How To Prepare For Spells And Spellweaving - Pagan - Wicca - Witchcraft

Make sure your feet are firmly set upon the ground, shoulder width apart, and feel their contact with the earth. With your hands resting on your stomach, take a few deep breaths, deep in your stomach, to ground yourself.

Place both hands just below the sternum. Begin to breathe, not too deeply, but slow and with concentration.

On each inward breath, breathe through your nose, and draw golden light into yourself.

Hold the breath for a short time and feel your heart opening.

On each outward breath, breathe through your mouth, as you do so let the light circulate around your body.

Breathe this way until you feel energized and wide awake. Then rest your hands on the heart chakra for a few moments, breathing normally.

Place your hands on your heart and ask that you be filled with the light of love. Imagine the golden light and feelings of love filling your heart and then your whole body.

Let the light begin to radiate out in all directions around you, so that you are surrounded in an aura of its golden rays.
Do this with the palm of your hands facing towards the sky, as though receiving the light.

Open up your arms and raise them above your head so that your palms are facing upwards towards the heavens and say the pledge. Then bring your arms down to your sides.

Rub some dried sage into a ball in your hands and place in heatproof bowl.

Light the ball of sage with matches and fan gently with a feather.

Using the feather, fan the smoke all around your body, including under your feet and armpits, and the back of your body.

Pass the feather through the smoke when you have finished, to cleanse it.

In a cleared space outside or on the floor, mark the four points of the compass. Moving clockwise, place an incense cone in the east, a candle in the south, a small bowl of spring water in the west and a small pile or bowl of salt in the north.

Light the incense. Turn to the east and say:

I cleanse, bless and consecrate this cord with the powers of air.

The pass the cord through the smoke from the incense, while imagining a clear cool breeze passing through the cord.

Light the candle in the south, and say :

I cleanse, bless and consecrate this cord with the powers of fire.

Then pass the cord over the candle flame while imagining it being filled with warmth and light.

Turn to the west, where the bowl of water is placed, say :

I cleanse, bless and consecrate this cord with the powers of water.

Then dip the cord into the water or splash some water over it, while visualizing a crystal clear waterfall cascading through it.

Turn to the north, where the salt is placed, and say :

I cleanse, bless and consecrate this cord with the powers of Earth.

While sprinkling the cord with a pinch of salt and imagining stability and nourishment filling it with balance and harmony, say :

May this cord now be cleansed and purified for the highest good of all.

Visualize that your heart contains a silver chalice if you are female, or a gold goblet if you are male, that is wondrous to behold. The chalice is decorated with precious stones, and apples and vines are embossed around the rim.

Imagine that golden light is falling down from the heavens through the top of your head and down into the chalice.

Allow the cup to overflow with sparkling golden light.

The light keeps falling from above as you let it overflow and cascade down through you to Earth, bathing her and you in golden light.