Pages From the Witch's Book

Greetings and Happy Lunar New Year!

I thought I would post a few tidbits of knowledge from my own book of shadows (BOS). I hope that this information can further aid you in crafting spells for wings. If you are a beginning witch I hope this can help you in your other magick work.


Aura Purification (For Protection From Negativity of All Forms):

This is a quick little energy fix whenever you feel uncomfortable or threatened. This may also be done every morning to help strengthen your overall energy.

Begin by selecting a memory or something that means a lot to you. You'll know it has a strong effect on you because you'll instantly feel happy and content. Allow that good energy to run through your entire body. Now, imagine a glowing white energy surrounding you and engulfing you. Breathe steadily and deeply, and continue thinking the positive thoughts as you do this.

(If you feel ill, you can use this method but with a green aura instead.)


Simple Ways to Increase Magick Abilities:

• Write Ofudas
• Meditate
• Send positive energy to other people/animals/places/objects
• Keep a journal to record anything magickal that happens to you
• Go for a walk in nature
• Listen to your favorite music and dance
• Dance in the rain
• Purify your aura / Try changing the color of your aura
• Practice with tarot cards
• Play with a regular 52-deck of playing cards
• Swim
• Sit in nature
• Make art
• Do what makes you happy

Mantra to See What is Unseen:

Like old webs I remove the veil,

I shall see what was spoken of in old tales,

The world that was hazy shall now be clear,

I welcome new vision with no fear.

Rifting Ritual:

NOTE: This is not guaranteed to work physically. But this WILL open a portal. Follow every step carefully in order to prevent dark spirits from passing through it. Returning will be difficult, if possible.

~Needed:

• Candles (4 for you and add 1 other for each other person performing)
• Drawing of Torii (You or one of the other people performing must draw this and put in your intentions while drawing it)
• Dark room or a very dark location outside at night (no street lamps nearby)
• Salt
• Stories (You and your friends can make the stories up yourself or use another story)

~Directions:

1. Create a circle of salt large enough for everyone to sit in

2. Surround outside of circle with candles

3.Light candles in a counterclockwise direction

4. Everyone sit inside the circle with the drawing of the torii on the ground with the opening pointing towards everyone

5. Recite your chosen stories, they must reflect the kind of place you wish to rift to. Everyone must immerse themselves in the stories

New House Purification:

Walk around the empty house while burning a sage smudge stick or a sage incense stick. Use a large feather or folding fan to fan out the smoke. Think positive thoughts and envision the smoke as white light filling every corner and crevice. You can chant a protective chant or sing a song that you feel suitable while doing this; or you can be silent.

Afterwards, retrace your steps through the house while waving a gohei. (You can make your own gohei by folding shide and attaching them to a wooden stick)

Helpful Herbs:

Sage - Purification of evil

Thyme - Increases courage and memory

Rosemary - Maintains youthfulness

Basil - Draws prosperity and wealth

Lavender - True love and dreams

Cedar - Increases strength and protection

Pine - For prosperity and divination

Rose - Love

Bay - Divination

Quick Love Potion:

This will not make someone fall in love with you, that would be black magick. Instead this is used to catch the attention of your desired person.

1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract

1/2 tsp French Lavender oil

Mix and dab on your wrists and neck

Days of the Week (their planets and meanings):

Sunday - (Sun) Hope and victory

Monday - (Moon) Healing

Tuesday - (Mars) War and protection

Wednesday - (Mercury) Career and travel

Thursday - (Jupiter) Wealth and family

Friday - (Venus) Love and growth

Saturday - (Saturn) Fortune and creativity

Magickal Tip:

The non-dominant hand is used for receiving energy.

The Elements:

~ Air 

• Inspiration, birth, travel, communication, intellect
• East
• Yellow, sky blue, white, silver

~ Earth

• Foundation, security, realism, fertile, stability
• North
• Green, brown, grey

~ Water

• Childbirth, fluid, passive, calm, reflective, psychic, cleanse
• West
• Blue, sea green, turquoise

~ Fire

• Powerful, hot, destructive, growth, ambition, uncontrollable, release, passionate
• South
• Red, orange, yellow

(Source)

Thank you for reading. May you have good fortune this year!

Spell Dump

I have quite a bit of spells I constructed from years of spell crafting & avian human study. As a request I will be dumping all these spells on this post. Keep in mind, these are spells I created, therefore they may not have a similar effect on you. Take my spells as a base and simply change it to your befitting.


I. God Sponsor

This is a ritual to indirectly grow wings. I call this God Sponsor because you are calling upon a God or spiritual being of your choice to aid you in your wing growth. There isn't a limited number of entities you can have sponsor you, but you shouldn't take on more than you can give attention to. I took on three; one is the Goddess Inari, another is a winged sky spirit, and the third is actually a youkai, a kitsune servant of Inari.

Instructions:

To begin is simple enough. Form a friendly relationship with your chosen God/spirit. This can be done by:

     - Talking as though you are speaking to them
     - Set up an altar or an image dedicated to them
     - Have a mental or physical image of what they look like (just make one up if you can't find any)
     - While meditating, visualize yourself visiting them at their home
     - Give offerings

Continue doing these things. Be sure to make it habitual because this entity is now your friend and companion throughout your journey. However, if you wish to relieve your chosen God/spirit from the sponsor position, follow the instructions below:

Perform the ritual on a day and during a time that relates to the God/spirit.

1. Cast a circle
2. Sit or lay inside the circle and close your eyes.
3. Meditate upon yourself visiting the home of this God/spirit.
4. Meet with them and explain to them the circumstances.
5.Wait for the particular feeling that lets you know they understand.
6. Come out of meditation and end the ritual.

Over time you will gradually feel their power on you weakening.

WARNING: This ritual can be dangerous due to the summoning of a being and opening a portal to yourself. Take caution, keep amulets close by and maintain a clean, happy aura. Make sure you understand what you are trying to summon and don't show fear.




II. New Moon Wing Blessing

Obviously this spell is to be done during a new moon, and a tween time, specifically midnight. A windy or slightly breezy night is ideal, being that it'll be easier to contact the wind spirits.

Stand tall, stretching your arms towards the sky. Allow the energy of the night to surround you and flow through you. Feel it working it's way to your shoulder blades where your wings will sprout forth.

Imagine growing pains in your back, feel the itching of new bones and poking feathers, embrace the change. Say out loud with emotion:

"I dedicate my body and soul to the sky,
Spirits of the air,
Let me flutter and soar up high,
Growing forth from my back, two large feather covered wings,
Sturdy to keep me steady, large to give me height, and flexible to stay hidden when I close my back,
With a giant leap, I will fly."




III. 13

In numerology, 12 represents wholeness, to be complete. 13 represents change, moving forward from 12. You at this point as a human represent 12; now use your power to advance to 13 and slowly you will emerge to 14 which represents freedom and independence.

Materials:

~ White or blue candle
~ Small square piece of paper
~ Writing utensil
~ Fire resistant bowl or fire pit
~ A feather (Color does not matter. Do not pluck from bird)

Steps:

1. Carve or draw the number '13' onto the candle. While doing so, imagine what you desire. Being that you probably want wings, imagine yourself with wings and the feeling of flight.
2. Write the number '12' on the piece of paper. While doing so, envision the part of you that you are leaving behind, changing, and what part of your life you are leaving behind, changing.
3. Light the candle, keeping in mind what you want
4. Be near the prepared fire resistant bowl or fire pit
5. Fold the feather inside the '12' paper
6. Ignite the paper with the feather
7. Make sure it is burning well and toss it into the bowl or pit
8. As it burns imagine the flames are eating your old self and the smoke is energy to create your new self as an avian human




IV. Dreams of Wings

Using a black marker, write out three times on a small, square piece of paper "I will grow wings".

Afterwards you are to keep it under your pillow and before going to sleep, repeat the written three times. Then kiss it and replace it back under the pillow. You will continue this for seven days, which then you will burn it and keep the ashes in a pouch which you can carry around.

Note that it isn't necessary to keep the pouch with you 24/7, but you must make contact with it at least once everyday until your wings grow.




V. Altar Stone

This is a simple charm, used if you have an altar you use for magic.

Collect a large, smooth stone from a body of water. Using oil pastels or paint and draw/paint a sigil to represent your wish for wings. Add your energy to it and place it on your altar where the energy shall manifest and your wish shall develop and grow with your powers.




VI. Learning Flight from a Bird

What better source to learn about wing growth and flight than from a bird? There is much knowledge they possess just waiting for a human to hear.

Firstly of course, locate a bird. Simple enough but can you make them stay? It would be easier if you have a pet bird. If not, no problem. Find a bird and be able to get close to it, say maybe at most a few feet away. Open your mind and try connect your thoughts to the bird's. Imagine a tube running from your head to the bird's, sending your thoughts and desires through it. Speak the following to the bird:

"Bird perched high,
Ruler of the sky,
Judge my worthiness,
Impart your wisdom upon me,
Teach my wings to grow,
Guide my body to soar,
Help me see the world from above,
Bird in my sight,
A companion I ask you to be,
A companion for flight."




VII. Mirror My Wings

At sunrise, stand in front of a body mirror. Make sure the sunlight is pouring into the room and washing over the mirror. Calm your thoughts, and feel the serenity of the sunlight. Don't think hard, instead let your thoughts flow, envisioning your wings growing gradually and finally bursting from your back. Feel the sensation.




VIII. Flight Mantra

Lifting lightly from the ground I soar,
Wings of feathers lasting forevermore,
Unto my back they grow,
From the power, the strength I sow,
Spreading with grace and kicking off towards the sky,
My wings will spread and I will fly, I will fly, I will fly.

Spells for Growing: Bluebird Wings

So much for weekly, *sigh*, it's a process. Anyhow, here is another bird:

If you have requests, please share. Also, possessing feathers of your chosen bird for the spell is unnecessary, but could strengthen the connection.

Bluebird






(Beatrice from "Over the Garden Wall". She was turned into a bluebird and this is a depiction of her as an avian human with bluebird wings. "Over the Garden Wall" was a beautiful and tragic miniseries which I must admit I fell in love with, and I don't often watch Cartoon Network shows. It heightened my faith in the unknown.)


Mantra:

Of youth and the naive,
Soaring through meadows with few trees,
Happiness be thine,
Bluebird wings of mine.

Spell:

• In the center of a drawing of the sun or on a candle, draw or carve a sigil that represents your desire for bluebird wings.
• Cast a circle at sunrise and place the picture or candle in the center. (If using candle, light it)
• Focus on what you want. Bluebirds represent happiness, youth, and rebirth. In Native American beliefs, bluebirds warded off winter, were the Sun's children, and spirits in animal form. Invoke the characteristics into your energy.
• Chant:

"As the sun reveal and the wind doth blow,
May growth be steady and slow,
The warding song reach thy land,
Give me joy to withstand,
Feathers of cool and swift blue,
A heart that's true,
Wake I will to fly,
Wake I may up high,
With the rising sun my wings grow,
Winter chased by my bluebird wings."

The Power of "Om"

Often times one thinks of "Om" when they think of meditation. "Om" (Pronounced, Oh-oo-m) has a frequency which stimulates the heart chakra which makes it good for meditation. Using this before meditating for wing growth can inspire devotion and open yourself to the forces from within and all around to create your wings.

If you wish to invoke Buddha before casting a spell, meditation, etc. repeat the mantra:

"Om Mane Padme Hum" (Oh-oo-m ma-ni- pad-meh who-m)

If you wish to write it on a stone or ofuda, here is the mantra in Tibetan:  ༀམཎིཔདྨེཧཱུྃ།

Here is a better image of the Tibetan writing:


                                        (Source: Wikipedia)

Wing Mantras

Throughout the day at random times, I'll start chanting a mantra for protection, focus, or productivity, whatever I need. Therefore I thought to create mantras for encouraging wing growth. So far I only came up with two. With the right intention and plenty of belief, they are effective. When I use the mantras, I clearly feel a weight on my scapulas  as though there were truly wings there. I assume it is the energy of my spiritual wings.

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1. "Lift me high,
     Up into the sky,
     Wings of feather,
     Two wings together."


2. "Feathers to feathers,
     Soul to soul,
     The power of flight
     Is in my control."