Artificially Authentic Book of Shadows

I am super new to witchcraft of any kind, tend to lean toward Norse practices and dieties, but see merit in all practices. Former Catholic. I haven't told my family.

[a2bos]

Hello! I saw your most recent protection spell post; could you explain a little more what “Florida water” is? 😅 Blessed be!

Yeah, totally!

So Florida Water is a cologne. It's not something you make. If I'm going to be completely honest, I'm still pretty new at witchcraft in general, so I don't really know WHY it is popular or why it has spiritual properties as opposed to like, White Diamonds perfume (so y'all feel free to add more information).

From what I can gather, it's a pretty popular protection, and you can wear it AS a cologne, drip it around your space, draw with it, etc in the same way that you might use other, less innocuous pieces.

I found mine in a metaphysical shop near my house, but I know you can find it on Amazon if you're in a pinch.

[a2bos]

Protection “Paint”

I learned this from tiktok, but have since lost the video. This is the first physical ward that I’ve found that I truly felt worked, and it can go anywhere!

You’ll Need:

- a small, resealable jar (a couple of ounces will do)

- paintbrush

- charged water (moon, rain, snow, etc. Anything you want, really)

- florida water

- salt

- ground sage

- rosemary

- basil

- anything else that is water-safe (so be careful with crystals) that you want to mix in.

What you’ll do: Take the small jar and add all your dry ingredients (I go in the order sage, salt, basil, rosemary). Then, add 13 drops of florida water (or any other significant number, like your lucky number or an angel number). finally, add the water to fill up the rest of the jar. Close and shake until the salt is dissolved and everything is fairly well incorporated. Not everything will dissolve, and that is okay. That which doesn’t dissolve will help protect. 

Now, either create or borrow a sigil or rune for protection and paint it on you windows and doors. I would go in a bottom corner, as it tends to drip a bit. I also put this on my car windows. Be a little bit careful with wooden surfaces, though, as Florida Water does have a bit of an alcohol content and you don’t want to hurt anything.

[feytouched]

college witches/young witches wya? 🖤✨

i’d like to make more witchy friends around my age range (18-22) so hmu and i’ll check out your blog!

[theweepingdahlia]

I wish you hell: Hex

This is a hex for when someone has taken advantage of your kindness and love. Best used when you’ve done nothing but wish well, and help someone and they’ve done nothing but hurt you in return.

What you’ll need:

A dandelion or a flower cut out of paper

A lighter

A windy day (Optional but adds power to the intent)

A list of ways they hurt you.

Start by writing a list of all the ways you were hurt and used by this person. Fold that into the smallest square you can. Put this to the side.

Take the dandelion or paper flower in one hand and a lighter in the other. and say “I wished you well, you gave me hell. Now I’ll wish to you what you gave to me.” And flick the lighter, and burn the flower. If you are doing this outside on a windy day, feel the breeze and picture your intent flowing out in the breeze. 

Then take the folded list, dig a small hole and bury it.

[roaringlions]

Powerful spell ingredients that are specifically NOT herbs, oils or crystals

Because magick works best when there are actual real memories and strong emotions tied to the items.

to attract love in life/increase your or someone else’s happiness:

- your (their) most favourite candy - a colorful ribbon from a gift wrapping - some kid’s love confession letter you found in a library book

to speed up things:

- burnt matches - a watch stem - bus/train tickets - a few torn off sheets from a daily/weekly calendar

to slow down things:

- a snail shell - a queue ticket - a pull-tab from canned food - a few drops of formalin - dried fruits

to protect/threaten:

- tin soldiers - old bullets - cat nails (naturally shed, obviously. inspect your cat’s scratch post) - dead wasps - insect cocoons - glass bottle caps (you know, these sharp metal ones)

to banish:

- a few drops of sanitizer - absorbent coal - a rejection letter - a one-way ticket (away from your location)

to curse:

- a traffic/parking ticket - bones from cooked fish that you almost choked on - your own tears, brought by sincere rage/misery - flowers from a thrown-away bouquet - the most obnoxious ad/spam mail you’ve ever received - a test paper, marked F and mercilessly corrected by a sadistic teacher Use your senses, your emotions, your own memories and your imagination: what does this item make you feel, what did it possibly make its owner feel? You can add to the list whatever feels right to you. Remember that emotions and memories connected to the item are always a powerful magick fuel, especially in spellwork.Note: some of these things are obviously region-specific. For example, living in a place that once was the war epicentre, it’s a common thing for me to stumble across old rusty bullets while taking a walk in a suburban forest. It may be different for you, but that only means you have certain things which are only unique to your place.

[soothifying-sounds-asmr]

The Wolf Song - Nordic Lullaby by Jonna Jinton

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[heatherwitch]

Yule Resource Masterpost

A collection of categorized links for your Yule needs! What is Yule? [X] Yule is celebrated on slightly different days depending on who you ask, but the broad spectrum is: December 20th to January 1st in the Northern Hemisphere and around June 20th (give or take a few days) in the Southern Hemisphere.

 The basics:

Yule correspondences

Celebrating Yule

Yule: A very merry sabbat

Guide to Yuletide plants + herbs

Yule - ‘tis the season

Yule practices

A Yule ritual

50 Yuleisms

Yule Crafts:

Yule potpourri recipe

Witch balls / more witch balls

A twelve-herb sachet for Yule

Mini herb wreaths

Yule log

Yule craft ideas

Pine protection balm

Dried orange slices

Apple feeders for winter birds

Yule Recipes:

Herbal shortbread

Bread dipping oil

Chocolate Yule log

Yuletide muesli

Yule tea

Yule Punch

Non-alcoholic mulled wine

Winter sabbat wine

Yule Spells:

Merry Yule spell jar / Season of peace spell jar

Holiday ornament snow spell

Yule bath spell

Blessed Yule - for a positive holiday season

Winter solstice spell

Spell for a happy family gathering

Yule energy sun spell

Winter stasis spell sachet

Holiday home blessings

Safe delivery envelope spell

Yule Tarot Spreads:

The return (2 card)

Yule spread (3 card)

Tarot spread for Yule (3 card)

Winter inspired spread (5 card)

Yule reflection + advice spread (5 card)

A Yuletime tarot spread (6 card)

Other:

Music ideas / Winter witch playlist

Altar/celebration ideas / Yule altar guide

Yule plants / Mistletoe Lore

Yule oils/incense / Yule incense

Emoji spell for luck during Yule and Solstice

Spell ideas for the holidays

Updated June, 2020. Please inform me (via askbox) of broken links!

Imbolc / Ostara / Beltane / Litha / Lammas / Mabon / Samhain / Yule / Bedridden ideas

[dude-im-a-witch]

I’m going to college next year, and I want to be able to connect with Norse deities while I’m there. I feel like it’ll be the best place to do so, since my parents won’t be around (I mean, I’ll have a roommate, but I’ll deal with that once the time comes).

HOWEVER, most colleges don’t allow you to burn candles. My first choice college will even take the candle away if it has an unused wick in it.

So, how should I lay out offerings and connect with the deities if I can’t burn candles? I know that there are other ways, but I don’t know what they are. Do I NEED a candle?? I’m so confused...

(Also, I have never contacted a deity before. I want to start when I get to college. Just wanted to make that clear)

[theowlandfox]

There are many ways to connect to deity outside of lighting candles.

Praying, giving offerings, talking to them, writing to them in a dedicated notebook or journal, keeping something dedicated to them in a space dedicated to them (an altar, shrine, etc.) is a good way to “open the door” as I like to say. You don’t *need* anything physical. You only need yourself and your willingness to be open, respectful and communicative with a deity.

[a2bos]

Electric candles. Himalayan salt lamp. And while I would *never* advise anyone to outright break rules especially when their living space has them for a reason it should be acknowledged that I definitely just use tea lights anyway.

[nature-is-punk]

Witches Reblog If...

• New, young, or considering witches can ask you questions

• Your blog is free of hate and is a safe learning community (this includes bashing christians/non-pagans)

• No questions (as long as they aren’t creepy) will be laughed at or shamed

• It’s okay to ask you for advice or opinions, even if you are an experienced witch.

• Your blog is inviting and welcoming and is a space for education on the craft.

I will follow you, because tumblr needs more of these witches.

[mindfulmagics]

So...I like to buy candles that have rings in them, so when you burn down enough wax it has a little packet inside with a ring, and I always light those candles with specific intentions. Does that charge/enchant the ring with those intentions as well?

For example: I have a black wax candle with a wooden wick that I use for protection and guiding my ancestors to me (it’s a replacement for a bonfire). Would the ring it came with have the same intentions? I feel like it should

I think if anything it would probably enchant for the most common intention (so like...my white candle is either lit neutrally or for spell work that requires a white candle, so it probably wouldn’t have any inherent intent/enchantment when taking it from the wax, but my bonfire candle could, right?)

[a2bos]

If by being in the candle itself doesn't charge the ring, then the nature of burning the candle to get to the ring definitely charges it in my mind.

[upthewitchypunx]

PBW Witch Shop & Zine Distro

The PBW Witch Shop is a curated selection of witchcraft and magic related zines, books, pin-back buttons, tarot cards and more.

We focus on traditional and folkloric witchcraft, animism, chaos magic, secular witchcraft, magical herbs and plants, queer witchcraft, tarot & Divination, witchcraft & magic in politics, history, culture, and social & racial justice,  and aspects of non-Wiccan forms of witchcraft, magic, and paganism.

Pre-Covid the Portland Button Works primarily made custom pinback button. Selling zines and books was secondary and more of a hobby for me to share things I’d like to read. Right now our business is pivoting to focus on books and zines that people can read in the comfort and safety of their own homes. Some items are from well known witchcraft and occult publisher and some are titles from small publishers with interesting items I don’t see in other shops but I’m excited to elevate.

Not everyone has income to buy books right now, we totally understand that, but I would love it if you were able to reblog this post or share Portland Button Works and PBW Witch Shop with your friends.

If you have been looking for a book about something specific, or if you think something would be a good fit for our catalog, get in touch. We can order almost any book in print, even if it isn’t witchcraft or magic related.

With that being said, here are some categories of items we carry:

Some good books to get you started studying witchcraft:

Grovedaughter Witchery by Bree NicGarran

Making Magic by Briana Saussy

Magical Power for Beginners- How to Raise & Send Energy for Spells That Work by Deborah Lipp

Weave The Liminal by Laura Tempest Zakroff

Some creative books to help build your witch craft practice:

Spellcrafting- Strengthen the Power of your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

D.I.Y. Magic -a Strange & Whimsical Guide to Creativity by Anthony Alvarado

Psychic Witch- a Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick, & Manifestation by Mat Auryn

Urban Magick by Diana Rajchel

Standing and Not Falling - a Sorcerous Primer in Thirteen Moons by Lee Morgan

Tarot Books

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow

Tarot for Troubled Times by Shaheen Miro & Theresa Reed

Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea

Tarot Decks

Next World Tarot (regular and pocket sized)

Science Tarot

Rider-Waite-Coleman Smith Regular sized and Mini sized

Crow Tarot

Modern Witch Tarot

Cat Tarot

Check out the tarot and divination books in our catalog and also check out tarot and divination decks in our catalog here.

Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine

Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Chapman

Chaos Protocols by Gordon White

Hands on Chaos Magic by Andrieh Vitimus 

Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter Carroll

Other books in the Chaos Magic section

Anthologies: Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels, Bringing Race to the Table: Exploring Racism in the Pagan Community, Shades of Ritual: Minority Voices in Practice

Magical Resistance: Witchcraft Activism by David Salisbury, Magic for the Resistance by Michael Hughes, Revolutionary Witchcraft by Sarah Lyons

Witches and Feminist Perspectives: Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici, Witches, Midwives and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English , Witches Sluts Feminists by Kristen J. Sollee

Pagan Anti-Capitalism: Pagan Anarchism True to the Earth: Pagain Political Thology by Kadmus, All That is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism by Ryhd Wildermuth, A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer

Queer Witchcraft: Witchcraft and the Gay Counter Culture, Sapphomanteion a Lesbian Oracle, Queering the Tarot

Check out the Witchcraft Culture and History and Witchcraft Politics and Resistance sections of our website.

Green Witchcraft: The Green Witch by Arin Murray-Hiscock, Green Witchcraft by Paige Vanderbeck

Plants and Herbs: Under the Witching Tree by Corinne Boyer, Under the Bramble Arch by Corinne Boyer

The Poison Path: Veneficuim: Magic, Witchcraft and the Poison Path by Daniel Schulke, Pharmo/Gnonsis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path by Dale Pendell , Plants of the Devil by Corinne Boyer

Witchy Crafts: Pestlework: a Book of Magical Powders and Oils by Bree NicGarran, Sew Witchy by Rachel Henderson, Sigil Witchery by Lara Tempest Zakroff

Other books in our Plants, Herbs, and Magical Crafts section

Books on Atheopaganism

Godless Paganism (anthology)

Atheopaganism by Mark Green

Other Pagan Perspectives

Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality by Lasara Firefix Allen

The Wakeful World: Anismism, Mind, and the Self in Nature by Emma Restall Orr

Circling the Star by Anthony Rella

All That Is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism by Rhyd Wildermuth

All Other Pagan books

Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways by Gemma Gary

A Deed Without A Name: Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft by Lee Morgan

Crooked Path: An Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft by Keldon

Backwoods Witchcraft by Jake Richards

Besom Stand and Sword A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft the Six-Fold Path the Hidden Landscape by Christopher Orapello & Tara Love Maguire

Southern Cunning: Folkloric Witchcraft in the American South by Aaron Oberon

Folk Witchcraft by

The Flame in the Cauldron by Orion Foxwood

Craft of the Untamed by Roger Horne

Check out the rest of the books in our Traditional & Folkloric Witchcraft Section

What are zines? Small independently made magazine and pamphlets filled with stories and unique ideas that you won’t find from major publishers!

Some topics you will find in zines we carry are Secular Witchcraft, the fantastic Fiddler’s Green Pamphlets and lots of zine on the places where Politics, Paganism, and Witchcraft intersect.

Check out all of our witchy zines here.

Other Stuff

witchy buttons

 magnets and hand mirrors

We carry more than just witchy books.

Here are some of the other titles we carry:

You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas

When Language Runs Dry: An Anthology for People with Chronic Pain and their Allies

What is Gender Nihilism?

Be Gay Do Crime by The Mary Nardini Gang

Radical Brewing by Randy Mosher

You Black Friend by Ben Passmore

Learning Good Consent an Anthology edited by Cindy Crabb

How To Talk To Your Cat about Gun Safety and Abstinence, Drugs, Satanism and Other Dangers that Threaten Their Nine Lives

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Honoring your Ancestors by Mallorie Vaudoise

Do-it-Your Self Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfucking Sad by Adam Gnade

Yes, I’m Flagging: Queer Flagging 101 by Archie Bongiovanni

Full online catalog of books, zines, buttons and more can be found at PortlandButtonWorks.com and the PBW Witch Shop can be found here.

All items are shipped from Portland, Oregon in plain packaging or United States Postal Service Flat Rate envelopes or boxes with the return address as Portland Button Works. We ship daily and most order come with small fun gifts of buttons or magnets.

Thank you so much for supporting your local witch!

[witchynyx]

For those in the US asking “where can I buy good witchy books?” - this looks like an answer!

For those of us elsewhere in the world, I would recommend every book I’ve read off this list, and have heard great things about a bunch of the others, so I’m totally treating this as reading list inspiration! I wonder how many of them my libraries have…

[a2bos]

Witch Tip! (Kinda)

Collect rainwater and snow in a different container to avoid suspicion. I leave a watering can outside for rain, and for snow I just collect it off of my car before I scrape the excess off the windshield.

[a2bos]

My little mabon offering jar. It's got a bit of everything: flowers for Persephone, a small spring of wheat, apple seeds, an arrow, salt basil and sage mixture at the bottom. I even sealed it!

[myceliummoth]

hi friends i’m gonna be moving states soon and i’m trying to downsize my crystal collection and my mom’s old shell collection.

i’ll be making some more posts with better/closer pictures and crystal names in a day or so but i just want to get an idea of interest. Price will be negotiable but i’m also considering doing mystery bags for $5-$10.

Like this post if you’d be interested! and please reblog to spread it around!! ✨

(and let me know if you want me to tag you when i make the sale posts)

[a2bos]

I'd be interested!

[oshuns-ambience]

What’s everyones stance on having your altar in the bedroom?

[a2bos]

Considering I currently live in a dorm room: I don't have too much of a choice...

[mountainnmomma]

Bought a new friend today :)

- Help me name him !

[a2bos]

Greg.

[songstressmaria]

haunted dorm life update

i have affectionately been referring to the presence in my room as Steve. based on previous interactions with residents in the dorm, i believe Steve may be young or be a child.

so far, Steve has:

1. made crinkling sounds in my ears while i try to read

2. violently slammed my window shut

3. shook my bed while i was trying to relax on it

i have reason to believe he also knocked my box fan over last night. twice.

i also was in the dormitory restroom, and a shadow went by the stall, but no person.

so far i've made two requests for Steve

1. don't touch the window. it's hot and there's no AC

2. please don't bother me while i sleep. i work nights

anyway, i'll keep you posted on Steve.

[a2bos]

I have a dorm ghost! I haven't spoken to them much, but they like to knock my fairy lights down.