Magickal Uses of Life Everlasting

Longevity, Health, Healing, restored youth.
Use these herbs in combination when working a health/Healing spell: LONGEVITY: alfalfa, cypress, datura, lavender, linden, lemon, lemon balm, life everlasting, maple, oak, parsley, peach, rosemary, sage, tansy.
LIFE EVERLASTING, also known as PEARLY EVERLASTING, is a member of the Daisy family — or rather, it is a name that has been given to any of several different plants in that family which have stiff, “everlasting” flower bracts. As the name implies, LIFE EVERLASTING is believed by many to promote longevity. For this purpose, people keep it in the home, often in an open jar or bowl, and they may dress it with Healing Oil or Blessing Oil. Others add LIFE EVERLASTING to a conjure bag carried to improve health, safety, and longevity. Old-style workers have told us that they make it into a tea which they drink once a week to prolong their lives.
Life-Everlasting Longevity Spell
To have a long life, with minimal illness, keep the life-everlasting plant (Gnaphalium polycephalum) in the living areas of your home. Even if you have suffered illness, bringing this plant into the house will help restore youth and vigor.
Every morning, look at your life-everlasting plant and say: “Illness flee, and pain be gone. The life I live, may it be long.”

Othala’s Ju Ju Powder Spell
You will need the following items for this spell:
Mortar and Pestle (Alternatively a Coffee Grinder)
Small Tongs or Spoon
A sharp Knife
A Bowl of any size
A small velvet sachet/bag or small tin (for storing the finished powder)
Angelica Root
Anise Seed
Chamomile
Red Cloves
Fennel
Fenugreek seed
Jasmine Flower
Lavender
Life Everlasting
Lotus Leaf
Meadowsweet
Peony Root
Star Anise
Optionally add any special ingredients you want to add
Casting Instructions
What you want to do is simply take each herb/root and grind it down into the finest possible powder as you can. You can either do this one of two ways you can quickly and easily do this by using a coffee grinder one that is solely used for grinding herbs; or you can do it the old fashioned but harder way and grind the herbs/roots using a mortar and pestle. To be honest as much as I like the ease and convenience of a coffee grinder I think that using the mortar and pestle the old fashioned way adds to the power, magic, and effort into the Ju Ju powder as you are working so much harder to achieve the desired result especially after putting your sweat, blood, and tears into your work.
The amount you use for each herb/root does not matter specifically and depends entirely on how much of the finished and blended powder you want. After you grind each herb into a fine powder store it temporarily in the bowl, each time you add the grounded powder of an herb/root to the bowl you should take the tongs or spoon and mix the powder together to blend it. Keep doing this for each herb/root until you have finished with all of the ingredients.
Once you have finished grinding all the herbs/roots and have blended them all together in the bowl you are then going to want to take the sharp knife and prick your finger or palm so that you draw blood. You are then going to want to let several drops of your blood spill into the blended Ju Ju powder. As soon as you do so or while doing so chant this spell:
By the spirits of old, those who have wrought wisdom and understanding;
By the blessed Creator and all of her love, grace, and magic;
By my sacred and divine gifts that have been so generously lent to me;
I call forth the powers of the cosmos, chaos, and creation;
Bless unto me now and into this powder the power to achieve my goals and banish my enemies;
Whether it be protection, purification, finding balance, seeking love or wisdom, and banishing negativity;
Let it be done by my will and my might, let is be sent through both darkness and light;
So shall it be in the keep of the heavens above;
So shall it be below in the realms beyond laughter and love.
Now that you have finished making the Ju Ju powder and you have enchanted it with a spell, mix and blend the powder well once again now that you have added your blood and essence into the powder, let it dry and then store in the velvet sachet/bag or small tin. Keep the powder with you always and use it for what ever you need, practically there is an endless amount of ways the powder can be used. I use it primarily in several ways one being that when the need arises I take a small pinch of the Ju Ju powder and sprinkle it over a candle flame for whatever purpose I need, or I toss a pinch of the powder in front and back of me to protect the path that I walk and keep me from harm. When I seem to be in a negative situation a take a pinch of the powder and sprinkle or toss it at the source of the negativity (yes even at people if need be). I also use the powder when casting a circle, and sprinkle it around me and my sacred space; and I also use it for other spells and during ritual/ceremony as well.
I hope the powder serves you well and helps you in whatever need you have.


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