Maggie's Newsletter

October 31st Update!

It’s Halloween, and I hope you like my special treat (or is it a trick?) -- my video homage to Wings in the Night.  I don’t usually sing in public without copious amounts of alcohol, and since I’ve given it up (the booze, not the crooning) I don’t bellow too often, except in the shower, and around the house.  Even my dearest love was a bit surprised to hear the vocals on the video and realize it was me.  I guess it’s easier to overcome stage-fright when your “stage” is a website.  =)  Not that I’m shy.  Far from it.  I mean, I give lectures and speeches and classes and stuff.  But singing is different!

Okay, enough on that.  You’ll notice two new covers in that video--the one for the luscious Harlequin Nocturne Duet, VACATION WITH A VAMPIRE . . . and Other Immortals, which is due to hit the stands in July 2011.  I’ve just read the copy edits, and I think you’re really going to enjoy this one.

And second, the brand new, hot off the presses cover art for TWILIGHT PROPHECY due on the stands in May 2011.  There will be some tweaking on this, gold foil and shiny gloss, but it’s pretty much as you will see it next spring.  Gorgeous, yes?

No cover art just yet for the second of my two blockbusters though.  (How’s that for positive thinking?)  I can hardly wait to see what the brilliant Harlequin art department comes up with for that one.  They’ve just been so amazing with my vamp series so far.  I even like those early Shadows covers some have called cheesy!  Can you imagine?  They’d dated, yes, now.  They should be, 18 years later.  But I find them nostalgic, classic, really.  =)  Especially upside-down Rhiannon with her blue-blue eyeshadow.  And hey, it could come back in style! 

So it’s Halloween.  And it’s time for magick. 

You know magick isn’t really all that mysterious anymore.  We know now, according to quantum theory, that the stuff of life is this malleable energy that is everywhere, around us, and permeating us and everything in existence.  And we also know that stuff is what reality is made up of, and that it can only take the shape of what it observes--and what it observes is us.  Our thoughts, our feelings, our emotions, our energy.  Our desires!

Witches have long believed that what you put out is always reflected back to you.  This belief is explained by the famous Rule of Three. 

Ever mind the Rule of Three,

Three times what thou givest

Returns unto thee

That rule was never taught to be a crime & punishment sort of thing--more like a law of physics.  You get what you put out.  Good or bad, your energy is always reflected back to you.  This is why hexing or cursing or banishing types of spells have always seemed completely counterintuitive to me.  I don’t believe they can do anything but bring you more of whatever it is you’re spelling against.  There is no pushing away.  There is only attracting.  Every thought you think, you attract what you think about.  So if you’re thinking:  YES!  I want to be rich and famous.”  You’re attracting fame and fortune, because that’s where your attention is. 

But if you’re thinking “NO!  I don’t want to be poor and unknown!”  You’re attracting poverty and obscurity, because that’s where your attention is.

Whether you are shouting yes at something or shouting no at something, you are focusing on that something, and therefore, bringing it straight to your door.

Another thing Witches have always known, before the quantum scientists of today figured it out, and before the Law of Attraction and The Secret spread it around, is that it’s all about vibration.  When you’re happy, you are putting out a happy transmission, a vibe, if you will, like a radio signal.  And it attracts to it other signals that match.  It’s the same with whatever you are feeling or focused on.

But everything has a vibration.  In spellwork, Witches choose herbs, flowers, colors, crystals, scents, music, tools, days of the week, phases of the moon--every single part of the spell--to match the vibration of the goal.  For centuries they’ve handed down wisdom about which plants and colors and so on emit which vibrations.  Green is for money, but so are silver and gold.  Some herbs have an earthy vibration like matters having to do with home and hearth, or luck and career, or physical matters, while others are more fiery and better suited to magicks revolving around passion, or movement, or action.  Some have a watery nature, and are ideal for emotional work, and spells for transformation, psychism, love.  And some are more airy, and fitted better to mental matters, ideas, inspiration, intelligence, communication, travel, flight. 

In a working Witch’s spells, even the number of syllables can have magickal meaning.  And these are the things Witches study for years and years. 

For centuries this is the way magick has been done.  Science is only just beginning to catch up.

But you can do magick of your own without all that study, partly because there are dozens of spellbooks out there, well researched and easy to find and use, but mainly, because if you get the basic principles down, it’s not all that hard.

To make your request come true, you must simply find a way to achieve the same energy vibration you would have if it were already true.  You have to get yourself into the state of mind, and of emotion, that you will feel when the desired goal is in your hands.  That’s the vibration you must emit to get it.  You cannot feel poor, and grow rich.  You cannot feel fat and grow thin.  You cannot feel like a failure and become a success.  You have to feel rich, beautiful and successful before you can draw them to you.  And by doing so, that’s what you show that stuff of the life, that invisible malleable substance that is everywhere.  The clay from which our reality is made.  You shape it by what you show it. 

So show it joy!  Show it pure, beautiful, blissful delight.  And it will mold itself into pure, beautiful blissful delight right back at you, flooding your entire life with beautiful blissful delightful things.

Halloween.  The final harvest.  The time to gather in every bit of abundance available to us, and to spend time truly appreciating and giving thanks for all we have. 

It’s also a time to communicate with our beloved dead, for the veil is thin, and while science has not yet told us why that is at this time of year, it’s a belief too old to doubt, and I have no doubt scientists will be discovering that it’s true and telling us why, before too long.  I don’t need to wait.  I know it.  I feel it.  This time of year the “veil,” which isn’t just between the world of the living and the world of the dead, but between the part of us that is an individual, and the part of us that is . . . all of us.  The Whole. The part of us that is God, I guess--that veil is thin right now, and if you open your mind and listen, and pay attention, you’ll feel it too. 

You just know things.  You just sense things.  Your intuition is sharper, your dreams more vivid.  Readings are more powerful, and gut feelings should not be ignored.  It’s the perfect time to predict the future, or ask questions of the cards, the crystal or the tea leaves.  Or to ask questions of those who’ve passed over.  They are eager to let us know that there’s no such thing as death, and that they are, in fact, alive and well, and simply vibrating at a far higher level, too fast for us to perceive them as easily as we used to when they were vibrating at the same frequency as us.  They’ve moved to another channel on the dial, so to speak.  But at this time of year, the static from their station leaks over into ours, and we can hear from them again.

Oh, I love Fall.  Can you tell?

Anyway, that’s my update for now.  I wish you a very very happy Halloween, or blessed Samhain if you swing that way.  =)  And I hope you enjoy the video.

BONUS

Maggie’s Spells for Halloween

For Increased Wealth

You’ll need

A dollar bill

A magnet

A green candle

Some green string or yarn.

Timing: A Thursday when the moon is waxing (anytime between the new moon and the full moon, that is, as the moon is growing bigger.)

Wrap the dollar bill around the candle.

Hold the unlit candle and close your eyes.

Think of all the wonderful things you’ll do with more money.  Imagine yourself doing them.  Don’t think of the money amount itself, or where it’ll come from, just think of how you’d spend it.  Play that game where you decide what you would do with a million dollars.  Just think and think and think, and smile as you imagine it all.

Take the dollar bill off the candle, and wrap it around the magnet.  Hold the dollar-wrapped magnet in your hands, and close your eyes, and continue thinking about all the wonderful things you’ll spend your money on. 

When you feel the time is right, set the dollar wrapped magnet aside, and light the candle. 

Say: Money candle, burn and glow

            Send my wishes to and fro

                        Fuel my wealth and make it grow

Now take up the green string, and the dollar-wrapped magnet.  Begin wrapping the string around the magnet, so it binds the dollar bill in place.  With each wrap around, recite one line of the spell, tying a good strong knot with the final line.

One draws the money,

Two makes it grow

Three makes it plenty

Four makes it flow

Five brings it to me

Six makes it fun

Seven brings it easy

Eight and it’s done

Nine is my pleasure

And ten is my ease

A good knot to bind it, and so mote it be!

Sit with the spell for as long as you like.  Tuck the money magnet into a small bag or pouch, or just wrap it in green cloth and keep it in your purse to draw wealth to you.

For Improved Health-A Bedtime Ritual

Every night before you go to sleep, close your eyes and go through the very widely known Yoga relaxation ritual.  This is where you tighten each muscle group, hold them as tight as you can for about 5 seconds, and then release them completely.  Begin at your feet.  The your shins.  Then your thighs.  And then your buttocks. 

Then do all four.

Next do your belly.  Your lower back.  Your chest.  Your upper back & shoulders.

Then do all four.

Next tighten your hands into fists, then your arms.  Then your shoulders including your neck this time.  Then your facial muscles--really grimace.  And even the top of your head.

Then do all of those.

And finally, tighten everything, and hold it all, and then relax. 

Take a deep breath in, all you can inhale.  And hold for a count of four.  And then blow it all out until there’s nothing left.  Do this three times.

Now you are completely relaxed.  This is your bedtime prayer.

“My body knows exactly how to heal itself.

My cells are intelligent beings, and they are able to ask for exactly what they need.

I need only to quiet my mind and get out of the way.

As I fall asleep, I think only of wellness.

I think only of the parts of me that are working so miraculously, perfectly well.

I think only of how wonderful I am.

And that all is well with the world.

And now I count my blessings....”

Begin listing the wonderful, happy things in  your life.  Fall asleep knowing that tomorrow there will be even more to be thankful for.

(Don’t worry if you feel sensations or tingling in the areas of your body where your current problems are--that’s just the energy there getting active.)

For Finding Love

Get yourself a beautiful box, or get a plain box and make it beautiful.  Take your time.  This is your dream lover box.

You’ll also need:

A red candle for passion

A pink candle for love

A white candle for purity

A rose of each color,

 as well.

Sit in quiet meditation, surrounded by the lit candles, and the roses.  Holding the box in your hands, visualize how happy you will be when your perfect partner arrives.  Think of all the fun you’ll have together.  Try not to see his face too clearly.  Blur it in your mind. 

Now, write on top of the box:  Whatever I put inside this box becomes a part of my perfect lover, who is real and drawing nearer all the time.

Then, take several small pieces of paper, and write on them the qualities you want in a mate.  You might say, “handsome” or “funny” or “generous” or “kind to children.”  Put the papers inside the box.

Hold your hands, palms down, over the open box and say:

I know you’re searching for me, too

I know our love will soon be true

I dream with joy and laughter too

So come to me, I call to you.

Take the red rose and say, “You want me as I want you.”

Place it in the box. 

Take the white rose and say, “Only good between us two.”

Place it in the box.

Take the pink rose and say, “Evermore, our love is true.”

Place it in the box.

Extinguish the candles, but keep them.

Put the lid on the box, and place it somewhere special.

Now, keep adding to your box.  Clip photos or quotes from magazines that remind you of your lover.  Add more thoughts about what you want, and so on.  Whenever you feel really great, are having a wonderful, upbeat day, or evening, that’s when you want to open the box and review what’s inside, imagining him as you do.

Don’t get inside that box when you’re feeling lonely or sad.  Only when you’re positive.

In bed at night, talk to him as if he’s real.  Begin imagining your times together, seeing them as real in your mind’s eye.  It’s important not to think of this love with feelings of sadness or awareness that he hasn’t yet arrived.  You must only think of him with the giddy joy of knowing he’ll be there any day now.  For sure.  No doubts.

You can light the candles and repeat the process anytime you want to add things to the box, or just add them.  Either way will be fine.

Blessed be!

Maggie