Santa Muerte Death Magick: Prayers and Rituals From Where Life Meets Death
Digital Web Book by Arnold Bustillo
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Digital Web Book by Arnold Bustillo
Buy the paperback at https://amzn.to/3BIeTTq
Graveyard Dirt Burial Petition
Primary Use
To bury negative fears, habits, experiences, or connections. To move beyond, or get over, something that is negatively impacting your life.
You Will Need
Preparations
At your Santa Muerte altar, light your black candle, so that you may work in its light. Use the black ink pen to write a very brief description of the negative fear, habit, experience, or connection that you want to overcome. Examples include, “Smoking Habit," or “Fear of Flying," or “Survivor’s Guilt," or “Anger Toward XYZ.” If you want to ensure a bit of privacy, you can use the black ink pen to block out the words you just wrote on the paper. Fold the paper until it is small enough to fit in the bottom of the planter, place it in the bottom of the planter, then recite over it the Graveyard Dirt Burial magick prayer, which is found below.
Burying Your Negative Connection
Next, create a blend of potting soil and graveyard dirt. A blend of about 75% potting soil to 25% graveyard dirt will work well. In total, you want enough soil and dirt to fill the planter. Make sure to save a small amount of graveyard dirt for the steps that follow.
As you combine the potting soil and graveyard dirt in the planter (over the paper at the bottom of the planter), continue to recite the below included Graveyard Dirt Burial magick prayer.
Plant a Marigold Seed
When the planter is ready, place a single marigold seed into the center of the soil, about an inch deep, and cover the seed with the soil surrounding it. Sprinkle a few pinches of graveyard dirt over the surface of the soil in the planter. Again continue to recite the below magick prayer as you perform these steps.
Leave this planter on your altar in the light of the burning brown candle until the candle burns to completion.
Nurture a New Beginning
When the candle has burned to completion, place the planter somewhere where the seed and soil can touch sunlight. If natural sunlight is sparse, then consider installing a small plant light over the planter. Each day, water the soil as you recite the Graveyard Dirt Burial magick prayer.
As the marigold seed begins to sprout and grow, so will the power of the negative connection begin to deteriorate.
If the marigold reaches full bloom, but you are still haunted by the negative connection you are trying to bury, then pull the marigold, roots and all, from the planter, and place the removed marigolds over an actual burial site in a cemetery or graveyard, then plant another marigold seed in the same planter box. The more marigolds that grow from this miniature burial plot, the weaker and weaker your negative connection will become, until it is nothing more than a distant memory. Continue this process of growing and removing marigolds until you feel freed from the power of the negative connection that you buried. When that time comes, you can treat the planter and the soil that remains within it (including the paper you buried at the start of this process), as regular trash.
If a marigold seed fails to sprout after three weeks, then leave the seed in the soil, and try again with a new seed.
Notes
Remember, magick is a tool, not a cure. In addition to this spiritual solution to the problem of a negative connection or negative attachment, you are encouraged to pursue traditional methods to address the problems that plague you. Therapy, counseling, and group support are all options you can consider.
Graveyard Dirt Burial Magick Prayer
Santa Muerte, Holy Death,
May you do what you do best.
Kill this burden on my heart,
From my spirit, make depart.
Graveyard dirt now set me free,
Binding chains, broke and buried.
Flowers bloom now on their grave,
Brand new day now in their place.
To bury negative fears, habits, experiences, or connections. To move beyond, or get over, something that is negatively impacting your life.
You Will Need
- Small Planter - about the size of a red Solo cup works well. Just big enough to support one or two single sprouting flowers.
- Graveyard Dirt - one or two handfuls; to represent the burial of your target connection in the ground.
- Potting Soil - to mix with the graveyard dirt.
- 1 Piece of Paper - to hold a description of the target fear, habit, experience, or connection that you want to bury.
- Black Ink Pen - to write on the piece of paper.
- Marigold Seeds - often called “flor de muerto” in Spanish, or flower of the dead, to plant in the planter. To represent the death of your target connection, which will create space for something new to grow, and to represent the celebration that will follow the death of the negative connection.
- 1 Black Offering Candle - to appeal to the energy of the Black Cloaked Santa Muerte, who strikes down what lives by cutting the thread of life.
- OPTIONAL - a small plant light. You will be trying to grow a flower, so if sunlight is sparse in your environment, a plant light will come in handy.
Preparations
At your Santa Muerte altar, light your black candle, so that you may work in its light. Use the black ink pen to write a very brief description of the negative fear, habit, experience, or connection that you want to overcome. Examples include, “Smoking Habit," or “Fear of Flying," or “Survivor’s Guilt," or “Anger Toward XYZ.” If you want to ensure a bit of privacy, you can use the black ink pen to block out the words you just wrote on the paper. Fold the paper until it is small enough to fit in the bottom of the planter, place it in the bottom of the planter, then recite over it the Graveyard Dirt Burial magick prayer, which is found below.
Burying Your Negative Connection
Next, create a blend of potting soil and graveyard dirt. A blend of about 75% potting soil to 25% graveyard dirt will work well. In total, you want enough soil and dirt to fill the planter. Make sure to save a small amount of graveyard dirt for the steps that follow.
As you combine the potting soil and graveyard dirt in the planter (over the paper at the bottom of the planter), continue to recite the below included Graveyard Dirt Burial magick prayer.
Plant a Marigold Seed
When the planter is ready, place a single marigold seed into the center of the soil, about an inch deep, and cover the seed with the soil surrounding it. Sprinkle a few pinches of graveyard dirt over the surface of the soil in the planter. Again continue to recite the below magick prayer as you perform these steps.
Leave this planter on your altar in the light of the burning brown candle until the candle burns to completion.
Nurture a New Beginning
When the candle has burned to completion, place the planter somewhere where the seed and soil can touch sunlight. If natural sunlight is sparse, then consider installing a small plant light over the planter. Each day, water the soil as you recite the Graveyard Dirt Burial magick prayer.
As the marigold seed begins to sprout and grow, so will the power of the negative connection begin to deteriorate.
If the marigold reaches full bloom, but you are still haunted by the negative connection you are trying to bury, then pull the marigold, roots and all, from the planter, and place the removed marigolds over an actual burial site in a cemetery or graveyard, then plant another marigold seed in the same planter box. The more marigolds that grow from this miniature burial plot, the weaker and weaker your negative connection will become, until it is nothing more than a distant memory. Continue this process of growing and removing marigolds until you feel freed from the power of the negative connection that you buried. When that time comes, you can treat the planter and the soil that remains within it (including the paper you buried at the start of this process), as regular trash.
If a marigold seed fails to sprout after three weeks, then leave the seed in the soil, and try again with a new seed.
Notes
Remember, magick is a tool, not a cure. In addition to this spiritual solution to the problem of a negative connection or negative attachment, you are encouraged to pursue traditional methods to address the problems that plague you. Therapy, counseling, and group support are all options you can consider.
Graveyard Dirt Burial Magick Prayer
Santa Muerte, Holy Death,
May you do what you do best.
Kill this burden on my heart,
From my spirit, make depart.
Graveyard dirt now set me free,
Binding chains, broke and buried.
Flowers bloom now on their grave,
Brand new day now in their place.