To Dispel Sorrow

[Nerdanel_Caitlin]

Nerdanel_Caitlin

A ritual taken from "The Crone's Book of Magical Words" by the poet and amateur astronomer Valerie Worth, which is actually mostly a poetry book, and the spells are made up, but aren't all spells made up at one time or another? Anyway, its beautifully written, and in my experience, it works. You have to be mentally ready to really let go of whatever is making you sad, though. I would suggest and hour of deep meditation, maybe in a cleansing bath, before you begin the spell during which you mentally prepare yourself to give up grief and sadness.

The clay tablet can be substituted with paper, which can be torn apart and then burned or buried. There's something cathartic about breaking the tablet into shards, though.

When world and fate
Conspire to mark
Your life with lines
And characters dark,
Mold a tablet
Of earth or clay
Write on it all
You would cast away--
All you regret
All that you bear,
All that afflicts you
All that you fear--
Break it and bury it
In the ground,
Saying this charm
To heal the wound;

Sorrow be dust
And dust dissolve
Let all my grief
Go into this grave.