[thewitchyredhead]

tips for (college) witches

switches for my witches

thanks to dorm and apartment rules and regulations, its not always possible to practice in the ways that we might want to. if you’re a first time practitioner or a long time lover of all things witchy, these substitutions can come in handy in compromised spaces.

instead of candles, try:

salt lamps (added bonus: they’re great at neutralizing negative energy)

electric candles

fairy lights

wax melts

instead of burning incense, try:

essential oil diffuser

orange peels boiled in water

sage/essential oil spray

instead of a cauldron, a fully stocked kitchen, or a stove, try:

tea time! use your hot water heater/microwave to stew with intention! do some research into herbs and their corresponding effects and get a’brewin. for example rosemary improves focus and memory, whereas lavender works to reduce anxiety and sleeplessness.  

here’s an awesome and informational post by white homeopathic witch that details some tea blends and correspondences

instead of multiple-ingredient spellwork, try

sigils! simple, quick, and deeply powerful, these beautiful little pieces of magic allow you to take your magic anywhere. use them for cleansing, protection, concentration, confidence, etc. etc. etc. you can even design your own.

bath-time magic

meditation and visualization 

[hearthwitchmom]

I just saw this on Facebook, and this is actually a great idea for people who aren’t comfortable with putting sigils or witchy things on the outside of their homes. You could put sigils for peacefulness, protection, or whatever else you wanted!

[littlepinkgrimoire]

THRIFTY WITCH TIP: Take a page from our bujo friends on studyblr and pick up stacks of paint chips from your local home improvement store in colors you enjoy or colors corresponding to what ever magic you’re using and use them in your BoS, grimoire, to write spells or recipes on, burn for spells, etc. Whenever I get a new batch in a like to cut them into their segments and sort them by color so that they’re ready to use when I need them!

[mybookofbitchcraft]

college witch tips!

being a witch and living in a tiny dorm or apartment is a hassle… but here’s some (cheap and easy) tips to make your life a lot easier coming from a college witch!

quick note: if you are a student, you can get six months free of amazon prime with a student email account, and from then on out prime is only $50 instead of $100! amazon is a great place for tons of cheaper witchy resources (and really worth it for textbooks).

💎 crystals! whether you’re sharing a room with someone or in a room by yourself, plenty of people collect and use crystals. check for local flea markets or see if there is an occult shop in your area, there’s bound to be some there. great starter crystals are clear quartz (an essential crystal), amethyst, and rose quartz!

📚 the library! your school library will have some sort of resources. also don’t worry about people thinking you’re strange for checking out books on magick… i promise they don’t care!

🕯 candles and incense! when i lived in a dorm, i hated not being able to light candles and burn incense. invest in some battery powered candles! you can get packs at local dollar stores or walmarts. as for aroma related magick, purchase some oils and mix them with some salt water and spray them around your room! oil warmers or wax warmers are also wonderful alternatives. 

📖 a grimoire/book of shadows! i highly suggest keeping a personal book. no, you don’t have to get some elaborate leather bound book that came straight out of hocus pocus for it to be legit. you could find a sketchbook somewhere, use a three ring binder, or buy a hardback book at a thrift store and paint over the pages! your book is what you make of it. it is your own novel of personal magical experiences and knowledge, so make it your own!

🌵 plants! invest in cacti and succulents especially if you are a beginner or live in a tight space, they’re easy to manage throughout the rough mishaps and late nights of school work. cacti are great for protection and banishing negativity, where succulents bring love and healing. both plants can represent the ability to survive through conditions others cannot. if you have a balcony, take advantage!

⚗️ jars! now is a great time to collect containers from thrift stores, gather old pickle jars, and look for sales and coupons craft stores may have since most of them will have all sorts of neat jars.

🔮 an altar! if you don’t have a roommate to worry about, great! do your thing. if you do (and the don’t exactly seem cool with the whole witch thing), you can make a subtle altar of candles, crystals, and some plants or flowers. they don’t have to be elaborate. you could keep a small altar in a shoe box or draw one in your bos/grimoire! get creative!

✍️ sigils! use sigils. abuse sigils. put them everywhere. write them in binders or on your skin, write them on sticky notes or ripped paper and put them places you’ll see them or bury them outside. sleep with a protective one under your pillow. there’s so many things to do and its so easy to use them!

🎨 get creative! you can make crystals out of salt (another thing you should invest in), learn how to read playing cards if you can’t afford a tarot deck, and never forget you can find the coolest things at thrift stores. paint can be your best friend!

☕️ tea and coffee! a keurig is a wonderful investment. whether you like coffee or tea, it gives you boiling water fast without leaving a dorm. enchant your keurig and remind yourself of the properties in your drink to help you learn.

✨ decorating! take advantage of things like twinkle lights and washi tape! if you don’t know about washi tape, its a decorating tape that does not damage walls. create constellations or sigils with washi tape on your walls! amazon also sells many cheap tapestries. give yourself a comfortable and pleasant space to live and work!

⏳ plan! enchant your planners to help you remember due dates, and while you’re at it, keep track of moon phases and other events! many calendars will tell you when full moons are.

⚖️ meditate! this is something i find very important to stay sane during hard semesters. if you have a roommate, maybe meditate in the morning or late at night laying in bed. you could also meditate when they have classes. its okay if you cant every day, but its important to remember to save time for you.

🏃‍♀️ walks! if you live in a dorm there’s a big chance you’ll be walking to class. enjoy these walks with nature, read outside every now and again, but make sure that you are always safe.

⏱ take your time! you do not have to collect all of these things in a week, month, or even year. witchcraft is all about intent and energy. you hold the power, the items are only there to help. manifest your own power, collect at your own pace.

🔎research! always research properties of things. buy cheap dried herbs from grocery stores and work with them, figure out what to put in your coffee to help you with your day, and learn how to enchant crystals to help you feel a little more confident about your studies. most importantly, learn to balance your studies and your witchy research, and don’t let witchcraft get in the way of your schoolwork. school should come first always!

i hope this helped some of you college witches, new and experienced! i am always open to answer questions! happy casting!

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[arielta]

Happy Yule!!

[heximari]

Mabon Tarot Spread

🍂 Merry Mabon and Happy Divining 🔮

I’ll be using this spread with my oracle cards

[orriculum]

hey👋 you👋 grab ur 👾hoes it’s the 21st👌 of 😈sexember🗿 🍁MABON🍂😍😘 ,,so grab 🙌some apples🍎, tap 👉👌that tree🌲 sap, 🐓harvest🌽🍄🍆 that moon🌙 goddess👸pussy🍑 ✌& 🎉celebrate🍻 returning to the dark from 👏whence👏 we 👏came✔✔

[hillbillyoracle]

Happy Mabon!

Happy Mabon y’all! Strangely enough, this is probably my favorite pagan holiday out of the year. I just love the theme of balance between light and dark. So here’s a spread to investigate your light and dark sides, to understand what they give you and what they’re rooted in. Hope y’all have a great time out there this evening! 

[sylvaetria]

Magics for Finding What is Lost

Updated: August 27, 2017

For Lost Objects

[A Chant for Finding Lost Items]

[Find a Lost Item Spell]

[To Find a Lost Object]

[To Find Something Lost]

[Find What’s Lost Spell]

[Korok Lost Item Spell]

[Location Spell - Help Me Find the Thing]

[Lost Something?]

[Lost Things Spell]

[Quick Finding Spell]

[Quick Spell for Returning Something Lost]

[Spell for Finding Lost Objects]

[Spell to Locate a Lost Item]

[Spell to Return Lost Things]

[Spells to Find Lost Item]

For Lost People

[Spell to Summon One Who is Lost]

For Lost Pets / Animals

[To Call a Lost Pet]

[To Find a Cat or Other Small Pet]

[“Return Home Safe” A Spell for Lost Pets]

[Spell to Find a Lost Pet]

Sigils

[“To find something that is missing”]

[A Rune Set / Amulet Inscription / Sigil for Finding Hidden or Lost Possessions Quickly]

[A Sigil to Help Find Things]

[“What I have lost returns to me”]

[queef-asshole]

beginner witch tips✨🔮

1. clear quartz can be used in replace of any crystal

2. rosemary can be used in replace of any herb

3. a white candle can be used in replace of any candle

4. you do not need fancy tools and expensive crystals to practice magick, you and your intentions are the most important part of magick!

5. make your craft your own, there is no correct way to practice!!

6. when manifesting replace the negatives with a positive eg: instead of saying “i am not anxious” say “i am calm”

7. start small! build your grounding and visualisation skills before you start spells and rituals

8. in your BoS/grimoire make notes on spells you’ve done, their outcomes, what can be changed (if necessary)

9. if you read tarot, make lists of your readings! whether they’re accurate, you’ll see your progression the stronger your bond is with your deck

10. you dont have to be religious to practice witchcraft. witchcraft is a practice, wicca and paganism are religions that incorporate witchcraft. you can be of any religion to practice the craft too!!

11. most importantly, take your time! your craft is your own, do things at your pace. find what interests you most, whether it be astrology, crystals, divination etc there’s no correct way of witchcraft

[orriculum]

correspondence resource

ok my little witchies

imma teach you the most helpful tool for herbs and stones and shit

you got to pinecone.pub

you type in a word from the list of intents, like protection, love, whatever

boom, list of many herbs and stones and shit you can use in the spell

you can even build spells, name them and save them

go forth and bookmark that shit 

[ginger-hex]

Let’s freakin’ prep for Mabon '19

Hi my lazy lovelies ♥ Here are some tips on how to prep beforehand for Mabon celebration. Our keyword during these weeks will be  b a l a n c e , since we’re looking forward to an Equinox: 24 hours in which daylight and darkness last exactly for the same amount of hours & minutes.:)

Google says to us: September Equinox 2019 will be on Monday, September 23. Time: Europe 9:50 AM, Americas 3:50 AM, Asia 2:50 PM, Australia 5:50 PM

Can we do this? Hell yeees.

1. Cut out foods out of season + useless cosmetics: cut out foods that are too sweet, junk or out of season; limit the amount of chemicals you put on your skin, use less-to-no cosmetics, work on balancing your skin ph and keep up a good oral hygene; sleep 7h and add more rest days to your workout schedule. 2. Avoid drama and meditate: drop all the unnecessary mental stress and reach inner balance by meditating at least 15 minutes a day (you decide when and how), choose a good book to read, listen to relaxing music, smile more (put it in the effort guys, it’s hard sometimes but this really helps healing your soul).

3. Do the zombie walk: at home, raise your left arm in front of you and walk around the house like a zombie without missing a corner! This is how you spot bad energies that need to get neutralized. When your arm becomes too heavy/light/shaky and you know it’s not about muscular fatigue, that specific area is where you have to adjust the energies and vibes with a method of choice (smudging, crystals, salt, etc…).

4. Create a capsule-ish wardrobe: get rid of any bright, tropical pieces you wore during the summer. You should pick 5 tops and 5 bottoms as go-to items and wear clothes in beige, tan, mauve, pink, camel yellow, brown, black… Just think of the colors fading in nature, like drying leaves. Oh and get your boujee nude manicure: neutral colors are excellent for equinox season.

5. Start drinking tea and/or wine. Bye bye iced tea, let’s go back to the old boiling teapot. This is probably the best moment to taste good wine and freshly picked grapes! Alternatively, stick to a good cup of tea everyday. Doesn’t matter what type, as long as it makes you feel good and cozy - & don’t forget the honey. As for wines, I’d suggest a red Pinot or Merlot. If you happen to be intolerant to tannins, go for an excellent full-bodied Viognier.

6. Get your hair cut. Yes, we’re all prone to hair loss between September and October. To avoid this, go get your hair done. Trimming, cutting or getting a vibrant color back is what you need right now, be it at the salon or at home. Just don’t try new crazy hairstyles that you might sadly regret, there’s springtime ahead to test all of that shØt. Also, after all the summer madness it’s time to repair your hair with a nourishing mask. 

7. Do spellwork in even numbers only: 2, 4, 6, etc… In tarot spreads, spells, crystals and all other practices, we’ve got to keep a realistic hint of even balance to achieve maximum results and clarity. Stick to numbers and quantities that are divisible by equal parts.

8. Re-dispose, restyle or replace furniture/decor in your house/room. Focus on achieving an aesthetically pleasing solution that is chromatically coherent, balanced or symmetric, free from clutter and disturbing items all around. This step may relieve you from mental worries on how people judge your place when you invite them over. Maybe you’ve been waiting forever to buy that new sofa or procrastinating a project and everything is still a mess… Now is the moment! Make your nest look nice and then just forget about it: you’ve done a good job.

9. Research about stone magnetism so you will know what’s the charge of your crystals and will be more aware in pairing them with complementary charged items or confident in using them for different neutralizing works.

10. Plan your week and make sure you follow your agenda. If things need to be cancelled and rescheduled it’s not the end of the world, but you should get used to follow your plans during this transitional season. The more you stay organized, the more you’ll be able to maintain a balanced and stable lifestyle. Celebrating the Mabon days in harmony will be much easier this way! Hope this was helpful to you all and remember that your pretty smile can make a rainy day look like the sunniest one ever. Love, @msmoonfire  ❤

[edric-unsane]

General Etiquette for Working with the Dead

These are some of the guidelines I follow when working with the dead:

When entering a graveyard, be sure to greet and leave something for the guardian of the graveyard.

Never walk on the graves of the deceased.

Never take anything out of the graveyard without permission of the guardian or a specific grave’s resident.

Never take items people have left for their loved ones off the graves.

Only gather graveyard dirt from the perimeter of the graveyard, never from the graves themselves.

Upon leaving the graveyard, say farewell to the dead you encountered, and the guardian.

Never force the dead to work for you, if they are unwilling or unable to aid you try again later or try another spirit.

Be mindful of the dead’s beliefs in life, not all will be friendly to those who practice magic.

Give the dead the same respect and thought that you yourself would wish to be given.

Obey your local laws and ordinances regarding the dead and graveyards/burial sites.

[cozymountaincoffee]

Choose to see magic in the little things.

Shimmering light filtering through the leaves. Steam rising from a cup of coffee in the early morning light. The creak of an old windowpane. The smell of a damp forest, after a cool autumn rain.

[badlandshotel]

chronic migraine spell jar ☾

INGREDIENTS:

jar w/cork (size doesn’t matter, it’ll just affect the amount of each ingredient you use)

orange peel

lemon peel

cinnamon stick(s)

mint leaves

rosemary

tea leaves/ground tea (preferably chamomile or green)

white candle + lighter

STEPS:

layer the bottom of your jar with tea leaves or ground tea. make this layer relatively thick in comparison to your other layers.

on top of the tea, put down a thin layer of rosemary. this should just barely cover the tea.

next, add your mint leaves. i would make this layer on the thicker side as well, because mint is the strongest ingredient in this other than the tea.

next, add in your orange and lemon peels. the ratio of lemon to orange peel should be 1:1

prop your cinnamon sticks up in the jar. don’t overwork the cinnamon; only use however many sticks comfortably fit in your jar. if you do not have cinnamon sticks, you may substitute it for ground cinnamon*

seal your jar using whatever method you prefer. because i did not have a cork for my jar, i sealed it a bit differently than i normally would.

(optional) charge your jar under the moon with a piece of clear quartz.

CORRESPONDENCES:

orange peel: energy, happiness lemon peel: protection cinnamon: healing, extra power mint: migraine/headache relief, potent healing herb rosemary: strength, protection chamomile/green tea: blessings, good health, energy

* if you use ground cinnamon, you should put your cinnamon between the rosemary and mint layers. this is primarily for aesthetic reasons, but do whatever your heart desires!

disclaimer(s): witchcraft is not a substitute for a doctor. if you have chronic migraines, please see a doctor. this is meant only to aid healing.  the tea i used is a mix that also contains apple, lemon verbena, and pineapple, among other things.

[angeloracle]

Jupiter is going direct tomorrow after being retrograde since April 11th! This means being able to make better judgements, think clearly and move forward faster✨