A Good Spell Book Halloween Ritual

Happy Samhain, friends! It seem's as if Halloween has snuck up on us (has it already been a month since we launched the site?). We are now scrambling to put the finishing touches on our costumes, making toxically colored jello shots for our respective Halloween parties, and debating whether or not the trick-or-treaters would prefer kit kats or reeses peanut butter cups. In all the hustle and bustle of the holiday, we still make time to observe the history of Samhain with a special Hallow's Eve candle ritual.

This ritual is very easy, requiring only a pin, a tapered candle, salt, a bowl of water, and a match.

Start by casting your salt circle. This can be indoors or outdoors, but it is common practice to cast your circle with the same radial distance of your height. Make sure that you have all of your supplies with you at this time, so that you will not break the bounds of the circle you've cast until the ritual is complete.

It is optional to bring various tools into your circle such as incense, crystals, flowers, or tokens- usually symbolic offerings. When creating a circle, crystals are a fantastic way of representing the north, south, east, and west. If you are unfamiliar with this practice, note that north represents earth, south represents fire, east represents air, and west represents water.

If you are a practicing Wiccan this is your chance to bless and invoke your circle. We will discuss the proper techniques for circle casting in a later post, but this portion of the ritual is entirely optional based on religious belief.

As long as you've cast your circle, you can begin the ritual. Start by using the pin to carve your name or the name of the person you are divining into the top of your tapered candle.

Below your name, carve in the latin translation of your desire. If you reference our sigil making post, you can also carve your personalized sigil in place of or in addition to your latin word. Samhain is a celebration of a new year for witches. A traditional Pagan holiday said to mark the start of a new year and the death of an old one; it is the perfect time for divination spells and rituals (so bring out your beloved tarot deck when you get a chance, the veil to the spirit world is at its thinnest). By doing this candle ritual, you are creating a ceremony for your goals and your fantasies for the new year. Similar to sigil making, it is magical thinking and magical action that make this ritual a fun and powerful experience.

We have compiled a small list of latin words and their translations for this purpose. Feel free to carve as many words as you like into your candle:

Your bowl (or glass) of water should be over half way full. Place your tapered candle into the water and light the wick. While your candle is melting, you can begin to chant "Sic Fiat Semper." This is a latin translation of "be ever thus," another version of the typically used "so mote it be" in spell work. Because your glass is relatively full the divination portion of this spell should be fairly quick, occurring once your candle has melted into the water. The shapes formed from the melted wax can then be divined similarly as we discussed in our tea leaf reading post, to determine your future in the coming year. An extremely fun bit of magic to do by your self or with friends. On Halloween, even the skeptical tend to have blast playing 'witchcraft.' As we've said time and time again, magic is an abstract idea. It doesn't happen because we chant words or light candles, it happens because we take the time to focus our energy on what we want. Psychology students might be familiar with the term 'mindfulness.' In many ways, spell work is a twisted version of this psychological tool, aiding us in achieving our goals by taking the proper time to acknowledge them. We hope that you will love breaking out this Halloween ritual tonight and have a safe Hallow's Eve!

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