Witch's Ring

by Raven Grimassi

This is a simple spell designed to charge a ring that will serve as  protection. The Witch's ring is both a symbol and a tool of magic. As a symbol it identifies the wearer as a practitioner of the Old Ways, and declares one a user of magic. As a tool the ring connects the Witch to the metaphysical concepts whereby Witches weave their magic. The ring serves as a reminder to the Witch of the forces at hand, and acts as a conduit to and from those occult forces readuly avaialable to the Witch.

The preparation of the Witch's ring should begin two days before the first night of the Full Moon. Midnight is best but nine in the evening will do if necessary. The spell calls for a ring with a stone setting. Consult a table of occult correspondences for a stone that you wish to perform an alignment with. Once you have the ring you desire to use, then perform the following ritual.

1. Consecrate the ring to the four elements. To do this, simply prepare four bowls. Pour salt into one bowl, and place smoking incense in another. In the third bowl set a lighted red votive candle. Pour clean water into the last bowl. Then touch the ring to each bowl saying: "I consecrate thee by earth (salt), air (incense), fire (votive candle), and water (water bowl."

2. Pour a small amount of personal cologne into your burning dish. Light the fluid. Hold the ring over the flame, turning it, and chanting:

I dedicate and consecrate this ring with a stone of ______ and metal of _____to be a ring of Witchery unto me with the powers of the Goddess three, Lady of all Witches, and as my word so mote it be.

3. Place an incense of the Moon in a bowl and light it. Set a bottle of Moon oil nearby. Hold the ring over the incense, passing it through the smoke three times. Then anoint the ring with the oil. Wrap the ring in a red cloth or tissue paper, and leave it for three nights in a place where the Moon will shine on it each night, at the same hour (at least one hour after sundown or an odd numbered hour)

Chant the following over the ring (still in the red wrapping):

Any and all who perfect an image of me, with my likeness or as a crude consecrated image to be me, to do bodily harm or to injure me spiritually and try to take my breath away, to cause me to dwindle or pine away to nothing, to wish evil upon me, to badger me with their anger or bad thoughts, by picture, image, or name, the ring of my Lady protect me, metal and stone, flesh and bone, safe forever in your powers, free from evil, fear, or dispair, on the sender of the evil will rebound by the law of the Lady thrice crowned, hearken all unto me, as I speak, so mote it be.

At this point you are done. Wear the ring whenever you are in a ritual setting, or whenever you feel the need for protection. On the night of each Full Moon thereafter, anoint the ring again by rubbing a drop of oil on the stone. Then raise the ring up toward the Moon and ask for blessings in the name of the Goddess