The Lesser Banishing Ritual

This is an excellent way to cleanse all negativity out of a given area; it works great as a preritual cleansing for your sacred area, especially if you don't have a designated, twenty-four/seven ritual room/space. Also good to use if you feel the need for an "instant" cleansing or negativity clearing.

This is generally considered a Ceremonial ritual, but anyone can use it. The odd-looking words are the Hebrew words for God. I've approximated the pronunciations here, but don't quote me, as I can't say for sure that I'm pronouncing them right. I just know that when I do the LBR, I can clean a room instantly.

Stand facing the East. Ground and center.
Pull down the energy from above you down to your heart.
Touch your head; say "AH-TAH"
Touch the middle of your chest; say "MAHL-KOOT"
Touch your right shoulder; say "VIG-BOO-RAH"
Touch your left shoulder; say "VIG-DOO-LAH"
Say "LI-OH-LAHM AMEN"; clap your hands in front of you (the clap should be timed so that you're clapping as you say AMEN)

Still standing facing East, hold out your dominant hand in front of you and draw a banishing pentacle in the air at East. Visualize the pentacle in flaming blue, hovering in the air at East. As you draw the pentacle, say "YEH-HEH-VAH-HEH."

Turn to the South, hand still out in front of you. As you turn, imagine that your hand is drawing a blue line of energy starting from the pentacle you just drew at East. Stop at the South, and draw another banishing pentacle, this time saying, "AH-DOH-NYE."

Turn to the West, hand still out in front of you, and draw another blue line that will connect your South to the West. Stop at the West and draw another banishing pentacle, this time saying, "EH-HEH-YEH."

Turn to the North, hand still out in front of you, continuing to draw that blue line of energy. Stop at North, and draw another banishing pentacle, this time saying, "AH-GLAH."

Return to the East, hand still out in front of you, still drawing the blue line of energy. You should visualize the four flaming blue pentacles surrounding you, all connected to each other by that blue line of energy you drew as you turned.

Stop at East, and hold your hands out to either side. Say, "Before me Ra-Fael, behind me Mi-cha-el, to the right of me Gah-briel, to the left of me Aur-riel. Around me flames the pentagram and within me shines the six-rayed star." As you say these words, visualize what you are saying.

Still facing the East, ground and center.
Pull down the energy from above you down to your heart.
Touch your head; say "AH-TAH"
Touch the middle of your chest; say "MAHL-KOOT"
Touch your right shoulder; say "VIG-BOO-RAH"
Touch your left shoulder; say "VIG-DOO-LAH"
Say "LI-OH-LAHM AMEN"; clap your hands in front of you (the clap should be timed so that you're clapping as you say AMEN).

If there are other people in the room/area when you do the LBR (for example, if you are doing this as the preamble to ritual and the other ritual participants are already in the room standing at the various quarters), take special care not to draw the banishing pentacles directly in front of a person or persons. Draw it above their heads, or ask them to move. Why? Because the whole purpose of the LBR is to banish, and drawing banishing pentacles on people could banish those very people. And you don't want to do that!

- Courtesy of Lady Phoenix MoonFlame


Banishing ritual

Hold athame toward sky and say:

Sprits of evil, unfriendly beings, unwanted guests, be gone!
Leave us, leave this place, leave this circle that the gods may enter!
Go or be cast into the outer darkness!
Go or be drowned in the watery abyss!
G o or be burned in the flames!
G o or be torn by the whirlwind!
B y the powers of life, death and rebirth, so mote it be!
I banish you. I banish you. I banish you. Be gone!

- Adapted from Starhawk

Submitted by
Carolyn M.

Banishing Chant to Help Someone Else

• If [name of perpetrator] has hurt [name of target],
• Let him/her be wracked with the same pain.
• If [name of perpetrator] has cheated or lied
• Let him/her be cheated and be slandered.
• If [name of perpetrator] has made this place uncomfortable for [name of target],
• Let [name of perpetrator] now depart this place in health and whole, but not return.

Free Me Spell

Spell to Dispel Jealousy

To Make Someone Leave You Alone

Candle Spell to Stop Harassment

You Will Need:

• a brown human shaped candle
• a pin
• paper and a pen
• honey
• athame

Do this during the waning moon.

Scratch the person's name on the front and back of the candle. On a small piece of paper, write:

• From now on,
• [name] will say nothing but sweet words about me and to me.
• By the power of Aradia, so mote it be!

Put a drop of honey in the middle of the paper and roll it into a ball. Heat your athame, make a gash in the candle (in its mouth, if it's an image candle) and stuff the paper ball into it. Let the candle burn a little while every night for an odd number of nights, to a maximum of nine nights. Throw the remnants into flowing water, but save some candle drippings or ash to sprinkle in the path of your oppressor.

from Z. Budapest's 'The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries'

Spell for Breaking Karmic Contracts with People

(so they don't continue to play the same detrimental roles in your further incarnations.)

On parchment or some other nice quality paper, write in red ink:

• [Name] I declare our contract broken.
• You no longer have power over me.
• Never again will I be your servant, in this life or any other.

(you can use your own words, go into detail about how you feel you've been wronged manipulated, whatever.)

Sign your name, burn it with a black candle. Get rid of the ashes.