Planting trees helps protect the environment and connect you to nature. You may use this spell to bless a new tree. First, plant a sapling in spring under a waxing or Full Moon using some organic fertilizer and a magical stone such as a quartz crystal or moss agate. While you work, repeat this chant: “Roots go down, grow deep and wide, anchor firmly side to side; trunk go up, grow tall and strong, keeping time to the seasons’ song; leaves go out, thick and green, fair as any forest seen!” Put some fertilizer in the hole as you fill it, and sprinkle more on top. Set the stone by the trunk as a gift for the tree. Then cover everything with a layer of mulch. Thank the sapling for coming to live with you and promise to take care of it.
by: Elizabeth Barrette
Sunday is a day for extending blessings, as the Sun’s rays bless the Earth on this day. Spreading blessings was also one of the customs of the legendary fey, and it is something that you can do to extend your power outward. As an ongoing blessing spell, cut small bird shapes out of construction paper in your idle moments, and thread string through them so they can be hung. Write a cheerful word of blessing such as “hope,” “love,” or “luck” on each bird. If you wish, embellish each one by drawing details or gluing glitter on them. Then, whenever you go out-whether to walk in a park, visit a friend’s house, shop at the mall, and so on-surreptitiously hang a string of birds in bushes or other secretive places. Know that your birds are acting as agents of your power, blessing any person who comes across them.
by: Janina Renée
Prepare your home and yourself for the onset of spring by first cleaning house the conventional way. As you do, meditate on the mental detritus you need to clean out as well. Then, when you’re ready, take up your ritual broom, start at the front door and sweep all around the house, visualizing all unwanted things being swept away by your magical broom. When you return to the front door, open it wide and sweep this stuff away. Now light a white candle and carry it around your home. Visualize a light of peace and newness spreading around you and your home. Make a circle of light before each window and door, asking the blessings of the Goddess and the God on your home and all who dwell within it
by: Maria Kay Simms
To bless the food at a table, have each person in the dinner party say a part of this blessing to the bounty embodied in the God and Goddess union.
“All fruits of the Earth
are fruits of your union.
Your womb, your dance,
Lady and Lord.
Come, join with us,
Feast with us,
Enjoy with us!”
by: Therese Francis
To give your new home a psychic cleansing, try this spell. Take a new broom and lightly anoint the tips of the bristles with a teaspoon or so of crushed almonds (for happiness) combined with a drop or two of honey (for the sweetness of life). Then at sunrise (never sunset), sweep your front porch or main threshold with your anointed broom. Visualize sweeping away all negative energy as you say this charm: “With this broom I sweep away all negativity, till only peace and calm surround me. As I destroy all discord, I sweep in harmony and accord.” Use this spell anytime you feel a need to cleanse your home, or after a grouch has darkened your doorway!
by: Jim Weaver
