Water Spell

I went up onto the hillside  where a stream runs down just below a spring.

I dreamed i was a water nymph, that I became the stream.

I stood with a foot either side of the silver thread of water and watched it running between my legs..

There had been a shower and my hair was wet and I dreamed it like running water.

I wanted to wee and thought it would be good to wee with the stream, but not there.

I went down to the trees where the stream is wider and there is a trickle from the side running into the stream.

I weed for the stream and all the running water there.

By this I made my dream real. Myself a water nymph, running with the stream.

Solstice

I celebrated the feast day of Epona (18 December) for the first time this year and buried a rose hip in the ground for her.

Now for the Solstice I went to the woods and cut a sprig of holly with berries on it. Just after sunset I took one berry from the sprig and buried it for the sinking sun and this morning (22nd) I pushed the rest of the sprig of holly into the ground for the rising Sun.  When I came back into the house I lit a red candle and guarded it to burn while I was out for the day. I will light another when I go home this evening.

For the Sun to grow strong,

I am learning to live a life of symbolic acts to go with  living close to the natural world. Doing things like this gives me a magical focus. Before I just took it all in like a receiver. Now I’m sending out my own messages. Being a part of it and not just an observer.

Intentions

"Thus Words being spoke with grate reverans and faith has Don wondars" 

(from the Mystic Book of a nineteenth century Cunning Man)

It's the reason we do things, and the intention behind it that is important. So does it matter exactly what we do to work spells, or give offerings, so much a why we do it?  We all have our own way of doing things, the power is in the intention, and doing things that carry 'grate faith and reverans' with them makes them powerful.