Path less travelled

I am Druid. One with nature :-) I will also apologize for any nude women on this blog from me. I have 2 blogs and get them mixed up. but pleaze follow me and post when u can Please.

[broomclosetwitches]

Witchcraft and Essential oils

Essential oils are a wonderful tool for any witch, no matter the path. There are hundreds of oils and combination oils that it can overwhelming. Here is a list of some more common, beneficial oils.

Allspice: Reduces stress, calms, relaxes tight muscles, up lifts mood, improves digestion, naturally disinfects

Basil: Calms, relieves pain, relieves fatigue, improves mental clarity, purifies the body

Cardamon: Relieves pain, up lifts mood, improves digestion, improves mental clarity and memory

Catnip: Anti diarrheal, relieves indigestion, relieves anxiety, up lifts mood

Chamomile: Reduces anxiety, promotes restful sleep and relaxation, relieves pain

Cinnamon: Relieves pain, uplifts mood, relieves fatigue, naturally disinfects, improves digestion, increases appetite

Clove: Relieves pain, up lifts mood, improves mental clarity, improves digestion, naturally disinfects

Coriander: Relieves pain, relieves fatigue, improves digestion, improves mental clarity and memory

Eucalyptus: Breaks up congestion, relieves pain, naturally disinfects, vapors help with breathing

Frankincense: Anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, astringent, improves digestion, expectorant, sedative

Geranium: Relieves pain and tension, uplifts mood, anti-inflammatory, soothes itchy skin

Ginger: Relieves pain, uplifts mood, relieves fatigue, improves digestion, increases appetite

Juniper Berries: Relieves pain, energize, improve mental clarity and memory, anti-inflammatory, repels insects, soothes insect bites

Lavender: Relieves stress and anxiety, promotes restful sleep, uplifts mood, balances mood swings, vapors help breathing, improves digestion, naturally disinfects, breaks up congestion 

Lemon: Balances the nervous system, uplifts mood, relieves fatigue, improves mental clarity and memory, naturally disinfects

Lemon Balm: Relieves anxiety and stress, promotes restful sleep

Lemongrass: Calms, balances nervous system, uplifts mood, anti-inflammatory, vapors help with breathing, improves digestion, naturally disinfects, repels insects

Lime: Relieves fatigue, uplifts mood, naturally disinfects, improves mental clarity and memory

Mandarin: Reduces stress and tension, calms, uplifts mood

Myrrh: helpful in meditation, uplifts mood, anti-inflammatory, aids in healing skin

Neroli/Orange Blossom: Remove nervous tension, promotes restful sleep

Nutmeg: Relaxes tight muscles, relieves pain, improves digestion

Palmarosa: Relaxes tight muscles, relieves pain, uplifts mood, helps regenerate skin, anti-inflammatory

Peppermint: Relieves pain, uplifts mood, relieves fatigue, breaks up congestion, anti-inflammatory, vapors help with breathing, improves digestion, increases appetite, soothes itchy skin, improves mental clarity and memory

Petitgrain: Reduces anxiety and stress, promotes restful sleep, uplifts mood, improves mental clarity and memory

Pine: Lessens pain, uplifts mood, relieves fatigue, breaks up congestion, naturally disinfects, improves mental clarity and memory

Rose: Relieves pain, uplifts mood, anti-inflammatory, aids in healing skin

Rosemary: Relieves pain, stimulates nerves, relieves fatigue, vapors help with breathing, improves digestion, improves mental clarity and memory, naturally disinfects, repels insects

Spearmint: Relieves pain, uplifts mood, relieves fatigue, breaks up congestion, anti-inflammatory, vapors help with breathing, improves digestion, improves appetite, soothes itchy skin

Tea Tree: Relieves pain, naturally disinfects, aids in healing skin, vapors help with breathing (Witch Tip: Great when diluted for acne prone skin)

Thyme: Relaxes tight muscles, relieves pain, uplifts mood, breaks up congestion, anti-inflammatory, improves digestion, increases appetite, improves mental clarity and memory, naturally disinfects

Ylang-ylang: Relaxes tight muscles, relieves pain, promotes restful sleep, uplifts mood, naturally disinfects

**  It is extremely important to DILUTE essential oils or else they can burn the skin. Using a carrier oil or water can help dilute the oils safely. Examples of carrier oils are olive oil, coconut oil and almond oil. 

** Remember to store your essential oils in dark, cool places to keep them from spoiling. 

** Do your research when using essential oils witches. Especially if you have sensitive skin, are pregnant or breastfeeding.   

[druidpath34]

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[witchycrystal777]

Wandlore: Magical Properties of Trees

Alder - PRESERVING - (water) oracular magic, seership, dreamwork, preservation, concealment, bridging worlds

Apple - SINGING - (air) protection, blessing, calling, sending, opening doorways to other worlds, love, inspiration, enchantment

Ash - JOURNEYING - (earth, water) calling, direction of art and craft, moving toward a goal, healing, crossing bridges to other worlds

Beech - LEARNING - (fire) solar and positive magic, the enhancement of creativity, learning, the search for information, books, languages Birch - BEGINNING - (water) purification, discipline, spells of youth and fresh starts, creativity, procreation, birth, renewal and rebirth Blackthorn and Plum - BLOCKING - (earth) protection, faerie magic, overcoming creative barriers, persistence, patience, divining of precious metals Cedar - CLEANSING - (air) enchantment, clearing negativity, dedication of sacred space, poetry, smithcraft, healing Cherry - DESIRING - (fire) protection, conflict, sex, attraction, assertiveness, aggression, love, confidence, daring, union of opposites, root chakra, healing of injuries from conflict or loss Chestnut - PRODUCING - (water) fertility, feminine powers, motherhood, the sea, protection of waters, reflection, introspection, meditation, abundance, nurturance, cleansing, relationships, especially mother and child Ebony - DOMINATING - (earth) leadership, domination, penetrating to the core of any problem, control, sexual assertion, aggression, concealing, revealing, healing dark diseases, dragon energy, seduction Elder - REGENERATING - (earth) enchantment, healing, protection, regeneration, wealth, long life, nurturing Elm - CONTAINING - (earth) healing, fertility, growth, rebirth, destiny, wisdom, metamorphosis, endurance Hawthorn - GUARDING - (air) fertility, rebirth, renewal union, wildness, human being as animal, detects magic, counter-jinxes, warding, sending

Hazel - UNDERSTANDING - (air) female autonomy, feminine power, magic of wisdom, beauty, charm, love, navigation, summoning, attraction, creativity

Holly - PENETRATING - (fire) protection, work against evil spirits, poisons, angry elementals, and lightning; averting fear, allowing courage to emerge, dream magic and eternal life, success in business or endeavor, hunting or quests Juniper - TRANSFORMING - (earth) transformation, transition, crossing to other worlds, cloaking, revealing, letting go, yin power, shadow, meditation, seduction, binding, geas, fate Lilac - IMAGINING - (air) magic of union, attraction, cultivation of creative bliss, intellectual pursuits, imagination, information, mental power, creation of harmony, travel, illusion, detection, writing

Linden - ATTRACTING - (air) creation, transmutation, illumination, love, attraction, binding, obligation, healing wounds, enhancement of beauty, peace

Maple - CHANGING - (earth, fire) control, finding, binding, transformation, creation, ambition, passion, revolution, rebirth, poetry, beauty, harvest, healing, abundance

Oak - OPENING - (fire) leadership, wise rule, personal sovereignty, authority, power, protection, sealing or opening doors, endurance, invocation of wisdom, fertility, abundance

Poplar - FEELING - (water) emotions, feelings, sensitivity, intuition, empathy, dance, instincts

Redwood - ASPRIING - (fire) striving upward, travel to higher spheres, drawing down power from heaven to earth, religious seeking, discipline, mystical union, wild animals, wisdom

Rowan - QUICKENING - (earth) unites fire and earth elements, bridges worlds, astral vision, protection, warding off evil spirits, averts storms and lightning (sudden disaster and struggle), brings peace, growth, fertility, rebirth; supports women’s autonomy, poetry, metalwork, geomancy, work with ley lines

Spruce, also Fir and Pine - TURNING - (water) battling evil, astral flight, cleansing, purification, creation, potion-making, witches brooms, transformation, shape shifting, wisdom

Walnut - ILLUMINATING - (air, fire) wind and weather magic, expansion, vortices, enhancement of the powers of breath, spells to conjure or avert lightning, hurricanes, or cyclones; teleportation, astral travel, knowledge, wisdom

Willow - WEAVING - (water) dowsing, divination, seership, rain-making, funerary rites, love, easing childbirth, fertility, healing, glamour, bewitchment, concealment, secrecy, germination, herb-magic, potion-making, melody and combination Yew - REMEMBERING - (air, earth) death, grieving, travel between worlds, ancestors, trance, seership, divination, healing, transformation, knowledge, eloquence, persuasion, mediumism, necromancy

Sources and further reading: Wandlore: The Art of Craft the Ultimate Magical Tool by Alferian Gwydion MacLir The Witch’s Wand: The Craft, Lore, and Magick of Wands & Staffs by Alferian Gwydion MacLir

[woolandcoffee]

May the arms of Brighid embrace me, For in her arms am I kept warm. May the mantle of Brighid cover me, For under her mantle am I safe from harm. May the fires of Brighid strengthen me, For in her fires am I reshaped and reborn. May the waters of Brighid envelop me, For in her waters am I healed and made whole.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Starry Night Costume

1926

Hillwood Museum

[hypohmania]

bipolar is not sudden anger

i am not dangerous

bipolar is not being volatile

i am not crazy

bipolar is the ebb and flow of everything

it is the sound and the silence

the water and the stone

the something and the nothing

bipolar does not exist as a fault

it is not an illness or something to be fixed

but it is not a gift either

bipolar is a trait, its in your dna

passed down from parent to child

it is a family secret, a family shame

no one likes to talk about it

but it is there

first there are the good things

a goal, a drive, a hunger

sleep is not necessary

food is not necessary

(i am not necessary)

there is the beginning

the depression is starting

the hurting, the numbness

the sadness, the nothing

sometimes it all happens at once

the sadness and nothingness and numbness and hunger

remember what used to make you feel good?

do it, do it more, you dont feel anything yet, you have to do it more

this used to make you feel good

you you you

you are unnecessary

you are not needed

you do not serve a purpose

and you are motivated

— 3 states of being

[thecalminside]

“Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.”

Epictetus

[wicccaa-blog]

tarot tips

3 easy ways to cleanse your deck.

put the cards back in order from the fool to the king of pentacles: majors, wands, cups, swords & pentacles

keep the cards in a silk or bag with amethyst and smoky quartz

smudge them with frankincense, white sage or sandalwood

[wandsbrewsandbroomsticks]

hiii, i love your blog so i thought id try asking you this. is it possible to over work a crystal (even if you charge it often), sigil, or spell? if you used them everyday for weeks will they lose their affect? thanks!

It honestly soulf make them stronger. Even if you cleanse and charge it. A cleansing once a month helps get rid of negative energy is gathers occasionally.

[literature-witch-deactivated201]

How to Read Your Candle 🕯

(Pyromancy, specifically… aka reading your candle’s flame)

High flame: your spell is strong along with the magick surrounding you

Low flame: there is something opposing your spell. It might be you, a deity, or the magick in general that believes you shouldn’t do this spell or maybe your magick isn’t strong enough at the time of your spell (try meditating more or practicing more if you think this is the case)

Crackling or popping flame: conversation! Your deities or spirits are trying to speak to you! 

flickering flame: usually indicates a spirit is near or that your deity is listening to your prayer if you’re using a devotional candle

A split flame: indicates that there is more than one spirit accompanying you

If the candle will not light: your guardian/deity/intuition doesn’t think doing this spell is a good idea

if the candle will not go out: usually means your spell is not done and your magic is still trying to finish up, let it burn some more until you think it’s time to put it out

[greenleafwitchery]

Ease My Depression Spell Bottle

I’m going to make my first spell bottle tonight. It’s scribbled into my book of shadows, but I figured I’d share it. Please note that I do this in addition to taking an anti-depressant and a mood stabilizer. Always seek professional help if you need it.

That being said, let’s get to the magic!

Note: This is probably best done during the waning moon. I’m making an exception since it’s Mabon.

Ingredients: Sea salt (purification/cleansing/grounding) Rosemary (healing) Sandalwood (healing) Bay Leaf (protection) Rose (peace) Cinnamon (purification) Sunflower petals (sunlight/happiness) Obsidian (grounding) Amethyst (Happiness) Fluorite (Ease depression) You can probably leave a few of these out. Most important is fluorite for the depression-easing properties.

Steps Anoint a blue or white candle with an oil charged/made for the intent of peace, healing, vitality, or similar.

Light the candle. Assemble the bottle in the order listed (herbs first, stones second), focusing on the properties of each as you do. Pour your energy and intent into each ingredient as you add it. If you want to say words, do so. Otherwise, work purely with visualization. 

Once it’s assembled, hold the bottle to the sky and charge the whole thing with your intent. Seal the bottle with wax, preferably blue or white. Leave near the candle and allow the candle to burn down.

[druidismwithasprinkleofwicca]

Tried this tonight, hopefully it works!!

[thebasildruid-deactivated202005]

For the spiritual asks: thorns, fog, and cloud.

Thorns: I have only ever cursed a couple of times, long ago, at the beginning of my practice. I am not against it, but I don’t actively curse people anymore. :)

Fog: As Druidry is an animistic spirituality, I work with spirits all the time. Everything has a spirit, a name, a presence, a being, a soul, however you want to put it. 

Cloud: My greatest dream for my spiritual path is to someday open my own Grove, a small place , a circle of trees and stones where my friends and I can practice and worship openly, and without persecution. 

Thanks for asking!

[tysmiha-witchnotes-info]

Imbolc Practices

Imbolc is a sabbat which some celebrate to welcome the Celtic goddess Brighid, a deity of fire and fertility. Imbolc can also be celebrated as winter gradually coming to a close with the days getting longer, and the seasonal and agricultural implications of that. Either way, it is a festival of light and new beginnings, and is celebrated with fire and joy.

Before Imbolc - A time for resting

Do not make new plans

Sleep as much as possible

Take care of your body

Take hot baths and moisturize your skin

Arts & Crafts

Brighid rules art and creativity – do anything artistic! Your creative skills are at a peak this time of year. If you’ve been in a rut, now is a good time to do some self-cleansing and bring yourself out of it.

Decorate a candle with spring leaves and flowers

Make a Brighid’s bed

Make a Brighid’s cross

Make a Brighid mantle out of a green cloth long enough to wrap around your shoulders. Leave it on your doorstep on the night of Imbolc and Brighid will bless it for you. In the morning, wrap yourself in the mantle to feel her healing energy.

Make Brighid wheels and hang them on or above your door

Make a corn doll

Make a priapic (acorn-tipped) wand

Make a sun-catcher

Make ice candles

Make paper snowflakes and hang them around your home

Write a poem about spring

Cleaning & Cleansing

Clean off your altar and redo it

Clean your home

Consecrate tools that will be consumed throughout the year (candles, incense, ritual tools, etc. that you plant to use for spell casting)

Consecrate your agricultural tools

If you do not feel ready to charge or consecrate your own tools, leave them with an offering in a windowsill to be blessed by your deity overnight

Rearrange the furniture in your home.

Refresh any crystal grids or salt lines around your home.

Cooking

Make braided bread

Make your own butter

Use milk in your cooking to represent spring lambing

Decorating

Place a besom at the front door to symbolize purification and cleansing

Put a grain effigy and a phallic wand in a basket next to the hearth or candles at night to welcome Brighid

Remove Yuletide greens and burn or dispose of them (make sure your greens are safe to burn and always practice fire safety)

Spell-casting & Divination

Dip a ribbon into a natural body of water (or moon water, if there is no natural water near you) and tie it to a branch in your yard to welcome hope and healing

Dismantle old spells (jars, talismans, etc) and use what remains to charge new spells. The recycled energy will make the new spells even stronger.

Explore some love or fertility magic

Healing spells are extra powerful this month. Before or during Imbolc when the moon is waning, take time to banish or release any illnesses affecting your or your loved ones. Afterwards, when the moon is waxing, perform spells to draw in healing energies.

Practice lithomancy

Take time to focus on divination and increasing your own magical abilities

Use your priapic wand in your garden to awaken trees and plants from their winter slumber

Other Activities

Go out to a local park or forest and pick up litter to help make way for new spring growth

Light candles in your garden to purify and invigorate them for the coming growing season

Pour some milk onto the earth as an offering and ask that the coming year brings you what you need

Prepare homemade remedies to use through the rest of the year

Put out bread, milk, grains and/or seeds for Brighid on Her eve

Visit a lake, stream or other body of water and go for a swim (or meditate if it’s too cold for that!)

Welcome the sun by lighting a candle (or all your candles!) at sunrise and/or sunset

After Imbolc - A time for cleansing

Clean the home and prepare for spring

Do a body cleanse

Open windows to let in fresh air

Rearrange your furniture

Replace your home air filters

Throw away old belongings

[littlewitchlingrowan]

Mom is under the weather so the witchcraft is real in this house tonight. Illness be gone, I don’t have time for your shit.

[manicbucket]

mind if I ask for the recipe? :)

[littlewitchlingrowan]

No, not at all! 😊 This is a family recipe that I swear by. It never, ever fails me.

Alright, this is a chicken soup recipe, so there will be meat products being used. I figure I oughta give that disclaimer since I don’t know who may be vegetarian/vegan.

Now onto your ingredients: -Two boxes of store bought chicken broth -One white onion -Garlic (I use the pre-minced store garlic because a) it saves time and b) it’s much easier to infuse into the broth) -Celery -Carrots -Wide egg noodles -Chicken bouillon cubes -Salt -Pepper -Bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs.

Directions:

Get yourself a big ass soup pot, toss in your chicken, chicken broth and fill the rest of the way with water (you want your pot about ¾ full). Put it on high and vent your lid. Par boil your chicken until it begins trying to boil over then reduce heat to med-high and let simmer. This is where you get your rich, hearty stock from. The broth, fat from the skin and marrow from the bones do wonderful things together, let me tell you.

While this happens, dice your carrots and celery ahead of time and set them aside. Once your chicken is done (it’ll look kinda gray and yellow instead of white and pink), pluck it out of the pot into a large bowl. Move your pot off the heat so it doesn’t cook out your stock. One by one, move a thigh into a seperate bowl and proceed to shred your chicken. (Pro-tip, if you have a hand mixer or food processor, this process can go much faster as long as the bones are removed)

Next, put in your veggies and noodles with the shredded chicken. Next comes spices. Add pepper and salt to taste (you can always do a little at a time if you’re worried about going overboard) along with about 4-5 bouillon cubes. If you have minced garlic, add about 4 spoonfuls (the little spoons) into the broth. If you have whole cloves, smash em and mince the shit out of them, about 6 big ones, and toss them in.

Stir really well (I always stir both clockwise and counter to banish sickness and draw wellness). Set the pot back on the heat (remember, med-high) and let that sucker cook until the noodles are just at al-dente. You don’t want em too squishy and mushy. Take this time while the noodles cook to taste your broth repeatedly. You want to taste the all the components strongly without them being too overpowering. Basically, if it burns your throat pleasantly and makes your nose tickle, you got yourself a badass broth.

Once done, serve with fresh cracked pepper and a big ass glass of water or vitamin c rich juice. Remember to remove the pot from the heat even after it’s off so it doesn’t continue to cook out your broth and over-tenderize your noodles.

To store: let the soup cool completely and transfer to a big tupperware and refrigerate. Eat the rest within the next 2 days.

Stay well or get better this season!

[fenland-witch-deactivated202005]

Well this is going in my receipe book!

[littlewitchlingrowan]

Holy crow is this getting notes! While I’m here, I’d like to mention that this soup is going to make you pretty tired. I made this for my sister two months ago and right after she finished, she laid down and slept for 10 hours straight and woke up with a face full of snot but clear sinuses. Tonight, mom ate her bowl and took a 4 hour nap on the couch. She just wandered off to bed after telling me her sinuses and chest already feel much clearer and her throat barely hurts. I’m not sure what it is about this soup, but it knocks you clean out and goes straight to work on what ails you. So be cautious about driving or anything of the sort after eating this. Not that it has the same sedative capabilities as say, morphine, but I would recommend finding a cozy place to curl up afterwards on the off chance you do end up feeling drowsy, just to err on the side of caution. I’d also like to mention that I am in no way a doctor so don’t take my advice in lieu of medical assistance! Please, if you can, seek a doctor first as always. This is purely meant to be used in a supplementary fashion in addition to medication. Okay I’ll leave you guys alone now, I’ve talked your ears off enough.

[littlewitchlingrowan]

Damn, this is STILL getting notes? The flattery is real y'all. Thank you 💕 I hope my recipe is able to bring you comfort and healing when you don’t feel well!

[theillustrativewitch]

Gonna habe to compare this with my honeys version >_>

[goryhorror]

Artist; Ksenia Svincova, better known as “Iren Horrors” is a freelance illustrator from Moscow, Russia. She specializes in dark fantasy/Victorian gothic art.

“My heart beats for all things gloomy, beautiful, and macabre.” -Ksenia Svincova

[culturenlifestyle]

Messages Scrawled With Thread and Needle On Roses

Artist and embroidery expert Sophie King is not your average talent. This British expert has composed a series of creations where she etches intricate patterns on fragile rose petals.

Keep reading

[appalachianoraclewitch]

Dude this could work for spells or curses. Embroidery on leaves and flowers for association. I’m not skilled enough but totally cool!

[the-feral-mystic]

^^^ !!!