Requirements

Candle of appropriate color:

White: protection, purification, and peace

Red: protection, strength, health, passion, and courage

Light blue: healing, patience, and happiness

Dark blue: change, psychic enhancement

Green: wealth, fertility, growth, jobs

Yellow: intellectual pursuits, attraction, study, divination

Brown: animal healing

Pink: love and friendship

Orange: vitality

Purple: power, intense healing, spiritual affairs, meditation.

Piece of cleansed, terminated quartz

Calm your mind and then, with the tip of the (cleansed) quartz crystal, scratch onto the candle a small symbol of your need. Maybe a heart for love, a dollar (or appropriate currency sign) for money or whatever comes into your mind that symbolizes the requirement. If you know runes, use the appropriate sign. Or simply write the request around the candle.

As you do this, visualize very strongly what you want to achieve, as though it's already happened. See this as clearly as possible in your mind. Place candle in holder and put quartz crystal by it. Light the candle.

While the candle burns, keep seeing your wish, keeping visualizing. The three elements of the spell will work for you.

Requirements

Orange-red candle

Piece of red paper (preferably handmade)

A red pen (preferably proper ink in a fountain pen; better yet, a quill pen)

Light the candle. Write your whole name on the red paper in red ink (red being the color for love and passion). Under your name, write the name (preferably full name) of the object of your desire. Write your birth date followed by his/hers. By writing his/her name and birth date under yours, this then binds them. Draw a heart around all the things you have so far written. Write over everything that you have written, three times. This will look a mess when finished, but three is an important number, and will build the spell's psychic energy. Fold a piece of paper as small as you can, which will again concentrate the spell's energy. Burn the paper in the candle flame and say three times:

"Bright is the flame

Hot is the fire

Red is the color

Of my desire".

The wish is now consummated in the flame, and is now sealed.

Repeat this spell every night/day until it had been performed for nine consecutive nights. After this, your wish should come true.

A wooden clothes peg

Black ink or black felt tip pen

A piece of the unwanted lover's clothing, or a picture of that person

Black thread

A pin

Black pepper

On a Saturday night (the best time to do this spell, and preferably on a waning moon), go to a room where you won't be disturbed. Lay all the items around you and chant:

"This spell I do within my rights to be free. Darken my life no more. Be gone (name of the person). Be gone from me."

Make a peg doll from the clothes peg by painting on features with the black ink/felt tip. Wrap the photo/material around the doll and tie with the cotton.

Sprinkle the doll with the black pepper and then repeat the chant, sticking the pin into the doll (this will NOT harm the other person, just deter them from bothering you). Bury the doll near the front door of your home.

The Willow Moon is also known amongst Wiccans as the Witches' Moon. It had also been called the Enchanted Moon, because of the great feats of enchantment that can be performed at this time.

The time of the Willow Moon runs from mid-April until mid-May and the best magic is performed at the time of the full moon (18^th April in the year 2000).

The Feast Day is May Day and the Sabbath is Beltane. The symbols most associated with the Willow Moon are the maypole and the Willow knot.

Colors: purple, lavender, and wisteria

Scents: lavender, sandalwood.

Lucky number: 5

Willow trees grow by water and water is the element of emotion (thus may be associated with the zodiacal sign Pisces). Therefore, Willow symbolizes "feeling" and the inner realm of the mind. Because of this, and because of its association with water divination, the Willow tree was highly regarded by the Celtic people, and their priests, the Druids. Willow also provided the ancient peoples with an effective painkiller, and reducer of high temperatures, because the bark and leaves contain salicylic acid, which is the basis of aspirin. Willow bark tea was a very popular medicine.

All true Wicca should aspire to owning a Willow tree, if at all possible. Properly nurtured and watered, it will become your true friend. At the very least, they should make themselves a Willow knot in their repertoire of amulets.

Bend a just green piece of pliable Willow gently into a figure of eight shape, honoring the Goddess with a prayer as you do so. This hereby acknowledges the gift of Mother Earth. Think happy thoughts, empowering thoughts, and even sing as you continue to knot the Willow. This will imbue it with positive vibrations that are yours alone.

The Willow knot can be used for specific ceremonies, but is also a general, all round everyday item. Taken into work, it can enhance your concentration. Worn on your person, or in your bag or pocket, it will lend you confidence, and at the very least, will attract attention - maybe from someone special! Use in the home as a protective amulet.

This is the most important Wiccan feast other than Samhain (Halloween). It marks the beginning of summer and the new fertility of the land. It is named for the Celtic god of fire, Bel, and for the Balefire, the great traditional bonfire lit on May Day eve.

Traditionally at this time, Hawthorne (May) was gathered at dawn, and a wish made on the flowers. Such a wish was almost guaranteed to come true.

Pick wildflowers from the hedgerows and consecrate them to the Goddess with a word of prayer and thanks. Or buy flowers from a florist and dedicate them in the same way.

Erect a maypole (surely the greatest symbol of fertility!) with your friends and decorate it with appropriately colored ribbons. The pole should be of either Hawthorne or birch wood; the ribbons should be red (to honor the God), white (to honor the Goddess), and green (for fertility).

Wearing your Willow know (everyone should wear one), dance around the maypole, chanting at the same times as you dance and weave the ribbons together. This will invoke the Earth's power and is a wonderful time for wishing for your dreams. All your endeavors should be rewarded with their fruition. But be careful what you wish for - the power that the dance and chanting raises is almost irresistible. Be wise!

Happy Beltane.