The Witch's Magical Handbook

Introduction

IS LIFE PASSING YOU BY?

This is the ultimate self-help book. With its aid you can reach your full potential. This is the only book of its sort that relies on the work of real Witches who have, over the past thirty years, taught literally tens of thousands of people to develop their powers and thus to improve their lives.

Ask yourself:

Have you reached your full potential?

Is the life you live the one you imagined?

Are you fullfilling your dreams?

If you answer any of these questions no or NO, you need our help.

Witchcraft! The very word conjures visions of occult powers and secret rites. When we say Witch, the vision becomes one of the traditional Witch with her cat and cauldron. The Witch and her powers are not to be feared. She¹ is the healer, the reader of dreams, the maker and foreteller of the future.

Magic can be defined as the changing of future events by ritual procedures that use the Force. The Force is that energy that is known to Chinese as chi, to Hindus as prana, to Germans as vril. It was popularized for all time as The Force in Star Wars. Because it is a natural force stemming from our bodies, scientists call it bioplasmic energy. Over the millennia Witches and others have learned to control, focus, and use it. This book will let you take advantage of their research and experience the power and use of the Force for yourself.

Magic and other powers can easily be yours. They are not occult (a word meaning literally hidden); indeed, each is susceptible to rational explanation.

WHAT WITCHCRAFT MAGIC CAN DO FOR YOU TODAY

Since the dawn of humankind, occult power has both mystified and frightened men. In bygone times, those who evinced such power were burned at the stake as Witches. No one can really say how many people were burned, or hanged, or otherwise tortured and killed. They died because of their known powers—powers that scared those in authority, those who felt threatened by this magical power ... but that’s another story.²

The Witch’s powers can now be yours. With them you can:

1. Achieve serenity.

2. Predict the future.

3. Gain more than material wealth.

4. Heal yourself and others.

5. Gain any information you need through channeling.

6. Create your own love spells.

7. Tune in to Nature.

8. Protect yourself from unwanted psychic and physical attacks.

We will stop here with these eight promises, but we will leave you with one more promise:

Your Life Will Change Dramatically for the Better

When You Use Magic Witch Power.

There are many other things that you can do with the powers: gain money, gain lovers, or give yourself an edge in the race of life. Some of these ideas may sound negative; throughout the book we will describe techniques that empower you to do both positive and negative things—but be warned that there is an overriding universal Law of Attraction: Your negative thoughts attract negative energies to yourself. Positive aets automatically improve your life, so that your whole outlook becomes happier and more positive.

Mentally step back a moment to think about such real-world forces as electricity and gravity. Electricity is neither good nor bad; its good or bad qualities come to it with the intent of the user. If you plug in to accomplish a negative intent, the electricity becomes negative. If you plug in to accomplish a positive intent, the electricity becomes positive. Gravity may influence your scale to tell you you’re overweight, but without gravity the bathwater would not stay in the tub.

So we leave it to you to decide how to use the powers. Remember always that the Witch’s powers are the powers inherent in the planet itself, in the Mother Earth that makes possible the life in us all. The powers of Mother Earth and Mother Nature are the most inexorable that exist. We all know what happens when we try to thwart Mother Nature. We dam one of her rivers, and terrible floods ensue. We pollute her oceans and violate the protective mantle at her poles, and the heating effects cause El Niño with its terrible storms and planet-wide disasters. The powers you will be dealing with are immense.

The Witch’s powers are not gender-specific; that is, males can learn them, too. Female magic has a different flavor or mindset than that of the male. She asks rather than demands. She is often content with longer-term solutions to her needs. Her magic is keyed to the quiet of the night and to the cycle of the moon and the seasons, rather than to the brightness of day and the cycle of the sun. We tend to think of female magic as powers of water and the earth, and male magic as powers of air and fire. Either gender can do both sorts of Witchcraft. Some readers may be more drawn to the traditional male style of working that demands and threatens. This handbook delineates both sorts of magical/Witchcraft procedures.

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED

When you go on a journey, whether you travel country roads or scenic highways, you need a good road map. This book is a road map to a less-traveled road. Every so often along the way you will need to ask advice of people who have traveled the road before you. We are such people: We have been traveling this road for more than fifty years. In the past thirty years we have helped and advised more than fifty thousand travelers.

Currently most people travel as if they’re on a busy interstate. They see only the road itself and the cities and tracks around them. They travel tensely with one eye on the time and the other on the speedometer. Only very occasionally do they stop to look at the scenery. Why don’t you try a road less traveled? You will need to pause occasionally for reflection—to decide perhaps which branch to take of the fork that confronts you. Appendix 1 outlines a channeling technique through which thousands of our students have obtained guidance.

Do you just jump from one project to another? Does one day of your life just follow another without a break and without change, without pattern or overarching purpose? Do you have time in your busy schedule for reflective thinking, to look at the map of your life’s journey? To decide where you are heading? Without an ultimate goal, and without a map for the journey, you may aimlessly wander around back roads forever, going down cul-de-sacs and dead ends, having to retrace many steps and make sudden uninformed decisions.

There is a better way. You don’t have to wait for the next time something comes off the spool or for the next unwelcome surprise. With reflective thinking, you can take a What if? approach. What if my significant other were to leave? What if I get sick? What if the car breaks down? and a thousand other What ifs? Instead of reacting to circumstances and letting life run you, you can become proactive. You can plan ahead so that when the unexpected occurs you have already considered it and have thought through a solution(s) or at least some realistic options. Being self-actualizing and proactive is a Witch’s way. She employs many techniques for looking at the future and reflectively thinking to gain serenity today.

In this book you will learn some of those techniques. You will learn how to get back in tune with the natural cycles of Nature and how to become proactive, with special emphasis on

1. Lowering your stress level; and

2. Improving your health; and then

3. Magically improving your lifestyle.

The road less traveled is an interesting and rewarding road. It is not like traveling along a freeway, rushing headlong past the signposts that could lead to interesting experiences. You will learn to make a conscious decision about which opportunities are worth exploring and which are not on your journey’s map. Occasionally you may use magic and travel a piece of the freeway to gain a goal more quickly; but in general you will find that you enjoy the journey along an alternative road as much as you savor the goal.

YOUR MAGICAL MOMENTS

Many people have sudden brilliant flashes or magical moments that make changes in their lives. They may suddenly show that your preacher is more concerned with money than with the spiritual well-being of his flock. There may be a sudden realization that you absolutely hate the job you’re doing or that working for a large faceless corporation is consuming and deadening your soul. People—especially those in the public eye—are talking about their epiphanies, as these sudden flashes are called, these sudden new awarenesses. You can hardly pick up a newspaper without reading that some famous person is giving up a career or retiring early, or abandoning news broadcasts or a thousand other changes in lifestyle that have come about through a new awareness that has’ entered their lives. Gavin gave up the gold credit cards and the comfortable life of a sales executive to teach Witchcraft. Yes, of course it was very hard at first. Without food stamps, we wouldn’t have eaten. Without his large executive wardrobe, he would have worn rags.

Such experiences are part of the epiphany: going through the down time to reach fulfillment. Epiphanies come in different sizes to different people. You can have lots of little ones or big brilliant flashes (as in Gavin’s case) that cause an abrupt, violent change of lifestyle. In this book we will try to guide you through a series of small epiphanies. This will create the climate for gradual changes in your attitude to life, to the world, and to spirituality, so that you will gain serenity and a new joie de vivre that will make your life worthwhile.

When you were young, the world looked new. Anything seemed possible. A life of exploration and discovery lay before you. Today, has life become dull and dreary? The epiphanies this book will guide you through will bring back those youthful feelings to you. Think honestly with us for a moment. Are you truly content? Will you be satisfied if the rest of your lifetime turns out to be much like what you have lived so far? Or do you have that universal longing, that hunger, for something timeless—something that has meaning, something that will endure? In the small hours of the night, does that little voice ever whisper, I have all this, but it’s not what I want or deserve?

YOU CAN SHIFT THE UNIVERSAL BALANCE

In the film Star Wars a planet was destroyed and the effect was felt throughout the galaxy. Popular wisdom tells us that when a butterfly dies in Malaysia, the future of the world is affected. Many powerful Witches refuse to do any magic because they have witnessed the far-reaching effects they can have. We think this attitude may be too arbitrary, that it is better to do something—with knowledge and with intent—than just to let things drift along. You need only look around you to see how far out of control this nation has gotten. Through magic you can have a positive effect on the society that surrounds you, and that positive effect will flow outward from your center to affect the whole world. You, too, can disturb the balance. You, too, can improve your life and thus the world.

Blessed be all those who seek and try.

Gavin and Yvonne

Hinton, West Virginia

I

The Witch’s Magical Life

WHAT WITCHES DO

If you were to follow a Witch around for a day, you would find that more than 90 percent of her life is not that different from your own. It is the other 10 percent that you might find unusual. That is the time when she does magical and mundane procedures that make her more in tune with the universe; procedures that help her gain the things she needs, and that let her lead a more serene life.

We can categorize the things that a Witch does under several headings.

1. Studies her Environment. In a Witch’s house you will find many books, both old and new. Through them she understands as much as she can of economics, sociology, ecology, and working with her mother Gaea, the Earth.

2. Predicts the Future. She may use a deck of tarot cards, a pendulum, or the traditional crystal ball. She believes that if she cannot foretell future events, there is little point in doing a spell to change them. That would be like playing Blind Man’s Bluff.

3. Directs the Force. She uses her own inborn energy, and energy from outside sources (the Force), to aid in many different areas of life. Typically those areas include healing and changing the future. As you read through this book, you will learn that further sources of energy include:

a. energy from ancient god-forms, stored in the god-forms by the prayers of thousands of worshipers;

b. energy she has stored in her own special favorite deities or psychostores³;

c. natural energies from rocks, stones, and specific locations on the surface of the earth;

d. energy from the movements and alignments of heavenly bodies.

4. Attains Altered States of Consciousness. Through techniques she has learned, she enters altered states of consciousness to:

a. obtain information that is otherwise not available to her;

b. astrally visit other people, places, and times;

c. release trapped spirits (ghosts) from the earth plane and help them progress;

d. help in soul retrieval so that people who have had traumatic experiences can become whole again.

The altered-state part of her work falls under the heading of channeling. The information she receives may come privately in her own mind while she sits quietly in meditation; or it may come through as a voice speaking to a listener, as it did in the work of Edgar Cayce. Many people call the astral-travel part of the work (that Witches have done for centuries) shamanic journeying.

5. Spirituality. The Witch’s belief system comprises a whole alternative spirituality in what we now call the religion of Wicca.⁴

As you work through this book, you will catch glimpses of the spiritual belief structure. One of the most significant and important parts is a total belief in reincarnation. The Witch recognizes that she has lived on this plane of existence in every conceivable shell (or physical body). She can go back into her own past lives to understand such things as the properties of a specific herb or what it really means to be a cat. Thus she often surrounds herself with animals, especially those animals that are damaged in one way or another. Do not be surprised to find that she has three-legged dogs and one-eyed cats in her home, or that she talks to animals, plants, and trees.

These five aspects of a Witch’s magical life can be summarized as shown in Figure 1-1. This book concentrates on the magical aspect of her work, remembering that it is but one of the bases about which her whole life revolves and not the whole story. Notice that at the center of Figure I-1 is the Deity. That is the Ultimate Deity, the god above all gods. She realizes that there is something at the center, which may be unnameable but is still a reality. Her life is a balanced whole; it is not fragmented.

FIGURE I-1

Aspects of a Witch’s Magical Life

MAGIC IS REAL

In many of our lectures, especially to student audiences, we ask attendees to do the hands-across-palm experiment.⁵ They point the fingers of one hand at the palm of the other (without touching) and gently move the pointing hand past the palm of the other. Most people—especially if they are relaxed—can feel a slight breeze or definite change of temperature as the energy from the fingertips hits the palm of the motionless hand. For many students this is their first magical moment or epiphany: Suddenly what we are saying becomes real. This is the energy that the Witch uses in her work. It is in every living thing, and is in itself no more good or evil than our two favorite examples, electricity and gravity.

You can prove to yourself in other ways that psychic energy or the Force really exists. One popular means is a small device known as the Crookes Radiometer. Professor Crookes invented it during his term as president of the British Psychical Research Society. You can often find radiometers in children’s toy stores or science stores, and they are available at a scientific level from Edmund Scientific.⁶ The radiometer resembles a little paddle wheel inside an evacuated (vacuum) light bulb. The vanes or paddles are white or silver on one face and black on the reverse. When energy hits them, they revolve inside the bulb.

Set up the radiometer and a flashlight as shown in Figure 1-2, adjusting the flashlight until the vanes rotate very slowly. Then point your fingers at the radiometer. Silently will it to speed up or to stop, whichever you prefer. The radiometer will react to your intent; the speed of its turning will vary with your level of energy. Early in the morning when you are bright, the radiometer will react almost immediately. In the evening after a long day’s work, it will respond more slowly—or may not change. We have found, too, that when you are in a state of sexual tension, the radiometer will react more quickly than when you are relaxed.

If a radiometer is not available, try putting a ping-pong (table tennis) ball on a level surface of glass or other smooth, polished material, then cupping your hand around the ball. Depending on your intent, your hand will either attract or repel the ball.⁷ This is more challenging than the radiometer; but many people can do it when they are up, especially if they try patiently and really get the feel of the thing. Work in short sessions: If the mind gets bored with the effort, it will shut down and make no response at all. Then only in special circumstances, where you need to demonstrate this possibility, will it be able to do it again. We often say that once you’ve convinced yourself of your force, the mind regards the playing of parlor tricks as unworthy.

FIGURE I-2

Radiometer Experiment

These simple experiments change people’s lives. They suddenly realize that knowledge of the Force born in them has been a carefully guarded secret, and that they have been denied their birthright.

In one instance Yvonne addressed a graduating class of Lutheran ministers and had them do the hands-across-palm experiment. Five of the men promptly gave up their vocation. One followed her home to learn more about the Craft.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FORCE

Psychic power, the Force, has some unusual characteristics. First and foremost, it is bioplasmic energy; in other words, it can be generated most easily from people. It can also be stored in inanimate objects that one might call mascots or hearth god/esses.⁸ It is available as well from certain classes of minerals (foremost of these are crystals), and from the cosmos itself. It is present along earth fault lines, near flowing water, and from many other sources. Many Witches seek out one or more of these places of power, as Carlos Castaneda calls them. Some authors build a whole occult system on their one epiphanic discovery, little realizing that there are other places of power—and that all are well known.

A competent Witch examines her environment for sources of this all-important Force because she can easily deplete her own energy in magical work and she needs places where she can recharge herself or call upon more energy to do the task at hand.

One characteristic of the Force that seems to be little understood is that it is tuneable. Just as you tune an old-fashioned radio to get the station you want, so you tune the Force to do the task you want it to do. Imagine if you like that instead of the radio tuning in various stations, it tunes in various intents. Figure I-3 shows a psychic radio and transmitter. At one end of the dial there might be Love, at the other, Attack; and as you go along the dial you may find such options as Healing, Luck, and other intents that may help you in a spell to fulfill your dream.

To tune her radio to a specific intent, a Witch uses what one might call mind keys. Written records dating back as far as two millennia reveal the systems that various magical workers have used to tune the Force for various intents. In groundbreaking work, Yvonne cross-correlated these old sources and constructed a table of correspondences. In a typical table the mind keys for a spell to gain wealth might be as shown in Table I-1.

FIGURE I-3

Your Psychic Radio and Transmitter

Intent: WEALTH

TABLE I-1

Mind Triggers for Gaining Wealth ⁹

In addition, if you’re turned on by astrology, you could think of the sign Leo in the sun, and of fire. Tables such as Table I-1 are of inestimable value to the capable Witch; yet paradoxically they should not be taken as absolute gospel for your work. They are only a guide; they depend on thinking of the various frequencies of the force as colors, sounds, aromas, feelings, and emotions. The keys that you feel are appropriate for wealth may not be the traditional keys—and what is more, they may change from day to day depending on your wealth associations and on your mood. Let us say that you associate red with the curing of a blood disease. You might associate red with Valentine’s Day, or with the red roses of true love. Yet if you look at a traditional table, true love is associated with Venus and green. Therefore you should sit down and quietly meditate before you do a spell, to decide exactly what mind keys you should use to get tuned for your desired frequency. It may be useful to get one of those 64-crayon boxes that contain a wide range of colors. Simply selecting the appropriate crayon and coloring a piece of paper with it is enough to give you a basic tuning. Then you can add the other mind keys for reinforcement.

We do not know exactly why, but timing of spells is critical for greatest effectiveness. It seems that your highest emotional output peaks with the phases of the moon. At full moon and new moon, when ocean tides are highest, your output is at its maximum. You can also reinforce and strengthen it by spinning in a circle as described fully in Chapter III. With such a combination of factors you are creating the Human/Earth Dynamo Effect (HEDE).

THE WEB OF THE WYRD

In convincing your own mind that what Witches do is real and effective and practical, the next step you may want to take is a little experiment that we have our students do. We have them send to a good friend, in the middle of the night, a powerful mind-picture of red roses. Ninety percent of students report that when they try, they succeed—that the target person has a dream in which roses figure prominently or that the target wakes with the strong desire to buy red roses. We believe that this works by what is loosely called a telepathic link. Earlier you formed some kind of psychic link to the target person. Along the link you send the intent of dreaming about or wanting red roses. Various experiments show that the link is not limited to one single other person. If you expand your experimental work you will find that you can send the same picture to many friends all at once.

Because of this and similar research, Witches believe that all living things are interconnected by psychic links. There is a great psychic internet. All you have to do to influence someone is to know their right address—in this case a psychic link—and use the appropriate mind keys to tune your transmitter to the right intent. When you send that message out on the psychic internet, it strengthens the psychic link between you and the target. Capable occultists who can actually see these links will tell you that the link glows with the message and (carrying on with the metaphor) the link will change color with the intent.

RENATA’S WHITE CADILLAC

Renata M lives now in the deep South and is pursuing a new career as the manager of a telemarketing firm. For many years she headed the psychology department of a major medical university in the northeast. Her epiphany occurred when she found that so much of the healing lore she gained through her African-American heritage still worked in a modern hospital—for instance, that laying on hands almost halved the time needed for a fractured bone to heal. Abruptly disenchanted with modern allopathic medicine, she gave up her respected and well-paid position and moved to Georgia to be nearer her family. For a short time she was relatively strapped financially.

Her old faithful Cadillac chose precisely that time to expire. She patched it together, but knew that replacing it was only a matter of time. She visited several Cadillac dealers and in one showroom she saw a vintage white Cadillac convertible with (would you believe?) powder-blue upholstery.

She knew that car was destined to be hers, and she took steps to acquire it. She visualized the car in her future, and through channeling she outlined the path she needed to take to get it. First, of course, she had to stop the car being sold to someone else; so effectively she hexed the car as it sat there in the showroom. Every time she went to the dealership to get a new part for her old clunker, she renewed the hex. A couple of times salespeople came over when they saw her standing near it and told her what a good deal she could get on it because no one wanted it.

In parallel with the hex on the car, she started looking for a new job. She was way over-qualified for most of the work on offer. Finally she found a position as a mid-level manager designing telemarketing sales pitches. Her old classroom voice came in handy and she soon became the voice of the firm. The company prospered and Renata got her life into fair order—except that she still didn’t have her Cadillac. On the day after Christmas 1991 her heart sank at the empty spot on the showroom floor where her car had stood for so long. When her office reopened on the 27th, the Cadillac was parked in her boss’ spot. You bought my Cadillac? she demanded incredulously.

Damn thing! I bought it for my wife—and she won’t drive it! Until I unload it she’s got my Beemer. What do you mean, ‘your’ Cadillac?

I’ve wanted that car since the first day I saw it. The emotion in her voice must have been obvious.

Okay, I’ll do you a deal. You take the Caddy in lieu of this year’s bonus, and we’ll call it square.

Renata knew that the value of the Cadillac was many times that of any possible bonus, so she readily agreed and drove home that evening in her white Cadillac.

MIND KEYS

You can see that Renata did two things:

1. She hexed the Cadillac by thinking thoughts of an accident at it.

2. She put a psychic link between herself and the Cadillac, trying to draw it to her and to get it actually in her future.

People have different ways of visualizing emotion. Most of us see colors and immediately associate them with emotions; e.g., red for rage, green for love, brown for depression. Seeing is not the only sense. You also have smell, in which you might think of a sharp, acrid orange for rage, or lavender for motherly love. Similarly you have hearing. You might hear a blast of trumpets for rage and a pleasant Viennese waltz for love. In tables of mind keys, sounds have largely been reduced to various chants—fast, slow, staccato, and so on—to suit the various intents. Further, there is taste. Something could taste really awful for rage or very pleasant for love (maybe chocolate). Also there is touch (in occult terms, tactition). Something really rough and gravelly could equate to rage, whereas something smooth and velvety would be more loving. Almost all the senses have their equivalent healing therapies. Two that are currently popular are color and aromatherapy.¹⁰

The more of your senses you can trigger with mind keys, the more effective will be the pulse of energy you send along the psychic internet. In Renata’s case, she could actually put her hands on the Cadillac in the showroom and will the energy directly into it. This is exactly the same procedure that a spiritual healer might do when she lays hands on afflicted people to heal them.

EXAMPLES OF PSYCHIC HEALING

Our files contain thousands of cases of psychic healing. They range from our daughter (then four years old) laying hands on a visitor’s heel and curing his torn Achilles’ tendon, to Yvonne’s making a growth on a cow go away before the skeptical eye of a journalist. The laying on of hands is effective; it works; and it is easily demonstrated. Many hospitals now have touching nurses in the wards especially for broken bones. They lay hands on the broken limbs—and lo and behold, the bones