With this ritual, we invite you to step bravely into your fullest self, and to acknowledge and accept that your “strangeness” is deserving of ample celebration. Unbridle your magic, discard your emotional mask, and allow your vision of yourself to loosen and expand into heady bloom. Dedicate this ritual to yourself in your wildest, most potent, and most creative form. 

You will Need:

• 1 dark candle
• 1 piece of paper
• 1 fireproof bowl
• A full bath

Before you begin, take a moment to hold your candle while visualizing yourself. The candle can be any size or shape, but it should represent you, or the many versions of you. It’s vital that you feel as though the candle reflects your essence in the fullest sense, unrestricted by self-doubt or internalized judgement. When you’re ready to begin your bath, light your candle. As you draw your bath, tear your piece of paper into thirteen pieces. 

On each scrap of paper, write down a facet of yourself that you haven’t felt ready to accept or acknowledge. Alternatively, write down something about yourself that you’ve been taught to hide, to feel shame about, or to pretend isn’t there. Arrange the scraps of paper around the rim of your bath, or pile them together in front of your candle. Sit with these reflections for a while, and at the end of your bath, burn them. As the fire consumes the paper, recall the vision of yourself as a being brimming with creative power, and know that these perceived “flaws” are a part of that power too. 

Once the ash has cooled off give it back to the earth by burying it in your garden or a few beloved house plants to feed the soil and fertilize it with your dreams of MAGIC for your life!