i used to see fire sprites dancing around my bed

nontheistic, lucid dreamer, hedge witch. i want to spend my life walking inbetween worlds.

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I wouldn’t want anyone to click on this link and search from a database of thousands of free books, many of which are about witchcraft and occult practices…

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Magical Uses of Seaweeds and Kelps

First, a little info. Seaweeds and kelps are not actually plants: they are algae! Despite their appearance, they are all algae. There are very few true underwater plants, one of them being eelgrass, which will also be covered here for simplicity’s sake. Keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive list by any means, as there are hundreds of seaweed and kelp species in the Puget Sound alone. This is merely a short compilation of the species I see most often.

Keep reading

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Dream Key 🔑✨

A spell to aid in dreamwork. 

Items required:

A key, or an item that acts as a key

Hematite (Saturn, protection)

Amethyst (Neptune, dreams)

Smoky Quartz (Pluto, astral travel and travel to other realms)

3 candles (tealights would be perfect)

Instructions: 

Cleanse the key/item in whatever manner you choose

Surround the key/item with the crystals

Place each candle in front of the associated crystal

Light each candle individually as you focus on your intent (which is to aid you in dreamwork)

When finished, snuff the candles out one at a time

Keep the key or item under your pillow when attempting dreamwork 

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Neptunian Sea Magick 🌊

Neptune, otherwise known as Poseidon in Greek mythology, is the ruler and guardian of the sea. 

Collect seashells, hag stones, beach sand, sea glass, and sea water

Leave biodegradable offerings to Neptune and the sea

Make magickal powders from beach sand and/or sea salt

Use seaweed for banishing negative energy, cleansing, luck, wealth, protection, and summoning storms

Create an altar or shrine dedicated to Neptune (either the deity, the planet, or both if you wish)

Decorate your altar with items that correspond to Neptune and the sea

Sea salt, beach sand, seaweed, Neptunian crystals & herbs, a statue of Neptune/Poseidon, the symbol of Neptune, oceanic imagery, etc.

Spend time at the beach

Perform acts of kindness and self-sacrifice for others (Actions as Offerings)

Burn ocean-scented candles or incense to invite oceanic energies into your home

Create a sachet made with sea salt, jasmine & neroli (orange blossom) essential oil, and seaweed - add to a ritual bath dedicated to Neptune

Design a crystal grid using Neptunian crystals to empower you during spells or rituals 

Arrange herbs, flowers, or crystals in the shape of Neptune’s symbol to harness Neptunian energy

Wear a crystal pendant that corresponds with Neptune for aid in divination, intuition, inner visions, and heightened perception

Create a bottle charm that contains Neptunian gem chips and herbs to wear around your neck or to keep in your backpack, purse, car, etc.

Wear talismans made from things like shark teeth, seashells, coral, hag stones, etc. (all safely and ethically harvested, of course)

Wear the symbol of Neptune as a talisman

Anoint yourself and other objects with Neptunian oil

Create a crystal elixir made from Neptunian crystals

Anoint yourself or any magickal tools with this elixir 

Use shark teeth, catfish spines, and murex seashells for wards and curses

Use The Hanged Man or The Moon tarot card to represent Neptune in spells and rituals

Keep the symbol of Neptune under your pillow or above your bed when performing dreamwork

Harness Neptunian energy before performing divination (Channeling Cosmic Energy)

Create a Neptunian powder for use in spells

Create a Neptunian Charm Jar

Create bath salts or shower disks that correspond to Neptune

Neptune Correspondences

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🐚 Seashell Correspondence (masterpost!) 🐚

This is my near completed masterpost of shells which I tried listing up some common and uncommon shells for the past few days! I might add more shell info in the future💕

Disclaimer: This list is of associations collected from various sources around the internet and a mix of my personal ones!

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Abalone: love, healing, prosperity, luck, wealth, balance, peace, cleansing, meditation, psychic abilities, self-love, feminine energies, earth + water element

Angel’s Wing: determination, freedom, angelic energies, positive spiritual guidance, protection, aid in receiving and sending energies, air element

Auger: fertility, strength, courage, power, masculine energies, fire element

Ark Shell: safety, protection, finding strength in the outer world 

Bear’s paw: power, strength, vitality, nurturing, protection, warmth, feminine + masculine energies, earth + fire element 

(Banded) Tulip Shell: binding, friendships, relationships, social life, water element

Bonnet Shell: secrecy, the unknown, protection, mystery, trust, beauty, air element

Button Shell: connections, gatherings, friendships, spirituality, divination, air element

Bubble Shell: inspiration, creativity, happiness, curiosity, wished, intuitions, cleansing, psychic abilities, divination, air element 

Carrier Shell: overcoming shyness, helps getting out of your shell, courage, protection, strength, escaping from negative thoughts

Cat’s eye Shell:  protection against jealousy, gossips and negative energies

Cerith Shell: sexuality, fertility, masculine energies, fire element

Clam: purification, love, friendships, abundance, communication, healing, stability, vitality, protection, protecting emotions, truth, balance, peace, grounding, feminine energies, water element

Cockle: love, friendship, relationships, emotions, centering, gateway to a new life, new beginnings, feminine energies, water element

Conch: love, beauty, friendship, communication, feminine energies, truth, art , beauty, clarity, freedom grace, movement, speech, spirituality, strength summoning, trust, truth , vanity, feminine energies, air element

Cone Shell: protection, control, motivation

Cowrie: abundance, prosperity, fertility, love, wealth, pregnancy, growth, divination, sexuality, protection, beauty, menstruation problems, feminine energies, water element

Crown Conch: associated with crown chakra, meditation, divinity, intention, confidence, intuition

Drupe Shell: reflecting oneself, discover and being comfortable of who you are, self trust, confidence, bravery

Fig Shell: wisdom, creativity, peace, love, luck, fertility, divination, fortune, water + air element

Fighting Conch: aggression, defense, warding/shielding, protection, masculine energies, fire element

Frog Shell: moving forward, starting over, new beginnings

Harp Shell: secrecy, beauty, art, protection, feminine energies, water + air element

Helmet Shell: grounding, protection, strength, honor, masculine energies fire element

(Horned) Turban: protection, faith, trust

Horse Conch: beauty, freedom, grace, strength, progress, water + earth element

Jackknife Clam: (inner) strength, speed, warding, secrecy, masculine energies, air element

Janthina Shell: faith, peace, trust, moving forward, going with the flow, trust in the universe, air element

Jewel Box Clam: beauty, vanity, glamour, passion, (self) love, self care, feminine energies, water element 

Jingle Shells: wealth, prosperity, cleansing, positivity, trust, intuition, earth element

Junonia Shell: strength, beauty, marriage, fertility, childbirth, feminine energies, named after the Roman goddess Juno/Hera (Greek)

Keyhole Limpet: finding a way in/out in a situation, meditation, unblocking psychic/divination abilities  

Limpet: courage, confidence, strength, nurturing, self  trust, peace, endurance

Left-Handed Whelk: making drastic / positive changes in life, transformation, air element

Lightning whelk: awareness, banishing, intent, trust

Lion’s Paw: strength, courage, protection, inner strength, victory, pride, masculine energies, fire element

Miter Shell: peace, spirituality, grounding + centering, calm energies, spiritual introspection, lunar magick, feminine + masculine energies, water element

Moon Shell: purification, peace, protection, meditation, clarity, vitality, rebirth, cleansing + charging energies, psychic awareness, cycles, progress, warding, lunar magick, feminine energies, water element

Murex: protection, defense, binding, masculine energies

Mussels: communications, friendships, luck, health, travel, abundance, dedication, determination, community, life giving stability, enduring life’s hardships, feminine enegies, water element

Nautilus: focus, intentions, clarity, wisdom, growth, peace, endings + beginnings

Olive Shells: healing, hope, love, friendship, hope abundance, opportunity

Oyster: love,luck, good fortune, prosperity, banishing, fertility, (hidden) beauty, vitality, passion, turning pain into beauty (pearls), lunar magick, feminine energies, water element

Oyster Drill: curses, warding/shielding, protection

Pearl Whelk: control, life, progress, trust, strength, manifestation, fire element

Pen Shell: beauty, confidence, creativity, self-love, art, love, inspiration, feminine energies, water element

Periwinkle: grounding, intuitions, focus, friendships

Purple Snail Shell: beauty, divination, psychic abilities, air element

Pyram Shell: determination, hope, strength, air element

Scallops: travel, love, friendships, movement, beauty, grace, change, fertility, peace, healing, travel, spirituality, happiness, communication, patience, diversity, openess, all-purpose shell, feminine energies, water element

Slipper Shell: balance, generosity, transformation, healing, peace, community, helping others, air element

Snail Shell (Garden Snails): fertility, sexuality, travel, protection, home, feminine + masculine energies, earth + water element

Spider Conch: maturity, responsibility, self-defense, maintaining your position, fire element

Spindle Shell: inspiration, meditation, fate, change, karma, destiny, vitality

Strombus Shell: truth, communication, divination, speech, trust, air element

Star Limpet: strength, growth, beauty, art, water element

Sundial Shell: hope, success, victory, the sun, fire element

Thorny Oyster: defense, creativity, intuition, focus, beauty, art

Tooth Shell / Tusk Shell: wealth, business, abundance, strength, aggression, masculine energies fire element

Top Shell: spiral energies, centering, helping energy flow, control, air element

Triton Conch: happiness, intentions, prayers, helps clearing your voice/intentions, use to seek help/attention, air element

Turkey Wing: freedom, happiness, emotions, lifts bad moods, change emotions, water + air element

Venus Comb Murex: vanity, beauty, glamour, love, feminine energies, water element

Wentletrap: creativity, inspiration, art, water element

Whelk: taking control, get a hold of a situation, life changes, good fortune, wisdom, guidance, control, positivity, understanding, spiritual development, air element

Whelk Egg Casing: abundance, new beginnings, faith, luck

Worm Snail Shell: tenacity, hope, life and death, creation, overcoming obstacles, hope, changes, earth element

                          ❤ Note: Please use/collect your shells ethically! ❤

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venus and adonis 389 / romeo and juliet 2.2.140-142

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From Gerd Ziegler’s Tarot: Mirror of the Soul

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Hydromancy (Water Scrying)

Water scrying or hydromancy is an ancient form of divination similar to mirror or crystal ball divination. It has become a common feature in pagan and shamanistic religious practices because of it’s deep connections with nature. In the past, water scrying was often performed on the surface of a smooth lake or pond and was done by the light of the full moon. In more modern times, water scrying is often performed indoors by using a special scrying bowl (you can pick one up on Amazon for about $20 bucks, or if you’re feeling crafty-you can make one of your own). When you choose to employ water for scrying it is very important that you are in a comfortable environment to do so, some people use incense and candles, while others find these things distracting and prefer a much more simple setting. Regardless, here are some simple steps for using water as a scrying tool.

Before you begin you may want to cast a circle or call corners in whatever way your tradition dictates. This is also a good time to ask Spirit or a particular deity (if you have one that you feel comfortable working with) to guide you in this working and to grant you clarity. 

Fill your scrying bowl about ½ to ¾ full of water. If you’ve decided to use candles, place one to the front of where the bowl is located and two to each side (if you have long hair, I would suggest pulling it away from your face in the interest of safety, or using battery operated candles). 

Relax, and focus your mind on the question or issue for which you are seeking guidance or clarity,focus on opening your third eye chakra to allow for more insight.

Gaze into the water, don’t stare without blinking. Just relax, and let the energies and images come to your mind’s eye naturally. The images will generally come to the mind’s eye as snapshots.

You may want to keep a notebook or pad of paper handy, take notes on the feelings and images that you get from the scrying. Record everything, even if it’s just a word to jog your memory later on. 

Once you’ve recieved the information or guidance you sought, end the session. Thank Spirit or the deity you invoked and close your circle. 

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Safe Travel Over Water Charm

Ever get that sinking feeling something is going to go terribly wrong?

I’ll be traveling to Hawaii tomorrow, and with the volcanic activity and the hurricane landing the day I arrive, I’m full of dread. Or rather, I was.

This charm is meant to protect the wearer (and consequently any nearby the wearer) from misfortune while traveling.

Building the charm takes a lot of work and effort, and requires heavy amounts of concentration, knowledge of knotwork, knowledge of wire wrapping, and an isolated location to prevent interruption. You should also do this by the sea, or surrounded by things which invoke the sea’s energy. This is important, since you’re basically asking the sea for protection.

You’ll need:

- Lots of cord. I used black, white, and a brown-tan gradient bamboo cord. Use colors that feel right to you for the purpose. You’ll need to get something like leather or hemp for the slide knot.

- Fishing line or jewelry wire, to support the items when you braid them in.

- Wire to wrap your shells.

- A feather. Feather of a sea bird, or I used a feather made from a shell. This should be a combo of sea and sky.

- Murex shell. Mine wasn’t spikey enough for my taste (the more spiked the better), so I added…

- A shark tooth. Additional aggressive protection, complimenting the murex.

- Starfish. Luck and travel correspondence.

- Any additional shells or items that jump out at you. They jump out for a reason. In my case the baroque pearl and the cowrie both jumped at me. Pearls are wealth, pleasant surprises, hidden treasures. The cowrie is the divine feminine, and intuition (I have a feeling, in this specific case, these are Cernunnos and Dôn, respectively, coming in to lend some help).

Cut the cords and fishing line to be the same length. You’re braiding this, so get an idea of how long you want the necklace, add about 6" to this, then double that length. Better to have too much than too little!

Align one end and tie a knot. Give 4"-6" of length, then tie another knot. We’re fastening the necklace with a single slide knot, so you need that space on both ends! If you’re fastening with hardware, do whatever you think will look better.

Place the knot end in your mouth, and start braiding, holding the fishing line alongside one of the cords so they braid together. As you’re working, focus on the intent of the project, and sing into it. The song doesn’t have to be specific, or even have lyrics. Just humming something will help you focus energy and will add to the power of the spell.

I spaced each item about 2" apart, threading the charms onto the fishing line only. You can thread how you feel is right, but i suggest either knotting in between each item or using only one cord (with fishing line) to hold each shell, or the pendants will slide around the necklace and bunch together.

When you’ve spaced everything evenly, knot, give equal length to the final end, and know again. Trim excess cord.

If you’re outdoors, be sure to tuck any scraps away in a pocket or your bag, so it doesn’t end up wrapped around a creature’s throat.

Make the slide knot (you can find a tutorial on YouTube for this), and you’re done!

Give an offering to the ocean, if you want. It definitely helps. I like to prick my finger and offer some blood, but offerings can be as simple as cleaning up the beach, drawing something intricate in the sand for the tide to wash away, or carving on driftwood or a rock, then depositing it in the water.

Wear on your person as you travel.

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Some of my Sea witch tools.

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Ever since I saw this tin at the thrift store, I knew it had to become a “Swim Through My Dreams” tin. As I often work with water and moon magic, most of the items in this tin have association with one or the other or both and most of the flowers and herbs came from my garden or my parents’ garden. Correspondences are based on my previous researches and my intuition and experiences with the plants/crystals/shells themselves.

🌊🌙🌊 Swim Through My Dreams 🌊🌙🌊

🌙 Soft twilight wool to welcome the comfort of the night

🌙 Lavender - relaxation and sleep

🌙 Hydrangea - protection, dream and moon magic

🌙 Jasmine - moon and dream magic, also it smells lovely and is mood lifting

🌙 Lotus root - peace, calmness, feeling settled into sleep

🌙 Blue Lotus petals - this is actually a water lily, calmness, peace, relaxation

🌙 Amethyst - helps with dream recall (also my favourite bedside crystal)

🌙 Mother of Pearl - moon magic

🌙 Selenite - moon magic, bring clarity in dreams

🌙 Seaweed - to help me swim through my dreams

I plan to charge this under the moonlight and then tuck the tin into one of the drawers of my bedside stand.

For more details of correspondences for a number of the plants, please check out Herbal Riot and please always do further research on any plants or herbs you may use.

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✨ Enjoying a very lovely Full Cold Moon bath, featuring Lush’s Golden Wonder bath bomb, which is currently my fave and oh so perfect for this bath on this lovely Supermoon evening ✨

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How to feel magical every damn day.

Here’s a few ways to make every single day a witchy day.

Go for a walk where you will be surrounded by nature (whether it be the local park or forest or beach) and smell some flowers or collect some dirt/shells.

Press some flowers to decorate your journal (or book of shadows).

Light a candle.

Light a bunch of candles.

Make some natural toothpaste or deodorant to replace your regular one, feel a difference?

Sunbathe.

Moonbathe.

Put your green thumb to good use and start an herb garden in your kitchen or garden.

Harvest from your plant babies and dry/store them for using in your magic (make sure you give thanks and give them an offering in return.)

Cleanse the space with some incense or just by sweeping.

Take a bath with some herbs, petals and bath salts. Soak in all the scents and charge yourself.

Make yourself some really good tea and practice your tasseomancy.

Give your fur baby some love and do a spell for them or enchant something of theirs.

Put sachets of fragrant herbs all over the house.

Weave some magic into to your knitting or cross-stitching. Make bracelets enchanted with glamours or scarves with protective sigils woven into them for your friends or for yourself.

Volunteer at your local dog/homeless shelter and maybe add some magic into their lives. Enchant some dog collars or give out some good luck in soup form.

Bless your old clothes before you give them to charity.

Maintain a journal for everyday magic and challenge yourself to do one magical thing every day.

Read lots of fiction and get creative with your magic by letting them inspire you.

Do some magic for yourself. Whether it be enchanting you favourite lipstick or necklace, to give you a little bit of a boost throughout the day.

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Beginners How to use Spirit Boards

Many people are interested in connecting to the spiritual realm, especially through the popular method of using spirit boards. Pop culture uses these boards as Halloween decor or as the center of a cheap horror film. However, with popularity comes the murky and often inaccurate depictions of how to properly manage these tools.

This guide will cover how to fulfill a potentially successful séance.

It should be noted first and foremost the board is a tool, a bridge that connects messages from the spiritual realm to our physical one. The spirit channels themselves through the energies of the participants and with their aid, moves the planchette in order to communicate.

You will need;

1 Spirit board (Store brought is fine, but hand made holds special personalized energy, and home made can be customized to any cultural or personal preference/energy)

1 Planchette (preferably with a hole, legend says you can see other realms through enchanted holes of certain planchettes)

Friend(s) (A single person rarely has enough energy to open channels for spirit communication)

Optional items to enhance the experience;

Candles (watching the flame is an indicator of surrounding entities)

Stones (Grounding, can be used to help cast the circle)

Any other objects you personally desire

Step 1) Set up your séance space

Place your spirit board in the middle of your friend group, with the planchette at the center of the board. Set up candles, and other objects, as desired. Dim the lights to set the mood and limit distractions.

Step 2) Ground and center yourself

To open channels, you need to condense your energy and center yourself. Simple grounding exercises, breathing exercises and mild meditations are useful in bringing yourself together. A suggestion is to take deep breathes with your eyes closed and concentrate on parts of your body, such as starting with your toes and ending with the center of your forehead. This aims to both relax and open yourself to the messages.

Step 3) Set up a circle

There can be a physical representation, such as stones outlying, or purely mental. Either way, it’s important to image a protective shield around you, to ward off any unwanted entities. This can be a white bubble surround your friends and you, or whatever color you feel most protected by. Add a level of calm and serene energy to farther ground/protect yourself.

Step 4) Hold hands with your friends and connect energetically consciousnessly

This links your energy with everyone else, creating a stronger doorway for spirits to access. This is similar to Step 2, exercises are preformed similarly but instead of an individualistic approach, it is expanding oneself to all participants. It is vital everyone involved is calm and willing. If anyone disbelieves or is fearful, it will negatively affect the results. The Spirit will communicate through your combined energy, if someone is skeptical and doesn’t put in any effort, there won’t be enough energy. If someone has fearful, or otherwise negative energy, it may attract and empower negative energies. It is important to remain calm and relaxed through the session.

Step 5) Place two fingers on the planchette and invite the spirits*

Sometimes, depending on who you’re contacting and where you’re doing it, a spirit may jump right in to communicate, or it could take some coaxing. Occasionally once the fingers hit the planchette, it’ll start moving- this usually only happens when a spirit is familiar with someone, or was called on during the ceremony prior to this step. However, it usually takes a chant or two, to explicitly invite them. When you chant to invite them, be careful with your wording to avoid inviting anything you’d rather not talk to. As you chant, gently move the planchette in circles until you feel a force aka the spirit moves it elsewhere.

An example of a possible chant is

“We welcome kind spirits far and near, To talk and laugh, share some wisdom, We expell all spirits who aim to cause fear, We welcome those who are positive & light, Who only speak the truth through our board, We welcome you and we honor you as a friend”

That is a loose example, and it is possible to speak one up as you go.

*if you incorporated candles, you could chant an invitation for either the type of spirit or energy you want, such as “I dedicate this candle to peace” “I dedicate this candle to guardian angels”, etc.

Step 6) Spirit Communication

By now, a spirit should begin communication. If not, move the planchette to Goodbye to formally close the session and try again later. It is wise to ask something similar to “if you’re a benevolent spirit move to the sun, if malevolent move to the moon”. If at any point you are uncomfortable, gently guide the planchette to “goodbye”, and declare farewell aloud.

When talking to the spirit, be sure to be kind and respectful at all times. Be respectful about asking questions, avoid too personal ones. Remember spirits are like people, and can lie, so trust your instincts. Also, don’t ask the spirit to do anything physical such as move anything, as that’s inviting them to develop poltergeist attributes in which may prove dangerous, or michevious later on. When done with the session, say goodbye and move the planchette to “goodbye”.

Step 7) Put away the board

If everything went well, store the board in a trustworthy space for future uses.

If something negative happened, and you still feel the entities energy attached to the board, depending on the severity do a cleansing spell or, for extreme cases, burn the board.

I hope you found this short and simple guide helpful!

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Hypothetical routine(s) and stuff for a baby witch to do

So a lot of people I think are feeling that once you become a witch you need to do lots of things, but they aren’t terribly sure what it is they are ‘supposed’ to do. Here are just a few little ideas for things you could do, if you wanted to.

During creative free time:

Write affirmations or prayers

You could write them for daily use (like a morning affirmation), one for each day of the week, one for phases of the moon, or different ones to encourage or bind emotions or help you get through tough days.

Doodle sigils for use during a later time

Be creative and have fun, as you are not ‘required’ to use any sigil you have made. 

Think about what kind of energy (elemental, herbal, animal, planetary, etc) you thin would best be used to charge each sigil

Create lists of magical ideas you would like to explore or write spells for

Don’t worry about whether something is ‘real’ enough or will work or not.

Make a list of tools you would like and tools you already have

Draw or write about your perfect ideal tools and what you expect them to do for you

Include herbs, stones, crafts, natural finds, and anything else you like

Create an inventory of things around you, in your home, or that you can easily find, for use in your craft

Write what your current beliefs are

Contemplate your current belief system and morals, and how you think magic works.

Make a list of the most important things you want to learn more about or explore

Write down your current talents and abilities and try to think of ways they can be used magically

Build altars

Draw ideas or create digital altars if you do not have the physical space

Be inspired and create them spontaneously or spend your time and research all the elements.

Try writing a spell - it doesn’t matter if you know a ‘right’ or ‘correct’ way. Just give it a try and see what you come up with!

During research time:

Research what sort of plants are local to your area and discover what their uses are

Look up the medicinal and magical uses of herbs and plants you have in the house and on your property

See if you can discover what sorts of special crystals or stones are near your area or mined close by

Take your lists of magical items you want and research their uses, both modern and historical

Try to discover not only what an item is used for, but why, and how it became associated with those actions.

Research what kind of religions and magical traditions have historically been practiced in your area

Look up lore and mythology for your geographic location

Find what sorts of helpful books are at your library, whether they be related to religion, psychology, meteorology, mythology, history, gardening, herbalism, cooking, magical traditions, or anything else pertaining to your magical education.

Find a popular pagan or magical author and research them to understand the context behind their writings and get an idea of what others think of them

Create your own reading list of library books to keep you occupied

Research closed religions/closed magical systems so you can understand what is not available for you to use, and to gain valuable information on other magical cultures.

During practice time:

Choose 2-3 energetic exercises such as these:

How to send energy to other people

Energetic Check

Distance Charging

Texting Predictions

Energy Ball

Energy Cannonball

Witch’s Guide to Programing

Witch’s Guide to Grounding

Witch’s Guide to Centering

Witch’s Guide to Shielding (Shielding Masterpost)

Witch’s Guide to Charging

Work on a couple of exercises until you feel really comfortable with them and are satisfied that you now have that skill. Then try practicing others.

Spend 50-70% of the time figuring out how to make the exercise personal to you and comfortable for you

Spend 10-20% of the time learning how to focus and get in the necessary headspace to do energy work

Write (if you want) and/or perform simple candle, knot, paper, (whatever) spells as need arises

Try spells for bringing peace and calmness in to your space, giving yourself good luck, protecting against certain dangers, causing small events to happen, or binding harmful actions done against you

Identify unique needs you face in your everyday life and try to manage and control them with energy work

During upkeep time:

Cleanse your personal spaces

Learn floor washes and keep the recipes and ingredients handy

Discover what cleansings and purifications will work for your situation

Personally cleanse

Take a cleansing shower or bath with special ingredients or using the powers of elemental energies

Do healing/balancing meditations or spells

Clean your altars and tools, keep your spaces tidy

Leave offerings to any spirits you work with

Weed your gardens, check on your plants or pets

Update your grimoire or journals

Include personal experiences, new successes, or things that you have learned

After waking up for the day:

Repeat appropriate prayers or affirmations

Spend time in meditation

You can try to clear your mind, magically make way for the day ahead, or do a guided meditation for preparedness or any other purpose

Draw a tarot or oracle card for the day

Use any magical oils or soaps as part of your waking routine

Including glamoring magic as you get ready for the day is a good way to practice

State your goals for the day with magical intent

Magically plan for free time you need during the day so it will be sure to be open for you

During snacks and meals:

Enchant food by adding in herbs or spices with a little energy and a magical command

Enchant drinks by stirring, adding energy, and a command

Give small offerings to spirits you work with by leaving a little food left over on your plate

Magically affirm that the food will bring you energy

Before going to bed for the day:

Repeat prayers or affirmations

Spend time in meditation

If you meditate when you get up and when you go to bed, try a sunrise or sunset meditation, or complementary meditations 

Identify what successes you have had that day

Push away or transform any negative energies send to you that day

Add additional protective shields for sleeping

That was all I could think of. Add more if you think of some!