I am a bad witch. There are a long list of reasons why I am a bad witch. Having been out of the broom closet for some considerable number of years I would on occasion get asked \u201cbut you\u2019re a good witch though?\u201d My response to that depending on the person asking but I found I started to say \u201cyes, a very, very good witch\u201d rather darkly as it usually got the point across.<\/span><\/p>\nGood witches will either hand you a love spell without blinking or warn you off them completely. I however, am not a good witch.<\/span><\/p>\nThe warnings are not without good reason. Love is a power thing. An energy and force that can move mountains. In messing around with this you might miss the BIG one\/s. There is a real difference to being \u201cin love\u201d and actual love. In love is chemical attraction, a dizzy connection, an awakening. This always fades, but can also wax again. Real love, real connection is deeper than that and born out of respect and loyalty. <\/span><\/p>\nMost love spells are not actually about love, which is probably because most folks wanting a love spell, don\u2019t actually want love either. Most love spells are about lust, loneliness and power games. That doesn\u2019t mean something real cannot develop from a lust spell. Sex is fun and healthy after all. However problems really arise when they are done \u201cin house\u201d with a relationship. I have known wives desperate to stop their husbands cheating resorting to magick. It kept the marriage together for two more agonising years before blowing up. <\/span><\/p>\nNo amount of magick can make someone really love you.<\/span><\/p>\nI have seen folks do magick consciously (and not) to draw the same kind of \u201cwrong\u201d or and over again. Sometimes they ask for \u201ca Viking\u201d or \u201ca sexy Scorpio\u201d and they get caught in this web of magick and cannot seem to easily free themselves. \u201cIsn\u2019t this exactly what you asked for\u201d the Gods seem to say.<\/span><\/p>\nThis can make people even swear off magick all together (as though it was its fault for your terrible taste!)<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cOMGdd you\u2019re so judgey!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nSometimes I am. I have done my share too of pushing on a pull door. In fact it is how I sort of met my husband. I was in a terrible relationship (I had been in it for nearly three and a half years) and I wrote a love spell (with the intention of fixing my relationship), however what I asked for was \u201cmy true love\u201d. With six weeks I had moved out and was seeing my now husband of 16 years. I do wonder sometimes if I hadn\u2019t done the spell would everything had happened so fast? I was married and a mum by 22 years old. I wouldn\u2019t \u201cundo\u201d it. Yet it might have been good to have taken things slower!<\/span><\/p>\nHowever, no matter how weird or unlikely there tends to be strange jigsaw pieces that fit together and the world seems to conspire to put them in each other\u2019s path. <\/span><\/p>\nSo what makes a \u201cgood\u201d love spell?<\/span><\/p>\nWell firstly sometimes you are the worst person to know what you actually need. Have a little faith, and ask for something good for you, something happy. What someone looks like might seem important but someone to hold your hand during your Dad\u2019s funeral and actually make you feel better is far more important. A good love spell is about letting go of how you think it will be. If you are too hung up of that your truest love could walk straight past you because you were stubbornly clinging to this idea of a \u201ctype\u201d. Some good therapy and an honest look to what you are calling to you helps. You really want your love to turn up will you are carrying enough emotional baggage to sink the Titanic? Are you loving (or at least trying) to love yourself, find your own worthiness? If someone loves you, can you accept that love, can you be loved graciously and love in return?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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My True Loves Call<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nOne red rose<\/span><\/p>\nOne white rose<\/span><\/p>\nRibbon (either pink, red or white)<\/span><\/p>\nThree candles (tea-lights are fine)<\/span><\/p>\nA dish or bowl of water<\/span><\/p>\nA pinch of powdered cinnamon.<\/span><\/p>\nA pink stone (rose quartz would be fine).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Place the bowl in the middle of the candles forming and equilateral triangle. Take a good sharp knife and cut the roses vertically in half. Take the \u201cgood half\u2019s\u201d and set aside. Light the candles and carefully add the rose petals from the other halves into the bowl saying.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI call to you through time and space, my true love, come and find your place.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nSlowly add the petals a little from each at a time. Sit with the pink stone in your hand or over your heart. Imagine you love someone romantically (don\u2019t visualise a specific person) and imagine opening your heart and filling the stone with the light, a warm pink loving light. Imagine as you breath out you are radiating love and as you breath in accepting it gently. When you have done this for a few minutes add the stone to the bowl of water saying.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI shine with love, kind and true, my true love, I am ready for you.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nAdd a pinch of cinnamon to the bowl and to the cut halves of the \u201cgood\u201d roses now and say.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWith passion, with kindness, with love, as below so above.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nCarefully but firmly bind the rose halves together with the ribbon.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI call through all space and time, my true love, a love Divine. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\nYour love is kind and true, you are ready for as I am for you.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nWe shall share, and love and grow; as above, so below.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nSit with the candles and the bowl some time and extinguish the candle before leaving the bowl overnight. Burn the candles until burned out and keep the crystal in your pocket or with you for the next lunar month. Reserve a small bottle of the water and throw away the rest into running water. Keep the roses in a vase somewhere you can see them until they fade and then untie them and throw them in running water like a river or stream.<\/span><\/p>\nLove is a beautiful and mysterious thing but relationships take compromise, compassion and hard work. Be someone worth spending time with, and make sure you find someone worthy of you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bad Witch’s Guide to Love Spells I am a bad witch. There are a long list of reasons why I am a bad witch. Having been out of the broom closet for some considerable number of years I would on occasion get asked \u201cbut you\u2019re a good witch though?\u201d My response to that depending on the person asking but I found I started to say \u201cyes, a very, very good witch\u201d rather darkly as it usually got the point across. Good witches will either hand you a love spell without blinking or warn you off them completely. I however, am not a good witch. The warnings are not without good reason. Love is a power thing. An energy and force that can move mountains. In messing around with this you might miss the BIG one\/s. There is a real difference to being \u201cin love\u201d and actual love. In love is chemical attraction, a dizzy connection, an awakening. This always fades, but can also wax again. Real love, real connection is deeper than that and born out of respect and loyalty. Most love spells are not actually about love, which is probably because most folks wanting a love spell, don\u2019t actually want love either. Most love spells are about lust, loneliness and power games. That doesn\u2019t mean something real cannot develop from a lust spell. Sex is fun and healthy after all. However problems really arise when they are done \u201cin house\u201d with a relationship. I have known wives desperate to stop their husbands cheating resorting to magick. It kept the marriage together for two more agonising years before blowing up. No amount of magick can make someone really love you. I have seen folks do magick consciously (and not) to draw the same kind of \u201cwrong\u201d or and over again. Sometimes they ask for \u201ca Viking\u201d or \u201ca sexy Scorpio\u201d and they get caught in this web of magick and cannot seem to easily free themselves. \u201cIsn\u2019t this exactly what you asked for\u201d the Gods seem to say. This can make people even swear off magick all together (as though it was its fault for your terrible taste!) \u201cOMGdd you\u2019re so judgey!\u201d Sometimes I am. I have done my share too of pushing on a pull door. In fact it is how I sort of met my husband. I was in a terrible relationship (I had been in it for nearly three and a half years) and I wrote a love spell (with the intention of fixing my relationship), however what I asked for was \u201cmy true love\u201d. With six weeks I had moved out and was seeing my now husband of 16 years. I do wonder sometimes if I hadn\u2019t done the spell would everything had happened so fast? I was married and a mum by 22 years old. I wouldn\u2019t \u201cundo\u201d it. Yet it might have been good to have taken things slower! However, no matter how weird or unlikely there tends to be strange jigsaw pieces that fit together and the world seems to conspire to put them in each other\u2019s path. So what makes a \u201cgood\u201d love spell? Well firstly sometimes you are the worst person to know what you actually need. Have a little faith, and ask for something good for you, something happy. What someone looks like might seem important but someone to hold your hand during your Dad\u2019s funeral and actually make you feel better is far more important. A good love spell is about letting go of how you think it will be. If you are too hung up of that your truest love could walk straight past you because you were stubbornly clinging to this idea of a \u201ctype\u201d. Some good therapy and an honest look to what you are calling to you helps. You really want your love to turn up will you are carrying enough emotional baggage to sink the Titanic? Are you loving (or at least trying) to love yourself, find your own worthiness? If someone loves you, can you accept that love, can you be loved graciously and love in return? My True Loves Call One red rose One white rose Ribbon (either pink, red or white) Three candles (tea-lights are fine) A dish or bowl of water A pinch of powdered cinnamon. A pink stone (rose quartz would be fine). Place the bowl in the middle of the candles forming and equilateral triangle. Take a good sharp knife and cut the roses vertically in half. Take the \u201cgood half\u2019s\u201d and set aside. Light the candles and carefully add the rose petals from the other halves into the bowl saying. \u201cI call to you through time and space, my true love, come and find your place.\u201d Slowly add the petals a little from each at a time. Sit with the pink stone in your hand or over your heart. Imagine you love someone romantically (don\u2019t visualise a specific person) and imagine opening your heart and filling the stone with the light, a warm pink loving light. Imagine as you breath out you are radiating love and as you breath in accepting it gently. When you have done this for a few minutes add the stone to the bowl of water saying. \u201cI shine with love, kind and true, my true love, I am ready for you.\u201d Add a pinch of cinnamon to the bowl and to the cut halves of the \u201cgood\u201d roses now and say. \u201cWith passion, with kindness, with love, as below so above.\u201d Carefully but firmly bind the rose halves together with the ribbon. \u201cI call through all space and time, my true love, a love Divine. Your love is kind and true, you are ready for as I am for you. We shall share, and love and grow; as above, so below.\u201d Sit with the candles and the bowl some time and extinguish the candle before leaving the bowl overnight. Burn the candles until burned out and keep the crystal in your pocket or with you for the next lunar month. Reserve a small bottle of the water and throw away the rest into running water. Keep the roses in a vase somewhere you can see them until they fade and then untie them and throw them in running water like a river or stream. Love is a beautiful and mysterious thing but relationships take compromise, compassion and hard work. 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