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En' SG

Forget parchment, this have the potential to be wa-ay more powerful. Razz

Making Your Own Herbal Paper

Materials
You will need several sheets of typing paper, a bowl, hot water, a
fork, two kitchen twoels, a metal screen, a wooden frame, a stapler, a
rolling pin, and two tablespoons of ground herbs of your choice.

Procedure
1. Tear several sheets of paper into pieces the size of a penny or
smaller.

2. Place the pieces in a bowl and cover with hot water.

3. Stir to make sure all of the paper is wet.

4. Let stand overnight.

5. The next day, tear the paper into pieces as small as possible and
then stir with a fork for several minutes. (You now have made pulp.) This
can also be done in a food processor if you don't mind adding the
mechanical energies, but like any magical tool, you are better off doing it
by hand. As you stir, add in the ground herbs. They need to be ground
or finely chopped so that they don't create flaws in the paper.
Experiment with various herbs, keeping in mind thier magical qualities. The
pulp should remain a thick mush in texture. If this is part of a spell
working, chant or focus on your purpose as you do this.

6. Prepare a metal screen (like those used in windows or screen doors)
by stapling screen to a wood picture frame. You can use a small window
screen if you like. The dimensions can vary, but it should be larger
than you want the finished paper.

7. Smooth out an even layer of pulp (approx. 1/8 inch thick) onto the
screen by hand.

8. Let the water drain for a couple of minutes.

9. Flip your screen over so that your paper pops out onto a clean
kitchen towel.

10. Cover the paper with another kitchen towel so that you have a
"sandwich" of paper between the two towels.

11. Use the rolling pin to press out more water and flatten the paper.

12. Carefully peel off the top towel. Turn the wet paper over onto
either a smooth counter top or on a piece of glass (you can use a window
for this) paper side down, and then carefully peel off the remaining
towel.

13. Let the paper dry overnight or longer.

14. If you want to smooth the paper for writing on, spray the dried
paper with a fine mist of water. Place a clean smooth rag over the damp
paper and iron it with a slightly warm iron until the paper is dry.

You can use your paper for gifts, for spell work, for stationery or
just for plain fun! Enjoy!
[Original message derived from: Garden Faery] Wink

OCEANOS SG

Magickal Times

THE SEASONS

The powerful effects of the seasons can also, according to some Earth magicians, subtly affect magickal workings. Traditionally, these types of magick are performed during these seasons:

SPRING: A time for healing; purification spring cleaning is one survival of this); psychic awareness; paying bills; fertility; planting magickal gardens; & ecological rituals. Air magick.

SUMMER: A time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magickal energy, physical energy, & strength. Fire magick.

AUTUMN: A time for money, employment, new possessions (including cars & homes). Water magick.

WINTER: A time for banishments of disease, habits & addictions, seeking past lives. This is a time for introspection, meditation, reading, & magickal exercises designed to renew the magician for the coming spring. Earth magick.

SPECIAL TIMES

LIGHTNING STORMS: are periods of intense energy. All spells cast during storms will be empowered by them, and may prove to be more effective. Protection rituals are ideal at these times.

RAINSTORMS: are fine for purification, love, compassion, friendship, beauty rituals, & releasing guilt & jealousy.

SNOWSTORMS: are the time for gentle magick, purification, & stilling emotions. Release unrequited love.

HEAVY WINDS: empower rites designed to break addictions, assist study, & travel spells.

SEARING HOT DAY: charge rites of protection, courage, & energy.

SOLAR & LUNAR ECLIPSES: are dramatic moments both for their observers as well as for magicians. In the past, magicians were urged not to perform magick during eclipses. Today, many natural magicians use the suggestive power of an eclipse to fuel spells involving banishments, including the destruction of disease. These have been some timing suggestions. Let them be guides, not shackles!

THE SUN

Some magicians may wait months for the sun to enter the proper sign of the Zodiac. This is fine for major workings but unrealistic for those who are working everyday magick. However, there are other solar cycles worth following... If you have the time. If not, don't wait.

SUNRISE: Day begins as light stretches out from the eastern horizon. This is an excellent time to perform rituals involving purification, business success, study, employment, breaking addictions of all kinds, travel, releasing guilt & jealousy, healing diseases, & the conscious mind.

NOON: The sun shines far above at full strength. This is fine for all sunrise ritual purposes, as well as those that involve magickal energy, physical energy & strength, protection, money & courage.

SUNSET: The sun slips below the western horizon, signaling the time for breaking addictions, weight-loss, banishing misery & pain, transforming anguish & negative habits.

NIGHT: The sun is out of sight This is the drowsy time for beauty, dreams, psychic dreams, psychic awareness, spirituality, sleep, sex, purification, love, friendships, peace, releasing stress, healing wounds.

THE MOON

The moon waxes & wanes each month, rising an hour or so later during each twenty-four hour period. When it is full, it rises as the sun sets. There are different types of spells traditionally performed at the phases of the moon. More complicated patterns exist, relating to the specific day of each lunar month, but these methods are rarely followed today. The Moon's phases & the types of magick appropriate to them are:

WAXING MOON: (From New to Full) When the Moon is waxing it is a time for beginnings, health & healing, psychic awareness, beauty, fertility & all positive magickal workings.

FULL MOON: All positive magickal spells are performed beneath the potent glow of the Full Moon, including protection, love, healing, purification, psychic awareness, money & travel.

WANING MOON: (From Full to New) This is the time for banishments of habits, addictions, disease & negative thoughts. Jealousy, guilt, & hurts are released under the waning Moon. Te old is swept away to make room for the new.

En' SG

Spellbinder Smoke
~author unknown

To make your own herbal smoking mixture for ritual or nonritual use,
combine the following dried herbs: one ounce of coltsfoot [said to
conjure forth mystical visions], one ounce of red clover tops [said to
keep negative energies at bay], and one quarter ounce each of lavender
flowers, rosemary, thyme, and yerba santa [known to Shamans of the
southwestern US and Mexico as the sacred herb]. Using a consecrated
ritual dagger, chop the herbs into small pieces, and then store in an
airtight jar or tobacco tin.

Place a pinch of the smoking mixture in a pipe, or roll into a
cigarettes. Spellbinder Smoke is excellent for use in shamanistic
rituals, dream-magick, divinations, and astral projections. It makes a
good alternative to smoking cancer-causing tobacco cigarettes, and can
also be burned on a charcoal block as a magickal incense.

[message derived from: AthenaRavenmoon]

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