Never ever

14. Witch stuff

Monday, the weather had changes overnight. Autumn was in full swing when I drove to the stores through the rain. From the moment I got home yesterday Jason had been around me. I made my point telling him I wasn’t going to talk to him all the time and that he had to give me my space. I had told him what my plans where for today and had expected him to stay behind yet I could feel him in the car with me as I drove up to the square. Luckily the parking space in front of the bookstore was empty so I was able to get inside without getting to wet. 

“What an awful weather right” A young man, who was putting books on a shelf, said as I stood by the door shaking the drops that did manage to fall on me off. 

“Night and day compared with yesterday” I say to him smiling friendly. I’m the only customer, does who didn’t had to work on monday afternoon would probably stay home when the weather was this bad. I look around and see it’s not only a bookstore. They also have a section where you could buy souvenirs and gifts. They were next to the travel section which I thought was clever. I had time so I took my time to look around, channing the book titles. At last I found myself at the nonfiction books. Every book I had seen with the word spirit or ghost on it was some kind of horror story and that was definitely not what I was searching for. 

Here it was a self help book talking about making the spirit within happy and a book that talked about a research to the ghost phenomenon. Both not about communicating with them. I was contemplating it I would ask the friendly guy for help when he came to me. 

“Do you need help finding something?” he asked and I sighed. 

“Yes, do you know if you have anything about communicating with spirits?” I asked hoping I didn’t look like a complete weirdo.

“No, I don’t think so by you should go to 13 moons down the street. I think they might have more what you are searching for.” He said just as friendly as before. I thanked him and walked to the shop I found my candles in, thankful the rain had stopped. 

Again the scent of a strong incense greeted me but there was no one else there at the moment.

“I’ll be with you in a moment” a woman called out from behind a curtain at the back of the store. 

“Thank you, take your time” I called back already going straight for the ouija board. It had to be a great place to start. I even checked the board out. It looked amazing but I could sense Jason didn’t approve of another board feeling it being pulled from my hands. Just as I was going to say something to him, as a older woman dressed in a lavender gown spooked me standing right next to me all of a sudden. Did she see me struggle with the board? See did look at me funny with those warm and light eyes. Her short silver hair danced happily around her head as she moved. 

“I’m sorry, did I frighten you?” she asked her voice sounding like song birds singing after winter. 

“I just didn’t hear you coming” I said putting back the board.

“Can I help you find anything dear” She asked making me feel warm inside. There was something about her that made you instantly like her, like she was everyone's grandma.

“I’m interesting in ways to communicate with the spirit world” I said surprising myself. 

“I should have guessed seeing the one that is attached to you” she said like I was nothing special. I just gawked at her and she smiled to me or was it behind me to jason?

“You can see him?” I asked her point blank, no need to hide it anymore.

“No dear but I can see his aura, his energie. So you know who he is?” she said as she walked toward the books section of the store. I followed remembering I had looked in amazement at the ceiling high bookshelves filled with new but also old leather bound books. 

“Yes, I actually saw him friday night but we haven’t been able to figure out why only then” I said laying all the card on the table. I felt she was the one that could help.

“On samhain? Or as you know it halloween? That is very well possible, the fail between our worlds is very thin then and those with a strong will are able to pass. But still then it’s not like just anyone can see them otherwise we would celebrate it quite different dont you think” she explained smiling at the thought. 

“So why me?” I asked. 

“Can’t tell you that my dear but I can see that your aura’s match. It could also be because he is connected to you just by absorbing your energy. Have you been feeling tired lately?” 

Remembering how drained I had felled that night, there had been a moment before hand. Yet this all had been after Halloween or what did she call it. 

“Yes, so you are saying that is because of jason?” thinking it would better to call him by his name than by what he was. 

“Yes” she said handing me a book, “Page 17 contains a protection spell so he doesn’t drain your energy anymore.

“Thank you but I want to talk to him, or more importantly he wants to talk to me.” 

“I have it here somewhere” she said looking higher up by getting on a small ladder attached to the shelfs. I hadn’t seen anything like it but got flashback to watching beauty and the beast, thinking they had used those in the movie. 

“Ow yes here it is” She said handing me another book, this one looked even older than the one she handed me before. Together we walked to the counter where I took a better look at the books. The first one was called Introduction to witchcraft, basics for the independent witch and the second didn’t even have any title or maybe it had just faded. 

“I’m not a witch” I told her unsure of what to do and I didn’t want to avent her. 

“Oh, I know dear but you do need to protect yourself before interacting with spirits. You don’t have s*x without condoms, now do you” She said and I could believe what I was hearing. My jaw dropped and I didn’t know what to say to that. Luckily she didn’t expected for me to answer and pick the first book up turning it to page seventeen, Blessings to protect did it say. 

“Now this is a very simple protection spell but I do advice you do this to day” she said strongly and I looked over the page. It seemed easy enough. The price of the books on the other hand will be a problem. 

“What is it dear?” She asked like she could sense that I was getting tense, she probably could. 

“Well, I don’t have a lot of money to spent and with these books and the ingredients I wouldn’t be able to pay.” I said a little imberhased. 

“Well if you buy everything that you need here I can write down the spells for you. Would you like that?” she offered.

“Thank you, yes” and I looked what I needed to get for the first spell. Three sticks of frankincense, a piece of turquoise, a light blue cloth and some purification salts. Together we collected the items and when I came back she was already looking in the second book. I saw that it was handwritten and I couldn’t believe it was for sale. 

“I guess you don’t have an altar at home” she asked smiling and I nodded, ”Then for this one you need 4 elemental bowls, on your right there, a red candle and some olie. I would recommend sandalwood but it can be any kind you like or maybe what he likes” 

I found four bowls I actually liked very much, there where brons with a triquetra on the site off them. I picked sandalwood after it almost fell of the shelf, thinking jason picked this one and left the red candle sinds I already had one at home. 

“I also added some sage and a feather so you can always cleanse your home if the communication doesn’t work or goes as planned” she said as i returned. 

“Thank you very much for you help, I would not have gotten this all by myself” I said thankfully.

“My pleasure and please let me know how it all worked out” she said and I promised I did before paying and leaving with a bag full of witch stuff.

On my way back home I stopped at the bakery and got some buns for lunch. It was weird feeling Jason everywhere I went and not being able to communicate with him. I hoped this would work because it could get very complicated it not. After eating I put everything I had bought on the table looking it over and than reading the note’s Diana, she had written is on the end, had left me. She had a nice a clear handwriting and the directions were easy enough to follow.

“I guess I try them right now since i’ve got the time, don’t you think” I said out loud, It was strange doing so but also kind of right. It was my first instinct to tell him.  

First was the protection spell and I needed to clean myself using the salt before performing the spell naked. 

“So why don’t you stay here while I do this protection spell in my bedroom” I told Jason and I could almost feel his disappointment. Did he wanted to see the spell or was it something else.

After showering using the salt as a scrub I went to my bedroom where I already had put everything I needed. I lit the frankincense and a earthly uplifting smell filled my room. With three sticks in one hand and the turquoise in the other and turned clockwise three times ristiting the spell Daina had written down for me.

“Sun, moon and stars have taken care of me, with their strength my mind is protected.

Sun, moon and stars have taken care of me, with their strength my body is protected.

Sun, moon and stars have taken care of me, with their strength my soul is protected.”

With a smooth movement of my wrist I covered myself with the smoke of the frankincense and then put the turquoise in the light blue cloth and knotted the points together with three knots making a small bag out of it. 

“By the power of three, may this give me protection and not cause anyone harm. Blessed be” I said completing the spell and it made me feel renewed somehow. I had expected to stumble through the lines and maybe even feel funny but it just felt natural. I put the bundle under my pillow and got dressed in easy house suit thinking I make myself comfortable for the next part. As I walked in I could still sense Jason but it was different. Like there wasn’t an edge this time. 

“So what do you think, did it work?” I asked him looking around the apartment for a sign.

** Jason**

It already had been a strange day with that woman seeing my energie or something like that but then she went on giving Maya all kind of ideas for witchcraft. Did she really think this was going to work? On the other hand was it such a huge leap after communicating with someone who had died more than twenty years ago, I guess not. It also meant a lot to me that she was willing to try, no guarantee it would work. I was disappointed that she wanted to do the first one apart from me. I wanted to know if I could see anything happen while she was performing it. She was protecting herself from me of course. When she came back out I couldn’t believe my eyes, it was as if she was glowing. Like a soft light had wrapped all around her in a Maya shaped cover. 

“So what do you think, did it work?” she asked looking around. I moved closer and touched her, I could still do it but it felt different. Before it was like touching a electric fence now it was more real, actually feeling her skin under my fingers not just feeling shocked. 

“Wow” Maya said looking down at her arm, “that is so much better, no more spiders”

“What does it feel like now?” I asked before realizing she couldn’t hear me. She was just smiling looking amazed at her arm. Slowly she lifted her hand and placed it on top of mine. 

“If I would close my eyes, It would be like you were here with me, in the flesh I mean” she said giggling from excitement. She clearly hadn’t believed in this as well. 

“Let’s see if the other one works as well” she said shaking her arm free. Something she didn’t have to do but I don’t think she even realized it herself, like it was more a reflex for the feeling of me grabbing her arm. She went to work telling me this one was more complicated than the other one. She picked up two of the bowl and went collecting some sand from outside. She place one of them facing north and the second one facing east putting the frankincense she got from her bedroom in it. Then the third bowl with a red candle in it was put facing south and the last bowl stood facing west after she filled it with water. After getting the rest she looked up toward me. 

“So i’m going to start now. I you could stay along side the candle. I will be walking around and sitting down across from you by the earth meditating. Than at some point I will call upon you and we will see if this works.” she explained and I took my place getting excited. She got the sandalwood olie and let some of the drops fall around the bowls. It was a subtle scent, sweet and woody, I liked it and watched Maya as she continued. 

“Air i’m calling on you, please join me” she said and then lit the incense, making it an interesting mix with the sandalwood drops. 

“Fire I’m calling on you, please join me” she said and did it also with earth and water. Then she got another stick of frankincense and walked clockwise around the bowls, starting by air. She did this three times and I watch her in amazement. Maya didn’t know anything about this yesterday and today she just does it, making it look effortless. She came sitting across from me and closed her eyes, concentrating on the breachting. After awhile she opened her eyes again and raised her arms in a V towards the altar. 

“Jason Green, son of Karin and William, hear me. 

Please join me here, in my cirkel.

Elements of four, hear me.

Help me to develop my intuition and my mental strength, So that Jason can cross my path. 

Elements of four, hear me. 

Bless me with the ability to communicate clear and to listen to all of my senses. 

Jason, do you accept my invitation” She spoke so clear that my ears where still ringing.There was power in that and I almost forget to answer.

“Yes, I accept” I said as she look right towards me.

“Hai” she said softly and I couldn’t believe my ears. They must have malfunctioned by the ringing. Then suddenly she started laughing hard.

“I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist” she says between laughs, “This one didn’t work I guess.” 

Wait, What! She was joking with me! I jumped up and wanted to walk away but it was as a wall bound me there. I growled and tried to push but it wouldn’t budge. What was this? And then I remembered her walking around me in the beginning. She had finished laughing and was looking confused towards me. She could still sense me and noticed I didn’t move any further. 

“Wait, I have to say thanks and unbind the circle.” She said and went to work starting by thanking me for joining her. Then the four elements and walking counter clockwise, she works fast and concentrated and then I could leave. I could hear her say sorry again as I walked out through the door. This was not something to joke about!! I thought fuming.