Snow Magic

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 my will, so mote it be. Repeat the phrase three times and know that it is done.

Warding Off Impending Snows

(This is the most difficult snow magic to effect, as you against the whole of nature is never an easy win.)

Ingredients: mirror, ice cube, pot of boiling water, peppermint or cinnamon oil

Get the water boiling on the stove. While it is at a rolling boil do the following:

With your less dominant hand, hold a small mirror (no bigger that 9×12″) slightly tilted over the far side of the pot so that in its reflection you will catch a view of anything you put into the pot. DO NOT BURN YOURSELF ON THE STEAM.

Grab the ice cube in your dominant hand, notice the feeling of the cold air rising off of the ice cube and the hot are rising off of the pot.

Say aloud, with strength of will: The cold snows shall not manifest here in this time or in this place, for the steamy hot winds of the atmosphere shall render them weak at this time. They are cast away into the other realm before they may ever take hold and we are released from the clutching grasp of winter’s snows for this time in the here and now.

While saying this be certain to place the ice cube, gently, into the pot as you are saying the part about being cast away. You must catch the image of this in the mirror as you say your magical words. Know as you do this that the cool airs of the ice cube are becoming one with the hot steams of the boiling water and are taking on its warmth.

Turn off the burner. Take the mirror and with your chosen oil upon your fingertips draw a banishing pentagram on the surface of the mirror. Here it is not how much oil you use but how much intent you put into the drawing. You must say as you draw it: I banish from my home and my region this impending snow storm, that it may pass around us and be swept off by warmer airs. Thus as I say it, we shall have no snow in the coming days here in this time and this place.

When you have finished the pentagram and its surrounding circle, touch your finger to the center of it with the oil and say: Snow be gone from my sight, you shall not upon my sills alight, thus I complete my magic rite. It is done, so mote it be.

Know that it is done. Place the mirror facing outward in a prominent window, preferably in the direction from which the storm was meant to arrive. Leave it for up to 7-10 days. Always clean and smudge it when finished using the spell.

If you find the snow not returning when it should, release this spell by cleaning the mirror and drawing an invoking pentagram to winter weather and counter with the spell listed above.

Using Snow for Banishing Unwanted Things

Ingredients: sticky snow, basic sculpting talent, sunlight, patience

Think hard on the life attribute or habit that you wish to banish. NEVER BANISH PEOPLE. Write some basic words that clearly state your intent. Avoid using words such as no and not (ie. I will not drink alcohol) as the universe can sometimes ignore negatives and thus give you an opposite result. (Instead say: I banish forever from my life the urge to drink alcohol.) For this example spell we will use “bad luck” as our attribute to banish.

Go outside and in the firm, sticky snow form a shape that resembles this unwanted attribute in some way, for bad luck you could make an “X” or “Hex” mark, or perhaps a “B” for bad luck. (For alcohol you could shape a beer bottle or wine glass.) If it is a BIG problem you can make your shape bigger, like a snowman, if it is a smaller problem make it small like the size of a pie plate or a pizza.

As you sculpt the offending image think of the problem that you wish to be rid of. Think of how if affects you in your daily life.

When you are finished sculpting, place your hands (bare hands work best) on the image and begin breathing deeply, drawing in energy from the world around you and imagining the problem leaving your life effortlessly just as this snow will melt away.

Keep this knowledge of your problem melting in your mind and place banishing energy into the sculpture while saying (aloud or to yourself): This negative attribute, so troubling and unwanted, is placed in these pure snows and thus cleansed from my life. Solid now it may be, though as the snows melt I declare this (state the attribute here ie. bad luck, alcoholism etc…) will soften and wash gently away into the flow of Mother Earth and never return to my life again. Sun bleach its existence from my life and the lives of my loved ones. By the power of the tides and rains, by the powers of the Sun and Moon. I say, this is my will, so mote it be. (say this 3 times) Say also: It is done! Blessed Be.

Be patient and in the coming days feel this attribute slowly being released from your life, from your mind and from your heart. Know that as the snow melts it WILL take away that which you have entrusted to it and when that snow is gone be sure to do another spell, such as a simple candle spell, to replace the void in your life with a positive attribute instead.

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There are so many more simple and magical ways to use winter and its weather for enhancing the quality and enjoyment of our lives. I hope that you will all develop an appreciation for the possibilities and design some magic for yourselves from a place of balance and integrity.

Now, where did I put that jar of cocoa-covered bat wings again?

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