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Dirt Magic & Spirituality: 6 Spells Using Dirt from 3 Different Locations, by Charity L. Bedell

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Witchcraft is often referred to as a nature-based religion. One way that the connection between nature spirituality and natural magic can be seen is by working with dirt in a magical and spiritual fashion. Natural locations have magic often tied to folklore, legends, and fairytales. In urban locations, the magical properties of dirt often come from the actions done at those locations (such as working money magic with dirt from banks and malls, dating and relationship magic with dirt from restaurants and pubs, etc.).

Dirt is everywhere, which means that there is a lot of dirt in the world—which also means I was unable to include all of the locations I would have liked to in my book Divine Dirt. Below are three locations, not included in the book, and two spells using dirt from those locations.

Working with Farm & Garden Dirt
Farm or garden dirt is one of the easiest forms of magical dirt with which to work and obtain. Growth, fertility, and prosperity are all things that are associated with farm or garden dirt. Use dirt from a farm or from your garden to bring growth, fertility, and prosperity into your magic.

Prosperity to Me Spell
Use this spell to attract prosperity to your life. Materials:

• Ground Alfalfa (Prosperity)
• Farm Dirt (Prosperity, Success, Money)
• Sugar (Attraction, Money)
• Nutmeg (Prosperity, Money)
• Honey (Stick to you, Money)
• Water
• Small bowl
• Spoon or wand
• Large, flat magnet
• Paintbrush

Working:

1. Mix all of the ingredients, except the magnet, in the small bowl. As you stir the mixture together, repeat the following chant 7-9x: "Money and prosperity flow to me. I am wealthy."
2. Setting the magnet near the bowl, state: "Magnet that attracts today, bring prosperity here to stay."
3. Use the paintbrush to paint or draw a symbol of money, cash, wealth and or prosperity on the magnet of your choice. I use the $, but use what works for you.
4. Set the magnet somewhere near your front door. Every time the door is opened, the magnet is activated and attracts money and prosperity to your home. To keep the magnet charged, create a new batch of the paint mixture and repaint the symbol on the magnet every two weeks.
5. When you no longer feel the need for the prosperity boost, paint the magnet one last time and give the magnet to someone you care about to give them that boost. The spreading of the wealth will also increase your own wealth and prosperity.

Fertile Growth Spell
Use this spell to enhance the growth of your plants. This spell will work on flowers and herbs as well as fruits and vegetables.

Materials:

• Planting Pots
• Farm Dirt
• Seedling (your choice)
• Crushed Acorn tops
• Potting Soil

Working:

1. Take the planting pots and set them out so you can easily work with them.
2. Place a small layer of the farm dirt on the bottom of each pot you are using. As you place the dirt in each pot state: "Dirt from a fertile farm land, to my plants lend a hand."
3. Carefully transfer the seedlings to the pots.
4. When the seedling has been transferred, sprinkle a layer of crushed acorn tops and state: "May the oak help you grow strong and true."
5. Top off the pots with the potting soil and move the pots to where you are going to leave them to grow.
6. Feed and water your plants as normal. Sit back and enjoy the plants growing.

Working with Dirt from Municipal and City Buildings or Public City Land
Government and city offices can be great places to gather dirt to influence your community. From prosperity and success to rebuilding parks, city or municipal building dirt can be used for any work that benefits that city, town, or community.

Renew and Rebuild Parks
Public or city parks are wonderful places to spend afternoons and hang out. This spell makes sure that there is always some money to keep the parks looking good.

Materials:

• 3 shedded snake skins, 1-3" in length (Renewal)
• Pen
• 3 slips of paper
• Dirt from your local park
• 3 pins
• Scissors
• Cotton or hemp twine

Working:

1. Lay out the three snake skins so that they lay length-wise in your working area.
2. In the three slips of paper write the words "renew," "refresh," and "city park."
3. Read each slip of paper as you place each slip on one of the snake skins.
4. Sprinkle the dirt from the park over each of the slips of paper. Make sure each skin and slip of paper has some of the dirt. As you sprinkle the dirt over the slips, state: "(Name of the park) to make you new and fresh again. With new life and a playground that families can hang around."
5. Carefully roll the snakeskin and slip of paper up in to a small bundle.
6. Take the pins and pin the rolls together, so they can stay rolled up.
7. Use the scissors to cut three sections of twine to tie around the center of the rolls you have made.
8. Take the cut twine and tie it around each of the rolls, keeping the skin, slip of paper, and dirt all rolled into one little bundle.
9. Remove the pins from the bundles. Set the pins somewhere to clean them for use in other projects (both mundane and magical).
10. The next time you go out to the park, find a tree at two different entrances to the park. At the base of the trees, find a spot to place and hide the little bundle you have made. Place the third bundle at the base of a tree in the center of the park.
11. Thank the trees for holding and dispersing the magic.
12. Go about your day as normal, not thinking about the spell work any longer.

Protect the Community Spell (Town, City, Village, Etc.)
Sometimes walking in the city at night can feel creepy and dangerous. Use this spell to protect yourself or your loved ones whenever they are out and about during the evening hours.

Materials:

• Pen
• Paper
• Nettle leaf
• 28 pins
• Small bowl
• Dirt from city hall (Spirit of the city)
• Dirt from a police station (Protection of the city)
• Ground black pepper (Protection, reversal)
• Ground cayenne pepper (Protection, heat, reversal)
• Ground Galangal Root (Reversal, protection, breaking baneful magic)
• Ground Stinging Nettle (Reversal, protection, breaking baneful magic)
• Ground Juniper Berries (Protection)
• Spoon or wand
• 4 mirror pieces (you can buy bags of these at craft stores)
• Black or silver votive candle
• Candle holder
• Matches/lighter

Working:

1. On the paper, write out the name of your city.
2. Around the name of your city, create a circle with 20 of your pins. These pins create a protective barrier that destroys magical attacks and problematic energy sent to your city. As you place each pin state: "I stab away excess crime today."
3. In the bowl mix the dirt from city hall and the police station together. As you mix those two dirt forms together, state: "I call upon you to protect this city for all time, against those who would bring tons of crime."
4. Add the ground peppers, berries, and stinging nettle to the bowl. Use the spoon to mix the herbs into the dirt. As you mix the herbs into the dirt, state: "Those who would bring crime into this city, are sent away without any pity. The harm they would have done, shall be sent back for them to enjoy the fun."
5. Take the remaining 8 pins and place two together at the 4 corners of the circle. There should be a finger's width between the original circle (inside) and the cross circles out side of the circle.
6. Sprinkle the dirt across the 4 corner pins, making a cross with the powder. Repeat until all of the mixture is on the paper over the name of your city.
7. Set the pieces of mirror resting between the pins that make the cross and the outside barrier pins. As you place each mirror state: "Mirror today, protect and reflect back all magical and criminal attack."
8. Set the tealight candle holder and candle in the center of the circle you created.
9. Light the candle.
10. As the candle burns, state: "Light from this candle's fire to protect this city is my desire."
11. Let the candle burn completely. As the candle burns, let the wax drip and cover the paper. If you are unable to burn the entire candle in one sitting, burn the candle for 5 minutes a day until the candle has completely burned. Each time you light the candle, recite the previous statement ("Light from this candle's fire, to protect the city is my desire").
12. When the candle has fully burned and the wax covers the paper, the spell has been cast. The wax is symbolic of a shield or forcefield surrounding the city you live in, protecting it from unwanted forces.
13. Dispose of the materials in a trash can somewhere in the city outside of your home.

Working with Dirt from Fields, Plains, and Prairies
Large, open spaces provide a lot of opportunity for magical work. One of the many magical properties that can be associated with open fields is freedom. There are few boundaries and restraints with open fields, which translates magically to freedom.

Courage to Be Me Spell
There are times in our life when it can feel and be difficult to be our self and live the way that we really want to. You may feel stifled or otherwise trapped and caged. This spell will help you find the strength within to be true to yourself while living within your limitations.

Materials:

• 2 3"x3" pieces of white fabric
• Scissors
• White thread
• Needle
• Acorn or oak leaves (Strength)
• Plantain leaf (Strength)
• Bay leaf (Strength)
• Optional: Torn old clothes or any cotton/fiber filling
• 2 12-15" Jewelry chain
• Dirt from a field or plain (Freedom)
• Wire cutters

Working:

• Place the two pieces of white fabric on top of each other. Use the scissors to cut out a human shape.
• Thread the needle with the white thread and tie a knot at the end of the thread.
• Using a simple over and under stitch, sew the two figures together. Leave an opening at either the left arm/heart or at the top of the head.
• If not stuffing the poppet fully, skip to step 5. If you are going to have the poppet be filled with your clothes or cotton stuffing, this is where you begin to stuff the poppet with your chosen filling. You will add a little more filling after each herbal ingredient has been added.
• Begin to add in the oak leaves or acorns to the poppet. As you add the leaf or acorns, state: "Like the strength of the tree, I will bend and change, yet remain me."
• Add the plantain to the poppet. As you add the plantain, state: "Plantain, who can anywhere and survive, give me the strength so I may thrive."
• Add the bay leaf to the poppet. As you add the bay leaf, state: "Bay leaf that is strong and true, let me be me anew."
• Finish stitching the poppet closed.
• Set the poppet down on a table. Take the two chains and wrap them around the doll. These chains represent your feelings of being trapped.
• Exhale over the poppet and state: "Poppet, I name you for myself. I give you life today. What ever happens to thee, shall also happen to me."
• Pick up the dirt and rub it over the chains. As you rub the dirt over the chains, state: "Dirt of the plains where animals roam free, break these chains away from me."
• Take the wire cutters and cut the chains. As you snip the chains, state: "Free to be truly me."
• Remove the chains from the doll. The doll is now as free, as are you.
• Rub the dirt that was on the chains into the doll. State: "Free to be truly me."
• For the next week, hold the doll once a day and repeat the statement "Free to be truly me."
• At the end of the week use the scissors to cut the seams on the doll. Toss the stuffing materials into the trash. The fabric can be washed and used as a poppet for someone else in any other magical work.

Invite Free Thought Charm
Sometimes it can be hard to let our minds just be free. Often we have stress and anxieties over a situation that prevent us from thinking freely about the situation. Use this spell when you need to just relax and let your mind be able to think about your situation freely.

Materials:

• 2 bay leaves (open doors, open thoughts)
• Small skeleton key (can substitute any small key without a lock)
• 2 teaspoons dirt from a field or plain
• 1 teaspoon rosemary
• 1 teaspoon ginkgo leaf
• String

Working:

1. Place the skeleton key on top of one of the bay leaves.
2. Take the dirt and sprinkle it over the key. State: "Dirt from a plain as far as I can see, help me to clear my mind. Set my thoughts free."
3. Sprinkle the rosemary over the keychain. As you sprinkle the rosemary, state: "Rosemary, herb of the mind, release my thoughts from that which keeps it in binds."
4. Sprinkle the ginkgo leaf over the key. State: "Herb that focuses the mind, open the way that new thoughts I may find."
5. Place the second bay leaf over the key that was covered with the dirt and herbs.
6. Take the string and wrap the string around the bay leaf and key. Wrap the bundle 3-5 times with the string, and then tie a knot to secure the materials together. While you are wrapping the string around the bundle recite the following chant 3-5 times: "Thoughts flowing free, a solution to my problem will I see."
7. If the bundle is not secure, get more string and continue to wrap the bundle and recite the same chant util the bundle is completely covered with string or thread. If the bundle is secure, and you are confident that it won't fall apart, hold and play with the bundle while you try to figure out a solution to your situation.
8. When the solution is found, dispose of the materials in the trash, thanking them for helping you figure things out.

For more information on the magic of dirt, check out my book Divine Dirt: The Art of Using Dirt in Magic, Ritual, and Spellcraft.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2024. All rights reserved.

I am a Leo born 8/22/1957. I have ash wood night tables that I bought from an antique store. They were made sometime in the 1950's. After I moved to a new house and was in the midst of a very destructive relationship, I started to hear clicking, creaking and tapping sounds coming from them. I checked for bugs, etc. - nothing. I was told to put a mango seed and a bowl of milk under the table that seemed most active. The sounds stopped for a while, but started coming from another night table. This one is made of glass and wrought iron, but it produces the same wood-like noises. Then the noises happened from under the bed. I moved one table downstairs, and noises started again from the other table. Last night, noises from under my bed woke me up again. I don't quite know what to do. I don't know if it is a spirit from the land or house, or an entity that was attracted to the person I was in that destructive relationship with (which has been over for two years now). Maybe it's a guardian angel trying to get my attention? I have burned incense, sage, etc., and I can't get a read on its intentions. Should I give the furniture away? I don't feel right selling it to someone else and passing this on to them.

Elisa

Dreamchaser:

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, and I have to say it gave me quite a chuckle. Your "problems" are not in the tables. Your "problems" come from the land AND the house. You've burned sage, incense and prayed, and it's still there. Guess what that means? This being is not harmful. I want you to try one more thing just to satisfy your own mind. When you hear the noises again, I want you to say out loud, "If you are not from Love and Light, you must leave this house IMMEDIATELY in the name of the One God." If you still hear the sounds after that (and I am sure you will), then you can rest assured that the being is not evil in any way.

You mentioned your ex as a possible "source." If the beings were attached to that person, they would be with that person and not still living in your house. These beings are living in your house because that is where they live. You have quite a few living there, actually. They really just want you to know that they are there and that they are looking out for you. If they wanted to harm you in some way, believe me, you would know it. Nothing in your house means you any harm. Actually, it is quite the opposite. They realize how many scars you are carrying around with you and they do not want to add more. There is one woman in particular who is very protective of you. She is actually the one that is attached to the house itself and not the land. She died in that house, but loved it there and was very happy. She has maternal energy, and she never wants you in a relationship like that one again.

Many times when we are asleep, spirits think that they can roam around freely because we cannot see or hear them. They were once alive after all, and understand our ways. My bedroom is a loft space, and I can see out through most of the house. There have been times when I am lying in bed and can hear all this noise going on in the house, and I say out loud, "I can hear you." Things get very quiet very quickly. I know this is easy for me to say, but do not be afraid of your spirits. EVERY place has them. We just do not see or hear them usually, because we are moving through life too quickly.

Next time you get that chill up your back or feel like someone is watching you, stop and FEEL the energy that is around you. Do not use your eyes, as you will not see anything. Use your other senses and your instincts. It is quite an interesting exercise. Do not be afraid. Nothing can or will harm you. You are actually being watched over. I wish you healing.

*****

Astrea:

Haunted furniture is quite common in my family, but I don't think that's what you're dealing with; I think you have Ibys. They are SO HARD to get out of FURNITURE! You're correct that if you pass the furniture on to someone else, some of the Ibys will go along with it. What's worse, at least HALF of them will stay on with YOU!

At first I thought they were Old Wood Ibys or Carpenter Ibys, but they got into the glass and iron furniture too, so they are either Antique Ibys or regular House Ibys who have moved into your furniture. Wood Ibys tend to prefer Oak. They don't care for Ash wood because so many magical things are made from it. They were probably always in the house, but if you move from the house, they'll move WITH you unless you get rid of them first. Even if you buy NEW furniture, they'll move into IT, so get rid of them altogether if you can.

The bowl of milk and the mango seed worked for a while because they had to figure out why you did that. It takes Ibys a while to figure humans out when they act in unusual ways. I can just see them bending their little brown heads out of the tables, looking for the CAT who might come to drink the milk! (Cats love to chase Ibys.) When you took the milk away, they started up again because they knew there wasn't a cat on the way. They travel through all your furniture, knocking around, making noises and changing locations. That means that they ARE OUT of the furniture at times, and that's when you have to catch them, for that's when they are at their most vulnerable.

Go to the lumberyard and buy four scraps of oak lumber, each at least a foot long. Put a plastic trash bag on the floor in the center of the room where most of the activity is. Place the pieces of wood around in a square, touching at the corners. In the center of the square, put a slice of cake. (Ibys are very fond of cake.) Walk three times counter-clockwise around the square with the cake in the center. As you go around the circle, sprinkle a tiny bit of salt around it. Do this right before bed.

In the morning, take the whole thing (plate, cake, wood and trash bag), put it into ANOTHER trash bag and throw it out. The Ibys can only cross ONE WAY over the salt, so they'll eat the cake and then go back into the wood pieces, be picked up by the trash people and wind up in some landfill. Don't worry: they'll find their way into another piece of furniture sooner or later, or they might evolve into Fairies at the Land Fill. That happens sometimes, too.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.