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128 Creating Circles & Ceremonies
3. Rituals for Protection & Healing
I. Protection Spells & Rituals
By Oberon Zell-Ravenheart
When doing defensive spells against psychic attacks, set them to send any negative
energy right back to where it came from. The best kinds of protection and defense magick
are mirrored wards and shields. These involve throwing up a protective field around yourself
and your space, which will repel unwanted energies. The perfect metaphor is the energy
fields/shields used to protect the Starship Enterprise from phaser fire and photon torpedoes.
“Harden” the outer shell of your auric field into a psychic shield. Stand strong, feet
apart, and close your eyes. Center yourself with a grounding (see pages 36-39). Then, with
palms flattened and fingers spread wide, move your hands up, down, and all around your
body at arm’s length, while visualizing that you are shaping and pressing against the inside
of a Teflon-coated shell all around yourself.
Now open your eyes and expand that shield around your entire room, apartment, or
house, strengthening it into an impenetrable shell that is reflectively mirrored on the outside.
Use visualization as well as an actual hand-held round mirror as you circle around each
room, holding your hands up as if against an invisible wall. That’s a shield.
Tape small mirrors to the insides of your windows, reflecting side out. If you can’t use
mirrors, make balls of aluminum foil and leave them on your window sills. A small box, completely
lined with aluminum foil (shiny side in), with your picture and a lock of your hair in the
box, makes for an inexpensive mirror-box. Cover the outside with foil as well, shiny side out.
In addition, hang fresh garlic cloves around your home, and place cut halves of onions
on the windowsills. When they no longer make your eyes water, slice off another section to
keep the surface fresh. A small saucer of vinegar (which can hold an onion half) can be
placed somewhere out of sight and still absorb negativity, replacing it as often as necessary.
NOTE: Don’t just throw spell items that are done into the trash! Take your garlic to a
crossroads after it’s done its work (Hekate will just love it!).
Finally, drive a few large iron nails into the ground in front of each doorway into your house,
and, if you can get one, hang a horseshoe or hex sign over the door.
Witch Bottle
“Witch bottles” were very popular in England in the 17th–8th centuries to create protective
fields around houses and everything within them. Think of it as a psychic field generator
throwing up a repulsion barrier that no enemies may cross. To make one, take a large glass jar
with a screw-on lid, and fill it with sharp objects: pins, nails, tacks, broken glass (especially
shards of a broken mirror!), thorns, urine, salt, etc. Add leaves of rosemary, basil, and bay. Screw
the lid tight, and seal it with melted wax from a black candle, saying:
Witches’ Bottle, herbs and charms,
Banish evil, ward off harm.
Protect me from all enemies
As my will, so mote it be!
(—Gerina Dunwich)
Hide the bottle in the back of the cupboard under the kitchen sink,
or bury it at the farthest corner of your property when the moon is waning.
A Witch bottle protects its owner from harm, and makes a great housewarming gift!