Gift giving holidays are upon us, and this advice is for the practitioner that truly has waited until the last minute to prepare.
The internet is full of instructions for making witchy crafts that would make great presents, like spell sachets, herbal baths, and candles. You may already have most of what you need if you keep a stocked spice rack. Pick a project that suits the materials you already have, and head over to Alexander Moore’s article about Waking Up Materia after this.
If you don’t have the materials to make a magical present, don’t worry! There is a way to make almost anything magical. I write about this useful Egyptian spell from Late Antiquity and how I perform it in my guide from Hadean Press: The Secrets of Helios: Unlocking the Practical Uses of PGM IV.1596-1715. While you can find the full information in the guide, you can also find a translation of the spell here on my site.
The premise of the spell involves calling on the sun to grant a series of blessings like protection, good luck, and success. This spell is useful for many purposes including imparting those blessings to an object. I have personally used it to consecrate a shadow box and various pieces of jewelry. Use it to consecrate everything from consumables like baked goods and wine, to something to enhance a space like artwork or a statue, or a small trinket to be carried or worn like a stone or jewelry. No money? No problem. Find a nice stone, use this spell on it- you have made a gift worthy of a king.
Author: Alison Chicosky
Alison Chicosky is a scholar and practitioner of a variety of forms of thaumaturgy with a focus on results-based magic. While especially interested in both Solomonic magic and the Graeco-Egyptian magic of the Greek Magical Papyri, she is also well versed in soul-flight and psychic magic of various kinds. The founder and force behind Practical Occult (www.practicaloccult.com), she strives to provide pentacles and other enchanted items drawn from a broad background of rigorously studied ancient arts, leveraging the systems of the past for practical modern use.