'A Heart Is A Heavy Burden' emotional healing spell jar
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Hello everyone! Today I thought I'd share the recipe for a very soft, simple healing spell that I performed for an ex of mine. In my experience, this is great for healing deep emotional wounds that someone hasn't been able to face, getting someone to be comfortable confronting their emotions, or anything of that sort. Kinda Howl-esque if you think about it.
Ingredients
- Fire safe dish
- White candle
- Jar
- Beach sand: grounding, oceanic healing energy
- Sugar: sweeten the experience
- Clove: clear negativity
- Pink carnation: soft healing
- Rose: self love, love for life
- Orange peel: happiness
- Sunflower: bright outlook on life
- Passionflower: soothe anxiety
- Chamomile: soothe anxiety
- Basil: renewal of hope
- Tears: emotional release, healing (this was part of the original recipe, but I couldn't cry so I used moon water collected during The Pink Moon as a substitute)
Incantation
You can make up your own, but this is the incantation that I found to be successful.
" Hold the heart that has been hurt
Heal the hand that has been burnt
Cradle the wound that has always bled
Heal from which has made tears be shed "
My Process
- Mix Beach sand and sugar, place this into the fire safe dish.
- Carve an emotional healing sigil into the bottom of the candle. Put the candle into the sand sugar mixture, it should act as a base for the candle
- Combine other ingredients into the jar and close lid/cork it. Place inside the fire safe dish in such a way where there is no way for the cork or glass to be touched by the flame
- Chant the incantation with the person this being cast on (or yourself!) in mind. I like to add the person's name and birthday into it, and slip into an almost trance like state while chanting. This part is very intuitive, and at one point I just started talking about this person's emotional issues, how I intended the correspondences to work, personal things I knew them to struggling with.
- [OPTIONAL] I am a hellenic polytheist, and prayed to Aphrodite, Apollo, and Hygiea for healing over this person and a calm road into that healing journey. I also called to the elements + the moon!
- While closing out the spell, I specified that the energy put into it would begin to work on this person once I snuffed out the candle and promptly did so.
I keep this on my altar now with The Star tarot card underneath it! Funnily enough, I did this spell on a Wednesday since the Mercurial energies of communication were at play - and the next day this person broke no contact! The whole point of extinguishing the candle, by the way, is so that I can recast it weekly and continue boosting their energy. Now that I think about it, I think this could also be turned into a potion IF you exclude sunflower, carnation, and sand - maybe these could be replaced with edible herbs with similar correspondences?
If anyone does this spell, please let me know your results! This is an original, so I'd be stoked to see how it works for others :)
Have Fun and Be Safe, Witches!
