Practical Protection Magick by Ellen Dugan

Author:Ellen Dugan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magick, wicca, paganism, protection magick, spells, rituals, nature-based spirituality, psychic attacks, warding, witch, witchcraft
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2011-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Six

Warding and Witchery

’Tis the witching hour of night…

—john keats

Protection spells are typically designed to avert negativity, to defend the home, and to fend off any magickal danger to your person and property. This type of magick is classically referred to as warding, and it is a powerful line of defense in your arsenal of witchery.

Wards can be classified as permanent or semipermanent. Interestingly, they do actually protect a space on both an energetic level and a psychic level. They can manifest as a physical sensation or as more of an intuitive one. Warding magick creates an atmosphere of sorts that will augment other mundane protection methods for your home or business, such as an affordable security system, locking your doors, using outdoor or security lighting, plus being smart and safe with your person and possessions. Working practical magick with warding will also help you to stay aware of situations and people so your personal safety is enhanced. However, neither magickal wards nor protection spells are designed to replace common sense or your own intelligence.

To be clear: warding magick will not make you burglar-proof, but it may confuse would-be thieves or miscreants and make them so nervous that they decide to avoid your home or business. Yes, sometimes danger may manifest in very physical or mundane ways. Working this type of protection magick on a regular basis and possessing a healthy dose of common sense really improves the odds that you will avoid such scenarios.

Warding the Threshold

Herbal Swags, Wreaths, and Decorated Brooms

Ward (verb): 1. to keep watch over: guard.

2. to turn aside (something threatening): deflect.

—merriam-webster dictionary

If I have learned anything over the past few years, it’s that just because a magickal application appears to be simple, you should never underestimate it. For example, the most mundane-looking items can be charged to pack a hell of a magickal wallop. Sure, I have seen complicated spells and expensive items for sale at stores, all designed to protect the home or business and to ward your threshold. And guess what? I have never found any of them to be particularly useful or powerful.

Would you like to know why? When you take the time to create something yourself and charge it with your own magickal essence, you are creating something that is one of a kind and intensely personal—and thereby much more powerful.

If you lovingly arrange and place above (or hang on) your door a handmade floral swag, seasonal wreath, or decorated broom that you have created with magickal herbs, you’ve got a much more powerful magickal item than something you picked up ready-made in a store, because your time, energy, and care has gone into the creation, enchantment, and placement of the object.

For example, a broomstick that has been decorated and placed in a position of prominence in a Witch’s home is traditionally used to denote a place of transition—a threshold. Typically, the decorated broom is displayed next to the fireplace hearth or hung upon the door. Go ahead, live on the edge and get crafty.

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