By Weatherwax

You need:

    3 brown and 3 green candles (or 6 green) - brown for the Earth and green for healing

    6 candle-holders

    A photograph/picture of a cow, sheep, goat, farmyard scene or a figurine/toy of the same

    A pin

Optional:  Either Spearmint, Lemon Balm, Rosemary or Myrrh essential oil

Suggested timings (optional) : Tuesday at either midnight, 7 am, 2 pm or 9 pm.

    This is a candle spell and, as such, does not require a circle to be cast.  Place the picture/figurine in the center of your working space.  Place the holders in a circle around the item - the circle should ideally be around 12 inches in diameter.

    Using the pin, mark a one of the candles with 6 equally-spaced lines (effectively dividing the candle into 7 equal portions).  Using the suggested oils if you wish, charge each candle individually by holding it between your hands, concentrating on empowering it with healing energy and saying:

    Burn the sickness in your flame,

    Burn the sickness that would maim,

    Burn the illness by your might,

    Burn the illness in your light,

    Heal them of illness-pain,

    Heal them of all that's bane,

    Heal them and set them free,

    With my will SO MOTE IT BE!

    Set the candle into its holder.  Charge the remaining candles individually and place them in their holders.  If you use brown and green candles, alternate the colours so that no two are beside each other. 

    Light the candles.  Close your eyes and visualise a diseased animal (choose any cloven-hoofed animal you most associate with this disease - most likely a cow).  When the picture is clear in your mind, target the area of disease (the feet and mouth).  Visualise tiny workers with buckets of soft green paint, brushes, and rollers. Alternatively, if you work with the angels, envisage the Archangel Michael laying his hands upon the cow and drawing out the disease.  Hold the picture until the workers (or Michael) have completely healed the animal (or covered the affected areas with the green paint - as applicable).  Then open your eyes and say:

    I hold you in my heart

    And wrap you in my love.

    My circle of protection

    Descends now from above.

    And as I send this energy

    All pain shall disappear.

    And all disease shall dissipate

    And shrivel up in fear.

    The emptiness I now replace

    With fresh vitality.

    So you may thrive upon the Earth

    As the Goddess mote it be.

    Brightest blessings and good health I give

    To encase you from now on.

    I ask that They watch over you

    And keep you well and strong.

       May all astrological correspondences be correct and may this spell not reverse, nor bring back to me any curse.  May it be for the good of all - and harm none.  SO MOTE IT BE !!

    Continue the visualisation of the healthy animal until the candles have burnt down to the first mark.  Extinguish them.  Repeat every night for the following 6 nights, moving the candles one inch in towards the picture/figurine before you begin.  On the last night, they should touch it (or be as close as they can possibly get) and allow the candles to burn down completely.

    No matter what occurs in the media (good or bad) ensure that you finish the full seven-day spell.  Repeat it as you feel it is required (this is quite a major outbreak and will need a lot of energy to fight it).