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    Simple Snow Magick Love it or hate it, in many parts of the world we are now buried in it:  Snow! Personally, I’m not a big fan of scraping ice off the windshield of the car every morning, or spending hours shoveling out the driveway, so to keep myself from becoming too bitter I have tried to look at snow from a more positive perspective.  I’ve come up with some ideas to help me appreciate the icy coldness a little bit, and I’ll share them with you. Snow has uses, not only in nature but in your own magickal life. Where I live, the extreme cold and ice are necessary…

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    Creative Ways to Use Magickal Essential Oils Essential oils have been used for centuries in medicine and magick.  Scent is one of our most powerful senses: it can trigger long forgotten memories, change our moods, uplift us or depress us, and even have physical effects on our health and wellbeing. Essential oils are fairly easy to find and purchase at most health food stores or metaphysical shops.  When you are using them for magickal purposes, it is important to buy true essential oils derived from plants and resins, not synthetics or “fragrances” made from chemicals.  Synthetics carry no magickal properties whatsoever because they do not contain any of the actual…

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    A Winter Spell in a Bottle Now that harvest time is over and the cold is starting to settle in, we are spending more time indoors and are also retreating inward, looking inside ourselves a little deeper.  The dark months are a time of reflection.  Now is the time to draw back, “hibernate” and think about our lives, our paths and ourselves in general.  Harvest isn’t just the actual bounty of the earth but also a harvest of our own achievements and experiences, both good and bad.  Winter is the ideal time to have a good look at what we have created in our lives, spread it all out and…

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    The Magnificent Power of Trees Everyone knows that trees are magick.  We’ve known it for thousands of years.  Joan of Arc knew it, and so does any ordinary individual who just spends some time sitting or laying under one, only to find themselves feeling grounded and refreshed. Stand at the base of an ancient old oak or maple and gaze up into the branches, those strong arms and fingers reaching to meet the sky.  They grab for the crisp inspirational air and absorb the power of the sun and moon.  Then bring your attention to your feet and the ground below you.  Consider the root system of this tree, which…

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    The Banishing Power of Fire: A Ritual There’s no denying the hypnotic, mesmerizing power of fire, whether in the gentlest candle flame or in the terrifying destruction of a forest fire.  Of the four elements, fire is the most volatile and fast-acting.  Its effects are often permanent and dramatic on the physical plane and the same can be said for when it is used in magick.  The element of fire encompasses passion, determination, action, success, anger, sex, big changes and fast transformation. You don’t need to have access to a bonfire to harness the energy and spirit of fire in your spells and rituals.  Most of us have to make…

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    A Little Bag of Happy No matter how positive we try to be, it’s only human to have “off” days where we are lethargic, depressed or angry.  Contrarily we all have times where we feel so good, we wish we could hang on to that uncomplicated happiness forever.    On those nasty dark days, wouldn’t it be convenient if we could have saved a little piece of this brightness – peace, joy, relaxation, humour, and love – to draw on later on when we really needed it?  I believe we can, by making a crafty, simple charm that I like to call “A Little Bag of Happy”.  It’s sort of like…