Banishing spells are spells designed to send something or someone away or to prevent their return.
To banish something means to send it away or drive it away from a location. In the mundane world banishment implies that whoever is banished can never return or is no longer welcome, but magical banishment is a little different.
A banishing ritual is often performed at the beginning of a ceremony in order to rid the ritual area of negative energy and unwanted entities that may interfere with magick or unbalance energies that will be raised or summoned during the ceremony. A banishing is also performed at the end of a ritual to banish any entities that were evoked or invoked during the procedure.
The banishing may be performed on the ritual space or on the magic-user(s) or both, however, when you perform a banishing ritual on an area, you do internalize it somewhat automatically. The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram is a basic banishing ritual that is a primary requirement of initiates into the Golden Dawn.
One may banish summoned energies and entities as well once their presence is no longer required. Although the word “releasing” is most often used, the Watchtowers that are evoked at the four corners of the Circle in many rituals are, in fact, banished at the ritual’s end.
Some banishing rituals are designed to drive away anything the magic-user feels is a threat or a nuisance; a person, an obstacle, a debt, a disease, an addiction, a bad habit, etc.
Performing a Banishing Spell
Banishing spells are most effective if performed during the waning phase of the moon while the moon is in the sign of Capricorn orScorpio. Saturday is a good day for general banishing spells. (See also Spell Timing as there are better times for the banishing of specific things.) The best time is at the dark of the moon, but before the new moon appears.
Some say that your movements should be widdershins when performing a banishing spell, but some believe that it’s bad luck to move in any direction other than sunwise while performing a spell.
For many banishing spells, an object is chosen to represent the person, idea, thing or energy to be banished. This item is then chargedor programed to represent the target using various means and then symbolically sent away. Running water, such as a river, a sewer drain or even a flushing toilet is often utilized in this way. It is important that the item be of safely biodegradable nature so that your spell work does not bring harm to the environment or clog up the pipes.
Banishing of energy or entities may take the form of a more complicated ritual involving smudging or asperging an area, person or object. If you are banishing energy from your person, a ritual bath may be in order.
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External Links to More Information
http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Banishing
http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/spellworkfolkmagic/ss/Magical-Banishing.htm#step1
http://www.spellsofmagic.com/spells/spiritual_spells/banishing_spells/page.html
http://www.philhine.org.uk/writings/rit_banishintro.html
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