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Spring Equinox Masterpost- Spoonie Witch Friendly

Art Credit: Anastasia Catris

The Spring Equinox, also called the Vernal Equinox or Ostara, is usually celebrated between the 21st of March in the Northern Hemisphere (In the Southern Hemisphere around September 20th or 21st)

In 2024, Ostara and the Spring Equinox land in the Northern Hemisphere on Monday, March 19th.

The Spring Equinox celebrates the arrival of spring. Celebrating balance, growth, and new beginnings as Winter has finally ended.

Spring Equinox Correspondances

Colours

Light Green

Lavender

Sunny Yellow

Light Blue

Pastel Pink

White

Herbal

Lemongrass

Daffodils

Tulips

Violets

Apple Tree

Cherry Blossom

Primrose

Birch tree

Hyacinths

Dandelion

Garlic

Ash tree

Jasmine

Edibles

Honey

Salad greens

Spring veggies

Fresh berries

Mead

Herbs

Eggs

Seeds

Bread

Edible flowers

Quiches

Custards

Maple

Animals

Hares

Baby Chicks

Snakes

Robins

Bees

Butterflies

Phoenix

Ram

Crystals

Fluorite

Moonstone

Silver

Aquamarine

Clear Quartz

Amazonite

Symbols

Bonfires

Flowers

Rabbits

Eggs

Seeds

Baskets

Flowering or Tree Buds

Lambs

Birds

Spiritual meanings

Purification

Cleansing (removal of stagnant energy)

Growth

Transition

Motivation

Balance

Birth

Good fortune

Kindness

Joy

Fertility

Scents

Coconut

Citrus

Floral scents (rose, lilac, jasmine, etc)

Herbal scents (rosemary, basil, mint, etc)

Gods / Goddesses / Spirits

Eostre –  (Anglo-Saxon)

Aphrodite - (Greek)

Gaia - (Celtic)

Gaea - (Greek)

Venus - (Roman)

Athena - (Greek)

Aurora - (Roman)

Eos - (Greek)

Isis – (Egyptian)

Freya - (Norse) 

Persephone - (greek)

Cybele - (Roman)

The Green Man - (Celtic)

Odin – (Norse) 

Osiris – (Egyptian)

Pan – (Greek)

Thoth – (Egyptian)

Adonis – (Greek)

Apollon –  (Greek)

Apollo - (Roman)

Need some suggestions to celebrate? I've got you covered.

High energy celebrations and ritual

Deep cleaning of the hearth and home

Nature hikes

Visiting farmers markets

Making preserves

Create a fae garden

Create a seasonal altar

Abundance/Prosperity ritual

New beginnings ritual

Low energy celebrations 

Wear pastels

Create flower crowns

Light a candle with scent correspondence

No spoon celebrations 

Opening a window

Journaling Prompts

Keeping hydrated

Drink floral tea

Rest

How you celebrate the holiday does not matter. You can choose to do any activity that feels right. These are only suggestions and remember that you're enough no matter what.

Also please note some stuff is UPG. A great book is Year of the Witch by Temperance Alden for honouring the celebrations and if you wanted to work more seasonally. It's not Wiccan-based and has plenty of resources for every witch.

Feel free to post how you celebrate in the comments or reblogs!

Want to see more of my posts? Check out my Wheel of the Year Masterpost or my Main Masterpost.

[recreationalwitchcraft]

Recreational Witchcraft’s Luck & Money Powder

This powder is ideal for drawing luck, money, and job opportunities. Sprinkle some of it into a burning candle, dust some over your body before going out or add some of it to a hot bath. 

Grind & Combine:

Green or white Eggshells for prosperity and fortune

Basil for wealth and success

Green mint for money and abundance

Fennel for luck

I’ve used this powder spell for almost a year now and it never fails me. Hope it can help you all too!

-T

[cornbreadlesbian]

The art of pie

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[cornbreadlesbian]

Breakfast in the woods

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It’s so weird to be back???

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I attract all good fortune.

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You attract luck. You are affluent. You are safe. You are loved. You are everything. All good comes your way, period.

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[hanadolphieron]

protection techniques~

a/n- i’m not an expert on this, so please take this with a grain of salt, things work differently for everyone! <3

<overview>

protection techniques are normally done after cleansing a place, person, or anything else you’d want to cleanse. they help keep the pure feeling in a place and prevent negative energies from diluting it. it’s also a way to keep positive energy in place and stop it from escaping or dying out.

if you’re planning on using objects like crystals, food, or herbs, it’s best to research each item in order to find one that fits the type of protection you need.

these aren’t spells, since i am not an expert in those and haven’t done enough research to know whether they work or not, but these are just some simple things you can do! <3

<protecting places>

keeping an aloe vera plant next to a entrances and tying red string around the leaves

washing a doorframe, visualizing a protective barrier around it and/or saying a prayer/spell

burning a lavender, pine, rosemary, rose, and cedar candles (other scents can work too)

hanging mistletoe above a doorway ;)

woods like birch, cedar, pine, myrtle, rowan, and oak are excellent to burn using a fireplace or something else

some flowers and plants have protective effects, like basil, mandrake, lilac, sunflowers, lily, ivy, mint, violets, marigold, peonies, periwinkles, daisies, daffodils, and lots more

these plants/flowers can be put in vases or planted around your home

putting an evil eye talisman somewhere in the room

hanging crosses in a room

black tourmaline, amber, fluorite, amethyst, carnelian, selenite, jet, labradorite, black obsidian, and smoky quartz are good crystals to keep around your home as protection

<protecting people>

spices like garlic, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, fennel, and turmeric will have a protective effect on a person if they are consumed

foods can be used for protection too- plantains, pineapples, cranberries, raspberries, eggs, potatoes, watercress, walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, and olive oil

wearing an evil eye talisman

wearing a cross

keeping crystals like black tourmaline, amber, fluorite, amethyst, carnelian, selenite, jet, labradorite, black obsidian, and smoky quartz on your person (this can also be used for places by putting the crystal(s) near doorways)

visualizing a white, glowing barrier around yourself

taking a bath infused with the flowers listed above in the protecting places section is good

you can do that by using soap, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, bubbles? really anything

[frog-sovereign-deactivated20211]

The Witch’s Pockets

What to carry with you for on-the-go spell work

I live between 2-4 households depending on the year and because of this I do not have a set “altar space”. Instead magic and spirituality fills every crack of my life. I am a folk practitioner and as such do not require large rituals and ceremonies to achieve my goals. The things on this list can also be used for closeted practitioners and tend to be “beginner friendly”. Great for travelling, daily commutes, subtle spellwork and hiking trips. 

Always adapt to fit your own practice!

String - for knot magic 

‘bits and bobs’ (buttons, coins, bottle caps, can tabs etc) for makeshift throwing bones 

chalk 

a pocket notebook and pencil - note taking, sigils, runes etc. can also be achieved on the backs of old receipts, post-it notes or gum wrappers 

a compass or compass app on your phone 

a correctly stocked first aid kit 

one random birthday candle and a lighter 

If you like card divination (tarot/oracle): a small pack of playing cards - you could always write down tarot card names on these if you prefer

two 6-sided dice for dice divination 

some sturdy boots for hiking, walking and travelling 

If you work with a deity and wish to do so: mint-tin or matchbox shrines, you can also just make small icons using bottle caps and a sharpie 

Remember: if you can’t find a crystal, a random stone works just as well 

[kikiscauldron]

Unlock yourself tarot spread: the keys to self discovery.

[recreationalwitchcraft]

Celebrate Yule

Outside:

Leave out birdseed ornaments as offerings to the season

If snowing, play in the snowfall to appreciate the changing season or collect some for snow water

After the sun has gone down, burn a yule log in a bonfire

Take some friends and go wassailing! 

In the Home:

Make stovetop potpourri as an alternative to incense 

DIY gifts with your witch skills for your friends and family 

Read a winter solstice tarot spread for yourself

Decorate your holiday tree, blessing the ornaments with good energy

Hang mistletoe for protection and (consensual!) kisses

In the Kitchen:

Make one of these Celtic Yule recipes

Prepare some traditional or non-traditional wassail for any adults

Bake mini yule logs to share with family and friends 

Make Swedish Lussekatter rolls or Norwegian Julekake bread 

In the Bath:

Bathe with fresh orange slices and frankincense and myrrh essential oils for a prosperity ritual bath

Take a lazy witch holiday LUSH bath (our suggestions here) 

Do a pre-solstice ritual bath with essential oils

Make winter spice bath bombs and enchant them for prosperity

On your Altar:

Use colors like reds, greens, whites, and metallic colors

Add holly, pine, ivy, mistletoe, juniper, or cedar for some greenery

Decorate with a yule wish bottle to for some easy magic

Represent the seasonal harvest with oranges, pears, nuts, and berries

Incorporate snowflake obsidian, clear quartz, or bloodstone

[recreationalwitchcraft]

It’s today everybody!

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Witchery for the hearth.

Lay thorny branches on your doorstep to drive away evil.

Put thyme in your last meal of the day to have pleasant dreams.

Place coins and cedar chips in a box for an easy money spell.

The bark of the willow tree is a natural painkiller.

Put almonds in your pocket to recover a lost object.

Light candles throughout the house regularly.

Sprinkle oats over your garden (especially herbs) to ensure good growth.

Honey is a natural antibiotic and antibacterial. Got a cold sore? Put that stuff all over that. Got a cold? Eat a tablespoon every few hours.

Place lilacs all over the house to get rid of unwanted spirits.

Drink cranberry juice to get a good detox when in need of grounding.

Hang dill over your door to keep people who wish ill on you out.

Place half an onion in the room with someone who is sick to draw out disease.

Place morning glory seeds inside your pillow to get rid of bad dreams.

Pour salt in your bath (or shower floor if you don’t have a bath) to cleanse and ground yourself.

Use chili peppers to break a curse.

Plant rosemary next to your front gate or door for a little good luck.

[potionslab]

The Ultimate Guide to Potion Bases

We all spend so much time thinking about the correspondences of the actual ingredients that go into our potions that we often forget to think about what the potion base represents! (At least I do.) It would be nice to have a list of all the various liquids that can be used in place of water. Naturally, I can’t think of everything but I think this is a pretty good starting point! What else can be used? Eventually, at some point down the road, I will compile all these thoughts into a book on potion making and want to include this! Keep in mind that these are my own correspondences. Let me know if you disagree or if you’d change anything up! Let’s see how big we can make this list. Also, I should probably note that not all of these liquids can be ingested. (Obviously.)

The List

Vinegar: Used for cleansing and purification potions.  Lemon Juice: Used in hexing, cursing, or revenge potions.  Cranberry Juice: Used in love potions. Apple Juice: Used in healing, knowledge, and youth potions.  Ammonia: Used in banishing, cursing, purification, and protection  Red Wine: Love potions and potions dealing with death and the afterlife.  White Wine: Used in platonic love potions as well as success brews.  Rum: Used in potions involving spirit work.  Whisky: Another good base for potion work.  Vodka: A good base for work involving rapid banishing.  Laundry detergent: Good for cleansing potions.  Oils: Used to speed up a process.  Molasses: Used in potions intended to slow a situation down.  Rubbing Alcohol: Another good base for cleansing and purification. Hydrogen Peroxide: Used in healing potions.  Milk: Used in potions to promote sleep and peace.  Sour Milk: Used to cause nightmares or in potions designed to torment. Orange Juice: For potions of solar importance, healing, success.  Soda Water: Used in potions designed to encourage laughter and giddiness.  Ginger Ale: Used in health or healing potions.  Olive Juice: Used in peace potions.  Honey: Used in potions to sweeten up another’s disposition. Syrup: Used in abundance and prosperity potions.  Beer: Used in potions intended to induce slumber.  Clam Juice: Used in aphrodisiacs.  Cough Syrup: Used in healing potions and to make someone ‘cough it up.’ Soy Sauce: Used in protection potions. (Thanks Lexa Rosean for this one!) Pineapple Juice: Used in abundance potions and fidelity potions.  Coconut Milk: Used in spiritual and magical cleansing potions.  Ice: Solid first, then melted for transformation potions. Coffee: Really, a potion in and of itself in my book. Vanilla Extract: In small amounts, used in passion potions. Witch Hazel: Used in communication and cleansing potions.

What else can you all think of?

[visardistofelphame]

Faery Information

Fairy Info

How I categorize Fae:  Location

Faerie 101: What are Faeries?

What are fairies- updated ramble

Faerie 101: Communication 

How I see Fairies

Faerie 101: How to start? pt1

Faerie 101: how to start? pt2

How to figure out if fairies are about?

What is the Fairy Faith?

Fairies and Witches: the relationship between the two

Folklore Analysis 

The Doctor and the fairy princess 

Posts about specific fairies

Armored Maidens 

House/Home Maidens

Boggarts

Bone Maidens

Fire/Flame Dancers

Brownies

Lake Maidens

Pixies

Pooka

Lunar Maidens 

Tales

-Drowning Love

Fairy doctors and fairy folk magic

Part 1: A quick look through 

Part 2: Biddy Early

Fairy Darts

Elf Stones

Fliethas

How does one become a fairy doctor?

Ailments of the Fairy Folk

Fairy spells

Protection Powder from Being Spirited away by Fae

Faery Folk Dance

Tooth Fairy Money Spell

Faery Gift Box

Faery Secrets ritual

Fairy Net Ward

Faery lime Ward

Frost Sprite Winter Wonderland spell

Charm for the Fairy Struck

Cure for Cattle

Charm for safety

For Depression of the heart

Attracting Bees

To Cause Love

To Find Stolen Goods

Protection From Fairy Magic: Fire

Cheers to the Pixies

Don’t touch my stuff

Bells and Yarn

To call flower fairies

Dog Statue

necklace of shells

Fairy Water

The Maiden’s song

Magic pebble

Blast water

Fairy Dart treatment

To invite brownies

To determine the sickness

[leodrune]

the magick of coffee

enjoying your coffee, latte or mocha in the morning can be a small ritual of its own. coffee as a fruit, as well as what flavors and milks you choose to enjoy with it, all have magickal properties that can work well together.

coffee magick

the magickal properties of coffee include: grounding, peace of mind, overcoming negativity, and breaking curses. it is also commonly used as an offering to ancestors, spirits and deities. 

coffee can also be used for divination; it’s said that bubbles in your cup of black coffee are a sign of good luck (and extra luck if you can catch the bubbles with a spoon and eat them!). 

coffee and espresso are also a great way to fertilize your garden and charge your herbs with higher energy!

flavor magick

sugar: used to “sweeten” both literally and magically! brings positivity.

vanilla: promotes happiness, calmness and love

hazelnut: brings you spiritual

chocolate: emotional release, prosperity

cinnamon: attracting wealth, passion

milk magick

cow milk (comfort, protection), almond milk (good luck), soy milk (psychic awareness), rice milk (blessings, prosperity), coconut milk (purification, protection), cashew milk (money), oat milk (prosperity, wealth)

[shysoundofstars]

Tasseography

•Tea leaf reading•

You might be wondering where this unusual form of divination came from, so here’s a short history on tasseography. Shortly after tea was introduced to Europe, tea leaf reading, as it’s now recognized, was born. Similar divination tools had been used with an assortment of other materials. The art of tea leaf reading spread through Europe, and is now practiced throughout the world.

Doing a tea leaf reading involves you indulging in a delicious cup of tea and putting your sharp intuitive skills to work. After you enjoy your warm cup of loose leaf tea, you’ll leave the loose tea leaves at the bottom, where some of these leaves will form symbols, each having their own meaning. That’s where your keen intuitive abilities come in! Anyone can see a triangle at the bottom of a teacup, but your job is to intuit what it means for you or the person you’re reading for.

WHAT YOU NEED FOR A TEA LEAF READING

Tea cup with a wide brim that’s light enough to easily see your tea leaves.

Saucer

Loose leaf green or black tea, preferably organic.

Napkins

Pen and paper

Water

HOW TO PERFORM A TEA LEAF READING

1. BREW YOUR TEA

Gather all of your materials. Boil your water. Place about a teaspoon of loose tea in your cup. Pour your water in and steep tea to your preference.

For the next 3 steps, if you’re doing a reading for someone else, have them do the following steps.

2. SIP & SWIRL

Before you take your first sip, gently swirl tea counter clockwise three times. Sip and enjoy your tea, but don’t drink it all! When there’s about 1 tablespoon of tea left in your cup, swirl it again 3 times counter clockwise and think about or speak your query aloud.

3. CREATE YOUR TEA READING CANVAS

Turn your cup upside down onto your saucer to remove the remaining water, allow it a minute or so to drain, then turn it back up right.

4. LOOK FOR SYMBOLS

Look over your loose leaf tea pieces and see if any symbols or shapes jump out to you immediately. Don’t fret if you don’t see anything immediately, similar to scrying with a crystal ball, it can take some time for imagery to form for you. Try looking at the inside of the cup from different directions to see shapes. Keep in mind the images formed are formed from tea leaves, so you will really need to use your imagination.

5. RECORD & DECIPHER YOUR FINDINGS

If you do start to see some shapes, begin writing them down on your piece of paper so you can decipher them later, note where in the cup they are too. Now you’re ready to decipher your findings! Here’s a guide for the most common symbols found during tea leaf readings:

6. UNDERSTAND THE TIMELINE

Where your tea leaves are situated in your cup relate to when they will happen. This is why some of the tea leaf reading cups you find have circles inside of them. Timing is broken into thirds as follows:

Bottom third: farthest away from happening, think 3-5 years out.

Top third: will be happening in the near future, think within the next few weeks.

Middle third: will happen in about a year from now.

7. FORM YOUR READING

Like most divination tools, a honed intuition is key for success, so be sure to lean on any gut instincts as you form the story for your reading. Once you understand the meaning behind the symbols it’s time to put all of the information into a story that makes sense for you or the person you’re doing a reading for.

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