Dissecting Spells
Lesson 13 - Demo

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A Balm for Abundance

 

To make a useful balm, blend a small jar of cold cream together with the following: 2 drops of green food coloring, 2 teaspoons rose water, 1 teaspoon almond extract, 1/4 teaspoon powdered clove, 1 teaspoon mint extract, and 1 tablespoon of honey. Beat the ingredients until well incorporated, always stirring clockwise for growing, positive energy. Chant while you stir, "I leave my life no more to chance, I evoke the power of abundance!" Visualize your needs being met. Make a label for the preparation that states its purposeÑ"Bounteous Balm," for example. Use this cream on pulse points or areas of dry skin to bring revitalization physically, spiritually, and financially. If you can't find rose water, substitute dried, powdered rose petals or scented oil.

 

Gerneral Uses

Improving finances. Increasing ideas or creativity. Spiritual growth. Flourishing magical gardens.

 

Timing

Generally during the waxing to full moon. During moon signs of Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, or Pisces. Spring (specifically April and May).

 

Green is often associated with money. Here in the U.S. it is the color of our paper money, but I think that the folk traditions used it as well, and they would not have had this reference. It is also often associated with the heart chakra. Perhaps it has more to do with the feeling of abundance, of comfort, of a home well-provisioned with food from the fields.

 

Roses, cloves, and almonds tend to be on the expensive side. Perhaps at some point mint was, too. So including these might be a way of making an "act of faith" in abundance, so to speak. Using expensive ingredients to attract abundance.

 

Honey, of course, comes from bees. I think the association here is with their industriousness. The phrase "busy as a bee" is all but commonplace. This element of the spell, I think, reinforces that though abundance is being requested, there is not the idea that it will be a "free ride."

 

Stirring clockwise makes sense, as it is a common practice to associate the movement of the sun, moon, and stars, as "forward" or "growing" and any movement to the reverse as "diminishing" or "backwards." Similarly, the practice of doing this sort of magick during a waxing Moon, while the Moon appears to grow from our viewpoint, makes sense when one wants to increase something.

Placing the balm on pulse points makes sense, as that is where scents tend to be most effective, even just commercial perfume. Not sure exactly why - perhaps the closeness of bloodflow to the surface increases temperature? Whatever the reason, the scent seems to be "activated" more at such points, and so to would this balm be. On dry skin patches, too, that is a symbolic way of directing the energy of the spell to where it is needed in your life, by placing the balm where it can be most helpful to your skin.