Hi, my loves and welcome to WiccaNow. Recently I’ve been sharing a few of my favourite spells and recipes with you, like this healing spell, this easy love spell, my favourite Ostara recipes, this recipe for banishing salt and this full moon money spell. While writing up the last post, I realised that there is a vital ingredient of the spell which could probably be explained more, namely mirrors and mirror magick.
There is a lot of superstition around mirrors, right? We’ve all heard the old wives tale that if you break a mirror you’ll get seven years bad luck. What about saying the word “Candyman” 5x into a mirror and a malevolent spirit appears to murder you? There are also superstitions that if a mirror is broken it means that someone in the household is going to die. Are any of these example true? No, absolutely not!
There may be the odd case where a mirror has broken and not too long after someone has passed away. Are those two connected? I highly doubt it. Mirrors are broken every day and people die every day, it’s only natural that at some point those two will coincide.
The same goes for luck, if you believe you’re unlucky, you’ll be unlucky. If you believe you’re always unlucky then you end up manifesting that in your life. Or at least, you’ll notice the situations where you’re luck hasn’t been amazing more so than the situations where you’ve had good luck. It’s often a matter of perspective.
Anyway, back to topic! Mirror magick is something that many witches use on a regular basis. Mirrors are useful as energy amplifiers, they can be used for protection, they can be charged with a particular energy, they can be used for scrying and they are wonderful when used for banishing magick. On top of this, they are also great if you are trying to do any magick to do with self-improvement or moving past obstacles in your life.
My Top 5 Uses For Mirrors In Magickal Practice
Mirror Magick Use #1 Trapping Energy by Charging Mirrors
Using mirrors as a tool in your magickal practise is wonderful. They can be used to “trap” the energy of any situation that you find particularly powerful. If you love the sound of the waves and the ocean, you can take a mirror with you next time you go to the beach and leave it close to the waves. It’ll absorb that powerful natural energy and then you can use the mirror in spell work at a later date. Awesome right?
Mirrors are often used in moon magick too. It’s not really surprising that the two are so closely tied to each other given that mirrors are often round and look a little like the moon in the right light. Place a few mirrors out next time there is a full moon to charge them. If you want to use them for a particular purpose, consider using a symbol in order to charge them for that purpose.
For example, you might want to charge a mirror with the power of the moon in order to provide you with protection. Simply draw a protection symbol onto the mirror before the full moon, then place it in the moonlight to charge overnight. When you want to use the protection of the charged mirror, simply place it in the spot you want to be protected, or place the object you want protected onto it, and away you go!
If you’re in a pinch and really need to perform a spell, but need the moon to be in a specific phase for this spell to be effective, you can use mirror magick to help you out. Draw a representation of the moon phase you need to use on a mirror which you’ve already charged in the moonlight and it’ll work as a replacement for the moon phase you needed to use. Handy right?
Mirror Magick Use #2 Amplifying
Mirrors, like crystals, can help to amplify the power of your spell. Next time you’re casting a spell, add a small mirror on your altar (or wherever you’re casting your spell from) and see if it increases the success of your spell. You know how, if kept in a certain position in a room where the sun hits it, a mirror can focus the sunlight so strongly that it can burn the house down? This is also how a mirror works in magick.
Just like a mirror can amplify light, it can increase the strength and potential of any energy that’s directed at it. Set up a mirror (even better, a charged mirror) so it reflects the ingredients of your spell or ritual and complete the spell as normal. For an extra-strong spell, why not also add a crystal which corresponds to the kind of spell your…
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