The Face in the Far Glass is a homecoming mirror spell — a working that turns a moonlit mirror into a beacon, casting the image of home across every mile to the one you miss. A mirror is a doorway laid flat, and on the full moon its silver runs deep as any well; this spell uses that depth to lay the wanderer’s own threshold before their eyes, in waking and in dream, until the wanting of it turns them and walks them back. It is cast for a person whose safe return you long for, and it asks nothing of them but that they remember the way.
Correspondences for This Spell
- Colours: blue and warm brown, for hearth and safe return
- Herbs: rosemary for remembrance, comfrey for safe travel, and sage to keep the working clean
- Crystal: amber or hematite, to ground the return
- Day: Monday
- Planet: the Moon
- Element: Earth, the ground beneath the homeward road
- Moon phase: the waxing moon, to draw home
For more on aligning your work with these forces, see the correspondences guide.
What You Will Need
- A mirror — the doorway of the working; a flat, freestanding glass you can lay level
- A shallow bowl of water, to catch and hold the moon
- A single candle, in blue or warm brown if you have one
- Salt, to ring the glass and turn away any false road
- A dark cloth, to cover the mirror between nights
- Optional: a sprig of rosemary or comfrey laid beside the bowl
The Best Time to Cast
Cast the main working on the full moon, when the mirror’s silver runs deepest and the moon is bright enough to fill the water. A Monday is best of all, for it is the Moon’s own day and carries her draw. If you wish to build the pull slowly, begin on any night of the waxing moon and let the glass drink the growing light toward the full, so the calling strengthens as the moon does.
The Working
- On the night of the full moon, set a mirror flat and place a shallow bowl of water beside it to catch the moon.
- Ring the mirror with a fine line of salt to keep the working true and turn away any false road.
- Light a single candle so its flame falls upon the glass, but your own face does not.
- Breathe the wanderer’s name onto the mirror until it fogs, then let it clear.
- Gaze into the moonlit silver and hold in your mind the image of your door, your window, your waiting light — as they would see it, coming up the road.
- When the image steadies, speak the incantation, sending the vision down the long glass road toward them.
- Cover the mirror with a dark cloth to hold the calling within, and uncover it to the moon each night until they come.
The Incantation
Silver water, moonlit glass,
show the road where the lost feet pass.
Carry my door to a far-off eye,
a waiting window, a lit-up sky.
Let them see it in waking and dream,
the near, kind light, the homeward gleam.
Down the long glass, down the moon’s white road —
come to the door, come home, come home.
Variations & Substitutions
- No freestanding mirror? A small hand mirror laid flat, or even a dark phone screen, will still catch the moon and hold the image.
- No candle of the right colour? Any white candle serves; tie a scrap of blue or brown thread around its base to carry the hearth-hue.
- Want a heavier, grounding pull? Rest hematite in place of amber against the bowl, so the return feels rooted rather than airy.
A Word on Intent
This is a calling, not a chain. The Wiccan Rede reminds us, an it harm none, do what ye will — so cast this only for someone whose return you would both welcome, and who is free to choose it. Lay the light of home before them, but leave the last step their own. You are lighting a window, not seizing a hand; the moon will carry what the glass has shown, and a homecoming freely made is the only one worth keeping.
Related Homecoming Spells
And one night the face you called will be no reflection at all, but the true one at your door. Explore more workings in the Grimoire, or record your own castings in your Book of Shadows.