Navigating chronic illness can be tough, especially for us witches. While I can't offer any cures or magickal solutions to make your illness disappear, there are some ways I've found to better the experience. Living with chronic illness can still be a magickal life. Here are five ways to incorporate magick for chronic illness. 1. Magickal Pill Box Once you have a pill box that you like, decorate it with sigils, signs, images, or anything that empowers this container for you. On my pill box, I used paint markers to draw sigils to promote health and well-being, a memory sigil to help me remember to take my meds, and a sigil to reduce side effects. I now have an aesthetically pleasing, magickal container to store my medications. I hold the full container and bless the medications whenever I restock my pill box. You could use a blessing like this one or create your own. "In the name of the Goddess, God, and Great Spirit, 2. Create a Comfort Object Talisman Cleanse your comfort object with sacred smoke, such as cedar, palo santo, or local herbs. Hold the comfort object in your hands. Speak aloud your intentions for the object. You could use the following or create your own blessing. "I ask in the name of the Goddess, God, and Great Spirit, under the watchful eyes of the ancestors, that this object be consecrated to manifest comfort, healing, and peace within and around me. I ask that this energy promote helpful, harmonious energy for my highest healing good. Thank you to all those who aid in this work. So mote it be!" 3. Create a Healing Altar for Yourself To honor yourself at your altar, make offerings. Choose consumable or token items you enjoy. Choose an altar cloth to place underneath your items. You might also pick a space in your home for your altar where you can store your pill box. I keep my self-altar in my bedroom near my bed so I can look at it if I'm not feeling well. 4. Commune with the Spirit of Your Disease Using a spirit house is the best way to connect with the spirit of disease. Spirit houses are a way to allow the spirit to commune with you and give it an anchoring point for interaction that is outside of your body. You could make a spirit house using a generic clay doll not made in your likeness. When I did this, I loaded the doll with herbs and stones that help enhance spirit contact, such as wormwood, frankincense, and quartz crystals. You may choose more specific ingredients for your illness or keep it generalized. Here are some questions or intentions that can be explored with your spirit. Choose a few that you would like to ask to your spirit. Record any messages you receive in a journal.
5. Connect with the Spirit of Your Medication To connect with the spirit of your medication, hold the container for the medication and seek to commune with its spirit. Some good questions to ask are:
When I have made these connections, I have asked how we may best partner together and if there is anything I need to know or should do to make our partnership work better. Interestingly, I have received information telling me to avoid certain foods. When I reflected on this more, I realized a side effect is weight gain, and I think the spirit was trying to guide me not to have that happen. See what shows up for you. There are lots of ways to practice magick when living with chronic illness. I hope these five ways encourage you to explore more magick for yourself and empower you to live your best life in the face of illness. Just because you are sick does not make you any less of a witch. Blessed be! |
Danielle Dionne is a professional psychic medium and witch. She trained under internationally renowned mediums, including John Holland and Tony Stockwell, and under prominent magickal and occult teachers such as Christopher ...