Summer is filled with beautiful flowers...everywhere. Some are cultured flowers, others are weeds. They each have beauty and value in the magickal lifestyle. What should you do with flowers?
Cut flower heads off once they are spent (dead). Keep each kind of flower in a separate jar. If you are collecting roses, keep the unbloomed buds on one jar, and the petals of opened roses in another. You might even wish to keep different colors of rose petals in different jars as well.
What do you do with these different flowers? Each flower type has a magickal meaning. As you look up the meaning for each kind of flower, write it down and keep the notation in each jar, or glue it to the glass.
When you need the cast a spell, go to your dried flower storage jars. These make wonderful additions for spells.
But make sure you dry them out first. Once the flowers are dried out, you can add incense to them, or scented oil. They smell good and make a nice addition to a mojo bag, where you can also place a gemstone or other kind of amulet.
You can also glue dried flowers into your Spell Book - each page of the Spell Book can have a different spell written in it, and be accompanied by the flowers and herbs that make the spell gain energy - just glue them into the book and you won't have to go seeking out the ingredients again. Everything you need to perform for the spell can be glued into the pages of your spell book as pressed flowers, herbs and minerals.
You can also use dried flower buds in natural necklaces. Although they are somewhat fragile, they are beautiful, delicate and filled with energy. Have you ever worn a necklace made from rose buds? They are just gorgeous. Have you ever saved seeds from a squash? dry them out and string them into a necklace as well, they have power too, and are quite pretty.
Summer is a wonderful time of year, and it deserves some preservation, for when winter comes, it's that summer magic we need in our spells, when the sun was at its height and happiness was carefree and easy going. This is the energy that summer flowers bring to other times of year.
In each season, there are natural things to collect, and keep in jars for spells. In a previous article, I explained how to make spell jars. As you come up with empty food jars, make them into spell jars, and label them with the names of the flower petals and buds you have collected. When fall comes, do likewise with seeds, pods and fallen leaves from different trees. You can also use a spell jar for the pits from summer fruit...these also have special energy. Using a fruit pit in an amulet bag is very powerful. Such pits can also be glued to a 'soda can' tab and worn as a necklace. But to make it beautiful, you will need to use an epoxy glue to attach the soda can tab to the back of the fruit pit, and then, when it is dried, spray it over with a high-gloss, clear spray paint. Wearing fruit-pit jewelry can be very interesting, very beautiful and very powerful. Inside the pits of different fruits is an entire tree, full of life and magick. So please do not throw away the pits of fruit. Save them in spell jars as well. They can be used in spells and amulet bags just as gemstones can be used.
Pet hair and human hair from hair cuts can also be kept in spell jars, and be used to radiate the energy of that kind of personality - a pet may have certain characteristics one may wish to obtain through a spell; Human hair contains the attributes of that person, such as the power of their zodiac sign, or the strengths of their personality. As long as you charge the human hair such that no one can us it to bring harm to that person, it is ok to use a clipping of human hair in a mojo bag to gain the energy that person has naturally. Perhaps you are a Taurus, and don't have the strengths of a Scorpio. By obtaining a little but of a hair clipping from a friend who willingly gives you their hair, you can obtain his or her strong points to enhance your personality, without bringing that person harm. This can be done likewise with pet hair.
If you know you will be making spells for other people, you can keep such things in spell jars and organize these beautiful jars on shelves. Not only do they add wonderful energy to your home, they also make great conversation pieces as well as memories, as you think about where you collected such things with family and friends, as well as who you made a mojo bag for.
Part of your path is inter-connecting to people. You do this by experience. By collecting things for spell jars, and making mojo bags for others, your path is always a memory you have made with others. This adds meaning to your life.
Right now, it is summer. Summer flowers are still growing, and blooming. Soon they will not be. It's time to collect those petals and buds and keep them in spell jars. If you have not made a spell jar, collect them anyway, and keep them in zip-lock baggies after they dry. Then, when you have time to make a spell jar, you can transfer them into their jars.
If you have a particular spell combination, which calls for several flowers, several herbs and so forth, you can make a mixture of these and keep them in a spell jar that is labeled for that spell. When someone needs that combination of flowers and herbs, you will have it ready for them. Then you can place 1-2 Tablespoons of the spell mixture in a mojo bag for them. What a wonderful way to connect with others.
If you do this, you will enjoy it. What a way to connect with the natural world of beauty that surrounds us all!
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