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Quick, Simple, and Practical Magic for Every Day of the Year, this cheerful, practical book does what it says on the cover: each page is devoted to a day of the year, with instructions for a spell to improve happiness and contentment. Although some of the spells are tied to a specific date, for instance "Summer Solstice Power Spell" or "Autumn Equinox Spell for Balance", most of them are designed to be used at any time in a wide range of situations. The equipment needed is mostly what can be found in the household cupboard or local shop. A Mother and Child Bonding Spell for 12 May, around the time of Mothering Sunday, requires an orange candle, two quartz stones and a white lily in a pot. The candle is lit, the spellcaster focuses mentally on his or her own parental relationships while holding the quartz stones, and then they are pressed into the soil of the lily pot for permanence. Most love spells tend to relate to other people, but a rather original 14 February entry here is a "Valentine's Spell to Love Yourself", involving a bag of candy hearts and a mirror, where you read out to yourself the message on the heart. The New Year's Day spell for starting afresh requires a purple candle and your favourite incense, to reinforce the message to yourself that you can and will become a new person. For the "Spell to End the Old Year" you need a pen and some fireworks, and you are going to write on the fireworks all the things you want to eliminate from your life, then light them and send the bad stuff shooting off into space. 384pp, softback, drawings.