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[witchycuillere]

Into the spell creation process

I sure hear a lot of witches are more comfortable using spells that already exist, potentially tweaking them if they don't have all the required ingredients; at least when they are starting. And I'm wondering if it might be somewhat intimidating to some of them to start crafting their own spells, so I thought I'd share with you my process when I created my last spell, if it might help somebody. ---

During this new moon period, I was very much down and had been working on my limiting beliefs: thought this was an excellent application for a spell.

Here are my notes on the process, slightly edited for clarity.

I have a list of limiting beliefs I wanna get rid of, and the beliefs I wanna replace them with. They are all on one sheet, but I decide dealing with them one by one will be more efficient, since that will be easier for me to fully integrate one new belief at a time and keep my focus.

Old belief --> burn and disperse the ashes as a symbol of getting rid of it. Then wash my hands and eyes to finish getting rid of it, and cleansing me from it.

As a mirror process, I could then on my hands and eyes apply a "paste" of the new beliefs "dissolved" or imbued into my milk (I still produce milk, so this is a great representation of birth and food as in "this feeds my soul and helps me be reborn into this belief").

Also, I wanna do the spell in my basement, as a representation of my own subconscious.

I found a snail shell today while gardening, intend to use it in my craft. It's the perfect occasion, it is a way of seizing an opportunity, I'll use for protection, to ensure the limiting beliefs don't come back.

If I gather the ashes in the cauldron, water them down a little and then add the snail shell powdered to keep it all away as I dispose of it down the drain? (not very cool for the drain, but could work)

At this point I thought I was settled on the burning part of the spell, but then, as I went for my mortar and pestle to crush the snail shell, I realized it was still "occupied" by a week-old rest of tahini I had made. Was about to through it away and then realised it would be a much better element to use this instead of watering down the ashes. This way I could use it as earth, and it would symbolize that even though I get rid of the beliefs, they have had an influence on my life and I've grown from it. As a reminder that I can still learn and grow from the past they influenced. I'll then dispose of this in compost, instead of down the drain.

Dissolving the papers is way too complicated, I'm just gonna have them imbue something. I'd like a smaller container for this part, with the contents more accessible, I have a small blue cup that will be perfect.

I can roll the beliefs before I use them. I can also symbolise the difference with how I roll them: with the blank side out for the limiting beliefs and with the belief out for the new ones, so I can "read them" / "see them more clearly" during the spell. note : the old ones are already crossed through on my list.

Because of the snail shell I included in the earth component for limiting beliefs, I am reminded of the white snail shell I have lying around. I decide to add it in the second part of the spell. I think it'll look really nice with the milk in the blue cup and the little papers lying around it. I decide it represents a new beginning and also because of the way it's constituted, the constant building and growing we go through. So it will be imbued with all of the strength of the new beliefs, and it can be a pretty reminder.

I also think at this point that I will cleanse my tools and since there are two separate parts in this spell, I could do the cleansing separately for the tools of each part. I hesitate with sound cleansing, incense or sage. I decide on sage since it's from my garden and it reminds me of the earth component I included in the spell.

Since I wanna deal with the beliefs set by set, I cut my whole sheet into the sets (the limiting one and the new one together), and then cut them together and pre-cut the separation. This enables me to keep them together up until the last moment and have no difficulty separating them when needed.

I think this is quite nice as a spell and decide to write down the steps. Here's what I wrote :

Gather all the tools, cleanse, light the candle & set up the space

For each set of beliefs:

Separate it, focus as rolling the limiting one. burn it. add some of the "earth".

wash my hands and eyes with water

Roll the new belief. put it in the blue cup. add some milk.

Then add the powdered snail shell to the cauldron to set the beliefs with this mixture and keep the beliefs in there

Add the white snail shell in the blue cup. focus (sing? incantation?). wash my hands and eyes (+3rd) with the imbued milk That concludes the spell. Get rid of cauldron content in the compost, get rid of content of blue cup in the same spot, after having cleansed it? White snail shell can be kept & used as a reminder !

From there I feel like I'm ready to cast the spell.

As I cleanse my tools, I realise I forgot to separate them in two sets to cleanse separately.

As I prepare, I decide to add the white shell in the blue cup as part of the set up and put some milk in there too.

During the spell, I decide that during the second part, as I focus on the imbuing milk, I say out loud the new beliefs. Also, as I massage the milk onto my eyelids, hands and forehead, I decide to also massage my lips and add an incantation : "Such are my new beliefs. I know them to be true, I act by them, I talk by them, I live by them."

Here are my notes from after the spell (in addition to noting down what I've just told you, of course):

Sometimes forgot to wash with water after the old belief, added during the spell to wash also the forehead / 3d eye.

Some of my first burnt belief fell into the candle :/ Decided to fold those instead of rolling them for better burning.

I only had the fire-handling tweezer so used that to mix the earth, but it would be nicer to have a another tool, maybe made of wood

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I hope this gives you an insight into how the process of creating a spell can go and maybe helped you being less intimidated by it. I'll probably be writing down the spell properly in another post. Let me know if you'd be interested in that.

[starsandepithets]

Hey it’s into-the-duat here! If you don’t mind me asking I was wondering how the whole Greco Roman Kemeticism works for you? For example, do you consider some deities to be the same as others in a different pantheon? Thanks!

Hey @into-the-duat

No problem at all! :)I personally combine them in the worship of Isis Pelagia, who is a goddess of ships, travel and trade. I ask her for questions of fate and my journey in life.

For the most part I worship her pretty standardly in a Kemetic form, because I honestly don’t know enough to be comfortable in a purely Greek or Roman way. But there is more leeway with things like offerings. I would never offer olive oil to any of the rest of the nTrw, but Isis likes it and I understand that it was and is a common offering on the Greco-Roman side of things.

I also try to remember to at least tie my hair up before I approach her. Which I have never got with any of the nTrw or even when I worshipped a purely Kemetic Aset. And so ritual purity is very different. For example, when working with Isis I don’t get the impression I need to be purified with natron, so long as my hair is up.

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I think ultimately that Aset and Isis are the same… but they are playing different roles and so are happy with different things. Like how I am a ‘different person’ when I answer my personal phone verses when I answer the phone at work. I expect different things and will come across as different. Aset/Isis has some factors which are unchanging, I consider them both ‘gateway goddesses’ and are happy to guide you. But they guide you in different ways.

I am a hard polytheist and so I do believe that all the gods are separated and distinct. But to continue my metaphor from earlier occasionally answer each other’s phones.

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I also know that most of my information about rituals comes from Ptolemaic Period temples - as it was only during that period that the priests worried that the secret rituals would be lost so they wrote them on the walls. I think it is necessary to understand the historical background. For example at Philae temple, pilgrims left offerings not just for Aset/Isis but also for Hathor and Aphrodite.

Also I know that Isis was worshipped in Ancient York and London and I was brought up between those two places in England. Part of worshipping Isis is to try to connect myself to the land I was brought up in in some way.

I’m not sure I’d consider myself a Greco Roman Kemetic, as I don’t know enough and it isn’t my end goal. I want to study it partly for the practise of studying, and also because I’m genuinely interested. I hope that it will be able to tell me more about Kemeticism, and will help me understand myself and my path.

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I hope this was helpful and I’m really sorry about the delay in getting back to you!! :D

[hhwwxx]

17 / 06 / 14 - I put together my first ever real spell! for employment+prosperity+wealth, that involved sigil making + a few different types of money, my credit card and SIN card + basil and mint

20 / 06 / 14 - got a job I start monday god fucking bless

[shadowedsouls-blog]

One of today's sketchbook pages.

This little nursary rhyme occupied my mind long enough for me to stamp it out.

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Home is where the heart is. So where is home?

[shadowedsouls-blog]

Comfort eating comes to an end tomorrow.

I wanted to go for a run after work but now I've sat down, I don't think I can move again. Plus my iPod is dead. And Crystal Castles is my usual music to run to. So tomorrow night i'll go.  Today I had a tutorial with the lovely Delyth Done, my course leader. At no less than half past eight this morning. Was quite a killer getting up after a weekend of work but with a packet of cinnamon biscuits and a cup of coffee, we were ready to go. Del got excited about my work and the direction it was going in. Which is unusual for me, because ever since I started at HCA i've struggled repeatedly to stay excited about ideas and work. And seeing someone else that excited about your work really makes you excited about your work. Haa! So after the tutorial I whizzed off to the computer room to look at an artist Del had told me about, called Becky Adams. After looking at her work, I realised I recognised a piece from a Llantarnam Grange leaflet. Del told me that after Easter the first years are having a workshop with her making books and told me I have to go. The prospect of joining the first years is quite scary, but it's going to be a good workshop and I have to push myself to do these things.  So anyway, about an hour after my tutorial I completely flumped and gave up on everything. The thought of going to work was just too much. Having worked for the past week as well going to college everyday, I'm now severely tired and craving cuddles and attention more than ever. But I have neither. Not even a bowl of bran flakes could lift this mood.  I do however have a very fat cat on the end of my bed keeping me company. It's a shame he's not a cuddly cat though otherwise the current situation I'm in may be a little less painful.   Meoooooooooooooow.

[shadowedsouls-blog]

So i'm £1.50 up on my Fuck You Fund.

All thanks to my first front of house shift tonight. The Fuck You Fund is where all my tips will be going from future front of house shifts.  Also in work tonight, I realised what I might make for the next project.

A BOOK OF LIES 

The book will contain what people say and then what they really want to say. So for instance: Thanks guys have a nice evening 

When what you'd actually like to say is: Where's my tip you fucks?