Burning The Gibdo's Bandages: A Revealing Spell
So a friend that I considered part of my family is no longer speaking to me due to getting involved with a highly toxic romantic partner. As upset as I am, I also don't want someone I loved like my own brother to stay in the thrall of a terrible person.
Obvious answer was to curse the shit out of her but I haven't been in any sort of state of mind for that to work. But the worst of the grief has faded, and now I thought I'd go about this a little differently. This is a Zelda inspired spell that I intended to be fairly basic and easy to modify, so if you don't practice pop culture magic feel free to modify it so it'll work better for you. If you do I'd love to know what you did!
(Also if you feel the urge to refine the chants, go for it! I'm pretty good at a lot of things but poetry ain't one of them haha.)
Moon phase- I cast this the night of the July 2018 lunar eclipse but if you don't have a conveniently occurring eclipse to mess with the energy of a full moon, it's probably best cast on the night of new/dark/whatever you call it when the moon is entirely hidden moon.
Supplies-
Paper - for the mask
black pen - for banishing the appearance of the positive & reinforcing/strengthening the appearance of the negative
White candle - for revelations and honesty + fire. Black could also work.
Tongs, tweezers, smoking gloves or something similar that will let you handle burning paper - fire safety is important please don't burn yourself/your home.
A fire safe container with a solid bottom - you'll be putting water in here.
Moon/sea water blend- Moon water to melt away the illusions and sea water to cleanse. (Thanks to @baduhennasraven for suggesting the moon water when I asked for advice over on Witchcraft Cafe!)
An activator sound. I used the Sun's Song because of the Zelda undead slaying theme I'm going with but chimes, bells, and clapping would also work. It just needs to be fairly crisp/sharp.
(Optional) herbs for banishing.
(Optional) super blue blood moon water, and/or storm water. It's a bit of extra kick.
(Optional) crystals. If you use them the crystals should correspond to the qualities in your target- to enhance traits to make them impossible to miss, to reduce the target's effectiveness at hiding specific undesirable traits, and/or to counteract specific types of toxicity, etc.
(Optional) Sun and Moon tarot/Lenormand/oracle cards - the Moon is representative of secrets and lies in the case of my particular target, but the Sun illuminates every nook and cranny that my target would like to stay shadowed.
(Optional but strongly recommended!) having wards and shields up. I assume you do but if you don't this is a good thing to do just in case your target cottons on and is also a magic user.
The process-
Pour your water into your container, add any herbs, prop up your cards, etc. If you're using crystals arrange them around your candle in a manner that seems fitting to you. Here's mine.
I used jet to reduce the effect of the target's relationship on my former friend (she's highly insecure and possessive and expresses this in terribly controlling behavior that historically would drive my friend nuts), carnelian and fluorite to reduce her ability to blunt others' perceptions, a clear quartz in place of kyanite to reduce the effectiveness of her manipulations, and a piece of seaglass (which is interchangeable with clear quartz in my particular practice) in place of turquoise to enforce honesty, so when she lies it becomes incredibly obvious.
With the prep work done, make your mask. I made a stylized version of the Gibdo mask, as you can see here-
Once the paper mask is made, write on the back of it with the black pen. "I, <target's full name or nickname you use for them> wear this mask. I am perceived as <powerful/likable/lovable/not a creep/etc>, because I am using this mask to hide <list the contradictory traits>." Here's mine, with my target's full name removed for privacy reasons.
Meditate and/or reflect on how the target's true nature has hurt you or the people you care about. Focus on the feelings this brings up.
Light your candle while doing so and chant/think:
"Despite your well-crafted trappings under all of your wrappings you're withered and full of decay. You certainly tried but from this flame you can't hide. I will it, your mask burns away."
Be extremely careful and light your mask from the flame. (This is where the tongs or something come in- don't hold it in your bare hands jfc) then extinguish it in the moon water.
If it doesn't immediately incinerate because you used decent quality paper, carefully repeat the burning as many times as it takes to be fully incinerated.
(Hey speaking of incineration, I used a page out of an old composition notebook and I didn't need more than one burn to get to the desired level of 'totally black, dissolves when you breathe on it'. In fact, if you're gonna do that or go the spiral notebook route, take it from me and don't use tweezers. The cheap stuff goes up like a christmas tree left by the side of the road for six months. It was an awfully big flame.)
When you're done burning the everloving shit out of your mask, focus on your sun card (or the flame of your candle) and think/chant, "When the sun rises anew with fresh things to do, you receive quite a surprise. Your father and mother, friends siblings and others, the veils all fall from their eyes. To your utmost despair your true self is laid bare and your influence is euthanized."
Focus again on your target's shitty side but this time visualize those qualities coming to the forefront and the effect on their interpersonal relationships that this will have- a SO realizes they're being manipulated, friends call them out or cut them off if they refuse to stop being shitty, etc.
End the spell by chanting/thinking, "from sun to moon, moon to sun, this spell is active until you fix what you've done". Play the Sun's Song or make your loud sharp sound.
Dispose of the ashes and used moon water in running water or flush it down the toilet if your septic system can handle it.
