Today I decided to freshen up the households prosperity.
A little more than a year ago, I made a few talismans for myself and my husband, one I still carry and the other has never been removed from its hiding spot, despite eventually telling my husband it existed and had since our mere friendship.
I know these talismans are still good, but the composition of our household and it’s members have dramatically evolved since their creation.
While considering what I might do this time, and looking for a long term solution, I employed a mixture of folk magic with my energetic/servitor work.
I began by double checking which herbs I wanted to call on to empower the essence of my working.
By the time I had made my selections, peppermint practically screamed at me to be included- to invigorate the households prosperity.
I quickly realized that this would be a next level working in my eyes. As I asked the plant spirits to aid in my cause, I realized that our households joint ancestors also wanted to empower this working.
I know my husband and housemate do have common ancestors for fact, to add that fact to the spiritual knowledge we three have soul binding contracts and the fourth, is also a key player- well. I can only draw loose conclusions about the shared ancestors. I just know they as a group want to see us all prosper.
I lit a candle, and made an offering of tea- made from my herbal concoction. I knew to expect that I was to also consume this tea. I originally that well I don’t know how that will taste…
Until I was grinding the herbs and could smell their mingling scents… now I was curious if not excited to try it with our ancestors.
Next I moved to my working table to do all the work, and produce the charms.
Being as how love, unconditional familial love, is a strong force all on its own, I used a piece of the paper I created for love work. I drew a sigil or emblem for each member of the household on it, after using my mortar as a rough circular guide to draw an outer boundary.
The next step was to cut out my newly forged family emblem.
I then cut pie shaped pieces out of each fourth, until there were enough to put one piece of each persons pie in each of my eight pouches.
The hard part was deciding how to construct my charm/mojo bags.
I chose to hand sew them, despite seeing being one my weaker crafting skills. I also included a protective stone, that my little mandrake friend has been watching over for quite some time.
I guess I thought the hard part was putting them together, empowering my herbs and programming them to the ancestors specifications.
In reality, the hard part is explaining them to my loved ones.
It’s actually very important, that they understand there’s two for each person. One for themselves and one to give to their… let’s call it soul mate.
See these charms are empowered by our shared ancestors, and each carries a piece of the others with it. As one of us grows so will the others, as it draws upon the households prosperity, and the households ancestors to empower it.
The protection stone will aid and deflect general bad luck, but it won’t prevent someone from making a bad decision.
The charm will increase or deepen the persons connection to their intuition, allowing them to know those gut feelings are for real, and to make the best decision.
It will adapt, to the the persons purpose and aid in aligning their prosperity to fulfill it. It will give them nudges in the right direction, be it generally or in front of the lotto stand.
Most importantly, who they give their extra charm to matters, because this person will be aided and protected by our households prosperity and ancestors.
You don’t want to give that to just anyone.
I covered the gist of it with my husband, and he giggled at the fabrics I chose to represent each of us, because he had spoken something similar earlier, but not in any way related.
So here I am again, working with the dead but not for baneful stuff at all. It feels pretty satisfying actually, to have spirits want to be a part of working, instead of me trying to decide who I need to convince or what price fits the bill.
Now, just to explain it all…