Z's Grimoire

The Summer Sun,

a radiant light.

Rainbows blessings-

a beautiful sight.

Dance in celebration,

tell your story.

Honor our Ancestors,

Generations of Glory.

Like a river, keep moving

flow and change, without fuss.

So this world feels like home,

for each one of us.

This is the area where I’d tell you about the specific intent, artifacts, cards or reagents used in the crafting of the spell, or a description of how the finished spell is cast as well as any other relevant notes.

For my first few (five) spells that I will be sharing, the spells that guided and shaped my awakening, I will instead share the tale of how they came to be:

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After a long time following the steps of other witches and being guided in understanding and embracing other’s magic, I set out on my own path, my own quest, to tame the magic within that I sensed was different from anything else I’d read through my research or learned standing in circles. It wasn’t some strange anomaly, I wasn’t a “special” or main character that was unique, but that nagging feeling I’d sensed for so much of my life of being different… othered… and not understanding why tore at my soul.

I was me, I was complete! Aside from a few long term goals to keep working towards, my body and mind were finally whole. But having to seal my magic within again, in a prison of misunderstanding, there was only one thing to do. If I could not find the answers by turning to others, if no amount of research could bring me the needed knowledge to tame this fire. I pledged to turn that very same magic I feared into something beautiful and new.

Everything happens for a reason; this magic was nearly ready to erupt in a cataclysmic event at the exact time I arrived at the exact place that was going to finally bring order to the chaos.

Walking the woods where the air was thin, I came upon the stone labyrinth. It was a place that almost everyone acknowledged was here, but hardly anyone seemed excited or interested in it. Perhaps they were fighting their own battles and containing their excitement like me, but at the very first chance I had I rushed eagerly away to find this marvel; and it truly was something to behold, much grander than I’d envisioned, and as I saw the large circle in the center I felt Her call, and without another word abandoned my companion and began to walk the long and winding path. (She respectfully took a seat and left me to my meditation)

Was it hours or minutes? Days or years? I lost and found myself several times within the maze, following trails up and down, back and forth, weaving ever closer to that magical payoff waiting, drawing intoxicatingly close now, on this turn! No? Perhaps on this one? Still no, the path seemed to continue for eternity and I briefly questioned my sanity, or if I had mis-stepped at some point and become stuck in a time loop. Accepting that I would remain in this maze till the end of my days, repeating the cycle, the walls of my ego finally shattered to allow just my ID, my pure, true self, to reach and enter the center circle.

The spell above was the first that I crafted, it was crafted immediately after I left the circle, and was cast the next day in the circle of strangers turned friends, on the mesa where I had been broken open to grow just a few nights before, with the intent it would grant them all the strength to return to their own lives making their own realities a little brighter.

I share it with you all now, with that same intent. Never stop changing yourself for the better, and the world will only get brighter for everyone.

Blessed be