Silver's Spells for Love

By Silver RavenWolf

Does your current relationship need a spicy boost? Have you been browsing for love in all the wrong places? From finding a new lover to handling that couch-potato partner, Silver's Spells for Lovehas more than 100 ideas, potions, and incantations to bring titillating passion into your life. Besides romance, there are spells for improving and enhancing relationships with parents, siblings, children, friends, teachers, and even pets. Based on the folk magick of many cultures, these spells are all surprisingly simple. Whether you want affection, commitment, or a hot night on the town, this book will teach you the nuances of spellcasting for love!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
• Release date: Feb 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9780738723952

Silver RavenWolf

Silver RavenWolf (Pennsylvania) is a nationally recognized leader and elder of Wicca, and her writing has been instrumental in guiding the future of one of the fastest-growing faiths in America today. The author of many books, she has been interviewed by The New York Times, Newsweek Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, and her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Bust Magazine, the Baltimore Sun, the St. Petersburg Times, the National Review, Publishers Weekly, Body & Soul Magazine, and Teen Lit Magazine. Her titles include the bestselling Solitary Witch, Teen Witch, To Ride A Silver Broomstick, To Stir A Magick Cauldron, To Light A Sacred Flame, American Folk Magick, Angels: Companions in Magick, Silver’s Spells for Prosperity, Silver's Spells for Protection, Silver's Spells for Love, Halloween, HedgeWitch, and the Witches’ Night Out teen fiction series. 

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About Silver . . .

The best way for a magickal person to be accepted is to let people get to know you, recommends Silver. Once they understand your personal values and principles, their attitudes about your alternative religion interests tend to be more positive. Let them know you for the work that you do. Silver RavenWolf is a true Virgo who adores making lists and arranging things in order. The mother of four children, she celebrated her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in 2004. Silver extensively tours the United States, giving seminars and lectures about magickal religions and practices. She has been interviewed by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and US News & World Report. It is estimated that Silver has personally met over twenty-five thousand magickal individuals in the last five years. Silver is the Clan Head of the Black Forest Family that includes twenty-eight covens in nineteen states and one in Canada. Visit her website at: http://www.silverravenwolf.com.

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This

book is

dedicated to:

Mick Trayer, my loving husband of more than twenty-five years, and Ray Malbrough,

without whose help this book could never have been written.

Contents

Introduction

1. Operating Instructions

2. Getting it

3. Keeping It

4. Tossing It

Epilogue

Appendix 1: Herbal Table

Appendix 2: Magickal Days of the Week for Love

Appendix 3: Colors for Days of the Week

Appendix 4: Astrological Symbols

Appendix 5: Planetary Hours

Appendix 6: Moon Phases

Bibliography

Introduction

All you need is love . . . or so sayeth numerous songs, poems, novels, and nonfiction how-tos that tell us how to get it, how to keep it, how to lose it, and how to pine for it. With all that information floating around out there on the topic of love, you’d think the human race might have this elusive essence fairly under control.

Um . . . we don’t.

Love. A simple four-letter word. Love can rocket us to the stars or plunge us into the depths of despair. Sometimes used as a noun, then again as a verb. Uh-oh, we’ve got problems already! Throw in the concept of emotions and surely we have a brew with bizarre ingredients. There is no sure cure for love. (I swear, at times, it is a disease!) From pure passion to psycho mind games, the gambit of experiences each of us may encounter in the rapturous beat of the inflamed throb of the heart can leave us reeling for months, sometimes years, floating adrift in a sea of what-could-have-been or leaving us simply smiling and weightless in the memory of a moment of ecstasy.

Mick and I have been married for more than twenty-five years. More entertaining and awesome, we are still together and speaking to one another. Marriage aside, there are all sorts of loving relationships, including those with your parents, siblings, children, significant others, friends, teachers, and pets. Love is a never-ending energy that can encompass people, places, and things. Love is you.

And the magick in this little book?

Why . . . it’s love.

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Operating Instructions

Picture me, please, sitting on a porch swing in a chic summer dress (visualization is half the battle), sipping a large tumbler of iced tea and gently waving an ornate ivory fan. As I lean forward to give you the secrets of enchante l’amour, I say (with a dark-syrup accent), Just picking up a book on love spells is not going to solve your machinations of the heart. I lean back. No, no. Love and magick require effort. (Insert purr.) Here, my friend, are the rules of the game. . . .

Magick

• Magick is the art and science of changing thought into form through the use of your belief combined with divinity. That means you can use any deity of your choice. A spell is like a recipe—it doesn’t matter what name-brand products you use (as in your idea of religion) and you are free to make substitutions on any of the physical ingredients listed.

• All positive magick is designed to create balance. If things are really out of whack in your love life, and you choose to use magick in your overall plan of change, expect some major events to occur.

• Be careful what you wish for—you just might get it!

• Magick requires your willingness to change your pattern of living, especially when we are talking about magick that involves the heart. This means that love magick obligates you to put forth the effort necessary to make changes within yourself so that you can be-come a more desirable person (better known as an attitude adjustment!). The use of deodorant and a shower a day would also be helpful.

• If your magick fails, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and try a new tactic. We don’t always know what is best for us, and sometimes Spirit gives us a good stiff kick and a spin or two so that we are facing the right direction for our mission in life. Hey, it happens.

• Never, ever, ever use magick to toy with another individual’s free will. That’s right. This means that you can’t cast a spell on Michael or Lori to make them fall passionately in love with you. The universe has a way of slapping your hand if you don’t listen to this advice. Now, before you close this book and say, "Well then! I’ll buy a book that does tell me how to force someone to love me"—think again (please). I have many years of magick under my belt and I’ve seen a lot of hocus-pocus messes brought about by people who are thinking with parts of their anatomy other than their noggins while dabbling in magick. Do yourself a favor: play by the rules.

• The complexity of any spell carries less importance than the finesse of the procedure.

• Your skill makes the application fall into the beginner or advanced category. You become what you magick. Think about it.

Love

I have a few general pointers for you in matters of the heart—operating instructions (if you will) that work well with magickal applications.

• People cannot be owned. They are not property. Sometimes we forget that bit of information when we are in the throes of inflammatory situations of the heart.

• A relationship with anyone is not stagnant. All relationships change as we mature or encounter new experiences. Over time, the energy of any relationship moves, grows, changes, and sometimes dies.

• People are human. Although you may seek perfection, you will never attain it on the earth plane. Humans are fallible. This means that any relationship you enter requires responsibility and effort to keep its essence healthy.

• Not every relationship you experience will contain the commitment that you think you need. Learn to recognize the nuances of human behavior and to respect the feelings of others.

• You cannot force another individual to change their behavioral patterns.

• Likewise, you can’t force someone to like or love you. Each person, whether we are talking about the mechanics of a sexual relationship or a business friendship, has a right to free will.

• True love has more definitions than you can count. Each person processes their idea of love differently. You may think true love is moonlight and roses and she may think it’s tickets to the hockey playoffs. My husband had a terrible time understanding that he could keep the fancy bedroom wear, the mushy cards and the flowers—just buy me the dishwasher. Other women, however, would rather have the former. Luckily, we both agree that love is stability—but there are lots of people who might choose a faster-paced, freedom-filled lifestyle, or base mutual happiness on the size of their bank account. None of these ideas of love are wrong, only different.

Love Spells

When learning how to cast spells, my teachers gave me two very important pieces of advice on the nature of love magick:

• It’s temporary. Love, itself, goes through too many phases in a relationship for a one-spell-fits-all scenario. Love magick is to get you going in the right direction and is not intended to overpower another. Consider love spells like lighter fluid and, like this combustible material, handle such magick responsibly. If you don’t, then expect the work to blow up in your face. These magicks are simply designed to kindle nature’s natural fire. You are required to put the mental and physical effort forth (as in any relationship) to reach ultimate success.

• The good love spells, those that could lead to a lasting relationship, are slow workers. Like a fine wine, the energy must age a bit, working subtly to create ultimate satisfaction. If patience is a problem for you, you may wish to work on that aspect of yourself before you go zapping the universe for your soulmate.

Other Helpful Stuff

For those of you who are old hands at spellcasting, or if you have read the other books in the Silver’s Spells series, you may not need to read over the next four sections on correspondences, timing, the magickal circle, and learning to devise a spiritual plan. That’s okay, feel free to skip them. If this is your first time working in the world of magick, or if you are fairly new to how magickal applications manifest, you may find the next four sections helpful.

Correspondences

Most magickal applications contain correspondences. Cor-respondences are items or energies that relate to the focus of the issue. In this book, our focus is on love. Throughout the book I’ve provided various correspondences for each spell. I’ve also given you a few lists in the appendices to aid you in substitutions, or (if you feel brave) the creation of your own spells.

Correspondences here include planetary hours, deities, herbs, oils, basic astrology, angels, totem animals, magickal alphabets, phases of the moon, colors, and elements. Remember, you don’t have to use all the correspondences I mention in any spell. If you’re not into angels, then don’t use those listed. If you don’t particularly like to use plant energies, then don’t use them. Substitutions are acceptable. I simply tried to give you the wide range of choices that have worked for me.

Timing

Many Witches use the phases of the moon in the timing of their magickal applications. Although there are eight separate phases of the moon, we will primarily work with five specific phases:

New Moon—Beginnings

Full Moon—Power

Dark of the Moon—Banishing

Waxing—Building

Waning—Reworking or rebuilding

How long will it take your spell to manifest? How long do you have to wait before something happens? You’ll have to wait as long as it takes. Don’t have such a long face! Here are a few guidelines on timing:

• Magick follows the path of least resistance, so unless you have a reason for guiding the magick along a particular line of thought, just let the magick go. The more blocks you place in the way of manifestation, the longer it will take to make things happen; however, this does not mean that you shouldn’t be specific in your petition.

• Small goals normally (but not always) manifest faster than large goals. For example, creating a glamoury that enables you to put your best foot forward in a job interview is