Skye Alexander - The Modern Witchcraft Book of Love Spells: Your Complete Guide to Attracting Passion, Love, and Romance

To my beloved Ron, your magick lives on. Love never dies.

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Contains material adapted from the following titles published by Adams Media, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.: Naughty Spells / Nice Spells by Skye Alexander, copyright 2006, ISBN 978-1-59337-631-4; The Everything Spells & Charms Book, 2nd Edition by Skye Alexander, copyright 2008, ISBN 978-1-59869-386-7; The Everything Wicca & Witchcraft Book, 2nd Edition by Skye Alexander, copyright 2008, ISBN 978-1-59869-404-8; Good Spells for Bad Days by Skye Alexander, copyright 2009, ISBN 978-1-60550-131-4.

Once again, I am indebted to my astute and supportive editors Rebecca Tarr Thomas and Peter Archer, and to the rest of the Adams Media staff for making this book a reality. Thanks, too, to Stephanie Hannus for her beautiful cover design. Finally, I wish to thank my many readers worldwide who have encouraged me throughout the development of this bookwithout you none of this would have happened.

CONTENTS

As Shakespeare wrote in his play A Midsummer Nights Dream , The course of true love never did run smooth. Thats why witches cast more love spells than any other kind. You may already have done love spells yourself; you just didnt realize it. Hanging mistletoe above a doorway, for example, is a favorite pagan love spell. Toasting a bride and grooms happiness has magickal roots, and dancing around a Maypole is an age-old fertility ritual.

Since ancient times, people have done spells to attract a new lover, increase a partners ardor, smooth the bumps in a relationship, or ward off an unwanted suitor. We still doperhaps you picked up this book for one of these reasons.

In his book Modern Magick , Donald Michael Kraig explains, Magick is not something you do! Magick is something you are. You dont put it on and take it off when the mood strikes you. Magick is a way of viewing the world, of understanding your connection with everything in the universe, and believing in the innate power that resides within you. When witches cast spells or perform magick rituals, what were really doing is expressing outwardly what we are inside.

When you do magick, you align yourself with the energetic forces operating on earth and beyond. You serve as a conduit for these energies and direct them to produce results in the manifest world. Both the Law of Attraction and quantum physics tell us that our thoughts affect our reality, so the most important factor in magick is your mind.

Many witches find candles, crystals, magick wands, and other tools helpful in spellcraft because they focus your attention and shift your thinking from mundane to magickal. The spells in this book show you how to use special objects and techniques to hone your own creative powers.

Perhaps youre already a practicing witch and want some new love spells to add to your repertoire. Or, you may be a newbie just starting out on this path. Either way, this book is for you. Chapter 1 covers the basics of spellworking in a user-friendly manner. I encourage beginners to become familiar with this informationand to explore other sources for more about what I touch upon here.

The rest of the book is an open grimoire of 150 love spells. Here youll find potions and lotions, talismans and amulets, affirmations and incantations, and a lot more. If youre a novice, I suggest trying these spells as given until you tone your magickal muscles and feel confident in your ability. Later on, I urge you to design your own spells and practice them with your partner to enhance your love and enrich your lives. You may even want to share them with other like-minded people. Whatever you deem right for you is . Blessed be.

If youre like many people, you first encountered love spells in fairy tales. As a child, you saw Cinderellas Fairy Godmother transform a pumpkin into a jeweled coach drawn by a team of prancing horses so the heroine could attend Prince Charmings ball. You heard a story about a princess who kissed a frog and turned him into a handsome prince. Another tale told of a prince whose kiss removed an evil spell, reviving Sleeping Beauty from a deathlike trance. Then you grew up and put away your belief in magick.

Now, however, you may be wondering if magick really does exist and, if so, can it help you? Thats why you picked up this book, right? Perhaps youve got your eye on someone, but he or she doesnt seem to notice you exist. Or maybe a romantic relationship has lost its sparkle and you want to rekindle the flame. Youve tried all the usual stuff, yet nothing appears to be working. Could a love spell give you the edge you need?

Absolutely. Magick really does workit happens all the time. Furthermore, you already have magickal abilityyou were born with it, just like everyone else. As with all natural abilities, it needs to be developed so you can craft and cast spells effectively to consciously create the circumstances you desire. Thats what this book and the other books in my Modern Witchcraft series are designed to help you do.

Magick is all about working with energy. Energy, as you know, is the raw material that makes up our universeeverything is composed of energy. When you do magick, you activate energy and shape it with your willpower to produce results in the manifest world. That may sound mysterious, but its not really. Quantum physics has demonstrated that when you focus your attention on something, your energy influences the behavior of the molecules youre watching. You quite literally change whatever you observe. Thats magick.