St Valentine's Love Spells

Love spells can be worked at any time, but St Valentine's Eve and Day (13th and 14th Feb) have been used for this purpose since Roman times - although then it was called Lupercalia.
     Some spells seek to find out the future - who will I marry? Who is the mysterious sender of this Valentine's card? And this is often done by encouraging magical dreams:

Rosemary Love Dream Spell
      Take a sprig of Rosemary and some rose water up to your bedroom when you retire at night. Stand naked in your room and dip the rosemary in the rose water. Use the sprig to sprinkle yourself with a few drops of the rosewater and say:

Rose Water and sweet Rosemary.

Love and sweet remembrance be.

When I dream in bed this eve

Show my true love unto me.

     Now put the rosemary sprig under your pillow and get into bed and go to sleep without speaking any more


To Keep Someone in Love With You
    Now this works best if your lover has given you a rose, preferably a red one. But if this has slipped their mind, go and buy yourself one, but when you do, say in your mind that this is done on behalf of your lover.
     Now set the table for two people, yourself and your lover. Put them opposite you and light a red candle in the centre of the table.
     Now make a sandwich using bread, butter and the petals from the red rose sprinkled with sugar or honey. Cut the sandwich in half and put half on your plate and half on your lovers.
     Then say:

Juno, Queen of Love and Marriage,

Keep [name of lover] in love with me.

As I eat this meal, so shall his/her love stay with me always.

Then eat your rose sandwich.
     If your lover is present and eats the other half of the sandwich, that is ideal, but if they cannot be, then let the candle burn down and then take their sandwich outside and break it up for the birds to eat. For birds are the messengers of Love.