“On a primal level, I want to have mastery over myself. I want to know things. I want to be able to sink into the ecstasy of my mind, the sorrow, the rage, and come back. I want to have control, I want to lose control. I want to have greater clarity on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level. I want to use witchcraft to be successful and influence my life. I want to know power and I want to have power.

I have to throw away everything I know and come back to the basics, starting over and addressing that raw barking madness lurking at the back of my mind. I have to look into it’s depths and make peace with it. I have to stop stumbling forwards in the dark and step back to see what lurks behind me.

How? How? How? Staring into mirrors until you’ve learnt something. Sitting with yourself and divining the messages of your own spirits. Going deeper into yourself than you ever have. Feel the self-loathing, the self-veneration. Experience completely objectivity of your soul.”

Saining water or holy water is a large part of my practice, I use different saining waters for different purposes. A simple daily ritual I do is to cleanse myself with saining water by dabbing it on each wrist, the back of my neck, and forehead before I leave my home and when I come back, as well as before I give any offerings.

To make this water gather water from a river or stream both the living and the dead have crossed. Natural spring water also works well. The water should be gathered in a non-metal container.

If you want, add a tincture made from any of the following: rowan, juniper, heather, rosemary…

Drop a hag stone (stone with a naturally formed hole in it), a piece of silver (a ring, coin, or necklace chain as long as its pure silver), or three beach stones (one red, one black, one white) into the water.

Blow on the water three times then recite one of the following incantations, speaking so closely to the water that your breath touches the surface of it:

Blessing of Brighde (Brigid):

Toradh, airgead, uisge         Pronounced- Tor-ug, air-eh-ket, ush-keh

Blessings of Brighde on this water

Simple:

By silver and stane may the water be sained

Purification:

In the name of them that can cure or kill,

This water shall cure all earthly ill,

Shall cure the blood and flesh and bone,

For ilka ane there is a stane

May they fleg all trouble, sickness, pain,

Cure without and cure within