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Lesson 2
Book of Shadows
Your Books of Shadows, or BOS on most websites, is your personal book. In it you can write spells, rituals, thoughts and feelings. Mine is a 3-ring binder so I can change and re-shuffle when I need to. I have a calender as my second page with the Sabbats circled. There's a journal section amd a section for poetry I write.
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Circle Casting
Ever wonder why most Wiccan spells rhyme? :-)
It helps to memorize them. The chant I use to open and close my circle is a simple rhyme.
Open:(said while walking deosil [clockwise] around altar)
Around Around Around
About
Good stays in, Bad stays
out.
I open this circle, So mote
it be
Of Earth, Air, Fire and
the sea.
Close:(said while walking widdershins [counter-clockwise] around altar)
Around Around Around
About
Good stayed in, Bad stayed
out
I close this circle, So mote
it be.
Of Earth, Air, Fire and
the sea.
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Correspondences
Moon Phases:
New Moon:
Health, gardening and farming, job hunting, love and romance
Crescent Moon:
Change, emotions, animals, business
Waxing Moon:
Motivation, luck, courage, friends
Full Moon:
Change, dreams, love, money, healing
Waning:
Enemies, justice, quarrels, separation, removal
Days of the Week:
Sunday-Health, prosperity
Monday-Dreams, intuition, fertility
Tuesday-Physical strength, and energy
Wednesday-Knowledge and divination
Thursday-Happiness, luck, wealth
Friday-Marriage, Love, sexual matters
Saturday-Psychic ability, meditation
Colors:
White: Protection, peace
Red: Strength, passion, courage
Lt. Blue: Healing. patience
Drk. Blue: Change, psychism
Green: Money, employment, fertility
Yellow: intellect, atrraction, divination
Brown: Healing animals
Pink: Love, friendship
Orange: Energy
Purple: Power, Meditaion
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Rites of Passage:
A rite of passage enables us to integrate the art of noticing into each days experience. . . All moments of your individual experience may be perceived as moments of growth and initiation. Any moment you choose may be marked with a rite of passage. (From Celebrating Life - Rites of Passage for All Ages by Tizpora Klein)
Some examples are Birth, Death, Initiation, Dedication, and Handfasting.
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<------Click the Ankh's for a complete handfasting ceremony...
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Choosing a Magickal name:
There are many ways of choosing a Magickal name. You can use the name of a God or Goddess you feel especially close to. You can use a favorite tree or plant. An emotion...anything. As long as it feels right to you.
My name Amethyste came to me in a dream. I was getting married in the dream and as I said my vows I remember saying "My name is Amethyste..." So that became my first name..And Jaquay is my actual middle name I just added an "e" so it would look good with Amethyste, and Ta-Da..I am Lady Amethyste Jaquaye. It fits me and I feel good with it.
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