Grimoire of a Baby Witch in the PNW

No TERFs allowed. Exploring green, sea, and moon witchery.

[thewitchesspellbook]

The Flower of Light

A Celtic Winter Spell to revitalize your spirits when days are dark and gloom settles upon you. 

With its bright yellow flowers,  the Celtic tribes saw St. Johns Wort as a symbol of the sun’s healing and life giving power. It is a King among magical plants, and protects against negative influences for this spell you will need the following. 

A Large Circle of Yellow Cloth 

St John’s Wort Oil 

2 Yellow Candles 

2 Yellow Flowers 

Method Spread the cloth of the floor and sprinkle with a few drops of the blood- red St John’s Wort Oil. Anoint the candles with several more drops of the oil, and divide the flowers into 2 bunches. Seat yourself at the center of the circle of the cloth and place a bunch of flowers at the edge of the cloth on each side of the you. Light the candles and place them at the edge of the cloth in front of and behind you. Pick 2 full perfect blossoms, and hold one in the upright palm of each hand. Focus your mind on the glow of the candle in front of you and chant 

“Oh healing light, surround me now, relieve my spirits darkest hour”  

Imagine the scented light being drawn from the candles into the flowers on your palms, and from there feel it, permeating the whole of your body. Try to keep your concentration for about 20 minutes, when you rise the melancholy will fall from you. To Complete the spell, take the two flowers in your hands and give them back to Mother Earth.

[fun-with-fungi]

Coprinus picaceus

[luminatress]

Tarot Tips

🃏 Find The Empress in your deck. The card behind her will reveal what you need to do to nurture and care for yourself. 

🃏 When in conflict or competition with someone, look for 5 of Wands. The card behind it will reveal the solution to the problem.

🃏 If you see the same card over and over again in readings, it is a sign and you must pay attention to its message for you.

🃏 For a better understanding of each card, observe it closely and form your own interpretation that follows its themes. It will help you interpret readings better.

🃏 To find out what is making you feel stuck or delayed, look to The Hanged Man. The card underneath him will show what is holding you back. The card in front of him will show you how to overcome it.

🃏 When shuffling your cards, if any card drops out of your grasp, take it as a sign and read the card. 

🃏 You do not need crystals with you to do proper readings, but a good way to cleanse your deck is to place a clear quartz on the top of your deck before each reading. Keep in mind; there’s a variety of ways you can cleanse your deck.

🃏 Often when The High Priestess appears in a reading, she is trying to tell you that you know the answers and that you should listen to your inner voice.

🃏 There is no wrong way to shuffle or cleanse your deck. Do what feels right for you!

[breelandwalker]

Witchy Self-Care Tip: Wash Your Feet

At the end of a long day, there can be a strong temptation to just flop onto the nearest comfortable piece of furniture and just shut down. While it does bring relief, here’s one step I recommend taking first to help you cleanse, de-stress, and disengage from the working portion of your day.

When you get home, put your accoutrements away and wash your hands. Attend to any first-thing-in-the-door rituals you have. Then go to your tub, take off your shoes and socks, get any long garments or trouser legs out of the way, and wash your feet.

It doesn’t have to be a full bath. You don’t have to bend or scrub. It doesn’t have to take more than a minute. The water can be whatever temperature is comfortable for you. Use a bucket or run the tap, whichever is easier. Flex your toes a bit, let the water run between them. Let it flow over your ankles if you can.

As you do, take some deep breaths and consciously let go of the working or schooling or errand-running portion of your day. That’s done with, and you’re home. You might still have some things to do over the course of the evening, but you’re headed for some nice leisure time too. If it helps, you can visualize the stress flowing out through your feet and into the water to be washed down the drain.

If you wish, you can add soothing herbs or bath oils to the water before washing your feet. These can be aligned to whatever magical purpose you like.

When you’re done, rinse the tub, dry off your feet, and go about your evening. I recommend clean footwear like fresh socks or house shoes if you don’t wish to go barefoot.

I do this every day when I get home, with a bucket of cool water in my tub. It’s very refreshing, especially on hot days, and I’ve found it a very soothing way to separate my work day from my evening time. Plus, it cleans my feet and softens my calluses. In the winter, I use hot water and it’s a pleasant way to warm up after tromping around in the cold or sitting in a chilly office all day.

Just a little something to help with your daily cleansing routines. Hope you enjoy!

[gingerandrosemary]

Lavender and what to do with it!

So I have an awful lot of lavender to harvest and part way through I realised I’m not too sure what to do with it all. So I took to some researching online and have a few ideas;

Lavender wreaths for above beds (originally was going to be just a dried bunch but these are gorgeous) one for home, uni and other family members who want them (maybe two for uni...)

Lavender crown. Just because.

Lavender wands one for actual magic and others for keeping clothes/shoes smelling good.

Bed spell sachets (for family and a few friends. (I need to work out a good spell))

Any extra will either be stored as bunches and/or several airtight jars of the flower heads!

These will then slowly get used up in bath spells/other spell works as a focus or an ingredient

Anyone got any other ideas??

[theindiemystic-deactivated20220]

1. Yarrow (100 Herbs)

Yarrow

Yarrow is a common witchcraft herb. You may find it is often listed under a “combine with” section when it comes to other herbs, and crystals.

Scientific name: Achillea millefolium

Herbal / Medicinal uses:

Yarrow has been associated with allergy relief when combined with mint in an herbal tea. Making a topical poultice has been used to relieve hemorrhoids, rashes, or on top of open wounds. Also aids in indigestion, appetite loss, and fever reduction. Sleep-aid. Keep away from children and pregnant women.

Magical / Mystical Correspondences:

Overcoming obstacles and fears, confidence, encouragement, psychic opening, boost vibrations, healing, wedding or hand-fasting ceremonies, divination, call love, banishing, marital blessings and fidelity, kicking bad habits.

Every practitioner has variances in how they feel a particular herb corresponds with their practice, but remember to always do what makes you feel comfortable, and follow any safety tips related to handling particular plants.

[milknhoneyvalley]

🍄🌳🍄🍃🍄🌲🍄🌿🍄🍁🍄

[powerfulwizard]

Idk which Wiccan needs to hear this but you’re not a marginalized person

[powerfulwizard]

Witches aren’t a persecuted people and the people in the past who were persecuted as witches were in fact, not actually witches.

[moonlightacademy]

Gardens of the Witches

Already starting to plan this years garden so I thought I should do a post on Witch Gardens

Moonlight Garden

A garden that blooms in the moonlight, a great place to perform night time rituals, meditations, or to just take a midnight stroll. A garden that is full of magick even after the sun sets. 

Plants to add in your moonlight garden:

Moonflower: (Ipomoea alba) A nocturnal relative of the morning glory. Has fragrant flowers that open at dusk and close by dawn.    

Evening Primrose: (Oenothera biennis) Has beautiful, scented flowers that bloom only at dusk. 

Night Flox: (Zaluzianskya capensis) A sweetly fragranced flower that only unfurls its pinwheeled shaped flowers after dusk. 

Four O’Clock: (Mirabilis jalapa) Its scented flowers bloom at around 4:00pm (hence its name) and do not close up until morning. 

Queen of the Night: (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) A species of cactus whose flowers only open at night. Attracts moths and bats!!!

Night Blooming Jessamine: (Cestrum nocturnum) Strong, sweet scented star shaped flowers that only bloom at night. Attracts moths and bats!!! All parts are toxic, do not ingest!

Angel’s Trumpet: (Brugmansia) Produces a strong scent on warm summer evenings. All parts are toxic, do not ingest!

Evening Stock: (Matthiola longipetala) Produces lots of small blossoms that produce a perfume described as a mix of vanilla, rose, spice, and cloves only after the sun sets.

Ever-Flowering Gladiolus: (Gladiolus tristis) Release a strong almond fragrance after dusk.  

Lilac: (Syringa vulgaris) Although has a perfume during the day, it is said to be a lot stronger after dark. 

Flowering Tobacco: (Nicotiana) Open in the late afternoon and have a fragrance that smells of jasmine. All parts are toxic if ingested!

Summer Snapdragon: (Angelonia angustifolia) Preferably in white, to reflect the moonlight. Has a scent apple-scented foliage. 

Silvermound: (Artemisia schmidtiana) Has thick foliage that will shimmer under the moonlight.

Jack Frost: (Brunnera macrophylla) Hdeart shaped leaves of silver and green, perfect to add more highlights of silver to your moon lit garden. 

Any plant that blooms after dark or has white, lavender, pale pink, pale yellow on it is a perfect addition to your moonlight garden. 

Things to add:

Stepping stones that have the phases of the moon.

Fairy lights

A place to sit

Candles

A small fountain to sing along with the insects and birds of the night

String charms and bells on tree branches for a soft jingling every time a gentle breeze passes. 

Herb Garden

For witches who need a more practical garden for uses of healing, tea crafting, drying, and growing plants used in their practices.

Plants to add to your herb garden:

Anise: Helps to ward of the evil eye, find happiness, and stimulates psychic abilities. 

Basil: Use for anything pertaining with love, exorcism, wealth, sympathy, and protection. Dispels confusion, fears & weakness. Drives off hostile spirits.

Bergamont: Corresponds with money and prosperity. Provides with protection from evil and illness, improves memory, stops interference, and promotes restful sleep.

Borage: Corresponds with courage and psychic powers. 

Cat Nip: Is sacred to the Goddess Bast. Brings forth beauty, happiness, good luck, and good spirits.

Chamomile: Corresponds with love, healing, and sleep. Is known to reduce stress.

Chervil: Brings a sense of the higher self, placing you in touch with your divine, immortal spirit.

Coriander: Corresponds with love, health, immortality, and protection.

Dill: Corresponds with money, protection, luck and lust. 

Lemon Balm: Corresponds with love, success, healing, and psychic/spiritual development. 

Marjoram: Used to cleanse, purify, and to dispel negative energy.  

Mint: Promotes energy, communication and vitality.

Oregano: Corresponds with joy, strength, vitality, and added energy 

Parsley: Calms and protects the home.

Rosemary: Protects, cleanses, purifies, and aids memory. 

Sage: Used for self purification and dealing with grief and loss.

Thyme: Attracts loyalty, affection, and the good opinion of others.

Things to add:

A place to dry herbs

A place to compost any herb scraps

Rocks

A place to leave offerings before you harvest

Bee Garden

Make yourself a sanctuary to watch bees frolic and thrive

Plants to add to your bee garden:

Bee balm

Lavender

Crocus

Snow Drop

Wildflowers/Any native species

Catmint

Borage

Anise hyssop

Heliotrope

Sunflower

Oregano

Yarrow

Coneflower

Black eyed susan

Asters

Goldenrod

Foxglove

Marigold

Pansies

Sweet peas

Nasturtiums

Things to add:

Bee houses

Bee waterers/bee baths

Bee feeders

A place for offerings to the bees

Some other ideas for your garden:

Hummingbird garden

Medicinal garden

A garden whose plants and decorations represent/correspond with your practice.

Butterfly Garden

Faerie Garden 

The options are endless! I hope this gives you some ideas for this years garden.

Happy planting!

==Moonlight Academy==

[esoteric-nightmare]

I see people talking about a person who has been making transphobic comments on my dash. And its made me want to say this.

Just because some one makes claims about something in the magic, witchcraft and spirituality community. (Yes even someone with a big following) it doesn’t mean they are right!

If some one says that you have to use special tools to do magic, they are wrong. If some one makes a claim about someones Gods, and its historically inaccurate they are wrong. And this one came from some one in discord. if some one says the Gods punish you or make you uncomfortable in your worship, They are wrong. And especially if some of one says that if you have a spell meant for “women”, so it doesn’t work for trans women they are wrong.

Never support uninclusive magic!

What I mean by inclusive magic, is practices that do not use homophobia, transphobia or racism.

Here is stuff to watch out for!

You need special tools to do magic. (Absolutely not. Some spells can even be cast with a glass of water. I have a pair of scissors on my altar. And you can use playing cards In divination.)

My family says something needs to be done in a certain way. (Like if they say “my family says you can only read your cards once a day.” That is fine for them to practice it that way, but you are fine to do it your own way.)

If a spell is meant for a women, then it means a trans women cannot use it! (Absolutely not true. You can use any spell for a “women”, as a trans women. Because trans women are women. we should never accept transphobia in magic)

Men cannot be witches! (Absolutely anyone can be a witch or magic practitioner.)

My religion or practice is superior. (every practice that is not racist, homophobic or transphobic is valid)

Its ok for me to use rituals from closed practices, that I am not in. (Absolutely not)

If you take a brake from magic or stop trying to spiritually better yourself, you are a failure. (Wrong, people do what is comfortable for them. Some times it takes people time and many brakes.)

Feel free to add more red flags to watch out for!

[breelandwalker]

You absolutely must work with deities to have a valid craft. (Nope. Plenty of atheist, agnostic, and secular witches out there.

You have to master a certain set of skills before you can be considered a “real” witch. (Only if you belong to an initiatory tradition with a set course of study and direct mentorship. For everyone else, you’re a witch the minute you decide to call yourself one and mean it.)

You can learn everything you need to know about witchcraft from TikTok, Twitter, and blogs. (Nope. Sorry kids, you gotta do your own research too. And make sure you hit those practical subjects like herbology and history as well as the magical ones.)

Witchcraft is a religion. (Nope. It’s a craft. As the word suggests. But you can apply religious principles and ceremonies to it if that’s your jam.)

Taking your meds will dull your magical / psychic abilities. (NO. For the love of all things holy, TAKE YOUR MEDS. It will not affect your ability to practice, and it will probably improve your life in other areas. There is no alleged magical or psychic ability that is worth sacrificing your health or your ability to function.)

You should only ever use magic for positive and helpful things, never for harm or personal gain. (The roots of witchcraft literally rest on hexing and treasure-finding as as much as love and healing so...hecc off with that.)

Love magic is harmless and a good way of getting what you want. (Not if it ignores someone’s free will, it isn’t. Always take consent into account when working love magic.)

Cursing will always result in horrible consequences for the person who cast it because Threefold Law / Rule of Three.... (Nope. And nope. All magic has consequences, but the cosmos doesn’t bash you over the head for baneful magic. If you want to hex your local rapist, abuser, fascist, bigot, or just the patriarchy in general, you go right ahead. Cover your ass and you’ll be fine.)

You have to make a circle / perform a ritual every time you do a spell. (Nah. Spells can be done with or without circles or ritual, depending on what your needs and preferences are.)

There is only One Correct Way of being a witch. (Mmm no. There are as many ways of being a witch as there are witches. Like OP said, so long as you’re doing your homework and not being a gross bigot or appropriating from closed traditions, you’re good.)

[darkwater33]

I’m fairly new to witch-y things and practices, so I was wondering if someone could please explain what it means to “use rituals from closed practices”? I don’t know what a closed practice includes, so is anyone willing to explain? (General ignorance in the topic, not willful; I truly have never heard/seen the term)

[breelandwalker]

No worries! If we don’t ask, we don’t learn. Keep asking. 😊

A closed culture or closed practice, in this instance, generally refers to one of three things:

A practice intrinsically tied to indigenous peoples which is either sacred in their culture or traditionally exclusive to their group (keeping in mind that indigenous people are not a monolith and these practices will vary from region to region). In pagan communities, this largely deals with concepts like smudging and the use of white sage, as well as appropriating terms like “totem” and “spirit animal.”

A practice intrinsically tied to a tradition or religion originating exclusively with People of Color. In the U.S., this usually means practices associated with voodoo, hoodoo, and rootwork.

A practice hailing from tradition or religion which requires dedication and initiation into sacred mysteries, often with a commitment ceremony of some kind. Examples of this include Catholicism, Judaism, and some branches of Wicca. For example, if you want to make pagan prayer beads, that’s fine, but it’s not the same as a rosary.

All of these should be considered closed to outside or uninitiated use unless you are a part of that community or have been invited to join in with such practices by someone within the community. If you’re not sure, try and find someone within that community you can ask. When in doubt, Do Not Do The Thing. Yes, even if some big name New Ager or pagan author recommends it.

It should be noted that cultural appropriation also takes the form of cherry-picking words, images, and concepts from other cultures without a full understanding of their meaning and using them outside of their original context because they seem exotic. A common example of this is the proliferation of mass-market dreamcatchers, “chakra” pendants, om signs, and Buddha imagery you can find many pagan shops.

Modern paganism is unfortunately rife with this, thanks to a whole lot of leftover colonialist entitlement pervading Western thinking and driving large parts of the New Age movement. The best thing you can do to operate responsibly is to research a thing before you buy an exotic-looking item or perform an “ancient” ritual. Know from whence it comes, what it means, and to whom it belongs. And if you’d like to APPRECIATE rather than appropriate, by displaying cultural art or crafts in your home, purchase them from crafters within the community where they originated, i.e. buy your dreamcatchers from indigenous makers, rather than factory-produced knockoffs.

The most important step in avoiding cultural appropriation is listening to the people from whose culture the practice or item or ritual originates. They have the final say. And if they say, “no, this is not open for everyone to use,” that needs to be respected.

Hope this helps!

[witchkitch]

✨🍓Sparkling Love Lemonade

1 tablespoon Lemon Zest (warding, purifying, cleansing, healing) 1 cup fresh Lemon Juice (warding, purifying, cleansing, healing) 1 pint Strawberries (abundance, love, fortune) 1 cup Sugar (attraction) Handful of fresh Mint (love, lucky, prosperity, fortune, cleansing) 2 cups Sparkling Water (sub with prosecco for a fun cocktail) 2 cups Water (use a charged water for an extra boost~)

(vegan.raw.gf) 🥄

[mushroom-witch-grimoire]

So yesterday I did a way finder spell because I don't know what job I should look for in the next few months or where I should move to.

I took a paper map and pinned it with 3 tacks in a triangle. Inside the triangle I put a coin and a piece of celestite. Lit a green candle in a seashell and chanted and prayed to the waxing moon to show me the way to go in my dreams that night. I burned a little mugwort in the candle. After it burned to nothing I folded up the map with the celestite inside and slept with it under my pillow.

I dreamed my dad was taking me to a bunch of interviews I had no idea about and didnt really want to do. One was a scientific tech position for a tribe that is kinda near me but way out in the middle of nowhere. The other was in the NE corner of Utah... which I think is SLC? Either way if that dream was telling me to go to either of those places I'm not too happy about it

[herecomesthewitch]

Tips on Grimoire Organization

Please note that if you are using a hard bound notebook or journal, adding in additional pages will bulk up your book, like so: (these are the exact same journals, btw)

- Envelopes. Let’s say you’re doing a section on Tarot in your Grimoire, and you want to include a few Tarot spreads, but you don’t want to waste two or three pages. Glue an envelope onto one of your pages to make a “pocket” where you can store little cards or papers with the tarot spreads written on them.

- Pockets. Similar to the envelope idea. If you have a page, or section for example, on herbal teas, you can make a pocket out of a piece of paper to keep your current favorite tea recipes in.

- Dividers, Cover Pages and Ribbons. If you’re like me and you like to have “sections” in your grimoire, you can easily make dividers by gluing a sheet of paper in your book (to make it heavier to make the sections stand out more). You can go further by turning your divider into a cover page for that section. And if you don’t like the idea doing that, you can always glue a ribbon, or a string, to the spine of your book to act as a bookmark.

- Double pages. I always had a problem with “wasting” pages in my grimoire. For example, my page on consecrating and charging. These two concepts are very similar to me, and I didn’t want two page stating the same thing. So, what I did was write out all my information on charging on a separate sheet of paper, then glued the top of that page into my grimoire. This way I could flip up the page on charging (as if it were on a clipboard) and have my page on consecrating underneath.

- Extended pages. Similar to the one above. In my Crystal section of my Grimoire, I decided to write out a chart that let me search for crystals by intention. So I drew my chart on a long sheet of paper, then folded it over (side to side) so that it fit comfortably in my book, then I just glued one side down into the book.

- Brochures. In my Elements section, I had a ton of information I wanted to write down, but I didn’t want each element to have more than two pages. So I used a piece of computer paper and folded it into a brochure (or into thirds) and glued it into the book so that the flaps would open and give me double the space to write.

- Clear Tape. There are many times where i finished a page in my grimoire only to find out there was a section that I left out. A simply way to fix this was with clear tape. I would write my forgotten bit of into on a separate piece of paper and then use clear tape to tape one side of the paper to my page. This allows me to flip the paper back and forth without covering up anything that I had written.

Other Resources on Grimoire Organization:

- Witch Tip by @pumpkin-bean - Grimoire Index by @triplevirgo - Witchy-Woman’s Grimoire Organization by @witchy-woman - Altar in a Journal by @thesubtlewitch

I hope this helps everyone with their Grimoire organizing needs! If anyone knows of any other awesome organizing tips, feel free to share!

P.S. Check out my Grimoire Masterpost for more tips on making a grimoire!

~L

[mushroom-witch-grimoire]

Beltane!

I managed to celebrate, although I didn't get to do everything I wanted.

Did some spring cleaning, laid out in the sun for the .005 seconds it was sunny, had some great sex, wore a flower crown, went on a walk through the rich people's gardens in uptown, baked banana nut muffins, burned a candle, and drank cider.

I was going to make my own flower crown and also smoke cleanse the house. Maybe I'll save that for the Flower moon instead. All in all a great welcome into summer :)

[honeytearays]

Happy Beltane to everyone celebrating today! May the upcoming month bring you much happiness 💛

[he-who-walks-among-the-trees]

[naturalistwitchold]

Ways Spirituality can Harm or Help Your Mental Health pt.1

This is based on my own experience and observations - of course this may vary. (I have chronic depression and ADHD)

● HARM ●

- Using spirituality/magic as a substitute for proper mental health care and expecting it to "cure" you completely or be the solution to all your problems

- Finding yourself in a toxic community where a lot of people have unadressed mental health issues and refuse to do anything about it, or general toxic ways of interacting, and see this as normal and nobody dares speaking up about it

- Encountering predatory people who will take advantage of your vulnerability for clout/favors/money/attention, or worse

- Comparing yourself too much to other people, giving too much power to spiritual authorities, and looking for answers outside of yourself ; and therefore losing your sense of self and connection to your own needs/intuition/judgment

- Using practices such as meditation/visualisation/trancework in a way that causes you to lose touch with reality, dissociate, or find yourself in a bad emotional state

- Spending too much time on social media trying to make your practice "look cool/aesthetic", feeling too much pressure to do things a certain way especially when you don't have the energy ; focusing too much on surface things that don't really nourish you

- Focusing so much on spirituality that you isolate yourself and lose touch with the outside world

- Excessive moral scrupulousness, becoming fixated on being a good/pure person, developing obsessive patterns of behavior, becoming obsessed with good and evil or potential threats, spiritual perfectionism and self-righteousness, becoming overly harsh and judgemental with yourself and others

- Using spirituality as a way to escape from reality or not deal with problems in more material areas of your life

- Foregrounding of pseudo/antiscience beliefs that can prevent getting proper health care or even be actively harmful

- Not practicing spiritual self care and doing things that ask too much of you, that you are not ready for, that feel uncomfortable, or that go over your boundaries.

- In general : unhealthy power dynamics, groupthink, and cult-like behavior (doing a minimum of research on these things can really help)

Pls take care of yourselves and feel free to add to this if you want. This is an important conversation to have. Pt.2 coming up next (HELP)