Practical --And cool -- Magick

[kittiepoetrygod]

What are some practical uses or magick/meditation that everyone knows? Stuff like finding lost objects, being noticed, not being noticed, getting something to work, getting some place ontime, getting the green lights, being safe when running the red ones ... stuff like that. I'll share my fave technique, using energy to heat up on a cold day.

First you should get an inner calm, slow your thinking, maybe do something mindless to occupy the consious. Then focus on the light coming down on you, sunlight is best. Focus on the light, then unfocus your eyes, and visualise tinder in your belly. Then visualise the sun light making a spark in the tinder. Then, visualise a red or white light coming from the sun, and fanning the spark, or doing something to make it flame. This usually warms me up. Anyone else have success with it?

[Emy]

Haven't tried that particular thing, but I sure will :)

Here is a little spell that I use when I need to find something that I've lost.

Bound binding
binding bound
see the sought
hear the sound
what was lost
now be found
bound binding
binding bound

I am always successfull with that one. Of course as always, you need to put some energy in it when you say it. Most of the time the effect is rather immediate, that is I find what I am looking for whitin the next five minutes, however sometimes it takes up to 24 hrs before I actually find it. Usually after saying this little spell you need to open your mind to seek for impulses on where to search.

I also use protection magick alot, and also being noticed or not being noticed. I'd share my techniques with you all if you like :)

Blessings

[Myst]

kittiepoetrygod : I do something similar to that, but it really just involves visualizing I'm really enjoying a hot summers day, which always warms me up even in a blizzard.

Emy : I'll try to remember that next time I lose something :)

My favourites

to find a parking space in a busy lot :

Goddess, mother, lift your face
and find for me a parking space.

to stop someone from gossiping about or harassing you :

take a ziplock bag, write their name on a paper and put it in the bag, put the zippy bag in your freezer and say "Chill Out" while visualizing the Lord & Lady, a dragon, your guardian, some Yetis, or whatever, sitting on the person so they can't bug you anymore.

[Emy]

Thanks for sharing Willow :) I am definitly gonna have use for that parking space one :) :D

[Twilight Garden]

Oh, Willow! I'm going to try the zip-lock thing. There is a woman who calls herself a "mordsith" (it's a 'fantasy book' term, I've learned) that doesn't stop harassing us. She has lost very much from the basic "reap what you've sown" kind of spells I've performed. I've started something else for her, but the cold "chill out" might be good. It's quite worth the try. Thanks!
*LM

*I should be thanking Myst. I just saw that. Or is Willow really Myst? Now I'm confused.

[emraldshadowcat]

When ever I'm walking at night or I feel threatened, I use this spell-

Stars spin
Stars glow
Stars guard
from all woe
Protect me
Protect me
Protect me

I got it out of a book by Scott Cunnigham

[kittiepoetrygod]

Willow --- An adapted Frost Giant's Spell? I do something similar as well. I've only had to use it about 30 times ; )

[Myst]

Originally posted by kittiepoetrygod
Willow --- An adapted Frost Giant's Spell? I do something similar as well. I've only had to use it about 30 times ; )

Frost Giant? Could be, I've seen variations of this one all over the web and from various Pagans I know too :)

[Rick]

To be the center of attention, or invisible, project the Rune Dagaz (looks like an hour glass on it's side). Same Rune works for both.

[kittiepoetrygod]

Thats my favorite rune of all. I've never used it to attrack atteniton tho .. I use it often to faid from awareness, along with Uraz ... i'm pretty sure its Uraz, anyway. ; )

[Sora]

To get some luck in any area, Cut an apple in half and put seven of the seeds in your pocket. Keep them untill your luck turns. Also, violet petals are good luck.

[Emy]

Oki, for when you wish to be sort of "invisible" or left alone on the bus or something like that.

Feel your aura, feel it glow around you. Then start to visualise how your aura is changing, let it blend into the background, let it take shape and color of the things around you, the chair, the wall, etc. Let yourself blend into the background.
It is done!
Now of course you wont be invisible, but you wont be noticed as much as you otherwise would be. If someone were to touch you, the "spell" sort of breaks for them, and your aura will again be visible...
When you wish to be visible again, just let your aura start glowing again, let the light shine again, let it take its usual colors, let a white light surround you.... :) And you are back to normal again.

B*B

[phoenixsong]

Hey Emy, I use almost the same technique!

[Emy]

You do? :)

Works great don't you think? :D :)

[Swanspirit]

While I am making rounds on the entire building.......I consciously and continually visualise the stress levels as a mist or cloud or fog.. and then gradually bring them down ..... down......and gone......
Sometimes I use a quick circle made with my hands almost like an invisible lasso ....... and encircle the stress and anxieties present and bring them down as well........ and replace the stress with calm ......good humor .. energy......
positive feedback........a change in perspective........ I intertwine this with telling people who look particularly stressed to go take an extra break and stand in for them for a few minutes when I can....or give someone some feedback on what a GOOD job they are doing....
especially dont NITPICK ( my private personal opinion of nitpickers is that they have some level of incompetence and dont see the big picture.... I mean WHO REALLY CARES if someone is wearing colored scrub pants if they are working their butts off?)
and continue to focus the calm on any unit that looks like it might get escalatated.....
also suggest to people out loud we are goint to have a GOOD night etc etc.......
Works very well most of the time ......
Love and Light.......
Swannie

[Adrenaline Junkie]

Very nice thread.

I love that Chill Out spell. Aka the Frost Giant Spell. I've used it so many times I can't remember anymore! Arrgh!

Well, I use a little number from SRW's American Folk Magick. It's a chant to walk without fear.

Chant:

Aradia walketh with me, she is my head
And I am Her limb.
Therefore walketh Aradia with (name)
In the name of Universal Love.

You can chant it once or in a set of three. This little diddy always has a positive effect for me.

[kittiepoetrygod]

Also from SRW American Folk Magick, a chant to stop blood. Odviously paganised, but still usful, expecially when popping zits, with a little twist of my own.

Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
Who stopeth the pain,
And stopeth the blood.
In the Name of the Madien,
So be it.

Repeat, only changing the Goddess name, Mother ofs, and name ofs.

So, normally:
Holy Demeter,
Mother of Grain,
Who stopeth the blood,
And stopeth the pain.
In the Name of the Mother,
So be it!

Would be next, followed by,

Holy Athene,
Mother of Wise,
Who stopeth the pain,
And stopeth the blood,
In the name of the Crone.
So be it!

Kinda long, but it works.

[slvr_phoenix]

When I want to avoid someone's attention, I simply clear my mind of all concerns about getting their attention and all of my thoughts about that person. If I'm not sending out my worry like a beacon, then they've got nothing to pick up on, and violla, I don't get noticed. :)

[Lily Mai]

Does anyone have anything for sleep or avoiding colds? Both are very important if I want to get rid of this illness.

[Rick]

Originally posted by Lily Mai
Does anyone have anything for sleep or avoiding colds? Both are very important if I want to get rid of this illness.

Ya might check in the Green Room Forum...

[Demeter]

To clear a space: Stand in the middle of a room. Visualize a bright light in your hands. Chant, "If there be anything here that cometh not in the name of the Powers of Light, then in the Name of the Powers of Light let it be GONE!" and project the light out to fill the entire room. (Wish I could write down the music for the chant ... it's from a Leslie Fish filksong, or at least that's where I learned it.)

To get someone to get in contact with you: Write them a letter. Put the letter with stuff that has to be mailed next week. They will contact you in between. Quite often they will contact you about stuff you specifically wrote in the letter.

[Emy]

I know one that will make people shut up... pardon the expression... but say you have a discussion with someone, and it is going nowhere since he/she wont listen... then just whisper these words and blow in the direction of the person. Now be reasonable about using this spell...

The words you whisper are: Aglaria pidhol garia anamus quepta.

[Eudaimonia]

Whenever I'm frightened of someone or something, I recite the following, taken from the book Dancing With Dragons.

Light calls to light
Only those of light may enter here
The way is barred
To all who wish me harm
I give my greeting only to the light.

I close by drawing a pentacle in the air.

I and the tryiad also use this at each corner when casting a circle, replacing the singular with plural.

[Hope]

My son's favorite is

Faerys and dragons of the night keep me safe all night.
We combined this with a knotted hemp ankle bracelet in red for protection. He wore the "anklet" day and night and said the spell every night. And Viola....NO more bad dreams

For parking space I use the visualization of an empty parking space when you are about a block away, cross my middle finger over my pointer finger, on my left hand and nod quickly and say thanks! Works every time

love
hope