A really interesting and important part of magic revolves around magic guardians for protection of the home.

A first choice for as long as humanity has been around is to use statues of animals to be magic guardians. Of course, not every animal statue is magic, and not every magic statue is a magic guardian.

Here's a report on a psychometry experience and some ideas of how to find and strengthen magic guardians of your own.

Went to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince movie yesterday with another person. How was the 6th installment of the Harry Potter saga on the big screen?

Well, it was long. That's immediately a bad sign because as you know time flies when you're having fun, and time didn't fly for me on this occasion.

What went wrong with this movie?

Need a Magic Fire but no matches?

Fear not - we have a brand new virtual Magic Fire for you to use at any time - and without any risk of setting off the fire alarms or the parents!

You can use the Magic Fire to burn away things you don't want in your life, but you can also use it to transfer wishes and spells to The Powers That Be in the traditional magical fashion. Focus on what you want to burn, when it is clear in your mind, type in the request and hit "Burn!"

A special present for Magic Spells & Potions five million visitors celebration, you can find the Magic Fire here.

When we think of a love potion, the first thought is rose, of course. Different kinds and different rose colors for different types of spells, like white rose for spiritual love, yellow rose for friendship, red rose for romance and so on.

But there's other things you can make a love potion out of, and cherry blossom, being one of the most powerfully romantic nature moments, makes a special kind of love potion that is quite unlike rose.

This is a love potion for the oldest, and the youngest witches - a love potion for new beginnings.

People are always asking me, "What do you have to do to be a real witch? A real magician? Where is Hogwarts? Point the way ..."

On this site I give many ideas for anyone who is actually serious about magic to get started, get practicing (which means to do something practical in order to learn something from it!) and have fun with magic.

Here is a tip that does divide the wheat from the chaff - looking out for opportunities to do magic, and when one presents itself, to jump on it with both feet and take advantage - there and then!

SFX writes: If I had a gold coin for every time I've been asked about magic you can do without ANY of the myriad of magic paraphernalia, from candles to crystals, herbs, ointments, swords, pentagrams, eyes of newt and back again, I would be a very rich witch indeed! But fear not, dear witchlings all, for SFX has come through and she has taken a system of reality creation that has been around for a hundred years and brought it bang up to date, added a little stardust and here we have it - the most DIRECT form of magic spells available to humankind, natural, easy, incredibly powerful ... and all you have to do is to SPEAK UP.

A meditation or a fantasy - just like a lucid dream, if you can make it real, is IS real, and real magic, at that. Here is a special Solstice Meditation Fantasy for you to enjoy that will bring you closer to your friends, guardians and angels and if you allow yourself to step inside, then you will really receive 12 beautiful gifts that will bring you joy, and more besides - enjoy!

Happy Solstice, everyone!!!

I always get asked about money and prosperity charms - here is a REAL magic money charm from my good friend QED. This is a unique discrete energy magic charm filled with pure gold, Etherium Gold and a pinch of real prosperity magic. Can be worn as a pendant or on a charm bracelet, looks quite harmless but is very powerful.

This Magic Prosperity Charm comes in a small black gift box - A GREAT Gift for a friend or for yourself. With the British Pound being so low, the price should be a bargain too for people who live in the US or EU. Goto http://nicolaquinn.com/shop.htm and check it out!

Magic Water is something people have been using for as long as there have been people - water is very responsive to being imprinted with magic energies for all manner of purposes.

So simple water can become magic water by changing it through intention.

Here are some examples and easy ways to get started with Magic Water - the original magic potion.

This is the number 7 in numerology:

7 = Completion: Creativity manifest, expressing the spiritual in physical form, MAGIC.

Very suitable for your humble correspondent on this occasion, indeed. A grand birthday and a grand year awaits! And here's a little musing on my birthday as to age, wisdom and the power of magic ...

StarFields writes: Apart from my interest in magic, I've spent the last five decades near enough trying to figure out how to "unlock the magic within" and get to the amazing resources of our higher self, our magical self and our energy mind which I know we have, but which seem so flighty and out of control most of the time. Being able to communicate with the layers of yourself which already know FAR MORE than we consciously do, AND which can go out and contact even greater powers on our behalf to really make magic happen, is to me the KEY TO MAGIC in a very practical sense.

This is why I have taken all I've learned over the last 49 years and combined it into a BRAND NEW system for communicating with your energy mind - a set of symbols that serve as a Rosetta Stone so both the conscious mind AND the unconscious mind know what they mean and can start to REALLY talk to each other: The Genius Symbols.

EVERY woman - old or young! - NEEDS THIS BOOK: The Love Clinic by Sandra Hillawi. Don't let the title of "clinic" put you off - there's nothing clinical about this book. It's pure magic. You want love spells? This book is full of them. Only they're called techniques not spells, as to not put the average muppet in the street off of buying this book. This book spells the end of "being at the mercy of men" in every way you can imagine. Love pain? Here's how to heal it. For real. QUICKLY. And forever. Going mad with jealousy? Not a problem any more ... Stuck in a crush? Here's how to get out, get on, and have fun with NEW men. Need to increase your X-Factor to attract adoration, attention, love and devotion? Yeah, that's in here too.

Am I kidding?

I get asked on a regular basis for a real love potion that really works. Now every love potion is only as good as the witch who makes it, but this one is as fool proof as any potion could possible be. It's a family recipe (I'm half gypsy) and it really works with a minimum of basic potion ingredients that are easy to get hold of. So hopefully, love may now come to all who keep on asking!

Congratulations to www.Magic-Spells-And-Potions.com for attracting 3 Million hits since it came online! And congratulations to our competition winner - Shadowfae from the United Kingdom who won a beautiful full length skyblue velvet cloak kindly sponsored by Artemisia Dance Designs.

For full results and a list of the runners up who each won a signed copy of "The Magician", as well as my personal thanks to all who entered and my The Gift, read on ...

I have been involved in an extremely unusual project recently that to me, highlights many things about being a true magician and living a life that has a lot more to it than working in a supermarket, going home, watching TV and falling asleep just to do it all over again the following day. As a Project Sanctuary Master, it was my privilege to contribute to the Soul Pilot's project - which is quite literally to go out and to save lost souls.

At the end of this article, you find a download link to a part of the Soul Pilots book which charts the journeys we undertook and what happened when we did.

When we are young, we are told fairy tales - about evil witches, mostly older women, and wishes that lead to disaster; about magic gone wrong and full of dire warnings to not stray from the straight and narrow or else terrible things will happen. These things sink into a young child's neurology and there they stay, and there they sleep, and there they wait until the moment comes when an adult might want to make a wish, but all of sudden and seemingly from nowhere, there's fear. There's doubt. There's confusion. Bad things happen when you make a wish ... don't trust that genie in the bottle ... magic leads to no good in the end ... And that's a magic reversal in action, old programming that is just the same as brain washing or cult control, but here the cult is the Spanish Inquisition, reaching across the ages through the medium of fairy tales and affecting people in their millions, still here and right now.

Magic isn't so much about rituals or herbs, or even spirits and deities, than it is about using your will to alter the fabric of reality.

One way how this is done, and perhaps the most important of them all, is to learn to use your intention to change an inanimate object into a "magical" object - this is like adding an invisible yet perfectly real layer to the object that creates ripples of change behind the scenes.

StarFields writes: I am in the process of collecting some good, hardworking love spells that actually work and do what they're supposed to do. I was just going to put them on a web page but then I thought they deserved better, so I spend the weekend making a luscious Flash book instead.

You might think that Aloe Vera is a "New Age" fascination, but you'd be wrong about that. As far as I know, my grandmother was growing these plants for every day use at least since 1920. Indeed, the pet Aloe Vera I have in my house right now is a descendant of an original plant which my mother owned and that was alive and well in 1963, because I remember being treated after falling with a leaf from the plant when I was about four years old. Her plant was a descendant of her mother's plant, and my great aunt owned a relative she took from *her* mother's house when she moved out aged 14 to go into service.

Whether you do a spell to fall in love, a spell to attract a new lover, a ritual to catch a particular individual, or whether you want to spice up your existing relationships with magic spells and potions, you definitely need this triple strength power rose oil love spell recipe. It isn't difficult to make at all and once you have it, you can use it on all and any relationship - even to attract the love of the angels!

Since I've posted the article on "how to make a poppet or voodoo doll", I've had lots of requests and questions about voodoo spells. As I didn't know a thing about voodoo, I decided to educate myself on the topic. So if you want to know more about voodoo and voodoo dolls, here is an introduction - and an additional article on me making my very first voodoo doll!

Fairy magic? Isn't that just for homosexuals and weak willed new age mommas? Well ... yes and no. Certainly, the "fluffy bunny" school of esotericism and magic tends to congregate round the cute little pixies and fairies, and yes, they do go off with the fairies into Disney land. That's true. But it is also true that magic is LIGHT and joyful in essence; and that most people who take magic seriously, take it way TOO seriously - and make it dour, miserable and unhappy as a result. The truth is that the more serious you are about magic, the more you need to watch this tendency to get bogged down in furious concentration, knitted brows and hard work. The sparkle of a bit of Fairy Magic can be a breath of fresh air, lift your magic right up and brighten you and your day. That can only be for the best! So here is a story to start this topic off and I look forward to adding to this section to remind us all that magic is LIGHT - it sings, and dances, and yet it is still the most powerful force in the universe, indeed.

The other day, I wanted to do something that involved using a poppet but I was fresh out of corn husks, linen wraps and wax. So I decided to use the materials at hand to make my moppet. "What's a poppet?!" I hear everyone ask. "It's like a voodoo doll ..." - "Oh! A voodoo doll! Why didn't you say so in the first place!" Please don't think of voodoo dolls in the stereotypical way of sticking pins into people, or "Witches of Eastwick". They do a whole lot more than just impersonate another across distances. But this article isn't about how to use poppets, but how to make them - with modern materials and ready to personalise for energy magic. Good fun and also suitable for children and beginners.