Triple Wish Pouches – Love, Health and Insight

This spell focuses on love, health and insight but the overall concept could be used for any three things you would like to enhance in your life.

All ingredients are fairly common and the overall spell is simple yet powerful. I do so love to follow the tenet that to bind the spell every time, let the spell be spake in rhyme. Lavender is the base ingredient and should end up as the dominant fragrance in the pouches, so use more of this than the other herbs. All herbs have been chosen as they all have magical uses associated with love.

You will need:
* Lavender (love, protection, sleep, dreaming, longevity, purification, happiness and peace)
* Pink and white rose petals (love, psychic powers, healing, divination, luck, protection and purity)
* Jasmine (love, protection, money and prophetic dreams)
* Chamomile (money, sleep, love and purification)
* Rosemary (protection, love, mental powers, purification, healing, sleep and youth)
* Strawberry flowers (love and luck)
* Three bay leaves (protection, psychic powers, healing, purification and strength)
* A bowl to mix the herbs together in
* Three small coloured pouches (pink, blue and purple)

Add lavender to the bowl while saying:

Lavender from the Goddess

Plant of love and peace

Sweet dreams at night

And days so bright

As my abundance does increase

Add pink and white rose petals to bowl while saying:

Rose petals from the Goddess

Plant of love and healing

White so pure

And pink adore

Forever happy feeling

Add jasmine to bowl while saying:

Jasmine from the Goddess

Plant of love and protection

Dreams prophetic

Life energetic

Filled with great affection

Add chamomile to the bowl while saying:

Chamomile from the Goddess

Plant of love and purification

Money and wealth

Happiness and health

Through inspiration and motivation

Add rosemary to the bowl while saying:

Rosemary from the Goddess

Plant of love and power

Heal and protect

Divine connect

In this and every hour

Add strawberry flowers to the bowl while saying:

Strawberry from the Goddess

Plant of love and sweetness

Good luck and fortune

By sun and by moon

Brings abundance and completeness

Mix all ingredients together in the bowl while saying:

All things from the Goddess

Plants of love and more

My life abounds

Your love surrounds

My intentions ever pure

Write the word “LOVE” on one of the bay leaves, “HEALTH” on another and “INSIGHT” on another.
Place the LOVE leaf in the pink pouch then add one third of the herb mixture and say:

Mother, maiden, crone

Love in my heart and home

Place the HEALTH leaf in the blue pouch then add one third of the herb mixture and say:

Mother, maiden, crone

Health wherever I may roam

Place the INSIGHT leaf into the purple pouch then add one third of the herb mixture and say:

Mother, maiden, crone

Insight in all I know

Tie the pouches together and say:

Mother, maiden, crone

My triple wish is sown

As lavender is associated with the element of air, air will be used to seal the spell. Do the rest of the spell each day until you have used all of the herb mix and on the last day, crumble the rosemary leaves as you say each verse for the last time.

Take a small pinch of the mix from the pink pouch and say:

The love I have within me

With the world I share

I send it out to the universe

As it’s carried through the air

Throw the mix into the air then take a small pinch of the mix from the blue pouch and say:

The health I have within me

With the world I share

I send it out to the universe

As it’s carried through the air

Throw the mix into the air then take a small pinch of the mix from the purple pouch and say:

The insight I have within me

With the world I share

I send it out to the universe

As it’s carried through the air

Throw the mix into the air then tie the three pouches pouches together and say:

 

The law of three on air will blow

As above, so below

Blessed be

Lughnasadh

When Lughnasadh rolls around on the 1st or 2nd of February in the southern hemisphere or 1st or 2nd of August in the northern hemisphere, the fields are full and fertile. Crops are abundant, and the late summer harvest is ripe for the picking. This is the time when the first grains are threshed, apples are plump in the trees, and gardens are overflowing with summer bounty, which makes Lughnasadh the first of the harvest sabbats.

It's the dog days of summer, the gardens are full of goodies, the fields are full of grain and the harvest is approaching. Take a moment to relax in the heat, be grateful for the food we have on our plates and reflect on the upcoming abundance of the fall months. At Lughnasadh, it's time to begin reaping what we have sown throughout the past few months and recognise that the bright summer days will soon come to an end.

Alternate Names
* August Eve
* Ceresalia
* Elembiuos
* Feast of Cardenas
* Feast of Lugh
* Festival of Green Corn
* First Festival of Harvest
* First Harvest
* Harvest Home
* Lammas
* Lughnasa

Pagan Mythology
The God is middle-aged now and His power is waning as His strength is being fed into the grain. Rituals at this time thank the Goddess for her bounty and the God for giving of His strength. This is a time to start seeing the fruits of plans made earlier, the time when goals are almost accomplished.

Themes / Symbols
* Baking bread
* End of summer
* First harvest fruits and vegetables
* Honouring the Parent Deities
* Honouring the Sun Gods

Traditional Foods
* Ale
* Apples
* Barley cakes
* Berries
* Berry pies
* Breads
* Elderberry
* Grains
* Lamb
* Meadowsweet tea
* Nuts
* Potatoes
* Rice
* Wild berries
* Wine

Herbs, Plants and Flowers
* Acacia flowers
* All Grains
* Aloes
* Blackberries
* Corn and Cornstalks
* Crab Apples
* Frankincense
* Ginseng
* Grapes
* Heather
* Hollyhock
* Myrtle
* Oak leaves
* Pears
* Rice
* Rye
* Sloe
* Sunflower
* Wheat

Incense
* Aloes
* Rose
* Sandalwood

Gemstones
* Aventurine
* Carnelian
* Citrine
* Peridot
* Sardonyx
* Yellow Diamond

Colours
* Brown
* Gold
* Green
* Orange
* Red
* Yellow

Different Information in Wicca

You will probably have noticed by now that there is an abundance of information on Wicca, witchcraft and magic but much of it is incomplete, inaccurate, or contradictory. Part of learning the path is about exploring the different topics, either through research, meditation, practice, application, divine guidance etc, and finding what “fits” for you.

That said, in different traditions of Wicca (as with different denominations in other religions), specific information is taught as being singularly true and correct; however, it should be remembered that while these things may be correct in that particular tradition, many Wiccans are eclectic and/or solitary so have the freedom to determine their own truths when it comes to practical application and understanding of the technical aspects of the craft.

Another point to remember is that several aspects of Wicca are determined by the natural laws of the earth and these are affected by where you physically are on the planet.

Some things are not negotiable, such as the directions of the compass points – north will always be north, but there are some things that have other considerations, mostly being whether you are in the southern hemisphere or the northern hemisphere. This affects things like the seasons and therefore the Sabbats. Another aspect affected by this is the directions to cast and open circle, often referred to as deosil and widdershins. Widdershins roughly means ‘against the sun’, which is clockwise in the southern hemisphere but anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere while deosil can be defined as ‘with the sun’, which is anticlockwise in the southern hemisphere and clockwise in the northern hemisphere. Often you will find the definitions of the words deosil and widdershins as clockwise and anticlockwise respectively; however, this is based on the northern hemisphere’s viewpoint only and misrepresents the true meanings of the words.

Interestingly enough, the moon phases are the same in both hemispheres although the direction of the crescent when the moon is waxing or waning is reversed. So, in the southern hemisphere, a waxing moon appears are a leftward curved crescent (like the letter “C”) and the opposite in the southern hemisphere during the waning moon phase. This is reversed in the northern hemisphere. A quick visual representation of this is (O) for the southern hemisphere and )O( for the northern hemisphere. Check out this very cool animation to help understand what happens with the moon in different parts of the world.

Other things you will often find differ are correspondences. Some of this is due to overlap, for example, the colour purple is often used to represent intuition but it can also be healing, while blue can also be used for both of these purposes. Red can represent love, but so can pink. The heart chakra is usually represented by the colour green but rose quartz can also be used for various matters of the heart, including working with the heart chakra. When looking at correspondences, consider the impact of conditioning, be it social, spiritual, historical, cultural or just personal experience as this may have played part in the accumulation of the different correspondences. In the end, pre-existing correspondence lists can be used as a guide but your choices in how to use them are broad and open to your own preferences and interpretations.

The point of all this is that the best thing to do is to research and explore all of the various aspects involved in Wicca as you journey along your path with appropriate respect to established teachings in order to determine what works best for you.