Magickal Preparations for Prince...

So what are we doing in preparation for Prince? I plan on doing allot!

Every new moon I am cleansing the house. When I say clean, I am not just talking physically but sprinkling baking soda on the carpets to absorb negativity emotions, cutting an onion and half and absorbing any air born negative spirits, sweeping away debris from the doorways and cleaning the doors.  I have a little less than 9 weeks to set up barriers. I plan on putting/replenishing garlic in the windows to keep out negative/unwanted spirits, (during the baby shower and when we come home) sprinkling sea salt along the door way, as well as a few spells.

What spells you ask? You are already scrubbing the house to keep out negativity...what else do you need? I want to keep those positive energies in. You can scrub all the time but if you dont try to keep happiness and positive thoughts in. You'll be forever scrubbing. Not something I really plan on doing. So! Here goes....I recently saw these spells on Cup 'o spells facebook page.

Home or Business Protection Spell

To bless your home or business, place a bowl of candy, herbs or stones by your front entrance. Bless then bowl's contents by speaking aloud the following verse:

"As all who enter here are Children of the Great Mother,
May those who pass always walk safely in her steps.
May they feel the guidance of her hand,
And know she is always with us,
From the time we meet till we meet again."

Invite visitors to take an offering as they enter the premises.

Spell to Protect a Doorway

Supplies:
Besom or Decorative Broom (plain, or decorated to match your decor or the current season)
Nail to hang it on (Hammer to mount the nail)

Hang the besom or broom on the back of the door and say:

As you hang upon my door, Remember what a door is for
Letting in and keeping out, Is what a door is all about.

As we travel on our rounds, Help us return safely to our grounds.
But whether we're in or whether we're out, Please keep want and trouble out."

Make the sign of the banishing pentagram* on the inside of the door, and the sign of the invoking pentagram* on the outside.

*Banishing Pentagram - The banishing pentagram is the star shape starting at the lower left point moving up to the top point. Always end on the same number you started on.

I am not making a new broom for this. I have always wanted to hang my jumping broom over my front door but I didn't have a ritual/spell to go with it. (I am not that good at creating my own. I am better at customizing someone else's work. Is that lazy? Probably.)

I am also considering this spell as well. This one is easier to do than making sure everyone takes an offering like the Home/Business Protection spell. Will let you know if I do.

Protection Jar for the Home
Tools Needed:
Assortment of different colored threads
Scissors
Small Jar With A Screw On Lid

Instructions:
Cut the threads into 1-to-2 inch lengths and drop them one by one into the jar, say this as you drop each one:

"Bits of thread,
Protection shed"

When the jar is full, screw the lid on, lick your index finger and use it to draw a pentagram on the jar lid.
Charge the jars protective powers with the following incantation:

"Oh, Hestia of the hearth and home-
Guard my family with your might.
Protect them from all ills that roam,
With this little jar, sealed tight.
Protect this home, oh Hestia too,
Confine all evil to this jar.
Bring good vibrations-old and new-
And grant good will from near and far"

Place the jar in as central location as possible in your home.

Ok, so that's all the things I am planning on doing for the house. Now what about me? 

I plan on making a safe birth satchel, some herbs I plan on using

violet- offers protection for the new baby

angelica- enhances female energy and protects children

basil- drives away the Evil Eye [dealing with my dad's wife I will need this] and promotes a happy family cinnamon- another protection herb [I have gestational diabetes so anything for protection is a good thing]

mint- a mental strengthener for difficult time..I think childbirth applies

mustard seed- another for protection and to keep trouble away

red (the color for courage and health) ribbon/yarn...or even a red pouch

I will keep you posted as to how I put it all together or if I dont switch out herbs but as of now. This what I plan on using. Probably closer to my due date I will put it all together.

So far that's all I have...but it's plenty. For those who've had babies, what did you do to prepare?

Love && Blessings,

Mrs. Ebonee

Our Magickal Wedding event....

So last fall, I got married! So I know from a previous post I showed some ideas of what I planned on doing for the ceremony.
Welp...here are some pics of what went down:

1...2....3....Jumping the broom. Sweeping away the past. The hurts, pains, disappointments and starting anew.

Of course, you can't forget the ring! The eternal bond, never ending union.
I have for you a golden ring. The most precious metal symbolizes that your love is the most precious thing in my life. The ring has no beginning and no ending, which symbolizes that the love between us will never cease. I place it on your finger as a visible sign of the vows which have made us husband and wife.  

Our unity candles....the joining of our spirits and families burning as one.

Joining our families, lives, spirits together.

I couldn't reach the bowl...yea funny moment.

He had to bring it up to me....if you read the post you can see the symbolism behind it.

Mrs. Ebonee, where have you been?!

I am so sorry!!! I got wrapped up in my own little bubble. I apologize everyone.
So to catch up. I got married this past November. Woohoo!! 

 And soon after, found out we are ....*drum roll*...pregnant!!

Yes! You heard right. We are due July 30th and are having a little Prince. Yet another child to pass on all of the wisdom of the Goddess. So now you know why I havent been keeping up. I promise I will do better.

But in the mean time. I will be making a post about what all magick I entwined in our wedding. What all I plan on doing for this baby/pregnancy. And of course, doing more regular posts. I was thinking mundane items for magickal purposes. If you have any suggestions let me know? I will gladly love to hear.

Oh! Check out my facebook page as well, 
https://www.facebook.com/africanamericanwiccan. 

Love && Blessings,
Mrs. Ebonee

Autumnal Equinox

The first day of Fall!
I truly love summer but decorating wise I live fall. There is always something to do..and cook. It is a time when the day is equal. Light and Dark are of the same about before night gains it advantage.

Religiously this is the time when The Horned God has his full crown of horns. Also known as the stag phase. Where he is now a mature man.

The below picture is how I feel the Horned god is...just a different face, each pertaining to the appropiate time of year.

This is also the time when (how I my mmind works) The Holly King's leaves (face) become longer, larger and more mature.

This is a great time for balancing things in your life and evaluting their importance.

Love && Blessings,
Mrs. Ebonee

Ok, lets start with what I missed first...

Ok, Mabon! Ah, Mabon!
The Second Harvest and a  great one at that! It is the original Thanksgiving and a good time to reflect on the past year with not only thankfulness and great hopes for the future but it is also a time to rid of the things both spiritually and physically that you no longer need. It is a time to prepare for the cold as well as a time for school to begin. There are so many things spiritually and physically great about this Sabbat as well as the time of year.

One of the many things I do during this time is, and one of my favorites, is to decorate. I pull out the table clothes is red and gold, change the curtains to golds, blues, and dark greens. My table is adorned with (thanks to the fiance') fresh seasonal flowers, and pumpkins and gourds. My daughter keeps looking at them saying when are we going to get hers so she can decorate. I cant wait! And I am sure neither can she. I have loaded my kitchen with fresh veggies for fresh tomato soup, and plenty of pasta for chicken noodle soup. I am, while dragging my feet, preparing for our fireplace for the many times it will be lighted.

This time of year is not just for eating though. Mabon is also about preparing for winter. So what does that really mean? Pulling out the winter coats, seeing what needs to be re bought, who needs new clothes, preparing emergency weather supplies, etc.

 But it is not only this! It is a time to prepare spiritually for the things ahead and acknowledging the past.
Mabon, is a Pagan/Wiccan Thanksgiving and in saying that you are reflecting over all the great things you have accomplished since this time last year. This time last year, I was in school (though I need to go back), which was a major step towards leaving the dead end jobs of fast food. I got engaged and started the long journey towards eating healthy, cutting allot of processed foods out my life, and exercising not just because I have no car but towards an obtainable goal. Over the course of the past year, I have made significant, desperately needed cuts away from the destructive nature of my father and his wife and have realized that there was a time when I needed them in my life and that it is now time to release them from not only mine but my daughter's life as well. That step alone has been a very hard emotionally but well needed step in me becoming a better person, mom, and wife.

Ok, so I have acknowledged the past and have been thankful for the present, now what?
Now, you prepare the ground for the next blessings and trials in your life. As a farmer, they don't just harvest the foods and neglect the land. They prepare it for the long, cold winter. They till, redeposit need nutrients back into the ground and allow it rest. This is what we must do with our minds, bodies, and souls. We have gone a year and survived onto the other side. Now we have to refortify ourselves in praise to the God/desses for the many things that have guided us through, we deposit in ourselves the plans and goals that we wish to see come forth in the following months and seasons. I know some of you are thinking, I thought that is what Imbolc is for, to plant the goals/seeds that we want to come into fruition. Imbolc is time break up the ground and waken it from Her peaceful slumber. If you cook in a kitchen but do not prepare it for the next meal how are you to cook the next? You can't. You would have to start from where you last left off. That is in essence what Mabon is. A time to prepare for the next great journey of our lives.

So what have, or are, you preparing your bodies, minds, and souls to accomplish next?

Love && Blessings,
Mrs. Ebonee

Sorry for being away so long!

Man, has time past!

I truly appologize for not having made any recent posts. Between this wedding that is steadily approaching family drama that has led to my father and his wife not being invited to the wedding, my not working which means I am applying like crazy, and lastly but not last on my mind, my daughter and her cheer leading I have been one busy person. Not saying that I have not had time for you all. I have been doing better on my facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/africanamericanwiccan.

Now let's se what have I missed. I did not post about Mabon, the Autonmal Equinex, and any of the new moons. So I will break all these up into new posts to make them a bit more organized.

But on this post, I will discuss my wedding plans as of yet.

I am wearing a beautiful white mermaid style dress, or fit and flair. (Which I am happy to say that I have lost 2 dress sizes since our engagement. Yay!) I am going to wear, Goddess willing, a hot pink veil, and matching flat shoes. I really am not a heel person unless I can find some pink kitten heels.
The ceremony I have added an African/Hawaiin hand washing ritual that we will do at the beginning of the ceremony,


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Both Hawaii and Africa subscribe to the tradition of Hand Washing as a purification ritual before the wedding ceremony begins, and as a prelude the acceptance of inevitable forgiveness that will be required during the course of a marriage. The Hand Washing ceremony is a very unique way to add a special element to your wedding ceremony.

HAND WASHING CEREMONY In the Hawaiian tradition, whenever a significant spiritual passage in life is made, you are called to "hiuwai." This transition is honored by a ritual cleansing of your spirit in a sacred body of water. Today, we will use ocean water as it has always been used for purification and bringing lives and souls into balance, as your lives are influenced and linked with the tides and sea. OFFICIANT pours the water from the koa bowl, pitcher or shell onto BRIDE and GROOM’S hands individually to wash. BRIDE and GROOM, the washing of your hands most importantly represents a complete and utter forgiveness of yourselves. Recognizing that all you have gone and grown through up to this moment has been necessary for you to stand here with the depth, capacity, abilities and compassion to love one another as deeply as you do...
(OFFICIANT pours the water onto BRIDE and GROOM’S hands so  that they each in turn can wash each other's hands.) BRIDE and GROOM, now you are asked to wash each other’s hands as a promise  that throughout your long lives and marriage you will continue to find it in your hearts to forgive one another no matter what arises. At this time,  I ask you to recognize that forgiveness is a vital conduit for your love to flow through. Now you may dry each other's hands with the tenderness you will show  each other throughout your long lives together    "

 We have changed our cermony site to his family church, which though I am no longer a Christian, I am respecting his wishes to have it there.

We will still have our jumping of the broom which willl end the ceremony. And I am also thinking of having our hands tied prior to the actual jumping to signify that we are while jumping across. I am still thinking on that one.

(Excuse the messy bed)

As far as wedding stresses, there are plenty but with 33 days till our Big Union, it is to be expected.

Love && Blessings,
Mrs. Ebonee

The values/morals I stand by...A time for review

This question is asked alot by those who, first, automatically assume that if you don't worship the Christian God you worship the Devil; and second, presume that I am an anarchist. Here is a pretty standard list of things/goals I try to keep in my life as well as my daughters.

The Goals that I try to attune my Life to:
1. Know yourself.
2. Know your Craft.
3. Learn.
4. Apply knowledge with wisdom.
5. Achieve balance in your life.
6. Keep your words in good order.
7. Keep your thoughts in good order.
8. Celebrate life!
9. Attune with the cycles of the Earth.
10. Breathe and eat correctly.
11. Exercise the body.
12. Meditate.
13. Honor the Goddess and God.


So what does it all mean? I don't see 'Thou shall not lie, kill, steal, covet thy neighbor, commit adultery nor honor thy parents.

So because I don't have specific rules stating these specific things does that mean I don't follow them? The Ten Commandments were created because the people of that time had no moral compass or should I say an eschewed compass.
I have not recited to my daughter one time the commandments but she knows it is not good to lie to someone nor is it good to steal.
The Commandments are what every person should know. If you look at poeple the Biblical way, no person is inherantly good. All have sinned and must be constantly condoned, punished, chasticed, and reminded of the right thing to do. This theology is causing a need for rules to be written. The heathens of the time had no such written commandments yet when Jesus came to Earth he repeatedly used the heathens in his parables as what to do and how to act.

Now, what many people don't notice is that I included eating, breathing, and excersing into my goals or guidelines for my life. Why would these be important? All of this helps you to become a better person. How can you worship the Goddess and you are on an oxygen tank? How can you enjoy the Goddess gifts of honey and cakes if you are diabettic? You cant! You must take care of your physical body just as much as your spritual walk. Yes, our Estabets and Sabbats are closely linked with food but it for the nourishment of our bodies not to destroy them.

When we attune our bodies to Nature we should not just go through the motions of preparing the rituals or spells but connect on a deeper level of what is truly going on around us. Even though it is in the mid 90's here in Ga, I can still see Mother Gia preparing for her great slumber. I see the leaves falling and notice the declining number of squirrels running about. I know that the Solstice is approaching and it is a time for change. A time for renewal.

I put these up to not just prove that yes, we have a moral compass. But I put these up to also remind us of the things we should refresh in our lives. Mabon is steadily approaching, is it time to review this list?


Love&&Blessings,
Mrs. Ebonee