More on Christian banishments

One of my students emailed me a couple of questions. She was especially concerned about the use of prayer as a form of manipulative magick. Below, are her questions and my answers.

1. What are the classifications for the God and Goddess candle?

I’m not sure what you meant here. If you’re asking what element they belong to, they represent deity so either they are above elements or it could be said that they belong to the fifth element, spirit. If you’re asking about gender, the God candle is male and the Goddess candle is female. Also, once consecrated and dressed, they are considered altar tools just like an athame or pentacle.

If I’ve misunderstood your question, perhaps you can rephrase it so my poor stuffy head can understand what you’re asking.

2. What kind of protection spells are effective against Christian prayers?

It was quite astute of you to recognize prayer as a system of magick. A prayer is a petitionary type of spell. The basic difference between a prayer and a spell is as you said the Christian doesn’t recognize personal empowerment so they call upon a higher power than themselves to change their reality. Whereas, the witch realizes that they have a connection to divinity and therefore have it within themselves to effect change in their reality via an act of will (almost the textbook definition of magick.)

Yes, you were also correct to see Christian prayers directed at you (or in their parlance, “prayed for you”) as a form of manipulative magick, and therefore a violation of the Rede. In this case, you would be justified in performing a binding, or banishment. However, unless you know the specific parties, a binding/banishment might be ineffectual to say possibly harmful if you bound the wrong entity. Yes, I might magickally nuke an entire congregation to get the guilty party but that’s just me.

If you Google “Christian banishing” I have the number one spot on the returned list of hits. Ah, the notoriety.

So let’s instead deflect their these prayer/spells.

Here’s what I wrote—just in jest mind you.

Any Christian who genuflects with a "hallelujah" on his lips,
Should be strangled with a rosary and bludgeoned with a crucifix.
Crowd your self-righteous pews with congratulations on being one of the few
If your faith decrees and you must save my soul, pray for me if you like.
And, I'll dance free and naked in the forest for you in the full moon light.

Let’s see if we can make the above a little more practical for our intentions

(Suggested stones: Amber & Jet—if you can get it, or I’d use either a nice smooth and flat piece of snowflake obsidian, Hematite, or onyx—these are more readily available. If all else fails, ask Kris, we may have some obsidian.

Correspondences

Obsidian Snowflake / Hematite (Mirror Stone)

· Absorbing and grounding negative energy, Reflecting evil, healing, and balances energy flow

· Element: Earth

· Planet: Saturn

· Planet Day: Saturday

· Gender: Feminine

· Planetary Hours: 06:28-07:38, 14:37-15:48, 22:17-23:04, 03:52-04:41

Hemp (Cannabis Sativa)

· Healing, Love, Visions, Meditation, Psychic Ability, and Divination

· Element: Water

· Planet: Saturn

· Planet Day: Saturday

· Gender: Feminine

· Planetary Hours: 06:28-07:38, 14:37-15:48, 22:17-23:04, 03:52-04:41

Casting the Spell

1. Using the hot glue gun, attach the pendant fastener to the crystal.
2. Run or otherwise connect the hemp cord to or through the fastener.
1. If using more than one color cord, you made braid the cords. Be sure to tie off the ends otherwise, the braids will unravel.
3. Place the amulet within a magick circle, and or upon a pentacle in order to charge the amulet. You may leave the object for a time to charge or proceed straightaway to the mechanics of casting in the following steps.

In addition, a protection sigil could be painted onto the amulet or some other personal article.

We haven’t discussed sigils yet so instead of a sigil we’ll just use a pentagram. Using modeling paint or some such, paint a sigil or pentagram upon one side of the stone and some other power symbol that has meaning for you upon the other side. Maybe you could use gold & silver paint?

Next taking the hemp cord—I know Kris has plenty of this along with fasteners and clasps—a fastener/clasp and fashion a necklace amulet out of the stone, hemp cord, fasteners, and clasp while saying the below activation spell clause.

Silvery light of crystal hematite (or obsidian),

Your glowing surrounds me, and leaves me protected.

Unwanted energies directed at me are deflected.

Herb of hemp encircles me like smoke about my head.

Protect me from unwanted prayer energy that cause me dread.

(Hold the finished amulet out before you and recite)

Crowd your self-righteous pews,

With congratulations on being one of the few.
If you must save my soul, pray for me if you like.
And, I'll dance free, unaffected, and fully protected,

Your unneeded prayers reflected, by might of my shield of silvery light.

(Take the newly charged talisman in your hand and see a shield of light form around you. Now whenever you have need of it you can call upon this talisman to envelop you in a shield of light which reflects all unwanted prayer energy away from you and recite:)

This is my spell; this is my will.

As it is above, so it is manifest below.

It is my bidding that you reflect all harm and negativity away from me.

So mote it be

Perform the spell on a Saturday, preferably during a new moon or waning lunar quarter—ideally; the moon should be in Capricorn (just for the Saturn correspondence.) If you must choose, then choose lunar phase over day. Plan your working during the hours of 06:28-07:38, 14:37-15:48, 22:17-23:04, or 03:52-04:41. When performing the spell recite the incantation three times.