WICCA & WITCHCRAFT - Consecration

How To Consecrate Items For Spellcasting?
Consecration. Cleansing. Casting

Greetings and welcome to the section on consecration.

This is where you'll learn how to prepare your magical tools and items for spell casting by removing any unwanted, negative energy that they might be holding onto; as well as associate each item to the sacred energies that you need for casting your spells.

In doing this at the beginning, you ensure that all your spell casting items are purified and ready for use anytime you want to cast a spell.

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How To Consecrate Tools For Use In Magic

Everything used in magic making must be suitably consecrated.

This may be time-consuming at first, but it needs only be done once, for once consecrated an altar and the things on it remain so, unless another person touches them.....Which is one quick way to make a witch mad.

If this does happen, whatever has been touched has to be reconsecrated as it will have picked up negative energies from the offender!

Once the place where spells are to be cast has been selected, then is the time for consecration. A quiet space should be selected.

It doesn’t matter if it is indoors or outdoors, as long as it's a place where work can be done and spells cast undisturbed.

The space needs to be cleaned thoroughly.

Traditionally a besom is used for this and the task is performed three times – once for the physical world, once for emotional cleaning and once to clean the spirit.

When this has been done, it is usual to sprinkle water and salt around the area and to burn some incense.

Now it's time to prepare the altar.

It can be a tray, a table, a dressing table or an ornately carved piece of furniture. It doesn’t matter, for in magic making it’s the thought that counts!

On the altar there should be candles, including a silver one to represent The Lady and the moon, and a gold one to represent The Lord and the sun, and a pentagram, a censer, a bowl of water and a bowl of salt, an athame, a chalice, a bell and a wand.

Also, crystals and other items that are going to be used regularly should be on the altar.

Everything in place, the altar is then dedicated to whichever power is to be asked to bless the spells to be cast.

Wiccans dedicate their altars to The Lord and Lady. Others with no particular belief apart from a deeply held conviction that the forces of nature can be summoned and used for the greater good, may choose to dedicate their altars simply to the Greater

Good and the benefit of all.

Traditionally, each of the four elements is then addressed. One way is to say to each in turn,

'Oh element * * * *. May all negative energies depart, leaving only the positive. This is my will. So mote it be.’

As the earth is addressed, a banishing earth pentacle is drawn over the bowl of salt on

the altar.

When the water is being addressed, a banishing water pentacle is drawn over the bowl of water.

Similarly, a banishing fire pentacle is

cast over the candles when fire is being addressed, and a banishing air one over the incense when it is air’s turn.

Now each altar instrument and everything to be used in ritual must be similarly consecrated.

Each item should be presented to each of the elements in turn while an appropriate invocation to wash away negative energies, leaving only positive ones, is spoken.

Non-traditionalists may simply focus their energies on each object in turn and visualize energy flowing into it, while asking the force to which they have dedicated the altar to bless it and any working that is to be done with it.

Visualization plays an important part in spell weaving.

Many spells call for the magic maker to visualize the object of the spell or the person who will, hopefully, benefit from the spell.

There are many techniques that help those interested in visualization to develop the ability to visualize and anyone who is serious about making magic would do well to study them and make himself or herself efficient in the practice.

Practicing may seem odd at first, and novices often feel more than a little self-conscious, sitting alone in a quiet room focusing energies on seeing oneself being somewhere else. But exercises such as the one that follows are well worth doing as they help to develop a skill that is very necessary in spell weaving.

Light a candle in a darkened, draught-free room so that the flame can burn as steadily as possible.

Sit as still as you can and gaze at the flame allowing it to hold your attention completely.

Let the image fill your mind before quickly closing your eyes.

Notice how the candle has imprinted itself on the darkness.

Hold it there, in your mind’s eye, ignoring any change of colour. If it slips to the side, bring it back to the center and continue concentrating until the image fades completely.

Now open your eyes and resume gazing at the candle. Continue in this way for ten minutes, gradually increasing the time that you hold the image of the candle in your mind’s eye.

With practice, and from such a simple start, it is possible to develop the ability to undertake the visualization required for even the most advanced magic making.

When your tools have been properly cleansed and consecrated, and you've mastered your visualization technique, you'll be ready to open the portal that allows all of the magic energy to flow straight to you in order to weave spells.

Thank you for taking the time to read this article on consecration of magical tools.
We hope you learned something useful here today.

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