Banishing spells are spells designed to send something or someone away or to prevent their return.
To banish something means to send it away or drive it away from a location. In the mundane world banishment implies that whoever is banished can never return or is no longer welcome, but magical banishment is a little different.
Banishing Rituals
A banishing ritual is often performed at the beginning of a ceremony in order to rid the ritual area of negative or unwanted energy or entities that may interfere with magick or unbalance energies that will be raised or summoned during the ceremony. Most magical paths prescribe a banishing ritual of this type prior to any spellwork or magick of any sort.
A banishing may also be performed at the end of a ritual to banish any entities that were evoked or invoked during the procedure or to clear the energy that has been raised from the ritual area to allow it to return to mundane use. For example, you would banish the energy from the love spell that you performed in your living room so that it can return to normal living room use and not affect everyone who comes in there innocently trying to watch the evening news.
A banishing may be performed on the ritual space or on the magic-user(s) or both, however, when you perform a banishing ritual on an area, you do internalize it somewhat automatically. The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram is a basic banishing ritual that is a primary requirement of initiates into the Golden Dawn. It is used to prepare a ritual area and also to prepare the magic-user by focusing their mind and energy on the task at hand, creating a magical atmosphere and an altered state of consciousness.
One may banish summoned energies and entities as well once their presence is no longer required. Although the word "releasing" is most often used, the Watchtowers that are evoked at the four corners of the Circle in many rituals are, in fact, banished at the ritual's end.
- Introduction to Banishing Rites by Phil Hines
Banishing Spells
Banishing spells are designed to drive away anything the magic-user feels is a threat or a nuisance; a person, an obstacle, a debt, a disease, an addiction, a bad habit, etc.
A banishing may be performed on a home, to drive away unwanted energies, discord, stress, etc. undesirable entities, such as ghost other troublesome spirits.
A banishing spell may be performed on a person to banish an addiction, an affliction or an influence another person has over them.
Banishing spells are also performed on objects to rid them of connections to prior owners or any energies picked up during their use, often in preparation for programming or charging them for a new purpose.
The term cleansing refers to a banishing done to remove unwanted energies from a person, location or object. The term exorcism is used to describe a banishing for an unwanted entity, especially an uncooperative, unfriendly one.
Performing a Banishing Spell
While banishing spells can be performed at any time, they are most effective if performed during the waning moon while the moon is in the sign of Capricorn or Scorpio. Saturday is a good day for general banishing spells. (See also Spell Timing as there are better times for the banishing of specific things.) The best time is at the dark of the moon, but before the new moon appears.
Some say that your movements should be widdershins when performing a banishing spell, but some believe that it's bad luck to move in any direction other than sunwise while performing a spell.
For many banishing spells, an object is chosen to represent the person, idea, thing or energy to be banished. This item is then charged or programed to represent the target using various means and then symbolically sent away. Running water, such as a river, a sewer drain or even a flushing toilet is often utilized in this way. It is important that the item be of safely biodegradable nature so that your spell work does not bring harm to the environment or clog up the pipes.
Banishing of energy or entities may take the form of a more complicated ritual involving fumigating or asperging an area, person or object. If you are banishing energy from your person, a ritual bath may be in order.
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External Links to More Information
- https://cultureofthecraft.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/new-moon-banishing-ritual/
- http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Banishing
- http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/spellworkfolkmagic/ss/Magical-Banishing.htm#step1
- http://www.spellsofmagic.com/spells/spiritual_spells/banishing_spells/page.html
- http://www.philhine.org.uk/writings/rit_banishintro.html
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How can I banish faeries? They want to go home but aren't very nice……. My friend is very good at banishing spirits but said the portal is different to the faeries and we need to know how we can send them home?
Most witches will tell you they'll take ghosts and demons over faeries any day. Faeries are tricksy. And they generally don't need any help finding their way home, it's a matter of whether they feel like going or not. I would not believe any faerie who said they didn't know how to leave, or couldn't leave. I have been lucky with faeries. I've had a few folk that hang around, but we got along alright because I gave them offerings and asked them nicely to maybe not do that thing anymore, for a while. Alternatively, you can simply make the place uncomfortable for them, I understand they are rather turned off by the presence of iron. Saint John'sWort and Marsh Marigold are said to be repellant to them as well. They might leave, they might retaliate, they might do both. Other, less insulting ways to make the place less inviting for them to stay is to make the area seem as poor and raggedy and boring as possible, if you can. Moving is a good idea. You could try giving them clothes…