Three Old spells to enhance dreams/night magic.

For Hispanic Heritage Month ~ Three Old magical spells from the Venezuelan Amazonas to enhance dreams/night magic.

My most recent book, Dream Witchery, was finally published almost a year ago, and the DM conversations about it have been truly enriching and nourishing on multiple levels.

Many of these conversations revolve around two specific topics: spells and charms and dream interpretation, which I've already written about in this other post (Click Here to Read it). Another topic I'd like to discuss is dream walkers and lucid dreaming, but the book handles this topic well, and I haven't felt I need to expand on it any further.

Anyway, while I know many of these spells, nobody's gonna practice them, lol, and I need to understand that is not my concern. Many others are looking for more information to integrate into their practice, which is something I'm here for.

Magic dolls hang on the balcony. They were created during the past new moon and filled with a blend of dried powdered herbs and flowers for protection and clairvoyance, keeping us warned and shielded against enemies and their bad intentions. They hang on the balcony in the east direction of the house (air, communication, visions) to spread their energy around the property.

So here are some spells of everyday use for you focused on Night & Dreams magic.

I. Night vision.

A common practice in the Guajira (modern wayuu people in the cities) tribe of the Amazon is night vision. Yes, it sounds funny. The real name is 'Takuma Tiko,' which translates to... (surprise, surprise...)... night vision, lol. Takuma means "something you can see," and Tikoi means 'something dark, something hidden, something in the night. '

It consists of a practical divinatory exercise that involves entering a dark room or one with very little light and simply lighting a candle (traditionally, the candle is anointed with a drop of bird's blood, but we can skip that part for obvious reasons), lighting a small bonfire on the ground or a cauldron with a small bundle of dried herbs collected at dusk, or more specifically, "plants collected with the last light of the day."

You visualize the shapes of the smoke in the darkness, focus your eyes, and breathe deeply into the smoke and its contours around the candle. This ritual is performed twice weekly for an entire lunar cycle (3 to 4 weeks).

Traditionally, we wouldn't tell anyone to "carry a notebook" or "keep track of everything you see." Still, in the modern world, we know that specific recommendations work, so take notes and check your progress.

II. The mask to protect yourself.

In all forms of witchcraft, there are so-called 'witchy wars,' in the old school, kinda interesting wars between witches cursing each other with real spells and sending hexes to others; even you could quickly know when you were part of a witchy war because you see it in nightmares and visions, nothing like these modern "witchy wars" more based on basic bitches sharing boring screenshots via DM and looking to "cancel people?" or some shit like that, but online, nothing magical or interesting (precisely like them) just a dull sea of ​​lies and manipulation and the most prominent display of narcissism and gaslighting.

In the old school, when these witchy wars happened, you saw actual witches meeting in the night and working together, sharing formulas, exchanging books with notes in them, etc. My mom has never been the friendliest person in the neighborhood or in the witchy groups, so yes, she was always "fighting" some mystical enemies or removing curses that kept us all awake all night. And my lord of the night, I have many stories.

My mother's divination method uses tobacco, and if you have been to a proper divination session (here is more information), you know that the answers are pretty specific. It is pretty different from tarot or runes; it is more of a system of "Q&A" and interpretation of images in the ashes.

One old trick witches did when you were trying to reveal the identity of a brujo was asking the tobacco to reveal their identity. I clearly remember when Mom repeatedly said, "I see nothing." Then Aura, a friend of Mom's, told her this person was masked, and I was curious and listening. She explained to us something curious: when a witch wants to curse you, send you deaths and curses, and wants to keep her identity a secret from the "Reversals," it involved putting on a mask made of black cloth during the night ritual to send the curse in the direction of one's enemies, and to ensure that the curse would not return.

III. A basic protection spell.

You'll find different regional variations of this simple recipe in many books on Espiritismo and Brujeria (not to be confused with Western Witchcraft).

It consists of keeping a glass with clean water under the bed. Depending on the different traditions of magic they follow, this glass of water can be accompanied by a pair of scissors opened in the shape of a cross, two knives crossed over each other, a lemon cut into four parts, or five cloves of garlic.

My own variation of this spell is to keep the glass with clean water that I renew every night before going to sleep, with 3-5 drops of myrrh or frankincense essential oil, a piece of crystal quartz, and a small piece of amethyst placed next to the glass of water.

For more context or to dive deeper into the topic, read These are the questions I get most often about Dream Witchery and The Dream Interpreter: A Bridge Between Worlds in the Amazon.

Also, to explore more into the topic, grab a copy of my 400-pages book "Dream witchery" Here