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Stones and crystals have continuously fascinated us these mysterious jewels buried deep inside the earth have been used to embellish and decorate almost everything. Stones and crystals have been valued not just for the beauty but also for the rarity.
Stones and crystals have also been used as symbols of power and status, as payment, for divination, in technologies and in magicks. Stones and crystals are some of the rarest and most common structures on the planet and in the universe.
Stones and crystals are very easy to acquire now a days and prices range from a few pennies to Hundreds of thousands of pounds depending on their size and how rare they are. Every house will have few stones and crystals hanging around (whither you’re a pagan or not) in jewelery, in (or as an) ornaments or even glued to a birthday card, making them a part of our daily lives.
But Stones and crystals also have magickal and healing properties which is simple to perform and relatively low cost. When you purchase or find your stones and crystals the first thing you will need to clean your stones and crystals of negative energy.
Cleaning Stones
Stones and crystals are thousands if not millions of years old and have their own energies and spirits, some may contain other spirits or guardians so before rushing to cleanse them it is advisable to spend some time listening to the crystal to see if it needs cleansing and what way is best to cleanse them.
There are a number of ways to cleanse a crystal of any past influences or negativities.
Cleansing Methods
1. Run stones and crystals under cold running water, where possible use a stream but a garden hose or kitchen tap will do.
2. Bury the stones and crystals in ground earth a clay pot full of soil will do, length of time depend on your own feelings (3 days, part or full lunar cycle etc)
3. Sun or moon cleansing leave in direct moonlight or sunlight for 3 to 7 days.
4. Rubbing or encasing in sea salt
5. Pass through associated incense or smudge stick
Once the stones and crystals have been cleansed they will need charge or empower the crystal to a desired purpose. Each crystal will have a number of correspondences and it is possible enchant a crystal with a desired purpose such as a charm or talisman but always choose the correct crystal for the desired out come.
Charging and directing your stones and crystals.
Hold the crystal between your palms and connect with the energy of the crystal and fill the crystal with energy empowering the crystal with life energy think about the energy of the crystal what is its purpose. Match the crystal of the crystal as you fill once it as been filled you will feel its pulse allow your energy and the stones and crystals energy to mix this helps personalize the crystal to your energy helping you access it energy when needed.
When directing your stones and crystals to a desire out come you will need realize that a crystal works in two basic ways it either attracts or projects energy holding the crystal in the appropriate hand (if you are right handed your right hand will project while you left hand attracts (reverse if left handed).
In the case of a charm or talisman the crystal is set to attract like energy and the over flow of energy is imbued with like energy set to attract a goal , such as luck or love etc. or even in healing as a way of drawing off excess negative energies.
In other magicks and healing stones and crystals are used to direct energy into an object, person or higher plane. This projection can be used to either fill with energy or expel energies
Magical uses of stones and crystals
Place stones and crystals in bags wallets or pockets wrapped in cloth (white or associated colour)
Astral Projection – Quartz, Amethyst, Tourmalated quartz , Carnelian, opal, Peridot, Fluorite
Business Success – Aventurine Bloodstone, malachite, Green tourmaline, yellow zircon Tiger Eye,jade
Dieting – Moonstone, Topaz
Dreams – Amethyst, Azurite, Peridot, Fluorite
Gambling – Amazonite, aventurine, cat’s eye
Happiness – Amethyst, chrysoprase, yellow zircon
Healing/Health – Agate, amber, amethyst, aventurine, azurite, bloodstone, calcite, carnelian, cat’s – eye, celestite, chrysoprase, coral, quartz diamond, flint, garnet, hematite, holey stones, jade, jasper, jet, lapis lazuli, peridot, petrified wood, sapphire, sodalite, staurolite, sugilite, sulfur, sunstone, topaz, turquoise, red zircon
Love – Agate, alexandrite, amber, amethyst, beryl, calcite, chrysocolla, emerald, jade, lapis lazuli, lepidolite, malachite, moonstone, olivine, pearl, rhodocrosite, sapphire, sard, topaz, pink tourmaline, turquoise
Money, Wealth, Prosperity, Riches – Aventurine, bloodstone, calcite, cat’s-eye, chrysoprase, coal, emerald, jade, mother-of-pearl, olivine, opal, pearl, peridot, ruby, salt, sapphire, spinel, staurolite, tiger’s-eye, topaz, green tourmaline, brown-green-red zircon
Physical Energy – Beryl, calcite, rhodocrosite, selenite, spinel, sunstone, tiger’s-eye, red tourmaline, red zircon
Reconciliation – Diamond, selenite
Sexual Energy – Carnelian, sunstone, yellow zircon
Sleep – Moonstone, peridot, blue tourmaline
Success – Amazonite, chrysoprase, marble
Travel – Chalcedony, orange zircon
Wisdom – Chrysocolla, coral, jade, sodalite, sugilite

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Now that Mabon is over and we start looking to Samhain I always start by looking back over my book of shadow one to see if I set any thing in motion that as yet to manifest. These will not always be magickal things many times they are my own personal goals and aspiration.

At this stage in the year my mind focuses on Samhain and Yule probably because they are my favourite Sabbats I am not sure if it anything more than I find them much more magickal than the other Sabbats. But during this period of the year I spend much time in reflection looking at my success and my failures and those things I have been just mediocre.

The things that I am successful at will become the seeds for next years hopes and dreams. The things I fail at I look at what caused the things to fail was it my lack of skill or devotion and look for ways to insure success in future attempt and the things I have been mediocre at I look at why I did not give these things more attention.

But the fun part of all this reflection I get to review my book(s) of shadows and if fun to read some of my earlier Books of shadows seeing some of the spells and charms I picked up, some of the rubbish that I thought was so important (and at the time it was) some of the memories I wrote about people who died. Some of the insights I had that meant nothing at the time but know as I look back I can see the meaning.

I look at the ebbs and flow of my life the part of my life where my spiritual development devolved at fast pace and where I spent so much time attempting to master new skills. The dark and light times in my life and my magicks.

As I reflect I start to plan for the next year deciding how one will celebrate Samhain it easy to get stuck in a route with rituals so I don’t always do a formal ritual for Samhain some times I may do a number of small rituals throughout the and end the evening with friends in a social situation eating, drinking or partying.

I also find that during the dark half of the year my magickal urges increase and I become more spiritually orientated and creative unlike the light half where I am much less creative or magick orientated, This is a natural state to find yourself in I have friends who do not do nothing much during the Dark half of the year but soon as the spring get here they are busy little bees. Each of us are affected by the seasons some of us are children of the light and some of us are children of the dark.

Being a child of light or dark does not make you good or bad it just your natural ebb and flow for me the dark half of the year holds potential and mystery and that inspires me for others they are inspired by plants and flowers growing.

By keeping your Books of shadows and rereading them will give you an insight to yourself like any journal it a history filled with good and bad parts but it your history the better your notes the greater your insights.

And there is no better time to review your development and you go back you may find things that you did not continue or you where not ready to understand these things may inspire you to try again and succeed.

Evaluating your magickal and spiritual development is an important part of a pagan path as our paths are one of constant change and development and progression we need change in our understand, of ourselves and of our magick. We are the seekers of knowledge the seekers of truth.

Remember you are the masters and mistresses of your own destiny only when you know where you have been can you find out where you’re heading

A little gift from my Book of Shadows
I am not sure where this original comes from

Witches Hand Shake
Extend your right index finger and lightly touch the wrist of the person exactly where the pulse is felt . by touching the pulse it throws the acquaintance completely off his balance for just an instant , but in that instant plant an initial thought, ( example : I am the one you want for the job )

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Originally posted 2011-04-07 04:38:45. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Magickal charms and talismans appear in our life as gifts or things we purchase, even non-pagans have their magickal charms even if they do not imbued with magickal properties.

Some of the more common charms are lucky rabbits foot, crucifix, [wikipedia]St Christopher[/wikipedia], pentagram, birthstones, Buddha’s, religious pictures and coins. There are many things that we imbued with magickal properties as I look around my home I notice how many charms I have, [wikipedia]hag stones[/wikipedia], [wikipedia]Rowan berries[/wikipedia], abracadabra triangles and talismans that I have made and a myriad of crystals and [wikipedia]witch bottle’[/wikipedia]s hidden in the garden.

Magickal Charms and talismans can be used for every purpose, although if you create a charm or talisman for a desired purpose you must give it a death date so it does not start drawing energy from you.

The most common talismans are for protection, love and luck. Protection charms can be used to protect people, places and objects. Love Charms are used to draw new love or as symbols to increase love between partners and luck charms are used to increase or change a persons luck.

Charms and Talismans can be used for both negative and positive out comes, sometimes a negative acting talisman can be more effective than a positive one. An example of this is a person instead of creating a charm or talisman to draw love they may be better off creating a talisman that repels bad relationships. But when creating your talisman put as much effort in to creating the sigils and pictography as you can part filling it with energy before you perform the birthing and naming of your talisman.

Some talismans can be objects imbued with energy and purpose while others needs to be created. When creating a charm or talisman think about how you’re going decorate it will you magickal text or symbology. Will you create a Sigel (a great book for Sigel creating is Helrunar: A Manual of Rune Magick by Jan Fries) what material best suits your talisman, paper, wood, clay or metal. You can purchase talismans and charms but you will need to cleanse and charge them for your purpose.

For talismans that have a long life it is a good idea to recharge them, focusing solar and lunar energy works very well.

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One of my favourite Chants is a chant that I heard off a film many years ago called the Charm of Making, now for whatever reason has remained part of my book of shadows as a chant to raise energies till this day.

Part of the reason for the charm of making remains is because it feels authentic. The Charm of making appears in the film Excalibur and is composed in Old Irish by Michael Everson a linguist of high standing.

Although the charm has been rumoured to be an ancient Celtic Charm, or Gaelic Charm or even an ancient Welsh Druid spell none of these rumours have any historical or academic evident that cant be disrepute with ease.

If we just accept that The Charm of Making is a well crafted set of words written in Old Irish to portray magickal intent on screen does not remove the power that these words have:-

The Words – The Charm of Making

Just by saying the words a few times over you can already feel the energies build (or well at least I can) as you do with any chant or Charm.

Their many be many Neo pagans who might fill that grabbing a few words off of a movie and putting in a book of shadows and using them in ritual would be wrong as they have no place being their as the made up and rubbish. But many more agree with me words only have power as long as you give them power and the more power you give them the stronger they get.

Taking words from a film script or play scripts are nothing new, Eko! Eko! Azarak! Eko! Eko! Zomelak! Come from the text from the play Le Miracle de Théophile according to Pennethorne Hughes who is a professional historian and student of witchcraft. But it does seem that we are much happier to copy spells, charms and chants down from written source the older and dustier the better than to dictate something from a visual media such as a play or film. Probably because when you watch a film you never seem to have a pen handy.

I do personally feel that not all films spells and chants can be used effectively “ you could never find a use for “Salicadoola, Menchicaboola, Bippity Boppity Boo!”” but film spells Mystical charms and chants they can be a good source of inspiration to help you develop your own spell incantations and charms and chants. They can help with timing and with just a few changes to the original text you can have a truly unique spell or chant, which is personal and has a very familiar feel and should be very effective.

Remember in life and not just in magicks “It’s not what you say! That counts; it’s how you say it! That matters!”

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There are many places in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland where you will see large numbers of Celtic crosses. Many people confuse the Celtic cross with the High Cross and the Irish Memorial Cross, but it is completely different. The image of this cross is that of a conventional Latin cross with a circle connecting the stem and the arms. One usually associates this as a symbol of the Irish missionaries, but since they are found in England, Scotland and Wales as well as Ireland, it is really seen as a symbol of early Christianity. During the Dark Ages all of these locations did have contact with Ireland.

No one knows for sure how the cross came to be or what it really symbolizes. Some scientists have suggested that the ring inside the cross represents the halo of Christ and others believe it has its roots in the pagan religions of the Celts and Druids who worshiped the Sun. The crosses were erected in sacred places and were used to declare adherence to the beliefs of Christianity. Still other interpretations of the cross see the straight lines representing man and the circle representing woman. This is because a similar symbol exists in Hindu tradition representing the union of man and woman.

The early churches were very small, and since there was always a cross in the churchyard, religious celebrations often took place with the people gathered around the cross. Based on the location of these crosses, though, not all of them were erected for religious purposes. Some may have been landmarks to show the way for travelers on foot and others may have been used as landmarks for those at sea either telling them that an area was safe for landing or to denote dangerous areas around the shoreline.

There are examples of this cross that date back 5000 years or more. According to legends, St. Columba introduced this cross to Ireland and others say that St. Patrick drew the circle in the cross to show a connection between the pagan religion and Christianity. The first crosses were on large rocks that laid flat on the ground. The four arms of the cross could also denote the four points of the compass.

The cross was decorated with carved designs and intricate geometric shapes. Free-standing crosses were very elaborate and were often made from four pieces of stone – the base, the shaft, the head and the upper cross arm – all of which were held together with mortar.

Celtic jewelry, displaying the cross, began to be made in Ireland in the mid-1800′s. Many people wore this jewelry as a symbol of their faith. They were also being placed in cemeteries and churches all over the United Kingdom by 1890. Today, they rarely have any religious significance as they are worn for their beauty. The Celtic symbol of the cross is also used to denote ancestry as being from the Celtic countries. Whatever the original, it is clear that these early crosses were the work of highly trained craftsmen.

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