tea and magic

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

[thewitchystuff]

Witchy Calendar 2022  ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

It has a little bit more info than last year, I hope it can help you navigating this year.

☿ Mercury Retrogrades show the Mercury Direct (date of ending).

♒ Zodiac Signs are color coded according to its element.

☆ Solar events (Solstice & Equinox) are filled sparkle ★ and the other fetivities (midpoints) are a simple sparkle ✧︎

**Be sure to double check the dates for your region, since specific dates may vary due to TimeZones (specially for zodiac entries, full moons, etc.)

Let me know if you see any mistakes or have any questions about it!

People kept sending messages about the 2022 witchy calendar even now in April so I wanted to upload it anyway  ☆

Thanks to our patreons and the people who sent messages who impulse us to search for this info and combining it here for all of you!

Go to our Patreon for the complete HD image.

[the-broken-stones]

Just so we’re clear

Men can be witches. Trans persons can be witches. Nonbinary persons can be witches. Genderfluid persons can be witches. Agender persons can be witches. 

Gender has zero influence on a person’s witch-hood. 

And terfs can suck it. 

[hexeandharmony]

The Blue Moon 🌚 31st October 2020 🎃

Taken on my telescope 🔭 🌙✨

Verbenalune.com✨

[thepowerwithin]

It’s up to me to see the beauty in everyday things.

Affirmation*

[childofthecrowmoon]

Summer solstice honey cakes ☀️🌻

Happy summer solstice! Here’s a recipe to honour the day:

(Makes about 30 cupcakes or 2 big cakes)

Ingredients:

Cake:

450g plain flour

225g butter

4 tbsp honey

150g sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt

4 eggs

250 ml milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

Icing:

150g icing sugar

20 ml water

1 tsp cinnamon

As much honey as you want

Lavender (optional)

1. Lay out cake cases or grease your tray if you are making one big cake and preheat your oven to 180C/350F

2. Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt together

3. Add the eggs, honey, butter, milk and vanilla extract and mix until smooth

4. Put the mixture into whatever you are baking it in

5. Bake for 20mins (cupcakes) or 40mins (big cake)

6. Whilst cakes are baking prepare your icing. Mix together the icing sugar, water, cinnamon and honey until smooth. Add more water if you need to.

7. Once the cakes are done, take them out and leave to cool

8. When the cakes are cool, drizzle the icing onto them. Add lavender if you wish

9. Eat!

[thewaysidewitch]

Bring Nature Inside: Part 1

Last Spring I delved into gardening more than I ever had before. I planted all kinds of flowers, trees, herbs, shrubs, and more! It was fantastical to dig in the dirt and care for these plants, watching them bloom and grow and stretch toward the sun.

Then winter came and one by one many of my plants began to whiter or stop giving off blooms. This is obviously upsetting but also a reminder to contemplate the nature of life and death and everything in-between. 

However, there is a simple way to help bring that joy of plants and growing into the home through houseplants! Below I have provided some house plants that I personally care for as well as both mundane and magical properties of the plant.  

💐 Devil’s Ivy (Pothos)💐

Devil’s Ivy is one of the easiest plants to care for in the home.

Mundane Properties (Devil’s Ivy):

Only water the plant every two weeks (over-watering is the most common way to kill a devil’s ivy and under-watering rarely harms the plant).

The plant is toxic to both you and pets. So if you have any familiars lurking about that like to munch on things keep it out of reach!

The plant is easy to propagate and after a while you can have hundreds of them around your home.

If your plant looses a leaf it will never grow back on that part of the stem.

Pothos is fairly slow growing but will live for decades if properly taken care of.

Magical Properties (Devil’s Ivy):

Save stems you trim off to be used in binding or banishment spells.

Like most ivy, growth this plant around the walls or floors of your home can protect it.

Can be used in witch jars as a form of poison magic.

💐 Spider Plant💐

Mundane Properties (Spider Plant):

A spider plant is a great addition to every home!

Although all plants will remove toxins from the air, Spider Plants are one of the most effective house plants and achieving this goal.

Over-watering is the leading cause of death for plants at home.

The plant, when happy, sends off shoots that produce babies which can easily be snipped off and potted to create more plants.

This plant is non-toxic and is safe around familiars and people!

They prefer a bright North or East facing window.

Magical Properties (Spider Plant):

Spider Plants can be used in all kinds or protection magic.

The pups can be cut off and placed in a spell jar to filter out bad spiritual energy.

Long stems and leaves of the plant can be tied into a witch’s ladder for protection.

Placed on your altar the plant can help equalizes the energy of your altar and tools placed upon it. 

💐 String of Pearls💐

Mundane Properties (String of Pearls):

The String of Pearls can be a difficult plant to get right, however, once you do you will be happy with the beauty it can bring into your home.

This plant requires a fairly consistent temperature (room temperature or a bit warmer is perfect for this girl).

Make sure to place this plant away from any breezes (windows, fans, and vents can cause this plant to stop growing and possibly die).

Only water this plant when the soil is completely dry, take care to ensure the pot you have it in has good drainage.

You may need to work carefully with the String of Pearls to unravel it’s many creeping tendrils and prevent it from looking a mess.

It may take a few tries but the String of Pearls is a fairly easy plant to propagate and give to friends.

Fairly fast growing in the right conditions. 

Needs very bright light.

Slightly toxic when consumed, some people are also receptive to the juice and sap of the plant.

Magical Properties (String of Pearls):

The fairly fast growing tendrils can be snipped (this does not hurt the plant) and be used in love charms and love magic.

Growing in the home, the plant promotes positive energy and happiness.

Pearls which fall from the plant can be used in divination bags once dried.

When the plant flowers the energy surrounding is perfect to use in all magics wishing to draw something to you.

(Disclaimer: This is by no means a comprehensive guide to each of these plants. Doing research on any plant before attempting to grow it yourself is highly advised. The magical properties of these plants are my own interpretations and you may find different or alternative uses for them.)

[perse-phoneee-deactivated202007]

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Support Black magicians

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Support Black spiritualists

Support Black spirit workers

End racism in spiritual and occult communities.

[teawiththegods]

The Mad Mommy has compiled a list of Black-owned Etsy shops that sell witchy supplies and sundries! I thought you and your followers might be interested in this.

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[babywitchofthesouth]

Happiness Potion (honey milk tea)

This is a tea that my mum used to make for me that I’ve converted into a happiness spell! It’s a very basic recipe, then you can make it your own by changing around the ingredients. I’ve listed some optional suggestions that you could use with different correspondents for different intentions.

As you can see, I added clear quartz crystals and a citrine crystal to charge it further with positivity. Then I stirred a sigil for positivity into the drink with my spoon (I am happy and radiate positivity). I’ll link a post on how to make sigils once I’ve uploaded one!

What you need: 

2 tsp honey

½ tsp cinnamon

½ cup boiling water

½ cup milk

What to do:

Mix the honey, cinnamon and water together in a mug until combined.

Froth the milk with a milk frothing tool or by whisking/shaking very violently (Optional)

Add the milk

Garnish with cinnamon

Optional:

The ratio of boiling water to milk should bring the drink down to the perfect temperature!

With milk, you can add peppermint to soothe the stomach, chamomile to soothe the throat and encourage sleep, ginger to soothe the throat, or cayenne pepper to clear the sinuses.

Without milk, you can add a bit of lemon to boost the immune system.

You can replace the water with a herbal tea of your choices such as lavender or chamomile.

You can replace the milk with almond milk or any milk of choice.

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Here’s the explanation for this spell for fellow baby witches

Spells come in many forms, including drinkable ones! You can call them potions if you like. They involve using herbs/flavours/scents etc with specific correspondents to fulfil a specific intention.

Honey signifies happiness and positivity and expels negativity, depression and anxiety.

Cinnamon signifies spirituality, success, healing, protection, power, love, luck, strength and prosperity

Milk has correspondents too! Full cream milk signifies prosperity, nurturing, protection, success. Warm milk eases anxiety and anger. Here’s a list of correspondents for non-dairy milk types by @heximari​

Citrine is a crystal that boosts joy and optimism, and clear quartz is used for protection and as an amplifier for other crystals.

Sigils are statements of intent drawn up into a little picture which you can write on your skin, on a paper, or in this case, stir into tea, to make a spell work better.

[jupitersmusings]

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

[overlord-fire-bubble]

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

[honeyalchemist]

A Whopping List of 160 Grimoire Prompts and Ideas

Alrighty, everybody, I’ve been working all day trying to compile this list together and it came out to be a staggering 160 prompts and ideas for your grimoire! Some of these are pretty vague and others are quite specific, but this is only to help you guys more with filling up your grimoires! So buckle up and get ready to go! 

(Btw since this post is SOOOO long it’ll be hidden :’) )

Keep reading

[auricwitch]

Ugh, this is such a good post. Great to see you making content!! @sammmango

[mystiksnotes]

Beltane

May Day/Walpurgisnacht - April 30 - May 1 Beltane is very similar to Ostara, but it also celebrates a more mature love, marriage, and fertility. Many choose to conceive children at this time or otherwise enjoy themselves sexually. Nature is bursting at the seams with energy, beauty, sexuality, and excitement. To match this, Beltane festivals are high energy with a lot of dancing and bonfires. Many will dance and weave a maypole, but if one is not present, it’s perfectly acceptable to link hands and dance around a tree. It’s the peak of Spring, the top of the fertile season, and some may already feel Summer in the air. Popular Symbols for this holiday are flowers, a maypole, beeswax candles, brooms, honey, symbols of genitalia, offerings for faeries, wreaths or flower crowns, bees, bonfires, and a cauldron of flowers. Color Associations - Green, Red, Blue, Yellow, Brown, White, Silver Tarot Cards associated with Beltane are The Sun and The Star. Crystals to use on your altar or for spells on this holiday could be Aventurine, Bloodstone, Carnelian, Emerald, Jasper, Malachite, Rose Quartz, Sapphire, Sun Stone Animal energies to channel could include rabbits, goats, cows, swans, swallows, deer. Herbs and Plants - Birch, Bluebell, Crocus, Daisy, Dandelion, Hawthorn, Honeysuckle, Mint, Mugwort, Rose, Rosemary, Tulips, Violets, Wildflowers Spells good to perform on this holiday are those Abundance, Blessings, Fertility, Joy, and Sex Magic. Activities to help get in the Beltane spirit and celebrate are lighting a bonfire, leaving offerings for faeries, dancing (especially around a may pole), handfasting ceremonies, love spells, child conception. You could also decorate cookies and candles with dried herbs and flowers! Having a picnic and taking a ritual bath are two other relaxing things to do to ease your way into the holiday. Take time to really take in everything that’s going on in the moment and really appreciate it. Meditate, braid flowers into your hair, make daisy chains or flower crowns. Make a wish box and filling it with goals and wishes for the summer. Drink some mead, bake a cake, indulge yourself and enjoy the holiday! image source - natureandbeauty.tumblr.com

[thestarseedcauldron-deactivated]

As above, so below, What you reap is what you sew. What you give comes back threefold. As above, so below.

[witcheshaven]

[recreationalwitchcraft]

Recreational Witchcraft: Simple Salve Recipe

Beeswax salves are a great recipe to have in your repertoire because depending on the herbs included they can be used for many purposes. Healing balms can be made for cuts, scrapes, bites, and for topically treating pain like menstrual cramps or sore muscles. Moisturizing salves can be used on the lips, cuticles or to combat any dry winter skin.  As for magical applications, the list is a long one. Protection salves, flying ointments, and glamour salves are just some of the more common ways beeswax salves have been used as a simple method of transferring the power and magic of specific herbs to the body. The possibilities are quite endless. 

You will need:

A mason jar

1 cup of Olive oil

1 ounce of Beeswax 

Assorted herbs

Choose your herbs. Remember to choose your herbs with care. Herbs have specific medicinal and magical properties and some can cause allergic reactions. Use your better judgment.

Combine your chosen herbs and one cup of olive oil into a mason jar. Your herbs will steep in this mixture for one month so their properties can be better absorbed into the oil. 

After your herbs have steeped for a month, Melt down your beeswax into a liquid form, taking care not to burn it. You can do this on the stove but know that wax can be a hassle to clean from pots and pans (For this reason we have a specific pot for melting wax).

Combine your infused olive oil and melted beeswax. You may strain out the herbs from the mixture to get a cleaner look like the salve above but the step is optional. Stir the wax and oil to together well, and pour the liquid into a tin or other other container. Let the salve cool and harden. Your salve is ready to use!

[stimman4000]

lizzardbird

[book-ofshadows]

Lughnasadh Recipe: Cinnamon Braid Bread [x]

Ingredients

2 ¼ cups flour

½ tsp salt

¾ cup lukewarm milk

1 tbsp sugar

15 g fresh yeast (1 envelope active dry yeast)

1/8 cup (30 g) melted butter

1 egg yolk

Filling

¼ cup (50 g) softened butter

4 or 5 tbsp sugar

3 tsp cinnamon

3 tsp grounded almonds or macadamias, optional

Directions

In a medium bowl stir yeast with sugar. Stir in the milk and then add the egg yolk and melted butter.

In a large bowl whisk together the flour and salt. Pour the milk mixture over the dry ingredients and start kneading it until it pulls away from the edges of the bowl. Give the dough the shape of a ball. Sprinkle oil onto a clean bowl, place the dough and cover with plastic wrap. Let it rest for about 1 hour at room temperature until doubled in size.

While the dough rises, whisk together the butter with sugar and cinnamon for the filling. Set aside.

Preheat the oven to 400 F (200 C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

On a floured surface, using a rolling pin roll the dough to a rectangle of about 18x12 inches.

Spoon the cinnamon filling over top (keep about 1 tbsp of the filling for the end), spreading evenly, leaving a clean ½-inch border around the edges. Sprinkle the nuts over the cinnamon filling.

Roll up the dough and using a sharp knife, cut the log in half length-wise stopping ½ inch from one end to keep it together.

Twist the two pieces, keeping the open layers exposed so the cut ends remain on top..Pinch the ends together and form a wreath.

Transfer it to the prepared baking sheet. Brush the wreath with the left cinnamon filling.

Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown. For the last 10 minutes you can reduce the oven temperature to 180 C (350 F).