Friday Night Ritual

Gather the following items the night before the ritual:

• lined paper
• red and black pen
• bay leaves, or drawings/photos of bay leaves
• cinnamon
• container
• lemongrass essential oil
• lavender essential oil
• lighter

This ritual is to help you relax and relieve stress from the week. It is best to perform this on a Friday night.

Cast your circle using the beginner method. You can view that here:

http://www.spellsofmagic.com/coven_ritual.html?ritual=1298&coven=6 Make sure all of your materials are present inside the circle.

1. In the container, mix 1 tbsp of cinnamon and 13 broken-up bay leaves.
2. Put 3-4 drops of both the lemongrass oil and the lavender oil in the mixture.
3. Taking the pen/s and paper, write 7-13 things that have stressed you out this week in black pen.
4. Repeat on the reverse side in red pen.
5. Sprinkle the herb/oil mixture over the paper, burn it, saying: "To ashes my stresses will go,"
6. Dispose of the ashes and herb/oil mix by burying it at least a foot into the ground.
7. Meditate, if you feel the need to, and close the circle.