Materials Need:
One triangular piece of parchment (or paper)
One black candle
Incense - Sandalwood; Lotus and Passionflower make great additions to the spell.
One black candle (or white if you're uncomfortable with black)
Incense - Dragonsblood
Amber, Amethyst, Aventurine, and Moss Agate
Practitioner's Ribbon (based on Ring of study)
PREPARATION
This is a simple 7-day spell designed to invite a lasting serenity into your life. Write upon a triangular piece of parchment the word "SERENITY," then below it, remove the first letter to write "ERENITY," then below that, "RENITY," so on and so forth, forming a tornado shape until the word is writ. Refer to the caption for a visual aid. As you are doing this, think about what serenity means to you - serenity in your self, your home, your work, your relationships; your Life.
Place upon your altar the incense you have selected, and place the SERENITY paper beneaththe black candle. "Drape your Practitioner's Ribbon across your shoulders and place the stones upon the altar in their corresponding directions."
If you wish, cast a circle or otherwise create sacred space; then, ground and center yourself, and light the incense.
The Spell
Set the candle burning. Recall the feelings you felt as you wrote out SERENITY. Take the positive feelings and give them to the flame of the candle, letting them disperse with the energy of the spell, as you say,
"Beneath this candle, burning bright,
In spiral, a word, unto the night:
Serenity is my heart's delight,
An end to all life's baneful blight.
Bring this graceful peace to me,
That all who cross my path shall see:
My life shall go forth peacefully;
As I will, so shall it be!"
Allow the candle to burn for a while; if you're using stick or cone incense, allow it to burn as long as the incense does. Then, for the next seven days, around the same time you initially cast the spell, let the candle burn for a time, so that on the seventh day, there is but a snub left. At this time, burn the SERENITY paper in the flame of the dying candle (please, do so in the safest manner possible!). Scatter whatever ashes you may collect around the doorway to your bedroom, or the main doorway into your home, and bury the candle wherever convenient (preferably as near to your front door as possible).
Witchy Notes:
Ideal time for initial spellcasting: a Saturday night during the waxing moon; if possible, time it so that the final burning and scattering of the ashes will be on the Full Moon. I understand this may seem mixed up; Saturday is a day for banishing of energies, etc; black is a candle of banishment and so on and so forth. But the key thing in my design of this spell is making room for the serenity to enter your life - so it's increasing magick as well as decreasing magick. Furthermore, I like to draw on the protective power of the black candle to help ensure that nothing else may come in with the serenity desired; after all, a wanton thought or lack of focus can make a wrinkle in even the most skillful magician's work.
For practitioners of Dragon Magick: I didn't include this in the instructions of the spell because I felt it would be common knowledge, and those witches not working with Dragon Magick would have had that much more to skip over, but! I highly recommend working with the Dragons of Light and Dark in a spell such as this. Do NOT invoke Chaos Dragons unless your life is so hellishly stressful that you really and truly think you would need their aid; remember that Chaos Dragons see only the goal at hand, and only then if it is for the Greater Good; the means of getting to that goal may be fore more than you're willing to undergo for a simple spell like this.
Deity correspondences: I've intentionally not included deity correspondences for this spell. Go with whatever deities you normally use in your daily devotional practices; for what it's worth, though, I don't recommend the "darker" aspected of deities; for instance, my primarily devoted God and Goddess are Cernunnos and the Morr'igan, and while I would, in my mind, draw on Her power as always in my magickal working, I would not specifically ask for Her input in a spell such as this.
Credit: pagan-space.blogspot.com
