Earthy Woman.

22 Year old Mother of 2. Pisces, Aquarius rising, Pisces🌞and🌙. Pansexual. Artist and creator of many things. 🕯🖌 Aspiring herbalist 🌱 my inbox is always open! I love to help in any way I can. also if you just want to chat, hit me up!

[anafaewitch-blog]

A quick question for the witches

I just need a little insight on a situation and I've no one to talk to about it other than the witch community here. So here goes.

I live across from a rock quarry. On the weekends I like to visit that place, because it's very beautiful and the energy is always high. So I go there to sit, look at the scenery, and meditate.

A few weeks ago I noticed someone had set up a rock statue. Nothing too fancy, just some rocks stacked atop each other. Nothing else had changed. This place never changes, it always looks exactly the same.

So yesterday I decided to make the trip there again, and when I got there a lot of things were different. There was another rock statue. And there were holes all in the ground, probably at least 20. And around every hole, whoever dug them had set rocks all around them in a grid pattern. I didn't disturb them, of course, but I did inspect everything and also noticed there were ashes on top of both statues.

I've never seen anything like this before, does anyone have an idea on what could be going on at my little rock quarry?

[alloyallusion]

Photos by Kilian Schönberger

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2014/02/brothers-grimm-homeland/?cid=18104544

[hearthnook-blog]

Me, when one of my spell’s works:

[shintowitch]

🔔 BELLS IN WITCHCRAFT 🔔

Bells might just be the earliest form of superstitious practise that I remember. My baba attached three sakura-patterned suzu bells on my schoolbag as a kid, purportedly for good luck and protection from evil spirits – and Japan is far from the only place to have associated bells and bellringing with mystic practise. They’ve been used worldwide to ward off evil and carry messages – and in a more metaphysical sense, sound is the movement of energy through substance. Sounds have the potential to work powerful magic.

Here are some of the ways I’ve found utilising bells to be helpful to my craft. While I’m more likely to use traditional suzu type bells, your own background, path and culture will likely have its own types of bells – and as ever, bells can be ornate antiques or they can be a bottle cap in a tin can, as long as they’re used with intent.

GETTING STARTED

🔔 As with so much of the craft, if you’re new to the witching bell, it’s a matter of exploration and experimentation. Get a “feel” for what works for you and the specific bell you’re using.

🔔 It’s good practise to ensure that the bell itself is cleansed, warded and protected – you don’t want anything nasty tapping into that power. All witching tools can do as much harm as good, intentional or accidental.

🔔 A good way to begin incorporating bells into your craft is infuse them into any typical ritual that you’re comfortable with, or even just a prayer or moment of contemplation at your altar if you have one.

🔔 Give the bell a soft ring while focusing on the energy it’ll ripple and move, try to track the movements it creates and what it touches. The tone it’s sending out.  The most primal and versatile use of the bell – and what many of the below come down to – is simply another manner of physically channelling energy, giving it shape and direction.

PROTECTION

🔔 “Passive” bells such as windchimes or small bells attached to belongings you don’t want disturbed are a starting point. They will scare off some forms of spirit all by themselves, especially if appropriately blessed, charmed or enchanted. Or cursed.

🔔 Gently tolling can draw energy into a ward or circle you are forming and enforce its protective properties, or for a simple cleanse, letting the sound travel to every corner of the area you are protecting. It’s a little more “cutting” than a smoke or incense cleansing, which I view as more “gentle” forms of cleansing. Both have their uses.

🔔 Harder tolling is, in my opinion, one of the most powerful ways in which to enforce a banishing – however, it’s best to you know what you’re doing with the bell before you go bashing it about.

DISCERNMENT

🔔 Bells can have quite the effect on your perception and awareness. Ringing and then stopping, listening to the silence left in its wake, can bring you new perceptions or make things you’d previously missed obvious. Let it attune your mind and senses to something new, whether that’s in your thoughts or something with a little more presence. Visualise travelling with the sound, taking heed of the energies it touches and disturbs. Take note of the echoes – you’ll learn what they mean with experience.

🔔 A set of windchimes can let you know if something is passing through or if there’s some unusual energy afoot – and, yes, it may also just be letting you know that it’s a particularly breezy day, but that’s witchcraft for you.

CONJURING

🔔 This can be as simple as calling good energies to witching tools, spell jars, tarot decks, crystals, altars and shrines, your favourite teddy bar, anything at all.

🔔 With spirit work, it can truly help to magnify your “calling”. This can range from gently bringing your latest offering to the attention of your friendly neighbourhood house spirit – all the way to trying to catch the attention of something more. Be mindful, however. As I said, I consider bells pretty powerful tools and a call that’s too loud is not good spirit work practise for the spirit worker’s own sake. It can really help coax something out of hiding if you’re gentle with it, though.

COMMUNING

🔔 Some use bells to mark the beginning and end of a ritual, and I’ve read that in Wiccan practise an altar bell can be used to invoke the Goddess, although as a non-Wiccan, I’ll welcome corrections on that if I’m wrong.

🔔 In my experience, very simple forms of communication via bell work a lot better than anything too complex – “come here” and “stay away” have already been covered, and other than that they can serve as greetings or signals of a start or end of some practise or ritual, the opening or closing of a door, etc.

🔔 They can also serve as a warning or a litmus test regarding spirits, a signalling of your presence and awareness, lack of fear, or willingness to defend – but be prepared to deal with whatever responses these garner.

BINDING

🔔 Bindings are where you most often see that famous (clockwise) circular motion of the bell, embodying the meaning of the spell. This can be a simple binding to seal a spell or charm or enchantment, or a spirit-binding.

🔔 Personally, spirit-binding is something I do as little as possible simply due to my beliefs holding the autonomy of spirits in very high regard. However, sometimes situations arise that call for it, and I’m aware that not all bindings are unwilling. Far from it – and some spirits are dangerous when unbound.

🔔 As an animist (believing that all things, including inanimate objects, contain a spirit of their own), I consider gently nudging a spirit back into its physical form a sort of semi-binding, and that can be useful.

I’ll leave you all with a note that I am an urban apartment-dwelling witch through and through, so I understand that we can’t all be jangling away at all hours. I myself have a glass windchime in my front window that makes a distinct but muted sound when disturbed by passers-through, and highly recommend wooden ones also. I also only use my small and relatively quiet suzu bell for my crafting – one given to me by my baba herself.

Feel free to add any of your own findings, and happy tolling.

[xxbasic-witchxx]

✨Sabbat pronunciations✨

I know a lot of new witches, including myself, have trouble pronouncing sabbat names so I made a list to help anyone out.

*I’m an Australian witch so some of them may not be accurate to your Gaelic preference*

Sabbat SA-bat

Esbat EZ-bat

Imbolc im-BOL-k

Lammas LAH-mahss OR Lugnasadh loo-NA-sah

Litha LEE-tha or lith-A

Ostara oh-STAR-ah

Beltane bel-TANE

Mabon MA-bon

Yule uu-L

Samhain sow-IN (Irish) or sav-EN (Scottish)

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The 2019 ice candle is complete!

Each year on New Year’s Day, I like to make an ice candle out of plain paraffin wax. An ice candle is made by loosely filling the mold with ice cubes before pouring in the wax. The wax immediately hardens around the cubes, which melt, leaving caverns and crevices in the finished candle for a really unique effect.

I used to make these using empty milk cartons as the mold, but nowadays all dairy products seem to be sold in plastic bottles, so I had to use a regular candle mold. I went with my hexagonal one, since ice forms hexagonal crystals.

I will burn the candle as part of my Imbolc ritual to banish the winter season.

[fromafable]

The crazy part about learning to celebrate and integrate the Wheel into your daily life is how simple it can be, and yet frustrating because we don’t know how to celebrate it EVERY SINGLE DAY.

This is where the cauldrons came in for me, and why I began to share them. I wanted a piece of magick I could incorporate into my every day. A way to make magick every damn day.

So I made a beautiful Mabon cauldron. I presented it proudly in my living room, and began lighting it for an hour or two every night. During the time it was lit, something in me knew it was a time for quiet, a time for flowing with my intuition, and a time of pure MAGICK.

I’d journal by the light of the candle, reflect on everything I wanted to bring into my life, and how I could do just that. I’d meditate by the light of the cauldron, and dance around as I vacuumed or swept my kitchen and living room. Everything I do feels magickal by the light of the cauldron’s flame.

Whenever I held space for that magick, it felt as though the candle listened and brought forth what I needed. It has been crazy how much of a staple these cauldrons became for me.

And then, for the last few months, I lost that ritual. I didn’t light the candle. I didn’t make magick because I was exhausted, overrun with so many responsibilities that I had placed on myself, and couldn’t bring myself to even tap in to the ever-present energy around me. It felt impossible.

Then, when I came home from a trip on New Year’s Day, I lit the Yule cauldron candle I just barely made the time to finish for myself before leaving for Minnesota. With the little energy I had left in me, I’d made it for myself the same way I did that very first time before Mabon. With a love for magick, and a need for it to be a part of my daily life again.

Since then, I’ve made the habit return. I’ve been lighting it every night and already the old magickal muscles that were stiff from misuse have begun aching in the best way as I begin to use them again.

Already change began to take place and I felt some of that flow return. My anxieties decreased, my patience increased, and my love for the world and those in my life exploded all over again.

Because I made the time to light a candle and tap in to the boundless energy of the Universe around me.

Life does not have to be hard. Living every day does not have to be a fight.

It can be effortless, it can be filled with ease and love. It can be adventure and choice. It can be magick and wonder.

When you create even a small space to be with the magick within and around you, you learn to ride the current rather than swim against it. You learn to float, glide, dance, and run with the ebbs and flows to the point where you don’t even realize you’re doing it anymore. Until it feels as effortless as breathing, and as freeing as flight.

Work with the magick within you. Tap into the flow of magick and energy around you. When you do this, it won’t matter what the goal is. It could be a new love, a job, a promotion, an awakening, a new life, money, abundance, wealth, a stronger marriage. Work with the Universe, and consider that goal, that DREAM, to be your reality.

Imagine knowing what it’s like to swim in the Universe and feel at one with it.

That’s what learning to work with the Cycles feels like. That’s what holding space for magick and intuition does. That’s what taking the seen and unseen ingredients that the Universe hands you and being the cauldron in which they mix and create something more gives you.

Feel into this for a second, and share this with someone that needs it. Feel into this for just a moment in your day, and your entire view of the world will change.

[songsparrowwitch]

🕯️Ways to Celebrate Imbolc 💐

Imbolc is celebrated on or around February first to welcome the earliest beginnings of spring.

🕯️Honor or welcome the sun by lighting a candle in your home (you can do a fake candle if you’re not allowed to light a real candle). If you really want to go all out, you can light every single fake and real candle in your house! 🕯️Get crafty! Make candles, Brighid’s Crosses, Brighid dolls, sun catchers, or start building a garden. Imbolc is a great time to plant seeds (unless it’s too cold outside; indoor gardens are always an option)! 🕯️Decorate your altar and/or home with crystals, flowers, stones, candles, images of the sun, or any other decor that celebrates the coming spring! 🕯️Divine your future! Get out your tarot cards, pendulum, dowsing rod, bones, or other divining tools and ask for advice or insight into the future. 🕯️Take care of yourself and your home! Do some spring cleaning and cleansing and take time for yourself. Take a bath, clean off your desk, do some easy cleaning or deep cleaning, whatever you prefer. This is a great time for cleansing and purification! 🕯️Cook and share with friends and family! Pies, cookies, bread, whatever you want. If you have the energy, you can cook a feast and celebrate with your loved ones, including deceased loved ones. 🕯️Visit a lake, stream, well, or another body of water. If you want to, dip a ribbon in the body of water and then hang it on a tree (remember to not litter; you could use a tree in your yard and later tie the ribbon off) to send a message of hope and healing! 🕯️Visit a park, lake, or forest and pick up litter. This is a great way to honor the coming of spring, but if it is too cold, you can always wait until it gets warmer! 🕯️Say goodbye to winter and start to welcome spring! You can do this through prayers, spells, thoughts, or actions. Meditation is one great way that you can do this! Cleansing, new beginnings, thriving, purification, and gratitude spells are also great ideas. 🕯️Honor Brighid if you wish to! You can make Brighid crosses or dolls, set a special place for Her on your altar or in your home, give Her a prayer or offering, or something else that honors Her during this special day.

[queenofboheme]

Quick Guide to Celebrating the Sabbats 🌻

LITHA

🧀Fruit & veg, herbed bread, cheese, honey cakes, chicken, pork, sunflower seeds, lemonade, ice tea.

🍋Lemon, orange, cinnamon, rose oils.

🔮Moonstone, tigers eye, amethyst, flourite, agate. {Or any crystals in warm colours}.

🌞See the sun rise & set, eat outdoors, make or buy a sun catcher, bake a sweet cake, let sunlight cleanse your rooms, clear cobwebs, wear a flower crown, make honey/sugar scrub, wear warm tones.

🎬Peter Pan, Fairy Tale, Ferngully, Stardust, Tinkerbell, Maleficent.

LAMMAS

🌽Multi grain bread, corn on the cob, bbq meats, fried chicken, potatoes, soup, rice, nuts, black current juice, beer, peppermint tea.

🌹Rose, chamomile, passion fruit, all spice oils/scents.

🔮Citrine, clear quartz, tigers eye.

📖Finish a project, make a bread to share, enjoy nature, take care of plants, decorate or craft, acknowledge what you are grateful for, journal future hopes.

🎬Parent Trap, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Cheaper by the Dozen.

MABON

🍇Pies, nuts, smoked or roast poultry [bbq chicken with smoky bbq sauce], soup, corn, apples, plums, grapes, cinnamon donuts, caramel popcorn, peanut butter, butterscotch.

🌲Sage, pine, cinnamon oils/scents.

🔮Amethyst, clear quartz, citrine, yellow agate.

🌾Make scented pinecones, spend time under the stars, donate food or goods [RSPCA], burn bad habits, visit the deceased, harvest take care of plants, bask in nature, meditate.

🎬Open Season, Brother Bear, Spirit, Pocahontas, Brave.

SAMHAIN

🎃Pumpkins, toffee apples, ginger bread, chai, nutmeg or cinnamon spiced foods, hazelnuts, sweets.

🌰Nutmeg, cinnamon scents.

🔮Obsidian, onyx, bloodstone, amber, fossils.

🕯Cook a family recipe, light a fire, remember & honour the deceased.

🎬Hocus Pocus, Addams Family, Monsters Inc, Little Vampire, Corpse Bride, Casper, Hansel Gretel Witch Hunters, Underworld, Van Helsing.

YULE

🍪Cookies, fruit cake, turkey, eggnog, ginger tea.

🕎Cedar, frankincense, myrrh oils.

🔮Bloodstone, citrine, clear quartz.

❄Give or volunteer, bake shortbread or sugar cookies, share a meal with loved ones.

🎬Santa Clause, Rise of the Guardians, 101 Dalmatians, Frozen, Snow White Winters War, Narnia.

IMBOLC

🍩Poppy seeds, pumpkin seeds, bread butter pudding, scones, muffins, garlic, onions.

☕Vanilla, cinnamon oil.

🔮Amethyst, bloodstone, onyx.

🕯Light white candles, plant seeds, bless your pets, declutter & clean your living space, bake orange and poppy seed muffins or cake.

🎬Mr Poppers Penguins, Happy Feet, Balto, Ice Age, Mirror Mirror.

OSTARA

🍌Roast ham & pineapple, eggs, milk, seeds & nuts, banana bread, chocolate milk, green vegetables.

🌹Jasmine, light florals, sweet garden, wild flowers.

🔮Amethyst, rose quartz, moonstone.

🌹Light candles, plant seeds, share a roast ham with loved ones, bake banana bread, finish spring cleaning, lay tumbled stones in your garden bed, take deep breaths [inhale new energy & exhale old energies], wear spring colours whites & florals, collect wildflowers or buy flowers that call to you & research what they mean, walk through nature.

🎬Epic, Strange Magic, The Secret Garden, Spiderwick, A Bugs Life, Barbie Fairies.

BELTANE

🍞Breads, cakes, honey, leafy greens, fruit & veg, seafood, iced tea, lemonade, milk.

🌼Florals, sweet garden, honeysuckle, jasmine, rose.

🔮Amber, citrine, moonstone, red jasper, rose quartz.

🌼Wear a flower crown or flowers in your hair, dress in red or white, make a bonfire & roast marshmallows, garden, take a walk, spend time in nature, pick fresh flowers to decorate.

🎬Moana, Arthur Trilogy, Avatar, Jungle Book, Tinkerbell, Barbie.

HOW I CELEBRATE ALL SABBATS OR ESBATS

☾Sage cleanse the house, light candles, diffuse oils.

☾Clean sheets/bedding/pillowcases/towels.

☾Eat at least one traditional food.

☾Watch a relevant movie.

☾Take notes in my BOS of how I celebrated the Sabbat to look back on next year.

☾Charge my crystals & tarot decks in the full moonlight.

☾Do a tarot reading relevant to the Sabbat.

☾Spend time outside with my dogs 🐶

🔮🌙🔮🌙🔮🌙🔮🌙🔮🌙🔮🌙🔮🌙🔮🌙

[speckled-stardust-deactivated20]

grimoire ideas:

this can be used in a book of shadows, book of knowledge, path journal, etc.

✧ table of contents: so you don’t have to flip through to find whatever you’re looking for

✧ a page all about you : helps to make it more personalized. you can add your favorite herbs, crystals, plants, incense, tarot cards and just about anything that’s important to your craft. you can write what your path is and what interested you about it. you can add your natal chart.

✧ goals: goals in your path (can be included on the page about you)

✧ calendar: you can write down the lunar phases on it, holidays important to your craft such as Esbats or Sabbats

✧ elements: what they stand for. their importance. correspondence.

✧ herbs/plants/flowers: I wouldn’t put every herb but write down the ones that you most commonly use and their correspondence

✧ crystals: exact same as the herb page.

✧ runes: exact same as herb page.

✧ candles: you can write down what each color represents.

✧ witch tools: write down the tools you use. maybe their importance or what you use them for.

✧ lunar phases: draw them out or print them out and write down their symbolism

✧ astral plane: information about the astral plane and astral projection. your experience with astral projection.

✧ deities: info about your deity/deities (their history, picture, correspondence). offerings ideas. invocations.

✧ rituals/rites/songs: any sort of rituals you do for cleansing, daily rituals etc. anything that’s important to your craft.

✧ spells: you can separate them by their use such as love spells, luck spells, etc.

✧ recipes: for kitchen witchcraft or how to make moon/sun water, elixirs, potions, oils, or just witchy diys!

✧ dream work: accounts of any dreams you’ve had. meaning of dreams. (if applicable)

✧ sigils: how to draw them. how to charge. list of other sigils. (if applicable)

✧ astrology: natal chart. info on the zodiac. what each element/planet/house/aspects mean. celestial events. (if applicable)

✧ tarot/oracle: what each card means. tarot/oracle spreads. results. (if applicable)

✧ pendulum: a pendulum board.

✧ spirit work: info on spirits you have been in contact with. offerings. (if applicable)

✧ energy points: how you use them. their meaning. what stones you can use for each. (if applicable)

✧ auras: different auras. what each color aura means. (if applicable)

✧ familiar: info about them. (if applicable)

✧ alter: traveling alter page. how it’s setup. pictures/drawings of it. (this is also helpful if you’re not open about your craft)

✧ knots: knot magick (if applicable)

✧ reflections: personal reflections.

✧ ancestors: your ancestor line.

✧ resources: info from books you’ve read.

you can decorate your book with dried up leaves/flowers, illustrations, collages, colored pen/markers. I would recommend adding a protection sigil. by no means do you have to make your book aesthetically pleasing, do whatever works for you! In my case, the nicer it is the more I’ll use it. add whatever is important to your craft, don’t add stuff you’re not going to need or use. make it your own!

[peachesandwitchery]

*stands in the moonlight to absorb big witch energy*

[witchplusboon]

A (witchy) use for those 5 million empty notebooks you have lying around:

Divination Journal - Tarot, Pendulum, Oracle Cards, etc.

Psyche Journal - Aspirations, Goal Tracker, Mood Tracker, etc.

Dream Journal - Sleep tracker, Dream entries, etc.

Working Grimoire - Spell drafts, note taking, etc. 

Correspondence Index - Sections for Crystals, Herbs, Colors, etc

Astrology Journal - Horoscopes, Astrology Charts, etc.

Witch’s Planner - Moon Phases, Sabbat Planning, Esbat Planning, etc.

Garden Journal - Track plantings, waterings, harvests etc.

Occurrence Book - Keep track of the things that happen to you.

Body Journal - Period tracker, exercise tracker, meditation tracker, etc.

Morning Pages - A daily stream of consciousness journal.

[expressions-of-nature]

by Richard Price

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Major Components in Spells

In order for a spell to actually function, a spell needs enough of these four things: Association, Energy, Intent, and Action

Association would be the attached meanings to any materials in your spell (and these don’t have to be physical materials). Most of the time, these are inherent properties in objects that have been long established throughout time. Properties are a result of the spiritual vibrations of a material

Energy is given off by the spiritual vibrations of a material.The effects of this energy is dictated by the vibrations of the material…these effects are…related to the properties, obviously.

Intent is the will one has to hone their energies and whatever other energies are present towards a result. It also ties to the goal, as in the “what is this spell trying to accomplish?” Without intent, there’s really no use for a spell. This may seem similar to action, however, think about it. You could have everything you need to do well on a math test, but without intent (effort), how are you going to do well? You can simply put random answers or guess (cont. in Action). Action in this case isn’t about doing what might work. It’s about doing what will work. Branching off the intent analogy, you can fill in random answers or guess on questions, and get some wrong, and maybe a few right. The same goes for action in spells. Action here represents directing the energy you’ve honed into your goal in a proper and successful manner, and is highly linked to intent. The two practically go hand in hand, and can sometimes mean very similar things. And, that concludes my Ted Talk. This is just my personal opinion on spellcraft and what works for me. If anyone notices any objective misinformation, or has alternative views they’d like to share, they can feel free to leave a reply or reblog. Happy crafting!

[winter-capricorn]

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[icreatewhatibelieve]

Fortune favors me.