Sewing Fun!

Hi and Merry Meet,
Yesterday I was out reading tarot at a graduation party. What a fun family to read for!! Before I left to do that I was working on sewing my robe for circle.

I've been working on it for some time now. The patteren is not to complex. To make it you need some basic sewing skills. A few of the other girls have robes and they look awesome. I've been stuck on the hem. Sewing it together was the easy part. Trying to get the hem right has been crazy. The robe hangs very long. My husband helped me pin the hem for one sleeve and that was enough help as far as he was concerned. I can't pin the hem while I'm wearing it, so finding someone to help had been tough. However, my friend who I roped into helping me had a better way. We measured it and then cut off some of the extra. I think I can finish it now that it's all pinned.

With all my extra material I've been thinking about making poppets. I've never done a spell with them but I'm thinking that I have all the stuff I need I'll just save it for the right time. My robe I'm sewing on my machine. For poppets, I'd like to do some hand sewing.  I've got a basic patteren for them. This would be a good way for me to expand on my spells. A lot of my work right now is simple candle magick or cooking magick. I've done a few bigger things but mostly I stick to low magick. I'd like to start expanding my knowledge of other magicks. I feel like poppets are the next step for me in my learning and my spellwork. Not sure yet when I'll use them, but at least I'll have everything when I'm ready for it.
Blessed be,
Autumn

Spells and Words

Hi and Merry Meet,
Recently I've been reading Silver RavenWolf's Sacred Flame book. I've read the other two books in the series but has been a while.

One thing I noticed right off the bat is how wordy her spells are. I don't know about you, but I like to keep my spells short and sweet. I like to make them pack a punch so then I also don't have to copy long monologues into my BOS. I do like what some of her spells are for and I admit I have done some of them however, I have changed the wording to be my own.

When I started on this path Silver's books were some of the first I read as they were the first ones recommend to me. I loved what I learned from them. At first I was also told that walking this path involves a lot of shadow work. At the time I didn't totally understand what that meant. Now I understand that my spells need to focus on changing me and not asking the universe to bring things to me. I need to be the change to get changes.
Blessed be,
Autumn

Preparations For Camping!

Hi and Merry Meet,
Tuesday we leave for Shenandoah National Park for a much needed vacation! My husband's work decided that they should guve the guys back their summer vacations. Vacations make happy workers. Happt workers will work harder (in theory).

I've booked the camp site, got out the hiking books, found most of the camping gear from the basement and lined up a bunny sitter. Most of my mundane stuff is done, now on to the magickal.

From my spell writing class I have a sage sumge that I'm going to use to start cleaning the camper. Then my cleaning spray that I made and finally a safe travel bag. I'm also going to take a pict of us and one of the camper, place them together in a white envelope and kerp it safe here at home. That way we will be surrounded by white light our whole trip.

Being that tonight is the full moon I have a few other things to do magickaly and an esbat to celebrate!
Blessed be,
Autumn

Prefecting Spell Writing and a $ Spell or Two

Hi and Merry Meet,
Last night after the fair I went to a spell writing class. I thought it would help me to expand my magickal practice. It was great!

We did a lot of talking on spells intent. What do you want to get out of it? Why? The other students were not witches and were definitely there for love spells. We did talk about them and the rule of three, but I'm not so sure they heard that part. The ones I liked were the protection spells. The teacher also talked about money spells.

The teacher went over colors, candles, stones, herbs and days of the week for the three basic spells we were studying. I loved the herb part! This is were I want to learn more!

I learned that basil is an amazing herb! Here is an easy money charm to do. Cast a simple circle around you. Place basil in a small dish then cover it with water. Place the dish in the Northeast corner of your home. Sprinkle some of the water around the house. Don't let the water dry out, but fill it. This will help to bring money into the home. Or try this: place basil in olive oil in a circle and then draw $ on tens and twenties so as they are spent new ones of the same amount come back to you.

I loved the instructor as she would drop nuggets of wisdom that she has learned as we were talking. Definitely a good class for me. Even the love spell girls seemed to enjoy it. ;-)
Blessed be,
Autumn

Maybe Next Time

Hi and Merry Meet,
I was so excited for tomorrow night. I had signed up for a spell writing class at a shop close to here.

I thought this would help me write better spells and get a different take on spell writing. However, the shop called me today to say that since only two people had signed up it would be canceled. They will try again next month.

I hope more people sign up so they could have it. I'd like to see what new ideas they have for me! Sometimes being a solitary is hard.... taking classes helps me meet other witches around here and give me new ideas to incoporate into my practices.
Blessed be,
Autumn

My Grimoire

Hi and Merry Meet,
I bought a simple spiral journal a few days ago and now I finally have the time to sit down, write out the book blessing and start to copy over the spells and charms that I have done. I have written out all of them in my Book of Shadows, but I wanted a place that I can have all the magickal workings that I want to share.

So far everything in the book has come from another witch. Since I am still new, I am not totally confident to write my own spells or charms yet. I also need to get better at rhyming. That is something that I have to work on.

My Grimoire is right now organized by the charms and spells that were simple or blessings. I have yet to write out my bigger spells that I have done and am waiting for them complete. For these I will use a different style that tells the day, the moon phase, what time I did it and what happened. These are going to take me a bit longer to write out! I am trying to write all my spells out in cursive, which I never use, so that it looks nicer and I am really put my time and effort into making it. I want it to look nice and be special. I think that by doing it this way I will really make it my own and have to think about each thing as I write it out.

One day maybe I will have a spell or charm in it that others will want to use. That would be a special day indeed! So, I need to make sure that my book looks nice so that others can use what I have written!
Blessed be,
Autumn