Bewitched Moonlight

Cottage Tech Witch ● Feminist ● She/her

[bewitched-moonlight]

"I have led a toothless life," he thought. "A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone."

— Jean-Paul Sartre

[bewitched-moonlight]

🍯 ENCHANTED HONEY RITUAL 🍯

If you need to distance yourself from someone, here's a quick spell you can do. It's easy and can be done in the shower.

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What you'll need

Honey

A liquid soap whose scent you enjoy

What you'll do

Grab some honey with your dominant hand and draw a heart on the palm of your other hand.

Visualize the face of the person you need to distance yourself from, or to whom you need to say "no" or convey an assertive message, whatever it may be.

Say out loud: "I respect what you feel, but I am not responsible for it". Give yourself permission to assert yourself.

Carefully, without destroying the heart you drew, cover it with the liquid soap and turn on the tap. Rub your palm in a circular motion to completely remove the honey. Take your time.

[bewitched-moonlight]

"Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."

— Susan Sontag

[bewitched-moonlight]

🐚 Shells and their associations

🐚 Whelks: change, understanding, control, positivity

🐚 Cowrie shells: love, money, destiny, femininity, fertility, strength, ocean, prosperity

🐚 Cerith shells: masculinity, sexuality

🐚 Conch shells: beauty, clarity, communication, strength, grace, invocation

🐚 Cod shells: friendship, emotions, family, relationships

🐚 Oyster shells: love, banishment, luck, transmutation

🐚 Scallop shells: change, diversity, movement, travel

🐚 Nautilus shells: grounding, concentration, connection, creation, growth, writing

🐚 Abalone: ​​affirmation, beauty, calm, luck, creativity, growth, balance

🐚 Clams: friendship, love, goddess, purification

🐚 Limpets: assurance, courage, endurance, strength

🐚 Auger shells: courage, fertility, healing, power

[bewitched-moonlight]

"Pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you. Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls. To live a life of meaning is to balance the things that spark joy with the discipline to bring them into the world."

— Maya Angelou

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🌿 Analog witchcraft 🌿

It's decided: this summer I'll be spending less times around screens. Here's a few ideas to make your witchcraft practice more analog if you, like me, are feeling concerned about your screen time...

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🌿 Start (or keep up with) a physical grimoire - social media is a great resource to find spells and anything magic-related. However, reblogging won't give you the knowledge you deserve. Start collecting all of this information in one notebook dedicated to your practice.

🌿 Buy some books about witchcraft - most of my magical knowledge has been acquired with books. There are so many out there, so spend some time in your local library and find books related to your type of witchcraft.

🌿 Consume less, practice more - early on in my practice, I felt the need to learn as much as possible before attempting anything. If that feels like you, step outside and start with a simple spell. The rest will come soon enough.

🌿 Consider investing in tools to replace your need for a phone - if you use it to wake you up in the morning, consider buying an alarm clock. If you love taking pictures, why not trying to learn photography with a proper camera? If you need it for reading, even investing on a e-reader will be better for your eyes, etc. etc.

🌿 Practice offline divination - pull tarot cards without looking up the meaning online. Sit with your intuition. You don't need a guidebook to tell you everything.

🌿 Seek out local covens, witch meetups, or metaphysical shops - real human connection with other practitioners is something the internet can simulate but never quite replace.

[bewitched-moonlight]

"But I didn't and still don't like making a cult of women's knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don't know, women's deep irrational wisdom, women's instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior - women's knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?"

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[bewitched-moonlight]

🍋 A potion to ward off anxiety 🍋

Carmelite Water

It's believed that the Carmelite order of monks or nuns created this water somewhere in the seventeenth century. Spiritually, this potion is used as a road opener (removing blocks), cleanser (banishing and removing energy), and for blessings.

Ingredients

1 cup lemon balm

1/2 cup angelica leaves and stems, chopped

1 tablespoon cloves

1 lemon, zested

1/2 tablespoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon coriander seeds

4 cups vodka, gin or brandy

Place the dry ingredients in a 1-quart glass jar, and add the alcohol. Stir and shake well. Place in a cool, dry place and let steep for two weeks. Strain through cheesecloth into a new jar. It will keep for up to four months.

Dosage: one tablespoon daily as needed to soothe anxiety.

[bewitched-moonlight]

"Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but 'steal' some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be."

— Albert Camus

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🔥 Quick spells when it's too hot to think

Is it just me or are things have gotten way too hot lately? Here are some quick spells to keep your mind level-headed, even in the warmest heatwave...

🔥 Place an ice cube inside your mouth, close your eyes, and focus on your intentions for the day. Keep drawing your mind to it until the cube has fully melted.

🔥 Place a jar of water in the sun at the peak of temperature. In the winter, you can use this sun water for spells that call for warmth and strength.

🔥 Light a red candle for courage. Write what you fear most on a bay leaf, then burn it with the candle, ideally at sunrise. The sun will take care of getting rid of the rest.

🔥 Find a source of water, and submerge yourself in it. Even if it's just your bathtub filled with fresh water, there's something powerful in submerging your body. This is most potent at midnight, once the moon is out.

🔥 Ground your feet on the earth in the morning and at night. Speak to the sun as it's rising in the sky, and wish it goodnight in the evening. The sun is associated with strength, power and high energies. Use this wisely.

🔥 Do not attempt weather magic unless you know what you're doing. After a few days of warmth you may find yourself tempted to call for rain. Resist this urge. Weather magic is attempting to cause change to intricate, interconnected systems that can have serious impacts in totally unexpected ways.

[bewitched-moonlight]

A POEM FOR SOMEONE WHO IS JUGGLING HER LIFE

This is a poem for someone who is juggling her life. Be still sometimes. Be still sometimes.

It needs repeating over and over to catch her attention over and over, as someone who is juggling her life finds it difficult to hear.

Be still sometimes. Be still sometimes. Let it all fall sometimes

— Rose Cook

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🌕 May 31st, 2026 | Blue Moon 🌕

On May 31st, we'll have a super rare blue moon in the night sky.

Blue moons are associated with healing, logic, focus, wisdom. Some ideas to celebrate:

🩵 Place a jar of water outside the entire night. This blue moon water can be used to cleanse your house, clearing out toxins in the air.

🩵 Place a silver coin under your pillow during the night to attract wealth and fortune.

🩵 Take a spiritual cleansing bath before the moon peaks in the sky. Use eucalyptus herbs in your bath for extra clarity and healing powers.

🩵 Light a single blue candle at midnight and sit under the moonlight.

🩵 If you are pondering over two decisions, keep a glass of water at the windowsill during the night. In the morning, meditate over your choices, then drink the water in one sip. Answers will come to you.

🩵 Wear something blue and place blue crystals on your altar (lapis lazuli, aquamarine, sodalite...).

[bewitched-moonlight]

"I won't be able to write from the grave so let me tell you what I love: oil, vinegar, salt, lettuce, brown bread, butter, cheese and wine, a windy day, a fireplace, the children nearby, poems and songs, a friend sleeping in my bed—

and the short northern lights."

— Fanny Howe

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🐚 Beach magic 🐚

As summer is approaching, I thought I'd post about my witchcraft practice at the beach...

🐚 Use the sea water to cleanse your body and soul. Breathe in deeply, dive in, and spend a few seconds underwater to recite in your head "I'm getting rid of anything that isn't serving me, and release it all to the ocean".

🐚 Draw sigils onto the sand. It's a simple one, but can be quite powerful, especially if you keep on drawing it repeatedly as you sunbathe.

🐚 Whisper a protection spell as you apply suncream. This isn't just about protecting yourself from UV light. This simple act of self-care can ward off much more than that.

🐚 Collect shells for your altar. I think this one is my favourite. I'm always on the lookout for small items with strong significance to decorate my altar. Shells are the perfect items to have in preparation for Midsummer.

🐚 Sand has a strong association to time. Use it for any spells that require you to slow down and be in the present. Depending on where you are, the sand between your hands may be a thousand years old!

🐚 Meditate at sunrise, facing towards the ocean. Repeat wishes and manifestations while breathing in the salt air. If you ask something of the waves, you might just get it.

🐚 Keep ocean water in a jar, and only use it for your most potent spells. Ocean water is associated with vastness, fear, power, life, protection. Use it wisely.

[bewitched-moonlight]

"Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet or comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur."

— Margaret Atwood

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🌞 Summer magic 🌞

I know summer hasn't really arrived yet in the Northern hemisphere, but what can I do, I'm excited for the new season that is ahead...

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Water witches

🌊 Summer is *your* season, so enjoy it! Spend as much time as you can in the water, whether it's in lakes, oceans, or swimming pools.

🌊 Make sun tea infusion by placing a glass of water with lemon or mint directly in the sunlight, and then sipping it out slowly with intention.

🌊 Practice your spells at dusk near a source of water. That's when you'll be most powerful.

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Nature witches

🌿 Watch the sunrise and sunset every day for 7 days in a row, and see what changes you notice in yourself.

🌿 Collect peppermint from your garden and place it in a spray, mixed with warm water. You can use it on your doors and windows to ward out evil spirits.

🌿 Make flower crowns with blooms from your garden, or use wildflowers you collect while hiking in nature.

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Kitchen witches

🥧 It's barbecue season! So grill your veggies or food outside, as close to nature as you possibly can.

🥧 Make a simmer pot to give your kitchen a great smell, with summer scents like lavender, mint, lemon, and flowers.

🥧 Use yellow ingredients in your cooking to celebrate the color of the season - lemons, bananas, honey, butter, eggs, turmeric, potatoes...

[bewitched-moonlight]

"You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can't go on. You go on by allowing the unbearable days to pass and allowing the pleasure in other days. You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage."

─ Cheryl Strayed