Now I get a lot of spell requests, but the one single spell most requested above all is "What spell do I use to get my Ex back?" I've always been dubious about this but there is a way to make these spells to get back those who have told you they don't love you anymore (!) actually work - and also, why they generally fail if you don't know this.

Sirka from Norway wrote: "I love the magic staff you used in the Leap Year spell. How do you make a magic staff? What do you use them for? And how is a magic staff different from a magic wand?"

We have a leap year this year and someone requested a Leap Year Spell for February 29th. This was an interesting experience and a good exercise in how to create magic spells and rituals in the first place, original spells that belong to you, that come from you and therefore, have a much better chance to work for you. So here's my leap year spell; you can use it or just use it for inspiration to create a leap year spell of your own.

Michael from the US asked how to make an altar.

Here's a simple 7 step method to make a real working energy magic altar and some tips on altar offerings and how to make sure your altar gets more powerful over time, rather than becoming ever more confused.

This energy magic Soul Love potion has a fun origin - an Xtra Magic subscriber mailed in and asked how much of the Gypsy Rose Love Potion one should drink before love comes into one's life. Ooops! In the olden days, love potions were made to be given to an intended, so they would marry you ... Three drops, at that ...

However, that gave me the idea for a love potion you can drink yourself. More love is always better than less love!

Elizabeth wrote: I need your help (Spell Request) This is why this spell is important to me.

* I feel I'm isolated, and want someone to love Me, caress Me, take care of Me.
* I know I'm a nice person . But I just want others to notice it.
* I want to receive the recognition I deserve.
* I want to awaken each morning with the feeling that I'm going to be treated with love, respect, and kindness.

Bill wrote: I was enchanted by your entry about the law of three. Could you please however explain it in a way which is really really simple for someone who does not understand these things?

How does it apply, for example, to a love attraction ritual ( = to attract love in my life)?

Time and time again when I'm asked for a spell for this and that I end up telling the person, "You don't need to do a magic spell for this, you need to do some EFT instead!" EFT or Emotional Freedom Techniques is a baby-simple but highly effective self help treatment form to make changes to your energy body, and that changes the way you feel as well as the way you think.

For people who work in the blessed yet often perplexing realms of magic, EFT is extremely useful to overcome fears, limitations, anxiety, and generally speaking set a person free to do much, much more powerful magic all around.

An XTRA Magic subscriber wrote and asked for a spell to put on a turtle pendant necklace they had bought for a friend of theirs who was getting persecuted by bullies.

I immediately thought that was a brilliant choice as "Father Turtle" from the animal kingdom is a powerful guardian for protection, so I wrote a spell to go with it. This can be a simple spell or extended into a full magic ritual.

Cathy writes: Dear SFX, I need a spell to stop me from obsessing about someone who is an enemy and lets no opportunity go by to attack me. I feel under attack all the time. I don't want to fight back, that's just going to give him even more power over me - do you have a spell to get my mind off that man so I can get on with my own life instead?

Re: Levitate/Move things with mind.

Message: My name is Colin I am 13 and I live in Australia, I wanted to know if there where any spells that could levitate and/or move things using your mind.I Would love to know.

Thank you for your time, Sincerly, Colin

Suree writes:

Dear StarFields, I've been taught to go into an alpha state prior to doing magic, spells, rituals etc.

But I find I get very sleepy and drowsy. How can I raise more power for magic?

A good, ongoing, working relationship with your guardian angel or guardian spirit is OF THE ESSENCE if you want help, work magic, or need powerful protection. 

I am constantly surprised at people who want to try and do magic without such support, and others who really should know better who just put in few requests with their guardian angels or guardian spirits once in a blue moon during a ritual - and otherwise totally ignore them! How rude!

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.

Is it possible to do magic without any of the oh so many ingredients that are prescribed for even the simplest of spells?

What if you live in a situation where you can't be "seen" to wave wands and pentacles about?

Here is my advice for what do if you REALLY want to learn how to do REAL MAGIC ...

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 an important 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!

I received a request from someone who was very upset because a "certain word" was being used on them, to hurt them, on a regular basis by "silly boys" in their environment.

Now it is said that "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me" but that is actually not true.

Jane writes::

Hi, please can you do a spell for my horse?

He is in his twenties and has Laminitis which affects the feet, causes great pain and can often be terminal.

Here is a shamanic spell or magic poem for all horses. Beautiful.