Post by bluefedish on Feb 7, 2008 18:43:44 GMT -5
Aluminum
Energy: Projective
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Powers: Mental abilities, Travel, & Image Magick.
Magickal Uses: Aluminum is, perhaps the most misused metal in modern times. Aluminum cooking utensils have long been in vogue despite the apparent danger of the heat transferring certain elements of the aluminum to the cooked food, with possibly hazardous results.
Aluminum or forms of this light metal are found in everything from aspirin compounds to antiperspirants. It's used to create soft-drink containers and aircraft parts.
This is a “modern” metal with no history of usage among earlier peoples. It’s sometimes recommended as an alternative to mercury, which is traditionally attributed to the planet of that name. It’s certainly less dangerous to use, but don’t cook in it.
In magick small pieces of aluminum can be carried to stimulate mental abilities. Due to its modern associations with travel, aluminum is also utilized in spells involving trips to distant lands.
Place a large sheet of foil on your stone alter, light candles of the color which suits your magickal need. With your magickal need in mind, form the foil into the proper shape. Let its shape fuel your visualization; send energy into and through it to bring your need into manifestation. When finished, smooth out the foil and douse with water. Dry, flatten and use the same foil every day. Repeat until you are successful.
Antimony
Energy: Projective
Planet: Sun
Element: fire
Power: Protection.
Magickal Uses: Wear a small piece of antimony to guard against negative vibrations. This white metal can also be worn or carried for protection.
Bits added to combinations of protective stones strengthens their powers.
Brass
Energy: Projective
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Powers: Healing, Money, & Protection.
Magickal Uses: Brass has long been used as a magickal substitute for gold. While it doesn’t possess all of gold’s attributes, brass is used in money-attracting rituals.
For example, at sunrise, empower 8 small brass bells and 8 green candles with your need for money. Do this in direct sunlight if possible. Place the candles (in holders) in a roughly square shape (2 on each side). Ring each of the bells over each candle and visualize.
Or place empowered olivine, aventurine or any other money-attracting stones on a piece of brass during prosperity rituals.
Brass has also been used in ritual healing. Wearing a brass ring, for example is said to halt stomach cramps. A brass key placed on the nape of the neck or dropped down the back is an old spell to stop nosebleeds.
It’s also protective. Brass jewelry is worn to guard the person. It’s used in defensive magick to send negativity back to its sender. Empowered brass objects are placed in the home for protective purposes.
Copper
Energy: Receptive
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Associated Stones: Quartz Crystal & Emerald
Associated Herb: Mimosa
Powers: Energy Direction, Healing, Luck, Love, Protection, & Money.
Magickal Uses: Copper has long been used to stimulate healing. This seems to be because of copper's ability to balance the body's polarity, or the flow of the projective and receptive energies. Blockages in this energy pattern, according to shamans and healers alike, lead to imbalances and thus disease.
Copper's healing applications are boundless. In Mexico a copper penny is placed on the navel before a trip to prevent motion sickness. Copper is worn for relief of rheumatism, arthritis and any painful condition. Copper wire is loosely fastened around legs and arms to relieve cramps.
Pure copper in any form is often worn for general healing and to prevent sickness. To be most effective in health-related applications, copper is usually worn on the left side of the body by those who are right-handed, the reverse by left-handers.
Gold
Energy: Projective
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Associated Stones: Quartz Crystal, Lapis Lazuli, Olivine, Peridot, Sardonyx, Sunstone, Topaz, Turquoise, Zircon
Associated Metals: Lodestone & Pyrite
Powers: Power, Healing, Protection, Wisdom, Money, & Success.
Magickal Uses: Gold, perhaps the most magically potent of all metals, is utilized in magick to lend its energy to rituals. Worn during magick, enhances the magician’s ability to rouse and send forth power. Wearing gold during your everyday life increases your personal power, thus promoting courage, confidence, and will power.
Gold tools were traditionally used to collect herbs. Traditionally, because pure gold is too soft for this purpose. If you happen to have some gold-plated knives lying around the house, they would be ideal for herb collecting. Strictly speaking, use these to gather projective (masculine, positive or electric) herbs. Silver knives are better suited symbolically for the collection of receptive (feminine, negative, magnetic) herbs.
Gold chains worn around the neck to preserve health, and bands are worn to alleviate arthritis. Gold worn habitually is said to ensure a long life.
Gold is also utilized to promote wisdom. For this purpose it’s not carried but given to another, with no conditions. This is done to bring illumination to the giver.
Iron
Energy: Projective
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Deity: Selene
Associated Stones: Quartz Crystal & Holey Stones
Associated Metals: Lodestone & Meteorite
Powers: Protective, Defensive Magick, Strength, Healing, Grounding, Return of Stolen Goods.
Magickal Uses: Iron-pure projective power, active, seeking, blinding, confusing, and guarding.
For heavy protection, place small pieces of iron in each room of the house or bury at the 4 corners of your property. In earlier times, iron fences were sometimes used to halt the flow of negativity into the home.
During protective or defensive magick, wear an iron ring engraved with the symbol of Mars. Or, obtain a 3-inch thick white candle and 8 old iron nails. Warm the nails by a fire (or in a red candle’s flame), then thrust each into the white candle in a random pattern. Light the nail-studded candle and visualize yourself as guarded, protected, and secure.
Wearing iron or carrying a small piece of this metal enhances physical strength and is an excellent talisman for athletes.
Iron is also used during healing rituals. A small piece is placed beneath the pillow at night. This was originally done to scare away the “demons” that had caused the disease but can be thought of as strengthening the body’s ability to heal itself.
Iron is also used for grounding, for closing down the psychic centers, and for impeding the flow of energy from the body. This, of course, isn’t the best during magickal ritual but is fine when the subject is under psychic or emotional attack, is physically depleted or wishes to focus on physical matters.
Lead
Energy: Receptive
Planet: Saturn
Element: Earth
Associated Herbs: Rose, Nettle, Rue, & Cumin
Powers: Divination, Protection, & Defensive Magick.
Magickal Uses: Lead is a heavy metal which causes death when it’s absorbed by the body. The ancient Romans discovered this by using lead dishes and cooking utensils.
A curious divination, recorded in the 1800s in Italy by Charles Godfrey Leland, uses lead. Take 3 rose seeds (remove them from the “hip” that forms after a rose has lost its petals), 3 nettle leaves, 2 rue leaves and 3 cumin seeds. Put these on a metal plate along with a small quantity of lead.
At midnight, while clearing your mind of needless mental clutter, burn 2 yellow candles and light a fire. Place the metal plate over the fire. Then fill a large basin with water. Once the lead has melted, pour it, along with the herb ashes, into the water.
When the lead nodule has cooled, remove it from the water and gaze at its shape. The ritual and the lead itself should allow access to your psychic mind. If nothing comes to you, place the nodule beneath your pillow and let your dreams guide you.
Lead is worn or used in protective spells and also plays its part in defensive magick. It can be placed near the entrance of the house to prevent negativity from gaining access.
Lodestone
Energy: Receptive
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Associated Herbs: Sandalwood, Rose, Yarrow, & Lavender
Associated Star: Polaris (North Star)
Associated Metals: Iron, Copper, Silver, & Gold
Powers: Power, Healing, Attraction, Friendship, Love, Fidelity, Will, Protection, Business, Money, & Games of Chance.
Magickal Uses: It’s a power stone used to strengthen spells. It’s added to sachets or herbal amulets, placed on the altar, or worn to increase the magician’s ability to rouse and release energy.
Lodestone’s basic use in magick is attraction. Because the stone is a natural magnet, it’s manipulated in ritual to draw objects or energies to its user. Thus, it can be used in any type of spell.
A small lodestone set in silver was thought to sharpen the sight, set in gold, to strengthen the heart.
A folk spell designed to heal the body of any illness is quite simple: Hold the lodestone in your hands, then shake it vigorously while visualizing your illness draining from you and going into the stone. Bury the stone in the earth for a week following the ritual.
Any lodestone used in healing rituals to absorb disease should be cleansed after each use or, if worn, every week or so.
The lodestone is also worn or carried to attract friendship. If you’ve just moved to a new city or have started a job among unknown people, wear or carry a lodestone to meet new friends.
A coral necklace with a lodestone suspended from it was once worn to facilitate easy childbirth.
In American folk magick, women wear lodestones to ensure that their wandering husbands will return home; thus, it stimulates fidelity. Since this borders on manipulation, as does all fidelity magick, it deserves a few words here.
It has also been utilized as a protective amulet, being worn, placed in the home, or carried. A large lodestone surrounded by flaming white candles emits guarding energies throughout the house. It absorbs negativity but doesn’t return it. Because of this such stones should be cleansed in salt water every Full Moon.
For those lacking in will power (which is simply asserting yourself and acting in accordance with your goals), empower a lodestone through your visualization with this specific directive: “Strengthen my will.” Then carry the stone and utilize the energies it sends you. It can be worn 2 inches below the navel or placed there while you are prone and visualizing yourself as being confident and secure.
Meteorite
Energy: Projective
Planet: none, meteorites are associated with the Universe
Elements: Akasha & Fire
Deity: The Great Mother
Associated Stones: Peridot & Diamond
Powers: Protection & Astral Projection.
Magickal uses: Meteorites possess the powers of intergalactic flight, or movement, speed, and of energy unhindered by gravity.
Use them in rituals of protection. Place one on the altar near white candles; or carry in the hand.
They are also called upon to promote astral projection. A small meteorite or a fragment of one is placed beneath the pillow during attempts at conscious astral projection.
Pyrite
Energy: Projective
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Powers: Money, Divination, & Luck.
Magickal Uses: Popularly known as fool’s gold, pyrite is often found associated with real gold. Because of the yellowish shimmer and shining nature of this “stone”, it’s used to draw wealth and money. Set 5 pieces of pyrite on your altar. Surround them with 4 green candles. Light the candles and visualize money coming your way, fulfilling your monetary needs.
A flat, shimmering surface of pyrite can be used as a magick mirror to awaken psychic impulses. Carried, it’s a luck-bringer.
Silver
Energy: Receptive
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Deities: Isis, Diana, Luna, Selene, Lucina; all Moon & night goddesses
Associated Stones: Emerald, Pearl, Jade, & Lapis Lazuli
Powers: Invocation, Love, Psychism, Dreams, Peace, Protection, Travel & Money.
Magickal Uses: Silver jewelry or empowered stones, such as emeralds, pearls, jade, or lapis lazuli, mounted in silver rings are worn to attract love. Or, etch the symbol of Venus on a small round silver disc. Place a pink candle over the disc and burn while visualizing love coming into your life.
Silver is also a psychic-influencing metal. When worn, it stimulates psychic awareness while lulling the conscious mind. Many psychics constantly wear silver in order to more easily tap into the subconscious.
Donning silver jewelry before sleep is one method of producing psychic dreams. If the piece is set with moonstones or any other psychic stone, its effects will be more powerful. An alternative is to place a piece of silver beneath your pillow. Still your mind as you lie above the metal. Visualize your need for a psychic dream. See yourself as remembering your important dreams in the morning.
If you are angry or nervous, wear some silver. There is an old belief that anyone touched with a silver ring, no matter what stone was set in it, would immediately become calm.
Silver is used for protective purposes. As the Moon reflects the light of the Sun, so too does its metal reflect negativity away from the wearer. Tiny silver globes (or any silver jewelry) are worn form magickal security. Silver crescents, whose “horns” turn back evil, are popular worldwide.
Steel
Energy: Projective
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Powers: Protection, Anti-Nightmare, & Healing.
Magickal Uses: Steel is relatively modern metal and has no great history in magick. However, some uses have been discovered and preserved.
For example, small pieces of steel are carried to guard against negativity. A steel ring is also worn as a protective amulet.
Hold any dull steel knife. Visualize it piercing and driving away negativity. Block negative impulses from disturbing you. See yourself waking up in the morning refreshed and rejuvenated.
Then place the knife beneath your bed and sleep over it. You should have no nightmares.
Selected Source:
Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic” by Scott Cunningham
Energy: Projective
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Powers: Mental abilities, Travel, & Image Magick.
Magickal Uses: Aluminum is, perhaps the most misused metal in modern times. Aluminum cooking utensils have long been in vogue despite the apparent danger of the heat transferring certain elements of the aluminum to the cooked food, with possibly hazardous results.
Aluminum or forms of this light metal are found in everything from aspirin compounds to antiperspirants. It's used to create soft-drink containers and aircraft parts.
This is a “modern” metal with no history of usage among earlier peoples. It’s sometimes recommended as an alternative to mercury, which is traditionally attributed to the planet of that name. It’s certainly less dangerous to use, but don’t cook in it.
In magick small pieces of aluminum can be carried to stimulate mental abilities. Due to its modern associations with travel, aluminum is also utilized in spells involving trips to distant lands.
Place a large sheet of foil on your stone alter, light candles of the color which suits your magickal need. With your magickal need in mind, form the foil into the proper shape. Let its shape fuel your visualization; send energy into and through it to bring your need into manifestation. When finished, smooth out the foil and douse with water. Dry, flatten and use the same foil every day. Repeat until you are successful.
Antimony
Energy: Projective
Planet: Sun
Element: fire
Power: Protection.
Magickal Uses: Wear a small piece of antimony to guard against negative vibrations. This white metal can also be worn or carried for protection.
Bits added to combinations of protective stones strengthens their powers.
Brass
Energy: Projective
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Powers: Healing, Money, & Protection.
Magickal Uses: Brass has long been used as a magickal substitute for gold. While it doesn’t possess all of gold’s attributes, brass is used in money-attracting rituals.
For example, at sunrise, empower 8 small brass bells and 8 green candles with your need for money. Do this in direct sunlight if possible. Place the candles (in holders) in a roughly square shape (2 on each side). Ring each of the bells over each candle and visualize.
Or place empowered olivine, aventurine or any other money-attracting stones on a piece of brass during prosperity rituals.
Brass has also been used in ritual healing. Wearing a brass ring, for example is said to halt stomach cramps. A brass key placed on the nape of the neck or dropped down the back is an old spell to stop nosebleeds.
It’s also protective. Brass jewelry is worn to guard the person. It’s used in defensive magick to send negativity back to its sender. Empowered brass objects are placed in the home for protective purposes.
Copper
Energy: Receptive
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Associated Stones: Quartz Crystal & Emerald
Associated Herb: Mimosa
Powers: Energy Direction, Healing, Luck, Love, Protection, & Money.
Magickal Uses: Copper has long been used to stimulate healing. This seems to be because of copper's ability to balance the body's polarity, or the flow of the projective and receptive energies. Blockages in this energy pattern, according to shamans and healers alike, lead to imbalances and thus disease.
Copper's healing applications are boundless. In Mexico a copper penny is placed on the navel before a trip to prevent motion sickness. Copper is worn for relief of rheumatism, arthritis and any painful condition. Copper wire is loosely fastened around legs and arms to relieve cramps.
Pure copper in any form is often worn for general healing and to prevent sickness. To be most effective in health-related applications, copper is usually worn on the left side of the body by those who are right-handed, the reverse by left-handers.
Gold
Energy: Projective
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Associated Stones: Quartz Crystal, Lapis Lazuli, Olivine, Peridot, Sardonyx, Sunstone, Topaz, Turquoise, Zircon
Associated Metals: Lodestone & Pyrite
Powers: Power, Healing, Protection, Wisdom, Money, & Success.
Magickal Uses: Gold, perhaps the most magically potent of all metals, is utilized in magick to lend its energy to rituals. Worn during magick, enhances the magician’s ability to rouse and send forth power. Wearing gold during your everyday life increases your personal power, thus promoting courage, confidence, and will power.
Gold tools were traditionally used to collect herbs. Traditionally, because pure gold is too soft for this purpose. If you happen to have some gold-plated knives lying around the house, they would be ideal for herb collecting. Strictly speaking, use these to gather projective (masculine, positive or electric) herbs. Silver knives are better suited symbolically for the collection of receptive (feminine, negative, magnetic) herbs.
Gold chains worn around the neck to preserve health, and bands are worn to alleviate arthritis. Gold worn habitually is said to ensure a long life.
Gold is also utilized to promote wisdom. For this purpose it’s not carried but given to another, with no conditions. This is done to bring illumination to the giver.
Iron
Energy: Projective
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Deity: Selene
Associated Stones: Quartz Crystal & Holey Stones
Associated Metals: Lodestone & Meteorite
Powers: Protective, Defensive Magick, Strength, Healing, Grounding, Return of Stolen Goods.
Magickal Uses: Iron-pure projective power, active, seeking, blinding, confusing, and guarding.
For heavy protection, place small pieces of iron in each room of the house or bury at the 4 corners of your property. In earlier times, iron fences were sometimes used to halt the flow of negativity into the home.
During protective or defensive magick, wear an iron ring engraved with the symbol of Mars. Or, obtain a 3-inch thick white candle and 8 old iron nails. Warm the nails by a fire (or in a red candle’s flame), then thrust each into the white candle in a random pattern. Light the nail-studded candle and visualize yourself as guarded, protected, and secure.
Wearing iron or carrying a small piece of this metal enhances physical strength and is an excellent talisman for athletes.
Iron is also used during healing rituals. A small piece is placed beneath the pillow at night. This was originally done to scare away the “demons” that had caused the disease but can be thought of as strengthening the body’s ability to heal itself.
Iron is also used for grounding, for closing down the psychic centers, and for impeding the flow of energy from the body. This, of course, isn’t the best during magickal ritual but is fine when the subject is under psychic or emotional attack, is physically depleted or wishes to focus on physical matters.
Lead
Energy: Receptive
Planet: Saturn
Element: Earth
Associated Herbs: Rose, Nettle, Rue, & Cumin
Powers: Divination, Protection, & Defensive Magick.
Magickal Uses: Lead is a heavy metal which causes death when it’s absorbed by the body. The ancient Romans discovered this by using lead dishes and cooking utensils.
A curious divination, recorded in the 1800s in Italy by Charles Godfrey Leland, uses lead. Take 3 rose seeds (remove them from the “hip” that forms after a rose has lost its petals), 3 nettle leaves, 2 rue leaves and 3 cumin seeds. Put these on a metal plate along with a small quantity of lead.
At midnight, while clearing your mind of needless mental clutter, burn 2 yellow candles and light a fire. Place the metal plate over the fire. Then fill a large basin with water. Once the lead has melted, pour it, along with the herb ashes, into the water.
When the lead nodule has cooled, remove it from the water and gaze at its shape. The ritual and the lead itself should allow access to your psychic mind. If nothing comes to you, place the nodule beneath your pillow and let your dreams guide you.
Lead is worn or used in protective spells and also plays its part in defensive magick. It can be placed near the entrance of the house to prevent negativity from gaining access.
Lodestone
Energy: Receptive
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Associated Herbs: Sandalwood, Rose, Yarrow, & Lavender
Associated Star: Polaris (North Star)
Associated Metals: Iron, Copper, Silver, & Gold
Powers: Power, Healing, Attraction, Friendship, Love, Fidelity, Will, Protection, Business, Money, & Games of Chance.
Magickal Uses: It’s a power stone used to strengthen spells. It’s added to sachets or herbal amulets, placed on the altar, or worn to increase the magician’s ability to rouse and release energy.
Lodestone’s basic use in magick is attraction. Because the stone is a natural magnet, it’s manipulated in ritual to draw objects or energies to its user. Thus, it can be used in any type of spell.
A small lodestone set in silver was thought to sharpen the sight, set in gold, to strengthen the heart.
A folk spell designed to heal the body of any illness is quite simple: Hold the lodestone in your hands, then shake it vigorously while visualizing your illness draining from you and going into the stone. Bury the stone in the earth for a week following the ritual.
Any lodestone used in healing rituals to absorb disease should be cleansed after each use or, if worn, every week or so.
The lodestone is also worn or carried to attract friendship. If you’ve just moved to a new city or have started a job among unknown people, wear or carry a lodestone to meet new friends.
A coral necklace with a lodestone suspended from it was once worn to facilitate easy childbirth.
In American folk magick, women wear lodestones to ensure that their wandering husbands will return home; thus, it stimulates fidelity. Since this borders on manipulation, as does all fidelity magick, it deserves a few words here.
It has also been utilized as a protective amulet, being worn, placed in the home, or carried. A large lodestone surrounded by flaming white candles emits guarding energies throughout the house. It absorbs negativity but doesn’t return it. Because of this such stones should be cleansed in salt water every Full Moon.
For those lacking in will power (which is simply asserting yourself and acting in accordance with your goals), empower a lodestone through your visualization with this specific directive: “Strengthen my will.” Then carry the stone and utilize the energies it sends you. It can be worn 2 inches below the navel or placed there while you are prone and visualizing yourself as being confident and secure.
Meteorite
Energy: Projective
Planet: none, meteorites are associated with the Universe
Elements: Akasha & Fire
Deity: The Great Mother
Associated Stones: Peridot & Diamond
Powers: Protection & Astral Projection.
Magickal uses: Meteorites possess the powers of intergalactic flight, or movement, speed, and of energy unhindered by gravity.
Use them in rituals of protection. Place one on the altar near white candles; or carry in the hand.
They are also called upon to promote astral projection. A small meteorite or a fragment of one is placed beneath the pillow during attempts at conscious astral projection.
Pyrite
Energy: Projective
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Powers: Money, Divination, & Luck.
Magickal Uses: Popularly known as fool’s gold, pyrite is often found associated with real gold. Because of the yellowish shimmer and shining nature of this “stone”, it’s used to draw wealth and money. Set 5 pieces of pyrite on your altar. Surround them with 4 green candles. Light the candles and visualize money coming your way, fulfilling your monetary needs.
A flat, shimmering surface of pyrite can be used as a magick mirror to awaken psychic impulses. Carried, it’s a luck-bringer.
Silver
Energy: Receptive
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Deities: Isis, Diana, Luna, Selene, Lucina; all Moon & night goddesses
Associated Stones: Emerald, Pearl, Jade, & Lapis Lazuli
Powers: Invocation, Love, Psychism, Dreams, Peace, Protection, Travel & Money.
Magickal Uses: Silver jewelry or empowered stones, such as emeralds, pearls, jade, or lapis lazuli, mounted in silver rings are worn to attract love. Or, etch the symbol of Venus on a small round silver disc. Place a pink candle over the disc and burn while visualizing love coming into your life.
Silver is also a psychic-influencing metal. When worn, it stimulates psychic awareness while lulling the conscious mind. Many psychics constantly wear silver in order to more easily tap into the subconscious.
Donning silver jewelry before sleep is one method of producing psychic dreams. If the piece is set with moonstones or any other psychic stone, its effects will be more powerful. An alternative is to place a piece of silver beneath your pillow. Still your mind as you lie above the metal. Visualize your need for a psychic dream. See yourself as remembering your important dreams in the morning.
If you are angry or nervous, wear some silver. There is an old belief that anyone touched with a silver ring, no matter what stone was set in it, would immediately become calm.
Silver is used for protective purposes. As the Moon reflects the light of the Sun, so too does its metal reflect negativity away from the wearer. Tiny silver globes (or any silver jewelry) are worn form magickal security. Silver crescents, whose “horns” turn back evil, are popular worldwide.
Steel
Energy: Projective
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Powers: Protection, Anti-Nightmare, & Healing.
Magickal Uses: Steel is relatively modern metal and has no great history in magick. However, some uses have been discovered and preserved.
For example, small pieces of steel are carried to guard against negativity. A steel ring is also worn as a protective amulet.
Hold any dull steel knife. Visualize it piercing and driving away negativity. Block negative impulses from disturbing you. See yourself waking up in the morning refreshed and rejuvenated.
Then place the knife beneath your bed and sleep over it. You should have no nightmares.
Selected Source:
Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic” by Scott Cunningham
