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This is a great book to start out with when you are getting into protection magick. As a practicing witch of about 10 years, for a long time I never fully understood the obsession with protection magick. I smudge regularly, sprinkle some salt around every so often, keep a cache of obsidian and black tourmaline around, cast circle when there is any question, and follow protocol when I do things like visit cemeteries. I lock my doors at night and don’t do dumb stuff like walk thru bad neighborhoods alone. I’m a reasonably peaceful person, have no interest in getting into any drama with other witches, and do not engage n00bs who want to become witches so that they can hex the guy who just broke up with them. I also did not engage in any hexing myself, not because I’m a big believer in the Law of Three (I’m not) but simply because nothing I’d encountered rose to that level of necessity. I do believe that sort of thing needs to be a last, rather than first, resort...and I’d just never reached my limit with anyone or anything. But recently, as this country has descended into more and more hatred, cruelty and general unpleasantness at the same time the city in which I live has experienced a large and quite noticeable uptick in crime, I started to take protection magick more seriously; not only with regard to my physical protection, but with regard to my psychic protection as well. It’s exhausting dealing with all of these new worries and a world that feels so much more hostile that it did years ago, and I found myself feeling drained quite frequently. Enter this book. Within the first hour of beginning to read, I had taken some basic steps to ensure that my person, my home, my car, my office, and my pets were under some level of protection. No big elaborate spells with a huge list of ingredients to gather. Didn’t even have to wait for the right moon phase because both waxing and waning were covered. Several spells required no ingredients, others required only items like salt and/or water. Still others could probably be completed with a candle and a couple of items from your spice rack. And still others could be completed with some basic crystals like obsidian and clear quartz, which are inexpensive and plentiful. There was ample flexibility to use the spells given as easy hopping off points for building one’s own spells and indeed some listings were more practices than ‘spells’ anyway. Already, I feel like the relentless negativity is much more outside my bubble, and I have become a much bigger fan of protection magick. Not long ago I read somewhere that some witches keep 60-70 protection magicks going at a time. And while I don’t see the need for that (at least in my life currently) I now have a list of about 9-10 magicks that I can keep in place without excessive effort and time commitment; items that will make my little dot on the planet a more positive space to occupy.