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Ritualism

Rituals, as stating before, are spells created in a ceremony format. This makes them very beginner friendly spells to learn while you are learning how casting feels like.

The Basic Steps

These are the steps to a ritual. You will need to know these in order to make sure that your ritual procedes without being tainted.

Cleansing

Cleansing is the process of making sure there are no magical energy/psychic influences that disrupt your ritual by cleansing yourself, the materials, and the space beforehand. Here are some of the methods for cleansing.

1. Salt

Salt has been used as a cleansing agent since the dawn of time. Sprinkle it over what you want cleaned, then wait for a few minutes. After waiting, sweep it away while visualizing the old energy also being swept away.

2. Meditation

Meditation is excellent both for clearing your mind to focus on the ritual so that you are not distracted. It can also imprint a space with your energy and make it more responsive to you. Visualize a ring of energy around yourself spreading out and clearing out what was there before.

3. Incense

Incense has been used to dedicate a space in multiple religions from time immemorial. This method requires a little more knowledge of what different incenses mean, in order to choose one that will complement the ritual, not disrupt it.

4. Sage Water Spray

Sage is a very powerful herb, and when it is used for cleansing, it wipes away all traces of magical and psychic energy, including helpful and necessary traces. Any type of sage can be used, so unless it is gifted, avoid white sage, which is endangered.

Note: You may see mentions of "smudging" as a form of cleansing by burning bundles of sage. This is inaccurate, "smudging" is a very particular ritual done by Native American religious leaders. You can use burning bundles of sage for cleansing, it just isn't smudging.

Creating a Boundary

Creating a boundary is a way of seperating the space of the ritual from the outside. This prevents outside forces from affecting the ritual, and is thus very important. Most boundaries are circles of some kind. Make sure that there are no holes in the boundary.

1. Salt

Creating a circle of salt is an easy way to create a boundary using salt's natural protective properties. Make sure that wind or human activity cannot sweep it away while you are doing the ritual, and make sure that you clean it up properly at the end.

2. Energy

Like with meditation, imagine a circle of energy in place around you. You might find it helpful to call out the four directions as a way to anchor the circle of energy. This is a little bit less reliable than a solid barrier, and a powerful enough force can push it out of the way.

3. Chalk

Unlike salt, chalk has no inherent magical energy and thus must be infused before the ritual for it to work. That being said, once it is infused with energy it is incredibly easy to draw with and clean up.

Sealing the Ritual

When the ritual is finished, visualize all excess energy being focused into the spell being crafted. Once the spell is solidly complete, break the boundary and allow anything left over to dissipate.

Rituals

Bottle Spells

Bottle spells are spells sealed and contained within a bottle. They are very easy for beginners and are fun to make.

Witch Bottle

A Witch Bottle is a small form of protection against hexes and malicious energy, by taking the place of the person being hexed.

Ingredients

• Small bottle with lid/cork. Ideally the size of a thumb
• Hair, spit, and/or blood of person being protected
• Salt
• Protective herbs/crystals
• Small candle for dripping wax
• (Optional) Sharpie

Steps

1. Cleanse ritual space and materials and create the boundary.
2. Place the hair/blood/spit of the person being protected in the bottle while saying their name three times. This creates a sympathetic bond with the person being protected.
3. Add salt to absorb the malicious energy and hexes. Add other protective ingrediants as desired.
4. (Optional) Use Sharpie to draw protective symbols on the bottle.
5. Draw excess energy into the bottle. Close it. Seal with melted wax from the candle.
6. Break the boundary.
7. Bury or hide the witch bottle near the person you are protecting

Attract Money Bottle

A bottle spell designed to attract monetary fortune to the practicioner that creates it.

Ingredients

• Small bottle with lid/cork. Ideally the size of a thumb
• Gold Glitter
• Sugar
• Herbs/crystals of practioner's choice
• Small green candle for dripping wax
• (Optional) Sharpie

Steps

1. Cleanse ritual space and materials and create the boundary.
2. Place the gold glitter into the bottle. Imagine money falling into your hands as you do so.
3. Add sugar to attract good fortune. Add other protective ingrediants as desired.
4. (Optional) Use Sharpie to draw monetary and luck symbols on the bottle.
5. Draw excess energy into the bottle. Close it. Seal with melted wax from the candle.
6. Break the boundary.
7. Place next to symbol of wealth such as piggie bank or in wallet.

Knot Spells

Knot spells are spells made with rope and thread, or ribbon if you are feeling fancy. They normally don't require the full grounding and cleansings of a ritual but the ones mentioned here do.

Cord Cutting Ritual

Somewhat of the opposite of a normal knot spell, which ties things together, this spell focuses on breaking people apart and cutting the connection between two people. Typically done after breakups or to remove a toxic person from your life.

Ingredients

• 2 Candles not in jars or other containers. Taper candles work well
• Glass plate or other fire safe surface to light candles
• String made of non-plastic material, such as paper twine or wool
• Sharpie or something that can carve onto the candles

Steps

• Cleanse ritual space and materials and create the boundary.
• Write the name of one person on one candle and the name of the other person on the other
• Place the candles apart from each other on the plate.
• Tie the candles together so that there is a single string connecting the two candles near the top. The string represents the connection between the two people
• Light the candles, and let them burn down. Let it burn the string, thus cutting the connection between the two people.
• Break the boundary.