A Spell for Palestine: Weaving Protection Through Spirit and Solidarity

The first spell recipe of the recipe series! Last night, I lit a candle for Palestine. Not just a flame, but a beacon—an offering, a vow, and a spell. The world feels heavy with grief and injustice, and when words alone felt too small, I turned to ritual.

Lia Zhao

8/9/20252 min read

Last night, I lit a candle for Palestine. Not just a flame, but a beacon—an offering, a vow, and a spell. The world feels heavy with grief and injustice, and when words alone felt too small, I turned to ritual.

I envisioned shields rising like walls of light, wrapping around every child, every mother, every elder, every home. It wasn’t about me. It was about connection. About adding a thread to the tapestry of resistance and care. Magic, for me, is another language of solidarity—a way of saying: you are not forgotten, you are not alone, you are protected.

A Spell of Protection for Palestine

When the world feels unbearable, I turn to magic. Spells are not just gestures of faith — they are acts of resistance, love, and solidarity. This ritual was crafted to surround Palestine with protection, to shield its people with light, and to call in healing, strength, and peace.

This spell weaves together food, herbs, and natural elements that embody protection, resilience, and remembrance. Each ingredient carries its own spirit, and together they create a shield of defense and care.

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You Will Need

Taper candle (white for peace, blue for healing, black for warding)

Plate (to hold and center the working)

Beans — sustenance, protection, defense

Salt — cleansing, warding

Black pepper — banishing malevolence, warding evil

Jasmine — purity, hope, spiritual resilience

Bay leaf — protection, strength, purification, healing

Bamboo — hex breaker, luck, peace, prosperity

Pothos — protection

Beeswax — home and child protection, safety

Blackberry — healing, protection

Blueberry — baneful protection

Cedar — healing, strength, warding malevolence, prosperity

Cinnamon — success, healing, luck, protection, money drawing

Blue chalk — protection, calm, mourning

Chrysanthemum — protection, grief and remembrance, good health

Coffee — road opener, speed, grounding

Optional: eggshells, personal protection mix, or any other protective ingredients you keep in your practice.

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Steps

1. Cleanse your space, your tools, and yourself before beginning.

2. Mix all ingredients into a container.

3. Stir with your hands, speaking your intention into the blend. Let the words carry your will: protection, safety, remembrance, freedom.

4. Carve a protection sigil and the word Palestine as a taglock into the candle.

5. Dress the candle with moon water and your mixture.

6. On a cleansed plate, fix the candle at the center with melted wax.

7. Spread the remaining mixture in a circle around the candle on the plate.

8. Pour a ring of salt around the candle for added protection.

9. Add any extra ingredients you wish for reinforcement (I used eggshells and my personal cleansing/protection mix).

10. Light the candle. Allow it to burn all the way down. When it reaches the bottom, the flame should catch the mixture, rising into a greater fire — the shield ignited.

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This flame becomes a prayer: for the living, for the departed, for the land itself. May this spell weave strength around Palestine, may it banish harm, and may it call forward a future of justice and peace.

I know a single ritual cannot stop missiles, cannot dismantle oppression. But I also know energy moves where it is directed, and that spiritual acts ripple outward. Every prayer, every spell, every song for Palestine joins with collective action, with protest, with resistance. Magic does not replace the struggle—it stands beside it.

So I send this spell into the world: a shield of light, a circle of protection, a reminder that even under occupation, even under fire, Palestine remains sacred, alive, unbroken.

May the spell reach those who need it.

May it fortify the living and honor the dead.

May it weave protection until freedom comes.

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