First off, I want to thank everyone who was at the Silver Broom Annual Yule Party last night. Whether you were there in person or in spirit, you are all appreciated. It was a wonderful opportunity to look back & see how far we have come as a community. We have been doing that Yule ritual every year for over 15 years. Amy & I started it with our coven when it was small, in our home. Now it has grown to 2 larger rituals each year, one public & one private. We expect it to keep getting larger.

This year was an extremely interesting one. The last few weeks before Yule we can step back & look at the themes of the last Wheel of the Year. I look back at the Yule spell I did for myself last December, intended to work its magick the whole year around. I have to ask, did it work? Is the theme of the spell visible throughout my personal Wheel? Well, it’s a good thing I write stuff down huh? All I had to do was look at my desk & there it is hanging since last December. To answer the question of did it work, yes it did. I cast for something very specific, yet general. Why don’t I just give you the first part & you can see for yourself.

To feel the Love & Peace of God is really all my heart desires.

To feel it each & every day will heal my mind & take me higher.

To feel it so consistently will only guide me & inspire.

To feel true oneness in this way gives me all that I require.

It goes on, as my personal spells tend to, with rhyme & where possible consistent meter. But the basic intention was to experience a deeper daily connection with the Divine, to feel it, each & every day, even if just for a few minutes. Let’s face it, I’m a Hedonist. I openly admit it. Give me enough time & I can pray myself into bliss. It is one of my favorite things to do, wicked cheap & really dependant only on my willingness to go there.

So the spell was about helping me to feel it every day & that would sort out everything else in my life. I’d be inspired to action when needed & follow my intuition as best as I could, consistently. The question begs then, how did I do?

That spell worked. Just about every day I got myself to feel the Peace & Love of God, to the point where it became a necessity. Is it any wonder that the year would take me through deep personal work with A Course in Miracles, Archetypal Dynamics & of course my work with the Vortex as taught by Abraham-Hicks. I was led through the year reaching for deeper & deeper experience of the divine through feelings & emotions. I feel confident & fluent in all three mentioned paths, though to many they aren’t comfortable bedfellows. But there you have it, I’m an eclectic Witch. I’m going to mix & match as I go ‘cause that’s just how my broom flies.

My point is, now we briefly look back & see the themes, determine what we want in the next Wheel & cast for it this Yule. We have the wisdom of the past year being finally collected for this passing wheel & getting ready to step into the first spoke of the new one. It’s a pretty powerful place.

By the way, looking back at this past year I mostly see a trail of love: so many new people, so many opportunities. I think of Beltane & the fun we had through Witchclass cycle One & Two. I got to do what I love most in this life, teach & taught the gamut of my repertoire. I fell in love over & over again. I followed the flow & came to understand more clearly how important emotional guidance is & that I am responsible for my emotions. I taught much & I learned much.

So what will my Yule spell be this year? If I say Joy… it’s a good word, but doesn’t really convey the intention. I want to take it all to a new level, my career, my writing, my relationships, health & all of the good stuff. It is a tall order, but I really only have to do one thing, be the person who can pull it all off. All I have to do to get there is to be in alignment with my Source, no matter what I may call it from day to day. That is 100% up to me, so the spell is just to get me on board.

While my personal spell is still developing I want to share the one Amy & I created for the Coven & Community. I have added it at the end. It’s based on the idea of a Vortex of creation: a vibrational reality where all cooperative components exist for us to create our lives. The keys to getting into the Vortex are feeling & emotion. In other words, you have to feel good to get in.

We wrote the spell with a strong fragrance element so it works with emotional scent memory. When you feel in the Vortex & sniff the spell, it will link the feeling to the scent. It creates a loop of feeling to scent & back again. For those of you who actually have or will have the pouches Amy & I made… We hope you like cinnamon.

I am hosting the Silver Broom’s Sunday Needfire Service in Sayville at 10am. Come on down & sit for a spell.

Blessed Be,

Rev. Mark A. Lyons, President
Drawing the Circle Productions INC.
DrawingtheCircle@aol.com
631-968-8307
www.drawingthecircle.com

The Vortex Yule Spell 2011

Lavender & Witch’s Grass

High Vibration swirling fast.

Cinnamon & Frankincense

High Vibration now Condense.

Magick Myrrh & Sandalwood

Line me up with all that’s good.

Mystic Crystal now Inspire

And guide Vibration even higher.

Power of appreciation

Line me up with my creation.

So in the Vortex I will feel

Each day throughout the Witch’s Wheel.

For the Highest Good & Harming none

As I will it so let it be done.

SMIB