Spell for locating a lost item

Cast a circle and sit in the middle of it. Visualize yourself on a great map where you are the compass needle.

Close your eyes and allow your vision (inner vision) to go in all directions.

Clearly visualize what you have lost

Try to remember the last time you had it in your possession

Allow your vision to point your inner compass in a direction and when you feel a heat or hot sensation your needle should stop

Look for your item in that direction and chant:



North and South

East and West

Find the source

of my unrest

Help me find

what I have lost

A value

that defies its cost

Return to me

that which I need

As I will

so mote it be

Better Home Life Spell

The home is the place where we relax, recharge, and nourish our health so we can do good work in the outside world.



Often it is also where we find important relationships with our friends and family. When our home life is not going well, it is hard to stay grounded and it is harder to feel good in our hearts. We can create a better home environment through magical workings.



For this spell, you will need to enlist all of your housemates to make a meal together. Gather a small amount of lemon balm and dill and a couple of blue candles to put on your dinner table. When cooking the meal, add the spices

to the pot and say these words while stirring them in:



I add these spices to the meal,

Let our home mend and heal.

Bring us love and bring us peace,

May our hearts be at ease.



Now sit down for a meal with your housemates, and light your blue candles.

Reconnecting over a good meal helps develop a good atmosphere at home.



by Jonathan Keyes

Summoning Dragons

Magickal Attributes: Protection, instruction in the spiritual, Element

magick. Using the spiritual powers of change and transformation



Weapon: Sword

Planet: Mars

Element: Fire

Incense: Dragon's Blood

Metal: Gold (or Iron)

Number: 2

Symbol: Dragon's Eye



To call Dragon:



Choose a secluded clearing outdoors, preferably high on a hill or

mountaintop



Cast a circle of 12 stones, using your own height as a diameter. Spread iron or gold filings lightly within. (Remember if you can't find

something from the spell symbolism works well)



With The Sword (or symbolic representation of) etch the Dragon's Eye symbol onto the ground in the center of the circle. The site is now ready for use.

At dawn, high noon, or dusk (3 times of the dragon) enter the circle and burn dragon's blood over a fire.

When ready, stand in the very center of the Dragon's Eye and hold the Sword with by the handle (using both hands) high above your head, with the blade pointing to the ground.



Say the Grand Evocation of the Dragon:



"Cum saxum saxorum in duerssum montum oparum da, in aetibulum in

quimatum - Draconis!"

three times then plunge the sword into the center of the eye.

Be seated in the center of the Dragon's Eye with your legs crossed

around the sword.

Close you eyes and wait for the dragon to come. Chant the following

while waiting if you wish:



"Dragons strong and dragons bright,

Dragons full of wisdom old,

Teach me the spirituals light.

Let me walk with knowledge bold.

Dragon fire, lift me higher!"

http://www.geocitie s.com/astra_ goddess/invocati on/summondragon. html

From the 21 Lessons of Merlyn

by Douglas Monroe

Ten Virtues of Incense

Incense has long been a traditional part of every culture.It is most likely that with the discovery of fire, scraps of resinous wood were tossed upon the flames, causing a remarkable fragrance to climb up among a mystic smoke. Around the campfire, shoulders relaxed, voices softened, all was calm and safe. Mankind had discovered the power of fragrant smoke, or incense.



Incense is so revered in Japan that they have an incense ceremony that elevates the practice of burning incense into a spiritual act, just as they have a tea ceremony.



Here is a thoughtful list of ten virtues of incense that were believed to have been written by an anonymous Zen monk of the sixth century.

Discover some benefits of incense you may not know!



1. Incense brings communication and the transcendent.

2. It purifies mind and body.

3. It removes uncleanliness.

4. It brings alertness.

5. It is a companion to solitude.

6. In the midst of activity, it brings a moment of peace.

7. When there is plenty, one never tires of it.

8. When there is little, still one is satisfied.

9. Age does not change its efficacy.

10. Used every day, it does no harm

by Diana Rosen

OSTARA - Goddess of Renewal

Colors - all of the pastel colors, green

Symbols - rabbit, egg, feather

Aspects - personal renewal, new beginnings, rebirth, fertility

Suggested Offerings - eggs, rice, incense, feathers, flowers



What I love most about this time of year are the birds. They start their springtime symphony early in the morning as the sun begins to peer over the mountain. The trees are budding and tulips and other flowers are showing up in all the stores. This is the time of year when Ostara is honored and thanked as she resumes her "throne" and presides over the season of spring with her familiar, the rabbit.



Long ago, the Germanic goddess, Ostara, was honored in the month of April each year with festivals honoring re-birth and renewal. Nowadays we recognize her festival as "Easter". The name Easter evolved from the Goddess's name, Ostara, which means "movement towards the rising sun" or "East". Ostara is the living symbol for air and the life force of spring. East is representative of the element of air and our mental powers. Air is about new beginnings and allowing your spirit to soar. Ostara is still one of the most powerful Goddesses today. So much so that she has made herself right at home within Christianity and modern medicine.



Easter, like most Pagan festivals, evolved into a Christian holiday focusing, not on the Goddess, but on the Biblical Jesus and his "rebirth" or "resurrection" . Even so, Easter somehow managed to retain the fertility symbols and the Easter Basket. (I always wondered what the Easter Basket had to do with Christ's resurrection. Didn't you?) Ostara, goddess of fertility, has managed to infiltrate our society with the well known "Rabbit Test" (do they still call it that?) to find out if a woman is pregnant and also the hormone estrogen. Both named for her.



Ostara is the perfect goddess to call on when dealing with women's health issues, especially when related to the reproductive system.

Ostara is Goddess of joy, new beginnings and fertility. That is where Easter Eggs and Easter Bunnies (rabbits) come in. Eggs are an obvious symbol for fertility and the rabbit (Ostara's power animal) has a rather well known propensity for reproducing. Ostara presides over our personal renewal and fertility issues. She is goddess of the dawn.



Eggs were (and still are!) dyed or painted bright colors as an offering to Ostara. Dawn is the best time to invoke her. In days of old, fires were lit at dawn in her honor. It always amazes me how traditions like this survive over the millennia.



Right now is the perfect time to build an altar to Ostara so that you can begin to bring in the energy and vibration for new beginnings and fertility. This is the time of year when we symbolically wake up from our winter slumber and become more alert and active. Ostara's altar will help our minds become fertile once again with ideas, making it very easy to take advantage of the vibrations this time of year offers us. This is a good time for starting new projects of all kinds. Let's build an altar honoring Ostara and the changing of the seasons.



OSTARA'S ALTAR

Here is what you will need for your altar to Ostara:

Brightly colored stones such as Amethyst, Rose Quartz, Calcite, Citrine and/or Aquamarine

Hard boiled eggs, preferably colored or brown

Seeds or rice

Feather (symbol for air)

Incense

Rabbit figurine

Spring flowers

Ostara loves bright colors. The light pastels of spring are perfect offerings for Ostara. To represent earth on your altar, choose bright or pastel colored stones like Rose Quartz, Amethyst, or any of the Calcites (blue, red, yellow, or green). If you have some Citrine, be sure to include it. Citrine has long been an aid for mental clarity.



By including an offering of colored eggs on your altar, you will be taking part in an ancient tradition (still performed!) by the Germanic people. Ostara has been honored this time of year with painted eggs for centuries.

To symbolize fertility, in addition to the eggs, you can include seeds or rice on your altar. I like to use rice as a symbol for fertility on my altars.

Incense and feathers are perfect symbols for air on your altar. It is important for Ostara's altar that you include a symbol for air because Ostara herself is the living symbol for Air. (This must be the way Ostara and Easter became associated with birds, i.e. chickens) Be sure to burn incense at your altar when you are dedicating it to bring in the energy and vibrational qualities of Ostara.



The perfect time to dedicate your altar is at dawn. Choose a day, then plan to dedicate your altar to Ostara at dawn's first light by lighting incense and repeating an invocation to her as well as a prayer of thanksgiving for all that Ostara symbolizes in your life; A clear mind. New beginnings. Personal renewal. Fertility, either for the purpose of bearing a child or for creativity such as arts and crafts, writing, or decorating.



You can include anything you like on your altar to Ostara. You will know by how you feel if an item is appropriate or not. I believe it is important to include symbols for the four elements on my altars. The four elements are Fire, Earth, Air, and Water. The four Calcites on my altar (red/fire, green/earth, yellow/air, and blue/water) represent Mother Earth and the four elements. I have added feathers and other items that symbolize Ostara to my altar as offerings to her.



Last, but not least, I have included a figure of a rabbit. The rabbit is Ostara's power animal. I am sure this is because of their propensity for fertility.



That reminds me of something. When I was a kid (oh no, here goes one of my "when I was a kid" stories again!) I used to think that rabbits laid eggs. I think because my Easter basket always had rabbits and eggs in it. Did you think that too? It wasn't until I was in the 4th grade (the same year that I found out there was no Santa Claus!) that I found out that rabbits don't lay eggs. What a traumatic age that was for me. Then I went through a large part of my life wondering why we don't have chickens instead of Easter rabbits for Easter. Someone else must have thought the same thing because shortly after that they started making candy in the shape of "chicks" for Easter. I don't think the chicken idea really caught on though. The Easter Chicken just didn't have the same "ring" to it. All the while, I never knew of Ostara or how Easter started until much later in life. And, "Why is that?" you might ask. Well, that is a whole other story.



information from GoddessVision. net

An Ostara Chant to Honour the Trees

"When nights and days are balanced and halved,

The ancient Oaks sprout life anew.

Limbs of buds and leaves reach out

Collecting the breath of the mornings' dew



Summer will come and the Winter winds,

Turning and turning the leaves on their stems.

Then they must fall, but now in the spring

the twig is bound, and the Bud remains.



Hang the leaf from sturdy limb

Of Oak or Maple, or Ash, or Elm,

Praise the Oak God, the tree is him!

Thus will the trees live long and well."

A Wind Spell

The ancient people of the Aegean believed the power of the wind could be harnessed and used to empower their magic. Let the March wind communicate your desires to the unseen realm. To do so, say:


I whisper over the hills and through the hollows,

For I am the Wind, come, if you wish to follow;

Speak to me your spells and magical words,

Or any prayer-all will be heard;

I will carry your dreams to Father Sky,

Far beyond where eagles fly.

To send your wish, rise before dawn;

Facing east before darkness is gone;

Announce each wish, one at a time;

I will be your messenger to the divine.




The wind spirit will help you achieve your goals.

by: James Kambos

*Perfect for me - my element is air