Light Magic for Dark Times: More Than 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Coping in a Crisis

Light Magic for Dark Times: More Than 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Coping in a Crisis

When the world around you turns dark, tap into the light. If you're having a hard time finding that light, facing trauma and division, or want to send healing vibes to a friend, the inspired, easy-to-do spells of Light Magic for Dark Times can assist.

Luna Luna magazine's Lisa Marie Basile shares inspired spells, rituals, and practices, including:

• A new moon ritual for attracting a lover
• A spell to banish recurring nightmares
• A graveyard meditation for engaging with death
• A mermaid ritual for going with the flow
• A zodiac practice for tapping into celestial mojo
• A rose-quartz elixir for finding self-love
• A spell to recharge after a protest or social justice work

These 100 spells are ideal for those inexperienced with self-care rituals, as well as experienced witches. They can be cast during a crisis or to help prevent one, to protect loved ones, to welcome new beginnings, to heal from grief, or to find strength.

Whether you're working with the earth, performing a cleanse with water or smoke, healing with tinctures or crystals, meditating through grief, brewing, enchanting, or communing with your coven, Light Magic for Dark Times will help you tap into your inner witch in times of need.

Lisa Marie Basile is the author of Light Magic for Dark Times and The Magical Writing Grimoire. She is a poet-witch and founding creative director of Luna Luna magazine--a diary of darkness and light, literature, identity, and magic. She has also authored the poetry collections Andalucia and Apocryphal, as well as the forthcoming Nympholepsy. Her work encounters the intersection of ritual and wellness, chronic illness, magic, overcoming trauma, and poetry. She has written for the New York Times, Narratively, Grimoire magazine, Venefica, The Establishment, Refinery 29, Bust, Hello Giggles, and more. Her work has been nominated for the Best American Experimental Writing anthology and for several Pushcart Prizes, and has appeared in The Best Small Fictions, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Olen Butler. Lisa Marie earned a master's degree in writing from The New School and studied literature and psychology at Pace University. She lives in New York City.