Career Career: An annual English ritual to pave the way for a good career.
From The Book of Spells by Nicola de Pulford (in italics).
You will need:
- A Green Candle
- A piece of Green Paper
- 2 Acorns
- A Silver coin
Although the oak and acorn are linked closely to the British Isles, the oak tree grows all over Europe. The ancient Druids planted sacred oak grovs as guardians, and marriages took place under isolated oaks that also marked the boundaries of a district. In England, some still stand to this day. The Native people of California revered the oak as their “world tree”, the acorn symbolizing the cosmic egg, from which all life came, and the tree itself symbolizing the cosmic axis, sacred to the Earth Mother. The acorn represents durability, resolution, and truth. A Thursday with a waxing moon is ideal for starting this spell.
Method:
On a Thursday morning, light the green candle. Close your eyes and imagine the candle’s light holding you in a safe cocoon. Write your name on the piece of paper, followed by any ambitions you have for your career. Extinguish the candle, and keep it to use again later. For the whole of the day, keep the acorns, silver coin, and paper in a pocket or pouch close to you. On returning home from work, light the candle again, and pass the acorns and silver swiftly through its flame. Wrap the acorns and silver in the paper and bury them in your garden, or another favourite spot. Repeat this spell at yearly intervals for continuing career success.
My commentary:
Understanding the use of correspondences.
The Waxing Moon: Is a symbol of “Increase” and is a time when Wiccans perform magic to bring things to them (for example).
Thursday? Thursday is governed by the Planet Jupiter, which has Prosperity, Wealth, Growth and so on as attributes.
You carry the items on you to “imbue” them with your “energy” (though to some this is enough, in my example I will show further focusing. You carried them with you, the absorbed the energy around you, witnessed your daily job, why not fill them with the energy now of your completed desire also?).
A lot of people attribute the colour green to money, because of the colour of money (if this is what you wish to believe, use it, this helps you focus regardless). However, green is a colour representative of the Element of Earth. From the Earth grows the grass, which feeds the cattle which were a symbol of status and wealth before “green” money. Further the Earth is loaded with resources, it is fertile, stable and not to mention full of treasures (precious metals, etc). The Elementals that govern Earth are the Gnomes, under the King, Ghob. Without delving too deeply into the Elementals, suffice to say, Earth is Green and represents Growth and Wealth. Elementals do not speak English as we do, but understand symbolism (From a Whare-Ra document on the Salamanders). The use of Green corresponds with them, the seeds (acorns) with growth within their element and the silver coin, representing the precious metals that come from it. The Acorns and Silver coin are there for representative as offerings. The paper with your name written on it, associates it with you (without going into the connections). The lighting of the Green candle attracts the attention of the Elementals, and your will felt through the work.
Taking the above as an example, to amplify the power of this spell I recommended these additional steps (add more or less as suits you):
- Keep the times and day of practice as they are
- Cast a circle
- Perform a Banishing
- Invoke the Element of Earth
- Invoke a chosen Earth deity (or two, a god and goddess)
- Take a few deep rhythmic breaths to get relaxed
- Complete the steps “Close your eyes and imagine the candle’s light holding you in a safe cocoon. Write your name on the piece of paper, followed by any ambitions you have for your career. Extinguish the candle, and keep it to use again later”.
- Thank the Deities, Release the elementals.
- Perform a banishing
- Close the circle
The Second part, repeat steps 1 through 6.
Take up the unlit candle and close your eyes. Feel the candle in your hands, and visualise your hands where they are. Visualise the candle in your hands. Once you have got this image. Visualise your career goal (the one you wrote out) completed, not the steps to get there, just the result (For example; A promotion, see yourself sitting in the new office, with the new duties, and new bonuses) over top of the candle in your hands. Once this is clear, take a deep breath in, and as you exhale, push the visualised scene of your completed goal into the candle and see it glow with energy as you do so. Light the candle and say “It is done”.
Take up the acorns in and cup them in both hands, raise them above your head, Vibrate the deity names you have chosen, while focusing on your hands (causing it to feel as though the vibration of your words is in your hands) while you do this, see the acorns (in your minds eye) glow. Say, “These acorns, seeds of the might oak tree. Symbols of Life and growth, growing into symbols of strength and stability. I give them as offerings to the Earth deities and Elementals for aiding me in the working of my will” As you pass the each acorn through the candle flame (while still visualising them glowing) say “I seal this offering to the completion of my Will”, repeat for the second acorn. Place them to the side.
Take up the silver coin above you head, vibrate again the deity names, see the coin glow. Say “This shiney silver coin, symbolic of the treasures the lie within the body of the Great Mother, the treasures of the Earth over which the Elementals of Earth preside. I offer this, my treasure as an offering for aiding me in completing my will” Pass the coin through the flame as you passed the acorns.
Place the acorns on coin on the paper and wrap them as instructed previously.
Follow the steps 8 to 10.
Bury the paper, coin and acorns in the Earth as soon as possible.
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