[kiaurban]

previously sidewalk-crystal

[stormwaterwitch]

Me, A Witch, On Every Major Holiday: Oh hey yeah there’s a thing today

[shadow-book-wren]

Herbs and Flowers Magic Properties(tbc)

Rosemary - memory, anxiety, sleep, cleansing, purifying, learning, healing, love, lust, protection, wisdom, mental power

Turmeric - healing, strength, vitality, purification, abundance, joy, prosperity

allspice - healing, energy, love, luck

pepper - courage, protection

sage - health, immortality, longevity, protection against negativity, protection, purification, wisdom, wishes, anxiety

bay - divination, good fortune, healing, anxiety, money, prosperity, peace, protection, happiness, purification, love, tranquility

oregano - peace, love

parsley - protection, power, strength, lust, purification, prosperity

garlic - protection against evil eye

cinnamon - aphrodisiac, passion, love, luck, prosperity, success, spiritual vibrations, energy, purification, healing, protection

cayenne - healing, removing blockages, protection, strength, motivation, courage

clover - fidelity, protection, love, money, success, animal protection, luck

pine - health, healing

nutmeg - money, prosperity, good luck, protection, psychic abilities, happiness, love, health

cloves - healing, love, friendship, cleansing, protection, abundance

thyme - health, courage, eliminates nightmares, attracts loyalty, affection, psychic abilities

ginger - energy, speeding things up, love, prosperity, success, power, healing

mint - avoid jealousy, dreams, protecting, prosperity, joy, fertility, purification, love, success, lust, travel, money, luck

chamomile - love, healing, stress-relief, calming, sleep

lavender - purification, concentration, love, healing, sleep, dreams

jasmine - divination, innovation, attraction, dreams, love, beauty

mugwort - psychic powers, protection, lust, fertility, prophetic dreams, divination, relaxing, tranquility, banishing, consecration

peach blossoms - luck, prosperity, romance, love, passion, affection, harmony, peace, health, longevity

peony - protection from hexes, luck, prosperity, business success, attracts fairies

rose - divine love, self-love, friendship, healing, domestic happiness, lasting relationships, closeness with nature, divination, tranquility, harmony, psychic ability, spirituality, protection, luck

lemon grass - openness, communication, clear mind, love, luck, libido, psychic abilities, calming

chrysanthemum - longevity, mental clarity, optimism, protection, solving mysteries, soothing grief

pink Himalayan salt - purification, grounding, abundance, prosperity, self-love, cleaning, growth, protection, peace, calming

palo santo - cleansing, positivity, good fortune, creativity, love

sweet orange - optimism, charisma, confidence, restoring aura, attracting love, fertility, abundance

bergamot - protection, purification, calming

ylang ylang - sexual attraction, persuasiveness, peace, love, anxiety and depression relief, fairy magic

geranium - prosperity, happiness, healthy pregnancy and fertility

eucalyptus - purifying, cleansing, good health, protection, negativity

sandalwood - calming, anxiety, purification, protection, healing

anise - peace, tranquility, awakening of psychic awareness, luck, spiritual connection, psychic and magic power

jojoba - healing, protection, purification, grounding, meditation, love

frankincense - cleansing, energy, uplifting, inner peace, balance

peppermint - mental clarity, prophetic visions, success, prosperity,

cedarwood - love, growth, longevity, psychic powers, healing, money

tea tree - cleansing, protection, uplifting, energy, memory, love

vanilla - sex, calming, good luck, love, empowerment, happiness, growth

catnip - beauty, happiness, attraction, love, friendship

[broomsick]

My favorite simple wards to guard the home

Hanging rosemary above the doorstep, and/or above doors of the house for protection.

Sprinkling a line of dried red pepper on a windowsill, to counter a curse.

Placing a mix of dried & ground eggshells and black pepper in every corner of a room to keep out unwanted spirits.

Placing a decoration representing a witch in the kitchen, to keep away illness and to favor health.

Crafting an effigie (no matter how crude!) and make it into the guardian of your home by charging it with your intent of protection and placing it near the front door.

Crafting small witch ladders to hang around the house.

[broomsick]

My favorite simple wards to guard the home

Hanging rosemary above the doorstep, and/or above doors of the house for protection.

Sprinkling a line of dried red pepper on a windowsill, to counter a curse.

Placing a mix of dried & ground eggshells and black pepper in every corner of a room to keep out unwanted spirits.

Placing a decoration representing a witch in the kitchen, to keep away illness and to favor health.

Crafting an effigie (no matter how crude!) and make it into the guardian of your home by charging it with your intent of protection and placing it near the front door.

Crafting small witch ladders to hang around the house.

[infernalwitxhcraft]

Lemongrass Herbal Profile/Magical Correspondences

Ah, lemongrass. Not only is it one of my favorite ingredients for stirring up family recipes that remind me of home, but it is one of my all-time favorite herbs for magic and healing. Underneath my picture of dried lemongrass is a list of its correspondences.

Plant name: cymbopogon citratus

Planet: Mercury

Element: Air

Gender: Masculine

Main magical properties:

• Cleansing & protective. Can remove jinxes, hexes, and curses.

• Strengthens psychic abilities.

• Can be used in sex magick or for lust spells.

• Removes obstacles in your path.

• Opens pathways for communication (both with people & with spirits).

• Used to gain mental clarity.

• Can open yourself up to love & be used in love spells generally speaking.

• Used in baneful magic to open the enemy's life up to all sorts of obstacles.

Main healing properties:

• Aids digestion.

• Alleviates respiratory problems.

• Relieves pain; acts as a muscle relaxant.

• Promotes joy & relieves stress, reduces anxiety.

• Good for nausea & headaches.

• Reduces fevers.

• Has antimicrobial & antibacterial properties.

• Can bring relief from menstrual pain/cramping.

• Relieves exhaustion.

Spell Uses:

• Use in a floor wash to purify your home and banish negativity. You can also incorporate this into a cleansing room spray for the same reasons.

• Lemongrass tea is potent for heightening psychic abilities. Use it for divination or for meditation when you want to communicate with spirits.

• Often is used in lust spells to heighten attraction. Make your own "come to me" attraction oil to use in a multitude of spells with it. Anoint figure candles to bring someone to you for love or sexual reasons.

• Use for mental clarity and to uplift you.

• Helpful in sachets for love, self-love, or lust. Can use in spell jars for same reasons.

• Use to open up any blockages you are experiencing.

• You can use it to hex someone by opening up their lives to all kinds of obstacles. Also can be used to open them up to whatever hex or curse you are trying to send their way to make it more potent.

• Use it to remove hexes & curses from yourself.

• Cooking with it with healing and/or magic intentions for the listed properties. Tastes excellent in many dishes. Have you ever had a chicken lemongrass soup while you are sick? No? It's amazing. Go try it next time.

*Do not ingest without consulting a medical professional. If making a tea with dried lemongrass, make sure it is safe to consume (food grade). This is not a cure to any illnesses or chronic conditions, work with your doctor and see if you can combine it with your treatment plan.

[kiaurban]

not me just realising my family and ancestors are from the district that's known as the "black magic hub" in the state

[kiaurban]

I feel like I need to clarify that it's referred to as "black magic" because all magic is considered unholy and evil, not because it's like, hexes and curses (I mean, to be fair, it is mainly hexes and curses) - maybe also because most of the time they also use blood sacrifices. actually, now that I think about it, the sacrifice part might be the real reason.

anyway, a casual internet search hasn't given me much information on the actual practice but hopefully there's stuff out there- or I will have to switch to anthropology and change my career trajectory.

[kiaurban]

not me just realising my family and ancestors are from the district that's known as the "black magic hub" in the state

[shelandsorcery]

[ruinedchildhood]

[kiaurban]

anyway, not me finding my grimoire from 5 years ago where I had done a "next relationship" spread and completely forgotten about it. but yes, the cards had very accurately laid out all the pain I'd gone through:)))

stay tuned for a getting over a heartbreak ritual, I guess????

[kiaurban]

I am back here after months to once again confirm that the cards read me to filth because a month(?) after this post I did another spread & spent the next seven months living it.

Nice.

[talonabraxas]

The Supra Oracle Deck by Peter Durham. Supra is an oracle deck loosely based on Jungian psychology and how it mingles with Gnosticism.

[lone-nyctophile]

The academic urge to study every ancient mythology.

[kiaurban]

sometimes a cleansing ritual to get rid of lethargy/lack of energy & motivation is just taking your adhd meds on time. regularly.

[prairiewitchy]

Hot tip: if you’re not working your jars it ain’t magic, it’s just a cup of (probably molding) nonsense. 

[clovenpriest]

@ “spell jar” posts: unless you’re using it to conjure mold, it’s not gonna do anything if YOU don’t do anything.

[midnight-forest-deactivated2020]

For anyone understandably thinking “how would you know if you’ve never tried it”, well I actually gave tumblr magic a fair shot when I got here.

Tumblr magic is so completely different to anything in my path or studies that after a few double takes I thought, you know what? Let’s try it. Who the fuck am I to judge a praxis I haven’t even dabbled in?

The results? Honestly the same as if I try to manifest something into being by sheer force of will. Yes you can make this stuff work with some experience and power behind you but it’s nothing you couldn’t achieve by “wishing really hard”.

The spell jars? If you follow tumblr methodology what you’ll have there is some pot pourri with really good vibes. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’d make a lovely housewarming gift and if you’re powerful enough you could even manifest some shit…

Just know that the jar of whatever didn’t really help you do that, you did that all yourself. Imagine what you could do with some real, juicy magic.

[bigfatwitchbitch]

This is why I always add a sigil and/or ask a deity to imbue my jar spell with energy. (I would give it more of my energy but I’m a spoonie, so you know, this just works better)

[prairiewitchy]

Sigils and imbuing energy (yours or anyone else’s) are pretty much exactly the opposite of what I’m talking about and are very much of the “passive” type spell jars I made this post about.

Bottle/jar spells should be shaken daily, or prayed/chanted over daily, or have candles burned over them at set hours or daily until they burn out, or buried somewhere significant, or thrown into running water, or a whole host of other things depending on your goals. If it’s sitting on your desk collecting dust you’re not working it, no matter how many gods you asked to whisper forbidden names into it. 

[spiritscraft-deactivated2025031]

Hot tip: if you dont feed your sour dough like everyday or close to everyday and if you dont ever use some to make dough and bake it you arent really making homemade sourdough bread.

Response: this is ovendooring! You are opressing me by telling me this. My molding jar of flour and dead yeast is bread even if I dont eat it, it works because I say it makes me feel ok when I see it. Step off.

[spiritscraft-deactivated2025031]

This is why I write sourdough bread on the jar in pig latin, that makes it not need to be fed, kneeded, baked or anything–it makes me feel ok so it worked.

[death-and-axes]

So first off, Either be polite and foster educational discussion or tell people to suck your dick. Don’t masquerade as the former while doing the latter. That’ll make you no friends at all.

Anyways. Why would burying it somewhere significant, etc, make a difference where marking it with something significant doesn’t? Why do you get to decide that?

What’s the difference?  No seriously.  What’s the difference between burying a spell jar or witch bottle on my property, and setting it up on a shelf on my property.

As far as I’m concerned they’re both passive. And while i’m here, there’s nothing wrong with passive magic.

Not all magic is like building sourdough. If your blend of magic is building sourdough then that’s fine but don’t tell everyone and their mother that they’re doing it wrong bc your nip of experience didn’t work.

Sure, sometimes spell jars are like sourdough and need to be worked and fed and so on.  But more often than not?  Spell jars are like PICKLES. The Work has been done either way.  And if yall are really serious that I can’t sit a witch bottle or spell jar in my window sill but I can let it mold underground, and don’t see the problem? I can’t fuckin help you. 

[asksecularwitch]

Let’s have a chat!

Actually jar spells are pretty interesting on the whole. Especially some jars which are not meant to be touched, handled, or otherwise disturbed unless you’re breaking the spell that’s in them. For instance, styles of souring jars or hexing jars - which I’ve used particularly well with ammonia (yes, ammonia), which were meant for dissolving and/or removing and/or stripping of a particular thing from a particular item. Slowly. Meant to sit in a dark hidden spot.

Granted a lot of witch jars or bellamine jars are buried (sometimes in the fire place, flipped over), but the concept there is the same. You make the jar, you turn it over, you bury it at your fire place, and you look for  the nearest person with an intense ass headache. Some bellamine jars stay for centuries, and are dung up, and promptly… reburied right in the place that they were originally put. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartmann_jug

This isn’t the first concept of sitting jar, in fact, some jars are meant to be shields. Meant to “grow mold” or become cloudy, because that’s when the jar has done it’s job. It has a purpose, to be hit. To take in. To absorb. In the same way that another witch’s bottle works. In the same way that any talisman or amulet that falls works or  breaks or suddenly “disappears”.

It’s true a lot of jar spells in Hoodoo requires extra details to work. Shaking jars certainly by the name are like that. Honey Jars / Sweetening jars require you to lick your fingers after you put the target in the jar, to sweeten them and you to them. It’s true other hexing jars require burial and require prayer, ritual and treaties with spirits. They need to be well oiled, well fed, well kept. 

But jar spells aren’t limited to Hoodoo, and aren’t limited to certain folk magic type spells either that i have exemplified here. 

Oh, and pot pourri? Pot pourri, properly handled, is oiled and fed to keep it fresh and managed. You have to stir it. I would call any jar spell that requires that the equivalent of pot pourri. Otherwise, you’ll just have moldy herbs. Anyone who knows how to make pot pourri would know that a good one will last for years as long as you manage and take care of it by stirring it and keeping it activated. Your metaphors are bad. 

One more thing and on a personal note, in my mind the act of a witch or in some cases, as is this one, the spell caster, their act is not without power. The glance of a witch can curse. The spit of a witch can curse. Even the hair of a witch can lay claim, the grip, the handshake of a witch can cause something. Don’t mistake a witch’s movement for lack of power. 

So when a witch or a spell caster takes a sprig of rosemary and puts it somewhere purposefully, let’s say, in a corner, or in the claw of the rooster, it’s not just because the rosemary contains something special about it. Something buried in it’s spirit. It’s because the witch chose that sprig specifically. I carefully choose every piece of thing that I work with. 

Are you?

I check to see it’s health. I check to see it’s wealth. I check to see it’s form is most perfect for what I need. A thing chosen, selected by a witch has much power, in my opinion.

Do you?

See I can play this game as well, where I teach you a backwards lesson. Where I make assumptions about your practice, your doing, your actions, and by which I mean to shame you for my presumption of your lacking.

If you want to talk about spells, you know the blog handle. I love them. Jar spells are very interesting. I’ve thrown a few jars into some rivers, much to the anger and surprise of some of my followers. I’ve broken my jar spells before.  

I do like much of tumblr’s willingness to experiment with jars, and most other spells. I would be very interested to see how a jar with flour, salt, yeast, sugar, would sit. I wouldn’t necessarily add water here, but I might. A specific selected water. It might be interesting. 

After all, there are a few home protection spells which include flour, salt, sugar, and a few other things, as well as a penny with the year that the house was built, meant to be stored in the heart of the home, to not be interfered with. Because it works passively as a protection amulet. 

Even the jars themselves are important, just like the bellamine jar’s shape. Some vessels work the form, and that’s why you choose them. Some of them are meant for the color of the jar. Blue Jar spells have been spoken about for years for specific kinds of binding spells, or domination spells. 

So there’s a strong history of jars being “set” and “forgotten.” The work is done because you, the worker, has worked it. Adding more on to it, is not needed and may disrupt the jar’s purpose. Especially if someone catches you, and you accidentally drop the jar and shattering it - as is the case in one particular blue jar’s story that I remember circling around the ‘net. Best left to alone to do it’s job, rather than handled. 

[will-o-the-witch]

Fire Productivity Spell

A simple spell to light a fire under your ass when you have a lot of things to do in a short amount of time, and need something extra to kick you into gear! Hope it helps you.

What You Need

Yellow or Orange Candle

Cayenne Pepper

Ginger

A small dish to hold the candle

Cinnamon (optional bonus)

Set up your candle in the dish. Surround it with the Cayenne and Ginger, sprinkling some onto the candle if you can. (If you have any other fire-related things, feel free to put them around the candle as well.) This will be the fire under your ass, giving you an extra boost of motivation, productivity, and focus for as long as it burns! Light the candle and begin your work.

[kiaurban]

A solidarity post for everyone having an Empty Christmas this year. May your next Christmas be extra warm to make up for it <3