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In magical rituals, the four directions, quarters, or watchtowers of North, South, East, and West (denoted during ceremonies by green, red, yellow, and blue candles). "So Mote It Be" is a ritualized closing statement used during rituals or spellcasting. Prayers and spells are often ended or closed with this phrase. It means "It must happen this way", and saying the phrase facilitates the manifestation of the intended magic. "So Mote It Be" also indicates agreement with the finality of what someone has just said and/or that the listener has heard what they had to say and accepts that a definitive and sometimes irrevocable choice has been made. Magical incantations or ritual activities; prayers or a set of actions; thoughts or projections that are intended to produce certain results such as healing or banishing; or, are directed to achieve goals like granting wishes or changing conditions. For many practitioners of the Craft the neo-Pagan Wiccan Rede and Three Fold Law act as ethical deterrents to spellcraft that controls or manipulates others. There are many different types of spells, from a few simple phrases to complex rituals.
Most practitioners believe
that it is more important to individualize spells, adapting them to personal
circumstances and desired outcomes, than it is to follow a precise ritualized
pattern. Wands which are sticks that are in harmony with Nature that
are used in healing; to invoke and conduct powerful energies; to trace circles; to stir cauldrons; and, to
draw magical symbols on the ground.
Magic is enchantment, spellcasting, bewitchment, and using the will to alter reality. Everything is interconnected and magic practitioners use consecrated magical tools to focus and send forth energies from within themselves, from the deities, or from natural power places to influence and to shape desired outcomes and to pattern events. A charm, for example, is any magical object, amulet, talisman, fetish, shell, drawing, runic inscription, stone, incantation, or song that has been highly charged with power and consecrated for a specific task such as bringing love, luck, or fertility; or for protecting against misfortune and other threatening influences. The pentacle has been used in magical rituals to banish, to control chaotic forces, and to invoke elemental natural forces. A pentacle is a five-pointed star surrounded by a circle that symbolizes: the elements of earth, water, fire, air, and spirit; the human body surrounded by the protective force of the goddess and the god; and the connectivity of the human body to the earth. When written or drawn the magical symbol is called a pentagram. In the past, the pentacle. The Power of Three, Triplication or the power of a group of three, is also used in magical rituals. There are the Three Kindreds (ancestors, fairies, goddesses and gods). Magical Storytellers told tales of goddesses and Otherworld beings appearing at critical life passage moments in groups of three. Triple faced; triple headed deities were venerated in various forms with the most popular being the triplicity of the mother goddess energy. Sometimes the three goddesses depicted were identical; while, at other times their overall potency was heightened by showing three different aspects of the maternal role...Go back
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