Protection Spell: Poems (Miller Williams Poetry Prize)

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Founded in 2009, The Rumpus is one of the longest running independent online literary and culture magazines. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers readers already know and love. My High Priestess use to make the most beautiful books of shadows. She included protection herbs within it's cover. Consider incorporating protection herbs in your books; either in your handmade cover or in a bookmark. f. If the method above doesn’t work for you, and you get an image or word or sensation while listening to the storm, always go off of your experience first.

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Meteoromancy is a special kind of divination method for Mabon. This is particularly helpful if the sun isn’t shining on the sabbat and you have a thunderstorm rolling in instead. At first glance, maybe you’re thinking, I highly doubt I’ll see any meteors tonight. But meteoromancy actually means to read thunder and lightning patterns. Where I live, we get quite a few thunderstorms in the Autumn, so this is a practice I start near Mabon and continue throughout the season. Protection spells typically deal with force and looking out for one’s self and others, two themes consistently at work in Jennifer Givhan’s Protection Spell. Whether it is standing one’s ground regarding family, as in the sequence of poems dealing with a neighbor’s racially-charged accusations against the speaker’s husband, or empathizing with and speaking in the voices of figures past and present who have survived physical and cultural violence, the poems in this collection are alive with the complexity of wanting to protect while needing to be protected as well. These are poems that engage human experience beyond the binary of aggression and passivity, and reflect a world where the two sides blur.” Walk: one, two, three. Feel the cold, the foggy damp of the water. Tread carefully: one, two, three…submerge the chest and listen to the heartbeat roar. Mabon is the gateway to the true holiday season, if you ask this witch. It’s the day I really come alive in my witchiness. And I feel as though there’s magic undulating in the crisp breeze and flowing all around me. Maybe you feel that way about Mabon too. So how do we prepare for the most magical Autumn Equinox ever? By deciding on what rituals we will perform, what foods to eat, and spells to cast. Here, we offer you our favorite Mabon blessings to pass on to your family and friends, as well as Mabon symbols, spells and divination methods ripe for the Autumn season. First, What is Mabon?In our modern world there is a lot to worry about, from the global-scale—climate change, political uncertainty—to the personal—a toxic ex, cyber bulling. Spellcrafting can help you find comfort in a stressful world. This book will give you the tools to take charge of defending yourself in both energy and physicality. Jennifer Givhan is an astonishing poet. In her second book, beautifully built lines dovetail into stanzas that reveal how mothering brings the self closer to both beauty and terror and how the self navigates the minefields of identity and home. Givhan’s explorations are acrobatic, lyrical, and ravishing. Protection Spell is a searing and vital book.” Find spells to protect your home, ward off unwanted visitors, and keep the good energy in at all times. Along with spells and rituals to banish danger and illness, you’ll find methods for making talismans to ward off harm. The spells include: Push palms together with feather in between and feel the energy between palms of hand, increasing heat which becomes bright like a light. I was always told that anything can be taken away from you but your education. How true this is! You can lose your mate, your house, your job, your child, your parents...etc. I was always a...

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C – Courage, be brave, you are stronger than you think. Feed off the positive feelings your surroundings/friends/family give you. Exorcising means sprinkling the book with consecrated water and passing it through exorcism incense smoke, (or all four elements) usually while chanting something... get as elaborate as you want. This is what I usually opt for, but that's because I love love love the ritual of it.Hold your breath, dodge the creaking floorboards. Watch them sleep peacefully. I made those girls. Kiss them gently, whisper that promise and go to bed. Draw a warm bath and add the herbs to the water (if you have a bag, add your herbs to the bag and then to the water. This makes clean-up much easier!) In her brilliant second collection, Jenn Givhan gives us poems that both balm and break the heart. In an age when much of what passes for poetry leans toward obfuscation, Givhan provides us with what is truly difficult: an honest account of who and what we are, individually and collectively. In language that is at turns both lyrical and colloquial, Jenn Givhan’s Protection Spell ‘can’t resist telling . . . what darkness will come, what light.’”

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urn:oclc:record:966860019 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier protectionspellp0000givh Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7vn5w69q Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781610756105 Bobbing for apples: adding symbols to the bottoms of the apples and each symbol means something to the player who pulls it out of the waterMabon is the Wiccan term for the Autumn Equinox that occurs annually between September 21st and 23rd. It’s the first official day of Fall, sometimes known as the Witches’ Thanksgiving. Mabon is the second of three harvest festivals for many Wiccans, witches and neo-pagans (Lughnasadh and Samhain are the other two). Mabon is a reaping of some of the harvest, and our last farewell to the long days of Summer. Because following the Autumn Equinox, the days will start to fall shorter than the nights. The poems in Protection Spell feel like the music of an Aeolian harp specially tuned to catch the winds of trauma and tragedy—and the intense commitments made by love. Jennifer Givhan knows that to be a mother, spouse, Latina, American, teacher, writer, human being is necessarily to be political. She has a gift for making poem-spaces where story can meet song—detailed, dynamic, sometimes desperate, always gorgeous.” Banish bad energy, ward off unpleasant people, and defend your belongings, your spirit and your space with this spellbook focused specifically on protection. Each of these subscription programs along with tax-deductible donations made to The Rumpus through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, helps keep u s going and brings us closer to sustainability. The Rumpus is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of The Rumpus must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Description Description Filled with spells, charms, rituals, and potions by a pro witchcraft practitioner, carry this spell book with you at all times to shield yourself and those you love from harm.