Monthly Archives: November 2006
Bringing Money Home
Our first spell:
When the moon is new, sprinkle a $1, $10, $20 or $50 bill with cinnamon and then secretly place it underneath the front doormat inside your home.
It will be charged with positive energy every time someone walks over it. The greater the value of the bill, the larger your returns could be. The money should only be removed when the moon is full; otherwise you will attract unexpected expense to your door.
Borrowed from:
Gypsy Magick and Lore
Here is a cute little Gypsy “house” called a Vardo. For the majority of Gypsies, their vardo, or wagon, was their most prized possession.
They believe that the body is a vehicle for the spirit on earth, and the vardo is the vehicle for the body on earth.
When someone died, their Vardo and most of their possessions were burned because their “vehicle for the body” was no longer needed.
Getting The Magick Started
Hi guys.
I thought today would be a good day to sign in, say “hello”, and post your goals and/or expectations for the Gypsy Magic project. We have several new people joining us, isn’t that great?
Much of our first two weeks of Gypsy Magic are coming from The Good Spell Book: Love Charms, Magical Cures, and Other Practical Sorcery by Gillian Kemp.
Here are some words of advice for novice spell casters:
- By aligning your energies with the lunar cycle, and tapping into the natural tides and currents of life, you will increase the effectiveness and power of your spells.
- Because the moon turns the tide and our bodies are mainly composed of water, we wax and wane with the moon.
- Generally, psychic energy is highest when the moon is waxing (becoming full) and weakest when it is waning (diminishing).
- To attract something into your life, work when the moon is waxing.
- For banishing spells and to remove negativity and bad situations, work when the moon is waning.
- The most important ingredient of any spell is love.
- Thought and prayer are very powerful, and what makes the magic work is faith.
- Any spell you cast should come from the heart, and you should direct your thoughts like an arrow toward a magnet.
- Spells work in spirits’ time. What is sent out mentally leaves an etheric trace, which adds power to the spell when repeated or reworded.
- Both words and thoughts are a powerful vibratory force. You must believe that what you wish for will come true, and you must not be afraid that it won’t.
Abracadabra
Trinka Five
Gypsy Magic
Comes Alive
Our Fortune
And so to get us all into the mood I found this way cool gypsy fortune telling site. Here is our “fortune” for today. It is so fun, and surprisingly appropriate, especially in light of our most recent project:
Zola says:
“I see your fortune today in this card…”
Abracadabra
Abracadabra’s Meaning:
The most powerful of all talismans the Abracadabra indicates a recovery from a negative medical or spiritual situation. It says, “I create as I speak.”
Make a Simple Mojo Bag
Many of the formulas offered here are intended to be placed in mojo or medicine bags. What follows is a very simple tutorial on how to make a simple drawstring bag using a handkerchief, a ribbon, and a needle and thread.
Note: You can also use a square of fabric the size of a handkerchief.
- Lay a handkerchief out flat and put a ribbon across the middle of it with the ends hanging over a little bit.
- The longer the ribbon is, the easier it will be to tie it together when you are done.
- Also remember that you may want to tie decorations to the ends of the ribbon… so be generous.
- Fold the handkerchief in half with the ribbon on the inside and in the crease.
- Fold the handkerchief again.
- The handkerchief is now folded in quarters.
- The ribbon is at the top and both ends of the ribbon are on the same side.
- Sew up the open sides of the handkerchief.
- Stop sewing right before you get to the ribbon.
- Tie a good knot.
- Then turn the whole thing inside out.
- Pull the ribbons tight and Voila!
You just made a drawstring pouch and it only took about 5 minutes. Cool huh? Now all that’s left is to decorate the outside (optional) and fill up the inside.
Here’s a visual tutorial:
Borrowed from: Magickal Apothecary
Making Your Own Colored Candles
To make a colored candle, use a white tea light candle. These are the really small candles you can find in packages of 6 to 12 at the dollar store. They sit in little aluminum containers.
Take the candle out of the container, and carve the sides of it into the shape of a 4 petaled flower, or 4 leaf clover. Hollow out a small space on the top of each petal. Put the candle back into the aluminum container.
Being very careful not to burn yourself, or start a fire, hold a crayon of the appropriate color over the little hollowed out space and heat the end of the crayon so that it drips colored wax into that little hollowed out place. One or two drops is fine for each petal. The color will blend and melt as the candle burns.
You can also put small pieces of crayon in a metal spoon, and hold the spoon over a candle flame to heat and melt the crayon wax, and then pour the melted wax into the places you hollowed out of the tea light.
It’s better to use the cheapest crayons you can find – crayola crayons do not seem to work as well. Also, try not to play with the melted wax once you have your candle lit. If any extra wax goes up on the wick, the candle flame will get really small and could burn out.
Borrowed from: Magickal Ingredients
Gathering Our Supplies
Here is a list of the supplies we will need for this project. A complete list of essential oils can be found at the bottom of the post, along with instructions for home made colored candles, and an easy to make draw string pouch.
Day One:
- A dollar bill
- If you have a five, ten, twenty, or even a fifty that can be used too. Just be aware that the money must remain in place for a period of a little more than 2 weeks.
- Cinnamon or Nutmeg
Day Two:
- A mirror (your bathroom mirror will work just fine)
- A blue candle
- You can use any kind of candle. The only type of candle that will not work would be a small birthday candle because it would burn itself out too soon, and not give off enough light.
- If you have trouble finding a blue candle you can make one pretty easily – see the “how to” at the bottom of this post.
Day Three:
- A coin – a penny, dime, quarter, a silver dollar would be really cool … but any coin will work just fine
Day Four:
- You already have what you need for today’s spell
Day Five:
- Olive oil
- Something gold. A gold Sacajawea dollar would be great. I think you can get them at the bank – they cost a dollar. An ear ring, or other piece of jewelry made of gold would work just fine too.
- A small jar that the dollar or the jewelry will fit into
- Cinnamon Oil- optional – you can also find this at a pharmacy
- If you want to create a prosperity oil with essential oils, you will need the following:
Marjoram, Lemon, and Eucalyptus
Day Six:
A Spindle – the kind that can be found in the office supply area of a store. I found them at Office Max – they had 2 colors, silver and black.- Prosperity oil (we made this the day before)
- Powdered cinnamon
- 3 one dollar bills
Days Seven thru Thirteen – Wealthy Week:
- One candle in each of these colors: gold, white, pink, red, and blue
- Two green candles
- Great big candles will not be appropriate, but any other candle will be fine. You could even use a birthday candles (if you can find a gold one)
- As I posted earlier, you could make one pretty easily- see the “how to” at the bottom of this post.
- Loose change
- Handkerchief (if your pile of loose change looks really small)
Day Fourteen:
- Oak leaves, twigs, bits of bark, and/or acorn
- Petals or seeds from a Sunflower
- Cinnamon stick
- Three whole cloves
- Lucky stone – any small stone will do if you like it and decide to call it “lucky”
- Small trinket or coin – again it is not important what exactly you choose, it could be an earring, ring, charm from a charm bracelet, or a coin – doesn’t matter
- Small horse shoe charm, or the horse shoe symbol drawn on a small piece of paper
- Prosperity oil or, if you wish to use essential oils, the following could be used: Cinnamon, Benzoin, Myrrh, Patchouli
- Yellow, green, and orange thread (just enough to tie around the leaves and twigs)
- A small drawstring bag – if you don’t have one, you can make your own using the EZ directions at the bottom of this post. It’s super easy, and cheap.
Day Fifteen:
- A quartz crystal (if you don’t have one, they can often be found at Amazon or new age shops as well as hobby shops. Hobby Lobby used to have them, I am not sure if they still do.)
Day Sixteen:
- Green Candle
- Mint.. fresh or dried.. if you have mint tea, you can open a tea bag and use that
Day Seventeen:
- Nine cloves of garlic
- Thorns from a white rose bush
- Three small jars
Day Eighteen:
- Small paper cup
- Water
Day Nineteen:
- White candle (any size)
- Dictionary
Day Twenty:
- Dirt (potting soil is fine.. dirt from outside is fine too) If you decide to get a small bag of potting soil, save what’s left – as we will be using potting soil in another spell later on.
- Sieve
- Paper towel or bowl
- Garlic Powder or Dragon’s Blood (powder, incense, or essential oil)
Day Twenty One:
- An old shoe
- Magic marker of any color
- Someplace to have a fire in which you can burn the shoe
Day Twenty Two:
- Lottery form (the kind where you pick the number)
- One green candle for each number (5 candles if there are 5 numbers.. 6 if there are 6.. etc)
- Powdered nutmeg
Day Twenty Three:
- Green candle (any size will do)
Day Twenty Four:
- Five White votive candles – you can use more if you want to
- A plate that you often eat from
- One Gold, silver, green, or white candle – this candle has a different purpose than the votives and can be any size.
Day Twenty Five:
- One brown egg
- A tablespoon of brown sugar
- Brown marker or crayon
- Potting soil and container
- 3 cloves of garlic
- Incense (any flavor will be fine)
- Candle (brown, white, or red)
Day Twenty Six:
- A roll of toilet paper
- Marker or pen
Day Twenty Seven:
- Envelope or box in which to place your bills as they come in (we won’t leave the bills there and not pay them.. LOL.. but we will have a place to put them until they get paid)
- Black pen, marker, or pencil (just not colored)
- Vinegar
Day Twenty-Eight:
- Broom
- Dust pan
- Paper or plastic bag – grocery bag size will do – any kitchen garbage bag will also work just fine
- Salt
- Pink or gold candle (nothing big as this will be left to burn out naturally)
- Rose incense – or any flavor of incense that you really like.
- An item or object in your home that reminds you of bad luck, a bad time in your life, it could be a picture of a person or it could be something that is broken.. or you could draw a picture to represent the “bad luck” in your life. Whatever it is, just be aware that it will be destroyed in the course of the spell – so it needs to be something that you are ready to let go of.
Day Twenty Nine:
- Silver spoon – it doesn’t have to be “real” silver
- Sugar
Day Thirty:
- Coins – however much spare change you happen to have – the more the merrier (and don’t worry, these will only be used this one time and then can be returned to wherever they came from)
- Green candle
- White piece of paper
- Green pen or marker
Note:
Some of the spells for these days are out of order, and I can’t seem to find what spell the ingredients for Day Thirty go to. LOL. It seems to have disappeared. If you happen to wander on to it, leave a comment to let me know and I’ll link it.
Complete listing of essential oils:
Along with links to amazon (in case you are interested in buying them).
- Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil
- Marjoram Essential Oil
- Lemon Essential Oil
- Eucalyptus Essential Oil
- Patchouli Essential Oil
- Benzoin Essential Oil
- Myrrh Essential Oil
- Dragon’s Blood / Sangre De Grado Extract
How to’s and Tutorials:
Just in case you want to save money and make these yourself.
Gypsy Magic: Does it work?
Does gypsy magic work? We are going to find out. Starting on Monday, Nov 20th, the Prosperity Project will be doing gypsy magic every day for 30 days. We would love it if you would join us on the journey.
Here’s how it works:
Every day (for 30 days) a new gypsy magic spell will be posted. If you want to participate, just visit this site each day, try the spell, and then comment on the results, the process, your insights and inspirations, or whatever else you wish to comment on.
An easy way to access the daily post is to subscribe to via email. There is a link in the right hand column. It’s easy, and free, and you won’t get spammed, I promise. All that will happen is that each new post will show up in your inbox – which I think is nice, and makes it easy to stay caught up with what’s going on.
If you find that you do not have the time to do a spell on the day it is posted, but you do want to try it, it is perfectly acceptable to postpone it. The only thing to be alert to is if the spell requires a waxing or waning moon, and I will be sure to note that on the daily post.
There will be a complete listing of supplies needed – and every attempt has been made to ensure that the supplies needed will be inexpensive and easy to find. Green candles are used more than any other thing. Luckily we are coming into the Christmas season, and so they should be easy to find. I will also post a way to “make” them using cheap white votive candles and crayons.
In tandem with this project, I will be creating a separate web page “Gypsy Magic Spells and Charms” which has now been migrated to shirleytwofeathers.com, and can be accessed here: Gypsy Magick and Lore. If you are interested in Gypsy Magic, but do not wish to participate in the project, you are welcome to visit that site as each spell that is posted on the Prosperity Project will be posted there as well.
I am really looking forward to this project. I think it will be a lot of fun.
Praying For Prosperity
Here is an overview of our first project: Does prayer really work?
This post provides links to pertinent aspects of this project, so that you won’t have to sift through the archives to find out what you want to know.
Our original idea and statement of intent is here.
If you would like to try this project for yourself, you can start on Day One: Getting started, and then continue on thru Day Thirty: Prayer, does it work? posting your thoughts, ideas, results, joys and disappointments as you go. This is an active blog, and if you post, we will notice and reply.. and give you the benefit of our own experience and our support if it seems pertinent or appropriate.
You can find complete listing of the day by day links at the bottom of this post.
The basic summary of our results is posted here: How did we do?
And an in depth analysis by each participant is posted here: In Depth Review – Praying For Prosperity
We do have a recommended reading list if you are interested in expanding your understanding and it can be found here: Recommended reading
This project stimulated a “spin off” blog called The Prayer Request Hot Line, which provides links to a wide variety of legitimate prayer sites, you might want to check it out, and bookmark it in case there comes a time when a prayer resource might be helpful to you or a loved one. If you choose to subscribe to the Prayer Request Hot Line, the daily posts can be delivered directly to your “inbox”. A different prayer site is featured every day, and this might be an interesting way to pray for 30 days.
As promised, here is the complete listing of the daily posts for the Praying for Prosperity 30 day project:
- Day One: Getting started
- Day Two: A Good Start
- Day Three: Still praying for prosperity
- Day Four: Prosperity Updates
- Day Five: The Prosperity Puzzle
- Day Six: Getting it right
- Day Seven: Sprouting Seeds
- Day Eight: The Unexpected
- Day Nine: A work in progress
- Day Ten: The Inner Dad
- Day Eleven: Exploring the Concept
- Day Twelve: We are all in this together
- Day Thirteen: Shaking things up
- Day Fourteen: A Sense of Adventure
- Day Fifteen: Getting Centered
- Day Sixteen: Words of Wisdom
- Day Seventeen: Something Scary
- Day Eighteen: It’s a list
- Day Nineteen: Talking to God
- Day Twenty: A Prosperity Prayer
- Day Twenty-One: Questions
- Day Twenty-Two: Sunday Morning Cartoon
- Day Twenty-Three: Self Realization
- Day Twenty-Four: Feedback
- Day Twenty-Five: Morning Coffee
- Day Twenty-Six: Here’s a concept
- Day Twenty-Seven: Wind Fall
- Day Twenty-Eight: Asleep on the job
- Day Twenty-Nine: Wrapping things up
- Day Thirty: Prayer, does it work?
In Depth Review – Praying For Prosperity
Michelle:
I have to pretty much say that all my goals were met, or are in the process of being met. definitely, the Reiki prayer has become something for me that was actually lacking in my life up to this point.I don’t think I would do anything differently because the experience was a good one. scary, at times, but good.
Shirley:
- I have added nothing to my savings account – so that’s a NO.
- I have managed to pay my bills this month but friends and family had to help me pay my expenses – so that’s a YES and a NO. I am not sure that it counts that I had to rely on the kindness of others in order to buy food, gas, etc. But then, maybe that counts..
- I will be getting one item on my wish list. My mom is getting me a printer for Christmas. I am also hesitant to list this as a goal that has been met because I would have gotten a Christmas present anyway.
- I did pick up some extra work which will help to pay for part of the unexpected expense of having to buy 4 new tires.
What did I learn? Hmmm… Well, I learned a number of possibly important things:
- In my heart, I do not believe my financial needs are important.
- Good friends are more important than money.
- Thirty days is a very long time to commit to doing something that doesn’t appear to bring results.
- Whenever I try to manifest money, I end up manifesting a whole bunch of new things to do instead.
- Don’t ask other people to pray for you if you aren’t going to pray for yourself.
- Prayer is the same for all faiths, only the wording changes.
- If your family doesn’t love and support you, and trouble comes your way, you’re probably screwed – unless you have good friends.
Basic changes within me? Well.. For a while there I was thinking that I was finally “getting” it when it comes to understanding “God” and talking “to” God, and what prayer is etc. But this afternoon, I feel just as clueless as I did when we started. So whatever it was I was “getting” is eluding me once again. Other than that, I guess I could say that I have a deeper appreciation for the people in my life who love me. Way deeper appreciation.
- My favorite prayer line is Science of Mind.
- My favorite prayer partner is that really nice man at The Upper Room Covenant Ministries who prayed with me on Halloween.
- My favorite letter of prayer support came this morning from one of the sites I surfed yesterday. If you guys are interested in where it came from, just ask, and I’ll look it up. At this moment I can’t remember the name of it.
- My favorite prayer.. well it’s not a prayer but I particularly liked the Yogananda quote from the Self Realization Society site.
If I had it to do over, the different thing I would do is: Pray for myself – in a very personal and heart felt way. Pray for specifics instead of general prosperity.
Books I recommend are: The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. The Art of Spiritual Healing by Joel Goldsmith. The Power of Myth by Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell
Melissa:
- I am thrilled that I can start paying off my credit cards.
- I learned that being open to the universe and ready to receive while I continue to do the work that is in front of me really does work.
- The basic changes that occurred within myself were to trust the universe more and to trust myself more.
The only prayer line I used this month was Silent Unity. To do it differently, I would try some of the other prayer lines Shirley has tried and recommended. But I am really happy with my results.
My favorite prayer is the Prayer for Protection – I use it daily. The books I have “clicked” with are PROSPERITY by Charles Fillmore; SPIRITUAL ECONOMICS by Eric Butterworth; and CREATING MONEY by Sanaya Roman & Duane Packer.
Cindy:
It’s hard to believe the month is over. In some ways it seems like it’s been 6 months and in other ways it seems like it has just been a few weeks.I can’t say my goals have been met. I think right now I’m worse off financially than I was a month ago. That is very discouraging. And I have had so many things seem like “divine ideas” over the years that I have pursued and it seems like no matter what, they fail. And I can honestly say that not all of these failures were brought on by me!
And one of my goals was to get some things together and try to sell them but here it is the end of our month and I still have not gotten any of it done! It’s not that hard – I need to get a cello and guitar cleaned up and taken to a music store, some jewelry cleaned and taken to the jewelry store, and some other jewelry cleaned and sold at work. But it seems like the few evenings that I have free where I could do these things, I am too tired to do them!
The thing that stands out for me as far as what I have learned is that I sure didn’t know there were so many prayer lines out there available to people! I think that’s great!
My favorite prosperity prayer/meditation is to picture myself on a beautiful sandy beach, feel the wind blowing my hair and hear the crashing waves and the birds crying out, and see that and know that each grain of sand can represent 1 dollar bill, and realize that all the money I ever need is right there, with me, running through my toes, and there will never be an end, this money is available to me at all times and there is enough for everyone!
The only thing I could say I might do differently is take the time to call or e-mail more of the other prayer lines. It’s not that I didn’t want to, it just seems like there is never enough time in each day to get everything done that I want to do.
Daniel:
How did we do?
I am thinking that it looks something like this:
“Print Gallery” by Escher
Results in terms of goals reached are as follows:
- Melissa and Michelle did really well and reached their goals.
- Cindy and Daniel feel that things got worse instead of better.
- Shirley and Saskia had some small successes, help from friends and family, and early christmas presents.
To read what each person had to say about the project follow this link.
Does it “work” to pray for prosperity? I would say the answer is that it is always good to pray, but God is not Santa Claus. I am curious to see how things will unfold in the following months.
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me: Make Your Own Violet Fire
Abdulrahman: Money Chant – Very Fast
Shirley Twofeathers: It’s A Wrap
Daniel Knirs: It’s A Wrap
Our current project began on July 4. We are exploring the concept and practice of Radical Self Care . Feel free to join in at any time!
Interested? You can visit our current project page, or you can take a look at the About The Project page if you are curious about the concept.
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Please feel free to join in at any time! No experience necessary.
- Money Chant - Fast
- Money Chant - Slow
- Prosperity Plan
- Amazing Creator
- Cause and Effect
- I Am That I Am
- Spirit Rap
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- PowWow Spirit Rap
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