One of the most adaptable materials and practices in magic is the use of magical powders. Magical powders can be used by themselves in a spell by being sprinkled or dusted around an area, rubbed onto or around a candle, and used as a filling in container magic.

When it comes to magical powders, there are two main types. The first type you have is working with individual materials as magical powders. This is where you find materials like pollen, dirt, termite remains, ground shells, etc. The second type of magical powders are those of blended formulas. Blended magical powders, like witches' salts, hot foot powder, and sweetening powders, are the most common and well-known types of blended magical powders.

Naturally Found and Wildcrafted Magical Powders
The most powerful magical powders are those that you can find naturally or take minimal effort with which to dry and create a powder. There are some materials, such as flower pollen, crushed shells, dirt, and decayed woody plants, that have a natural powder-like consistency. That natural consistency makes them natural magical powders. To use these powders, all you have to do is gather the materials and empower them.

Here are a few examples of materials that can be found in nature, in your garden, or in the kitchen and used as a magical powder. Remember, when gathering these natural curios, take only what you need, and no animal life should be harmed while you are trying to gather these materials.

• Allspice: Correspondences include money, luck, healing, prosperity, and success.
• Ant Hill Remains: Correspondences include the removal of blocks, perseverance, success, confusion, chaos, money, self-reliance, and luck.
• Basil: Correspondences include protection, cleansing, reversal, removal, blessing, love, exorcism, wealth, astral travel, rituals for the dead, ancestral work, and to attract money.
• Bee Pollen: Correspondences include fertility, prosperity, success, health, healing and wellness, and industriousness.
• Chamomile: Correspondences include luck, success, money, wealth, happiness, joy, health, healing, wellness, sleep, peace, relief from anxiety, relief from depression, and sleep.
• Clover: Correspondences include protection, money, fidelity, love, exorcism, and success.
• Crab Claws: Correspondences include removal, banishment, reversal, protection, and return to sender.
• Dandelion (roots, seeds, and leaves): Correspondences include perseverance, success, prosperity, fertility, money, wealth, sales, health, healing, wishes, and manifesting magic.
• Discarded Wasp Nests: Correspondences include the removal of blocks, industriousness, prosperity, fertility, life, success, sales, prosperity, chaos, confusion, decay, and destruction.
• Eye Bright: Correspondences include mental focus, meditation, psychic sight, psychic senses, spiritual sight, and divination.
• Lavender: Correspondences include love, protection, purification, happiness, peace, healing, meditation, and psychic abilities.
• Marigold/Calendula: Correspondences include money, psychic development, protection, prophetic dreams, psychic powers, and healing.
• Plantain (Broad Leaf): Correspondences include perseverance, success, strength, power, protection, health, and healing.
• Rose: Correspondences include love, relationships, protection of love, romance, passion, lust, and desire.
• Rosemary: Correspondences include healing, communication, clarity of thought, peace, protection of peace, and removal.
• Sage (all): Correspondences include cleansing, removal, protection against the evil eye, and protection.
• Sea Shells: Correspondences include reversal, protection, and strength.
• Stinging Nettle: Correspondences include protection, exorcism, healing, breaking of bad luck, and lust.
• Sugar: Correspondences include attraction, prosperity, sales, success, love, passion, sweetness, lust, and desire.
• Termite Droppings: Correspondences include the removal of blocks, perseverance, success, confusion, chaos, money, self-reliance, luck, chaos, confusion, baneful magic, and decay.

Simple Single Powder Spells
Now that you have an idea as to several common materials used in magical powders, it's time to explore how a single powder can be used effectively as its own magical spell or used in combination with other magical tools to boost other spells. When it comes to magic using simple powders, the simpler the spell, the more effective the magic will be.

The first spell is a door-opening spell, bringing in new opportunities and overcoming obstacles in your path. The second spell is a simple and effective money charm, to ensure that there is always money in your wallet.

Discarded Wasp's Nest Road-Opener Spell
Sometimes obstacles develop in our lives, and moving forward can seem impossible. The following spell helps you overcome obstacles and move forward with new opportunities.

Materials:

• Sturdy stick with a point
• Discarded wasp's nest

Working:
1. Go outside and grab a sturdy stick with a good point.
2. Use the stick to draw a lock and key in the dirt. While you draw the lock and key, think about a long-standing obstacle in your life.
3. When the drawing is complete, begin to crumble up and sprinkle the remains of a discarded wasp's nest over the drawing you made. As you sprinkle the discarded wasp den remains, state that the obstacle be gone.
4. When all the remains have been sprinkled over the drawing, stomp on the drawing, directing anger and frustration at the obstacle into the dirt.
5. Next, use your shoes to wipe away the image. As you wipe away the image in the dirt, know that you are leaving that obstacle in your past.
6. Walk away and return to your daily life. This act is symbolic of leaving that obstacle in the past.

Simple Chamomile Money Spell
Everyone likes to keep money in their wallet. From food and bills to entertainment, many things in this life require money. This simple charm will ensure that you always have money in your wallet and good financial luck.

Materials:

• Small paper bill ($1 - $5)
• Chamomile flowers

Working:
1. Take a bill of a small denomination ($1 - $5 is ideal) and lay it flat on your working surface.
2. Take some chamomile flowers and sprinkle the flowers over the bill. As you sprinkle the dried flowers over the bill, state: "Good money and luck flow to me, bring me success and prosperity."
3. Once the bill has had the chamomile powder sprinkled thoroughly over it, fold the bill in half towards you.
4. Rotate the folded bill towards you and fold again. Repeat rotating and folding the bill two more times.
5. Carry the folded bill in your purse, wallet, money clip, or pouch to bring luck, success, wealth, and prosperity in your life.
6. To keep the charm charged, remove the folded bill from where you carry it and sprinkle a fresh layer of chamomile powder over it once a month.

Magical Powder Blends
The only way that magical powders can be more effective than when used alone is when ingredients are combined into powder blends and formulas. In magical powder blends, each of the materials plays off of each other, empowering one another. This means that all the energy is blended to create one new cohesive, energetic whole.

Making Simple and Effective Magical Powders
The process of crafting effective magical powders is simple and requires very few tools. Many materials can be readily purchased in a powdered form. To craft an effective magical powder, all you need are the components or ingredients along with a mixing bowl or a mortar and pestle. If you are going to be storing your powder to use later, then you will need both some sort of storage container like a small, sealed bag or bottle and a label for the powder.

Like with all magical work, the first step is deciding what the goal of magical powder is going to be. Once you have decided the intent or goal behind the powder, your next step is to choose your ingredients to match the overall goal. (This is why it's important to study and understand magical correspondences.)

Activating, or telling the energy of the materials what they are being used for, is the third step in the process. Simply add the material to the bowl or mortar and pestle and state why you choose that material. Once you activate the energy within the materials, the energy can be pulled and shaped.

You need the energy of each material activated so that you can combine all the various energetic forces together into one new whole. This is where grinding and mixing the materials comes into play. As you grind and mix the materials, focus on the goal and intent to create one final energetic force.

When it comes to magical powders, people typically think of things like the various colored witches' salts, sweetening powders, and hot foot powder. There are so many more types of magical powders beyond these! Edible magical powders can event be a wonderful way to add a magical punch to the flavors of your food.

Magical Powder Formulas and Simple Spells
The following three formulas each illustrate a different type of magical powder. You will find a protection salt; a sweetening powder; and a money, sales, and prosperity blend that can be used either as a sweep or a wash. Each formula comes with a simple spell that illustrates one of the best ways to work with that powder.

Power of Nature Protection Charm
Use this simple spell to create a protection charm that channels all the powers of nature. The protection power in this spell comes from the Nature's Protection Salt formula.

Nature's Protection Salt Formula:

• Sea salt (protection, neutralization of unwanted and unknown energy)
• Ground plantain (strength, power, protection)
• Crushed seashells (protection)
• Crushed acorn tops (strength, power, protection)
• Ground black pepper (protection, exorcism)

Spell:
Materials:

• Pen
• Paper
• Personal effect or photo of the individual seeking protection
• Nature's Protection Salt
• Black ribbon or thread

Working:
1. On a piece of paper, write out five times the name and date of birth of the individual you wish to provide with strength and protection.
2. Rotate the paper and rewrite the same name five more times. 3. Set the personal effect or photo face up on top of their name.
4. Cover the photo/personal effect and written name with the Nature's Protection Salt. As you cover both the photo/effect and writing, state: "May (their name) be protected from all that would do them harm."
5. Fold the paper in half, trying to keep the powder, photo/effect, and words in the center as much as possible.
6. Rotate and fold the paper two more times. 7. Take black ribbon or thread and tie it around the folded paper, securing the folded paper and powder.
8. Give the folded packet to the person you want to protect and have them carry it for as long as you desire them to be protected.

Sweet, Passionate Love Candle Spell
Love that is full of passion and desire for each other is one of the best feelings in the world. This spell uses the Sweet Passion Sweetening Powder to attract that type of relationship to you or boost the passion between you and your partner.

Sweet Passion Sweetening Powder:
Ingredients:

• Sugar (attraction, desire)
• Rose petals (love, lust, desire)
• Lavender flowers (love)
• Cinnamon (lust, passion)
• Nutmeg (lust, desire, passion)

Spell:
Materials:

• Knife
• Red taper candle
• Pen
• Paper
• Sweet Passion Sweetening Powder
• Taper candle holder
• Anointing oil
• Matches or lighter

Working:
1. Use a knife and carve the word "Love" on two sides of the red taper candle. Set the candle aside.
2. In the center of the paper, write out a petition describing the type of person with whom you want to love and be in a relationship.
3. Sprinkle the powder mixture over your petition. Continue to sprinkle enough of the powder until the petition is covered.
4. Fold the paper in half twice, keeping as much of the powder and petition in the center of the paper as possible. Repeat two more times.
5. Place the folded paper packet under the taper candle holder.
6. Pick up the candle and rub the anointing oil on the candle.
7. Rub the mixture into the carved words and along the bottom of the taper candle, then gently place the candle in the candle holder.
8. Use the matches and lighter and light the candle. Let the candle burn for 10 -15 minutes, and then extinguish.
9. Once a day, light the candle and let it burn for 10 -15 minutes and then extinguish. Repeat until the candle has been fully burned.
10. When the candle has burned completely, dispose of the candle remains and the paper in a trash can nearby.

Roots of Success Spell
This spell uses the Roots of Success Sweep and Wash to ensure that any financial undertaking you participate in will not only be successful in the short term but will also establish roots for long-term future success.

Roots of Success Sweep and Wash
Ingredients:

• Ground dried dandelion root (money, wealth)
• Galangal root (fast cash, money, wealth, success)
• Pine needles (fertility, prosperity, money, success, wealth)
• Ginger root (success, luck)
• Ginseng root (success, prosperity, wealth, luck)

Spell:
Materials:

• Roots of Success Sweep and Wash
• Tea Ball or drawstring tea bag
• Bucket of hot water
• Wash rag or sponge
• Mini Broom
• Dust pan

Working:
1. Divide the Roots of Success Sweep and Wash into two piles, one that will be used as a wash and one that will be used as a sweep.
2. Fill the tea ball or tea bag with the pile that will be used as a wash, and then fill the bucket or large bowl with hot water.
3. Set the tea bag or the drawstring bag in the bucket or bowl of hot water, and let the herbs steep.
4. While the tea ball or bag steeps in the water, start in the back of your house or business and take the mini broom and dustpan, and gently use the broom to dust the herbal blend across each windowsill and door way to your house or business. As you dust the windowsills and doorways, see prosperity flowing into your home.
5. When you return to the bucket of water, remove the bag or tea ball from the water, and dunk the rag or sponge in the bucket of water.
6. Wash down the main entrance to your house or business with the sponge, washing from the bottom up, to encourage success and growth. When performing the spell for a store or business, wash down all registers or counters where transactions occur before washing the door.
7. Dispose of the used tea in the trash, and the remaining water by dumping it in the ground outside. If dumping the water into the ground is not possible, you may dispose of the water by dumping it down a nearby drain. Repeat once a month to ensure continued prosperity, wealth, and success.

Conclusion
Folk magic practices have given us a lot of simple and effective magical tools that make working magic a breeze. The use of magical powders is one of the many folk magic tools that have been adapted into many different magical traditions and practices today. These powders are often overlooked and underutilized magical practice.

From being used to add power to a candle spell, used as a bath/wash, sprinkled around, or used as an ingredient in a container spell, magical powders are a very versatile tool. Powders are a simple, easy, and effective tool to add to your spell kit. For more information, formulas, and detailed information on empowering and creating magical powders, check out my newest book: Powerful Powders: Recipes & Formulas for Magic & Spellcraft.