Day 27: Last spell you did and why.

This post is part of a 31 Days of Secular Witchcraft series in which I answer questions about my own personal views about magic and witchcraft.  I urge you to answer the same questions, found here, on your own blog.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I am writing this post on October 26, 2013.  I am flamekeeping today, and it's amazing how much writing you can do when you are at home alone for 24 hours with a fire goddess.  By the time someone reads this, I will probably have done another spell. 

As of this writing, the last spell I did was a simple protection spell because I like to keep myself emotionally protected since I work with tweens and adults in a wonderful but sometimes taxing environment.  Honestly, I just felt like it.

I empowered a necklace that I wear frequently with the elements as I perceive them and asked Inanna's blessing.  I felt a physical heaviness on my shoulders and back, almost like a cloak, and I had to keep looking over my shoulders to verify that Inanna wasn't physically, visibly present.  It felt very real.  I saw my niece a couple days later, and she was drawn to the necklace, which I found interesting.  I've been blessing my rings and necklace on my working shrine each night (when I remember to do so) ever since.

Since that writing, I lost the charm off the necklace at my parents' house!  I guess they needed it more than I do.  I haven't done any major spells, per se, though I did a small charm for some of my recent pagan crafting (candles, wands, a spell jar, and a string of pagan prayer beads).  I have mainly been doing a lot of ancestral veneration and praying for my grandfather's passing.  --Updated 11/10