Arin Murphy-Hiscock is the author of The Green Witch’s Grimoire, Spellcrafting, The Pregnant Goddess, Wicca, The Green Witch, The Way of the Hedge Witch, House Witch, The Witch’s Book of Self-Care, Pagan Pregnancy, Solitary Wicca for Life, and The Hidden Meaning of Birds—A Spiritual Field Guide. Continuing with the stones, the jasper helps to prevent fever while the turquoise keeps away the evil witches.

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your Book of Shadows also contains personal reflections, and notes, and thoughts, and feelings, and results of your magic. The poems in Protection Spell feel like the music of an Aeolian harp specially tuned to catch the winds of trauma and tragedy—and the intense commitments made by love. See the heat and light from the candle that penetrates the object, making it too hot for anyone who wants to touch it without your permission. You have to sit at a table and determine who the main actors of the drama are, adding an invisible actor. I have personally seen people turn to the dark side, convinced that the Wiccan who do good are weak and that the good is not enough to combat evil.

Brigid’s day is one of the four most important festivals of the Celtic tradition, and we celebrate it on February 1st (Candelora). Some experienced witches won’t agree with some of my sayings and/or rituals, but what I’m trying to do here is to simplify these spells for those that know nothing, or a little bit about the art of spellcraft.

Protection Spell: Poems (Miller Williams Poetry Prize

The maternal instinct is a complicated emotional experience for a Latina in an interracial marriage and raising an adopted black son. Aurora Kane—author of Moon Magic, House Magic, Herbal Magic, and Goddess Magic—is a practicing witch and herbalist with many decades (some say centuries) of experience in casting and conjuring. You can either recite “this bracelet is meant to bring protection, luck and good fortune to the person who wears it” or simply set that intention silently and separately before the bracelet is tied.

As a Professional Spellcaster, I work with clients from all over the world and it’s important to me to remain grounded and stay ‘in the light’ so that I can help as many people as possible. With this line from the title poem of her second collection, Protection Spell (University of Arkansas Press), Jennifer Givhan begins the difficult task of defining what it means to hold and be held, what it means to respond to anxiety as a woman, a lover, a mother.