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Why Protective Magick should be the first type of magic newbie witches should learn.
Protective magic is used to (you guessed it) protect. It’s a very pure type of magic that is easy to access and use. But why should it be the first type of magic witchlings learn?
It’s okay to mess it up
If you mess a protective spell up the worst case-scenario is that it won’t work. Other types of magic are very bad to mess up, and somehow I don’t think that a protective spell is going to make you sick for the next week.
It’s easy to use
Protective magic is pretty easy to use compared to other types of magic. It won’t take up as much energy as some spells, and it won’t fail as much.
It’s a good way to get comfy
Witchcraft can be very complicated, but this is a good way to get a hold on magic. It also can build up your magical power.
Protective magic is easy to use, okay to mess up, and a good way to get a hold a magick. Therefore it is the best type of magick that a witchling could start with.
Herbology Fridays: Collecting and Gathering Herbs
In witchcraft, you will see a ton of herbs that people will claim you will need. While for the most part, this is true, some of you may feel the need to grow these herbs yourself and collect them. This can actually make the herb more connected to you, but some of you may not feel that way and that’s perfectly okay! This lesson will be going over how to gather and collect certain types of herbs many of us witches and herbalist may find ourselves wanting to collect when we’re out and about!
Before I continue, please consult a medical professional before deciding to take any botanical drug(note: all herbs can be considered a drug as they all usually have medical purposes as well as cooking purposes). No WebMD does not count. Go to an actual doctor. Also, please check legality laws in your area about distributing if that is your goal with this part of the lesson. This lesson will also go over shipping these items for the herbalist who wishes to have a shop.
Let’s Start the Lesson!
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Each part of a plant for its herbal purposes will have a different method of gathering it. You wouldn’t collect bark in the same way you would collect roots. So, let’s go over that, shall we?
Collecting Leaves:
The weather should be clear and dry,
Should be collected when the plant is in bloom(Mature at this time)
Clip off undamaged leaves(no wilting or insect-eating holes)(this is pruning the plant and not at all important you can leave them if you want.)
Take the leaves in good condition(Not all of them only what you need.)
Wash the herbs in water
Pat them dry from the water
Spread the leaves out on a drying rack(or in a place where drying can occur
Shift the leaves ever so often to keep from clumping and accumulating dampness
When leaves are dry, store them in a sealable bag or jar to keep as fresh as you possibly can.
Collecting Flowers:
Flowers should be in full bloom
Don’t take every flower, only what you need
Wash the flowers in water
Pat dry
Place in a dry place and let dry out(You may have a better result if you hang them upside down)
When dry, clip off extra stems(if any) and store inside a sealable bag or container.
Collecting Bulbs
When the leaves start to wilt and die is when bulbs should be collected.
When brought from the ground, the outer layer should be removed
Wash the bulb and pat dry.
You can use artificial heat(nothing over 100 degrees) or let dry naturally which could take longer.
Collecting Bark:
Collect in fall or spring
Scrape off or peel off the bark(as a witch, id be apologizing constantly and if you’re the type, leave an offering ;^;)
Wash the bark off in water
Pat dry
Let dry in sunlight
Collecting Roots
The one thing that wasn’t in my book was how to collect roots, so here’s a quick little guide.
Collect when the plant dies(Aka will not come back to life)
Separate the thinnest roots from the thickest
Use the thin roots as a fertilizer for other plants
Take the thicker roots and wash them
Pat dry with a towel
Let dry out in the sunlight
Collecting Seeds:
Seeds should be gathered when the plant produces them and they are ripe
Bigger seeds should be dried out
Smaller seeds should be used to make more plants if needed
Dry out in the sunlight
Shipping and Selling Botanicals
Shipments should be made with an order, never before(even if you know they will need it, do not do this because you do not know the quantity they need until you get their order).
Make sure all products are dried out and dry before shipping for they could mold and you’ll get an angry customer
"The House of the Vampires” by Alfred Kubin, 1935
Chronically ill witchcraft: For your symptoms
Since it’s super hard to find them when you need them! Anyone is welcome to use these, but I don’t want to see “this is great for people who DON’T have chronic illnesses too” (trust us, we know). Obviously not meant to replace medication!!
Back + neck issues:
“Ease my neck pain” sigil
“Ease my lower back and hip pain” sigil
“My back is relaxed and free of pain” sigil
“I am free of back pain” sigil
Brainfog:
Brainfog lifting
Brainfog relief spell
Memory masterpost Memory and concentration spell
“Brainfog begone” sigil
Fatigue:
Spell for energy
Energy gain spell
Energy jar
Energy bath
Crystals for fatigue
“No fatigue” sigil
“Energy” sigil
“I am energetic” sigil
“I have the energy to take a shower” sigil
Headaches:
Headache soothing tea spell
Headache healing
To banish a headache
Tea for cluster headaches
Curing a headache
“Ease my morning headaches” sigil
“Headache” sigil
“Against headaches” sigil
“My headache goes away” sigil
Immune system:
Masterpost of sigils to boost your immune system
Joint pain:
Joint pain spell
“Ease my joint pain” sigil
“My arthritis is manageable” sigil
“My joints are stable” sigil
Migraine:
Anti-migraine spell
A spell for migraines
Anti-migraine spell bottle
Migraine relief bath
Migraine magic (herbs and crystals)
Witch tip for migraines
“Ease my migraine” sigil
Muscle pain + spasms:
Crystals for rheumatic and muscular pain
Muscle pain sachet
“Ease my jaw tension” sigil/s
“My muscles are relaxed” sigil
Pain (general):
Chant to ease the pain
Chant for bad pain days
Simple ease the pain spell
Chronic pain relief spell
Release my pain to the wind spell
Bath spell to ease chronic pain
Change the pain spell jar
“I find moments of peace from my pain” sigil
“The pain is gone” sigil
“Relieve chronic pain” sigil
Sleep problems:
Sleep crystal spell
Spell to help you sleep when you’re in pain
Sleep easy spell sachet
Sleepy witch tip
Sleep aid art
“My chronic pain doesn’t affect my sleep” sigil
Stomach issues:
Soothing tummy tea
Anti-nausea bath
“Anti-nausea” sigil
“Find your way out” (constipation) sigil
“My digestive issues are eased” sigil
“I overcome stomach pains” sigil
If anyone knows of additional witchy content for any of these that I missed, or content on a category I wasn’t able to include, feel free to send it my way and I’ll get a part two started for this post!
Energy parasites: Leeches
Energy parasites are nasty little beings that infest anywhere a lot of energy passes through. This could be the places you practice your craft, do energy work, magic, anywhere lots of people pass through, and even inside your energy body.
There are many different verities of energy parasites that work differently. The shared qualities among all energy parasites I’ve encountered is that they are excellent at energy work, they breed through asexual reproduction, and they all sustained by feeding on other being’s energies.
Energy Leeches:
I’ve encountered more energy leeches than any other type of parasite. They are everywhere constantly feeding on the energy we exude as we move through our daily lives. Most leeches are very small and stick to high traffic areas like subways, busy streets, and packed buildings.
If you practice any type of magick or psychic arts you are likely to attract energy leeches to where ever you are working/practicing. These types of activities create a lot of energy for a leech to feed on, and if it can get enough energy it will grow and become a larger issue.
I use to do all my rituals, spells, and energy work practice in my room so this lead to my space having a lot of built energy that i was lazy about clearing out. After about a month I noticed things were becoming much less effective and the energy in my space was very slow. It was then when I went out of body and noticed a giant energy leech on the wall of my room. It started out a tiny little thing, but since I kept filling my room with energy it grew until it needed to suck it struck from my workings to be satisfied.
You don’t want to get a leech get that big in your space. It took far to long to get rid of and I had to wait until the sucker was gone before I could keep or do anything high-energy in my room.
If you go out of body, specifically on the astral and other places from there, you are likely to eventually bring home an energy leech with you. It’ll likely be a tiny one who lodges their way into your energy body and hides tightly between the energy pathways/veins or right on an energy center. If you are lucky it’ll be so hungry you feel it start to suck up your energy.
More often though, they like to stay dormant and only take what they need until your energy body is weakened for some other reason. They see this weakened state as a cover for them to go to town on your energy systems. So as you’re dealing with the issue that is causing you to be in a weakened state (suck as being sick, clogs/blockages in your energy body, ect) they are sucking you dry so you have a harder time healing and don’t know they are there.
Energy leeches are not just a problem for anyone working with foreign energies. I’ve known people who are extremely mundane who have had big leeches inside them feeding for what must have been a while. She likely passed on a few baby leeches onto others given the size of the one inside her energy body.
Noticing energy leeches:
Skilled spirit workers and healers are likely able to help identity is an energy parasite like a leech is part of your problem, but if you are sensitive to energies it’s something you can learn to do too. You need know how your energy body works in it’s natural resting state and what that feels like before you can try looking for leeches in your system. This will take some time, but it’s a very important thing to know for any energy worker/witch/spirit worker. When you know what your energy body’s resting state is like you can go through your body bit by bit checking your energy centers and pathways for any abnormalities, in this case specifically for leeches latching on and draining energy.
It will often look like a serpent-like creature with no eyes. If it’s from our plane/world it will often have a small mouth with teeth, but leeches from other planes that you pick up while astral traveling more commonly have an energy center they drain you from rather than a mouth (though this will depend on where you are traveling too.
Their energy is very tight and dense. Their energy alignment will depend heavily on where they are from, but leeches from this plane tend to be aligned to elemental energies, most common being earth. Energy leeches most often have 3 dominant energies in their system, the only shared energy I’ve noticed between all leeches is void energy. I suspect this is is what makes them very good at taking in and neutralizing most energies into their system. Since void energy in my experience moving through void energy can act like a going through corrosive filter for non-void energies.
Their energy bodies are almost entirely made of energy pathways with a few (1-3) energy centers. Larger leeches might grow more centers to have a larger surface area for absorption. For having such simple systems they are extremely skilled at energy work. They are experts at camouflaging themselves and changing the flow of energy. This makes them very good at making them selves almost invisible if you don’t know what you’re looking for. They can make a blockage form in your system on the other side of your body they are residing in and drain the pooling energy from that side by shifting the flow of your pathways to draw it in. So if you keep fixing problems in your system and more keep coming, you might have an energy leech.
Removing energy leeches:
A single energy leech can do a lot of damage to a person’s system. It’s best to remove the leech from your body before you work on the damage it causes. There are dozens of ways to deal with energy parasites, but I’m just going to cover a few methods of removing them through energy work/healing.
Reiki is a great tool for removing energy parasites. It floods your system with healing/life energy, making your energy body a very hostile environment for low-vibration energies and beings. The only draw back is that reiki is a very passive healing method so it will often take a lot of time to flush out a leech if it had grown a lot.
Any type of high-vibrational healing is good for getting rid of small leeches. Crystal that have been charged are excellent for this. If you have a leech in your room a tight crystal grid can do the job. You just want to make sure the grid doesn’t give off too much excess energy because the leech will just snack on it. I would recommend using clear quartz, rose quart, citrine, and fluorite. Smoking cleansing and singing bowls are also good methods of removing energy leeches from a psychical space.
Asking the spirits you work with (if you work with any) is a good idea too. Most spirits skilled in energy work can see parasites in your systems right away and know just how to remove them. Do not trust unfamiliar spirits with such a task, that is how you end up getting energy parasites.
If the leech(s) inside you aren’t too big you might be able to just starve it out. This would mean you would have to go inside your energy body and cut off energy flow to it in the hopes it shrinks down to making removing it easier. This only works if it’s on an energy pathway and you know how to cut off that pathways flow and how to pull the leech out.
The most effective way to remove an energy leech from your energy body is to dig right into your energy body and rip it out. This can be a very unpleasant experience, I would not recommend doing it yourself unless you have advanced knowledge of the way energy systems in the body works. I’m going to shake one of my methods of step by step removal for those who want to learn how.
AstralCatalyst’s energy leech removal method:
To start you need to figure out where exactly the leech is in the individuals energy body. Do a scan of the whole body for any abnormalities or damages. Go through each system until you find the leech.
If it’s on an energy pathway:
If the leech is on a pathway you will need to temporally cut off energy to where the leech is by rerouting the energy on the pathway to others. Do this by taking another energy vein and making a small bridge between them by pushing the energy from the leech vein to the health vein. You will notice that eventually it will take less work to move the energy from one pathway to the other, this is when you can stop.
The leech will soon no longer have any energy coming down the vein for it to feed on. Move your hands down to where the leech is in the person’s body and start pushing some high-vibrational energy between the leech and the vein. DO NOT PUSH ENERGY DOWN THE VEIN. PUSH IT BETWEEN THE VEIN AND THE LEECH. This energy passing by will draw the leech’s attention off the vein since it’s no longer receiving energy from it and hopefully loosen the leech’s grasp on the vein.
Now carefully grab a hold of the leech in a manner that keeps your hands away from it’s energy centers and pull it off the pathway. It might hold on very tightly so pull had hard as you need too. The removal process might cause a tightening, tense, or pulling sensation in the individual being worked on.
Repeat until all leeches are out of your system.
Then work on healing and fixing the flow of the energy in your body. This can be a lengthy process of redirecting energy and fixing any tears, blockages, and overworked pathways. If you removed the leeches without cutting off energy flow to it you are likely to be hemorrhaging energy, and the tears in your system will be harder to patch up and heal.
If it’s on an energy center:
If a leech has warped it’s self around one of your bodies energy centers removing it becomes a much harder process on the body. This means the leach has be depriving your system of energy it needs so you don’t have a healthy system to properly fight it. You will need to redirect all the energy in tour body around this center. Which means changing entire way your energy centers flow temporarily and cutting this center off from all of the others in your body.
Once you have the leech affected center isolated watch what the leech does. Sometimes, completely isolating the center is enough to drive a leech to just let go since it’s so use to being constantly fed by the energy center. If it doesn’t let go you need to be extra careful about removing it from the energy center. Any damage to an energy center damaged the way your body takes in energy, and it is often permanent due to how slowly energy centers heal.
If the leech does not let go on it’s own you will need to flood the leech opposing energies to it’s natural energy alignment. This means you will need to have scanned the leeches system before hand or you have to do it now. If the leech is well warded/protected using healing/high-vibrational/reiki/life energy is a safe bet for weakening it since energy leeches seem to be somewhat void aligned. Some leeches have very little void energy to them though, so life/healing energy is not necessarily always going to work every time. Drown the leech in opposing energies to it’s natural energy alignment until it lets go. Sometimes, with larger leeches you might have to do the do this several times overall a few sessions until it shrinks down small enough to pluck off or until it falls off.
When the leech has fallen off you can grab it carefully to avoid touch it’s energy centers and pull it out of the individual’s body. If the leech just won’t let go of the center after 2-3 sessions, go through this processes again isolating and drowning it until it’s lose and then pull it off the energy center. Make sure to tend to any damage to the center right away with energy that matches it’s function.
Once you have removed the leeches or have finished this session fix the flow of energy in their body and tend to any damages caused by the leech. In this case you will likely need to give the body back the energy the leech has been taking from it. Send a strong current of energy through the whole system letting it get it’s fill so it can heal. If you are finishing a session without removing a leech, connect the paths in a manner that gives that energy center enough energy to remain functional while depriving the leech of the ability to drain from other energy centers. Meaning, hook paths up to the center but do not have any pathways moving directly between the healthy centers and the leech affected one(s).
Once all the leeches have been removed from the host body, the best way to dispose of them is to feed them to some larger entity/spirit. If this isn’t an option release it outside your space. You can also save leeches to be used in spells, curses/baneful magick, and in energy work.
Cutting energy cords
Energy cords are things that tie us to other people, spirits, and things in our life. They form for many reason and in different ways, but this post is about removing them so you can remove unwanted people from your life. Cords can be removed in a bunch of different ways. Just removing someone from your life weakens or removes some cords, but this post is about speeding up the removal process through energy work. (this is all from my experience with energy work and cord cutting, you might see or experience the process differently.) -Mod J
First thing you need to do is identify the person you are cutting ties with, and all the ties you might have to them. For example, I had a EX who left my life years ago and i did a cord cutting for our relationship, but i didn’t notice at the time that there were more cords connect me to them because they were more then just a person i dated. They meant a lot to me in different ways like how they were the only person i could talk to about certain things and we had built different aspects to our relationship outside of romantic ties that i ignored because on an unconscious level i didn’t want to give up that significance they had to me. This can take time to really figure out all the different roles a single person could have played in your life so don’t rush the process.
Once you know the different aspects to your relationship to this individual it’s time to go to work and start finding and removing them. I begin by doing the basic like grounding and centering myself and then start meditating until i reach a trance-like state.
Once in a deep meditative state you need to go out of body or visualize this person standing across from you. If you go out of body “find” the person you’re looking for and get a real feel for there energy at this moment. If you are visualizing them standing across from you pick an environment around you that makes you feel comfortable and in control and visualize that place. You need to really be able to create the feel of that person in your mind. This can be done by bringing up memories and/or by using things that belonged to them that you still have. It need’s to be an honest portrayal of that person, including the good and the bad.
Once you can feel and see that person in front of you start locating and/or visualizing these cords. You might notice there are more then one cord for each connection to this person you are cutting, this just means the bond between you and them was built up over time.
now the removal process begins. depending on the cord you are removing it might be better to cut them, or relocate them to other people in your life so you don’t leave an energy hole to be filled. When removing a cord you need to cut BOTH ENDS. This is very important. If you only cut your end or their end it will leave the cord just hanging there for someone or something else to latch onto to or it can just reattach to the person you just removed it from. You can remove these cord by pulling them out of your body and their body with your bare hands. This can be good when you have some pent up aggression for this person to really feel it being removed your you and their chest with your own (energy) hands. You can imagine/use anyway you want to remove or cut them, just make sure you do it from both sides of the cord and then obliterate it. I like to make them dissolve.
If you are relocating a cord from one person to another start the process again from the beginning with this new person, but you wont need to figure out all the aspect of your relationship to this person. take some time to really consider things before you implant one cord into another person. Just because you feel a certain way about someone doesn’t mean that want that same type of bond. It’s always a good thing to ask the other person before doing this. If you have a thought cord like this strong sense of love or trust that cutting will only cause a lot more pain reattach the cord to someone who you ALREADY have a similar connection to. Take the end out from the person you are removing this connection too and implant it into this other person. Watch it take root inside them and feel it change inside you to fit this new person.
The most important thing you need to do now to end this processes is to do some healing on yourself, and hopefully the other person too. Even tho you might not like them, leaving someone energy holes that didn’t occur on their own before you messed with things isn’t cool. So fill these tiny hole with healing energy of some kind. use any method you want. It might also be good to have someone you trust do some healing for you and them too, to really fill in some of the energy damages that might have occurred.
Come out of your meditation and return to normal activities. it might be good to take it slow and do some more grounding and centering because you might have just altered some important connections you relayed on more heavily then you through. take it slow for a day or too and practice some self care because cutting cords can be some heavy emotional stuff.
Energy work candle technique:
This is a basic energy work practice technique i developed to help familiarize yourself with the way certain emotions and feelings look when doing energy work/out of body work. -J
Start by getting in a comfortable position to meditate in. Relax and do what ever you do to reach a meditative/trance state so you can go out of body and/or visualize a white candle burning in front of you. There should be nothing else around you almost like you’re in a void. I call this place my astral void space.
Really “see” and feel every part of this candle from the warmth it’s giving off to the way the wax feels. Hold it in your hands, or watch it in front of you. Do anything with the candle that will give you a good feel for its resting energy/base energy.
Then inside yourself bring up a strong emotion you can easily conjure up. feel it rise inside you and let the emotion and all the feelings it brings wash over you. Then project the energy/feeling from the emotion onto the candle to notice how it changes. Feel the way the warmth from the flame, the color of the light, the color of the wax change in front of your from your emotions.
Repeat step 3 with different emotions and sensations to see the way it changes the candle in your mind’s eye. Go back and forth between emotions and feelings to see if there is consistency in the way you see/perceive different energies.
For example:
The way my candle changes for feelings of being sad is the candle turns to a navy blue in color and the energy it gives off looks like a thin web of color. the candle light gives off a light blue glow and is very dim.
A happy excited energy is a mellow yellow color with a large flickering flame. The candle wax looks translucent letting the light from the flame pass through it.
This is a cool technique Ive learned to help me “see” energies better. especially when comes to seeing auras.
Resources for Storm and Weather Magic
Updated: March 30th 2016
GENERAL INFORMATION
[Collecting Storm Water] (an ask)
[Combining Storm Craft and Knot Craft] (an ask)
[Creating or Moving Weather] (an ask)
[Drawing Energy From Storms] (an ask)
[An Intro to Weather Magic]
[A Little Weather Witchery]
[Magic for a Snow Storm]
[Resources: Rain Water]
[Resources: Storm Water]
[Snow Magic]
[Storm Catching - Cyclone Stopper]
[Storm Craft Basics]
[Storm Crystals : Banded Amethyst | Chrysocolla in Quartz | Snowflake Obsidian]
[Storm Scrying]
[Storm Water]
[Storm Water vs Rain Water] (an ask)
[Stormcraft]
[Summoning Wind Without Whistling] (an ask)
[Tentative Steps: Beginning Storm Witchery]
[Tips for Starting Storm Craft]
[Tools of a Storm/Weather Witch] (an ask)
[Traditional Storm Raising Methods]
[Weather]
[Weather Magic] (tw: gif)
[Weather Magic for the Sailor]
[Weather Magic - Storm Casting]
[Weather Station Symbols for Sigils]
[Weather Symbols for Sigils]
[Whistling Up a Wind]
SPELLS AND SIGILS
(Note: spells that involve storm water are included)
[Air Lock Spell] (to help drive away bad weather)
[To Bring a Storm]
[Calm After the Storm Elixir]
[Charm to Seal Up a Storm]
[A Chant to Bring in a Storm and Strengthen Witches’ Power]
[Chant to Make It Windy] (tw: gif)
[“Clouds produce rain”] (tw: sigil)
[Cold Weather Box]
[A Colorful Sunny Day Spell]
[Cottage Crafts: Elemental Magic Storm Ward] (a home protection charm that draws its power from the energy of passing storm systems)
[Drought Spell] (to work with the element of air to bring a storm / fix a drought) (tw: sigil)
[Electric Charge Spell] (to increase one’s energy, motivation, and focus) (tw: gif)
[Forget Me Spell]
[Glamour Jar for Intimidating Looks]
[“Grey Cloud” Curse]
[Heavy Rain Spell]
[Holiday Ornament Snow Spell]
[Hurricane Curse]
[“I direct rain towards the places that need it”] (tw: sigil)
[“I influence the weather around me with ease”] (tw: sigil)
[To Lessen a Storm]
[Let It Snow]
[A let it snow sigil] (tw: sigil)
[Let’s Try a Spell: When It Rains] (for a better perspective)
[A Light in the Storm] (to aid in the healing of seasonal depression)
[Protection From Storm]
[“Protection from storms”] (tw: sigil)
[Protective Storm Ward]
[Rain-Banishing Spell]
[Rain-Calling Chant]
[Rain Spell / Storm Spell / Sigils for Rain / Sigils for Thunder / Sigils for Lightning] (tw: sigil)
[Rain Summoning Spell]
[Rainy Day Anxiety Spell]
[Rainy Day Spell to Clear Negative Energy]
[To Raise a Storm] (tw: gif)
[Sea Witch Rain Spell]
[Sigil for Bringing Clouds / Rain] (tw: sigil)
[Snow Spell] (tw: gif)
[Snow-Summoning Sigils] (tw: sigil)
[A Song of Storms]
[“Song of Storms” Enchantment] (for whistling up rain/storms) (tw: gif)
[Spell for Sunshine]
[Spell to Attract Rain]
[A Spell to Ward Off Rain] (tw: sigil)
[Spells for Weather]
[Spells to End a Storm]
[“Stop Rain” Sigil] (tw: sigil)
[Storm-Calling Spell]
[A Storm Chant]
[Storm of Tears and Nightmares Curse]
[Storm Spell] (to summon a storm)
[Storm Witch’s Transformation Spell]
[Summon a Storm]
[Summon a Storm Spell]
[Summoning rain and storms sigil] (tw: sigil)
[“Sun to cloud, cloud to rain, rain freezes and turns to snow”] (tw: sigil)
[Sunshine Spell]
[Teru Teru Bouzu] (a sunny day spell)
[Thunder Cake] (to help connect with the storm’s energy; to honor the storm; to ask for protection)
[Thunderstorm in a Jar]
[Untie the Wind] (to increase and decrease wind)
[Ward Water]
[Warm Weather Chant]
[The weather is cool and pleasant] (tw: sigil)
[“The weather is in favor of snow”] (tw: sigil)
[Wind Spell for Inspiration & Creativity]
[Winter (Snow) Spell for Anxiety]
STORM / WEATHER MAGIC BLOGS
[rainy-day-witchcraft]
[stormbornwitch]
[stormsorceress]
[stormwaterwitch]
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Water Scrying
Water scrying is the art and practice of gazing into water to see the future or receive a vision. Water scrying is a great way for clairvoyants to develop their skills, but can also be done by anyone. -Mod J
To start, you are going to need a bowl or something that holds water. Preferably the bowl or water holding object should be a solid color inside so you don’t get distracted by patterns. Black, white, or a metal bowl are ideal because these are colors that are easy to gaze at for extended periods but any solid color should work.
Fill the bowl with water
Now set up your space. It helps to turn off the lights and have a candle or a few around the bowl giving some light but not close enough that you see the reflection in the water.
Now this is the hardest part, gaze into the water in the bowl and let your eye lose focus. Your vision might get a little blurry but try to fight the urge to look around and refocus your vision. After a while of doing this you might be able to correct the blurriness without losing focus on the water. Around this point when your gaze softens some kind of vision should appear in the water. It’s important to understand that what you see might be a real depiction of what your scrying for/about but it’s more common for you see symbolic images instead. Learning to translate these symbols takes some time and practice so keep working at it. Another thing to note is that you might feel like your mind is just making you see things in the water that isn’t there, and i guess on some level that is correct. The water it’s self isn’t what’s producing the vision, you are receiving because you asked to, and are using the water and bowl as tools to help perceive it.
Here are ways to help enhance your water scrying that i know of:
You can charge your bowl over night with tea made from certain herbs. I like to steep some mugwort and lavender in my bowl to charge it while i sleep and empty it in the morning.
You can a few drops of essential oils to your bowl while scrying, or before to help charge the bowl and water’s energy. The oily surface can also help keep you from getting distracted and gives your eyes something to focus on.
Another way to prevent distraction is to put a small crystal at the bottom of the bowl around the center. It gives you a fixed point to look at, but I’ve noticed for me that is often cut off some of the vision and everything will move around the crystal rather then appearing in the whole bowl.
Using your bowl for offerings. I find this helps charge and enhance my scrying bowl’s energy by putting offering in it when i work with other spirits and deities.
Sometimes it can also help to instead of building up the energy in the bowl do a cleansing and put some salt water in the bowl to soak.
You can also use moon water, sun water, or any magically enhanced water that might be specific to the type of reading you are doing. I find moon water is always good for all water scrying.
If you try water scrying and find it doesn’t work for you that’s alright. It’s not for everyone, and even those who do it regularly have off days where they can’t get anything to come through. So give it a few tries before you decide if it’s something for you. Good luck with your scrying! -Mod J
Keeping Yourself Protected
Ways to provide protection from spiritual and physical beings:
Make a witches bottle: They provide you with protection against curses, hexes, and spells sent your way as well as to protect your property and possessions.
Salt circle: A salt circle provides the person inside with protection from negative entities and demons. Line your window sills and door way entrances with salt to create an impenetrable barrier.
Iron: Repels evil.Three iron nails driven into a doorway or window sill will block negativity from entering your home. Note: Iron repels Fae!
Plants: Some plants have protective properties.
Ask your deity for protection
Mint leaves in your shoes protects you from curses
Put pepper in protection sachets to protect against magickal attacks.
Burn bay leaves to reverse curses
Scrawl your home and clothes with protective sigils
Quartz Crystals: Provides protection.
Visualization
Paint your front porch blue to ward off ghosts:They fear water so this may confuse them.
Hang an upside down horse shoe above your door: to ward off evil spirits.
Hang wind chimes around your home: To scare off bad spirits
Nazar or evil eye: Protects your home from bad luck.
Rowan: Two branches from rowan trees bound together with red thread in the shape of a cross. It provides protection when hung above doorways, according to celtic traditions.
Arrowheads: Placed above your door will help keep burglars and unwanted guests out.
Cinnamon Sticks: Tied over the door will protect your home.
Rosemary wreath: A wreath of rosemary bound with green thread can provide your home with protection. Add other plants that correspond with protection as well.
Ivy: Grown up your house provides protection,
Mistletoe: Hung in the house protects it from thunder and lightning.
Acorn: According to Norse mythology, placing an acorn on the window sill protects the home from being struck by lightning.
Pine branch: Where it for protection.
Create your own protection amulet
Place mirrors around your home to deflect the evil eye
Sources: Charissascaulderon.com, scribol.com
Stay safe and have a Happy New Year!
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How I make spellcandles
I was making a spell candle for the Imbolc ritual I’m hosting for the coven tomorrow and figured: why not turn it into a little tutorial? So here is my version of the spell candles!
What you need: (note: I made a candle for creativity and inspiration, so everything matches that goal. Change herbs, colours and stones to match any goal you want/need!)
🕯 a base candle, either white or a colour that works for your goal
🕯 through-and-though coloured candles for dripping in colours that match your goal. I usually use two or three, in this case yellow for happiness and inspiration and orange for creativity
🕯 herbs, I used basil (creativity), rose (passion/motivation), mistletoe (fertility for ideas) and mugwort (creativity)
🕯 small stone chips, I used aventurine, citrine and burnt amethyst (all for creativity)
🕯 oils, I used jasmine (creativity)
🕯 ribbon and charm (optional, but pretty!)
🕯 baking paper to protect your work surface
Start with carving some words or symbols into the candle. Today I used a bindrune for creativity, the runes kenaz (inner fire), wunjo (happiness) and gebo (gift).
Now drip the first colour. Make sure to first go around the edges for the pretty drips and then fill in the top.
Next are the herbs, stones and oil. Simply sprinkle them on top and arrange the bigger pieces so they are spread out a bit. Press the stones gently down into the still soft wax for sturdyness.
Drip the last colour, making sure to set but not drown the herbs, and tadaa! One pretty spellcandle! But wait, there’s more!
Tie the ribbon around the candle with one knot.
Slide on your charm and knot again, fitting it snuggly against the candle.
Make a pretty bow and trim the ends,and you’re done!
Burn it during your spell (note: remove the ribbon before it catches and reuse it!), place it on your altar or even make them to give away as gifts!
Also, feel free to tag me if you make one with the tutorial, I’d love to see them! 🌙
Candle color meanings
The burning of candles for spiritual purposes is a practice that dates back to ancient times. For as long as there have been candles, there were people who believed that a lit candle can connect the physical world with the spiritual realm. To these people, fire and flame are representations of the spark of creation. To light a candle is to illuminate the self.
Individuals accepting these beliefs use the burning light of candles to unfold their divine potential. What follows is an examination of these beliefs and the meaning behind illuminated candles combined with prayer and meditation. This examination will of course include a look into the significance and meaning of candle colors.
White Candles
The white candle represents the highest level of consciousness. Burning a white candle in conjointment with a meditative state is to seek protection, healing and purification. White represents truth, unity, harmony, and wholeness of spirit. The user who burns a white candle is invoking lunar energy. Since all colors are derived from pure white light, a white candle can be used as replacement for any other candle in many rituals.
Red Candles
The color red is firmly rooted in the physical world. The burning of red candles is said to put one in touch with the power of the flesh. Red represents temporal pleasures. It symbolizes passion and love as well as scorn and courage to stand up to one’s enemies. Red stimulates energy, vitality, fertility and personal power. Those who light a red candle are tapping into Scorpio energy. They seek love, respect, power magnetism and survival.
Yellow Candles
The color yellow exemplifies brainpower and intellect. He or she who lights a yellow candle is seeking to access the wisdom of the ages, and garner control over the full benefit of their own mental powers. Yellow embodies creativity, inspiration, concentration, logic, learning and action. The light of a yellow candle brings one closer to attaining the cheerfulness, endurance, stability and security they crave.
Blue Candles
Made from a primary spiritual color, blue candles are used in the examination of emotions (Saturn energy) and the attainment of calming wisdom and healing sleep. There are many shades of blue. Burning a dark blue candle promotes joy and laughter. Dark blue influences dreams and emotions. Royal blue signifies loyalty and fealty. Royal blue stirs the spiritual self and this color of candle is invoked by seekers of truth. Light blue is another very spiritual color. Light blue candles radiate Aquarian energy (calm waters) and are ideal for pursuing inspirational meditations. Those who light a blue candle are seeking truth, harmony and guidance while amplifying their creativity and perception.
Green Candles
Green is the color of success and abundance. This meaning can be traced back through the ages to when prosperity meant a bountiful harvest. Light a green candle when you want to mediate and reflect on nature, growth, healing and the good luck that makes finding employment or business success possible.
Black Candles
The burning of a black candle is serious business. This is done when one wants to neutralize negative energies. The color black offers protection from illness, evil and the negative energy cast upon you from outside forces. The black candle is also burned to harness the healing energy of the universe.
Pink Candles
The color pink manifests love, devotion, friendship and faith. Putting a flame to a pink candle means that the devotee is interested in forming a partnership or is possibly seeking affection or perhaps emotional healing. The color of universal love, pink represents the purest form of love – unconditional and enduring. Pink candles are used in rituals to attract attention or achieve some other joyful purpose.
Orange Candles
The great portrait artists of the Middle Ages understood well the power of orange. Orange is the color of sudden change. It confers upon those who dare to wear it, a form of super-power. Few people today (including royalty) possess the boldness required to put on orange garments. To this end, the act of burning an orange candle is an aggressive move. One would do so to effect instant and profound change. The lighting of orange candles is suitable for rituals occurring on the eve of weddings or important business meetings.
Purple Candles
Students of esoterism believe that purple candles have the power to cancel out the negative effects of bad karma. Ancient wisdom holds that the color purple is associated with the third eye. Burning a purple candle can enhance psychic powers. The color has a meaning steeped in meditation, divination and hidden knowledge. Those who burn purple candles do so to expand upon what they already have. They may also wish to obtain spiritual protection, find recognition, or seek reconciliation with something that exists in the realm of the spirits.
Brown Candles
Brown is the color of our Earth. This color represents above all things balance and a firm connection to the land. The individual who supplicates in the presence of a burning brown candle is sending a message to the universe that they respect the dignity and solemnity of mother Earth (they are well-grounded), and that they acknowledge the delicate balance of all things living on this Earth. Brown candles are used in rituals to regain balance, seek refuge from chaos, eliminate indecisiveness, find lost items and develop meaningful friendships.
Gray Candles
Gray is a neutral color. It is useful to the practitioner when meditating on complex issues. The gray candle has the power to offset negative influences without repercussions. The gray candle is used in the same manner that charcoal is used to flush poisons from the body.
Gold Candles
The gold candle is burned by the votary to achieve enlightenment. This is because the color gold emblemizes light in its purest form. Gold is the very symbol of good fortune. It represents money, success, protection and victory over our troubles. The burning of a gold candle enhances communication with the universe as it attracts positive cosmic influences. Gold candles are recommended for use in rituals undertaken to gain personal power or fortune.
Highly spiritual believers hold that a candle flame can create a passageway that will enable prayers and petitions to be more easily received by such powers from which help is being sought. For these supporters of the faith, the deep meaning of candle color is what enables them to focus and meditate on their goals, objectives, problems and their ultimate solutions.
From infusions and tinctures to oils and salves: The basics of herbal healing and the beginnings of any potion.
Decoction: A decoction is needed to extract the deeper essence from harder substances such as barks, roots and stems. Place the raw materials in a pot and fill it with fresh water. Simmer uncovered until the water lever is reduced by 1/3. Strain the resulting liquid to remove particulates then drink or use as needed. Infusion: Pour freshly boiled water over the desired herb or planar matter, roughly 8 ounces of water per teaspoon of dried plant parts. When using fresh herbs roughly 3 times as much is required.
Oil: Place flowers, herbs or other plant parts in a sealed glass container. Fill the container with an organic oil (ex: Olive, sesame, etc…) until it is an inch above the material being used. Place the bottle somewhere warm for 2 weeks, next to a stove while cooking, on the mantle, a sunny window sill, etc. Upend the container daily to ensure the oil saturates the material.
Ointment: Heat 2 cups of pure lard to frying temperature. Add 4 handfuls of crumbled dry herbs or 6 handfuls of chopped fresh herb to the lard. Stir to to blend and let simmer for 1 minute. Remove from heat, cover and let sit over night. Reheat until liquid then mix in 4 tablespoons of an organic oil, this will prevent it hardening to much. Squeeze through a cheese clothe to remove solids and store in a crockery or glass container.
Salve: Mix 3 ounces of finely pulped plant parts, 7 ounces of lard and 1 ounce of beeswax. When thoroughly mixed simmer over low heat in active red pot for 1-2 hours. Remove from eat and allow to cool.
Tincture: A tincture uses alcohol to extract the properties of a herb or plant. Loosely fill a glass container with fresh or dried herbs and add some sort of food grade spirit (ex: vodka), vinegar can also be used for certain ingredients. Cork or otherwise seal the container and leave somewhere warm for 2 or more weeks.
*Information from “Healing Teas - How to prepare and use read to maximize your health” by Marie Nadine Antol.
**images from google.
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Food offerings to leave on your altar that won’t immediately rot
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I feel like I’ve not seen a post with a list like this so I wanted to share ideas from my own experience!
I love to offer up food to the Gods. Unfortunately, I cannot burn anything, and I can’t leave most perishable items on my altar because either my cat will get to it or it’ll attract bugs as soon as it starts to spoil.
I’ve come up with some non traditional food offerings to give that I find really successful. I leave new offerings every Noumenia, and none start to rot within that time. Hopefully this list can be helpful to others!
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┃ Prepackaged foods:
When you want to remove these from your altar, I recommend either reverently disposing them, consuming/cooking with them in the honor of a specific deity(s), or leaving them until their expiration date and then disposing of them.
Individually wrapped chocolates squares, pieces of candy, etc.
Bagged fruit snacks
Bottles of olive oil
Jars of jam/jelly/preserves
Tea bags
Sandwich crackers
Packets of fruit/veggies seeds
Canned or bottled drinks
Small bags of chips, crackers, etc.
Granola bars
Canned veggies
Shelf-stable oat milk
Baked cheese bites
Veggie straws
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┃ Loose foods
I like to fill little organza bags and glass jars with these kinds of items, but you can also just put them in an offering bowl loose if pets or kiddos aren’t a concern. You can either bury or reverently dispose of these when you’re ready to remove them from your altar.
Rice
Herbs
Sunflower seeds
Freeze-dried fruits
Nuts/trail mix
Popcorn kernels
Uncooked pasta
Ornamental corn
Oats
Pine nuts
Uncooked quinoa
Lentils
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Even if what you offer seems a little silly or informal, remember that we live in the 21st century, and the Gods appreciate 21st century offerings. Give what you can; and if you can’t give anything, the Gods understand. They love you anyways <3
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