“Won’t you stay alive, I’ll take you on a ride, I will make you believe you are lovely.”
~”Lovely” by Twenty one pilots
Intent: A spell designed to encourage self-love and strength. It could be tailored to fit anyone, but I specifically had mental illness in mind when crafting this spell. For me personally, my bipolar has been acting up terribly and I’ve found that I’m trying to talk myself into loving and caring for myself, and this helps with that.
This spell is a bit of a process, I’m sorry about that. I needed something a little stronger than my usual spells.
Materials:
Hair or nail clippings (your own – hair might be better)
Jar and bowl
Objects that remind you of your negative feelings – could be crumpled up homework, pictures you don’t like, a journal entry about your negative self-worth, or any little objects that have negative connotations with you
water, salt, crushed bay leaves, black pepper, cinnamon, anise (basically any herbs you association with healing, cleansing, and new beginnings)
Permanent marker
Procedure:
1. Prepare the jar: drop some hair/nail clippings into the jar, as well as the objects that represent any overwhelmingly negative feelings you have. Think about how each object makes you feel as you fill the jar and imagine that this jar represents one half of yourself.
2. Prepare the water: pour some water into a bowl, drop in some clippings, and leave the bowl out to be charged by moonlight. When you feel it is ready sprinkle the rest of your ingredients into the water. Save the bay leaves for last. As you sprinkle those in, speak or think the following words:
“I’ll pray that one day you see The only difference between life and dying Is one is trying, that’s all we’re going to do So try to love me and I’ll try to save you.”
3. Mix the water up good. Visualize this mixture as representing the healthier side of yourself, the side that wants to keep fighting and triumphing.
4. Bring the bowl to your jar and slowly pour it over the objects. Say or think the following phrase:
“I will make you believe you are lovely”
5. Lid your jar, take your marker and write “you are lovely” across it.
6. Each morning remind yourself that you are lovely, strong, a fighter. If you get any deeply negative, self-destructive feelings write them down on a piece of paper and shove it in the jar.
And a short message from the writer, to anyone who might be reading this: I know it’s hard, god I know. Living with an illness that constantly pits you against yourself is a constant painful struggle. But you are so much stronger than you know, and you will never truly be alone. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to someone if you feel you can’t cope on your own: there is no shame is asking for help.
This spell is to cleanse yourself of any negative energy or whatever energy you wish to be gone. Best performed on a waning gibbus moon, Saturdays, Spring time. Draw a bath and combine any of these ingredients:
Light black candles around the bath, you can also line the tub with hematite, smokey quartz, clear quartz, jet, black onyx, black obsidian. If you wish, you could cast a circle of salt lining the tub.
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As you bathe, close your eyes and imagine the negative energy being drawn out of you, heavy black sludge is being pulled to the drain. Think about how you want this energy gone forever, imagine a white warm light starts filling you at your heart and spreading to the rest of your body, pushing away the negativity, you feel lighter. Meditate on this for as long as you wish.
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Let the black candles burn out (you can blow them out if you’re short on time).
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When you drain the tub, the negative energy will swirl into the drain and be “destroyed” as if it were a black hole, never to return.
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Close the circle if you casted one.
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Drink some water and eat fruit to restore your energy and relax.
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