Monique Joiner Siedlak - Creating Your Own Spells

The first step in any magickal work is to get yourself ready. You must first question yourself if a spell is in fact necessary. Can it be solved in a mundane way? Have you exhausted all avenues before using magick? You cannot expect to say, Abracadabra and its done. If only it was that easy.

This is when you would purify and cleanse yourself. Ever since the beginning of time individuals has used fasting or abstinence for this purpose. You can do just a straightforward bathing ritual. The main goal while cleansing yourself must be to clear your mind, calm your body and your spirit, and becoming ready for the magick.

Add a hand full of sea salt to get yourself ready a nice relaxing bath. Light a few candles, turn off the lights and release. Free your mind of the garbage you have collected up throughout the day. See in your mind's eye the bathwater carrying away all the negativity from you. It is imperative that your mind is at ease and positive prior to any spell working.

Make ready your thoughts and avoid the indecision or fear in your mind. Your hesitant mind can be an obstacle to achieving success with your magickal experience and you must overcome it.

On the day leading up to the spell you may want to eat light or fast, meditate and center yourself, take a cleansing bath or purify yourself in some way.

Drink water. Water conducts energy and is adaptable. It changes contingent on what the intention or offering is. It gives your clarity of the mind and can help you feel at ease.

An element of physical energy, exercise can help you focus on your intention.

Believe it or not, meditation is essential. You must learn to silence the mind and focus at will.

Do some type magick every day. It does not have to be an intricate spell. You can simply focus on something; ask for something to come about with a small mantra, chant or song. Keep an eye out for the outcome. This will develop your bond the energy of the Goddess and to the Universe.

To be successful, you want to plan. The first detail required is for you to come to a decision of precisely what it is that you desire and how you will get it by this spell. What are you expecting to be the result? In what way will it happen exactly? Be very in depth and write down the result exactly how it will come about. Shut your eyes and visualize the outcome, be very accurate and thorough as possible. This assists and expresses the real intention of the spell and helps establish the movement of the Universe giving you what you ask for in action.

Before you start any spell or ritual, you must cleanse and clear the area where the undertaking is to be performed. This is particularly correct as you first bless your sacred space. You ought to cleanse this space every time you make use of this space or start a ritual. However, you will find that these later efforts will all be affected by how you first set the intent and use of energy in this space for the first time.