Three Ways to Make 2015 Magical

Magic surrounds you. With focused intent, you can transform ordinary actions into spells and utilize the magical properties of plants and energy. Below are three simple ways to enrich your life through magic.

1. Plant a Magical Garden

Yesterday an elderly neighbor smiled over her container garden and told me, “I like to watch things grow.” Magic began the moment she planted the seeds. Here are three easy-to-grow, multi-purpose magical plants.

Lavender: An aromatic plant used in healing the mind and spirit, love magic, and purification and peace magic. Place a sprig of lavender in olive or almond oil in a small jar with a lid or stopper. Use it to anoint yourself for purification or to alleviate depression.

Rosemary: A fragrant herb used in protective, love, healing, and purification magic. For kitchen witchery, add fresh rosemary to soups, breads, poultry, and pork. You’ll find lots of ideas here.

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Mint: A fragrant herb carried in your wallet for money, prosperity, and safe travel spells. Best grown in a container because it will overtake a garden. For kitchen witchery, save this recipe from “How Sweet it is” for summer Fresh Strawberry Mint Lemonade. (Strawberries contain magical properties for love and luck. Lemons are used in purification and friendship magic.) Strawberry Mint Lemonade

2. Magic to Aid Your Career and Life Path

Feng shui (pronounced fung shway, meaning “wind and water”) is a Chinese system of purposely arranging objects to direct energy (magic) to create positive outcomes. Let’s focus on one aspect of feng shui, the entryway to your home. When your front door is open, energy flows first to the Career and Life Path area of your home. (The area immediately in front of you when you cross the threshold into your house.)

What does the energy pass through before it reaches your front door? Does the wind carry it down an apartment hallway or through a courtyard? Sweep away cobwebs, shine the light fixtures, and prune overgrown plants (and clear away dead ones). Remove anything blocking the door or double door. Replace broken light bulbs. While you work, think or say, “I remove all that no longer serves me, and I create space for beneficial energies to enter my life.”

3. Magic to Boost Your New Year’s Resolution

Decide on a clear, manageable resolution ¾ not something to accomplish by year’s end (Lose 30 pounds. Sell a novel.) ¾ rather something you can accomplish in one week. (Eat less sugar. Write one chapter.) Write your resolution on a piece of paper then speak this spell aloud to send your New Year’s Resolution out into the Universe:

I ask the Universe to hear,
my resolution for the New Year.
With harm to none, help it come true,
this resolution, I recite to you.

(Say your resolution three times.)

Best wishes for a magical New Year!
©2015 by Ariella Moon