{"id":10877,"date":"2015-03-01T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T06:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2015-02-27T18:01:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:01:24","slug":"spellcrafting-spells-and-rituals-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2015\/03\/01\/spellcrafting-spells-and-rituals-7\/","title":{"rendered":"SpellCrafting: Spells and Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Fertilizing an Egg<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Merry meet! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Eggs are a major theme for Ostara. They represent rebirth, fertility and spring. This spell will fertilize an egg with your intention that then can be placed on your altar, buried or hidden in nature as a gift to the God\/dess. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Write your desire, wish or intent on a piece of paper and roll it up tightly. Inflate a small balloon, insert the paper and tie off the balloon.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Craft.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11277\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Craft.jpg\" alt=\"Craft\" width=\"232\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">reprinted with permission from<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/modpodgerocksblog.com\/2013\/03\/easter-craft-yarn-egg-garland.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Anderson from her blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\">\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">With a sponge brush, apply Mod Podge to the balloon. Tie one end of a ball of yarn or string to the knot of the ballon, then wrap the balloon, turning as you do, so that the string encircles the ballon from all angles. Dab a generous amount of Mod Podge over the string, soaking it well.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Let the string dry for 24 hours. Pop the balloon and remove the pieces. You will be left holding a string egg containing your intention. Know that that egg contains all the nutrients and ingredients necessary for that desire to manifest. Feel what it feels like to have attained that desire. When you look at the egg, enhance its energy by re-experiencing that feeling. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A similar spell would be appropriate for new moons as well.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Merry part. And merry meet again.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"\" align=\"LEFT\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fertilizing an Egg Merry meet! Eggs are a major theme for Ostara. They represent rebirth, fertility and spring. This spell will fertilize an egg with your intention that then can be placed on your altar, buried or hidden in nature as a gift to the God\/dess. Write your desire, wish or intent on a piece of paper and roll it up tightly. Inflate a small balloon, insert the paper and tie off the balloon. reprinted with permission from Amy Anderson from her blog With a sponge brush, apply Mod Podge to the balloon. Tie one end of a ball of yarn or string to the knot of the ballon, then wrap the balloon, turning as you do, so that the string encircles the ballon from all angles. Dab a generous amount of Mod Podge over the string, soaking it well. Let the string dry for 24 hours. Pop the balloon and remove the pieces. You will be left holding a string egg containing your intention. Know that that egg contains all the nutrients and ingredients necessary for that desire to manifest. Feel what it feels like to have attained that desire. When you look at the egg, enhance its energy by re-experiencing that feeling. A similar spell would be appropriate for new moons as well. Merry part. And merry meet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10498,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions\/10498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}