A Magickal Herball Compleat.pdf - Magicka School

is finished. Some people like to burn incense and, if you wish to do so, prepare a
censer and some matches before hand. Others like to light candles. Another nice
touch can be to play some relaxing meditation style music. There are in fact many
meditative techniques that can be used during a ritual bath and a standard method
is given below. Light the candles and then put out the lights. Fill the bath with
water and add any herbs, essential oils or salt. With your hand, wand or athame
draw an invoking pentagram of Water.
Notice that all the Elements are present during this ritual. Fire is represented by
the candles, Water by the bath, Air by the incense and Earth by the herbs.
Surrounded by these Elements, climb into the bath. As you lie down in the water
let your self relax. Using a breathing pattern here may be of help. Next visualise a
clear blue light above your head. See it gently spinning and pulsating. Watch it in
your mind’s eye for a while. Bring the light gently into your head, your neck and
your shoulders. As you do so, consciously relax your face muscles and allow the
tension to dissipate from your shoulders. Draw the light further down your body,
each time relaxing the places that it travels through. It should flow down your
arms and through your fingers into the water, down through your chest, your
stomach and sex organs, down through your legs and out from your feet. You will
find that if you repeat this two or three times that a wonderful sense of relaxation
will come upon you. Cleansed from all tension and worries, you now have a calm
space upon which to think about a coming ritual or piece of magickal practice.
Your focus will be sharper and your will more effective. When you judge the time
to be right, release the water from the bath and, as you do so, see all your
anxieties, fears and tensions drain away down the plug-hole.
If you wish you can then do a blessing. This one is from the Gardnerian Book of
Shadows:
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