What if you get annoyed when you’re doing your spells...
... or they don’t turn out the way you want them to. (+ Abundant Harvest results).
Eight times a year, on every holiday of the witches’ wheel, I do a candle blessing spell for my Founders’ Level subscribers.
For candle spells, I often like to go to a place of power, where I can charge the candles with the powers of wind and sky, of water and mountains and sunlight.
On Tuesday the 8th (the Lion’s Gate), I was finishing up an 8 day Founder’s Level spell I’d begun on August 1st, the holiday of Lughnasadh. I’d blessed the orange candles in ceremony, and prayed over them every night for seven nights, charging each one with love and blessings.
On the eighth day, I took the Founders’ candles to Topanga Beach in Malibu (my favorite beach for spells).
I usually go at night, but I wanted the candles to feel the sunlight, so I went in the afternoon.
The spell was for each of my Founders-level subscribers to have a “good harvest.” So that, whatever it is they’d been working towards this year – planting their seeds, tending them, watering and growing them – that they would receive an abundant reward for all their efforts.
So I took the candles to the beach, and I:
drew a circle in the sand to concentrate the magic
danced and chanted and sang over the candles
called in the god Lugh, the skilled craftsman, the spirit of summer light to come bless the spell
… and then I sat down to begin the hours-long labor of oiling each candle with sesame oil, rolling them in orange peels, rose petals, cinnamon, and salt, and sand. For each candle, I say one of my Founders’ names and read their petitions three times. Then I carve their initials and abundance runes into the wax, and visualize the power of the spell candle reaching out to touch them, wherever they are in the world.
But just as I sat down to do that…
… a group of kids in their early 20s arrived, laughing and bellowing, they sat down — inexplicably — right next to me, on what had up until that point been an empty beach.
I was so annoyed! Why had they sat so close? Couldn’t they see what I was doing?? Obviously something spooky so why couldn’t they find their own space??
I wanted to concentrate. I’d got myself into just the right trance space, and had worked up my magical energy so that I could direct it all into the candles, and than…
… crabby as the crab legs I’d found on the beach, I was like, how am I going to give this spell all the love it needs with these rowdy guffawers doing cartwheels and mincing about?!
But this is how magic works, friends. It surprises you.
Often, magic interrupts your pattern of what you think SHOULD happen to give you something even better instead.
However, the good thing you didn’t know you wanted can only happen IF you’re able to let go of trying to control things, and instead cultivate a spirit of curiosity and joy, pay attention to what arises, and then ALLOW that spirit to flow as it wills.
I decided to let go of my annoyance and trust that whatever needed to happen would happen.
I’m not in control of everything. Just because this little beach party wasn’t part of my vision for the spell, didn’t mean that it was the wrong thing to happen.
So as they partied, I continued blessing the candles and singing over them, and as I was reading your petitions…
…I was moved to see that so many of your petitions were about cultivating community, bringing joy into your life, creating good relationships, and a sense of pleasure and abundance.
At the end of my spell I looked over at my jubilant neighbors, they were singing a birthday song and toasting one of the girls.
They’d set up this whole elaborate dinner on the beach, with a white linen table cloth, champagne in glass flutes, fat loaves of freshly cut bread, olive oil, vinegar, wine, and fancy salads in large ceramic bowls. They were wearing white and their skirts whipped in the wind as the sun set and they ran in the water, laughing and listening to music.
Now if those youths frolicking in the water and eating champagne and strawberries, romantically holding each other’s hands isn’t an ABUNDANT HARVEST, then I don’t know what is.
The message from spirit for this spell was:
Chill out. Stop trying to control everything. Pay attention to the abundance that’s already around you. And when the joy comes, trust it.
Later I went home and burned the candles, and each one burned hot and bright.
Our harvests might not come exactly as we expect or think they should, but if we relax, all signs are good that our abundance will exceed our expectations.
Sending champagne (or at least something sparkly and delicious) and frolicking on the beach your way.
With love,
Amanda
P.S. It was so cute because after I finished my spell I went up to them and thanked them for bringing the energy of abundant harvest to my spell, and they were so excited and said they’d been wondering what I’d been doing and said that it looked really fun and they’d wanted to come join me!
What about if you do a spell, and then the RESULTS don’t turn out the way you want them to? Does that mean you failed?
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