Tips for People in the Broom Closet
Stir your coffee or soups or anything else thats stirrable. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, stir in a clockwise direction to bring in your intentions and counterclockwise to banish or get rid of something. And vice versa if you live in the Southern Hemisphere.
You can also draw sigils on your food or utensils. For example, draw sigils on dough with flour. Or, draw a sigil on a pot with oil before heating the pan up.
You can use specific herbs and seasonings to match your intention.
Plants. Plants everywhere.
Plants that correspond to protection can go by your doorway to protect the house or in your bedroom to protect you from nightmares.
Certain potted plants can bring in different intentions. You can plant lavender, for example, to bring more peace into your life.
Feel free to bury crystals into your pots to further enhance magical properties. This also hides your crystals and keeps suspicion at bay.
You can concoct a mixture that has a certain intention and energy to it to clean your home. This is great for protection spells.
You can sweep your home with a besom or you can use an everyday plastic broom to be more inconspicuous. The supplies don't really matter that much, what matters is your intent.
Sounds, like clapping or singing, can also be used to cleanse a space or item.
Burying items in or surrounding items with dirt, salt, lemon juice, vinegar, etc. can be a method to cleanse.
You can paint sigils into your artwork before blending.
Make a doll to act as a poppet. These can be as witchy as you want. You can make a simple plushie and utilize it as a poppet. Or buy a plushie or doll from a store. Just be sure to cleanse it first!
You can use knot magic to make friendship bracelets, necklaces, or anklets.
You can add a crystal to diy jewelry.
You can also use sticker magic in journals, planners (digital ones work too!), or on labels. I have a post on sticker magic here.
You can utilize color magic in your clothes.
You can use color magic in everyday household items, like a candle. I have a post that delves into candle magic (with tips for people in the broom closet!) You can find it here.
Note: if you can't use candles, you can seal spells with knot magic, you can use led candles, etc. Here are some alternatives to candle magic.
You can use different flavors and colors and types of candy in your magic. Here are a few posts on candy magic (x, x, x).
You can use a travel altar in an altoids box or a shoebox. You can find an example of a smaller altar below.
You can decorate your desk, dresser or even your bedside table. You can use color magic with candles to match your intention. You can place seasonal flowers and other items to match the sabbots or other holidays. You can also honor a deity with a personal item, such as a candle or piece of artwork or other imagery.
To represent the elements you can use seashells, a glass of water, a candle, stones, a feather, etc.
Feel free to write a sigil, spell, intention on a piece of paper and then bury it, crumple it up, or burn it to cast it.
Meditation is great to manifest your wishes, connect with spirits and/or deities.
You can use visualization to help manifest intentions.
You can collect items, like rocks or stones. You can paint these and use color magic. Or you can use them as worry stones.
Witchy tools alternatives
To replace tarot cards with regular playing cards. Here is a link on how to read them, but you can also use your own intuition. Or, you can use digital tarot cards (x). There are also YouTube videos that create spreads and do readings. While youtube readings don't resonate or work for me, you may want to give them a try. These two channels here and here have a plethora of readings.
Do online research or download ebooks to replace physical books. You can also do some research in a library.
For a grimoire of book of shadows, you can use a personal diary, school notebook, or a digital document (on one note, google docs/classroom, notion or even a social media app like tumblr). A great thing about the diary is that some come with a lock. For the longest time, I used a diary with a lock from the dollar store. Also if it is a digital version, you can log out of the account. Or, if your parents check your social media, create two accounts. One for your grimoire or bos and one that appears more mundane like a study account, a meme account, etc.
There are also digital and physical moon calenders, which track the moon phases, meanings, etc.
For runes, you can inscribe rocks with invisible ink. If it is suspicious for you to just have a bowl of rocks lying around, feel free to use them in decoration in something like this:
ADDITONAL RESOURCES AND INFORMATION
General witchy tips (x, x, x)
All about kitchen magic (x)
