Making a pillow of Dreams

«Autumn, shorter days, longer nights…»

The nights are made to dream. To help us in our work with dreams, we make pillows with the traditional magical herbs that favor our children to relax, have deep dreams and then remember to share them… Younger children enjoy filling the pillow with the herbs, but the older ones prefer to carry out the whole process, from cutting the fabric boxes, sewing them, stuffing them and decorating them.

Dream pillows should not be the size of a normal pillow (we would need kilos of herbs to fill them). We can do them in two ways: a large, flat pillow, without much filler, so that your children sleep directly on them, or a smaller one, that is stored under our pillow during the day, and when it’s time to sleep we put our Pillow of dreams above the regular one so as to breathe all night the magic aroma of herbs…

For a small dream pillow two pieces of 15cm x 15cm square fabric are used, the larger ones to suit your own taste. It is important to choose a natural fabric: cotton, silk or linen. Children like to choose the color or pattern, a delicious option is to recycle and look between old clothes and fabrics that we have stored, the magic result of the pillow is highened by the memory associated with that garment … Velvet Is also the favorite of children.

With the chosen fabric and cut, we fasten with needles with good sides in the interior and face to face, sew with simple stitches, preferably manually (adding personality and emotional value when doing it entirely by hand), leaving 2.5cm (1″) from the edge . The central space must be at least 7cm, once sewn, the pillow is turned over and the corners are pushed out with the aid of a pencil. Now we proceed to filling, with two generous bags of dried herbs, and including a generous amount of lavender (or another to your personal taste).

Filling options: dried lavender flowers, dried rose petals, dried chamomile flowers (which traditionally help to sleep), melissa, agrimony (helps to sleep to those with emotional problems), dry rosemary (good to remember dreams), anise (prevents nightmares), yarrow, purslane, thyme (helps in depression), chestnut leaves (to have pleasant dreams), lemon balm, clove, mint (to cause refreshing dreams that encourage rest).

Once we fill our dream pillow, we sew the opening that remains. Perhaps your children want to decorate and personalize the pillow: sewn cords, or hanging from the corners, some canvas applique sewn on the pillow with special decoration. … When we notice that our pillow loses aroma, it is enough to shake it so that it again releases its fragrance. We can also open it and renew the herbs when it suits us.

Blessings…. Elhoim

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October, Full Moon in Aries 🌕 ♈️

October Full Moon

Hunter Moon or Blood Moon

October full moon is the tenth lunar month of the year, the month of October takes its name from a Latin word which literally means «eight months» because in the Roman calendar it was the eighth month of the year. Switching to the Gregorian calendar this became the tenth month but kept the name.

During this month the moon takes a slight reddish therefore became known as the red moon or blood moon, not to be confused with the lunar eclipse. (Blood Moon.). This month the Sun God is aligned with the zodiac sign of Libra while the Goddess Lunar aligns with the sign of Aries.

The Traditional gem related to the lunar month of October is Opal and Tourmaline, and its flower is the marigold. The animal totem that protects this month is the totem of the hunter, the pig and the dog. The colors usually associated with this month are purple, indigo, dark green and black. The gems we can bless during this month are opals, diamonds, tourmaline, obsidian and turquoise. The flowers and herbs with greater magical power this month correspond to wonder flower the hyacinth, calendula, catnip, ginger, patchouli and star anise.

The October full moon has special powers over all forms of Witchcraft and Wizardry, increasing magical powers, is the moon that has the power to bring the dead back from beyond, summon familiar spirits and void the magical powers of witches and evil necromancers. It is the moon that guards Halloween, All Saints Eve and all Souls Eve, so the October moon is closely related to the powers of the underworld, hidden paths between life and death as well as the doors to other worlds.

October’s full moon is also known in other cultures as The Travel Moon and the Moon of dying grass.

The Moon in Aries

When the Moon is in the fire signs like Aries, Leo or Sagittarius, it is the ideal moment for Magic that involves Fire element, Sun and Light. The fire signs give us power through the Moon and we can use it for spells that will feed the Passion and Greatness.

On the Moon of Fire we conjure salamanders, ancient spirits that inhabit the fire. Red is the color for the candles that we use in the ritual space during this day. It is preferable that the Altars for this Magic face South if possible.

The Moon in Aries, it’s time for magic protection spells involving wisdom, intuition development, increase our own energy and self-confidence, healing rituals and talismans that feed with the power to fight fury and injustice.

During this Moon we can perform rituals to combat apathy, laziness and appease the reckless character of someone close, it’s also correct to perform magic to help us to take urgent decisions, spells related to value, freedom and excitement.

Here Special ritual for the October moon
Here Elemental fire rite

Here The moon & your work projects

Here Moon Magic

Here Magic Mirror Spell to Protect Our Home

Here About My First Book – Wicca! Love & Soul!

Material from the books:

«Wicca! Love & Soul» and «Rites of Happiness»

Author: Elhoim Leafar © Copyright

Available in: CreateSpace   Amazon Kindle   Barnes&Noble

Tradition in Modern Times

It is very nice to see how traditions have slowly retaken the faith of humanity and even today we live in a society overloaded with information, social networks and thousands of electronic products and unnecessary applications covering most of our time, still the old traditions have been retained and have recently begun to gain more strength as community role.

It is true that the world is currently saturated with technological advances, many of them useful and others simply a vile scam from the corporate world to get the money from your pockets. Still, this ensures that many people seek more within themselves than they can find in a digital store, and it is there where the old traditions, steadfast, and vibrant as in the early centuries.

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Honoring the old traditions not only satisfies you emotionally and spiritually, also gives you the opportunity to find your ancestors, sharing with them and honor them as they worshiped their deities and customs when they were part of this world of living things.

Traditions allow us to honor the past and all those who came into the world before us, but they must be taken with an honest respect and should be practiced at heart. Traditions are often colorful and cheerful festivities, others are quite often sad and nostalgic, but all in turn are a way to celebrate life changes, joy and humanity in different ways.

If you study the traditions of your people and your family and you carry out, you’re rediscovering with your roots and your ancestors, but… When you study traditions of other peoples and countries in one way or another you become part of them, and you go to reacquaint yourself with the world.

Elhoim Leafar

From: Rites Of Happiness

Magick Elemental Rituals…

Some Advices

Here I list a series of personal recommendations based on my experience. You can probably find them helpful and really hope so.

My first suggestion to perform rituals is very important. Do not comment outside your circle of trusted friends and family the realization of these rituals to not attract unnecessary envy that will only end up becoming a bad energy for us and our purpose.

My second suggestion is to do your best to perform the rituals in the day that I am indicating to have a greater effect, but if for some reason you ind it difficult, you can perform them a few days later provided you do not wait until after the Full Moon on the month when magic becomes slow and complex.

My third suggestion is that you prepare yourself physically and emotionally for the ritual, meditate a few minutes before do not do it if you are stressed or depressed and I advise you give yourself a good shower with natural essences and / or bath salts so that everything is made on the best way.

Elhoim Leafar

Elemental Air Ritual here

Elemental Fire Ritual here

Elemental Water Ritual here

Earth Elemental Ritual here

From the Book: Rites Of Happiness

More Rituals Here

Tradition in Modern Times…

It is very nice to see how traditions have slowly retaken the faith of humanity and even today we live in a society overloaded with information, social networks and thousands of electronic products and unnecessary applications covering most of our time, still the old traditions have been retained and have recently begun to gain more strength as community role.

It is true that the world is currently saturated with technological advances, many of them useful and others simply a vile scam from the corporate world to get the money from your pockets.

Still, this ensures that many people seek more within themselves than they can find in a digital store, and it is there where the old traditions, steadfast, and vibrant as in the early centuries.

Honoring the old traditions not only satisfies you emotionally and spiritually, also gives you the opportunity to find your ancestors, sharing with them and honor them as they worshiped their deities and customs when they were part of this world of living things.

Traditions allow us to honor the past and all those who came into the world before us, but they must be taken with an honest respect and should be practiced at heart.

Traditions are often colorful and cheerful festivities, others are quite often sad and nostalgic, but all in turn are a way to celebrate life changes, joy and humanity in different ways.

If you study the traditions of your people and your family and you carry out, you’re rediscovering with your roots and your ancestors, but … When you study traditions of other peoples and countries in one way or another you become part of them, and you go to reacquaint yourself with the world.

Elhoim Leafar

From: Rites Of Happiness

June Rite for Balance…

June is the month of Juno, protective Goddess of marriage and family, Queen of Heaven and of the Gods. We say goodbye to the half year with a balancing ritual for luck and energy in our favor.

The following completely herbal ritual allows you to balance the positive energies from home and avoid unnecessary discussions.

By the first day of June in a comfortable space of our home we make a magical circle, light a stick of incense of frankicense and a purple candle.

Mix in your little cauldron or bowl at least 4 of the following dried and ground, angelica herbs, basil, liverwort, rosemary, lavender, clover, verbena or elderberry. Ground them all together in the pot and add a few drops of essential oil of camphor, continue mixing with your hands and sprinkle the mixture on your amulets and doorways of the house.

Burn one more incense stick in every corner of the home after the ritual and proceed to do a complete housecleaning to dissipate the energetic residues of the ritual.

More Rituals here: Rites Of Happiness

May Ritual for Wisdom

May gets its name from Maia, goddess of prosperity and health, with her blessing you receive calm to make good decisions.

One day of the month of May we draw the magic circle, this time we can do this either in a room or in an open space. Burn on a lamp or stove some cinnamon sticks to perfume the atmosphere with its protective magic.

Proceed to fill a small cauldron with a blend of essential oils of fruit or floral scents of your choice, flower petals of different colors, sugar, cinnamon and a piece of peridot or agate. Move the mixture while reciting:

“We wake Nature up and in this ritual we invoke its spirits, make me tolerant, make me patient, make me wise and accompany me in every choice and every step with calm and wisdom.”

Remove the gem from the mixture and bury it as an offering to the spirits. Use the mixture to a post-ritual personal bath.

From the Book: Rites of Happiness, Secrets, Spells & Reflections
Authored by Elhoim Leafar 
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Humility and Wisdom

Humility and Wisdom

To all it has happened to us, in each circle of frequent practitioners of any religion that there is someone who attributes to himself as a leader, who believe themselves to be the best believers and who usually stand out for correcting the novice. I’ve met in my life dozens of believers and practitioners of different ages who seem not to know what is really humility, to the point where so-called «Ego» has become one of our daily bread.

The true believer is humble, responsible, positive, willing and above all, respectful of the beliefs of others. It is a fact that very often young people think they know more than adults by becoming something cynical and even very critical, and very often we make a mistake even worse: following the example of these adults who are usually not just a nice example of humility and equality.

The true believer of the old religion is one who focuses his power to do good and his knowledge to help others, even without them knowing, the true believer is humble, diplomatic and foremost speaks with pride of their own beliefs while respecting those of others. The true believers are to be role models for their community and for their Coven, never promote evil, and by more anger or sadness they feel at anytime they must be able to control their anger and never reveal any kind of curses to anyone for any reason.

The real practitioner when he or she gets angry, does it with humility and respect, bless their enemies even at the worst times and in all circumstances before taking any position or decision thinks:

What will my ancestors think of what I am about to do?.

For the ancestors look after us in every moment of our life and even later, we must show them respect and love, make them feel proud of what we do every day and do everything with love, wisdom and respect for others, you should never make decisions hastily, never make decisions when you’re angry, and for no reason make decisions without thinking about how you can influence your future.

Humility is not a right, it is a duty and as such it should be respected and promoted above all. It is true that many different religions and beliefs criticize us, but we must never demean or degrade by an unknown faith on the contrary we have to do it is stand up proudly and show that we can live together in peace in spite of our differences.

Do not criticize or disqualify the different beliefs or thoughts and neither denigrate or humiliate others, because every time you raise your voice to humiliate someone else you just prove how insignificant and empty you really feel.

Act with Wisdom & Humility before all times…

From my Book: Rites of Happiness

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Full Moon of May 2016, Moon in Sagittarius ♐

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Full Moon in May 2016 ♐

Full Moon in May 

It is the fifth full moon of the year, the name of the month comes from Maia, the Roman goddess of fertility, chastity, wealth and health. May is the month of flowers and berries, the time to fill our home with flower arrangements and roses.

The Moon of May is powerful for performing all kinds of prayers and magic to develop mental faculties, magic to strengthen bones and muscles and all forms of transformation and transmutation magic.

The Moon in the Fire Signs

When the Moon is in the fire signs like Aries, Leo or Sagittarius, it is the ideal moment for Magic that involves Fire element, Sun and Light. The fire signs give us power through the Moon and we can use it for spells that will feed the Passion and Greatness.

On the Moon of Fire we conjure salamanders, ancient spirits that inhabit the fire. Red is the color for the candles that we use in the ritual space during this day. It is preferable that the Altars for this Magic face South if possible.

Moon in Sagittarius ♐

The Moon in Sagittarius, it is the right time to perform magic to take care of our projects and goals, to help us meet them, magic related to optimism and enthusiasm, spells to protect against theft and weapons, to achieve independence, courage and freedom, incantations that involve strengthening our talents and skills, rituals to achieve success and dispelling fear.

During the Moon in Sagittarius we will perform rituals to put a limit to irresponsibility, exaggeration and lack of tact of those around us, we will also make magic involving gambling, good luck and protection of pets.

May Full Moon is also known as the happy moon, flower moon and the corn planting moon.

Moonstone: Emerald.
Moon Flower: Lily.
Color: Yellow and all Shades of Green.
Animal: The Bull and the Eagle.
To bless stones: Amber, Jade and Pearls.
Incense: Angelica and Star anise.

Material from the books:
«Wicca! Love & Soul» and «Rites of Happiness»
Author: Elhoim Leafar © Copyright
Available in: CreateSpace   Amazon Kindle   Barnes&Noble

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The Moon in the Fire Signs
Short Spell for May here
Short Moon Spell for May here

More Spells and Rituals here.

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¿Why Does the Sea Reflect the Moon?

Who knows if finally the Sea fell in love with the Moon?

Who would you ask if finally the Moon made the passionate Sea love her?

Someday we’ll know, or perhaps we will never know.

When it is about the Sea and the Moon they know their secrets.

The Sea hides many secrets and perhaps the Moon does not know them.

Elhoim Leafar   12/20/2005

Rites Of Happiness