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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: 108
“Blessed be thy feet, that have brought thee in these ways. Blessed be thy knees, that shall kneel at the sacred altar. Blessed be thy womb (phallus), without which we would not be Blessed be thy breasts, formed in beauty Blessed be thy lips, that shall utter the Sacred Names.” If desired, this can be easily adapted to include other body parts as well such as the eyes and the mind. Try out a number of ritual baths and herbal and essential oil combinations; see what works for you. Most importantly, combine the baths with a ritual or some other magickal work. Can you see a positive effect? Has your experience of magick been enhanced? As always, make sure that you record what you have found, for only by doing this have you got an accurate record against which to base any future changes that you may wish to make. When carrying out this kind of work take into account the astrological properties of the herb. Below is a table that gives a general indication of how herbs may function in this respect. Herbs of: Uses Saturn Can be used when things need to be slowed, issues of reaching a crossroads in life, matters surrounding death. Jupiter Can be used when things need to be increased or expanded. Promotes joy. Good for vitality and wealth. Mars Can be used for issues of determination, dogged resistance and conflict. Sun Good for health, vitality, strength. When one wants to be noticed or glamorous. Issues of pride. Venus Issues of love and mentoring. Mercury Issues of communication change and speed. Moon Psychic matters, feminine health and regulation. But also issues of fickleness, changeability and jealousy. Earth Issues of stability, calmness, steadiness. Over the coming month try taking ritual baths before any magickal work is carried out using a variety of essential oils or fresh leaves and flowers. Remember though that some essential oils can be harmful to pregnant women and that others are not indicated for sensitive skin. Experiment with any that take your fancy. Try them alone or in combination. Make sure that you record the herbs you have used and the effects that they have had on you. Some will make you feel invigorated, others calm and dreamy, some may have no noticeable effect at all. When you have taken the bath try out some magickal work that you have tried before. At its conclusion write down in your Book of Shadows how things went and compare it with your record of the time before. How did the work go this time? Have the herbs caused 109
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A Magickal Herball Compleat: By Pin
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Chapter One: Contents A Brief and S
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Chapter One: A Brief and Selective
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Footnotes [1] Wild Health: How Anim
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Pre-Scientific Theories about the U
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develop with the rise of Christian
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Based on this rationale, Culpeper c
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32 Research Project A quick note on
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34 Appendix One The table below det
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36 Lymphatic Glands Moon Muscles Ma
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38 Appendix Four Table Showing Part
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Pisces Algae, seaweed and water mos
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Encyclopaedia of Magickal Herbs, Ex
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Chapter Three: Use of Herbs in Reli
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Plants as Symbol One of the most im
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move on. A ritual can loosely be de
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with the individual. Others explain
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Sunday, they pick and dig Solsequiu
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Love Philtres Use of love philtres
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Chapter Nine: Bach Flower Remedies
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Self Diagnosis and Treatment Please
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Appendix Bach's 38 Flower Remedies
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Herb Culinary Uses Parsley (flat le
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Creating an Herbal Research Project
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Reading List 199
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Chapter Three: Herbs in Religious a
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