#fun diy

Banishing Bad Luck

You will need:

a paper

something to write with

(optional) a candle, preferably black

Steps:

Draw the sigil below or any symbol to represent bad luck. 

Burn it or if you do not have a candle, destroy it in any way possible. Rip it up, stomp on it, put it in the blender, whatever. Just destroy it. If you used the sigil, this will charge it. If you used the symbol this will destroy its influence.

Say either “I banish bad luck now and forever. I shed no tears upon the parting.” or the longer and more poetic, “today is not my day, everything has gone astray, to keep me sane, to keep the peace, bad luck coming my way shall cease, I banish pain, I banish sorrow, God and Goddess bless my tomorrow.” If your practice is more secular, you can modify the last line and say “let me have good luck tomorrow”.

If you are able to bury the remains far away from your property, do it. Say, “Bad luck will go deep in the ground, From now on good luck will follow me around.” 

If you cannot: go far away from your property and blow away the remains. Say, “Bad luck is far away, good luck will come today.”

Now for the actual charm

The charm is a bracelet or talisman to attract good luck. It will be created with herbs and homemade clay.

Ingredients:

2 parts flour

1 part salt 

1 part herbs and spices mixture

warm water until satisfied with consistency 

The herb mixture will be anything that you associate with luck, such as cinnamon, chamomile, allspice, myrrh, cloves, dandelion, nutmeg, sandalwood, star anise, thyme, poppy, pomegranate, turmeric, and mistletoe. Grind as many of these together as possible. 

As you are grinding the herbs say,“herbs of earth fill my life with light, bring me good luck in day and night, this spell is seeped in magic and mystery, make my bad luck a thing of history.”

Mix together all the dry ingredients then add the warm water until you are satisfied with the texture of the clay. Should you accidentally put too much water, add more flour. 

Shape the clay into anything that represents good luck to you. In the picture, I made four leaf clovers, turtles, the word luck, and ladybugs. The turtles have 7 scales each and the ladybugs have 7 spots each. You can even make them into beads and wear them as a bracelet. Here are some more symbols for good luck. When you are done shaping them, say,”This charm is a magnet for all things good, the beholder will attract luck as they should, may positive energy always surround it, may it bring luck for all around it.”

Leave them to dry in the sun for a few days or bake them at 200°F for several hours. If you want to, paint them when they have dried. Green and gold are lucky colours.