Love Spells: Use Both Candles and Common Sense - Isabelle Ghaneh

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The best love spells you can do are the ones that are infused with self love, love for yourself. If you are coming from a place of low self esteem, or a desperate desire to prove your worth through the love of another person, then you are not blessing yourself, or anyone else. If you are attempting to “put a spell on someone” and make that person magically love you, you are not blessing yourself. If you are doing anything other than seeking to open yourself up to someone whom you can love freely and who can love you freely, you are not blessing yourself.

Take it from someone who knows. The only candle love spell I ever did that worked—actually worked—is the one I will describe to you now. After many years of unfulfilling, sometimes even abusive, relationships, I had that same sense of desperation and loneliness I described above. It is only after much spiritual and therapeutic work that I learned that the spell for love must begin with self love and the understanding of what I truly wanted from a ...

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