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‘Fortune’s Running Out Of My Veins’ Talisman
For when you need an extra buck.
What you need:
A Penny
Sun Water
Bay Leaf
Permanent Marker
Soak your bay leaves in the sun water. With the permanent marker, draw the fehu rune or a sigil for fortune or luck on the penny. Stir the penny clockwise in the water. Hide the penny in a safe place.
Money spell from Pinterest
Herbs and Their Magickal Uses
ACACIA: Protection, Psychic Powers, Friendship
ACONITE: **POISON**
ADAM & EVE ROOTS: Love, Happiness
ADDERS TONGUE: Healing
AFRICAN VIOLET: Spirituality, Protection
AGARIC: Fertility
AGRIMONY: Protection, Sleep
AGUE ROOT: Protection
ALFALFA: Prosperity, Anti-hunger, Money
ALKANET: Purification, Prosperity
ALLSPICE: Money, Luck, Healing
ALMOND: Money, Prosperity, Wisdom
ALOE: Protection, Luck
ALOES/WOOD: Love, Spirituality
ALTHEA: Protection, Psychic Powers
ALYSSUM: Protection, Moderating Anger
AMARANTH:Healing, Protection, Invisibility, Healing the Heart
ANEMONE: Health, Protection, Healing
ANGELICA:Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Visions
APPLE: Love, Healing, Garden Magic, Immortality
APRICOT:Love
ARABIC GUM:Purify Negativity and evil
ARBUTUS:Exorcism, Protection
ASAFOETIDA:Exorcism, Purification, Protection
ASH: Protection, Prosperity, Sea Rituals, Health
ASPEN:Eloquence, Anti-Theft
ASTER: Love
AVENS:Exorcism, Purification, Love
AVOCADO:Love, Lust, Beauty
BACHELOR’S BUTTONS:Love
BALM, LEMON: Love, Success, Healing
BALM OF GILEAD:**POISON**Love, Protection, Healing
BAMBOO:Protection, Luck, Wishes, Hex-Breaking
BANANA:Fertility, Potency,Prosperity
BANYAN:Luck
BARLEY: Love, Healing, Protection
BASIL: Love, Exorcism, Wealth, Flying, Protection
BAY: Protection, Psychic Powers, Healing, Purification, Strength
BEAN:Protection, Exorcism, Potency, Love
BEECH:Wishes
BEET:Love
BELLADONNA: **POISION** Astral Projection
BENZOIN:Purification, Prosperity
BERGAMONT:Money
BETONY:Protection, Purification, Love
BIRCH:Protection, Exorcism, Purification
BISTORT:Psychic Powers, Fertility
BITTERSWEET: Protection, Healing
BLACKBERRY: Healing, Money, Protection
BLACKNIGHTSHADE:**POISION**
BLADDERWRACK:Protection, Sea Spells, Wind Spells, Money, Psychic Powers
BLOODROOT:Love, Protection, Purification
BLUEBELL: Luck, Truth
BLUEBERRY: Protection
BODHI:Fertility, Protection, Wisdom, Meditation
BONESET:Protection, Exorcism
BORAGE:Courage, Psychic Powers
BRACKEN:Healing, Rune Magick, Prophetic Dreams
BRAZIL NUT: Love
BRIONY: Image Magic, Money, Protection
BROMELIAD:Protection, Money
BROOM:Purification, Protection, Wind Spells, Divination
BRYONY:**POISION**
BUCHU:Psychic Powers, Prophetic Dreams
BUCKTHORN:Protection, Exorcism, Wishes, Legal Matters
BUCKWHEAT: Money, Protection
BURDOCK: Protection, Healing
CABBAGE:Luck
CACTUS:Protection, Chastity
CALAMUS:**POISION**Luck, Healing, Money, Protection
CARNELLIA: Riches
CAMPHOR:**POISION**Chastity, Health, Divination
CAPER:Potency, Lust, Luck
CARAWAY: Protection, Lust, Health, Anti-theft, Mental Powers
CARDAMON:Lust, Love
CARNATION:**POISION**Protection, Strength, Healing
CAROB: Protection, Health
CARROT:Fertility, Lust
CASCARA SAGRADA: Legal Matters, Money, Protection
CASHEW: Money
CASTOR:Protection
CATNIP:Cat Magic, Love, Beauty, Happiness
CATTAIL:Lust
CEDAR:Healing, Purification, Money, Protection
CELANDINE:Protection, Escape, Happiness, Legal Matters
CELERY:Mental Powers, Lust, Psychic Powers
CENTAURY:Snake Removing
CHAMOMILE: Money, Sleep, Love, Purification
CHERRY:Love, Divination
CHESTNUT: Love
CHICKWEED:Fertility, Love
CHICORY:Removing Obstacles, Invisibility, Favours, Frigidity
CHILLI PEPPER:Fidelity, Hex Breaking, Love
CHINA BERRY:Luck
CHRYSANTHEMUM:Protection
CINCHONA: Luck, Protection
CINNAMON:Spirituality, Success, Healing, Power, Psychic Powers, Lust, Protection, Love
CINQUEFOIL:Money, Protection, Prophetic Dreams, Sleep
CITRON:Psychic Powers, Healing
CLOTH OF GOLD: Understanding Animal Languages
CLOVE: Protection, Exorcism, Love, Money
CLOVER: Protection, Money, Love, Fidelity, Exorcism, Success
CLUB MOSS:Protection, Power
COCONUT: Purification, Protection, Chastity
COHOSH, BLACK:Love, Courage, Protection, Potency
COLTSFOOT: Love, Visions
COLUMBINE:Courage, Love
COMFREY:**POISION**Safety during Travel, Money
COPAL: Love, Purification
CORIANDER: Love, Health, Healing
CORN: Protection, Luck, Divination
COTTON:Luck, Healing, Protection, Rain, Fishing Magic
COWSLIP: Healing, Youth, Treasure Finding
CROCUS:Love, Visions
CUBEB: Love
CUCKOO-FLOWER: Fertility, Love
CUCUMBER: Chastity, Healing, Fertility
CUMIN:Protection, Fidelity, Exorcism
CURRY:Protection
CYCLAMEN:Fertility, Protection, Happiness, Lust
CYPRESS: Longevity, Healing, Comfort, Protection
DAFFODIL:Love, Fertility, Luck
DAISY: Lust, Luck
DAMIANA:Lust, Love, Visions
DANDELION:Divination, Wishes, Calling Spirits
DATURA:Hex Breaking, Sleep, Protection
DEERSTONGUE: **POISION**Lust, Psychic Powers
DEVILS BIT: Exorcism, Love, Protection, Lust
DEVILS SHOESTRING: Protection, Gambling, Luck, Power, Employment
DILL:Protection, Money, Lust, Luck
DITTANY OF CRETE: Manifestations, Astral Projection
DOCK: Healing, Fertility, Money
DODDER: Love, Divination, Knot Magic
DOGBANE:Love
DOGWOOD:Wishes, Protection
DRAGONS BLOOD:Love, Protection, Exorcism, Potency
DULSE:Lust, Harmony
DUTCHMANS BREECHES: Love
EBONY:Protection, Power
ECHINACEA:Strengthening Spells
EDELWEISS: Psychic Invisibility,
ELDER: Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Prosperity, Sleep
ELECAMPANE:Love, Protection, Psychic Powers
ELM: Love
ENDIVE:Lust, Love
ERYNGO: Traveler’s Luck, Peace, Lust, Love
EUCALYPTUS:**POISION**Healing, Protection
EUPHORBIA:**POISION**Purification, Protection
EYEBRIGHT: Mental Powers, Psychic Power
FENNEL:Protection, Healing, Purification
FENUGREEK: Money
FERN:**POISION**Rain Making, Protection, Luck, Riches, Eternal Youth, Health, Exorcism
FEVERFEW:Protection
FIG: Divination, Fertility, Love
FIGWORT:Health, Protection
FLAX:Money, Protection, Beauty, Psychic Powers, Healing
FLEABANE: Exorcism, Protection, Chastity
FOXGLOVE: Protection
FRANKINCENSE:Protection, Exorcism, Spirituality
FUMITORY:Money, Exorcism
FUZZY WEED:Love, Hunting
GALANGAL:Protection, Lust, Health, Money, Psychic Powers, Hex Breaking
GARDENIA: Love, Peace, Healing, Spiritualit
GARLIC: Protection, Healing, Exorcism, Lust, Anti-Theft
GENTIAN: Love, Power
GERANIUM:**POISION**Fertility, Health, Love, Protection
GINGER: Love, Money, Success, Power
GINSENG: Love, Wishes, Healing, Beauty, Protection, Lust
GOATS RUE: Healing, Health
GOLDENROD: Money, Divination
GOLDEN SEAL: Healing, Money
GORSE: Protection, Money
GOTU KOLA: Meditation
GOURD: Protection
GRAIN: Protection
GRAINS OF PARADISE: Lust, Luck, Love, Money, Wishes
GRAPES: Fertility, Garden Magic, Mental Powers, Money
GRASS: Psychic Powers, Protection
GROUND IVY: Divination
GROUNDSEL: Health, Healing
HAWTHORN: Fertility, Chastity, Fishing Magic, Happiness
HAZEL: Luck, Fertility, Anti-Lightning, Protection, Wishes
HEATHER: Protection, Rain-Making, Luck
HELIOTROPE: **POISION**Exorcism, Prophetic Dreams, Healing, Wealth, Invisibility
HELLEBORE, BLACK: **POISION** Protection
HEMLOCK: **POISION** Destroy sexual drives
HEMP: Healing, Love, Vision, Meditation
HENBANE:**POISION**
HENNA: Healing
HIBISCUS: Lust, Love, Divination
HICKORY: Legal Matters
HIGH JOHN THE CONQUEROR: Money, Love, Success, Happiness
HOLLY: Protection, Anti-Lightning, Luck, Dream Magick
HONESTY: Money, Repelling Monsters
HONEYSUCKLE: Money, Psychic Powers, Protection
HOPS: Healing, Sleep
HOREHOUND: Protection, Mental Powers, Exorcism, Healing
HORSE CHESTNUT: Money, Healing
HORSERADISH: Purification, Exorcism
HORSETAIL: Snake Charming, Fertility
HOUNDS TONGUE: Tying dogs tongues
HOUSELEEK: Luck, Protection, Love
HUCKLEBERRY: Luck, Protection, Dream Magic, Hex Breaking
HYACINTH:**POISION** Love, Protection, Happiness
HYDRANGEA: Hex Breaking
HYSSOP: Purification, Protection
INDIAN PAINT BRUSH: Love
IRIS: Purification, Wisdom
IRISH MOSS: Money, Luck, Protection
IVY: **POISION**Protection, Healing
JASMINE: Love, Money, Prophetic Dreams
JOBS TEARS: Healing, Wishes, Luck
JOE-PYE WEED: Love, Respect
JUNIPER: Protection, Anti-theft, Love, Exorcism, Health
KAVA-KAVE: Visions, Protection, Luck
KNOTWEED: Binding, Health
LADY’S MANTLE: Love
LADY’S SLIPPER: Protection
LARCH: Protection, Anti-theft
LARKSPUR: Health, Protection
LAVENDER: Love, Protection, Sleep, Chastity, Longevity, Purification, Happiness, Peace
LEEK: Love, Protection, Exorcism
LEMON: Longevity, Purification, Love, Friendship
LEMONGRASS: Repel Snakes, Lust, Psychic Powers
LEMON VERBENA: Purification, Love
LETTUCE: Chastity, Protection, Love, Divination, Sleep
LICORICE: Love, Lust, Fidelity
LIFE EVERLASTING: Longevity, Health, Healing
LILAC: Exorcism, Protection
LILY: Protection, Break Love Spells
LILY OF THE VALLEY: Mental Powers, Happiness
LIME: Healing, Love, Protection
LINDEN: Protection, Immortality, Luck, Love, Sleep
LIQUID AMBER: Protection
LIVERWORT: Protection, Love
LOOSESTRIFE: Peace, Protection
LOTUS: Protection, Lock-Opening
LOVAGE: Love
LOVE SEED: Love, Friendship
LUCKY HAND: Employment, Luck, Protection, Money, Travel
MACE: Psychic Powers, Mental Powers
MAGUEY: Lust
MAGNOLIA: Fidelity
MAHOGANY: Anti-Lightning
MAIDENHAIR: Beauty, Love
MALE FERN: Luck, Love
MALLOW: Love, Protection, Exorcism
MANDRAKE: **POISION**Protection, Love, Money, Fertility, Health
MAPLE: Love, Longevity, Money
MARIGOLD: Protection, Prophetic Dreams, Legal Matters, Psychic Powers
MARJORAM: Protection, Love, Happiness, Health, Money
MASTER WORT: Strength, Courage, Protection
MASTIC: Psychic Powers, Manifestations, Lust
MAY APPLE: Money
MEADOW RUE: Divination
MEADOWSWEET: Love, Divination, Peace, Happiness
MESQUITE: Healing
MIMOSA: Protection, Love, Prophetic Dreams, Purification
MINT: Money, Lust, Love, Healing, Exorcism, Travel, Protection
MISTLETOE: **POISION** Protection, Love, Hunting, Fertility, Health, Exorcism
MOLUKKA: Protection
MOONWORT: Money, Love
MOSS: Luck, Money
MUGWORT: Strength, Psychic Powers, Protection, Prophetic Dreams, Healing, Astral Travel
MULBERRY: Protection, Strength
MULLEIN: Courage, Protection, Health, Love, Divination, Exorcism
MUMS:**POISION**
MUSTARD: Fertility, Protection, Mental Powers
MYRRH: Protection, Exorcism, Healing, Spirituality
MYRTLE: Love, Fertility, Youth, Peace, Money
NARCISSUS:**POISION**
NIGHTSHADE:**POISION**
NETTLE: Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Lust
NORFOLK ISLAND PINE: Protection, Anti-hunger
NUTS: Fertility, Prosperity, Love, Luck
OAK: Protection, Health, Money, Healing, Potency, Fertility, Luck
OATS: Money
OLIVE: Healing, Peace, Fertility, Potency, Protection, Lust
ONION: Protection, Exorcism, Healing, Money, Prophetic Dreams, Lust
ORANGE: Love, Divination, Luck, Money
ORCHID: Love
OREGON GRAPE: Money, Prosperity
ORRIS: Love, Protection, Divination
PALM, DATE: Fertility, Potency
PANSY: Love, Rain Magic, Love, Divination
PAPAYA: Love, Protection
PAPYRUS: Protection
PAROSELA: Hunting
PARSLEY: Love, Protection, Purification
PASSION FLOWER: Peace, Sleep, Friendship
PATCHOULI: Money, Fertility, Lust
PEA: Money, Love
PEACH: Love, Exorcism, Longevity, Fertility, Wishes
PEAR: Lust, Love
PECAN: Money, Employment
PENNYROYAL: Strength, Protection, Peace
PEONY: Protection, Exorcism
PEPPER: Protection, Exorcism
PEPPERMINT: Purification, Sleep, Love, Healing, Psychic Powers
PEPPER TREE: Purification, Healing, Protection
PERIWINKLE: Love, Lust, Mental Powers, Money, Protection
PERSIMMON: Healing, Luck
PLOT WEED: Protection
PIMENTO: Love
PIMPERNEL: Protection, Health
PINE:**POISION** Healing, Fertility, Protection, Exorcism, Money
PINEAPPLE: Luck, Money, Chastity
PIPSISSEWA: Money, Spirit Calling
PISTACHIO: Breaking Love Spells
PLANTAIN: Healing, Protection, Strength, Snake-Repelling
PLUM: Healing
PLUMERIA: Love
POKE: Courage, Hex Breaking
POMEGRANATE: Divination, Luck, Wishes, Wealth, Fertility
POPLAR: Money, Flying
POPPY: Fertility, Love, Sleep, Money, Luck, Invisibility
POTATO: Image Magic, Healing
PRICKLY ASH: Love
PRIMROSE: Protection, Love
PURSLANE: Sleep, Love, Luck, Protection, Happiness
QUASSIA: Love
QUINCE: Protection, Love, Happiness
RADISH: Protection, Lust
RAGWEED: Courage
RAGWORT: Protection
RANUNCULUS:**POISION**
RASPBERRY: Protection, Love
RATTLESNAKE ROOT: Protection, Money
RHUBARB: Protection, Fidelity
RICE:Protection, Rain, Fertility, Money
ROOTS: Protection, Power, Divination ROSE: Love, Psychic Powers, Healing, Divination, Luck, Protection
ROSEMARY:Protection, Love, Lust, Mental Powers, Exorcism, Purification, Healing, Sleep, Youth
ROWAN: Psychic Powers, Healing, Protection, Power, Success
RUE: Healing, Health, Mental Powers, Exorcism, Love
RYE:Love, Fidelity
SAFFRON: Love, Healing, Happiness, Wind Raising, Lust, Strength, Psychic Powers
SAGE: Immortality, Longevity, Wisdom, Protection, Wishes
SAGEBRUSH: Purification, Exorcism
ST. JOHNS WORT: Health, Power, Protection, Strength, Love, Divination, Happiness
SANDALWOOD: Protection, Healing, Exorcism, Spirituality
SARSAPARILLA: Love, Money
SASSAFRAS: Health, Money
SAVORY/SUMMER: Mental Powers
SCULLCAP: Love, Fidelity, Peace
SENNA: Love
SESAME: Money, Lust
SHALLOT: Purification
SKUNK CABBAGE: Legal Matters
SLIPPERY ELM: Stops Gossip
SLOE: Exorcism, Protection
SNAKEROOT: Luck, Money
SNAKEROOT, BLACK: Love, Lust, Money
SNAPDRAGON: Protection
SOLOMONS SEAL: Protection, Exorcism
SORREL WOOD: Healing, Health
SOUTHERN WOOD: Love, Lust, Protection
SPANISH MOSS: Protection
SPEARMINT: Healing, Love, Mental Powers
SPIDERWORT: Love
SPIKENARD: Love
SQUILL: Money, Protection, Hex-Breaking
STAR ANISE: Psychic Powers, Luck
STILLENGIA: Psychic Powers
STRAW: Luck, Image Magic
STRAWBERRY: Love, Luck
SUGAR CANE: Love, Lust
SUMBAL: Love, Luck, Health, Psychic Powers
SUNFLOWER: Fertility, Wishes, Health, Wisdom
SWEETGRASS: Calling Spirits
SWEETPEA: Friendship, Chastity, Courage, Strength
TAMARIND: Love
TAMARISK: Exorcism, Protection
TANSY: Health, Longevity
TEA: Riches, Courage, Strength
THISTLE: Strength, Protection, Hex Breaking, Healing
THYME: Health, Healing, Sleep, Psychic Powers, Love, Purification, Courage
TI: Protection, Healing
TOADFLAX: Protection, Hex Breaking
TOADSTOOL: **POISION** Rain Making
TOBACCO: Healing, Purification
TONKA:**POISION**
TREFOIL:**POISION**
TUMERIC: Purification
TURNIP: Protection, Ending Relationships
UVA URSA: Psychic Working
VALERIAN: Love, Sleep, Purification, Protection
VANILLA: Love, Lust, Mental Powers
VENUS FLYTRAP: Protection, Love
VERVAIN: Love, Protection, Purification, Peace, Money, Youth, Chastity, Sleep, Healing
VETCH GIANT: Fidelity
VETIVERT: Love, Hex Breaking, Luck, Money, Anti-Theft
VIOLET: Protection, Love, Luck, Lust, Wishes, Peace, Healing
WAHOO: Hex-Breaking, Courage, Success
WALNUT: Health, Mental Powers, Infertility, Wishes
WATER PARSNIP:**POISION**
WAX PLANT: Protection
WHEAT: Fertility, Money
WILLOW: Love, Divination, Protection, Healing
WINTERGREEN: Protection, Healing, Hex-Breaking
WINTERS BARK: Success
WISTERIA:**POISION**
WITCH GRASS: Happiness, Lust, Love, Exorcism
WITCH HAZEL: Protection, Chastity
WOLFS BANE: **POISION** Protection, Invisibility
WOOD ROSE: Luck
WOODRUFF: Victory, Protection, Money
WORMWOOD: **POISION** Psychic Powers, Protection, Love, Calling Spirits
YARROW: Courage, Love, Psychic Powers, Exorcism
YELLOW EVENING PRIMROSE: Hunting
YERBA MATE: Fidelity, Love, Lust
YERBA SANTA: Beauty, Healing, Psychic Powers, Protection
YEW: **POISION** Raising the Dead
YOHIMBE: Love, Lust
YUCCA: Transmutation, Protection, Purification
Sources;
Pagan & Wiccan Advice & Blogging
Potion Herbs & Ingredients
From my personal grimoire
How to Make & Use Potions
Potions are usually made with a liquid base of either water, milk, syrup, or other. Depending on the intent of the potion, a spell can be [ritually] recited over the cauldron or pot during the brew, while stirring either clockwise (to direct energy) or anticlockwise (can be used to reverse spells). Unlike magickal tea, a potion can be either drunk on its own or a few drops added to another beverage. During the brew, visualise the intent of each herb or ingredient added, and state its use.
Afterwards, pour the liquid into a vial and use the potion within a span of one to three days, depending on the ingredients used. A potion can be left to charge overnight in the light of the moon to add more spiritual power.
For beauty potions:
Honey.
Rose.
Vanilla.
Roman Chamomile.
Milk.
Evening Primrose.
Orange.
Yerba Santa.
Catnip.
Cherries.
Lemon Verbena.
Strawberries.
For love potions (use responsibly) :
Apples.
Yarrow.
Sugar.
Lavender.
Fennel.
Juniper Berries.
Chocolate.
Jasmine.
Cinnamon.
Pommegranite.
Violet.
Lemon.
For psychic development potions:
Mugwort.
Skullcap.
Sage.
Ginger.
Blue Cornflower.
Lemon Balm.
Rosemary.
Blue Lotus.
Star Anise.
Nettle.
Thyme.
Hawthorn Berries.
For protection potions:
Basil.
Heather.
Pine.
Clove.
Bergamot.
Hyssop.
Garlic.
Caraway Seeds.
Bay Leaves.
Dill.
Vervain.
Agrimony.
Elemental Correspondences
May you have the motivation to cast a spell.
Everyday Plant Magic ~
Draw sigils on your pots to promote growth
Enchant circles in your garden
Water your plants with moon, sun, or storm water
Help your plant babies grow with songs
Use crystals to charge your soil
Charge the soil with your palms
Whisper Positive Mantras to your plant friends
a spread to help you figure out how to bloom this spring!
☾ m o o n s a l t ☽
☾ What is moonsalt? ☽
I knew moonsalt since I was a little kid, and I had no idea that it was witchcraft. thing. Basically moonsalt = salt+ash+oil. Of course you can add wahtever you want to this is just a base.
☾ What i need to make it? ☽
★ 1 or 2 teaspoons of salt (normal or sea salt, I prefer normal)
★ piece of paper and a pen
★ some oil (I use lavender oil)
Write a sigil on the paper. I mostly use protection or balance sigil. Then burn the paper (be carefull!)
Mix ash, salt and oil and keep it safe in a tiny bottle. You can carry your moonsalt in your bag for protection or keep it in your house for balance.
☾ Why moonsalt? ☽
I was a kid when I called it like that, probably because of its colour.
☾ Moonsalt will help you to keep balance in your life and its really simple to do even for baby witches ☽
Celebrate Imbolc
Outside:
Leave cheese and bread offerings to soil you hope to be fertile in the coming season
Take a walk or hike in search of signs of the changing season
Gather and jar melting snow or icicles
Prepare flower beds for the coming of spring
In the Home:
Cleanse the home by burning Rosemary or Myrrh incense
Sweep the house with a besom
Reduce clutter and start spring cleaning
Burn white candles on the windowsills and around the house
Use the fireplace for the last time
Drink hot tea melt the ice from your insides
In the Kitchen:
Make potato leek soup
Make braided rosemary bread
Make and drink spiced wine
Make a seed cake to symbolize coming potential
In the Bath:
Prepare an Imbolc Ritual Bath
Bathe surrounded by white candles
Add ice to your hot bath to symbolize the melting away of winter
Add a few drops of Rosemary oil or myrrh to your bathwater
On your Altar:
Represent the melting snow on your altar by making ice candles, ice bowls, or ice luminaries.
Decorate with white candles and flowers
Incorporate the scents of rosemary, myrrh or angelica.
Sprinkle your altar with seeds for prosperity and the coming spring
~*~Craft Beer Magick~*~
India Pale Ales:
This post is part of my ~CrAfT~ beer magick series, check out my blr for more. Masterpost will magickally appear when I feel I’ve exhausted the topic, which might take a while. For those who’ve missed the previous posts: to be blunt, you can trust me when I talk about the history of beer, because my fiance Matt homebrews, we’re both experienced craft beer enthusiasts and oh yeah, I’ve done a lot of research to make sure that what I’ve gathered from my craft beer adventures were not lies.
Onto the beer!
India Pale Ales aka IPAs are Matt’s absolute favorite type of beer. They originate in the late 18th century and have pale ale base with extra hops added. Pale ale originally meaning that the malt [aka cooked-in-a-special-way grain, grain as in ‘usually barley’] was roasted over coke fires instead of wood/coal/peat fires, which made the malt literally paler in color than other malts. Nowadays we can just kiln stuff however we want, though there’s a serious science to that process as well. Google Maillard reactions for more.
Into that pale ale base, they would throw in extra hops.
Why? Let me start with the precursor to the IPA. IPAs were originally called October beers, after the season in which one would typically begin brewing them, because that’s when all your ingredients are ready. Not to be confused with Oktoberfest style beers, which are different. October beers were aged for a while, so to prevent bacterial spoilage, they needed a beer that had a higher alcohol content. Fancy English landowners would age their beer to be fancy (some say to compete with the perceived fanciness of wine, but that’s unverified). So your beer won’t spoil, but now it tastes too alcohol-y. Enter hops.
Not that kinds of hops, guys! This kind:
(photo cred: www.buckcreekhops.com)
Hops pull double duty of covering up the flavor of higher alcohol beers, and *drumroll* also has antibacterial properties! Well I should say triple duty because hops also add a lot of balance and delicious crispness to a malty beer.
I would like to clarify here, that IPAs tend to have a reputation for having higher ABVs. I think this is because people have heard this hops-origin story and assume that hops= higher ABV. That is a fallacy. Session IPAs exist and are delicious just like Imperial IPAs exist and are delicious. For the beer-padawans: session= somewhere around 4-5%ABV meaning you can have a lot of this beer in one session of drinking without getting terribly drunk. At the opposite end, we have imperials= 7 to 14%ABV or more meaning:
One really smart brewer-business man named Hodgson decided after some experimentation that this “October beer” would be the perfect thing to sell to the East India Trading Company, who were tired of the previous long-sea-journey beer: porters, which spoiled easily, were malty, and tasted bad warm. They needed a spoilage-resistant (high alcohol/antibacterial hops), refreshing, crisp beer which, you guessed it, was the IPA, named of course after it’s intended destination.
But wait there’s more! Hops prevent scurvy! That’s right, hops naturally have vitamin C. Scurvy is literally vitamin C deficiency which causes weakness, bleeding gums, shortness of breath, bone pain, emotional changes, and eventually, death. It was rampant among sailors of long sea voyages throughout the “Golden” Age of Sail (circa 1600-1900). Oranges were also used to combat this problem, but they were expensive and c’mon, beer’s got more curb appeal.
When the first barrels of IPAs made it to India, people loved it and it grew into a historically important style of beer, that literally saved lives (and palates). Several breweries copied Hodgson and the rest is history…. the history of the modern IPA, which I will also explain.
To sum up, they loved IPAs because:
-IPAs could make it to India unspoiled.
-IPAs provided clean drinking water. (As explained in a previous post, water is boiling in brewing.)
-IPAs prevent scurvy!
-IPAs are delicious, crisp, and refreshing in balmy weather!
-IPAs have a higher ABV, which I’m sure lots of peeps appreciated.
Modern IPAs
Like with everything, people took this idea and modified it over time. With the current craft beer renaissance, American brewers and hops farmers have created several iconic types of hops that have different tastes, smells, and haziness characteristics including: piney, floral, citrus, fruity, earthy, etc, even one experimental hop that my fiance brewed with that smelled like earl grey tea/fruit loops. The strains all have cool names like Cascade and Galaxy, but enough about hops, I’ll do a separate post about them, because they have many magickal and medicinal qualities. Onto the three ‘main’ types of popular IPAs available in America (at least, but some worldwide), that have all stemmed from the wonderful origins of long-sea-voyage IPAs.
I lied. One last thing about hops that will help me define the differences between IPA styles. Hops basically have two factors that brewers focus on: aroma and bitterness. When a brewer adds hops to their recipe, you could add them to make your beer have a specific smell/taste (bc smelling and tasting are intertwined) or for bitterness to balance the sweet flavors of malt. So: bittering hops or aromatic hops. There. That’s the last hops thing I swear.
East Coast IPA- refers to/originated from the East Coast of America (that’s the New York, Boston, Portland Maine, Atlantic side, for the international friends). This used to be more of a thing, but people more often refer to this kind of beer as a New England IPA now. Mainly because that’s where a lot of the craft beer renaissance is going on. Not to say that it doesn’t happen outside of NE, just that we have a lot of beer meccas, large and growing breweries, and let’s face it, there’s not much else to do in NE so we like to focus on our beer and our pretty color-changing leaves (fyi, yes leafspotters are a thing in NE). East Coast style meant you had an aromatic hoppy beer but not necessarily an unfiltered beer, which is a classic spec for NEIPAs. Their niche in the market has been pretty much taken over by NEIPAs.
New England IPA- refers to/originated from my personal necka tha woods, specifically: NOT NEW YORK GFDI, Connecticut (thassa me!), Massachusetts (go Bruins), New Hampshire (Live Free or Die ppl), Vermont (Burlington, VT is a beer mecca), Rhode Island (not a road, nor an actual island), and Maine (home of Allagash and great lobster). I might be biased, but these are the best kind. Lighter in color, better, aromatic, better, fruity/juicy, better, and HAZY AF. Seriously, the haze is a classic characteristic of this beer. The haze is literally yeast and grainy bits in there. They’re very aromatic, not very bitter, usually described as fruity, juicy, or floral… and they’re my favorite IPAs. Try: Heady Topper from The Alchemist in Stowe, VT.
West Coast IPA- refers to/originated from the West Coast of America (that’s the LA, San Fran, Vegas, Portland Washington, Pacific side, for my internat’l peeps). West Coast IPAs are realllllyyyyyyy bitter af with lots of piney, citrusy flavors. They are usually filtered so the beer looks clearer than NEIPAs. These are your palate wreckers. I’ve heard some people conflate these with DIPAs, but that’s not quite correct. Though DIPAs are more popular out west, they are gaining traction in the east, too. They’re historically hoppy because they grow hops in this region! The pacific northwest is in that sweet spot for growing hops. Cascade, Apollo, Chinook, Amarillo, Citra, all these are hops bred/created in/around Oregon and Washington state. West Coast IPAs usually include these west coast hops in their recipe. Pretty cool connected-to-the-land type stuff!
DIPA- pronounced as “double eye-pee-ay.”. It literally stands for double India Pale Ale meaning it has “double” the hops. Double is a loose term because there’s no exact set regular/single amount of hops to use in an IPA to begin with, so take double with a grain of salt. This is a palate wrecker for some people, (there’s actually a DIPA named Palate Wrecker from Green Flash Brewing Co. from San Deigo, those west-coasters, man) so try a regular or session IPA first to see if you like that much hops flavor before moving up. Yes, there are triple IPAs, though, in actuality, there is no true standard for a TIPA (said “triple eye-pee-ay”) most people use the TIPA designation to mean a fuckton of hops aka an even hoppier DIPA. Both DIPAs and TIPAs can also be called Imperial IPAs, usually in reference to their higher alcohol content.
Drink up, my witches, it’s potion time.
So, you ask me, that’s all well and good, but what about the magick, Bel? Well, here ya go:
If you would like to improvise and incorporate an IPA into your own spells:
IPA magickal correspondences: male, water, earth, sea, traveling/voyages (especially traveling over/under the water i.e. a cruise, going underway while in the military, a ferry ride, a kayaking trip, a prolonged fishing trip especially fly-fishing), health, energy, endurance (to give endurance to someone or to make a spell last longer)
IPAs can be used as a signifier of: a sailor, a submariner, anyone in the Navy or the Marines, a sea/water witch, anyone traveling overseas, a business opportunity, the sharing of wealth and knowledge. If you’re using a geo-specific style of IPA with intent, then you can use a NEIPA to represent someone from or traveling to New England, etc.
Spell for the Protection of Someone Traveling Overseas:
Gather: 3 bottles/cans/drafts of your preferred IPA (use the info above to chose), a representation of your preferred sea god/dess (referred to below as the god token), the loved one themselves or a picture/token of that loved one, your focused mind.
Begin the usual way, as in: cleanse, create your circle, call your watchtowers, invoke your god, however you normally begin spells.
Arrange your three bottles in a triangle. Face one bottle toward the god token, face the other toward the loved one token, face the last toward yourself. Formally offer one bottle to your god/dess as an offering (if that’s how you flow). The bottle in front of your loved one is the host of this spell. The third bottle represents the celebration of the return of your loved one.
Focus your breath and your intent. Visualize your loved one warm, well-fed, and safe. Address the loved one token and the god token in turn and say:
“As you travel far from me,
off the land and out to sea,
protection you shall have threefold,
the first, from me prevents the cold.
Second, through this hoppy brew
ensures you fare to drink and chew.
I ask the god of sea and sail
to keep you safe and keep you hale.
Comfy, warm, slaked, and sated
well and whole, ills abated.
As you travel back to me
you will keep these blessings three.
From Craft to craft,
from fore to aft,
from witch and god,
and witch’s draft,
it’s three times three,
on land and sea,
safe in the lee,
so mote it be.”
The last eight lines may be repeated or chanted to build power or focus if desired/needed.
Give the offering bottle to the god in whatever way feels right. I would suggest pouring the bottle into the body of water that your loved one is travelling over/on. If that’s not possible, I would suggest another natural body of water such as a lake or river, where it can eventually reach the body of water your loved one is travelling on/over.
Save the loved one bottle and your bottle. Keep ‘em in the back of your fridge where you’re mooch of a roomie won’t get to ‘em. Remember these two bottles are the promise and the celebration. A promise to your loved one that they will return safely to drink these two bottles with you in celebration of their homecoming. If your loved one won’t be returning to your location (as in they live somewhere else and “safely returning home” for them means not your actual location), then you could choose to: drink both yourself, pour one out for your loved one and drink the other yourself, send them the beer (mailing restrictions apply here) and drink it over skype with them, pour both out, etc.
Finish up your spell in the usual way, as in: ground yourself, cakes and ale, thanks the god/dess who helped you, release/thank the watchtowers, whatever floats your boat. [Get it, that was some nautical themed humor for ya.]
Welp, there ya go kiddos. Ask/submit with questions, comments, promises of free beer. More Craft Beer Magick to come soon.
Merry meet again,
Bel 🔔
Super Blue Blood Moon
A “For When Shit Hits the Fan” Witchy Emergency Masterpost
This is a post compiled for the 21st century modern witch who is having a rough time in a “first-world-problem” sense. If you’re having a real emergency, contact services in your area, such as a hospital, police, or fire department. Also check out my other “For When Shit Hits the Fan” Emergency Masterpost for information on how to get help with emergencies without witchcraft.
Resources:
Planetary Retrograde Guide
Solving problems using astrology
Yoga for After a Disaster
Self Care & Mental Health Masterpost
Sigils:
strength during hard times
to overcome depression
“I will make it through this”
“Fear Cannot Live Here”
My family remains healthy
Happiness & Release items that obstruct health
banish bad luck
Luck will follow me
“I am jinx, hex, and curse proof”
Tarot Spreads:
What the Actual F@%K?!
Freedom from Addiction
Disaster Spread
Trouble in paradise
Tell Me the Truth
calm the f@%k down
a spread to realize something difficult
When the World is Cruel
This Too Will Pass
fix a f@%k up
How to Handle a Situation Getting Out of Hand
Emoji Spells:
protection from toxic people
to get your shit together
for anti-depression
for banishing depression
help ease depression
for peace and serenity
Heal and open your heart
For healing from heartbreak
Get unstuck in life
See the gifts in the present moment
Peace during hard times
Banish desperation
Get out of a dark mental place
For your family to treat you with respect
Family Communication
Universal Peace Spell
Mood Booster
transmute anxiety
break curses, hexes, and jinxes placed on you
avoid people with poor judgment
bless the planet
have more faith in the universe
Other Spells:
Prayer to help with depression
Chant to Banish Depression
A Spell to Banish and Protect: Restraining Order Bottle
A Spell to Escape: Get me out of this mess
Month of Growth
Instant Good Luck Spells
For All-Day Calm if You Work or Live in a Hostile or Volatile Atmosphere
A Dying Leaf Rite to Remove Sorrow, Illness or Misfortune from Your Workplace
Stress Relieving Drink
magick for heartbreak
Ease Trauma Tip
Other Resources:
Witch Tips: Spells Gone Bad
When your spell fails
Crystals for depression
School Witch Tip Masterpost
how to handle a bad day
may your growing pains ease
Receive a big hug
Remember: You’re beautiful!
A Crash Course in Warding
Let’s just start a series of crash courses in witchcraft, since sometimes we need to learn things the quick and dirty way. Today, let’s talk about wards.
What are wards? Wards are protective energy barriers. They keep things out. You can place them around your home, certain rooms, even on certain objects. With practice and clear intentions, you can focus the wards to block out everything or only certain things. We’ll get to that in a bit.
Why should I ward my space and my things? Wards can keep out all sorts of things you don’t want in your home. They can block out negative entities, wayward spirits, mischievous entities, demons, and (if you’re really good at what you’re doing) even gods. Some people ward their divination tools so they know there are no spirits tampering with the results.
So what do I need to do first? Cleanse. This is very important. Wards are kind of like walls, or perhaps more accurately, bubbles. If you don’t clean the space first, you might trap things inside your ward bubble. You do not want that. There are lots of methods of cleansing, from burning sage to spritzing oil-infused water. Find a method you’re comfortable with and cleanse everything you’re going to be warding.
I’ve cleansed my home/item. Now what? Now we ward. I’m going to give you a couple methods. Let’s start with my favorite, incense warding.
Incense warding can also be done with spritzes of water/essential oil blends or herb-infused water if you can’t have smoke in your space. Whichever you’re using, you want to have a blend of protective herbs. Bay leaves, cinnamon, ginger, mustard seed, and salt are some great options that you can find in the grocery store, no fancy witch shop necessary. If you’re using incense, make sure you’re using natural incense and not super cheap stuff that’s artificially scented. The magic is in the herbs, and you won’t get that from fake scents.
How to Incense/Spritz Ward an Item
Smoke or spray item.
Visualize the smoke or spray clinging to the item and wrapping around it like a tight blanket, protecting it from anything that would cause harm (or interference, etc.).
How to Incense/Spritz Ward Your Space
Pick a place to start. I always start at my altar, but it’s up to you. If you’re doing multiple floors, start either at the top or bottom floor.
Moving continuously to your right, smoke or spray along the walls and door frames. As you go, imagine a barrier being formed around the walls, ceiling, and floor, pushing outwards to fill the room. Visualize the smoke or spray forming the barrier to keep out anything that will do you harm. [If you have a hard time with visualization, you can simply focus on the intent of the smoke or spray keeping things out.]
Keep moving right, following the layout of your home, making sure you get all the closet spaces. You basically want to outline the entire area you’re protecting, whether it’s you’re room or your whole house.
For multiple floors, repeat on each level.
For big layouts where there are rooms in the middle, go around those rooms as well.
I like to reinforce the wards over outside doors, windows, and mirrors. These are all passages of sorts, and when I reach them, I use the incense to draw a pentagram in the air over them. This is entirely up to you.
You’re done when you’ve reached the point where you began.
So why do we go to the right? Is that important? Kind of. Going to the right is like going clockwise. It’s about making things and progression, where going to the left or counter-clockwise is about deconstruction or reversal. [I read this idea in a witchy book a long time ago and will try to find a source when I can. If you honestly don’t feel it makes a difference, do whatever you’re comfortable with.]
Can I place wards that keep out certain things but not others? Sure. When you’re going around your space/warding your item, your intent is what’s important. I like to ward out entities that mean harm - it’s nice and general and doesn’t keep the fae out. Some people might want certain spirits and not others. Have your intentions clear in your mind as you place your wards.
That’s neat and all, but what are some other ways to ward? Let’s list a few.
Symbol/Sigil Wards
Choose (or make) a symbol or sigil that has protective properties. I’ve done this with Pluto’s astrological symbol because I worship him and it’s my way of being like, “Hey, Pluto. Please protect me, kthanxbai.” Pentagrams are nice and basic witchy/pagan symbols if you like them.
Draw the symbol over doors and windows. You do not literally have to draw it. It can be in water, incense smoke, or just your finger against the surface if you want.
As you’re drawing, make sure you have your intentions in mind - that nothing harmful can pass through this door, that the windows remain closed against entities, etc.
Energy Bubbles (if you have control over your energy)
Pick an item - any item.
Get your warding intentions in mind.
Channel lots of energy into the item. Visualize it emanating from the item in a bubble to fill your space.
If you’ve got mad skillz, you can form the bubble to the walls and be super exact with where its barriers are.
Vocal Wards
If you like spoken (or thought) spells, come up with a small chant to protect your space.
You can repeat this chant as you focus on your item being protected or as you walk around your home, protecting every room.
This is really great to incorporate into basically any other form of warding and gives your magic an extra bit of oomph.
I’ve heard wards can “fade” over time. True or false? Wards are just energy. Like all energies, they can disperse and weaken over time, or if something particularly nasty puts effort into destroying them. Redo your wards every so often (I do mine every few months, but it’s up to you), and especially before spiritual interactions. I also like to do mine after I’ve had lots of company, to kind of clear out family’s lingering energies and reinforce what I don’t want in my house.
In general, the intent of your wards is the most important part. Know what you want to keep out. This concludes our crash course on warding. Now go forth and protect some stuff!
hey spirit workers, WARD YOUR SHIT
Control? Please.
I don’t get - at all - some of the male magicians I interact with. Of all the bizarre notions I see them discuss regularly, one of those is this idea that the magician is ‘in control’ of his spirits, the world, etc.
Spirits have Agency, which is why we engage them. Their abilities - and capacity to set up events and swing things into motion - are why we turn with them, ally with them, and so forth. To strip them of that Agency, and pretend that you ‘control’ them baffles me.
Why the fuck would you do that? Sure, there’s a sympathetic - or perhaps even contagious - link between the two of us and each influences the other. But that isn’t the same as “control.”
It seems to me to be begging to have one’s life upset when a spirit finally breaks free of your influence and decides that it isn’t particularly pleased with your actions.
And then - especially if we’re chatting about the dead - you are fucked. It is gonna fuck your entire world up, and without a mediating God or Spirit, you’ll just be taken for a terrible ride.
I have allied with my familiars. They “serve” me, in the same sense legions in an army might follow the instructions of a General, but in that same sense, they also have their own Being. They will abide by their nature, unless I go out of my way to compel them otherwise… And that is always a last resort. Without mutual trust, the alliance is meaningless. And if I try to micromanage them, then I’m probably going to fuck up the paths to my desires. Because they have a better understanding of those paths than I do.
“Be obedient to the spirits, that they be obedient to you.” - Grimorium Verum. (Peterson translation.)
Better Business Floorwash (4)
Make a strong infusion by pouring boiling water over a quantity of crushed allspice berries.
Strain and add the liquid to a bucket of water, together with white vinegar, and use as a floorwash.
(from The Element Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells by Judika Illes)
Day 2 of my Grimoire Resolution: Celestial Events of 2018
Full Moons of 2018 Jan 1 ♋ Jan 31 ♌ Mar 1 ♍ Mar 31 ♎ Apr 29 ♏ May 29 ♐ Jun 28 ♑ Jul 27 ♒ Aug 26 ♓ Sept 24 ♈ Oct 24 ♉ Nov 23 ♊ Dec 22 ♋
New Moons of 2018 Jan 16 ♑ Feb 15 ♒ Mar 17 ♓ Apr 15 ♈ May 15 ♉ Jun 13 ♊ Jul 12 ♋ Aug 11 ♌ Sept 9 ♍ Oct 8 ♎ Nov 7 ♏ Dec 7 ♐
Other Events of 2018 Jan 1 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation, Supermoon Jan 3-4 - Quadrontids Meteor Shower Jan 31 - Supermoon, Blue Moon, Total Lunar Eclipse Feb 15 - Partial Solar Eclipse Mar 15 - Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation Mar 20 - Equinox Mar 31 - Blue Moon Apr 22-23 - Lyrids Meteor Shower Apr 29 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation May 6-7 - Eta Aquarids May 9 - Jupiter at Opposition Jun 21 - Solstice Jun 27 - Saturn at Opposition Jul 12 - Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation Jul 13 - Partial Solar Eclipse Jul 27 - Total Lunar Eclipse, Mars at Opposition Jul 28-29 - Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower Aug 11 - Partial Solar Eclipse Aug 12-13 - Perseids Meteor Shower Aug 17 - Venus at Greatest Eastern Elongation Aug 26 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation Sept 7 - Neptune at Opposition Sept 23 - Equinox Oct 8 - Draconids Meteor Shower Oct 21-22 - Orionids Meteor Shower Oct 23 - Uranus at Opposition Nov 5-6 - Taurids Meteor Shower Nov 6 - Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation Nov 17-18 - Leonids Meteor Shower Dec 13-14 - Geminids Meteor Shower Dec 15 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation Dec 21 - Solstice Dec 21-22 - Ursids Meteor Shower
