Meg Rosenbriar - The Healing Power of Witchcraft: A New Witchs Guide to Rituals and Spells to Renew Yourself and Your World

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I will be forever grateful for the energies that aligned to make this book a reality, and those energies are embodied in my support system. Manifestation work is a group effort, and I am fortunate enough to be surrounded by the best. To my husband, Mike, you sweeten the victories, soften the disappointments, steady the wheel, and love endlessly. Thank you for healing me each and every day. You are my original magick moment. To my children, Grayson and Jack, may you know a healed world.

May you always lift others up and always know you can come home to ground. May you light the way but hold space for the dark. May you grow strong and be a force for good. Mama loves you. To my parents, it is because of your foundation, your love, your abundance, and the beautiful life you two have built together that I am here, unafraid to claim my life path as a witch. I cant think of a better parenting goal than creating an environment for my own children that will allow them to live their truest, most authentic, happiest self; you have achieved that tenfold.

Thank you, God bless you, and I love you. To Kathy, Michelle, and Mike, I am so grateful for our madness. Thank you for being in my beautiful people clubhouse. To my friends, especially the Madmoms, KNC, Knotties, Grampa Dave, Natalie, Skelly, Laura, and even Spike. Your love, laughter, and support have made for a lifetime of invaluable adventures, lessons, and memories. Oh yeah, all right, take it easy, baby, make it last all night.

To my witchy support system, especially Louisa, Briony, and Josie. You witches make my heart sing with real magick. And for the entire Witch With Me community, you inspire me endlessly. To my team at Penguin Random House, you are simply the best. Meg Ilasco, Debbie Reyhan, and especially Susan Randol. Thank you for guiding this green witch through the process and pushing this book to where it needed to be in order to help heal the world.

To Gran E, Nanny, Poppop, Aunt Helen, and Holmie. I feel you with me always. I hope I make you proud. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MEG ROSENBRIAR is a practicing hedgewitch with a focus on healing energy work, herbalism, tarot, yoga, numerology, and embracing an intentional, witchy lifestyle. She has been a student of spirituality her whole life with a degree in Religious Studies from Merrimack College and a Master of Arts from Yale University School of Divinity. She is the cofounder of Witch With Me, a community platform by witches for witches dedicated to discovering, honoring, preserving, and sharing authentic witchcraft.

Meg resides with her husband and two sons on the Connecticut shoreline. GLOSSARY Witchcraft comes with its own way of describing and naming things. Here are a few terms common to witchcraft that you will encounter in this book and their meanings. AMULET: An object worn or carried by a person to draw good luck or a specific energy to them. ANOINT: To apply ritual oil. ASPERGE: To sprinkle liquid with magickal intent.

ATHAME: A ritual knife. BOOK OF SHADOWS: A witchs collection of personal magickal workings and knowledge. CALLING QUARTERS: A ritual at the start of spellwork invoking the four directions and elements. CHAKRAS: A Sanskrit term referring to the seven energy centers within the human body. CHALICE: A ceremonial cup, representative of the element water. CHARGING: The process of bringing an item, particularly crystals, to full power after magickal creation or use.

CHARMS: Objects, or a group of objects, that correspond to drawing a certain energy. Charms attract the energy of their contents. CORRESPONDENCES: A metaphysical property of an object that holds the same energy as the intention of the magickal workings at hand. CREATRIX WITCHCRAFT: The practice of creating art or crafting goods as the mode of spellwork. DEOSIL: Clockwise. GRIMOIRE: A book of general witchcraft knowledge, often handed down through generations.

GROUNDING (ALSO CALLED CENTERING): A calming process meant to connect our minds with our bodies and the earth. INCANTATION: Predetermined words uttered during a spell or as a spell for magickal force. INTENTION: Focused willpower toward an identified outcome. MORTAR AND PESTLE: A bowl (mortar) and blunted instrument (pestle) used to grind plants and herbs. PENTAGRAM: Five-pointed star representing the four elements and spirit, drawn in divine proportion. POPPET: An image or a doll used to represent another person in spellwork.

POTION: A concoction intentionally crafted with magickal ingredients to bring about change. PRAXIS: Practice as distinguished from theory, yielding wisdom in addition to knowledge. RITUAL: A premeditated set of magickal steps honoring or inviting a chosen energy, meant to align, cleanse, and enhance rather than change or transform. SACHET: A small bag of herbs or other magickal tools used to draw energy. SIGIL: A symbol drawn to represent an entity or an idea for magickal use. SPELL CASTING: Intentional magick; manipulating or channel-ing energy as a means to an end using specific steps and methods.

SYMPATHY MAGICK: Magick performed on behalf of another person or entity. THIRD EYE: A term for the pineal gland, located in the forehead, a locus of intuition and perception beyond the ordinary. WHEEL OF THE YEAR: Eight sabbats (holidays) that make up the pagan calendar. WIDDERSHINS: Counterclockwise. WORTCUNNING/CUNNING: Knowledge and use of plants in healing. RESOURCES BIRTH CHART: You may access a free birth chart calculator and corresponding book suggestions at witchwithme.com/birth-chart.

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Witchcraft is the practice of magick. Magick is the harnessing of energy as a means to an end. Our universe is governed by interconnected energy and corresponding metaphysical properties. Witchcraft provides a conduit for these energies in order to create changes for the better. Healing witchcraft is the changing or dispersing of unwanted energy, with an aim of flourishing and achieving wholeness. As these old energies clear, and as new, healthy energies take root, the person or situation begins to heal.

That, my witches, is what we mean by real magick. The healing power of witchcraft comes from two sourcesthe witch and the universe. The witch is the agent, the creator. The universe provides the ingredients and recipe for our success. This chapter will guide you through the basics of witchcraft and provide you with the framework for the spells and rituals that follow. Let us begin by exploring seven tenets of witchcraft every witch should embrace in order to produce the most positive magickal results.

SEVEN GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF WITCHCRAFT