Everyday Witch A to Z Spellbook: Wonderfully Witchy Blessings, Charms & Spells

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Deborah Blake is the author of Circle, Coven and Grove: A Year of Magickal Practice (Llewellyn, 2007), Everyday Witch A to Z: An Amusing, Inspiring & Informative Guide to the Wonderful World of Witchcraft (2008), The Goddess is in the Details: Wisdom for the Everyday Witch (2009), and the forthcoming Witchcraft on a Shoestring (2010). She has published numerous articles in Pagan publications, including Llewellyn annuals.

Her award-winning short story Dead and (Mostly) Gone is included in the Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction: 13 Prize Winning Tales (Llewellyn, 2008). Deborah has been interviewed on television, radio, and podcast, and can be found online at Facebook, Twitter, and www.myspace

.com/deborahblakehps.

When not writing, Deborah runs the Artisans’ Guild, a cooperative shop she founded with a friend in 1999, and also works as a jewelry maker. She lives in a 100-year-old farmhouse in rural upstate New York with five cats who supervise all her activities, both magickal and mundane.

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Introduction

Crafting the Perfect Spell

Magic the Cat’s Guide to Working with Familiars

General Instructions for Spellcasting

A to Z Spells

Abstinence: To willingly choose abstinence or deal with enforced abstinence

Acceptance: To encourage acceptance in yourself or others

Addiction: To rid yourself of any unhealthy fixation

Adventure: To bring a spark of adventure into a life that has gotten a little dull

Advertising: To help people find your product/business

Air: To connect with the power of air

Ambiance: To set the mood for a special occasion

Anxiety: To deal with and lessen anxiety

Appetite: To control appetite in a healthy way

Assistance: To ask for help with a particular problem

Attitude: To change a negative attitude into a positive one

Baby Blessing: To bless a newborn baby

Balance: To bring balance to an off-kilter life or situation

Banishing: To banish negativity or unwanted energy

Beauty: To be seen as beautiful both inside and out

Best Foot Forward: To be at your best in a particular situation

Boundaries: To set reasonable boundaries when needed

Bounty: To bring abundance into your life

Brainstorming: To come up with new ideas

Bravery: To boost courage when needed

Breast Health: To encourage breast health

Childbirth: To encourage safe childbirth for yourself or another

Child Protection: To protect your child when you send her out into the world

Closure: To use when there is no other way to get closure

Comfort: To bring comfort when needed

Communication: To improve communication between people

Companionship: To bring companionship into your life

Conception: To help those trying to conceive

Coven Blessing: To bless and dedicate a new coven

Creativity: To increase creativity

Dawn Greeting: To greet the new day

Debt: To help reduce debt

Depression: To ease and help cope with depression

Detox: To detoxify mentally, physically, or spiritually

Distance Bridge: To help with long-distance relationships

Divination: To bless readings and divination

Divine in Everyone: To connect with the Divine within

Divorce: To help cope with the pain of divorce and move on

Dream Spinner: To bring informative and helpful dreams

Dreams Come True: To help bring dreams to fruition

Dusk Blessing: To close out the day with gratitude

Earth: To connect with the power of earth

Ebb and Flow: To relax and go with the flow of life

Elder Blessing: To use at a croning or celebration of a Pagan elder

Empowerment: To increase power and use it wisely

Endurance: To give you the strength to keep going

Evil: To keep evil away

Faeries: To encourage good relations with the faeries

Faith: To help you find faith when you need it

Familiar Blessing: To welcome or bless a familiar

Familiar Finding: To ask for a familiar

Family: To help you deal with family issues;

Feminine Power: To get in touch with your feminine side

Fire: To connect with the power of fire

Flying: To travel safely by plane

Focus: To help you focus when feeling scattered

Furry Companion Blessing: To welcome a new pet to the home or bless an existing animal

Garden Blessing: To bless a magickal or mundane garden

Ghost Blessing: To use if you feel the presence of benign spirits

Goals: To set and attain reasonable goals

Graceful Aging: To aid in aging gracefully

Gratitude: To give thanks

Grieving: To ease the grieving process

Grounding: To ground and center

Growth: To help with personal growth

Leaving: To cope with and overcome handicaps

Happiness: To invite happiness

Hatred: To banish hatred from the heart

Healing: To promote physical, mental, or spiritual health

Heart Health: To keep the heart working well

Heartache: To soothe a sad heart

Home Blessing: To bless and clear a new or existing home

House Hunting: To aid in finding the perfect house

Illness Prevention: To boost the immune system and defenses

Infidelity: To cope with a lover’s unfaithfulness

Intimacy: To promote healthy and happy intimacy in relationships

Jealousy: To reduce feelings of jealousy

Jerk Avoidance: To protect against annoying people

Job Hunting: To find the perfect job for your circumstances

Job Improving: To make the job you have more satisfying

Justice: To ask for justice to be done

Kindness: To give and receive kindness

Kinky: To attract others with kinks that match your own

Kiss It Goodbye: To let go of baggage

Kitchen Blessing: To consecrate a kitchen for positive use

Knight in Shining Armor: To attract a romantic man

Knowledge: To increase knowledge for a particular purpose

Leaving: To make it easier to leave a place or person

Liberation: To free yourself from things that bind you

Life Lessons: To ensure you learn the lessons the universe is sending you

Lightness of Spirit: To bring lightness into your life

Listening: To become a better listener

Locating Lost Objects: To find something that is lost

Love, Opening To: To open yourself to love in all its forms

Love, to Attract: To attract the person who is right for you but might not find you without help

Luck: To draw in good luck

Maliciousness: To defend against malicious intent

Marriage, Good: To promote a healthy, happy marriage

Marriage, Healing: To use when a marriage is in trouble

Masculine Power: To connect with your masculine side

Mending a Friendship: To mend a damaged friendship

Menopause: To aid in dealing with the symptoms of menopause

Mental Clarity: To clear the mind and aid in focus

Mental Illness: To aid in healing mental illness

Mercury in Retrograde: To deal with Mercury in retrograde

Messages: To clarify a message

Money: To bring in prosperity

Nature: To connect with the natural world

Neighbors, Good: To establish good relationships with neighbors

Nest, Empty: To deal with empty nest syndrome

New Beginnings: To start a new endeavor

Nightmares: To banish nightmares

No: To learn to say no when needed

Nourish the Soul: To draw in those things that will feed the soul

Obsession: To let go of unhealthy obsessions

Opening to Possibilities: To be open to unseen opportunities

Orientation: To seek clarification about sexual orientation

Overeating: To curb overeating

Overreacting: To reduce a tendency to overreact to situations

Oversensitivity: To become less sensitive

Pain: To lessen or be rid of pain

Panic Attacks: To lessen and prevent panic attacks

Patience: To increase patience

Peace and Quiet: To bring peace and quiet to a hectic life

Pests: To get rid of pests (insects or otherwise)

PMS: To help ease PMS issues

Potency: To aid men with impotence

Potty Training: To help potty training go smoothly

Poverty: To give a boost out of poverty

Protection: To protect the self or others

Punctuality: To change chronic lateness into punctuality

Quality of Life: To improve the quality of life

Quarrel: To smooth over a fight

Questions: To seek answers to particular questions

Quiet Mind: To quiet an overactive mind

Quit Smoking: To aid in quitting smoking

Rape: To aid in recovering after a rape

Rebirth: To celebrate a ceremony for the rebirth of self

Recovery: To recover after an accident, illness, or trauma

Regret: To let go of regret and move on with your life

Reincarnation: To help see who you were in a previous life

Relaxation: To allow yourself to relax more

Release: To release negative thoughts or emotions

Return: To ask for the return of a treasured possession

Romance: To bring romance into your life or relationship

Scary Spell: To help children be less afraid

Second Sight: To increase psychic abilities

Self-Confidence: To increase confidence

Self-Discipline: To help stay disciplined and focused

Sex: To make sex better with a willing partner

Shit Happens: To cope with life’s everyday crap

Solitude: To encourage comfort with solitude

Solitary: To bless a solitary Witch

Spirit Guide: To connect with your spirit guide

Leaving: To help a child stop having tantrums

Teaching: To be the best teacher possible

Technology: To bless the smooth working of computers and technology

Tension: To let go of tension

Tests: To help a test go well

Totem: To connect with your totem or power animal

Transition: To ease difficult transitions

Troubled Times: To help deal with a crisis

Trust Issues: To overcome trust issues

Ugliness: To get rid of ugliness or the perception of ugliness

Understanding: To promote understanding for self or others

Union: To celebrate a union

Unity: To pray for unity

Vacation: To ask for the best vacation possible

Vehicle Blessing: To bless a new or existing vehicle

Vexation: To ease a source of aggravation by finding a positive solution and/or making peace with the issue

Virginity: To bless the loss of virginity

Voice: To help find one’s own voice

Ward off Danger: To use as protection in a particular situation

Warrior Self: To find your inner warrior self

Water: To connect with the power of water

Witchcraft: To bless magickal work

Wisdom: To ask for wisdom

Work Success: To get ahead at work by emphasizing talents and getting credit for hard work

Worry: To reduce needless worry

Writing Success: To achieve professional and personal success with your writing

The X: To maintain good relations with an ex

Xenophobia: To get over distrust of those who are different

Yearning: To get what you’ve been yearning for

Yesterday: To let go of the past

Young at Heart: To stay young at heart no matter your age

Zest: To have zest for life

Zing: To bring fun back into your life

Zzz’s: To promote restful sleep

Suggested Supplies

Introduction

Why write another spellbook? After all, aren’t there already enough books out there with spells for love, prosperity, and protection? Well, yes, there probably are. And some of them are even quite good; if you look, you’ll find quite a few on my own bookshelves.

But the modern Witch is concerned with a lot more than love and prosperity. Today’s Witch deals with everything from family drama to weight issues to concerns with fertility. You’re not going to find spells for those in your average spellbook—but you will find them here.

This is a spellbook for the everyday Witch: the one who lives their Pagan beliefs all day, every day, 24