RETURNING MAGIC TO THE WITCH:
A traditional spiritual practice concerned with breaking a curse, removing unwanted magical influence, and returning the imprecation to its sender.
In traditional magical practice, some protection rituals are intended not only to remove unwanted spiritual influence, but also to return that influence to the person believed to have sent it.
The practice below is traditionally performed during the waning phase of the Moon and makes use of blood root.
Traditional Instruction
On a night when the Moon is in a waning phase, take a blood root (a favorite Voodoo root used for breaking all evil spells and hexes) and throw it onto the doorstop of the person who has placed the curse upon you. You will then be released from his or her magickal power and the imprecation will immediately be turned back to the sender of the curse.
Understanding the Practice
Purpose
The purpose of this traditional practice is the reversal of unwanted magical influence. Instead of accepting the curse or hex, the practitioner symbolically rejects it and directs it back toward its source.
This makes the practice different from a ritual whose purpose is simply cleansing. The central idea here is reversal and release.
What You Will Need
Blood Root
The principal item mentioned in the traditional instruction is blood root. The plant is commonly known botanically as Sanguinaria canadensis.
Within the context of this practice, the root is being used symbolically for breaking unwanted spiritual influence, evil spells, and hexes.
When the Ritual Is Performed
The Waning Moon
The instruction specifically calls for a night when the Moon is in its waning phase.
The waning Moon is the period after the Full Moon when the illuminated portion of the Moon gradually appears to decrease until the New Moon.
In many magical traditions this lunar period is associated symbolically with reduction, removal, separation, release, banishing, and bringing unwanted conditions to an end.
Traditional Procedure
- Wait until the Moon has entered its waning phase.
- Obtain the blood root mentioned in the traditional instruction.
- Keep your intention focused on being released from the curse, hex, or unwanted magical influence.
- According to the traditional instruction, the blood root is thrown onto the doorstep of the person believed to have placed the curse.
- The act represents the breaking of the sender's magical influence and the returning of the imprecation to its source.
The Spiritual Symbolism
Release
The first principle represented by the practice is release: the practitioner refuses to continue carrying the spiritual influence that has been directed toward him or her.
Reversal
The second principle is reversal. The unwanted influence is symbolically redirected toward the place from which it is believed to have originated.
The Waning Moon
The decreasing light of the Moon provides the timing symbolism of making an unwanted condition diminish until its influence has ended.
Important Instructions
A Private Symbolic Alternative
Where approaching another person's property would be unsafe, inappropriate, or unlawful, the same idea may instead be represented symbolically in a private spiritual practice.
The practitioner may perform the act within his or her own spiritual space, concentrating on release from the unwanted influence rather than physically approaching another person.
The intention remains separation from the unwanted influence and the refusal to continue carrying it.
Important Spiritual Understanding
Practices of this kind belong to spiritual, magical, and folk traditions. Their meaning and methods may differ between traditions, teachers, cultures, and individual practitioners.
They should therefore be understood within their spiritual and traditional context rather than as scientifically established methods for proving that another person has placed a curse upon someone.
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