Since it is winter and many people are thinking about snow, or the lack thereof, I thought that I would put together a short primer on Snow Magic for all of you. Keep in mind that you really can have too much of a good thing and that you should always be careful what you wish for.

Bringing Down the Snow

Ingredients: an ice cube and a sharpish knife

Begin with the ice cube in your less dominant hand and the knife in your dominant hand. Shave the knife across the top of the ice cube so that you get a bunch of flakes (like trying to scrape butter off of a stick that is still too hard to spread on toast.)

Now that you have the hang of it, begin in the east (element of air for most) and work, scraping those icy, snowy flakes to the ground around you, in a clockwise circle until you reach the point of manifestation in the north and then close the circle.

While doing this action say (out loud or to yourself): I make manifest the snows of winter, a bright white powder, decorating the world with its insulating beauty, bringing joy to my world. I invoke the snows upon the mantle of the Earth goddess, a blanket upon her, though white and cool, resulting in less than six inches (one foot, two feet.) May these snows come down here at my locale within the next twelve (twenty-four, thirty-six) hours. (Now fill your hand with ice shards and toss them before you three times, saying….) I invoke thee, the snows of heaven, once, twice, thrice.

And now believing in your heart that it will truly be so, say: This is (more…)