The Terrapin Sponge

This spell is for getting rid of crap vibrations, hostile incoming energy, stagnant or blocked energy, and is even useful for breaking a hexed condition in one’s living space (as in removing leftover bad vibes from previous tenants or purging the residues of hauntings or acts of violence). A cleansed, calm ‘energy-environment’ is important for all Beings, not just Witches and other Magick-workers, and this is an amusing, easy way to ‘mop up’ what you don’t want hanging around.

Step 1: Go to the store and buy a bunch of kitchen sponges in a multitude of colors.

Step 2: Draw a simple outline of a turtle on each of the sponges, and then trim the sponges into turtle-shapes with scissors.

Step 3: Put 2 or 3 tablespoons of salt into a bowl that is big enough to accomodate all the trimmed sponges. Fill the bowl with water, and stir to dissolve the salt. Put all the sponges in the water, and squeeze them vigorously, until you feel that they are completely cleaned by the brine solution. Then take each sponge out, and squeeze the excess water out of it. Dump the brine down the drain.

Step 4: Turn on the tap, and run each sponge under the water, squeezing repeatedly. Then wring the excess water out until the sponges are just damp.

Step 5: Sprinkle a scant pinch of salt (I like to use sea salt for this step) on the middle of the ’shell’ of each turtle.

Step 6: Using medium-sized plates (saucers or dessert-plates), make little ‘turtle stacks’ in the same way that you’d stack up cookies on a platter. You can also use a dinner-plate to make a bigger stack if you’ve got a lot of crud to deal with. On the small plates, I usually stack 3 turtles, and if I use a large plate, I stack anywhere from 5 to 9 turtles.

Step 7: Holding the plate in both hands, speak a small ‘dedication’ over the turtles, and tell them what it is you want them to do for you. Example: ‘I conjure you, in the Name of the Goddess, to cleanse and purify this place. Absorb and neutralize all negativity and evil intention, and let only healing, peace and abundance remain. So Mote It Be.’

Step 8: Place the plates in areas where you need bad vibes soaked up or neutralized. I keep small stacks in my living room and my bedroom, and a good-sized stack in my home-office space, right by my computer.

Step 9: Set the sponges out and leave them be for a week. They will dry out, and this is okay. At the end of the week, do the whole ‘wash in brine, wash in tap-water, pinch of salt’ thing again to refresh the sponges and get rid of the energy residues they collect.

I know this may sound like a kind of simpleton, silly thing to do, but it really does work. Feel free to adapt the basic spell as needed– I could see using an herbal preparation as part of the soak for the sponges, or decorating the turtle-plates with flowers, etc. There is no reason to put up with crappy vibes or stale energy, and a few ’sponge-terrapins’ can really mop up a lot of garbage with no muss and no fuss. I have had very good results using a ‘Plate-O-Turtles’ to deal with incoming hostile/aggressive energy, and I have also found that it does a number on the free-floating wraith-energy (the low-vibe, ’still wanting to be attached to the body’ stuff) that accompanies some haunting activity.

Happy Hexing!

Akkarri

Ligature Instructions

This spell is for use by those seeking to Magickally bind the abilities of rapists and sexual sadists to act on their desires. I am not bothering with any karmic-warning clap-trap because wielding Magick is a free choice, and people who are abused are allowed to defend themselves against further abuse, period.

The ‘Ingredients List’ for this Ligature is not set in stone. I have merely listed the items I most frequently use. I am taking it as read that my Sister Practitioners will adapt the ritual to suit the situation if it is necessary, or if they don’t have access to the exact ingredients I have listed.

Ingredients List:

1. An 18-inch-long black ribbon, cord or leather thong.

2. A very large nail.

3. Three candles: 2 black, 1 blue.

4. Three glass jars filled with dirt (which will be used as ‘grounded’ candle-holders for the candles).

5. 1/4 cup of Salt.

6. A legal-size envelope.

7. Dried chili peppers.

8. A consecrated Phurba (or wooden/metal spike of some sort).

9. Mummiae (physical substances like hair, nail clippings, etc.) of subject. (Note: this last item is nice to have , but is not necessary. If obtaining mummiae would place someone in physical danger, don’t bother with it: the perp’s name and/or photo will suffice. Also, if the name of the perp is unknown, a brief description such as ‘Man [X] who raped Woman [Y] on [Day, Date, Moon Phase] at [Location]‘ will be quite sufficient.)

To Perform the Spell:

Assemble all materials. Bless/Charge the candles, and using the Phurba (or spike) poke a hole in the dirt in each jar, then stick a candle in each hole, and firm the dirt around their bases. Set the three candles out in a down-pointing [Yoni] triangle, with the blue candle as the leading tip, and the two black candles on each side behind it. Light the candles.

Holding the handle of the Phurba between your two palms, rub your hands back and forth so that the Phurba spins between them. While spinning the Phurba, hold its tip in the flame of the blue candle and chant the following nine times:

I am the Flame of Nemesis; the Flame of Nemesis comes for ([Name] or ‘him’).

I am the Star-Iron Phurba Woman; my meteors strike him down, and burn him.

I am the Star-Iron Phurba Woman; I spike his heart, I tether his evil.

The he-goat is bound by my Will, the he-goat is bound by my hand.

Take the Phurba out of the flame, and briefly touch the tip to the cord, the nail, the salt and peppers, and the envelope, while visualizing blue fire-energy running into everything and charging it.

Next, pick up the cord. Make an open loop about 2 inches in diameter in it, with a single left-over-right loose knot at the bottom of the loop. Take one of the ends of the cord and wrap it through the loop eight more times. (When the ends of the cord are pulled to tie the knot, this will generate a knot with nine turns in it, that will look like a big version of what is called a ‘French Knot’ in embroidery.) After the eight additional wraps have been made, visualize the perp’s penis sticking through the loop, like a neck in a hangman’s noose. When your visualization is clear and strong, pull hard on the ends of the cord, and tie the knot down as tightly as you can, visualizing the cord cutting through and destroying the perp’s member. Then take the cord and wrap it around the large nail, saying ‘The he-goat is bound by my Will, the he-goat is bound by my hand’ as you do this. Tie the ends of the cord together nine times to secure the wrapping.

Next, put the cord-wrapped nail in the envelope (with mummiae, photo, name, etc., if you have these things). Put several dried peppers into the envelope, saying, ‘I give the pain you inflicted back to you, I bind it by my Will and my hand.’ Then pour the salt into the envelope, saying, ‘Let this salt be your tomb. I bury you deep, and deeper still, struck down by my Will and my hand.’ Seal the envelope. Take the blue candle and drip candle wax all over the flap, sealing it thoroughly. Turn the envelope over.

Pick up the Phurba, and repeat the ‘rolling between your palms’ motion with it. Say the following rhyme as many times as you need to in order to raise energy, and direct the energy to pool in the blade of the Phurba as you chant:

Earth Mother, Star Mother, Ocean Mother, Flame,

Maker of the Power out of whence I came!

Mother of the Earth, Mother of the Water, Mother of the Fire, Mother of the Sky,

Listen to the Song of Thy Warrior Daughter, You Who are always so close by!

From the GODDESS, to the GODDESS, spoke by ME,

As Is My Will, So Mote It Be!

When you feel you have raised sufficient energy, discharge it downwards and out through the tip of the Phurba in a single lightning-burst. See it burn and fuse everything inside the envelope into a single congealed mass. Extinguish the candles by mashing down their wicks with the tip of the Phurba.

[Note: For the remainder of the ritual, DO NOT TOUCH the envelope directly with your fingers. Wear a set of kitchen gloves, use tongs, a folded piece of cloth, etc., when picking it up.]

Place the envelope in a plastic grocery bag. Empty the contents of your bathroom wastebasket into the bag, or (my personal favorite) go out into the yard and pick up after your dog, using the bag as the poop-receptacle. If you’ve got a cat, scoop out the litter-box and put the contents in the bag. Tie it up, and throw it in an outside trash-bin. If you need distance between the victim and the perp, dispose of the bag somewhere more removed from the site at which you cast the spell– get in your car and drive to, say, a shopping center, and dispose of it in one of the trash cans there. Under NO circumstances leave the envelope in your house once the spell has been cast: dispose of it as quickly as possible.

The ideal time to Work this kind of hex is during a Waning Moon, but if circumstances demand a ‘prompt strike’, don’t worry about the Moon Phase– just TAKE ACTION!

Blessed Be!