Blessed Litha!

Ouanga Bags

If your Pagan friends practice Charm Magick, then having a handy stash of Ouanga Bags is a great gift. Used for charms and as personal power bags, they are small fabric "carrying cases" for herbs, stones, parchments, seals, and any other magick necessities.

I usually sew mine out of various types of cloth, some in every color of the rainbow. Cut velvet red bags work well for Love Charms. Green Hemp bags work amazing for money spells. Purple silk bags are wonderful for divination charms.

I make mine with draw string closures, if I am feeling fancy. Otherwise I can just tie them off with the appropriate cord. Sometimes I will paint a symbol on them, but most of the time I leave them blank, so I can carry them more discreetly.

Samhain Altar

To build a Samhain altar, you can use:

• Orange orwhite Candles
• photographs or items representing your ancestors
  
• A pumpkin or jack o-lantern
  
• Flowers
• A orange or red cloth

Set up altar facing the West, the land of the ancestors.
Once you have built your altar, you can design any number or rituals.

Mabon Altar

To build a Mabon altar, you can use:

• Yellow Candles
• Bronze or Copper coins
• A plate of apples, berries, nuts and other harvest fruits
• Soft blue crystals, such as Blue lace agate
• or Rose Quartz
• Symbolic salmon, representing the salmon of knowledge
• A green or blue cloth
• Small personal treasures that you no longer use, to sacrifice as a symbol of what no longer serves you.
• A blue dish of water.

Set up altar facing the West.
Once you have built your altar, you can design any number or rituals.
Suggested themes: abundance, mending quarrels, forgiving transgressions, gratitude, fruition of long term goals, harvest, sharing the wealth/abundance