Illuminatrix

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Yoga witchcraft tips🕉

🌙before you start, spray your yoga mat with essential oils (orange, lavender, grapefruit and mint are great)

☀️put your favorite crystals around your mat, especially any crystals that are good for relaxation or balance

🌙listen to soothing nature sounds (like ocean waves, forest, campfire, thunder, etc.) to help you focus and ground

☀️make yoga spells by combining certain positions with intent (sun salutations and tree pose for confidence and happiness, cobra and warrior for warding and banishment, etc.)

🌙do some tea, infused water, or smoothie magic before you start. This works great in combination with the yoga spells since you can match intent (and strengthen the spell)

☀️you could also make whatever you drink (or eat) before yoga correspond with energy (cinnamon, ginger, strawberry, French lavender, apple, rosemary, and citrus fruits are great energy boosters)

🌙do some yoga with your plant babies! Place your plant near your mat, as you breathe and stretch your plant will absorb the energy. It also will help you ground and meditate. (Just make sure you don’t accidently knock them over)

☀️light some incense or a candle (it can correspond with your yoga spell, cleanse the air, or just relax you)

🌙do some divination! (E.g. a tarot reading in child’s pose, pendulum in lotus position, etc.)

[orriculum]

⏳ Restarting Spell ⏳

a ritual for fresh starts, to remove old energies, and invite new ones in

⏳  to be done at the end of the year, midnights, or the end of each month

⏳  gather: a white candle, salt, two pages, and a fire-safe surface

⏳  write about, or in a sigil, represent the aspects you want to shake off

⏳  on the second page, write the things you wish to usher in.

⏳  place the positive one under the candle, and draw a circle of salt around the candle. burn the negative note.

⏳  if you plan to repeat the ritual, use the back of the positive note to collect the negativities for when you burn it later.

⏳  to do in a group ritual, arrange the candles in a circle or mark all pages with a unifying sigil

[greekwitchchild]

MABON

a beginners guide to the sabbat mabon

MABON DATES 2019:

NH: 21st-29th sepetember with the autumn equinox on the 23rd.

SH: 21st-29th march with the autumn equinox on the 23rd.

What is it?

Mabon is the autumn celebration of balance. It’s the day equal day and equal night. Mabon is the time to pay respect to the darker days coming, but also give thanks to the summer and harvest that we’re leaving behind. It’s the time for rest, rejuvenation, letting go and showing thanks.

What is associated with it?

Mabon is associated with earthy colours such as red,brown and green, apples,berries, ground vegetables, spices, leaves that have fallen and acorns. The crystals that are associated with the sabbat are quartz, amber and anything in those yellows and reds.

Activities to do :

give thanks and offerings to summer related deities such as Apollo

complete any unfinished projects and resolve any issues

harvest the final batch of herbs to dry

decorate your alter or shrines

burn incense (apple,sage, ginger etc)

wear mabon coloured clothes

meditate

now is the sabbat to perform protection and balance spells

honour spirits and ancestors, and leave offerings to nature and in graveyards for the spirits still walking

have a meal with loved ones (it’s our thanksgiving basically)

FOOD!! : breads, meats, any comfort food

relax and clean your room for the upcoming winter

remove any negative energies for summer

Hellenic Mabon:

This is the start of autumn and so this is when I celebrate Persephone being reunited with Hades. You can use this sabbat to learn more about them, contact them, give offerings etc. Use this day to celebrate their reunion and pay your respects and show they how happy you are for them.

[polar-solstice]

Storm Lanterns

Yesterday I posted about my storm lanterns, and someone pointed out to me that i’ve never really given an explanation of what these are, so I’m sharing this practice of mine with all of you.

When it storms, and I mean heavy cloud cover, thunder and lightening storms, I light a storm lantern. In common, mundane parlance, a storm or hurricane lantern is a lantern that burns fuel and has a tall glass chimney or covered glass case that keeps storm winds from blowing out the flame. In my practice it is a glass lamp or lantern or candle holder that I can place or hang in my window. There’s not much ceremony when I do it, but you can add some if you’d like. I personally love to use scented tea lights, but that’s just because I love scented tea lights. 

My purpose for doing this is threefold. First, it is to ask for protection for my home and everyone in it. Second, it is to offer the protection of my home to anything that might need it. It is a temporary offering of warmth and safety for anything that needs or wants it, as long as they contribute in whatever way that they can to the safety of my home, even if it’s just not starting trouble. Third, in my practice lightening and fire are comparable, so it offers me a focus for my spells. Essentially it’s the same energy, but tamed and brought into my home for a short time in a peaceful way. 

If this is something you’d like to work into your practice, please remember fire safety! I always make sure that my lanterns are covered and also I tie back my curtains so that they can’t catch fire, and I never fall asleep without putting the fire out or swapping an electric tea light into the lantern.

Since its summer, there’s a million of these, and I know you can get some at Ikea year round in the candle section. 

[thecultoflexithewulf]

“Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.”

— starhawk

[lazytarot]

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Hello all! March 20th is Ostara so I created a special spread for the occasion! Send me a ask by March 20th to get this reading. Each reading comes with a photo of the cards and a full written interpretation by me. Don’t miss out!

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Beautiful spread for Ostara and springtime!

[lunerbean]

Witch Tips 20

Ohhhh my goodness this means we’ve reached 200 total tips. That is absolute insanity. I know I say this a lot, but I can’t believe we’ve made it this far! Thank you all for your continued support in reading my work. It means a lot. Search #10tips on my blog for more!

1. Save bottle caps to use as tiny bowls for essential oils

I actually thought of this because a kind witch asked me for advice about not being able to use incense. I love when you guys ask me questions, I’m really excited about this tip that came from that. You can save the caps from water bottles, beer bottles, anything with a cap. Paint them corresponding colors or colors you like or just leave them as they are. Then, you can use them as a tiny dish for essential oils when performing spells and rituals. You may need to do this because you can’t have incense or because you want to incorporate an oil that corresponds to the spell you’re working on, or because you want to put it on your altar as an offering to your gods/goddesses.

2. Changing your complaints into affirmations is it’s own kind of magick

Magick doesn’t always come with ingredients and require a cauldron. Your words can be magick. Your intentions are the fuel to your power. I’ve started to implement this new things where, every time I complain about something to myself, I say 3 things I’m grateful for. For example, I was trying to pull a tote bag full of stuff out of the car earlier, and I accidentally toppled it, causing everything to spill out. My first thought, of course, was “I hate my fucking life” but then I took a deep breath and thought “Man, I’m so grateful that I have a bag to put all of these things in.” And I decided to add 2 more positive thoughts to that, “I’m glad I’m able to have these things, too. And I’m really happy that they fell on the seat, rather than on the ground, I’m really lucky.” Changing your perspective can nurture your mind.

3. Grow your own sage

I’m sure you’ve heard by now that white sage is endangered. Do your part to help it survive by growing your own. Not only is growing plants a staple part of green witchcraft, it can help any witch in their craft to nurture plants and encourage a lifeform to flourish. Give a plant what it needs and it’ll return the favor.

4. Don’t write the index in your grimoire all at once

I know you have all these plans and you want to write it all down in one go, but I suggest otherwise. You may find that something you expected to take a single page, actually takes up 2 or 3 when you’re writing it down. Or you’ll think you want to go straight from spells to potions, but then you later decided to add a whole section for bath spells between the two. So instead of writing it all out a once, try adding as you go and see how that works for you.

5. Learn the symbols

There are so many different symbols used in witchcraft and then there’s even more sub-genre symbols for different areas of the craft. There’s literally hundreds, so I don’t expect you to learn them all at once. But it’s important to at least learn the basics and the difference between them. For example, there is a difference between a pentacle and a pentagram and you’ve got to know it. Some other symbols to look into include the triple goddess, the crone, the elements, the sun and moon, etc. If you’re into tarot, learn which symbols mean the same thing (for example, some decks have pentacle while others have coins)

6. Be careful with holding onto still waters

That sounds super philosophical but it’s really meant to be literal. If you leave water just chillin in your room, it’s very likely going to get gross. It’ll evaporate, it’ll calcite, or it’ll cause mold. It’s gross, be careful with it.

7. Match up your hair/skin care with the phases of the moon

This is a great way to add witchcraft into your normal daily routine. You can use this to help grow your hair, clear your skin, or just help the health of both. You may be asking, “how the hell can I even do this? What do you want from me? You’re asking way too much.” Well guess what? I’ve actually got a little cheaty-cheat website for you! Which brings us to….

8. Utilize this website

You can adjust it to your timezone and there are lots of things here that can help your witchy routine. This website tells you when the best time is to cut your hair, dye your hair, what kind of skin care is best for that specific lunar alignment, what moon phase it is, what zodiac sign the moon is under, etc. And if you click on a specific date, then it’ll go even more into detail as far as how the alignment effects different parts of your body, your mood, your relationship. It even gives you nutrition tips to help your body do it’s best that day. Sidenote: please take the advice this website gives with a grain of salt. This should not be used in place of an actual doctor’s advice and you should also always listen to your own body and put your own dietary needs above all else. I care about you, treat yourself with respect.

9. Here are some tips for finding other witches in your community

Even a solitary witch can have some witch friends! Just because you prefer to practice alone doesn’t mean you don’t want to have friends in the craft. There any many off the wall ways to meet witches. I’ll start with some of the easier ones, and as they get more complicated, I’ll add in brief explanations (lmao as if I can ever be brief)

Talk to people who work at witch shops

And the customers too

Same with gem and mineral shops

Watch for people wearing witchy symbols or lots of crystals

Check out online forums

Frequent magickal spots in town (for example, I once found this beautiful cove in a town I was visiting. It was full of magical energy. While exploring, I found some witchy symbols carved into a piece of driftwood with a burned down incense stick poking out of it. I left them a note spelled out in rocks and left them a little gift. I never got to meet them, because I’m a traveler but I feel like I could have if I kept trying)

Watch out for signs of witches nearby (recently, I was at the park and saw some sigils and positive magickal affermations painted onto an old metal bridge. I need to find this witch)

10. Crystal beads are great for your DIYs

A lot of witch shops will sell tiny pieces of gems with holes through them as beads. You can use these little guys for more than just jewelry. Sew them into your clothes (make sure they’re water safe so they don’t get ruined in the washer) add them to wands, sew them into your curtains, your cloth napkins, your towels, any and all materials in your home. Feel free to add more uses in the comments!

Thanks so much for reading my latest #10tips! Don’t forget, you can always send an ask my way if you need clarification on anything I wrote, if you have any other witchcraft related questions, or if you just want to tell me something neat.

And as always, have a magickal day.

Ps: if you like what I do here and wish to be a huge sweetie and support me, here’s a little link to do so. Much love.

[illuminatrix-lorelle]

Breaking Someone’s Emotional Hold

I’m a very empathetic person, which means I often find that I let the behavior of others dictate my emotions. This spell is to break someone’s emotional hold. I’ve found lately that there’s someone in my life whose words and thoughts about me hold far too much weight, and I wanted to give myself formal permission to let their words and actions wash over me without hurting me.

Ingredients

Black candle

Piece of paper with the name of the person or thing of which you want to let go written on it

Sage (for cleansing your space)

Obsidian (banishing, personal transformation)

Optional: rose quartz (forgiveness and healing). I also used turquoise because the person I was dealing with was a bully.

Cleanse your space with sage. Light the black candle while thinking about who/what of which you want to let go. Think specifically about the effect they have on you and the reason(s) why you need to be free of their influence. Think about how happy and free you will feel once they no longer have a hold over you. Burn the paper while chanting:

“(Name)’s Hold over me is broken.

(Name) has no power over me.

I am free of (Name)’s influence.”

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Imbolc decoration ideas

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My Imbolc altar and my Imbolc table for the big dinner I’m making! This is my first time celebrating this Sabbat!

[illuminatrix-lorelle]

Bitchin’ Imbolc, everybody.

[heatherwitch]

Sick Witchery

Because everyone gets sick, even witches! Witchcraft does not replace proper medical care, and please be cautious when using herbs and do proper research*

Teas and potions:

Sore throat potion

Sore throat sage tea

Cough/cold tea

Mama’s cold curing tea

Cold banishing potion

Feel better tea spell

Sick witch’s brew

Flu and cold buster

Soothing tummy tea

Vitamin C healing potion

Syrups:

Easy DIY cough syrup

Soothing lemon cough syrup

Simple elderberry syrup

Magic cold syrup

Food:

Swamp’s immunity boosting noodles

Faye’s patchwork soup

“I am not getting sick!” broth

Spells:

Simple sickness spell

Simple healing spell

All-purpose recovery spell

Christian witch healing spell

Healing/cleansing spell bottle

Bath magic:

Anti-nausea bath

Healing milk bath

Healing bath

Shower meditation

Odds and ends:

Cold and flu remedies

Lil’ witch tips for sickness

Immune system sigils

Herbs for a sick witch

Onions

Coriander seeds

Eucalyptus 

Basil

*Resources for herbal interactions:

U.S Department of Health and Human Services

AAFP

Potential Herb-Drug Interaction Chart

Checking for Possible Herb-Drug Interactions

WebMD

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If you need…

Rest and recuperation:

- take a nap

- sit in the warm sunshine

- cuddle a pet

- take a bath

- go to bed early

- meditate

- forget all the yoga and just lie in corpse pose for however long you need

Self love:

- put on body lotion

- change your clothes into something more comfortable

- wash your hair

- light some candles

- write a love letter to yourself

- list 10 good things about yourself

Reminiscence and nostalgia:

- watch a childhood classic on TV

- clean your room: make it cozy and safe

- care for yourself the way your guardians would when you were a sick child

- do a small task or hobby that you used to love - listen to old music

- play a game from your past

Energy:

- eat a healthy meal

- put on some upbeat music

- drink ice cold water

- change into clothes that make you feel good but aren’t pyjamas

- go for a walk

- challenge yourself to do the things you want to do and reward yourself after

Companionship:

- get in touch with a friend

- go to a public place, like a coffee shop

- say hello to a stranger

- call your mum

- message a long lost friend

- arrange to meet someone you love

- join online groups of people with similar interests

Health:

- do some light exercise

- drink a glass of water

- do some yoga or stretches

- go to bed early

- take a short walk or jog

- eat something healthy and tasty

- clean your home

To express yourself:

- write about how your feelings

- dance to your favourite music

- sing

- put on makeup

- paint or draw

- bullet journal

- write a story, some poetry or a diary entry

- change your hairstyle

Comfort:

- drink something warm

- go somewhere you feel safe

- spend time with safe, loving people

- watch a lovely tv show or movie

- get under some blankets

- if it’s cold, sit by a fire

- cuddle someone or something

- give yourself a little hug

self checks are a very important part of self-care and good mental health! make sure you check up on yourself and do things that help you when you don’t feel so good.

[surrenderandrecovery]

All useful ❤

[queenofboheme]

Quick Guide to Celebrating the Sabbats 🌻

LITHA

🧀Fruit & veg, herbed bread, cheese, honey cakes, chicken, pork, sunflower seeds, lemonade, ice tea.

🍋Lemon, orange, cinnamon, rose oils.

🔮Moonstone, tigers eye, amethyst, flourite, agate. {Or any crystals in warm colours}.

🌞See the sun rise & set, eat outdoors, make or buy a sun catcher, bake a sweet cake, let sunlight cleanse your rooms, clear cobwebs, wear a flower crown, make honey/sugar scrub, wear warm tones.

🎬Peter Pan, Fairy Tale, Ferngully, Stardust, Tinkerbell, Maleficent.

LAMMAS

🌽Multi grain bread, corn on the cob, bbq meats, fried chicken, potatoes, soup, rice, nuts, black current juice, beer, peppermint tea.

🌹Rose, chamomile, passion fruit, all spice oils/scents.

🔮Citrine, clear quartz, tigers eye.

📖Finish a project, make a bread to share, enjoy nature, take care of plants, decorate or craft, acknowledge what you are grateful for, journal future hopes.

🎬Parent Trap, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Cheaper by the Dozen.

MABON

🍇Pies, nuts, smoked or roast poultry [bbq chicken with smoky bbq sauce], soup, corn, apples, plums, grapes, cinnamon donuts, caramel popcorn, peanut butter, butterscotch.

🌲Sage, pine, cinnamon oils/scents.

🔮Amethyst, clear quartz, citrine, yellow agate.

🌾Make scented pinecones, spend time under the stars, donate food or goods [RSPCA], burn bad habits, visit the deceased, harvest take care of plants, bask in nature, meditate.

🎬Open Season, Brother Bear, Spirit, Pocahontas, Brave.

SAMHAIN

🎃Pumpkins, toffee apples, ginger bread, chai, nutmeg or cinnamon spiced foods, hazelnuts, sweets.

🌰Nutmeg, cinnamon scents.

🔮Obsidian, onyx, bloodstone, amber, fossils.

🕯Cook a family recipe, light a fire, remember & honour the deceased.

🎬Hocus Pocus, Addams Family, Monsters Inc, Little Vampire, Corpse Bride, Casper, Hansel Gretel Witch Hunters, Underworld, Van Helsing.

YULE

🍪Cookies, fruit cake, turkey, eggnog, ginger tea.

🕎Cedar, frankincense, myrrh oils.

🔮Bloodstone, citrine, clear quartz.

❄Give or volunteer, bake shortbread or sugar cookies, share a meal with loved ones.

🎬Santa Clause, Rise of the Guardians, 101 Dalmatians, Frozen, Snow White Winters War, Narnia.

IMBOLC

🍩Poppy seeds, pumpkin seeds, bread butter pudding, scones, muffins, garlic, onions.

☕Vanilla, cinnamon oil.

🔮Amethyst, bloodstone, onyx.

🕯Light white candles, plant seeds, bless your pets, declutter & clean your living space, bake orange and poppy seed muffins or cake.

🎬Mr Poppers Penguins, Happy Feet, Balto, Ice Age, Mirror Mirror.

OSTARA

🍌Roast ham & pineapple, eggs, milk, seeds & nuts, banana bread, chocolate milk, green vegetables.

🌹Jasmine, light florals, sweet garden, wild flowers.

🔮Amethyst, rose quartz, moonstone.

🌹Light candles, plant seeds, share a roast ham with loved ones, bake banana bread, finish spring cleaning, lay tumbled stones in your garden bed, take deep breaths [inhale new energy & exhale old energies], wear spring colours whites & florals, collect wildflowers or buy flowers that call to you & research what they mean, walk through nature.

🎬Epic, Strange Magic, The Secret Garden, Spiderwick, A Bugs Life, Barbie Fairies.

BELTANE

🍞Breads, cakes, honey, leafy greens, fruit & veg, seafood, iced tea, lemonade, milk.

🌼Florals, sweet garden, honeysuckle, jasmine, rose.

🔮Amber, citrine, moonstone, red jasper, rose quartz.

🌼Wear a flower crown or flowers in your hair, dress in red or white, make a bonfire & roast marshmallows, garden, take a walk, spend time in nature, pick fresh flowers to decorate.

🎬Moana, Arthur Trilogy, Avatar, Jungle Book, Tinkerbell, Barbie.

HOW I CELEBRATE ALL SABBATS OR ESBATS

☾Sage cleanse the house, light candles, diffuse oils.

☾Clean sheets/bedding/pillowcases/towels.

☾Eat at least one traditional food.

☾Watch a relevant movie.

☾Take notes in my BOS of how I celebrated the Sabbat to look back on next year.

☾Charge my crystals & tarot decks in the full moonlight.

☾Do a tarot reading relevant to the Sabbat.

☾Spend time outside with my dogs 🐶

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[wxtches-energies]

Simple (but effective) worries and hurt be gone spell ✨

🌕DO WHEN THERE IS A FULL MOON! 🌕

What you need:

⭐️ Any crystal that you see fit that will help banish emotional hurt and worries

⭐️ Yourself and your voice

🌕 full moon

Steps!

🕯 Put your crystal to your forehead and say “Take these thoughts that race so fast so that I may rest” then meditate for a minute while holding the crystal there and envisioning your worries like a black smoke wisping out of your mind into the crystal

🕯 Put the crystal to your heart and say “ Take this hurt that my heart cannot hold so that I may feel at peace” meditate and envision the same black smoke as your hurt wisping away into your crystal

🌕 Put the crystal under the moonlight (windowsill or outside)

Full moon: healing, banishing, cleansing and clarity

It is put under the moon so that the moonlight will take those worries and hurts and then heal the anxiety they have caused you. Banish them completely, cleanse your crystal from them and bring you clarity.