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Spells & Rituals for Depression

Help With Spell Requested

I've posted elsewhere asking for rituals and help with dealing with my grief. I've gotten some incredibly kind and generous advice with those questions, which I appreciate very much.

We are finally entering what might be spring (it snowed today) in my part of the world and I am seeking rituals and spells that might help me handle the incredible depression (and the mess my life is because of that depression) that I'm experiencing. I know this depression is normal and maybe even healthy, but my life is in shambles and my apartment is a disaster and I'm scared about the future but simultaneously unable to do anything to really help myself.

I know mundane before magical (I am in therapy) and my first goal is to try and clean my home. I believe that this will make returning to the rituals that got me through the first few months of my grief (nightly lighting a candle and talking to my yarn/Brigit about my grief, gratitude rituals when eating, making a regular donation in my loved one's honour every full moon, making note of the moon's path through the month and observing the natural world, going for regular walks) easier. It's so hard to care when you wake up every morning to a disaster of your own making. It's hard to believe that your prayers and rituals will have meaning when you can't even find meaning in the basic tasks of living.

This is a long-winded way of saying that I am seeking spells or daily rituals that can help with emotional fortitude in the light of this. I know that my grief will ebb and flow for the rest of my life, it will never go away, but I need to be functional as a person. I need to be able to take care of myself and my home.

So far the only ritual I've come across is one on YouTube that has you make a special blend of tea that you drink every day while journaling. (I wanted to link the video here but I can't find it now.)

Do you have spells that can help with this goal? I think I need smaller steps before I can do anything else.

Posted Apr 8, 2025, 9:18 PM UTC

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