Finding The Magic In Everyday Life

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[cunninggreeneraven]

Sensing Energy Exercise

Perform this exercise with a plant with which you are familiar with, then try it with something you’ve never seen or handled before. Trust your observations

For this exercise, you’ll need the plant, plus your green witch journal & something to write with.

Take the plant in your hand. If it is dried or harvested herb, hold a pinch in your palm or hold your hand over it, palm down. It is a living plant that you correctly identified as safe to touch, gently touch it with your fingers. If you cannot identify it, hold your hand above or to the side of the plant with your palm towards it.

Close your eyes and imagine your palm glowing. Focus on the sensation of your palm.It may tingle or grow warm or cool. That means you’re focusing on the energy your palm is creating naturally.

Visualize the plant glowing

Visualize the glow of energy collected in your palm gently stretching out to touch glowing energy of the plant. As the two energies meet, ask yourself what you sense. Do you feel a specific emotion? Do ideas drift into your head? Thoughts or vague hunches? Pay attention. This is a method for collecting observations about the plant by sensing its energy with your own energy.

When you feel you have observed enough, send the plant a feeling of gratitude for its cooperation, then visualize your energy disengaging from that of that the plant and drawing back into your palm.

Open your eyes and shake your hands firmly, as if you’re shaking water off your hand. This will help you get rid of any excess energy hanging on.

Write down your observations in your green witch journal.

Everyone interact differently with the energy of a plant. If lavender energizes you, then that is one of lavender’s energy benefit in your practice, even though most books will tell you that lavender generally projects feelings of peace and tranquility. Acquiring first-hand knowledge is important for a green witch, as it shapes and refines your practice, personalizing it in a way that makes it truly unique.

(Source & inspiration The Path of the Green Witch)

[mamafoxglove-deactivated2015050]

Lets talk basics: Directing Energy

Directing energy involves concentration, focus and energy. After raising energy, it can be taxing. It’s important for the beginning practitioner to pace themselves. Baby steps lovelies, there’s no shame in it.

After raising the energy, focus on your intent. Infuse that intent with the energy you have and begging ‘moving’ it towards your goal. There are many mediums in which to achieve this; charging an object, casting out, imbuing it in a tool (poppet, charm, ect.) or simple a direct method.

Charging objects is an easy way to begin. Hold a stone or an item that represents your intent in your hands. Close your eyes and visualize the energy pouring from you and into that object. Hold the visualization, allowing the energy to become strong within that object. I like to use obsidian, charged with neutralizing energy and carry it with me, I touch it when I feel overwhelmed and allow myself to be neutralized.

Casting out requires a good deal more focus. I learned to cast out in a previous coven of mine. It works well when you need energy to reach someone or something you cant have contact with. Such as a sick loved one who lives far from you. Find yourself in a comfortable position. Visualize the energy forming almost solidly around you. Keep your intent in you thoughts. Begin visualizing that energy rising up into the sky or earth depending on your preference. As it rises, allow to to begin traveling in the direction of your intent. Release it and hold your focus for a few more moments, then rest, ground.

My personal favorite is to create a medium for directing energy. Such as allowing the energy to travel through a wand. Creating a doll, charm or other such item is a great way to continue sending energy s certain way. I like to see poppet dolls for certain needs. With each stitch I can focus on my intent and imbue it with energy. Its almost as if you fill the object energy and it releases it slowly. Or quickly sometimes. These items will eventually become ‘empty’, usually after your goal has been met.

[ioqayin]

Go out into the Woods

Go out into the Woods and light a candle. If you can’t go out to the woods because there are no woods near you, wait until the time when the house is still, and you can feel the spirits within the timber and stones stir, and haunt the halls of your home. You know the time.  When the air becomes chill. Your senses are heightened. Every creak causes your hair to stand on end. Shadows move and seem to breathe.  Go out into the Woods and light a candle. Perhaps you lay a compass round to drawn Them to the circle’s edge. Make a silent call to them, the spirits in the trees and stones. Draw them in with your breath and your silent words.  Can you hear them? The rustling and creaking of the wood? The shimmering in the air? The shadows that are breathing and stalking you?  After a few moments, the sensation will release. The darkness will seem to brighten. You will realise that you hadn’t been able to hear the night creatures that roam the woods until this moment.  Listen. See. What do they want to show you?  Take the visions and words they give to you into your body, into your bones, into you blood, into your spirit. Leave an offering of milk and honey.  Leave the way you came, and don’t look back.   

[theredwingbriar]

Why are ‘witch tips’ always like “use quartz as a substitute for any crystal!” and not the good stuff like “River spirits are almost always looking to fuck shit up, so if you rile em up and then feed them a name, they’ll lay someone tf out.”

[therainshallmakeadoor-deactivat]

Excellent ! My turn. I onced tricked a spirit into believing the red wine and dragon’s blood powder mixture I served it was the blood offering it was due. No idea how it bought that, no idea if it would work again, but when you have certain geasa, you make do. To whomever it may concern…

[quietjustice]

Witch Tip: Venusian plant spirits love flattery, love to have their praises sung. I also find they’re more active during midday in full sun. Saturnian herbs can be slow to open up, but are excellent teachers once they do.

[helheth]

Witch Tip: When visiting a graveyard, especially for magic purposes, leave a penny at the gate as offering to its guardians. I’ve seen them fight off spirits that would have hurt me otherwise.

[mahigxn-deactivated20200629]

Witch Tip: numerology is helpful but trust me, repeating that prayer or incarnation until you can barely speak and the words hang heavy from your tongue, rather than adhering to a set number of repetitions, will 1000% get you in an altered state of consciousness which will allow you to commune with the spirits at work much more easily. This is when you raise power and gain the ability to affect the weave.

[therestlesswitch]

Witch Tip: You don’t need to be in a ‘positive state of mind’ or any of that bs when performing magic. Use your power wherever it comes from. Feel your feelings and use their energy.

[ofwordsandblood]

Witch Tip: If you have plants and tress around your property, you can have them help you create a solid ward against any ill intentions or malicious spirit that tries to enter the property. Regulalrly giving offering and holding communion with those spirits will ensure the continued power of the work.

[little-forest-spirit-deactivate]

Reblogging this version for that last point. As someone who works with Trees, 100% true!

I bonded with many Trees in my area and I was under their protection for a long time. Then came a really bad time where I separated myself from them and they distanced themselves as well as they didn’t feel welcome in my space anymore. They never truly abandoned me though, as once I removed myself from the situations that I kept getting myself into that created a huge rift, and I returned to the forest to seek forgiveness and wished to come back to them, they welcomed me and I am once again connected with them. Earn the trust of Tree and Forest Spirits, befriend them. They are more than willing to treat you like family if you treat them with love and respect.

I also bring them bio-degradable gifts and offerings to show my gratitude, though I never felt like it was demanded from me, I just think it is good to be giving to them as they are giving to us.

[ofcloudsandstars]

YO TREES ARE AMAZING I love working with plants but trees are so incredible I second all of this.

Another witch tip: once you create an alliance with a tree they can aide you in your spells like a giant wand. They can be so loving, friendly and wise and are happy to protect you and boost your magic if you show them kindness and support in return.

Look up the type of tree through plant apps like PlantNet or Picture This, some trees have different elements or are aligned with different planets. For example Birch is very energetic and fiery, ash is solar and vibrant, willow is lunar and healing, yew is death and regeneration. Oak is abundance and expansion. There’s a lot of info on each tree magical property but if you’re ever confused the good ole ‘as above so below’ mentality helps cause every tree correspondence has a lot to do with its physical state cause trees also have like physical powers.

The bark of a birch tree likes to roll off but it’s highly flammable and makes excellent fire starters. You can ask and gently rip off a piece already coming off.

Willow bark has been used as a type of pain relief in natural medicine (I think pharmacists back in the day created aspirin from their studies of it), willow also helps heal the heart

Yew is death and regeneration cause not only is it’s poisonous but if you chop it down it grows back

Oak is a massive tree that comes from a tiny lil’ acorn and produces a lot of acorns in turn feeding all the lil forest animals and giving shelter.

Anyway hope that helps! Plus it’s fun doing magic with some trees cause often their roots could be shaped in ways where it’s easy to set up a little altar for your spell at the base.

[theredwingbriar]

Why are ‘witch tips’ always like “use quartz as a substitute for any crystal!” and not the good stuff like “River spirits are almost always looking to fuck shit up, so if you rile em up and then feed them a name, they’ll lay someone tf out.”

[therainshallmakeadoor-deactivat]

Excellent ! My turn. I onced tricked a spirit into believing the red wine and dragon’s blood powder mixture I served it was the blood offering it was due. No idea how it bought that, no idea if it would work again, but when you have certain geasa, you make do. To whomever it may concern…

[quietjustice]

Witch Tip: Venusian plant spirits love flattery, love to have their praises sung. I also find they’re more active during midday in full sun. Saturnian herbs can be slow to open up, but are excellent teachers once they do.

[phemonoi]

it's okay. you can be vulnerable in front of the gods. you can cry your heart out. you can be naked. you can dance like an idiot. you can scream, enraged, or break down in silence. you can be yourself, they will never ask you to hide your humanity or be ashamed of it.

[sunnypunkwitchery-deactivated20]

Okay, I just finished a HUGE project, and I'm so pleased with the result that I gotta share-

It took me *forever* cuz drawing/painting isn't an art form that comes to me naturally, but I challenged myself and made a handpainted oracle deck!!!

40 cards divided into 4 suits; Dawn, Day, Golden Hour, and Night.

Each suit also has an elemental and seasonal association- Dawn/Earth/Spring, Day/Air/Summer, Golden Hour/Fire/Autumn, and Night/Water/Winter.

I created a little symbol for each using the element symbols with a little sun (or moon) incorporated into it. And they all have different colored paper and different paint colors based on their suit.

I chose/designed/sorted the cards based on their personal associations and significance to me, and how they seem/feel to me.

They are pretty small, but have a little bit of heft to them from gluing the card backs and art to laminate samples I took from Lowes (one of my fav places to go for free art supplies. Lol). So they have a great tactile feeling AND make the most lovely lil clicking sound when shuffled

So basically I'm delighted and can't wait to start doing readings for people!!!^^

[artofmaquenda]

Deer art :D

[bloodbonestelephones]

Death

The Nine of Cups

Justice

The Nine of Swords

The King of Swords

The Hanged Man

The Hermit

The Six of Swords

The Eight of Cups

The Five of Cups

The Sun

The Three of Swords

‘The Ghetto Tarot’: Haitian artists transform classic tarot deck into stunning real life scenes:

Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.

As Smeets says, “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word ‘Ghetto,’ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”

[lazytarot]

[mothwing-tarot]

I made a super quick and simple tarot spread based on taking things “one day at a time”, for those of us who are feeling overwhelmed by a situation. This spread is designed to give fast advice on the day you’re reading for in a non-cluttered way. Hope this helps! I’d love to see people using this so feel free to tag me if you do! :)

Card One- Today’s Challenge: This card is basically self-explanatory. Pull a card to give you a hint about a problem or challenge you may face today.

Card Two- Solution to Problems that may Arise Today: This is the advice card. Pull a card to give you an idea of how to go about solving whatever comes up today. For example, pulling the Queen of Swords could indicate that you need to handle today’s issues with logic and controlled temper, and leave emotions out of it.

[calling-all-cards]

Big thanks to @digitalsigils​, who was kind enough to allow Cupcake to use their beautiful sigil as inspiration for this spread. May the sigil and the spread help you hone and strengthen your craft!

[digitalsigils]

Look at this absolutely lovely spread made by calling-all-cards! <3 Great positioning, wonderful explanations for each, very clear and concise, I can see this being very helpful to some of you!

[orriculum]

Methods for Spells

TO BIND- wrap in black thread, drip wax over, or seal in a jar and hide it in the dark.

TO BANISH- burn an effect to ash and sweep off the back door step, cast it out a window, or bury in the ground and spit on it

TO ENCOURAGE-  plant it by the front door/steps, bury by a window, or place it on a windowsill

TO HIDE- place in a jar painted black, cover with cloth and bury, or wrap with a ribbon

TO CLEANSE- bury it in a bowl of  salt, burn herbs and pass through the smoke, or lay it in a moonwater bath

TO GLAMOUR- leave under the full moon, hold its reflection over a mirror with herbs, or 

TO WISH- place before a candle and blow it out, drown a coin in water, or let seeds blow into the wind

TO COMMUNICATE- (with a spirit or deity) - anoint a candle, leave out offerings, or open the front doors and windows

TO WARD- leave part of the spell in four corners, draw lines around the protected area, or plant an object of projection in the north, east, south, and west edges

TO CURSE- spit on it, drag your nails down it, or stick sharp things in it

TO DISCOURAGE - plant or bury by the back door, or burn to ash

TO JINX- say it three times out loud, or say a word the same time as someone else

TO MANIPULATE - use wax, use poppets, or tie several strings to pieces of an effect

TO BENEFIT - light a candle, charge a crystal, or create a talisman

[themanicnami]

Unconventional & Affordable Ingredients for Spells

Here is a list of unconventional and affordable ingredients that can be used in spells and witchcraft along with their correspondences; good for witches “in the woods” and witches on a budget. Many of these can be easily found for inexpensive prices or at home.

Acorns/Acorn Caps: security, abundance, longevity, good luck, youth and brings good health

Animal toys/stickers: relates to correspondences of that animal

Artist’s Charcoal: banishing negativity, protection; cursing

Baby Powder: cleansing, beauty, youth

Baking Soda: cleansing, purification, protection

Birthday Candles: wishes, joy; color magic and number magic depending on their color and/or what number they display

Black Tea Bags (used): earth magic, grounding, strength, stability, banishing negativity; ending, death 

Bottle Caps: prosperity, luck, material gain

Bubble Bath: self-love, relaxation, emotional healing, serenity; plus whatever scent the bubble bath is affects correspondences

Bubbles/Bubble Liquid: wishes, joy, whimsy, imagination, fantasy

Buckeye Nuts: luck, sexual energies, warding

Butter: femininity, flattery, friendship, warmth, happiness; good for fae work

Candy Bars: love, romance, happiness, lust, fertility, emotional healing, healing of the heart, forgiveness, friendship

Candy Corn: courage, imagination, endurance, energy, motivation, happiness, celebration

Candy Foil: sweetness, secrets, protecting one’s emotions; color magic

Chocolate Syrup/Milk: happiness, love, lust, romance, sweetening relationships

Cocktail Swords: strength, assertiveness, competition; cursing, revenge; ending rumors

Cotton Balls: beauty, gentleness, warmth, sleep

Cotton Swabs: cleansing, purification

Dice: chance, opportunity, luck; number magic

Dirt: grounding, earth magic, growth, prosperity, patience, home and family; cursing

Dish Soap: cleansing

Duct Tape: binding, storing energy, cursing

Egg Shells: cleansing, protection, warding

Energy Drinks: energy, motivation

Envelopes: messages, communication, protection during travel

Epsom Salts: purification, cleansing, protection, pain relief, serenity, comfort, stress relief

Fake/Play Money: wealth, prosperity

Fish Sauce: prosperity, water magic, curses

Foil: glamour, protection, storing energy, binding

Glue: sealing, immobility, binding, curses

Googley Eyes: vision, divination, scrying, creativity, protection, imagination; curses, paranoia, nightmares

Grass: growth, nature, learning, healing, new beginnings, recovery from loss

Hand Soap: cleansing, curse removal

Hole Punches: good for cursing

Hot Sauce: motivation, lust, confidence; cursing, anger, revenge, emotional pain

Koolaid: youth, sweetness, happiness; color magic, corresponds with flavors as well

Lip Balm: glamour, confidence in speaking, honesty, beauty

Lollipops: sweetness, innocence, ending rumors and lies, lust and sexual energies, love

Lotion: protection, beauty

Laundry Soap: cleansing, purification

Marshmallows: friendliness, comfort, gentleness, fidelity, sleep and dreams

Metal Crafting Wire: binding

Modeling Clay: poppets, earth magic, grounding, balance, stability, creation, change

Mud: grounding, earth magic; curses

Muslin: poppets, change, creativity

Noodles: Longevity, good health

Pompoms (craft): gentleness, comfort, love, sleep, dreams

Paper Clips: balance, focus, organization; curses, binding

Pennies: luck, wealth

Pickle Juice: curses to sour things

Plastic Bags: protection; binding

Plastic Ribbon (wrapping): happiness, glamour, delight; binding; color magic

Plastic Wrap: binding

Popsicle sticks: poppets

Scissors: offensive magic, curses

Seltzer Water: purification, removing negativity; curses

Sewing Needles: curses, pain

Shaving Cream: cleansing, softness, patience, calmness

Stamps: travel, communication

Sour Cream: cursing

Soy Sauce: protection, banishment; cursing

Sticky Notes: communication, memory

Strawberry Milk: love, self-love, beauty, sweetness, friendship

Syrup: joy, sweetening one’s emotions

Taco Sauce: Focus, Energy, motivation

Taffy: joy, flexibility

Thumbtacks: curses

Tissue Paper: softness, serenity; color magic

Toothpaste: cleansing

Toothpicks: curse

Walnut Shells: protection, warding

Wasabi: Energy; curses, anger, envy

Whipped Cream: beauty, light-heartedness

Whistles: communication, attention grabbing, warding

Other Tips:

Recycle bottles, jars and medicine bottles for jar/bottle magic

Reuse tea bags (though not too long after use) in bath magic

If you do wish to use herbs, it is cheaper to order them online in bulk rather than the supermarket. Trust me, supermarkets and grocery stores really over price most herbs. You can get triple the amount for 2 dollars less online

Make up and toiletries are great for glamours

Its fine to use kitchen knives if you can’t afford am athame

Look at the ingredients in food you eat to see what is in it and determine that food’s correspondences, quick and easy kitchen magic

Crayons, colored pencils, markers and pens are good for easy sigil and color magic

Binders are cheaper than blank books and make great grimoires

[lavendergrimoire]

Here are a few manifestations I will be repeating:

✨The money I spend will come back to me doubled.

✨Love is attracted to me.

✨My heart is warm for myself and others.

✨My spirituality will hold me and guide me through life.

[hot-girl-midsommar]

bindrunes!! 

[hexesandherbs]

My grimoire. Started years ago, I figured if I posted pages, it would force me to finally finish it. I hope someone out there finds use in them!