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[primevalenergy]

Witchy Candle Tutorial

Hey guys! With the Winter Solstice coming up, I’ve been making candles as gifts for my family and friends. I took pictures of my process in case it might be useful to anyone.  What you will need: -potholders/oven mitts to protect your hands -newspaper -wax -wicks and wick holders -cardboard rolls  -dye (optional) -fragrance (optional) -toothpicks/chopsticks/cottonswabs

I’ve made both jar candles (pictured left) and pillar candles (pictured right) but this tutorial is only for pillar candles. The candle I’m making in this tutorial is for someone that has anxiety so the herbs I’m adding are lavender and rose petals for soothing qualities and self love. 

FIRST! Make sure that your working area is covered entirely in newspaper. Wax can come off of most hard surfaces but its a lot easier to clean up if you use newspaper because this is can get very MESSY. Next, take cardboard tubes (mine were from toilet paper rolls) and hot glue them to a flat cardboard surface. MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO GAPS in between the cardboard roll and the flat surface when you glue them. Otherwise hot wax runs everywhere. I learned this the hard way. Pictured on the left is the first one I made to give you an idea of what it is going to look like. 

Next fill a pot about ¼ full with water and set it to a boil. Inside the pot you will place a separate container, preferably disposable or something you will only use for wax, like a coffee tin or a cookie wafer tin (like I’m using) because the inside will be impossible to clean. Don’t allow the water to boil dry. Place your wax inside the disposable tin and allow the water to melt the wax. Keep an eye on your wax in case it gets too hot and catches fire. Once the wax is in liquid form you can add dye and mix it (dye is available at most crafting stores) to make whatever color you want or you can melt a chunk of colored wax from old candles you have during the melting process to make colors. Just make sure that its from the same type of candle you’re making (jar candle wax for jar candles, pillar candle wax for pillar candles) This is also the point where you would add fragrance if you wanted to. 

Let the wax cool for a few minutes and pour a little bit into the bottom of the mold, place your wick in the center of the wax and allow it to COOL before you pour more hot wax in to make sure your wick is set in the center of your candle. If the wick isn’t in the center it will burn funny or might not burn at all. 

Once the wick has set I use two toothpicks taped together to make sure the wick is held straight up through the center of the candle while I’m pouring the rest of the wax. The toothpicks hold the the wick in place. Then carefully pour in the rest of your wax and sprinkle the top with whatever herbs you are using. Leave to set overnight….

And in the morning peel off the cardboard around it and bam! You have a beautiful candle! 

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🌺 A simple 7 day candle I did for myself. Created for self love, for more confidence, and to help me get through these next few months (along with sweetening people to me).

💐 Todo A Mi Favor/Everything in my Favor oil - self explanatory 

☀️ High John the Conqueror Oil - power, self love, confidence

💐 Rosebuds - self love, sweetening situation

☀️ White Duochrome Glitter - self love, amplify spell

💐 Pink 7 Day Candle

☀️ Sea shells - protection

💐 Sugar - self love, sweetening the situation

🌺 I’m thinking I might recreate this in the future and add it to the giveaway I’m doing once I hit my goal. I think it came out super pretty! :)

[floralwaterwitch]

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The Magick of Booze: A Correspondence Table

This is my own personal correspondence table for the use of alcohol in magick. It may not match your own usage of alcohol, but if you like anything you see, feel free to adopt it. Some of this is based in what the alcohol is made from, some on its history, and some of this is based in personal experience or associations. This is not about alcohol as an offering, but the usage of it as a spell component. The list is in no way exhaustive and does not include mixed drinks or brands. Just your basics.

Distilled Spirits

Absinthe: (Air) Useful in protection work. It is especially useful for safe astral travel. Using it to draw sigils for safe travels on one’s body before leaving it can keep away nasties in the meantime.

Gin: (Earth) Useful in spells promoting good health and is good as a binding ingredient for other alcohols’ properties. It can also be a good to use if the caster of the spell lives in poverty and this is pertinent to the spell in some way.

Rum: (Water) Useful in money spells or spells for gaining other material possessions. Rum can be especially useful in a spell involving an underhanded motive or intention, especially if the results leave you with more as a side effect of the spell’s main goal.

Tequila: (Fire) Tequila is all about timing. Perfect, exact timing. It can be used in spells involving punctuality, appointments, or decision making. It can be used when something has to be done just right, as well. Never use it for something involving the past or anything about the future. Tequila is always for the present, and in this moment, as they come issues.

Vodka: (Fire and Water) Good for strength and courage. Lifting yourself up by the bootstraps and carrying on with what needs to be done no matter how hard it is or how tired you are. Can be used in spells involving getting through difficult times, motivation, pushing forward, finishing projects. Shit’s gotta get done? Vodka.

Whiskey: (Water) Whiskey can be used in spells to promote change, usually when change is unwanted by someone else. It helps bypass interference and bring the change about in ways that which opposes it does not immediately notice.

Brandy: (Earth) Brandy can be used in love spells, especially those for preserving pre-existing love. It can also be used for attracting a long-lasting love as opposed to a fling.

Fermented Beverages

Beer: (Earth) Beer is used in spells involving the home, family, and the past. It can also be used in spells involving practicality vs desire.

Cider: (Earth) Cider is used in spells for harvesting what you’ve already planted. It helps ensure that the things you’re working towards are successful and your effort is not wasted. But you must put in the effort.

Wine: (Earth and Air) Wine can be used in spells for health, stress relief, and blessings. It can also be used for spells involving standing on your own and independence.

Mead: (Air) Mead can be used for spells involving inspiration, study, education, scholarly pursuits, the arts, and oratory issues. It can also be used to sweeten the temper of yourself or someone else.

Sangria: (Fire) Sangria is good for happiness spells, celebrations, and anything involving good times and fun. It is also good for spells meant to broaden horizons and promote new experiences.

[thewitchystuff]

Witchy Moon*:･ﾟ✧

A little guide on using the moon in your favor while practicing witchcraft!

The moon is so important in cycles and everyday life so pay attention to what she says!

[honeycoyote]

Simple Protective Cleansing Bath

A simple cleansing bath to recharge and cleanse any protective shields, i decided to use herbs that are relatively easy to gain access to for this one, they are all things that can be found in your average spice cabinet. 

      Materials Needed

1 Cup Sea Salt (protection, cleansing)

¼th Cup Basil (protection)

¼th Cup Rosemary (protection, cleansing)

¼th Cup Bay Leaves (protection, cleansing)

¼th Cup Thyme (Cleansing)

Once you assemble all Your ingredients, Mix them together . While Feeling their energizes, pouring your power into them and visualizing your magickal goal blend the herbs with your fingers. once mixed Either set them aside in a bowl or Pour into a Sachet      ( adding them to a sachet makes clean up faster)

Next run a hot bath, and add the herbal mixture and let seep for a few minutes before entering.

Now enter the bath and just soak focus on your goal and intent for this bath. Stay in the water until you feel ready or the bath water becomes cold.

- Spell by HoneyCoyote -

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Shower Disks for Cleansing and Purifying

So you have seen our lovely bath magic spells but you cannot take a bath. Maybe you don’t have a bath in your current residence, maybe you are physically unable to use bathtubs, maybe you’re just super stretched for time but want to get in some extra magical umph. Recreational Witchcraft is here for you.

Shower disks are traditionally used in the aromatherapy world to relieve congestion and other flu-symptoms while showering via the use of essential oils, but we will be bumping up their magical potential.

Basic recipe:

1 cup baking soda

1 tablespoon corn starch

1/3 cup of water

Muffin tins and muffin liners

Cleansing and Purifying:

essential oil of rosemary

essential oil of lemongrass

dried peppermint leaves

dried lemon rinds

dried rosemary

Combine baking soda and corn starch (making sure there are no clumps), then slowly add in the water. Fill lined muffin tins about third of the way, then add in dry herbs and spices. Leave out to dry for at least 24 hours. Carefully take disks out of the liners, add your essential oils, and place your disk somewhere in your shower that will allow them to dissolve slowly while you shower. Bam, you’re done.

[honeycoyote]

Armor of Love Protection Bath

This is going to sound really cheesy and fluffy but I made this to be a sort of protective bath that shields you with the power of love (love from your friends, family, pets etc). It’s to block out harmful energies and such that people may try to send at you.

    Materials Needed: (you can use either fresh or dried herbs for this) 

1 Cup Sea Salt or pink Himalayan salt 

1 Cup Rose Petals 

¼th Cup  Rosemary 

¼th Cup Bay Leaves 

¼th Cup Lavender

¼th Cup Mint

Some rose quartz 

Optional 1 cup of Honey 

Once you assemble all your ingredients, mix the herbs together. while feeling their energies, pouring love you feel and your power into them. While visualizing your magickal goal blend the herbs with your fingers. Once mixed, you set them aside in a bowl or pour into a sachet (adding them to a sachet makes clean up faster)

Next run a warm bath (not too hot, but that nice and warm perfect temperature), and add the herbal mixture, the honey and the rose quartz to the bath and let steep for a few minutes before entering.

Now enter the bath, pick up your favorite piece of rose quartz from the bath and place it on your chest. Now lay in this lovely bath and focus on your goal and intent, to build an armor forged from the love that has been given to you. Stay in the water until you feel ready to leave.

Recharge your armor as needed.

ALWAYS research herbs and other ingredients before use to make sure they wont cause any medical complications

- by honeycoyote - 

[royalfrostdragon]

Burning Bridges Spell

Do you have something in your life that you need gone? A toxic person or a bad habit? This spell is designed to burn away any connection you have to that bad something. 

Necessary Items:

Lighter/matches

Representation of what (who) you are cutting ties with (needs to be flammable) 

A safe place to let it burn out

Get your representation ready (I’d suggest paper to be honest), if it’s a person label it as best you can with a name or something similar. If it’s a habit just write it down. Take your representation in hand and start the spell. Once it’s burning just let it burn out. 

Pouring the fuel, fanning the flames Breaking the habit and melting the chains Once it’s burning just let it burn out. 

The bridges are burning, the heat’s on my face Making the past an unreachable place I know, this is the point of no return 

Once it’s burned out dispose of the ashes or anything left over and once you dispose of them you finish the spell by very resolutely walking away. Do not turn back, to where you disposed of the ashes. End it with the last line.

I won’t turn around

And you’re done!

NOTES: Please use magic and fire responsibly. Lyrics come from “Point of No Return” by Starset.

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Rotten Apple Banishing Spell

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1. Cut an apple in half horizontally, so the star is exposed. 

2. Rub one half of the apple with a mint leaf,  while visualizing what needs to be banished. You may also write it on a piece of paper. 

3. Put the two halves of the apple back together with the paper between the two halves. . Use a skewer to hold the two pieces together once more. 

4. Tie securely with a black ribbon. 

5. Bury the apple as far away as possible. The problem should disipate as the apple rots. 

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Touch-Me-Not Binding Spell

You Will Need:

A poppet or other symbol of your target—I use corn husk dolls. You should, at the very least, give your poppet arms and a mouth for this spell.

Paste of some kind—I make mine from flour and water, but you can use whatever kind you want. 

Twine, yarn, string, etc

A box

Step One: Create your poppet and attach it to your target. This can be done as easily as by saying, “I name you as __________. What I do to you, I do to her/him/ze/them.”

Step Two: Tie your poppet up in twine, making sure to tie its arms down at its sides. Say, “With your actions, you have caused me pain. I put you in confinement so you cannot do so again.” 

Step Three: Sew or draw stitches over your poppet’s mouth. Say, “With your words, you have caused me suffering. I sew your lips shut so you cannot do so again.” 

Step Four: Dip your poppet in paste and say, “You have evaded the consequences of your actions by luck and forgiveness; but now both are gone. May your punishment stick to you.” 

Step Five: Put your poppet in a box and close the lid. “I have locked you away, along with my guilt and compassion. You will not harm me again.” 

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Mirror Box Binding

A potent and effective way to bind someone to the effects of that which they cause. Through the means laid out below, the target of this working will be made to reap all that they sew, in that whatever they put out, be it malice, indifference or charity, will be returned upon them from all about. Know then that this binding has a silver lining, in that should the offending party made bound mend their ways, and do good and compassionate things, the same will then begin to reflect back into their lives.

This is about learning your lessons.

Instructions:

Fashion a box, to be lined with mirrors on each side. On each side, before the mirror be adhered, mark a symbol of fate, in whatever path is your manner. (note that should you be such a worker, blood may be used for this task) Make sure that the marks and the mirrors cover all four sides, bottom and top as well.  As a point of note, mirrors of black work well in this crafting, and pull into such the shadows and void to aid as you intend. Before sealing the box, make a poppet of the intended target, or a sigil (the name alone can work, if it must) of the name on parchment (again, blood may be used here, but it is not a must).  

With your poppet or paper ready, start incense of myrrh and dragon’s blood smoking, and hold your poppet or sigil in the smoke, in the dark of the night, either beneath the open sky, or else in a dark place where no light but candle shines, and concentrate your energy, eyes closed as you see the deeds of your target, see what they have done and need lesson for, begin to chant, slow and low, shadows be creatures of whisper and secret;

Now is my will Cast into dark Moon may rise And Sun may fall (Person’s name) done wrong None to bear Guilt for his/her shame Bring what they give Back unto them From out of them Then unto them (Person’s name) be bound to your own.

Say this over and over, working up a trance, and feel the power flow. When the feeling is strong, and the energy risen, put the poppet (or paper) inside the box, and close it shut. Wrap the outside 9 times 9. Nine around each way, first with black ribbon, then with blue, and last with silver.

Now place the box where you will, and don’t open it again. If you so feel, put it in a basement or attic, where none are likely ever to go, or bury it in the ground, for the earth to nurse it in her womb.

(submitted by lettersfromanywhere)

[lodgewitch]

Witchcraft: Banishment Talisman

-for anyone that needs to be rid of someone that pesters, harasses or otherwise bothers them-

Gather the following items: Black candle, parchment paper/greaseproof paper, needle, sharp knife and black string or ribbon.

Light the candle.

Focus completely on the person that you wish to remove from your life.

Drip the wax onto the paper so it forms a circle.

With the needle, pierce a hole in the top of the wax circle.

As you do this, say: “this needle pierces your interest in me, from your actions I am now free”*

Once the wax has hardened, use the knife to etch the persons initials into one side of the talisman.

When you’ve done that, strike them out by drawing a cross over them.

Loop ribbon or string through the hole in the top of the talisman and wear around your neck, under your clothes.

You can create more to hang over your doorways at home, etc…

* - you do not have to use this chant, it’s just the one I feel comfortable saying.

[night-hags-arte]

This little shop has a variety of flying ointments as well as other concoctions and items! I have used the sabbath flying ointment and I have had good results with it. Since tonight is a full moon, happy flying and have a wonderful time at the sabbath!

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[amour--et--psyche]

Aphrodite Epitumbidia, She Upon The Graves.