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In my community, many barns are adorned with brightly painted designs, often circular in shape, like a mandala. It's common to see the rose and thistle pattern, circles of laurel leaves, flowers, birds, mammals, and other symbols of nature. I think of mandalas as magical symbols of protection invoking the power of roses (love), thistles (protection), laurel (honor), and other entities. Draw your own mandala. Start with a circle that is about six inches in diameter. Draw images of flowers, ...
Clip a small cutting of a jade plant and put it in a vase of water or obtain a small jade plant in a pot. Place the plant in a sunny window. Center your mind, relax your body, and say: Goddess of Magic, God of the Green, bring me more money than I've ever seen. Then place a coin of any denomination outside the base of the vase or pot. Tomorrow, say the same chant and place another coin near the first one. Repeat every day, stacking the coins and/or placing them in a circle around the base, ...
Gardens are beginning to grow now. Show your appreciation for your garden with this charm. First, as an offering to your garden, select a small rock that you find attractive. Carry the rock with you to your garden. Then quietly read these words to yourself: On a warm May eve, Go to your garden and this charm of thanks you'll weave. Garden, from every seed, You bring me all that I need. I have watched your birth As you sprouted from Mother Earth. Even after the leaves turn brown And frost has ...
There are many ways to be a mother. Fertility workings are not always about physical birth; they can be about creativity, personal growth, discovery, and acquiring success. Anyone who creates and turns ideas into reality has, in essence, given birth to those things. The pomegranate has long been associated with fertility and rebirth. Place a pomegranate in the sunshine for a day, allowing it to be "fertilized" by the warmth. That evening, cut the pomegranate in half. Notice how the seeds and ...
