RavenWolf - To Light A Sacred Flame: Practical Witchcraft for the Millenium

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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To Light a Sacred Flame 1999 by Silver RavenWolf

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This book is dedicated to Lord Serphant

(deceased 21 September 1996)

and the Family of Serpent Stone

(... and the Coven grows)

E ver changing, ever coiling

Ever circling, ever opening

Serpentine, your mystic coursing,

Take us to the center.

Down into the very core

Back around and down once more

Serpent changing back again

Three times three we dost descend.

Shed our skins of other days

shed our fears and other ways

Spiral spin the dance around

Draw the magick fire down.

The Serpent Spiral
1997 by David Norris

Contents

As the World Coven Grows

The Mysteries of Self-Empowerment

The Solution Lies in You

Turning Your Environment Into Harmony

Linking Spells and Fascinations

Detailing the Ritual

Appendices

General Candle Colors and Correspondences

Herbal Correspondences

Moon Magick

Runic Table

Planetary Hours

For Your Book of Shadows

Novelty Candles

Enchanted Powders

Introduction:
Blazing the Path

Magick rituals are concerned with the basics of our existence.
Success, health, luck, money and lovethe numerous problems in life which can affect ones equilibrium.

Herman Slater, The Magickal Formulary

D id you know that you can practice successful, positive magick in minutes? Here, Ill prove it to you. Angelique, my oldest daughter, will time me. The very first thing I want you to do, before you read past the second paragraph, is to put this book down and go find a white candle. (Twenty-two seconds for me, how about you?) Hold it tightly in your hands and envision positive success and power coming into your life. (Thirteen seconds for me.) Ground and center: you know, take a deep breath, feel yourself relax, and feel your inner self stabilize. As you light the candle, say the following:

Great Mother, help me to open the pathways to my success.
Great Father, assist me to remove any blocks that stand between myself and my goals. Thank you for my protection and the gift of focus. Thank you for the successes I have had before, and the successes that I know I am going to achieve. Thank you both for my success. With harm to none. So mote it be!

(Another thirteen seconds on this end, but thats because I know this spell by heart. Its okay if it takes you longer to say the spell.) Stand back from the candle, then stretch your arms out in front of you, a little above your head, palms facing outward. Envision abundance and white light surrounding you. (Angelique says, Twelve seconds this time!) Ground and center if you feel jumpy. My total act of positive magick and spiritual prayer amounted to sixty seconds out of my day. Whoa! Angelique also thinks Im crazy because I asked her to follow me around and count. Eye roll. Sigh. Back to trimming the Yule tree for her.

Did you do the candle thing? No cheating! Tap. Tap. Tap. (Im tapping my foot on the floor.) Now have you done it? Well? If you havent done the candle thing, shame on you. How can I help you be the Little Witch That Could if you dont do the work? If you have, then Im awfully proud of you, and you are ready to dive into my wonderful world of magick!

Welcome to To Light A Sacred Flame: Practical WitchCraft for the Millennium. Throughout you will find little sections entitled Magickal Minutes and Spiritual Seconds. These are ideas for practical magick and spirituality that you can add to your growing compendium of material for my enlightenment. You might want to share many of these ideas with magickal and non-magickal friends and family, because you know as soon as someone finds out youre into magick, you get snagged into functioning as a magickal request line. Magickal Minutes and Spiritual Seconds might be a welcome relief to you, since all of us realize that none of us function as the great and powerful Oz. Well, at least not full time. Just kidding.

Included also are longer applications that you can modify and practice at will. My main goal in magickal writing is to create books that let you step into the mind of a practicing Witch with enough years of magick under her garter to give you the bare bones of how the metaphysical world works without filling your head with mumbo-jumbo or sidetracking your brain with promises that cant be kept.

Each day you spend as a magickal person can manifest into a bonanza of excellent karma. Just think of it. Every hour of every day, you have the power to pull the loving energy of the universe toward you. Not only can you create the spiritual light needed to uplift our planet, but you can infuse that light with your love and enhance your personal life in the process. By learning to manifest practical, magickal living, you can fulfill your most ardent desires as well as learn to help your fellow human beings in a quiet, meaningful manner.