Saturday, June 2, 2012

Air

Air
    Scientists and magicians may have different views concerning the element, but all agree that it’s vital to human survival.
    Without air, we would perish.
    Air is the power of movement-of freshening and of intelligence. It’s the invisible and yet quite real mixture of gases that we breathe in every day. In magical terms air is also the power of the mind; the force of intellect.
    Go to a place with clean air and breathe deeply. Touch a feather. Inhale the fragrance of a heavily scented flower. Study an intricately patterned leaf. Experience the wonders of the manifestations of the this element. Remember too, that we possess air energy within ourselves.
    Here are some air associations

Basic Nature: Flying, moving, fresh, intelligent, suspending. Sound is a manifestation of     this element.
Type of Energy: Projective
Active Polarity: Cheerfulness, Dexterity, Diligence, Gentleness, Inspiration, Joy,     Optimism, Playfulness
Passive Polarity: Contempt, Fickleness, Gossiping, Incapacitation, Indecisiveness,     Ruthlessness, Sneakiness, Weakness
Rituals: Travel, instruction, study, freedom,  knowledge, recovering lost items
Ritual Forms: Tossing objects into the air, suspending tools in high places, fanning light     objects, Visualization, positive thinking.
Body Parts: Chest and Lungs
Senses: hearing, smell
Point in life: Infancy
Places: Mountaintops, wind-swept plains, cloudy skies, high towers, airports, schools,     libraries, office, travel agencies, psychiatrist’s offices.
House Domain: (Room) Studio (Colors) white/green
Direction: East
Time: Dawn
Color: White, Yellow (The color of the sun, the sky at dawn)
Qualities: Expression, Communication
Animals: Bat, most birds, Butterfly, Dragonfly, Ladybug, spiders, winged insects.
Natural symbols: A feather, incense smoke, fragrant flowers
Types of Magic Ruled: Divination, concentration, visualization, wild Magic
Season: Spring
Herbs: Fragrant as many flowers; pungent, as in culinary herbs such as dill, airy, finely     veined, or wind-swept; generally leaves.
Stones: Light stones, such as pumice; transparent stones such as mica.
Metal: Tin, copper.
Musical instrument: flute, all wind instruments
Tools:  Athame, Sword, wand, book, pen, letter opener, feather, pentacle, wood, mortar     and pestle.
Zodiac:  Libra(air in early movement) Aquarius (air as it stalls over the earth), Gemini (Air that changes direction)
Angel/Guardian:
    Air, General: Chasan, Casmaron, Cherub, Iahmel
    Altitude: Barachiel, Gabriel, Gediel
    Announcements: Sirushi
    Birds: Arael, Anpiel
Communication and protection from harmful words and thoughts: Ambriel
    Dawn: Hlm Hml
    Doves: Alphun
    Dreams: Gabriel
    Free Will: Tabris
    Grace: Ananchel
    Hurricanes: Zamiel, Zaafiel
    Intellectual Achievements: Akriel
    Inventions: Liwet
    Memory and Tolerance: Mupiel
    Moderation: Baglis
    Noonday Winds: Nariel
    North wind: Cahiroum
    Pure wisdom, knowledge, and learning: Diana
    Philosophy and Meditation: Iahhel
    Positive thoughts: Vohumanah
    Prayers: Akatriel, Metatron, Raphael, Sandalphon, Michael
Protection for libraries, archives, places of learning and computers: Harahel
Purity: Taharial
Secrets and hidden knowledge: Satarel
Sky: Sahaqiel
Storms: Zakkiel, Zaamael
Thunder: Ramiel, Uriel
Truth: Armait (Also Harmony)
Twilight: Aftiel
Whirlwind: Rashiel, Zavael
Winds: Moriel, Ruhiel, Rujiel, Ben Nez
Writing: Ecanus
General Air Deities:
    Greek: Hermes (Male)
    Roman: Mercury (Male)
    Egyptian: Shu (Male)
Education Deities:
    African: Aja, Minona (Female)
    Egyptian: Selk, Seshat, Tie (Female) Thoth (Male)
    Greek and Roman: Carmentis, Circe, Hecate, and Mystis (Female)
    Germanic/Norse: Eir, Saga, Nath
    Celtic: Cerridwen, Danu, Nath
Intelligence Deities:
    African: Ogboinba (Female)
    Egyptian: Sphinx, Tie (Female) TOth, Horus (Male)
Greek and Roman: Apollonis, Erato, Harmonia, Minerva, Mnmosyne, Muses, Urania (Female)
Germanic/Norse: Nat (Female)
Celtic: Canola, Cerridwen, Sephira (Female)
Weather Deities:
African: All-bringing-forth; Bunzi, oya,
Egyptian: Nebt, Nephthys, Tefnut, Nuit (Sky and Heaven) (Female)
Greek and Roman: Aura, Dais, Dione, Erato, Hera, Tempestates.
Germanic/Norse: Aslog, Frau, Holda, Sjora, Swan Maidens (Female)
Celtic: Becuma, Cesair, Dawen, Nair

Visualizing the Air
    Go to the eastern point and face outward. Be aware of a darkened horizon across a wide plain. In the sky before you is a single light in the darkness of predawn, that of Venus, the morning star. Then see the sky gradually begin to lighten to a light turquoise green. And see a smaller light, just before the sun comes up, of its companion and herald mercury, the messenger of the gods. Then the tip of the golden disk of the sun itself begins to rise above the horizon and all is slowly bathed in red and gold, and long dark purple shadows gradually give way to increasing light. At the same time be aware of  “the voice of the day” the morning chorus of bird song welcoming another dawn. Realize too that it is springtime. See about you on the low bushes and the trees behind you the green buds bursting forth with new life and the spring flowers shooting up sharp shafts of green through the earth at your feet. And then be aware of a gentle but persistent breeze upon your cheeks- for this is the quarter that is dedicated to the air element. Be aware also, with the inner eye, of little winged beings with the appearance of nursery tale fairies, but which have an ancient lordliness that comes from experience since the beginnings of time. Finally, as the sun rises above the horizon, see standing before you a great stag, with branching antlers, if you count them they number twelve and each tine, as it reflects the early morning sunlight, seems to be afire with a point of incandescent light. Imagine you have a great sword before you. See and feel its jeweled , cross-formed hilt. Withdraw it from its scabbard. See its blade shine out brilliantly in the sun’s light and with it salute the mighty stag, Cernunnos, and the beings of the dawn and spring. Replace the sword, and take a longbow from your back and an arrow from a quiver at your side. Fix the arrow into the string of the bow, take a long, strong pull, and try to shoot the arrow over the sun. Hear the arrow buzz through the air as it leaves you and feel the slap of the string and whip of the untautened bow and be aware of the flying arrow, a brief gleam in the sunlight, and then a quivering dark line against the azure sky, before it disappears from sight, to fall you not where, but in the direction of aspiration.
    Be aware also of the two other great figures who build at the bidding of your mind’s eye. One is a great-winged archangelic figure who towers over the whole scene before you, robed in blue and gold, the great Archangel Raphael, bearing a pilgrim’s staff and a scrip or purse containing the elements of healing.
    Also, larger than human stature, see the king and overlord of all the elements of air, mighty Paralda. As you see him be aware of all the peoples of the element air whirling about in a great spiral of force that is as steady as a strong breeze, and be aware of air flowing through your whole body, cleansing and purifying, blowing all dust and cobwebs of stale thoughts, feelings, and conventions away.

The Winds

    Air magic can be done with the use of the winds. Each wind has it’s strengths and it’s weaknesses. Like all the elements it can paired with other elements or used singularly. Each region has different attributes for it’s winds what follows are the attributes from winds from North America and Europe.
    In the age of technology it you can simply google the wind direction in your area or if you can orient yourself to the north use a wind sock to determine direction of the wind.

North Wind
    The north wind is the wind of death- be not necessarily that of physical death. This is the realm of the one eternal universal law-change. “Death” here refers to the elimination of negativity.
    The north wind is cold (Magically speaking), blowing in as it does from the direction of winter when snows lie deep across the lands. It is “dry”, or barren, thus paving the way for spells of destruction.
    How to use it? If you are depressed, anxious, envious, jealous, angry, and the wind is blowing from the north, face full into it and it will free you from these things.
    If you wish to break a bad habit, perform any spell of this nature while the north wind is blowing for added power.
    The north wind, while chilly with night,death, and deep snows, is also the wind of the element of earth, and thus shares in some of it’s qualities. But the wind, being dry, is not a favorable for fertility and prosperity magic, although magic involving healing can be greatly aided by the north wind.
    It’s color is the black of midnight.

East Wind
    The wind blowing from the east is that of freshness , renewed life, strength, power, and intellect. It is a warm, bracing wind that blows from the point at which the sun, moon, and stars making their shining appearances.
    Thusly, it is the wind involved with beginnings, the new phenomena that rise from the work of the north wind. The heat is that of the sun, and the spark of creation.
    Spells best utilized when the wind is sweeping from the east are those concerning dramatic improvements and changes for the better, especailly in behavior. Also east wind spells are those involving the mind and all spells involving the element of air, to which it is magically related.
    Love spells are the best not performed with an easternly wind, unless you want a very intellecual love. But perhaps there is nothing wrong with that!
    Since the east is the direction of sunrise and light, the color is white.

South Wind
     The further south you travel, the hotter it gets-on this side of the equator, at least. For this reason, the souther wind is a hot and fiery one.
    Symbolically it rules noon, when the sun (or moon) is highest in the sky, the time of the greatest light and heat. Because the south wind is related to the element of fire, its magic covers the same ground. The south wind, however, can be used for any type of magic when it’s blowing. It’s  a good time to cast spells.
    Since this wind is strong and hot, spells performed with it are assured an extra jolt of power. It is always exciting and interesting working with the south wind
    Be warned, however, that fire-even the diluted fire of the southern wind-can be dangerous. As we know, fire can burn.
    The color of the south wind? Yellow-the yellow of the sun at noon.

West Wind
    The west wind blows cool and moist; it may carry a hint of rain or mist as it washes over the land. It is a fertile loving force that is gentle and persuasive.
    It symbolically rules twilight, when all is at a standstill; day and night merge into a magical landscape of muted colors and breezees. Sunset, like sunrise, is an excellent time to perform magic-more so if the correct wind is blowing.
    Water magic-love, healing, ferility, and so on- is excellent for the west wind, as it adds it’s own forces and energies from that quarter. Especailly excellent for spells involving cleaning or purely religious rituals, the west wind is welcome relief after the dry, hot breeze from the south.
    The west wind is the blue of the sky just before all lights fades form the sky.

Invoking the Winds
    Previous to working a spell with the winds it as advisable to invoke them but it is not required. When casting a circle an invocation of the four winds can be used to call the corners. A sample invocation follows it may be used in parts or as whole for whatever your purposes may be.

        Winds of the north
        Rushing and mighty
        Aid me in my magical work

        Winds of the east
        Dazzling and bright
        Aid me in my magical work
       
        Winds of the south
        Fiery and radiant
        Aid me in my magical work
       
        Winds of the west
        Gentle and buoyant
        Aid me in my magical work




Tie Up Your Trouble (north wind)
    On a sturdy, preferably dead bush or shrub still planted in the ground, in a place where the winds blow clear and free, tie or push onto the tip of a branch or twig one leaf for every one of the ills that is bothering you. If you tie the leaf, do so loosely and use a natural fiber cord.
    This is all you have to do, for the north wind will rise and perhaps slowly, untie and free the leaves, there by releasing energy and going to work to alleviate the ills besetting you.
    This spell works over a period of days or even weeks, not minutes, so leave the shrub after performing the spell. If you wait and watch the wind might never rise.

A Loving Bell (West Wind)
    Hang up a bell with a  pleasant ring in a window that remains open of a good part of each day, and through which the wind blows (preferably the west wind).
    As you do so  speak these words:

    Little bell of love, I hang you to whisper my need for love on the breezes and winds
    Little bell of love, speak of my need for love to your brothers and sisters.
    Little bell of love, I ask you to speak softly and draw to me someone who listens.
   
    Every time the bells rings, it is “whispering” of your need for love. (the brothers and sisters are other bells who will add their own power to the spell)

To Vanquish Fear (South Wind)
    Light a yellow candle indoors and sit in a quit contemplation for a second. See the candle’s flames drawing in your fear and anxieties; see it and the candle becoming infused with them.
    Take the candle outside and let the wind quench its flame. It is done.

To Communicate with an Absent Friend (East Wind)
    In the open air, face the direction where the person is present. If this is unknown, repeat the steps below in each direction, starting with he north.
    Extend your arms and hands and, in a clear but soft voice, call the person’s name.
    Visualize his or her features. Call the name again, with more force, and then a third time, quite loudly.
    Next, state your message as if speaking to them in person. Keep this short and precise. When you have finished, listen for a reply.
    Don’t imagine one, but listen
    This works best with practice, or with friends whom your are intimately close.


To Stimulate Creativity (General Air Spell)
    For this ritual, you’ll need a flute or air instrument of some kind. Panpipes, a harmonica, pennywistle even a trumpet are all fine, but an insturment made of wood or bamboo is best.
    If you’ve never used such an instrument before, get to know it prior to using it in magic. Be certain that you can mae it create the desired sounds. Then, do the following:
    Light a yellow candle. Hold the flute before it while saying these or similar words.

    Music magic,
    Come to me,
    Music magic,
    Let me see.
    Music wakes the
    Muse in me
    Music magic
    Opens me
    To the music
    Mystery
    Mystic mind
    Awakened be
    Music magic
    Sets me free.

    Visualize yourself writing that letter, composing that speech, finishing that painting, weaving that rug, or beginning to work on the book that you’ve been meaning to write for some time.
    Now play the insrument for a few seconds. You don’t have to play a song; simply let the flute bring forth its energy through its music. Once you’ve accomplished this, set down the instrument and, within sight of it, do your creative work.
    If you conscious mind once again blocks your, play the flute for a few seconds, then go back to your work. Wen your finished snuff our the candle flame and put the taper and instrument in a special place until the next time your need them.

Protective Chimes (General Air Spell)
    Wind chimes are available in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and designs. They’re also ruled by tehe element of air and can be used to guard your home against unwanted guests and negative energies.
    Find, make, or buy a nes set of wind chimes. They should emi a deinite sound. Before suspending them outside, charge them to their task with the following  (or similar ritual):
    Place the wind chimes on a flat surface in your place of magic. Gaze down at them, realizing that they’re lifeless, still and unmoving.
    Wave your projective hand over them while saying:
   
    Wind chimes
    Spell rhymes
    Spell chimes
    Air primes
    Spell chimes
    Nine times
    Nine.

    Lift the wind chimes by the string from which they will be hung. Hold them before your face. Blow against the dangling noisemakers, visualizing their tones scattering and driving away the negativity.
    Hang them up outside, with visualization, and let the wind chimes do their work.
    For best results, repeat this simple charging spell every nine days.

General Air Spell (General Air Spell)
    This rite can be used for any positive purpose. To perform this spell, you’ll need a large pliable leave and a pen.
    Go to a high place (Atop a mountain, perhaps) or wait until the wind is blowing. Then, visualizing your need, draw the symbol that represents you need onto the leaf.
    Still strongly visualizing toss the leaf into the wind. If the breeze catches it and flings it from you it is done, if the breeze doesn’t transport the leaf, draw the same symbol on another leaf and try it again.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Reminder

Just wanted to remind everyone that while there may not be meeting every week it is expected that do complete you meditations each week. I would like submited by saturday every week. I am keeping track. Ten to fifteen minutes a week to sit quietly then journal about it doesn't take long. Please get them in to me. Thank you.

As an added reminder there will be no meeting this week but i hope all of you will  be coming to the meeting on June Second when your projects. l

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Earth

Earth
    Earth is our mother. It’s as fertile and nurturing as farmland; as moist as soil and as dry as sand. In its physical manifestations (such as stones), earth represents the densest of the elements.
    Press your hand against fresh dirt. Feel its stability, its earthiness. Know that within its fertile surface we’ve raised our food; on it we live our lives; within it we bury our deceased.
    We couldn’t exist in this form without the earth. But our planet is simply a manifestation of this element. True Earth energy exists within ourselves and within the universe at large.
    Here are some symbolic associations of earth. Think about these aspects of this most basic element.

Basic Nature:Fertile, moist, nurturing; stabilizing; grounding. Gravity is a manifestation     of this element
Type of Energy: Receptive
Active Polarity: Confidence, Endurance, Patience, Punctuality, Respect, Responsibility,     Sincerity, Tenacity
Places: Caves, Canyons, chasms, forests, groves, valleys, fields, farms, gardens,     arboretums, parks, plant nurseries, farmers’s markets, kitchens, baby nurseries,     basements, mines, holes.
Rituals: Money, prosperity, fertility, stability, grounding, employment.
Ritual Forms: Burying, planting, making images in soil or sand.
Herbs: Earth-smelling plants, such as patchouli and vetivert; mosses and lichens; nuts; dry and stiff plants; heavy, low-growing plants, generally roots.
Passive Polarity:  Apathy, Boredom, Deceit, Distrust, Inertia, Pessimism, Tardiness,     Unreliability
Body Parts: Feet, Legs, and Bowels
Direction: North
Stones: Heavy or opaque, as in coal; as in emerald and peridot.
Metals: Iron, lead
Musical instrument: Drum, all percussion instruments.
Season: Winter
Time: Night
Magical tool: Pentacle (a wooden, metal, or clay disc inscribed with a five-pointed star)
Point of Life: Advanced age
Sense: Touch
Color: Black, Green
Natural Symbols: Salt, clay dish of fresh soil, rocks, sheaves of wheat, acorns.
Tools: Crystals, stones, salt, ashes, ground, grain betties, fruit
Quality: Grounding, stability, security
Animals: Beat, cow, deer, ferret, gopher, mole, mouse, rabbit, snake, dog, horse, earthworm, ant, burrowing animals.
House Domains:  Living room (Room) Gold (Color) Chrysanthemum (Scent) Fun     (Thought)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Motivated Earth) Taurus (Rooted Earth) Virgo (Changing Earth)
Types of magic ruled: Gardening, Magnet, image, stone, tree, knot, and binding.
Symbols:







Angels/Guardians:
Abundance: Barbelo
Agriculture: Risnuch
Alchemy: Och
Animals: Thegri, Mtniel Hehiel, Hayyal
Commerce: Anauel
Creeping things: Orifiel
Dust: Suphlatus
Earthquakes: Sui’el, Rashiel
Farming: Sofiel
Fertility: Samandiriell, Yushamin
Food: Manna
Gaia: Michael, Jehoel, Metatron, Mammon
Gardens: Cathetel
Nourishment: Isda
Forests: Zuphlas
Fruition: Anahita
Mountains: Mehabiah
Plants: Sachluph
Trees: Maktiel, Zuphlas
Vegtables: Sealiah, Sofiel
Wild birds: Trgiaob
African Deities: Earth mother, Divine Queen, Nimba, Oshun, Tenga
Egyptian Deities: Anatha, Bast, Isis, Mehueret (Female)  Min, Geb (Male)
Greek/Roman Deities: Atlantia, Clonia, Flora, Hestia (Female) Fauna, Pan (Male)
Norse Deities: Frigga, Holda, Nanna, She-wolf (Female)
Celtic Deities: Aine, Anu, Blodeuwedd, Cailleach Beara, Magog, Rosemerta. (Female)
Visualizing the Earth
    Now go to the northern point of the circle and face the north. Feel that you stand at midnight, in the crystal deeps of winter, looking at the night sky. It is the dark of the moon, or rather just past that point, for a thin sliver of the new moon is visible as a shining silver line that, as yet, casts little light, so that the stars in the sky shine out as brilliant gems of differing sizes and brilliancy, on a backcloth of deep indigo velvet, some flashing or sparkling in various colors or highlights. The scene before you is illuminated entirely by the starlight.
    See trees and bushes before you in the landscape without their leaves, save for the evergreens, whose needlelike leaves glitter with frost in the starlight like tinsel on natural Christmas trees, with highlights and reflections from the star shine like glittering fairy lights.
    Be aware of the pole star in the center of the northern sky before you situated at the tail end of Ursa Minor, and, circulating about it, the northern constellations of Draco, Ursa Major, Cassiopeia, and the house like form of the chair of Cepheus. Learn to become familiar with the patterns of the stars; they hold the ancient starry wisdom. Imagine that you hold in your hands a circular disk that is in fact a black mirror of polished stone, which reflects whatever part of the sky whose image your catch in it’s depths, and which also imparts to you intuitively the meaning of the patterns. Then be aware that you also have a shield that on the outside is of a similar substance and which shines forth your own particular sigil that expresses the innermost star of your being, while the inside of the shield is like a brightly polished silver mirror, that enables you to see yourself in the utter clarity of perceptive wisdom. Then see building before you in the landscape the figure of a great bear, Artor, standing and swaying, clasping a ragged staff-a great protector of his territory and of all of his kind. Be aware that you have the status of one of his bear-cubs, a privilege that is due course of growth in your stature will lead to your taking on similar responsibilities and powers as the bear.
    A great archangelic figure also builds before you, that of Uriel or Auriel the giver of wisdom, seen dark against the sky, a shadowy beneficent presence who watches over neophytes. And with him see the elemental form of Ghob, the king of the Gnomes, in the colors of Earth, that contain the olive, citrine, and russet colors of a ripe apple. He is surrounded by his underground creatures, who can pass easily through solid objects and who are familiar with the mineral deeps of the earth and of the treasures and forces therein. Feel the steady warmth of the stability of earth that holds you in the fructifying steadiness as if you were a germinating seed supported in the dark bosom of the earth.






House Plant Blessing

    What you will need:
        One Potted Houseplant
        On pencil or green pen
        One 1-inch-square piece of paper
        A small amout of water
   
    Place the houseplant and all other items on a flat surface near or in the place where you’ll grow the plant. Using the pencil or green pen, draw a simple small picture of the plant in vibrant health on the small piece of paper. Draw lines of energy streaming out from it. Visualize the plant’s future health as you’re doing this.
    Next gently brush the paper (picture side down) against the plant, giving it love and energy, and possibly saying the folling words:
   
    Shoots unfurl
    Flowers bloom
    Leaves uncurl
    In this room.
    Plant of green
    Forever strong
    Grow now here
    Where you belong.
    Roots push deep and
    Branches climb
    By the power
    Of this rhyme.
    Grow now, plant-
    This is the time!

    As you say these words, block out all thoughts of past failures that you may have had with houseplants. This will only negate the power of the ritural.
    Next fold the paper with two creases into a small square. Push this into the soil, close to the pot’s wall. As you do this say: I give you power! Move the plant to its new home. Water it while saying: I give you life! Set down the empty water container. Hold your hands palms downward above the plant and say: I give you love!  It should grow beautifully.




House Cactus Blessing
   
    One potted Cactus
    One pencil or green pen
    One 1-inch-square piece of paper
    One plate
    A handful of clean sand
   
    Draw  a picture of your cactus on the paper, wih streams of life coming from it on all sides. Visualize your cactus in full bloom or in perfect health.
    Next, place the paper picture side up onto the plate. Pour the sand over the picture. Plae the fingers of your projective hand onto the sand. Look at the cactus, visualize it in perfect health, and say these or similar words:
   
    Denizen of arid lands
    Secret keeper
    Of the dew
    None can though you
    With their hands
    But I touch the
    Heart of you.
    Roots push deep and branches climb
    By the power
    Of this rhyme:
    Cactus grow! This is the time!

    Carefully pick up the piece of paper, keeping as much sand on op of it as is possible. Pour this in a clockwise circle onto the dirt around the cactus. Fold up the paper and push it next to the wall of the pot of planter

The Sand Trap

    This is a simple ritual designed to “trap” negative energies before they enter your home. Similar objects and devices have been used for centuries around the world. To make it, you’ll need:
   
    A small jar that once held spices, perhaps. It should be glass for, after all, glass is made from sand. Thoroughly wash and dry the jar, removing any labels. It must have a close-fitting lid as well.

    Equal quantities of two different colors of sand. Some types include: fine grayish-white beach sand; yellowish coral sand; orangish sand from the desert, red sand from volcanic areas, black obsidian sand, and many others. Search for suitable sands on your magical forays into the wild. Or, buy them from aquarium supply stores, plant nurseries, or craft shops. If you buy them be certain that the sands haven’t been artificially colored.

    A spoon (teaspoon for smaller jars; tablespoon for large jars)
   
    Two small bowls to hold the sands.

    Before you begin, our one type of sand into the bottle until it’s just over half filled. Empty this sand into one dish. Clean the bottle (if necessary) and repeat with protective, projective energy. Touch the sand. Caress it. Visualize it emitting sparks of bright whits light that ensnare negativity and draw it inward. Charge it with person power.
    Do the same thing with the other sand.
    Place the bottle before you, scoop out a level spoonful of the first sand. Pour this into the jar while saying the following words:
   
    Trap of sand
    Trap the ill.
    Trap the band
    And evil will.

    Fill the spoon with the same amount of sand from the other dish. Carefully pour this into the jar over the layer of sand already in the bottle, saying the same rhyme.
    Continue alternating layers of sand and chant. Repeat until the jar is completely filled. You should put so much sand into the far that, when the top is on, the contained sand shouldn’t move.
    When you’ve finished, you’ll have a jar filled with bands of different colored sand. Hold it between your hands and say once again the rhyme, while visualizing.
    Push power into the sand trap. Place outside your home hidden among plants, buried in the earth, or in a flowerpot filled with dirt. If this is impossible, place the jar in a sunny window. It will do its work.