The Magical Household Quotes

“Weeds can be good friends; they're just herbs with different names.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“Whether you believe we naturally evolved or were placed here on some divine being's whim, living itself is a sacred act.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“Magic enhances and intensifies physical actions; it isn't a substitute for them.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“In China, the broom goddess is Sao Ch'ing Niang, or Sao Ch'ing Niang-Niang. Known as the Lady with the Broom, she lives on the Broom Star, Sao Chou, and presides over good weather…In pre-Columbian Mexico, the Aztecs worshiped the Witch-Goddess Tlazolteotl, who was usually depicted carrying or riding a broom.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“To change any part of the universe, we must be attuned to it.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“Rituals provide us with easily understood, vivid demonstrations of our goals and needs. They are more than powerful psychological boosts, for they set energies in motion, which is the essence of magic.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“A powerful church, linking bathing with older Pagan religions, taught that cleanliness was kin to evil, causing Western Europe to suffer through centuries of abysmal body odors.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“Salt was so sacred in ancient times that the Romans revered Salus, the Goddess of Salt, Prosperity and Health.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“On waking in the morning, try to make your first words pleasant, for this brings good fortune for the entire day.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“We are not helpless instruments of Fate. We have the power to change our futures, for we are creating them every minute we exist.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“The fortunate among us possess handmade quilts that grace our beds. Quilts are ideal blankets for the magical household, for the intricate patterns and loving attention devoted to their construction make them warm and safe things to wrap around us while we dream. Quilts can have magical designs, especially if an industrious sewer decides to create one. Knot and interlacing patterns are considered fortunate, as are floral or herbal designs. Some think that quilts with square blocks or bright colors hinder sleep, while the "Rising Sun" pattern is said to be one of the luckiest of all. There is magic in quilts. Tradition says they should be washed in melted snow to ensure that their deceased makers rest gently in the hereafter. And the first time you sleep under a new quilt or comforter, your dreams-good or bad-will come true.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“…bear in mind that the "curse" of the broken mirror is usually a self-created one.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“Other spells favored to guard the home from the entrance of evil include…painting the door blue…”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“The test of magic's success is time, not immediate eye-popping results.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“This isn't an academic history of mystic cottages, but a practical guide to transforming your life and living space.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home