Banish Nightmares Spell - the Devil Card
You will Need:
The Devil Card
The Lovers Card
Eucalyptus Leaves
1/2 Pomegranate
Chamomile tea
This spell will help you find restorative, uninterrupted slumber and sweeter dreams. The Devil card represents fear, while the Lovers card represents love. The two cards are flip sides of the same coin. Eucalyptus leaves are said to repel evil spirits and ward off sickness. Pomegranates are evocative of deep slumber, as Persephone ate them and returned to the underworld. Chamomile is famous for its soothing soothing qualities.
Eat half a pomegranate's worth of seeds for your evening's dessert. Before going to bed, fix yourself a cup of chamomile tea. Light a candle. Sipping the tea, place the Devil card before you. Enter the card in your mind's eye. Bring the core emotion of the nightmares into the card with you. Stand before the giant, seething Devil. He is like the great and powerful Oz, all artifice and nothing real.
Imagine the qualities of your nightmare as a symbol, something you can hold in your hand. It may be a dark ball of fuzzy energy a present wrapped with shiny black wrapping paper, the bloody head of a corpse. Allow your imagination to express it. Hold your fear in your hand. Walk up and place it before the Devil. Leave the fear with him. Walk backwards while chanting the incantation.
Fears and tears
are gone from me
Restless night
you let me be
Gone away
Away with you
I sleep in waves
Of velvet blue
Place the Lovers card over the Devil card. The Devil has been transformed to light and sun and peace. Meditate on the beauty and bounty of this card as you finish your tea. Scatter the eucalyptus leaves beneath your mattress. Devour a few pages of a favorite childhood book before turning off the light and falling into deep sleep.
From 365 Tarot Spells: Creating the Magick in Each Day by Sasha Graham
