A New Year’s Eve Wishing Spell
The New Year is always a time of reflection….a time to think about what we want to improve about ourselves and our life going forward. It is a time to ‘clean the slate’….a time to break bad habits, rethink goals, and renew faith. Even those who don’t practice magic look at the turning of one year to the next as a special, mysterious time. It is almost as if anything is possible!
NEW YEAR’S EVE WISH SPELL
You will need:
one white candle
a cauldron or censer
a clean piece of unrecycled paper or parchment (use non-recycled so that nothing previously written on it affects your spell)
an envelope
On a clean piece of paper or parchment, write your resolutions or goals for the New Year. Ask for only those things that you really need and which you can reasonably obtain without harm coming to anyone. Things such as wealth or a new car are reasonable, but if you need to quit smoking, get healthy, or take better care with your finances, those things should come first.
Prepare your space and cast your circle as you normally would. Prepare your candle by carving your name on it, and anointing it with any oils or herbs that correspond to your desires. This spell is designed to be done at sundown on New Year’s Eve while the sun is going down and the moon is rising, but if that is not a good time, it can be done at sunrise on New Year’s Day when both can still be seen.
Speak the following:
I ask in the name of (whichever deity that you invoke) that, I (your name) be granted:
Turn to the North and read your wish list. After reading the list, say:
While Father and Mother are in the sky,
I ask, o wise ones, hear my cry!
These wishes that I give to flame,
Manifest to me by name.
Give to me this blessed power,
To succeed by day, and by hour.
I set this spell, three times three
As I will, so mote it be.
Light the list from your altar candle and drop it into your cauldron or censer.
Place the ashes in an envelope, and keep them in a safe place. On New Years’ Eve of the following year, bury those ashes, and repeat the spell as above. This way, the goals will continue to grow year after year, and manifest themselves fully.
mama C
Grapes at Midnight
People of Madrid, Spain, have an interesting old New Year's custom: at the stroke of midnight each person eats twelve grapes. The cinemas will even stop running a movie at midnight to allow the patrons to eat their grapes.
People of Madrid, Spain, have an interesting old New Year's custom: at the stroke of midnight each person eats twelve grapes. The cinemas will even stop running a movie at midnight to allow the patrons to eat their grapes.
First Footing
New Year's Eve is traditionally a time for assessing the past twelve months and for looking ahead to the New Year. Numerous customs are still retained in Europe and the United States, including the idea of kindling a new light from the old. This can be achieved in a number of ways, including the following simple ceremony.
At a few minutes to midnight, put out all of your lights except for a single candle or a lantern (it's important that the light be a living one rather than electric). Send someone outside (traditionally it is someone who has dark hair) with the light, which they must guard and protect from the weather. As the clock strikes twelve have that person knock on the door. Open it and welcome them in with some form of ceremonial greeting, such as:
Welcome to the light of the New Year
And welcome he/she who brings it here.
Go around the house with the candle and relight all the lights you put out. If these can be candles so much the better, but don't burn the house down In Scotland this custom is known as "First Footing," and the person who first puts his or her foot across the door is the one who brings fortune to the whole household. Often someone in the house arranges with a friend to come to the house at the exact time carrying a gift - called a handsel in Scotland and consisting of a lump of coal, or a bottle of whiskey - something that will ensure that more gifts come throughout the next twelve months.
Source: The Winter Solstice
New Year's Eve is traditionally a time for assessing the past twelve months and for looking ahead to the New Year. Numerous customs are still retained in Europe and the United States, including the idea of kindling a new light from the old. This can be achieved in a number of ways, including the following simple ceremony.
At a few minutes to midnight, put out all of your lights except for a single candle or a lantern (it's important that the light be a living one rather than electric). Send someone outside (traditionally it is someone who has dark hair) with the light, which they must guard and protect from the weather. As the clock strikes twelve have that person knock on the door. Open it and welcome them in with some form of ceremonial greeting, such as:
Welcome to the light of the New Year
And welcome he/she who brings it here.
Go around the house with the candle and relight all the lights you put out. If these can be candles so much the better, but don't burn the house down In Scotland this custom is known as "First Footing," and the person who first puts his or her foot across the door is the one who brings fortune to the whole household. Often someone in the house arranges with a friend to come to the house at the exact time carrying a gift - called a handsel in Scotland and consisting of a lump of coal, or a bottle of whiskey - something that will ensure that more gifts come throughout the next twelve months.
Source: The Winter Solstice