August Full Red Moon Rune Craft For Success

This article is part of Kallan's wonderful Sunday Stew. Please hop on over and read all the different flavors added by each chef. I know that you will love it!

When I started on my endeavor of a Full Moon Project, I thought that it wouldn't be too hard to come up with things to go with each moon. I mean after all there are several names for each moon to choose from. Boy, was I wrong. This month I was again semi-stumped. I am not keen on the name Sturgeon Moon. I have already created a craft for one fish moon after all, so I don't want another. Fish things for me are "meh".

However, this month I am combining two of the names. I have decided to combine the names lightning moon and red moon with a rune sequence to bring some triumph, victory, and passion to my life. Everyone can use that in their life, for sure. Red is the color of life, our blood, vitality. Lightning is a symbolism of power. August is a hot month with summer storms and lightning, so let's take advantage of the red moon and bring ourselves prosperity and success.

This project will be made like the project from the Wolf Moon. We will be using felt and herbs and gemstones to go inside the full moon shape. We will also be putting a rune sequence on the back.

The stones I've chosen that you can use (and you can use them all, or a combination, or just one, it will be up to you).


Hematite: This stone deflects negativity while encouraging you to reach your goals.
Amethyst: This one helps you to focus on your endeavors to bring success. It also give you an inner strength.
Malachite: Gives you emotional stability and bring success in business.
Citrine: This is the best one, make sure you have one of these. This one manifest prosperity and abundance. It is known as the success stone. So, this one is definitely needed for your red moon.
Agate: Protection for endeavors, while attracting good luck and awakening your talents.
Carnelian: This one also brings good luck and success.

The herbs that I have chosen (again, pick and choose, or use all)

Bay leaf:  This is the herb of victory and accomplishments, it is used for money and prosperity.
High John the Conqueror: Draws success
Cinnamon: used for business and money

I have chosen 3 runes. The 3 that I have chosen are:

Jera- To promote change for the better, successful endeavors, and finally seeing reward for your past efforts.
Fehu- To attract wealth and prosperity and to circulate abundance
and finally
Berkano- New beginnings and ideas, more business

Please remember:

You can also change this spell to your liking and your wording. I just come up with the ideas and I like to share. Remember, your magic is what you yourself muster.

Cut 2 circles from the red felt, the size that you want it. I used a ribbon spool to measure out mine.

My lightning bolt is freehand. If you need you can print this picture to use as a pattern.

You want your bolt to fit your moon like so.

Apply hot glue like so. You want to leave a space open so that you can fill your moon with your herbs and gemstones.

 

Apply the glue to the back of your bolt, then quickly lay it on the front of the moon. 

 


Hold the herbs and gemstones in your hand and charge them with thoughts of victory and prosperity and triumph.

                                           Stuff in your herbs  and gemstones and glue the hole shut.

If you want to razzle dazzle the moon, use some decorative glitter on the front.

Use the same glitter pen to mark out the runes on the back of the moon.

Charge a red candle the same way, with thoughts of victory, prosperity, and triumph in your life. 

Please edit to fit your needs, but remember to be specific. Runes like it when you are specific.

As you pass the front and back over the lit candle (not too close, you don't want a fire), say:

"With fire, the magic and power of the herbs, gemstones, and runes are activated and will work together

to bring victory to me in my job, my money, and my home life. This will be done immediately with no harm to me, my family, my pets, my property, or my possessions."

 

I like to take an offering of a beer to Odin afterward. I also like to put a few drops of my blood into my beer, for a power punch. But again, this is up to you. 

I hope you enjoyed this edition of the full moon craft.

Brightest Blessings,

Saga

Leather Bindrune Bracelet for Wisdom and Insight

This article is part of Kallan's wonderful Sunday Stew. Please hop on over and read all the           different flavors added by each chef. I know that you will love it!

Today while I was thinking about what to make for the Stew craft, I realized that I had not made a bindrune craft in a while and I thought that it would be a fun thing to make. Just the other day I had picked up a couple of cheap leather crafting bracelets thinking that I could find something fun to make with them.

Since we can all use wisdom and insight (the more the merrier, right?), I'll create a simple bindrune to help bring those.

This will be a simple and quick craft with simple activation incantation.
You will need.

A simple leather bracelet for crafting
A blade tool & remodeling spoon for leather
A small bit of red paint

I've picked the following runes:

Tiwaz- this one is for personal goal realization
Ansuz- for wisdom
Ingwaz-for common sense (the best type of wisdom)

Leather bracelet and leather tool

All you have to do to use the tool is press. Don't do like me and use your leg for your desk. It almost messed up my line. Use a table so that you can keep your line straight and have something hard to press against.

   

To make it pop, add some red paint.

Then make a design to go on the top and the bottom of the band. I'm using a simple dash dot design.

Fill the dot dash design in with red paint.

 

And here is the finished product! Now you just want to activate it!

For knowledge, you use air, so we will activate this bindrune with our breath. With runes you have to be specific with your requests.

"With my breath, the power and magic of these runes are activated and will work together to help me make wise decisions in my daily life. This will be done immediately with no harm to my family, property, possessions, and pets." 

I like to take Odin a beer, mead, or ale and pour it under the tree for him as a thank you for the use of the runes.

I hope you enjoyed this craft!

Brightest Blessings, 

Saga

February's Bone Moon Home Ward Bottle and Bone Recipes

This article is part of Kallan's wonderful Sunday Stew. Please hop on over and read all the different flavors added by each chef. I know that you will love it!

Today's blog will have a couple of recipes that get a nice beginning from slow-cooking bones, and I'll show you how to make a home protection bottle using bones.

We certainly have had the bitter cold this winter, haven't we? The cold has made me want to make all different kinds of soups or chili. I love soup or chili on a cold, winter day.

This month's moon has several names: Snow Moon (I think I don't have to say how accurate this name is this year), Hunger Moon, Blackbear Moon, Starvation Moon, and Wind Moon. The name that I am going to go with is Bone Moon.

Winter was especially hard for the indigenous peoples. This month their food stores would be getting low before the spring came and they often depended upon bone soup and bone marrow for survival. They were smart in their eating. Bone marrow soup is one of the best things that you can consume. It provides excellent nutrition.

I made some bone marrow broth and the next day I used the broth to make French Onion soup.

The link to the recipe for Bone Marrow Broth is here: http://nomnompaleo.com/post/3615609338/slow-cooker-beef-bone-broth, I used fresh ground pink Himalayan salt in mine, that was the only difference.

My bones are already to be slow cooked!

My broth after 8 hours of slow-cooking!

Here is the recipe for the French Onion Soup that I used. I can't eat gluten, so the only difference that I did was change the bread. I used Sara Lee gluten free bread. I toasted it with some gruyere cheese, then tore it up and added it to my soup, and threw some fresh parmesan on that. 

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/french-onion-soup-recipe2.html

Bones are also a component that it is used frequently in magicks. They have been used divination (osteomancy), shamanistic works, ancestry work, spellcasting, protection, and amulets.

I was really torn at which "craft" I wanted to show you. However, Catherine Yrondwode had a great link to a divination article and it led to a bone divination kit.  They are here:

http://www.luckymojo.com/blackgypsies.html
and
http://www.luckymojo.com/throwingthebones.html

So, today I thought it would be fun to make a Bone Moon Witches Warding Bottle for your home.

Witch's bottles are an ancient form of magic. What you do with your bottle after you have it made will be up to you. You can put it in a secret spot in your home, bury under where you hold circle outside, or the furthest corner of the yard, or near your front door. These are common places to put them.

I will be using coyote toe bones in my bottle today. There are plenty of sellers on etsy that are bone collectors. They don't kill the animals but they do find the dead animals and clean their bones for crafts and jewelry making. If you are squeamish about acquiring bones this way, then use chicken bones from your dinner, or you can make the bottle without the bones.

Here's a link to a blog of just such a bone collector: http://bone-lust.blogspot.com/

And here's another, he is just 12: http://www.jakes-bones.com/

And ONE more. I love Sarah Ann Lawless, she has the best blog. Here's a little of her info: http://sarahannelawless.com/2010/09/28/dem-bones/

The reason I chose the coyote was because this will be a home protection bottle and coyotes are very protective of their dens. I'm using a toe bone because it is small and will fit inside my bottle. You don't want skulls for this project, lol. Other reasons I chose coyote bones, based on totem of the coyote: adaptability, illusion and chaos can be stripped away to reveal truth, and sense of humor in life's lessons.


Let's get started:

Grab a bottle or jar. It doesn't have to be big. Mine is a small (around 6 inches tall), frosted bottle that is scratched up. I don't mind the scratches because when I am finished filling it, I will bury it at the base of my front steps.  However, I do want it to be more decorated....so I decided to put a bone goblin on the front out of clay. And too, I want to give future archaeologists a great find when they dig. Here's my bottle in the beginning:

This is the first time that I've made a goblin out of clay. I have been itching to do it on a project, so I made a bone goblin. See the bone going through his nose?

Yes, I know. I do get carried away with projects....sometimes.

AND then I got carried away. I wasn't satisfied with just the Bone Goblin. He obviously needed whole bottle decor

Do NOT add your items to your bottle yet. For a bottle you will want to cast a full circle and make your bottle inside your circle. I'm now going to go over items that are good to add to your bottle. I've made those bold.

Gather your items. You want sharp things. Pins, broken glass, broken mirror, nails, claws. I'm also adding in my cats claws for this, since this is their home too. And don't worry, they haven't been declawed. I have to clip Gaia and Hecate's nails, because they are polydactyl and they have some that they can't retract. If I didn't clip them, they would grow back into their paws, and we don't want that. And I digress, back to the bottle making.

Since I did the wolf moon, I still have some wolf hair left, I will be putting some of that in my bottle as well. You will also want to add some devil's shoestring, rosemary, or pine. Or a combo of the three. These are all protective and will drive the evil from your home. Find some glitter to put in your bottle, this attracts the evil to the bottle, then the pins and sharp items will impale it, the liquid will drown it, and the herbs will send it far away. 

Now for your liquid, you can use salt water, vinegar, red wine or your own urine, or a combo of these. Now, some people will probably go "ewwww", but body fluids are powerful things to include. If it isn't for you then don't use it, go with all vinegar or salt water. 

You will need a black candle to seal the cork when you are finished filling your bottle. If you plan on hiding it inside, you can also decorate the top with ribbon and charms if you would like.

Depending on what type of bone you are using, you may want to look up the totem for that animal, to see how they protect and word it that way. 

Okay, now go take all of your ingredients (keep them separate) and your bottle to your circle area. Cast your circle in your normal way, ask your god and goddess to bless your work and aid you.

Time to make the bottle. You will take each ingredient and empower it for its purpose. Dry ingredients first. State the purpose of each item in turn and place in the jar.

Glitter: to lure the enemy to the bottle

Mirrors: to cut

Pins and Needles: to impale

Nails: to impale

Cat's claws: to scratch

Coyote bone: to protect and trick.

Wolf's hair: to protect

Whichever herb (or combo of the three): to fling the enemy far from your home

and finally: Whatever liquid: drown the enemy

Now, cork the bottle, wax it, decorate it if you wish, and carve a rune in the top of the cork.

I caught my cork on fire! 

And the goal is to make it look creepy

Isa would be a good one because it stops any unwanted activity and helps to stop someone that is harassing you.

Pass your bottle over the flame and say:

"No enemies will be able to harm me. Pins and needles and nails will impale my enemies, mirrors will cut my enemies, cat, coyote, and wolf (or whatever animal you use) will protect me, and the herbs will fling my enemies far from me. With the power of flame this protection is now activated with no harm to me and my property, my family, or my possessions, or my pets. It is activated immediately"

Close circle and place your bottle wherever you wish, keep it hidden. If you bury it, make sure that it is deep enough to never be found. Your bottle will work as long as you have it and it remains unbroken.