A spell to ask for whatever you want

A spell to ask for whatever you want

This very simple spell can be used to ask your deities for anything you want – wealth, health or happiness for yourself or someone else. The phase of the moon is, as usual, important. If you are asking for some sort of gain, then weave the magic when the moon is waxing. If you want to banish something, weave the spell when the moon is waning.

You will need :
- A shell
- Watercolour paint of a colour appropriate to the reason for the spell
- A paintbrush

Next time you visit a beach, look for a shell sitting in the shalow water. Take it home and dry it thoroughly. On a clear moonlit night at a time when the tide is about to go out, paint the desire of the spell on the outer part of the shell and take it to the beach (the one you found it on is best but if that’s not practical take it to a convinient beach that lies in the same direction as the original one). Place the shell pearly side down, written side up, where the waves will soon lap over it and draw a triangle round it. As the sea begins to wash over the shell, say :

Powers of Earth, Moon and Sea,
Lend your power, please, to me.
Forces which the tide do make,
Ask the waves, my spell to take.
And let it be done, that it harm no one.

As the watercolour paint is washed off the shell and out to sea, the spell is set. It should start to work within seven days but it could take a full lunar month for the magic to begin.