Love Ritual (Honest Opening)

To open to love without coercion — no working on another person's will.

Waxing moon, when you are genuinely available rather than trying to fill an absence.

MoonMagicx Lunar Method™ phase: Waxing Gibbous.

• A pink or red candle

• Rose, hibiscus or damiana

• Rose Quartz or Rhodochrosite

• Paper and pen

Write what you want in a relationship in behavioural terms, not in adjectives. 'Someone who answers messages' rather than 'my soulmate'.

Candle centre, crystal on your list, herbs sprinkled around.

Light the candle. Say: 'I open to love that is mutual.'

1. Read your behavioural list aloud.

2. Add one line: 'And I will offer the same.' Read it again.

3. Hold the crystal at your chest and name one way you make yourself unavailable.

4. Name one thing you will do differently to be reachable.

5. Leave the list under the crystal for the rest of the phase.

6. Do the reachable thing this week — reply, accept the invitation, be seen.

'I do not audition for love.

I am available, and I am honest about what I want.

What is mutual can find me.'

Snuff the candle. Say: 'Open.'

Notice the urge to check whether it 'worked'. Turn that attention toward your own availability instead.

Coercive love work tends to cost more than it returns. Openness is the actual magic here.

• How do I make myself unavailable?

• What am I willing to offer?

• Where am I loving from a place of proving?

Never work on another person's free will. Never leave candles unattended.