My Journey Into Witchcraft

My name is Maggie → she/her → 21 → Baby Eclectic Witch. I started doing tarot about two years ago, and since then, I've dived into the world of witchcraft!

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Emoji spell to keep terf witches and other unwelcome forms of bigotry in the witch community off of your blog and out of your life. like to charge and reblog to cast

[the-starlight-witches]

Witches reblog if:

Since being a witch you’ve ever doubted that magic is real

Since being a witch you doubt whether your spells will actually work

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Witch memes

Jars. More jars. Not enough jars.

Salty af tarot decks

The Moon, our collective wife

Never Enough Stones

“hex the fuckboy”

“fuck it I’m leaving the fae can have me”

“all ghosts better SHUT THE HECK UP AT 3 AM IN THIS HERE GODDAMN HOUSE”

Astrology, and just… so much drama around that whole thing

Oddly casual conversations with gods

[mystically-maggie-blog]

Hoo boy

I'm going to dust the cobwebs off this blog and hopefully get her back up and running again soon. So sorry for the super long hiatus, I've been doing a lot of soul searching and healing these past few months!

Who knows? I may even re-open my free tarot readings in a few days ;) I'll be around, Friends, I promise I'm coming back v soon!

[humbleladyofdea]

Shut The Fuck Up! Oil

credit- me

-The cheapest, nastiest olive oil you can find -30 drops of lemon oil (to pucker their lips shut) -A heaping pinch of cinnamon (to make them choke) -A nasty portion of alum (to dry up their idiotic words) -A vile scoop of powdered mustard (so they choke on their own word vomit)

Mix it all together with nasty words and threats, with screaming and insults. Hiss at it, bare your teeth at it, put in all the disgust and malice and SHUT THE FUCK UP!ness you can muster. Once the oil feels as rotten and vile as possible, roughly pour it into a jar/bottle with the words SHUT THE FUCK UP written all over the outside.  Use it any time you want someone to shut the fuck up.

 -make sure you use enough oil to keep the mixture to an oil-like consistency (you want to be able to pour/spread it around)

[witch-of-color]

Small Witchy Challenges to Reconnect to Your Practice

Sometimes it can be hard to really feel connected to the actual magickal side of being a witch. Personally I’m involved with my deities or other spiritual/personal things 110% of the time but I don’t always feel connected to my actual witchcraft. So here are a few small magickal challenges I thought up to help anyone in a similar situation.

✨ – Set aside a time once a week to burn a candle. Make it a color that connects to whatever aspect of your life you would like insight or growth in and spend 10 minutes watching the flame and opening yourself to whatever it is you’re seeking.

✨ – If you have any books with pre written simple spells in them (most intro to witchcraft books have a section) flip through it and find a spell that calls to you and do it! As written, just to practice getting out of your head and going through the motions of spell work.

✨ – Send out blessings. To your crush. A new friend. Your best friend. Your mom. Whoever.

✨ – Call up your energy into your palms and then place them on your own heart to send yourself love and healing and to connect yourself to your energy.

✨ – Spend some time picturing the kind of witch you wish you were, your ideal witchsona if you will. Then tell yourself that’s exactly who you already are. Keep reminding yourself whenever you feel disconnected from your craft that you are already an unbelievable witch.

✨ – Go back through your old book of shadows/grimoire and reflect on what’s worked for you in the past.

✨ – Wake up and tell yourself first thing “I am a witch. I am magick. My life is full of magick. I see and feel all the magick around me. I am a witch.”

✨ – Pick out outfits or accessories that make you feel witchy. (Bonus points for intentionally planning a super witchy outfit on the full moon)

✨ – Do a spell for anything that’s coming up in your life that you want to work out a certain way, no matter how trivial it seems. Test this week? Do a spell. About to start a work out routine? Do a spell. First date? Spell. Gotta stay on budget grocery shopping? Spell. Your worth it, it’s good practice, and if it all ends up working even better!

✨ – Write down spell ideas as they come to you. Save them as notes in your phone and then come back and flesh them out in your BOS later.

✨ – Come up with your own challenges! If you’d like to share, tag me on your post or send them to me, I’d love to hear your ideas!

[melioramagic]

Better picture of my Anti-Migraine Spell bottle. I want to add a few tiny pieces of amethyst before I seal it up with wax but I love it so far, even just smelling it helps clear my head. 

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ABC’s of basic herbs and their magical uses. :)

[stormheartedvamp]

Not sure why I feel such a strong need to say this NOW but:

Magic doesn’t come from herbs or symbols. It doesn’t come from semi-precious stones or funky colored candles.

Non-witches use those things all the time, sometimes on a daily basis, and never really do magic using them.

Someone who doesn’t BELIEVE in the healing properties of Rose Quartz won’t benefit from them. Someone who doesn’t believe that burning a green candle can bring luck and money won’t draw those things to themselves by burning a green candle.

The magic comes from YOU. Your belief in those things is what allows them to work. Herbs, fancy candles, stones – those are all conduits and boosts for your own, innate magical power.

Do certain herbs and stones have innate power? Yes, I believe that they do. Certain days have power, certain phases of the moon have power. Not necessarily because I believe those things (aside from the astronomical/cosmological stuff like eclipses, solstices etc.,) have innate power, but because many people, over a long period of time, have believed that those things have that specific power.

However, I also feel that YOUR personal associations with a plant, stone, color etc., can override those because YOU are the one doing the magic. It is YOUR ENERGY being channeled through that particular conduit, after all. How could it NOT have some effect on the way the magic works?

[dumbbbunnnyy-deactivated2021021]

Magickal Uses for Essential Oils ✨

Add to:

The bath 

The shower

Spell jars

Sachets 

Oil diffusers 

The washing machine 

Dryer sheets

Charged water

Make homemade:

Perfumes 

Salves

Lotions

Body soaps

Balms

Scrubs

Floor washes

Pest repellants 

Use to:

Anoint candles

Anoint yourself 

Anoint magickal tools 

Make elemental, planetary, or celestial oil blends

Aromatherapy, Memory, & Magick

[kikiscauldron]

A tarot spread to try out during the winter months when the constellations Orion and Taurus are overhead. Within the Taurus constellation is the famous Pleiades Star Cluster. In Greek mythology the Pleiades are seven sisters, the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. This star cluster has been observed and worshiped by many ancient civilizations, and today they are connected to the new age idea of higher consciousness life and divine evolution.

[magickalliving]

Bay Leaf Wish Spell

this is a very simple spell that can aide you in a wish you have! 

 what you need: 

• dried bay leaf 

• white candle 

• marker 

• fire-resistant dish 

 1. write your intention out on the bay leaf (ex. Love) 

 2. hold it between your palms, meditating on it putting all your wishful energy into it. 

 3. put it in the fire so it catches, then quickly drop it into the dish. (in my experience it only burns about a quarter, probably because i didn’t hold in in the fire for long enough, but if this does happen flick off the burn part and continue. you can grind it smaller with a mortar and pestle.)

 4. once it is cool to touch, collect all the ashes and place them in a small sack or bottle and carry it around until you feel the spell has worked.

 5. once your wish has happened, you can dispose of the ashes by burring them, letting them off in the wind, place in water, ect. 

 happy crafting my lovelies, and blessed be. ❤️

[natural-magics]

Threshold Protection Spell

This is a very simple spell to help keep negative energy from entering your home. Materials:

3 cloves of garlic

A handful of coarse sea salt

A handful of rosemary

Stir everything together in a bowl, and leave on a windowsill during the night of a full moon.

Then, take the bowl outside and spread the salt and herbs around the outside of your front door and any other doors in the house. The main door that you use should get the most of the mixture. For added protection, sprinkle a little on the window sills, too. If you live in an apartment, pour the contents in small bottles and keep them by the front door and windows.

[paganwitchofchaos]

The Boring but Important Basics of Witchcraft

Let me start by saying CLEANSING CLEANSING CLEANSING. It’s the most basic, first thing you learn, exciting and boring part of witchcraft.

Negative energy is a scientific fact based on positive and negative charged ions that make up everything.

Clearing out negative energy and replacing it with positive energy is not something you should only do during spring cleaning. Cleanse after a very stressful or negative experience like a fight or finals. Cleanse if you’re feeling lethargic or upset. Cleansing may not fix everything but it definitely doesn’t hurt.

The best way I’ve found to cleanse it a salt water, sage, pine mix. It’s in a spray bottle and I just spray it around the room. It works best if you’ve cleaned up any clutter that may be lying about. It also helps to declutter your mind. For me that can be hard between my anxiety and depression so it really helps to sit down and work things out in my head.

Another basic is protection and casting circles. When you perform spells or rituals you open yourself up to outside interference. It’s like how your laptop limited to what’s on it by itself. When it connects to the internet it becomes part of all these other devices that are connected and its no longer limited. Without a firewall your computer can get a virus. So casting a circle is like activating a firewall.

You can create a mental circle but it can be hard to keep up if you’re performing an energy costing spell or ritual. Salt is your best friend!

Creating circles and walls from outside energy is essential for most empaths to function some days. It all depends on who you come in contact with. Even if you don’t spend much time with a person you can still pick up on their emotional energy. If you do get interference cleansing can help clean out other people’s emotions.

A lot of witchcraft is visualizing and focusing your will and releasing energy from things like crystals or herbs. Meditation and mental exercises will help you in whatever spells or rituals you want to do.

My last basic isn’t witchcraft but it’s essential for doing spells or rituals. Take care of yourself. If you are too tired and don’t have the energy, for whatever reason, to focus or use energy in a spell, it’s not going to work. So drink water, exercise, sleep, relax. Do what you can to take care of you. Self care isn’t always easy but it’s important in everything you do. I’m a big advocate of those occasional and unavoidable mental health days. Mental sickness will cause your body to become sick.

[a-witch-named-lyd]

Tarot Tips for Newbs

It’s going to take a long time for you to get it all completely. That’s okay. Studying is fun. You are learning a language and this shit is dense, complicated, and very subtle. Go slow.

But! That doesn’t mean you have to learn it all before you see results. No worries, just… start. Play around, look at the pictures, experiment with different modes of shuffling. Try a reading right away, just for fun, and it will still tell you things, even if you’ve never touched a deck in your life.

Pay attention to the cards that drop or fall out. They’re messages.

Start with the Rider-Waite (Pamela Coleman Smith) deck, if you can. It’s much easier to pick up. Every single picture is full of common western symbols that just make sense in context. It’s designed to convey the meanings just with pictures. Many other decks do this too, but this one is like the “easiest translation” to read your first time. You can always buy tons of cute artistic decks later.

At first you’ll have a topical understanding of your readings - it will ring true about surface matters and you’ll feel great. But it only gets better! As you get more familiar with your deck and its symbolism, you’ll get insights from readings that don’t just say what’s obvious, but that show you completely new ways to think about situations. It’s so, so great for hard life moments.

The Death card doesn’t mean someone is going to die. It means transformation or change.

It’s okay to look stuff up. We all do it. No one knows it all by heart, and it gives you a much better reading to look at all the possible meanings instead of just the one or two you have memorized. Google is your friend.

learntarot.com/cards.htm is your quick reference. Biddy Tarot is also really good if you prefer prose to lists.

Study a lot of disparate sources to get a fuller understanding of the nuances of every card’s meaning. The booklet that came with your deck, several websites, books. Mix it all together and you’ll get a nice detailed little concept for every card.

It’s a total fucking myth that you can’t buy yourself your own first deck. You won’t wake any curses or have innaccurate readings or bad luck. It’s. …not a thing. Go shopping.

Tarot cards can be really sassy. Like, sometimes straight up rude. It kinda just comes with the territory.

Reversals aren’t so much hard to read as they are hard to …explain? They’re not opposites…more like shadows. Look at the inversion of the picture, think about the inversion of the idea, listen to your gut. Then look it up. You were probably right.

Also, direct any questions to my inbox or to google. Again, Biddy Tarot and learntarot.com are very excellent resources.

NOW, GO FORTH, HAVE FUN!!

[journey-through-the-forest-blog]

Mirror, Mirror

“Mirror, Mirror, 

What’s Behind You?

Save Me from the 

Things I See.”

A spell for a more positive outlook on yourself.

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Things you will need:

- One Mirror

- A cup of tea, milk, whatever (as long as it’s sweet or pre-sweetened)

- Two white candles

- One stick of lip gloss, lipstick, or other cosmetic

- Matches

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Instructions:

- Do this spell during a full moon, at whatever time of the day you wish. Set up your work area. Place the mirror in front of you, with one candle on either side of said mirror. Place the cup of sweet tea, milk, or whatever between you and the mirror. Put your cosmetic object of choice in front of your cup (closer to you than the mirror). Light your candles, and if you are the type to meditate before spell working, do so now.

- Once you feel you are ready, gaze upon yourself in the mirror. Look yourself over, and if you see anything that you feel is a flaw, notice it, but do not wallow in it. Take in every detail, and as you focus upon the image of your being, chant the following:

“Against the laws of nature, against the survival of man, 

I’ve pitied and caused myself pain, but I’ve done all that I can

To help myself out, to make myself feel better,

To make myself feel that I really matter.

No more wallowing in sadness, no more pity, no more regret,

Over my appearance, my flaws, and everything else,

I will no longer fret.

I’m beautiful, I matter, I’m not a hunk of flesh

That doesn’t mean anything to anyone here.

I made a difference in at least one person’s life,

and I will not fail to recognize that.” 

- Take your cosmetic of choice, and depending on whether or not you wear makeup, put it on or crush the tube. Once you’ve done so, look yourself over in your mirror, and compliment yourself. Remind yourself of all the nice and wonderful things you’ve done in the past and present. Forget all of the bad things that have happened, and once you feel your spirits have been lifted, treat yourself to what you have in your cup. If you did the spell during the daytime, go about your day and do things that make you feel good. If you did the spell during the night, tuck yourself in and make yourself as comfortable as you can.

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Letting Go: A Spell about Burning Shit

This spell is to help you let go of feelings or issues that have been nagging at you. It is very dear to my heart–I do it every Samhain, and whenever I want to release my feelings or stresses.

You will need:

Paper

Pen

Lighter/matches

A FIRE SAFE bowl. This means no plastic or paper bowls. It must be sturdy ceramic or fire-safe stone.

The method is simple:

Write down whatever is bothering you, then tear off that part of the paper, and burn it in the bowl. Really meditate on this. As the fire turns the paper into ash, feel that harsh emotion diffusing in yourself as well. Write down as many issues as you can, in short phrases. An example: I’m worried that I can’t get all my work done.

If the paper doesn’t burn all the way, leave it. This’ll be important for later.

If one of your papers didn’t burn all the way, it has something to do with the next issue you think to write down. For example, if your paper saying I’m worried they won’t like me didn’t burn fully, and the next one you think to write is I’m too scared to talk to them, those may have something to do with each other. Take the remnants of the previous paper that didn’t burn all the way, and burn it along with the next one.

If you think of affirmations while burning your worries, write them down, but do not burn them. An example: If you burn a slip saying I feel guilty for crying in public, your affirmation could be My emotions are valid, and I have a right to express them if it is healthy for me to do so.

When you’re done, you’ll have a page full of affirmations and rid of worries and stresses. You may save these affirmations and use them in any way you want.

PLEASE PRACTICE FIRE SAFETY WHILE DOING THIS SPELL. I don’t want any of your beautiful selves to get hurt.

Blessed be, lovelies!