Attracting That Attractive Stranger

Don’t tell me you have never had a brief but meaningful encounter at your local café or exchanged long glances on the bus crossing town. Shyness tied your tongue, and now your only hope is that chance will bring you together. Try this trusty attraction spell.

Gather together

    * a man-shaped mandrake root or substitute (see spell)

    * 1 cup (20g) of red, white, and pink rose petals

    * 1 red, 1 white, and 1 pink candle

    * 2 goblets of red wine

Place the mandrake root (commonly available at herbalists and metaphysical shops) on your altar. If you cannot find the mandrake root, you could substitute any statue, drawing, photograph, or figure of a man that reflects some quality of your heart’s desire. Surround the root or figure’s base with the rose petals and candles. Place the goblets with a small amount of red wine in them beside the candles. Make sure it is a wine you really like and would want to share with a romantic interest, as you will refill the goblet each evening. Burn the candles for 5 minutes every night for a week, starting on Friday, Venus’s Day.

Sip from one of the goblets, and recite:

    Merry Stranger, friend of my heart,

    Merry may we meet again.

    Hail, fair fellow, friend well met,

    I share this wine and toast you,

    As we merry meet and merry part

    And merry meet again.

Make sure you look your best when you step out as you will soon lock eyes again.

Come-To-Me Love Spell

With so few opportunities to meet new people amidst the pandemic, it often feels like love is constantly slipping through our fingertips, just out of reach. And while this has certainly complicated our love lives, it also has made the interactions we do have so much more treasured. Perhaps you’ve experienced something like this; a stranger caught your eye at a Zoom poetry reading, you had a brief but meaningful moment in line for coffee, or perhaps you exchanged looks of longing across the aisle on your last grocery run. Whatever it was, you can’t seem to shake that person from your mind. Now, your only hope is that chance will bring you together, right? Wrong!

To reconnect with this mystery person, try this surefire reunion spell. Take a man-shaped mandrake root (commonly available from magickal herbalists and metaphysical shops), or any statue, photograph, or figure of a man. Place it on your altar, surrounding the figure’s base with red and pink rose petals, then add red and pink candles. Place two goblets of red wine beside this arrangement, and burn the candles every night for a week starting on Friday, Venus’s Day. Sip from one of the goblets and recite:

    Merry Stranger, friend of my heart,

    merry may we meet again.

    Hail, fair fellow, friend well met,

    I share this wine and toast you,

    as we merry meet and merry part

    and merry meet again.

Make sure you look your best, as you will soon lock eyes again.