Wicca Spells

Healing and Comfort

Symbolic work for hard weeks and slow recoveries. Nothing here treats an illness.

Waiting, and the hours before Appointments, scans, results, and the long not-knowing.

Healing Magic: What a Rite Can Hold and What It Must Not Promise It is nine in the evening and the kitchen table has not been cleared.
The Night Before the Appointment The letter has been on the counter for eleven days, under the fruit bowl, with the time circled in ballpoint.
The Held Breath: The Night Before a Scan The letter has been on the table since Tuesday, and you have read it four times, and it says the same thing every time.
The Waiting Room: A Working for the Hour Before You Are Called The strip light above the third row has a flicker in it that you would not notice if you had anything else to look at.
The Phone That Has Not Rung: Waiting on Test Results The phone is face-up on the arm of the chair, where you set it down on Tuesday and have not moved it since.
Living Without an Answer: When No One Can Name It Yet The envelope has a window in it, and the hospital crest shows through slightly crooked, the way it always does.
Packing the Bag: A Charm for What You Take In With You The holdall is open on the bed with its mouth gaping, and the list is written out twice because the first copy went missing.

The day it lands The call, the telling, and the ground coming back afterwards.

Being with someone Sitting beside a bed, visiting, sending something from far away, and caring for the carer.

Getting through the week Mornings that will not start, four a.m., and permission to stop.

Afterwards, and the long tail Recoveries that outstay their welcome, and a body that has changed.