A Protection Spell..Because Evidently We Need One

So I thought I’d post a protection spell and illustrate how I created it. Witches use elemental correspondences along with moon phase, day and time to craft a spell. The idea is to align energies to increase the intention of a spell. But first the witch must decide the spell’s purpose. We’ve had some upset in the world over the last few days and I thought we all needed some protection because we don’t know what’s ahead of us. Spells don’t have to include such specificity, but given the travesty we all just experienced, I thought it would be best to throw at it everything I could think of.

Now that we know the type of spell we wish to cast, we need to decide when we’re going to perform it. I initially look at the phase of Moon that represents what we’re trying to accomplish. For serious protection matters, I like to perform the spell on the Dark Moon. Looking at the calendar, the next Dark (New) Moon is on November 29th. It’s in Sagittarius, bringing an influence of higher purpose to the spell. From there, we need to find out when sunrise and sunset occurs on that day as well as when sunrise happens again on the following day.

In this case, sunrise occurs on the 29th at 7:21 am, with sunset at 4:25 pm. The sun rises again at 7:22 am on the following day. At this point we need to do some math and figure out how many minutes comprise the time between sunrise and sunset to begin to fill out our sunrise table. Then we do the same for the sunset table only this time using the sunset time from the first day and the sunrise time from the next.

There are 9 hours and 4 minutes during the sunrise hours on the day of the Dark Moon. As we all know from grade school math, there are 60 minutes to an hour, so we multiply 60 by 9 and then add 4 to reach 544 minutes. From there, we divide 544 by 12 and we arrive at 45.3333 which I reduce to 45. It won’t be exact because I’m not using the .3333 but these are desperate times and Goddess isn’t a stickler for such things.

Now we can begin our table with 7:21 am as the beginning number. Adding 45 to each successive time will complete the sunrise table. But we’re not done because we have to do the same with the sunset table. Using 4:25 pm as sunset and 7:22 am on the following day as sunrise, we arrive at 14 hours and 56 minutes. Multiplying 14 by 60 gets us 840 plus 56 gives us 896 minutes. Divide that by 12 and we arrive at 74.6666 minutes which I round up to 75. Beginning the table with 4:25 pm as the first hour of sunset, I added 75 minutes to each successive hour to complete the table.

The Chaldean Order of Planets are used in this table. It’s a fixed thing and you’re welcome to copy it from this post if you don’t already have your own copy of it. The only thing that changes are the hours. Everything else stays the same. But the idea is to familiarize yourself with planetary influences so that you can choose the one you think will energetically support your spell. In this particular case, however, the day itself drives the planetary selection. You find it in the table and next look at the time associated with that planet. That’s the hour you’ll choose to perform your spell.

November 29th happens to be a Tuesday, which is fortuitous for protection spells. Mars is the planet associated with Tuesday, so I looked up the times for Tuesday that correspond with Mars. 7:21 am, 12:36 pm, and 6:55 pm. The other time falls at 3:40 am on the next day, so I won’t be considering that one. Mars gives the spell the boost of energy it needs to have its highest impact which is exactly what we need about now. Since the 6:00 hour is positive for safety and protection, I’m going to perform the spell using the 6:55 pm time. It will no doubt continue into the 7 pm hour which reflects healing our differences and care for others. We need that influence as well.

So now that we know the day and time of the spell, we need to put together all of the additional energetic influences that bring synergy to the spell. I’ll add some Fire Element crystal correspondences to the altar or workspace including bloodstone and carnelian, maybe a little amethyst for spirituality and connection with Source Presence. Red and black candles will also be placed on the altar with the bindrune I’ve created for this spell engraved on each one. Herbs for incense include cinnamon, garlic, nettle, hawthorn, and basil. Resins include copal and juniper. After engraving the bindrune in basil oil, I’ll annoint the candles.

A small cauldron will be used to burn the incense and the runes Thurisaz, Sowilo, Hagalaz, Isa, and Dagaz from the Elder Futhark will be used for the bindrune. I chose to make my bindrune ahead of time, burning it into a round piece of juniper for use on the altar. I’ll be consecrating it, however, during the magickal working to increase it’s alignment effect by aligning myself with Source Presence during the consecration.

So now we have everything we need to perform the spell. I begin by aligning with Goddess Presence by Blessing the Norns of Fate:

• Face East and cast a circle or create sacred space
• Hands out in supplication, visualize three white orbs of lights above your head and say: Dea
• As the center orb moves through you, downward into blessed Earth say: Beo existere, Verdandi… Isa
• As the second orb moves through you, observe it as it moves downward and to the right and say: Beo existere, Skuld… Nauthiz
• As the third orb moves through you, observe it as it moves downward and to the left and say: Beo existere, Urdh… Hagalaz
• With your hands remaining up and out in supplication and say:
• Veritas revelat (reveal truth)
• Salva veritate (truth preserved)
• En statera (in balance) ¹

Next, I perform the Pentagrams of Protection:

• Still facing East, draw a silver and blue flaming pentagram with your projective hand, wand, or athame. Point to the middle and say: Dea Aradia… erigo navitas (raise energy)
• Moving deocil to the South and visualizing a blue line of fire from one direction to the other, draw a silver and blue flaming pentagram with your projective hand, wand, or athame. Point to the middle and say: Dea Brigid… erigo navitas
• Moving deocil to the West and visualizing a blue line of fire from one direction to the other, draw a silver and blue flaming pentagram with your projective hand, wand, or athame. Point to the middle and say: Dea Tiamat… erigo navitas
• Moving deocil to the North and visualizing a blue line of fire from one direction to the other, draw a silver and blue flaming pentagram with your projective hand, wand, or athame. Point to the middle and say: Dea Elen… erigo navitas
• Returning to face East, say:
• Coram animus imperium (Before me the powers of Elemental Air)
• Tergo aqua imperium (Behind me the powers of Elemental Water)
• Dextera incendium imperium (To my right the powers of Elemental Fire)
• Laetrosum terrenus imperium (To my left the powers of Elemental Earth)
• Cinctus excandesco stellae (About me flame the pentagrams)
• Voluntate servavit et Dea benedictus (My will preserved and Goddess Blessed)
• Close by repeating the Blessings of The Norns² 

Okay. Now that we’ve cast our circle or created our sacred space, blessed the Norns and asked for the Goddess to protect us, it’s time to light the charcoal in the cauldron. While the charcoal is heating up, I’ll carve the bindrune into the red and black candles and then dress each with basil oil. Place cinnamon, garlic powder, nettle, hawthorn, and basil along with copal and juniper resins into a mortar and begin grinding deocil, then drawing each rune in the herbs while chanting three times:

• Thurisaz veritas revelat (Thurisaz reveals truth)
• Hagalaz cessat actio (Hagalaz ceases the unwanted action)
• Sowilo removet claustra (Sowilo removes all barriers)
• Isa coalescit (Isa coalesces)
• Dagaz en statera (Dagaz brings balance)

The intention set forth by the chant is to reveal truth, interrupt behavior, remove all barriers to harmony, coalesce the intention into reality, as we remain always enlightened and in balance. So after the chanting and grinding of the herbs, I place the mixture in pinches onto the burning charcoal in the cauldron and repeat the above chant again three times letting Elemental Fire catalyze my intention, Elemental Air sending my intention to the universe.

The last portion of the spell includes consecrating the bindrune. I created a nicer one as an altar tile for future magickal workings and that’s the one I’ll consecrate. In alignment with Source Presence, I’m able to focus that aligned energy into the bindrune itself, consecrating and catalyzing its power. This consecration is not in Latin, however.

Holding my hand over the bindrune, I say:

• I bind these runes
• Blending energies within
• Bringing balance without
• Infused with immanence
• I bless and consecrate this sigil
• In alignment with Source Presence

After consecrating the new bindrune, I’ll repeat the original chant three times, holding my hand over the bindrune. In total, I will have repeated the chant nine times. Nine is the number for completion and also corresponds to Mars and Elemental Fire.

At this point, I’ll raise my hands in supplication and thank the Goddesses for their protection during the ritual and in the days to come. And to the Norns of Fate I’ll place my trust in their capable hands.

To close this spell of protection say:

• I am She Who Creates
• I am She Who Loves
• I am She Who Manifests
• My will preserved and Goddess Blessed
• I am So Blessed Be

Lastly, I’ll have a nice cup of tea confident in the spell’s successful outcome. Difficult times may be ahead for many of us. We’ll need all the strength we can muster to stay aligned and safe. The witch stands as observer, acting only when hearth and home are threatened. That time has come. If we come together on the Dark Moon and work our spells in unison, irrespective if it’s this one or another that speaks to you, our effect will be at its most powerful.

Join me. We’ve got this!

Blessed Be.

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1. Erickson, Jan. Magick And The Aligned Witch (Kindle Locations 390-410). Kindle Edition.
2. Erickson, Jan. Magick And The Aligned Witch (Kindle Locations 412-436). Kindle Edition.