Prayers and Wishes

A spell is much like a prayer—it is a way to send your hopes and thoughts and wishes and worries out into the universe, to gain the attention of a deity with the power to help. Sometimes prayers are just general wishes: ‘Please make this better. I wish I had more money. If only I could find love.’ Sometimes they are addressed to a particular god or goddess, or to the universal powers that be. No matter how you look at them, we all have moments when, no matter what form they take, we need to put out a prayer or a wish and hope for an answer.

Think about what you really need or want in your life. Not the little things but the stuff that is really important to you. Then, as many of us did when we were children, wait for the first star to rise in the night sky and send your wish out with all your energy, saying, 'Star light, star bright; first star I see tonight. Wish I may, wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.'

If you get this card, it may be telling you it is time to ask for help from a greater source. Or perhaps it is a hint that you should put more energy behind the prayers and wishes that really matter to you and start working on making those wishes come true.

If a spell is a kind of prayer, then putting your prayers and wishes into a spell is the perfect way to go. Figure out what you really want to ask for, and write it down on a piece of paper. Bless the prayer with the power of Air by waving a feather over it or wafting it with incense or sage. Then say, 'I pray for dreams and wishes true, for help from the gods above. I ask these wishes old and new, with perfect trust and love.' Hold the paper in your hands and put all the energy from your prayers into it, and then make it into the shape of a paper airplane and send it sailing out into the world. (If you can’t do that, you can sail the airplane to your altar or some other safe place.)