| A Healing Water Ritual
Water Spell 1
The elemental energy in water spells is used for
magick involving love, friendship, mystery,
psychic abilities, healing, dreams and sleep.
You'll want to add some water elements for any
magick that has to do with your emotions
or the astral world beyond.
You Will Need:
stones like moonstone, aquamarine, jade or malachite
altar tools like a chalice or cup
oils and herbs such as valerian, jasmine or gardenia
Though drinking is a common part of water magick,
ritual baths are another great way to bring
in some water energy to your spells.
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Everyday Water
When you think of Water” what comes to mind?
A tranquil lake, gentle rain,
or raging sea? Whether magical element
or just a simple cup of tea,
water can be a very special part of your life.
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Water Spirits
Every body of water is an entity. Each lake,
puddle or pool has a unique life-force all its own.
It can be as vast as the sea,
or as small as a two-sip potion bottle
any body of water has a personality just a little bit
different than any other. Can you feel the personality
of your bath? Can you feel a certain comfort within
a place where you swim regularly?
Try to sense what makes each body
of water different than another.
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Water at Home
A home is a very special place.
It holds all the elements,
and surely combines them into spirit.
Water is an integral
part of your home, like any ecosystem.
The bathroom, the kitchen,
the plumbing surely are temples
for your own home’s personal aspect of water.
When you visit the home of a new friend,
make an effort to drink their
tap water to take in a
bit of the unique personality of that place.
It may help you get a better
feel for where you are,
and all that resides there.
Perhaps it is no accident that
one of the first things
someone offers a guest is something to drink.
This concept is not limited
to someone’s home.
Going on a sales call or job interview?
Grab a quick drink when you get there!
Healing Waters
Water is used in a variety of healing rites.
Most magical people are quite aware of healing
energies in teas, brews and baths.
Next time you use one of these devices,
try specifically addressing the water aspect
within your magic. People often focus
on the herbs used in their potions.
But don’t forget the water spirits within your
hot cup of tea that washes these
herbs into your steamy Circle.
Magic is often the chemistry of mixing things,
thus mixing the energies they possess.
Together, water and herbs make
something very special,
more so than either could do alone.
Employ the water you drink to help
swallow an aspirin;
see the liquid” in your cough syrup.
Most over the counter drugs come in
both liquid and tablet form.
Perhaps this choice can help fit your magical need?
When might a liquid work better
than a solid, or vice versa?
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Water Divination
Some people scry as a means to foretell
the future or answer questions.
Scrying is the act of gazing meditatively
into a shiny nebulous surface,
like a crystal ball. Fill your cauldron
with water and see what shimmers
on its surface whether by moonlight,
candelight or just bathroom nightlight.
Oh, you don’t own a $200 cast iron
genuine witchy cauldron to fill?
Try any household vessel, perhaps
one that fits your specific need.
For example, if you seek financial
guidance, try using the jar you store
your loose change in. A new beginning?
How about your morning coffee cup.
Love? Perhaps a vase you might
use for a dozen red roses.
For divination, you may want
to try saving water to re-use over
and over again each time you scry.
Perhaps this water, just like you,
will become more adept at scrying
with practice! You might experiment
with the specific type of
water you want to use.
When might water from the
ocean work best? The rain or morning dew?
Try collecting waters from the
special places in your life,
the stream where you picnic,
the lake where you camp.
Use your creativity here.
Is there enough room in your freezer for
a chunk of the first snowfall?
Another form of water divination might be to merely
spill it on a flat surface. Which way did it run?
Towards a specific direction?
What does this direction mean to you?
Try dropping something magical into a pool of
water and count the ripples it makes.
Four? Five? Do you find meaning in this number?
Water is a very flexible thing.
What new ways can you create to divine with water?
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Your Own Waters
Perhaps the water we are closest to,
but notice the least,
is the water within our own bodies.
Each of us carries around
gallons that we borrow from our surroundings
via the moisture within food and drink.
We store it for hours, days, maybe even weeks,
and carry it around like
a little magical charm.
Remember this the next time you share
a drink during a special moment.
A bit of that moment stays with you
within the water you drank.
Magical people instinctively feel
the magic within their own waters.
Ever notice how some people put
a little something extra into licking
and sealing a special envelope?
It becomes a magical act!
Matter can be charged with
your own personal energy,
like the way a chair becomes
warm when you sit on it.
Water is especially receptive
to storing energy.
What energies does water
hold within your body?
Note that just about every
emotion is expressed with water.
Our water enables release,
catharsis, getting it out
of our system – whether tears
of joy, a nervous sweat,
or acts of love and pleasure.
When we get too sad, too happy,
too excited – water is what
we often cast forth.
When you drink in water,
take in what you need from the world.
Ask for new things, new benefits,
new wisdom and experiences.
Just drink them all
in like making a toast!
And when you expel water,
casting it out of your body,
think what you’d like to cast
out into life’s magical currents.
Taking in, then sending out.
What could be more magical than that?
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The West
One popular belief assigns
each element to a direction,
with water corresponding to the west.
My guess is that this began
in England where the ocean
actually is in the west,
where the storms blew in from,
thus fitting the geography
and beliefs of the people who created the system.
When members of the modern Craft
community came to America,
they continued the custom of
looking to the west for water,
even though the nature
and geography around them
was actually quite different.
Water is one example of the
choice whether to follow tradition,
or modify our customs to fit
the unique situations around us.
I live on the east coast of
North America, where the Atlantic Ocean
is only 60 miles to the east.
Yet most people I know turn their back and
face west for water.
Experiment with what direction
feels most like water;
try sensing what works best for you.
You may find that the direction
really doesn’t matter much.
Someone I consider quite wise once reminded
me that water is where you feel it.”
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The Water Cycle
Can we learn from the cycle of Earth’s water supply?
Water vapor rises from the ocean,
crystallizes to form a raindrop,
falls to the Earth, runs its
course through life’s rivers
and streams, returning to
the ocean, its source,
to vaporize once again,
perpetuating water’s cycle.
Are we any different?
Even today, Pagans sing about a
drop of rain flowing to the ocean,
returning to its source,
the source of all life.
This song even tells where we come from,
and reminds us that we shall return.
Think about the words.
(Z. Budapest; 1971, Spring Hill Music.)
Look at the branching shape
each tiny stream has as it feeds a larger brook,
which then feeds a mighty river.
Now look at the veins in your own arm.
Perhaps it is the nature of small
things to flow together,
forming something larger.
What other parts of life work the same way?
What small things flow into you?
And what do you join with to
form something greater?
Like us, water also has many lives.
The same H20 molecule that
sits upon your sweaty brow
today may have once been a
teardrop in a lover’s eye
or raindrop in a raging storm.
It may even have once been part of
an icy comet that hurled to
Earth ions ago after whirling round the galaxy.
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Water Magic
Perhaps the most common water magic is washing
away something unwanted; we wash things to cleanse.
Often the physical act of washing can have
a magical component as well. When you shower,
do you sometimes wash away more than
just the grime of the day, making your
stress-relieving shower a magical act?
Have you ever rinsed out a glass or piece
of clothing for a special occasion,
and visualized the desired outcome of that occasion?
When I wash my car, I pray for safe travel.
(From the bathroom, the bedroom, and even the garage '
Kitchen Witchery exists in every room of the house!)
I know someone who has slept
on the same waterbed for a decade.
This person respects (and actually talks to)
the water within this bed as something sacred,
like a magical familiar.
Why not? Just imagine the energies this water holds.
It becomes warmed by your body heat, hears a decade
worth of dreams and passion. It provides the bliss
of restful sleep. No other body of water can
ever be that intimate.
Like anything magical, water is multi-dimensional.
Make a list of properties you associate with water.
Which aspect fits your magical need?
Not only does water wash,
but it nourishes and helps things grow.
(Perhaps it is no accident that our first meal of
Mother’s milk comes in liquid form.)
Water is the place where life started,
creating a new beginning for primordial Earth.
What new beginnings do you yearn for?
Water is the ink in your pen,
the wine in your clinking glass.
It freezes solid, yet steams away into vapor.
Water makes ripply splashy noises,
and swirls round and round
into spiral whirlpools.
Forget what you heard when you were nine years
old – please do play with water!
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A Healing Water Ritual
You Will Need:
1 altar
1 blue cloth
1 crystal bowl
bottled spring water
pink rose petals
1 tablespoon of rose water
Procedure:
To create your own water ritual,
cover a table or altar with a blue cloth
and in the center place a clear
glass or crystal bowl.
Fill with bottled spring water,
then add a few pink rose petals
and a tablespoon of rose water.
Gently stir the water with your
finger in a clockwise direction.
Relax, and feel all the negative feelings
you’ve had recently being absorbed by the
loving vibrations of this healing water.
Leave the water undisturbed overnight.
The next day sprinkle the water about your yard,
or gently pour it onto a grassy area.
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