Blessing and Protection Spell for the New Year

On Samhain, you are standing in the gateway between the old year and the
new. It is important to set a boundary here and keep any negative energies or
misfortune from following you into the New Year.
You will need:

• five black candles
• one white candle
• salt
• a teaspoon of brewed coffee to anoint the candles
• sage oil or Protection oil
• Florida Water or Orange Blossom Water

six candleholders or a heat-proof surface
Start with the white candle. Fix it to the heat-proof surface by melting the
bottom, or place it in a candle holder and place on your altar. Anoint this with
the oil; this candle represents you. Next, surround the white candle with the
five black candles arranged in the shape of a pentagram (see the diagram for
the Ancestor spell for reference). Anoint each black candle with coffee
(coffee banishes all spiritual energy, good and bad.) Next, sprinkle the salt in
a circle that surrounds all of the candles.
Beginning with the candle in the northern corner (which should be the top of
your pentagram), light the candle and say:
“The end of the old and birth of the new,
my fortune is good, and my worries are few
what occurred in the past will not last, nor follow,
my future is bright and untouched by sorrow.”
Say this with the lighting of each consecutive candle. Leave the white candle
unlit. Allow the black candles to burn down, and in the morning, asperge the
white candle with the Florida or Orange Blossom Water, and light the white
candle and say:
“Happy New Year to me,
good luck and happiness times three.”