative will be discussed.)
give thanks to Gaia, to Pachamama, to
our great Earth Mother for the bounty
she provides without asking for much in
return. Think of it as Gaia’s Mother’s Day
gift. To the Q’ero shaman, despacho is
one tool to enact ayni, or cosmic balance,
creating equity in the exchange between
Pachamama and her children. This is your
chance to give back in a good way for all
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You can do your despacho ritual alone or positioned and you have given thanks
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in a small group—either way is powerful. once more, bring the edges of your
In a group setting, remember that you are paper together and fold them over the
always working not only with your unique top, carefully wrapping the despacho
intentions and energy but with the energy without turning it over so you do not
and intentions of the collective as well. spill the offerings inside or disrupt
All will need to be included, represented, their order.
and the process shared.
Once your bundle is neatly folded and
When you are ready, smudge your closed, tie it with your string and say
despacho items with smoke of copal, a final prayer as you do, reminding
sage, or palo santo. Place your piece Pachamama and your earth guides that
of paper on your altar. Then, take a this is your sacred expression of divine
bundle of your leaves and wrap them gratitude. At this point in a traditional
in your hands; bring them to your mouth despacho ceremony, the shaman would
and blow your breath of spirit across take the bundle and burn it privately.
them, using your breath as a prayer You may choose to burn or bury your
offering. Take a moment to center bundle, because depending on the land
yourself here and focus on your intention, where you live, fire may not be legal
your prayers, and your gratitude. This or advisable.
is your time with your cosmic mother.
Spend it wisely and in a way that you However you give this bundle back to
will enjoy. Next, on top of your layer Pachamama, do so with loving intention.
of leaf prayers, place the gifts you have May you be blessed for this expression
brought—sweets, crystals, flowers, found of gratitude in ways that advance your
feathers, or stones—and position them progress on your spiritual path.
in a pleasing way, focusing on symmetry
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To usher in First Harvest Smudge yourself and the items you
and the gift of wheat have gathered. As you do, bring your
attention to this moment and sit with
At Lammas, we give thanks for the early the energy of First Harvest. The growth
harvests. We get to taste the fruit of our cycles of this year are complete. Do you
labor, but the season of growth is now feel a sense of excitement for the harvests
behind us. It is almost time to say goodbye ahead of you, or a sense of sadness and
to nature’s bounty. For this ritual, choose longing for what can no longer travel
one of your early soul harvests or personal with you? To harvest well, one must both
victories of this year to celebrate. By create something that survives and grieve
expressing your gratitude for one of your the crops that did not make it. What
blessings in a ceremonial way, you will could you have done more diligently this
invite more to follow. year to ensure strong growth of crops
that withered? What did you do well to
Gather: ensure that those that survived will
• Palo santo, copal, or white sage for bear strong fruit? Both the gain and the
smudging loss are your teachers.
• A white candle for gratitude or a golden
candle for harvest Light your candle and turn your body
• An item representing one of your to face south, which is the direction of
accomplishments already realized summer and high growth. Greet the
this year guardians of this direction, and hold
• A crystal to bless to carry as a reminder the item you have chosen to represent
of your future harvests and seeds of your personal first harvest. Hold it high
crops yet to come above your head, feeling the sun’s warm
• An offering to bury for blessings upon gaze upon it, and allow energy to flow
your remaining harvests from your energy field through your
chakras through your talisman; then,
pass your talisman over the flame of your
candle two times—first to express your
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for additional blessings. Next, take the (burying it or laying it on top of the
crystal you have chosen to bless and pass soil) to represent future growth. Finally,
it over the flame of your candle, calling place the talisman representing your first
in a strong harvest for yourself and your harvest on your primary altar, a symbol
relations. Take your offering in your of your potential to manifest your desires
hand and pass it over the flame of the in alignment with your soul purpose.
candle. Extinguish your candle. Bury your
offering in the west of your garden, to Turn facing south, bow, and bring your
symbolically bless the remainder of your hands to prayer position over your heart.
crops for this season. Place the crystal for
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The Jewish year is ending, and a new year time to plan for next year’s crops. There
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begins this month as we celebrate Rosh can be no delay. While this harvest is fresh
Hashanah. Mabon, the Celtic name for the in your mind, think about what worked
fall equinox, is celebrated this month as well this year and what did not. What
well. Mabon is the second of three Celtic could you have done to ensure stronger
harvests—Lammas, Mabon, and Samhain, growth? Or maybe this year’s harvests
which comes next month. Mabon is the were beyond your expectations. What can
heavy harvest, while Samhain is the you do now to ensure that next year will
harvest of the dead and what is left behind be equally successful? Did you enjoy the
from this month’s efforts. At Samhain process of growth this year? What can you
we make sure the vines are clean and do to make the process more enjoyable?
prepared for winter rest.
The end of one precious cycle begins the
Although this month’s energies of next. May all your harvest celebrations
completion and release bring our attention be blessed.
inward for reflection, contemplation, and
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Rosh Hashanah New Year
To honor the Jewish New Year I center and connect with my traditions. A
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Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, the sounding of the shofar,
which is honored at the new moon each and the resolutions set are all W
September. Rosh Hashanah celebrates sacred expressions
the creation of the first humans on Earth. of gratitude and renewal. H
Repeat the following blessing aloud to I channel the energies of rebirth,
honor the Days of Awe and the past year imagining new possibilities for the to
of your life. year ahead.
I look to what I have created,
On this anniversary of the creation of and give thanks for my prosperity. W
Adam and Eve, I view the world with new eyes,
I celebrate the Jewish New Year. at the start of this blessed new year, H
At this time I welcome the Days of Awe, approaching life with compassionate
and I reflect on the past year. thought and intention.
Now is a time of interpersonal repentance. I embark on the year before me, S
I seek out the souls who need to hear restored and full of optimism.
my apologies May all be inscribed and sealed for a
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and I apologize if I have hurt others.
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Fall Equinox (Mabon)
A calling to celebrate And she can offer you the path, the
your soul’s harvest lightness of being, the deep permission
to just be now.
We turn to the west today, and Mother Your work of the year is done.
Ocean says yes. We turn to the west today and Mother
Her waves crash upon the shore and Ocean says let go.
she is ready Her vast expanse and power can hold the
to receive you and take from you all the things that weigh you down
burdens you shall no longer carry into and your worries can sink to her bottom,
the seasons of acceptance and rest. float to her edges
We turn to the west today and Mother while you experience her embrace.
Ocean says now. She sees your fear and she washes it away
Her waters still at midday as Father Sun so that you can live in pure radiant
casts his beams of light upon her and joy and peace.
caresses her like a tender lover. Mother Ocean has been waiting for you.
She is ready to teach you how to be The guardians and gatekeepers of the west
still and receive so that you hear greet you today with open arms.
the messages of your elders now as Yes, now, come, let go. Your work is
the veil thins. done.
We turn to the west today and Mother So the season of balance, acceptance,
Ocean says come. stillness, and release begins.
Her deep blue majesty is an open invitation
to create better flow in your life. She Amen, A’ho, So it is
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For good harvests and As you gather your Mabon tools,
rewards ahead divide them into two sides: light tools
and shadow tools. For the first part of
For this Mabon, or second harvest, ritual, this ritual, you will want to keep them
we are going to balance the scales and separate; later in the ritual, you will be
mirror nature’s own division of light and guided to mingle them, acknowledging
shadow, which strike perfect balance on the intimate dance of light and shadow.
the two equinoxes each year.
Smudge the items you have gathered,
Gather: and on the left, or yin, side of your altar,
• One white or cream candle to place your burgundy or black candle,
represent your light harvest your perfume or essential oils, and your
• A gemstone to represent your light gems that represent shadow. On the
(e.g., selenite, scolecite, clear calcite, right (masculine), or yang, side, place
quartz, or petalite) your white or cream candle, your gems
• Palo santo, copal, or white sage for that represent light, and your smudging
smudging herbs. Take a deep cleansing breath and
• One burgundy or black candle to acknowledge on an energetic level that
represent your dark harvest all these tools represent parts of you that
• A gemstone to represent your shadow need to be integrated into one dynamic
(e.g., black tourmaline, jet, golden whole expression. When you are ready,
sheen obsidian, or aegirine) call upon your spirit guides to help you
• A perfume or essential oil blend discern which items on the light side of
to integrate your light and shadow your altar are ready to be moved to the
aspects shadow side, and vice versa. Is your light
candle ready to glow upon your shadow
stones, or vice versa? As you step forward
in wisdom to move items on your altar
as called by Spirit, enjoy the liberation
that comes from blurring boundaries.
You are not just light or just shadow.
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Those are easy answers. You are all of the hemispheres of awareness. What
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it, and more. You are the slippage between lessons have been unearthed here for
the categories we believe are fixed. You yourself? Take a moment here to breathe,
are the exception to all the rules. And connect, center, and receive messages
that is why your magic is undeniable from your guides. Finally, bring your
and indefinable. hands to prayer position over your
heart and give thanks for what you have
Once you begin to mix the sides, keep learned. This is the hour of balance, and
going. In the amalgam, your peace and here you are, in the center of All, right
your deeper purpose reside. Move the where you need to be. Welcome this
stones, the candles, the offerings. When moment. Cheers to your balance, your
a new balance has been struck, step back integration, and your health.
and take a closer look at the alchemy of
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attract new people, experiences, emotions, flowers aligned to your intention(s) sp
or energies into your life, then it is time to • Honey or agave in
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Think carefully about the two or three are in place, about halfway full in the
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goals you have for next year. They can be jar, add honey or agave to the top, and
vague or specific. Do you have plans for then write on your slips of paper the
a new career? Maybe you are expanding two or three crops you wish to bless for
your family, moving into a new phase next year. Try to limit yourself to one
with children getting older, or your aging sentence for each, or even just a few
parents require more assistance. What words. Economy of expression is the art
crops are you planting next year that are of the wise. Once you have expressed your
just for you? intentions, fold each slip of paper into
thirds and place it in your jar. Push each
Once you have identified two or three piece down until it is covered in honey.
seeds of intention, smudge your crafting Then, seal your jar and adorn as desired
space and your supplies. Exhale deeply with ribbons and crystals. Do you feel
into your jar, infusing it with your the completion of this work already?
e personal life force. Center yourself, It is a profound exercise in faith, trust,
and keep your focus on your crops as and hope. It is belief in things unseen,
you create your jar; the more focused forces at work that are not visible to your
your attention is now, the more likely human eyes.
your intentions will be manifest in the
year ahead. There is a causal energetic Place your small beeswax candle on top
relationship between your thoughts of your jar. You might melt a drop of wax
and your reality. on top of the sealed jar and then place
your candle on the melted wax to attach
Begin adding items to your jar, one at a it securely, as you will want to let the
time, using your intuition. Maybe you are candle burn down and over the top of
called first to place a quartz point or an your jar, sealing it completely in beeswax.
herbal offering in the jar to set the space Once the wax has covered your seal, your
and magnify the ingredients you add next. intentions are set, and you can place your
With each crystal, each herb, each flower, honey jar in a dark cabinet for as long as
say a blessing or prayer of gratitude as you wish—at least until your intentions
you add it: “Great Spirit, thank you for come to pass. You can open your jar and
the gift and presence of this gemstone, add new intentions throughout the winter
this herb. Please allow its energy to bless if you feel called, or simply stay with the
my honey jar with power and love. Amen, intentions as you have expressed them
A’ho, So it is.” Once your herbs and stones here. You have been well guided, so you
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can trust your instincts. Nothing happens come to pass in perfect time and full
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by accident, not even intentions. All alignment with your purpose.
desires you experienced have been placed
on your heart for a reason. May yours Amen, A’ho, So it is
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Today, many magical practitioners How will you honor the duality of
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engage in divination on Samhain light and shadow this month? Perhaps
night. Samhain is considered a pagan you will perform an energetic clearing of
high holiday and is honored in most your home. Maybe you will light fragrant
earth-based traditions as the new year. and colorful candles to call in Lakshmi’s
Candles are lit to bring balance to the blessings of prosperity. Or maybe you will
darkness, not only in pagan practice but arrange a beautiful altar to honor your
in Hindu tradition as well. Diwali, the ancestors. However you celebrate, may
Hindu festival of lights, is celebrated at you and your loved ones be blessed not
the October new moon and celebrates only by your connection to each other
the triumph of good over evil. No matter but also by your memories of the past
the tradition or practice, October’s and your ancestral roots. Those roots are
magical past is anchored in the battle your deepest form of protection, peace,
between light and darkness, echoed and prosperity.
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Diwali
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To honor the victory of I vow to be a channel of clarity
light over darkness worthy of your prosperity.
I revel in pure joy,
Diwali, of Sanskrit origin, means experiencing each moment as an
“light” or “lamp.” This ancient Hindu infinite expanse.
festival celebrated annually at the I am present with my beloveds,
October new moon is one of the most and give thanks for all my relations.
important of sacred days, known as I release any fear or worry with laughter
the biggest, brightest, and happiest and dance
of Hindu celebrations. Repeat the and share in the spirit of generosity.
following blessing aloud to celebrate While I celebrate wealth and abundance,
light’s triumph over darkness. I look deeper still.
The true richness of life
On this new moon, lies in empowering hope over despair.
we remember light’s victory over darkness. I celebrate new beginnings and set
Diyas glow like treasures, intentions.
thunderous sounds boom triumphantly, Light, love, and gratitude are the origins
illuminating the night with color and of lasting happiness.
sound. I banish darkness from my life and rejoice
Now is the time to delight in celebration. in the light.
Lakshmi, I honor you on this day. May the light always prevail.
Thank you for blessing us with your
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To keep safe all that you love and make me and mine invisible
to anyone who would do us harm.
When you feel afraid, remember that Pave my path, guides and Great Spirit, T
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around you. Their job is to protect you Help me to know I am never alone.
and keep you safe. Use this blessing to Place people in my path S
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you call. Strengthen and heal my body and mind, b
so that I can face my life with confidence ac
Guides, Elders, Guardian Angels and and courage.
Spirits, And at night when I rest, grant me To
come close to me in this season of shadow. sweet dreams w
Circle around me and grant me the favor of joy and peace. T
of your protection. Surround me with love. T
Help me to feel safe, secure, and held in Fill my heart with your presence. W
my life. Thank you for the gift of this safety. I
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Samhain
To honor the presence and Spirits of Air, we call upon you,

wisdom of our ancestors knowing you carry our life force.
I call to the south, source of light
Samhain is a great parting of the veil that guides us through the cycles of life.
between the living and the dead. Use this Spirits of Fire, we welcome you,
blessing to open the portal for greater knowing you have the capacity to create
access to your ancestors and spirit guides. and rebirth.
I call to the west, a place of underground
Tonight we remember those rivers,
who lived and died before us. where the sea is a never-ending, rolling tide.
Those who have crossed the veil. Spirits of Water, we welcome you,
Those who are no longer with us. knowing you will carry us gracefully
We remember you. across the ebb and flow of this life.
I call first to the north, The Wheel of the Year turns once more,
where the Earth is silent and dark. and we cycle into darkness.
Spirits of the Earth, we welcome you, At the end of that darkness comes light.
knowing it is to you that we shall one And when it arrives, we will celebrate
day return. once more.
I call to the east, land of new beginnings,
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Ancestral Altar
To work with ancestors Gather:

who have crossed into • Palo santo, copal, or white sage for
healed space smudging
• Altar covering (optional)
It is believed that the dead know when you • Candles and/or tealights in shades of
place a photograph of them on an altar black, burgundy, and pink to represent
or sacred space and that doing so keeps love and mourning
their memory and their energy alive. At • Dried flowers or herbs to scatter
Samhain, the veil between the living and (Marigolds are traditional, but roses are
the dead is thin and permeable. Invite lovely too.)
the spirits of your loved ones who have • Gemstones aligned to the season (e.g.,
crossed into healed space to join you as tourmaline, jet, onyx, petrified wood,
you create this altar. or amber)
continued • Crystal skull(s)
• Items sacred to or loved by your
ancestors (e.g., candy, special foods,
mementos, or jewelry)
• Small frames with photos of loved ones
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Choose where you will build your ofrenda, open spots where your photographs can
or altar of offerings to your ancestors. rest. Space them evenly apart, taking care
Select an open space where your family or to create balance and symmetry.
guests will see it. Gather your items and
smudge them well. Some choose to use an Once you are satisfied with your altar, T
altar cover or arrange items at different it is time to dedicate it. Close your eyes, a
heights, so think about organization and bring your hands to prayer position over th
artful display as you begin placing pieces your heart, and focus your thoughts on
on your altar. the ancestors you are choosing to honor In
in this space. Allow your heart to swell an
Place candles in the south of your altar to with love and gratitude for them. Then, au
represent ancestral courage and strength, speak these words aloud: “Ancestors, o
which you will draw upon each time you you are welcome here and your wisdom m
visit at this altar. Dried flowers can be is appreciated. I have created this space p
scattered across your altar or placed in the to commune and connect with you, and T
east, as they represent the passage of life for you to do the same. May we continue p
and the renewal of cycles. Your gemstones, to be joined in our hearts across space
including your crystal skulls, should be and time, always.” Enjoy the process of G
placed to the north, which represents the sharing sacred space with your loved ones •
mineral kingdom. And special foods, once again.
mementos, candy, or jewelry should be •
placed in the west, which represents Amen, A’ho, So it is •
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Protection Bundle
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To hold protective energies If you make your bundle at the new

and keep you safe in moon, you can use it to set intentions for
the darker season protection in your life; if you craft your
bundle at the full moon, you can use it
In October, spirit activity increases, to amplify protection for yourself, your
and so too does our need for psychic and home, or anywhere you decide to keep
auric protection. All energy is composed your bundle. The closer you craft to the
of both light and shadow aspects; to full moon, the more potent the energy
manage both well requires thoughtful will be. It is not recommended to craft at
preparation and mindful use of tools. a waxing moon unless you are releasing
Think of this bundle as a traveling, mini energy or using your bundle to mourn
protection altar. or let go of something you no longer wish
to carry.
Gather:
s • White sage, copal, or palo santo for Center yourself, bring your attention
smudging to your breath, and examine the items
• A 4-inch (10 cm) square of fabric you have gathered for your protection
• Protection perfume or essential oil bundle. Smudge them. Hold your square
blend (optional) of fabric in your hands. Smooth out the
• Herbs and resins of protection (e.g., fabric, and then place a drop of your
angelica, dragon’s blood, osha root, anointing oil or perfume blend at each of
clove, juniper, myrrh, and rosemary) the four corners. You are creating a strong
• Crystals for protection (e.g., black container for the herbs and crystals. Add
tourmaline, petalite, aegirine, jet, onyx, your herbs, a pinch at a time, to the center
and petrified wood) of your bundle, blessing and giving thanks
• Twine or ribbon for the energies of each. Choose one or
• A protective charm or talisman two crystals you wish to include, and place
(optional) those also in the center of your bundle.
If you have any other items you wish to
place inside, do that now. To make your
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sides of the fabric over and fold, then string. Finally, tie the ends once more in a
do the same with the top and bottom. bow or knot. Blow your breath across the
You should end up with a small finished bundle, and then take it between
rectangular package. your hands, bringing your hands to prayer
position over your heart. Connect deeply
Wrap your ribbon over the top, being with the energy of these offerings that
careful not to spill the ingredients inside. have been chosen to protect and care for
Then wrap it under, turning the bundle you. Give thanks for this new tool and the
over, and secure it. Bring the ends around safety you will feel as you work with it.
to the front, and if desired, add your
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their lives. But gratitude is important this time an
of year not just because of the holiday season;
gratitude should naturally follow the season of
harvest. Nature has just bestowed upon you her
most infinite blessings—another year of health
and home, family and loved ones surrounding
you, strong crops, and food to eat. To live a
ceremonial life means taking the time to pause,
ref lect, and give thanks before turning inward
for rest in the winter months. When you cook a
meal using the freshly harvested fruits, vegetables,
and grains you (or others) have grown, you honor
the contributions of all who worked hard to bring
those offering to your table. Before you consume
your Thanksgiving meal, offer a blessing like
the one in this chapter as a means of expressing
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What are you most grateful for this can complete on November 11 to attract
NOVEMBER
year? You can express gratitude not synchronicity. By getting into energetic
only for the beauty in your life, but for alignment with your desires, you can
the challenges as well. Everything is manifest them far more easily.
a teacher.
May all that you seek come to you in
Gratitude begins the cycle of abundance perfect time and deep alignment with
in your life, so once you say thank you your reason for incarnating this time.
for everything in it, get ready for the And may you enjoy all you receive with
universe to bless you in big ways! That an open and grateful heart.
is why this month you will also enjoy
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To express gratitude and We thank you for the gift of community, T

honor abundance which connects us and holds us in this life. h
For our family of birth and of choice,
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express our gratitude for the abundance passing years.
in our lives. Repeat this blessing aloud For friends far and wide, F
during your Thanksgiving ritual to for their companionship and joy. et
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have cultivated this year. and honor you with the gratitude in to
our hearts. T
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Father God, Source of All That Is, for loved ones who make sure we never a
Today we give thanks for your abundant walk alone. th
blessings. And most of all, for this life, W
We thank you for the gifts of the Earth, with its infinite gifts of joy, grace, and love. to
which sustain us and grace us with beauty For these, and all of our blessings, to
each day. we offer our gratitude on this day of a
For this home and table, Thanksgiving. in
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For this food of the land, upon us and all we love. A
which nourishes our bodies and warms
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Universal Prayer
NOVEMBER
To hold space for planetary in every country, space, and nation.
healing and peace at the holidays Today, Great Spirit, I ask that you wrap
those in need
Great Spirit, we come to you in many in bundles of comfort and light,
forms today. fueled by the warmth of your spirit.
From all traditions, races, countries, Help them feel and know
ethnicities, and belief systems that kindred around the world
with one intention: are holding them tightly.
to hold space for those who are in need. May their pain know an end
Those whose bodies and spirits have and may they be healed swiftly.
been wounded, We hold this intention with faith
and those whose hearts are aching— and gratitude
the lonely, the weak, the disheartened. for your presence in the midst of
We come as Spirit Warriors our circle.
. to guide them, to hold them, We are all One, and when one hurts,
to love them, to raise them up, we all hurt.
and to offer them solace But when one is healed,
in an energetic embrace all are healed.
during this sacred season of hope.
An embrace that will encircle them Amen, Aho, So it is

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11/11 (November 11)
Wishing Scroll Ritual
To attract all that you seek space if you feel called with your oil blend.
while doors to wealth are open Beginning at the top left corner of your
paper, fill it with your desires, needs, and
This is a wishing ritual, best performed deepest inner longings. Don’t be shy. Ask
on the 11th day of November, when for what you seek for yourself, for your
energies of divine synchronicity are inner child, for your inner crone. Ask for
especially active. what you need as a wife, husband, partner,
father, mother, brother, sister, friend. Do
Gather: you desire space or connection? Travel or
• 2 white candles to represent 11 more time at home?
• 2 crystals aligned to your desires
(should be the same stone) Dream big, reaching into your memory to
• White sage, copal, or palo santo for locate the places and moments where you
smudging felt not heard or not seen. Make wishes to
• Perfume or essential oil blend for heal those hidden places. What medicine
attraction (e.g., bay, catnip, melissa, is needed in the dark corners of your soul,
clary sage, and neroli) what in the brightly illuminated garden of
• A piece of paper, 8½ × 11 inches your mind?
(21.6 × 28 cm)
• A pen At the bottom right corner of your paper,
• Ribbon write, “It is done. Thank you thank you
thank you.” Roll your paper into a scroll,
Place your candles to the east and west of tying loosely with ribbon. May the process
your altar or sacred space. Position your and the outcome bless you equally.
crystals next to the candles, and smudge
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Gratitude Altar
To remind you to stay in A gratitude altar can be placed anywhere

a space of grateful joy in your home. Add your covering and
make sure the space is clean. Bring
In November, there is an energy of your attention to your breath, and focus
gratitude in the air. It’s the perfect time your thoughts for 5 minutes on all of
to build a gratitude altar. the things that you are grateful for: the
people, experiences, and places that
Gather: bring color and meaning to your world.
• A seasonal altar covering if you like Smudge your space and then place your
• Palo santo, copal, or white sage for candle in the southernmost corner to
smudging represent fire. Place your oil blend in the
• A brown or gold candle or tealights west to represent water and flow. Add
• A seasonal blend of essential oils (e.g., your crystals and gourds to the northern
clove, cardamom, cinnamon cassia, edge of your altar to represent earth.
blood orange, and styrax) And finally, place your smudging herbs
• Crystals of abundance and gratitude and a few fallen leaves on the eastern
(e.g., pyrite, citrine, selenite, amethyst, side to represent air. From here you can
and lapis lazuli) embellish, add, and move items to make
• Small pumpkins or gourds to represent the space aesthetically pleasing.
abundance
• Fall leaves for decoration and Once your altar looks balanced and
adornment (optional) beautiful, it is complete! Leave it up for
the month, the entire season, or even the
entire year!
Amen, A’ho, So it is

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Karmic Release Offerings
To let go of disease, illness, Gather:

and anger energies of the past • Herbs aligned to the energies you
are releasing (e.g., rosemary or
With this project you will create eucalyptus for releasing health
intentional offerings designed to detach problems; if there is a specific health
karmic bonds that anchor you to energy you are shedding, see if you
experiences that are not in alignment can find a more specific herb that
with your Highest Good. Energetic corresponds to it or the area of the
bonds and attachments can be very body it affects)
strong, even across generations and even • Gemstones aligned to your releasing
if you did not seek or affirm them. work (e.g., bronzite for surrendering
with grace, chrysoprase for a broken
What are the patterns you need to break heart)
within your family lines to experience • Perfumes or essential oils that
true healing and liberation? For example, correspond to what you are releasing
if your family experienced war in recent • A small bowl or offering dish, 2 to
generations, you likely have fear and 4 inches (5 to 10 cm) in size
anxiety imprinted in your energetic field. • A black candle
You will only ever know part of the story.

You have lived other lifetimes, after all.
You will also want to reflect on them.
An important part of this work is not
releasing energies that are still teaching
you in some way. Ask your spirit guides to
assist you in discerning which energies to
focus on. When you do this sacred work,
you not only heal yourself, but you also
heal the generations behind you and those
still to come.
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Call in your healing guides and welcome blend for each energy stream you are
them along with the elemental guardians releasing. It might be a single drop of
to your healing space. Thank them for wax, or you might burn through your
their presence and support. Ask them whole candle. You will know when
to work through your hands, freeing enough wax has been spilled. T
you to surrender circumstances and fo
energies that are no longer aligned to your Now, find a place, in your own garden
development. Give them permission to preferably, to bury these offerings. Even P
do so without your conscious awareness, the roots of a potted plant will work. th
if that feels right. Begin placing your Open the earth with your hand in a co
herbs, crystals, and oils into your offering clockwise motion, place the offerings, O
bowl, one by one. After each addition, and then cover the earth with your hand yo
say a quiet prayer thanking the offerings in a counterclockwise motion. All the o
for helping you identify and release old while, sing, give thanks, and pray. Your o
patterns. Each item you add is holding healing is already under way. Let it go, w
space for your recovery, rebirth, and with grace and gratitude. a
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Mulling Herbs
NOVEMBER
To scent your home, and Gather your ingredients, and take
for holiday gifting a moment to consider the energies
they bring to your home this season.
Part of the magic of the holidays is Cinnamon brings abundance, prosperity,
those smells that remind you of home, and hope. Cardamom brings passion,
connection, celebration, and togetherness. connection, and encouragement. Clove is
One way to bring the scents of fall into powerful for attraction and brings your
your home while also creating a sacred desires to fruition. Ginger cleanses and
offering is to craft batches of mulling detoxifies the mind, body, and spirit.
or simmering herbs that you can blend Star anise is a powerful offering to Great
with apple cider or red wine to make Spirit, and brings clarity and balance.
a sweet-smelling and heartwarming Orange peel brings financial abundance
beverage while also scenting your entire and happiness. As you combine these
home for the season. herbs, roots, and fruits together, using
your hands, imagine the alchemy of
Gather: these energies and how they will bless
• 24 cinnamon sticks you, your loved ones, and those who
• 24 cardamom pods receive them as a gift this season. Once
• 2 ounces (56 g) clove buds you have combined all of the ingredients
• 1 gingerroot, peeled and sliced together, separate them into 4-ounce
• 24 star anise pods (112 g) servings (which will infuse two
• 4 ounces (112 g) dried orange peel large batches of wine or cider), place
• Organza bags for gifting (optional) them into organza bags with a quartz
• A quartz point to charge your herbs, point to magnify the energies, and
one per gift (optional) adorn with ribbons or gift tags. Place a
• Ribbons or gift tags to adorn bags note inside each bag with instructions
(optional) for use. You can copy the text below as
• Notepaper an example.
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Instructions for use: to 2 hours. Then, remove from the heat,
Add 2 to 3 ounces (56 to 84 g) of mulling strain any remaining herbs from the
herbs to a tea strainer or reusable spice liquid, and serve warm.
bag. Pour 24 ounces (710 ml) of apple
cider or red wine into a Dutch oven or Cheers to your health, happiness, and
large saucepan. Add the tea strainer or wealth this holiday season!
spice bag. Simmer over low heat for at
least 30 minutes to infuse flavors and up Amen, A’ho, So it is
As you combine these herbs, roots, and

fruits together, using your hands, imagine
the alchemy of these energies and how they
will bless you, your loved ones, and those
who receive them as a gift this season.

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loved ones. Light candles around your home and
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The energy of December is connected else who is also hurting or suffering in
DECEMBER
to Christ Consciousness, which is the some way. The spirit of this month may
spirit of grace and loving-kindness that help you find grace through service to
permeates our human existence. We often others. Let the whole family participate
find ourselves in a more loving, generous, in decorating your home or sacred space
and open mood. We want to be more with natural, organic materials and lots of
compassionate, giving, and forgiving of sparkling candlelight. Making your home
others. Our best selves emerge and hope magical at the holidays can be easy, fun,
is rekindled. and affordable. Put the emphasis on time
together and honoring sacred traditions;
For those who have lost loved ones, the more you rest and restore your soul
December can be a difficult month. The now, the more prepared you will feel
antidote to sadness is service, so if your come spring. Enjoy the tender warmth of
heart is hurting during the holiday season, winter’s embrace.
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Christmas
A gathering of energies for Living in His way, A

rest and inner reflection I will love what is unlovable, lo
and forgive what is unforgivable.
God, Source, Great Spirit, Today is a day to share Christ A
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For Jesus came to share light, love, we receive.
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His is a message of forgiveness we are loved.
and unconditional love. May all be blessed with the spirit of peace A
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Help me walk my soul path with peace
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DECEMBER
Yule
A calling to honor the and our hearts find hope in the sky’s
longest night of the year brightest star.
Through the coldest of days,
As we approach the end of our calendar as we call back the warmth of the sun’s
year and the many holy days around the bright light,
world, Yule is a grand turning point, may we rejoice in the year’s abundant
a moment to pause and acknowledge blessings,
the sacredness of these days. and be grateful for the lessons embodied
in our losses.
Great Spirit, Mother Earth, and For Yule is both a beginning and
Father Sky, an end,
As we celebrate this day of Yule, the darkness and the light, our year
with its festive music, lights, and feasts, divided in two.
we honor the passing of our sacred Our commitments for this year sealed,
winter solstice, finished,
and watch in awe as the Great Wheel our plans for the year ahead unfolding,
turns toward winter. becoming.
Through the longest of nights, Bless us as we heal within
please help our bodies find rest in during this season of rest.
the stillness,
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Sacred Yule Votive
To light your way through This project is best done at the waxing or
the dark months new moon, when you have the strongest
energetic opportunity to set a new vision
During the dark days of winter, or new course for your life, or when you
candlelight becomes a source of are building energy toward your dreams.
illumination and hope. Light brings Alternatively, craft your votive at the full
with it possibility, beauty, and a sense moon to celebrate the fruition of dreams
of alignment. past and present.
Gather: Hold your glass votive and say a gratitude

• A glass votive holder blessing for the light it will hold and the
• A rubber band container it will offer. Place a rubber band
• Cinnamon sticks around the center of the votive holder.
• Sprigs of holly, mistletoe, pine, or other Place the cinnamon sticks, sprigs, and
holiday greenery herbs vertically against your votive holder,
• Herbs such as white sage, rosemary, under the rubber band.
mugwort, cypress, or juniper
• Velvet or textured ribbons Tie your ribbon(s) around the center of
• Scissors your votive, over the sticks and branches.
• Chip stones or small quartz points for Let the long ends hang down and trim any
decorating (optional) excess. Then, cut the rubber band away.
• Tealight Optionally, affix chip stones or other
• A lighter decor to your votive. Add a tealight and
light it. Ask that its light be a source of
peace, hope, and happiness for all who see
it. You are ready to add this magical votive
to your sacred space or anywhere you will
enjoy the light it casts.
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Yule Ritual
To retreat and receive Gather:

the gifts of the spirit • Palo santo, copal, or white sage for
smudging
The longest night of the year warrants • An indigo candle for activating your
a powerful ritual. All signs in nature Third Eye chakra
point to the need for you to rest and • A white candle to represent inner
conserve your resources. The only growth stillness and peace
that happens now is inner growth, the • A perfume or an oil blend aligned to
growth of the soul; but that growth is psychic development (e.g., cypress,
also the most important. For this ritual, mugwort, rose, or opoponax)
the focus is on receiving gifts of the • 4 crystals, one to represent each of
spirit—your psychic and intuitive gifts. the soul gifts you will develop during
These gifts are known as clairaudience, this ritual (Crystals of the Third Eye
or clear hearing; clairsentience, or clear chakra are good options here: lapis
sensing; clairvoyance, or clear sight; and lazuli, sapphire, iolite, and tanzanite, as
clairalience, or clear smelling. Spirit are any stones from the zeolite family,
communicates through these senses. such as scolecite and apophyllite, which
The more finely tuned yours become, the activate all upper chakras.)
more likely you will be to activate spirit • A notebook
wisdom in your life.
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in the southern quadrant of your altar, about your experiences. Even tiny shifts
and light both to usher in peace and open in perception are worth noting, as your
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your Seeing Eye. Anoint yourself and soul gifts tend to develop incrementally.
your crystals if you feel called, using your By becoming more conscious of your gifts,
psychic development blend or just a single you will come into deeper awareness and
essential oil note. Decide based on your appreciation of them.
intuition which crystal will represent
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Conclusion and
s, Closing Prayer
As you enjoy these ancient rituals and learn to craft
magic with your own hands, you step into a long
lineage of healers and medicine people who have
worked hard to carry these traditions forward. We
stand in their footsteps and we are grateful. A’ho.
When you finish a ceremony, ritual, or birth and the death, the beginning and
craft of any kind, give thanks for what you the ending. In magical work, we close
have learned or received, even if you feel circles counterclockwise—widdershins,
like you have already expressed gratitude. or against the sun—to acknowledge the
Then, acknowledge the beauty of what has unwinding of energy that accompanies
been with clarity and honesty. Sometimes the completion of ritual. As we turn away
beauty is indulgent and luxurious; other from the sunshine of this book in these
times, beauty is overwhelming and even closing words, take a moment here to
scary. We may not know how to work honor what you have learned and received
with or sit with beauty. But the process from this book. Energetically, you have
of learning brings us closer to Source, also brought your own magic and energy
to God, and to our own true nature. We to this book, and for that may you also be
are simply sentient extensions of divine blessed in all ways, always.
consciousness. Part of that consciousness
is the presence to all of creation—the Amen, A’ho, and On we go

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Acknowledgments A
Many people worked hard to make this book, take it as an opportunity to connect A
beautiful book a reality. First, thanks go to with your own ancestral and magical se
Jill Alexander, my editor, and Tiffany Hill lineage. In that way you will personalize C
who edited the book gracefully, allowing your experience of these words and their M
all the original content to find its way energy will have a more profound impact o
into the final version. Thanks as well to on you and your practice. May it be so. so
John Gettings for managing the project ed
through to completion, and to Regina To my husband, Dave, my children, re
Grenier for her skilled leadership of the Nick and Zoe, and my parents, Nick and ac
art design process. I also want to thank Marie, thank you for supporting and in
Team SG and Becca, in particular, for encouraging me through this process. a
her stunning photography, which BrookeLynn, Sona, and Claire, thank you C
formed the foundation of the incredible for your leadership and your inspiration. an
illustration of the book by artist Andrea To my teachers along the way whose as
Henning; and the design by Tina Berning. wisdom has been a source of inspiration co
Thank you to all of you for your vision, and transformation, thank you for your tr
integrity, and beauty, and most of all for magic. And to my students—past, present, an
your support. and future—I wrote these words for you.
I gathered these blessings, invocations,
To the reader, you are entering a sacred and rituals like flowers with which to craft
chamber by reading this book, a vault a bouquet of beauty for your nourishment
of wisdom that for many remains and pleasure. May you receive my words
secret. For thousands of years, magical in that spirit. Amen, A’ho, So it is.
invocations and blessings were shared in
oral traditions but not archived the way In your service, with gratitude,
they are here. Each time you sit with this

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About the Author
t Athena Perrakis, Ph.D., is the best- 500 companies. But her metaphysical
selling author of The Ultimate Guide to experience, in which her current work
Chakras and Crystal Lore, Legends & is largely rooted, spans more than three
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consultant, and educator. Athena has form, home decor, clothing, body art
traveled the globe and worked with CEOs and temporary tattoos, canvas art,
t, and senior executives from the Fortune and more.
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The Book of

Blessings and Rituals

M AGIC AL INVOC ATIONS

Athena Perrakis, Ph.D.

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“Beautiful blessings. Beautiful illustrations.

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burns. This is the time to indulge your creative

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To clear and cleanse your As we burn your herbs, resins, leaves, T

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and to the lava flowing from wild and endless seas a

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To summon in new energy and may I be in divine service to all A

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To open, balance, and align “I scry and seek the knowledge of my

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To open a sacred container Gather:

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To attract what you seek Gather:

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To invite love in all I in turn summon and welcome this love A

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A gathering of energies for I light a candle to Brigid, goddess of the T

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But first you must get past the labor.

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Spring Equinox (Ostara)

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For rebirth and renewal Gather:

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Are you ready to raise energy

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