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♡26♡bi♡pisces♡baby witch♡

[sapphic-nature-witch]

Helpful moon chart for the coming year for all your spell needs 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑

[rosemary-snorter]

WITCH'S 2023 CALENDAR

if i miss anything or get anything wrong, don't be afraid to correct me!

i live in the Northern Hemisphere, so some of these dates are based on that

sorry for the long post!!!

RETROGRADES OF 2023:

MERCURY RETROGRADE:

December 29, 2022 - January 18, 2023

April 21, 2023 - May 14, 2023

August 23, 2023 - September 15, 2023

December 13, 2023 - January 1, 2024

VENUS RETROGRADE:

July 22, 2023 - September 3, 2023

MARS RETROGRADE:

October 30, 2022 - January 12, 2023

JUPITER RETROGRADE:

September 4, 2023 - December 30, 2023

SATURN RETROGRADE:

June 17, 2023 - November 4, 2023

URANUS RETROGRADE:

August 24, 2022 - January 22, 2023

August 28, 2023 - January 27, 2024

NEPTUNE RETROGRADE:

June 30, 2023 - December 6, 2023

PLUTO RETROGRADE:

May 1, 2023 - October 10, 2023

FULL MOONS OF 2023:

WOLF MOON:

Friday, Jan 6

SNOW MOON:

Sunday, Feb 5

WORM MOON:

Tuesday, Mar 7

PINK MOON:

Thursday, April 6

FLOWER MOON:

Friday, May 5

STRAWBERRY MOON:

Sunday, Jun 4

BUCK MOON:

Monday, Jul 3

STURGEON MOON:

Tuesday, Aug 1

BLUE MOON:

Thursday, Aug 31

HARVEST MOON:

Friday, Sept 29

HUNTER'S MOON:

Saturday, Oct 28

BEAVER MOON:

Monday, Nov 27

COLD MOON:

Wednesday, Dec 27

NEW MOONS OF 2023:

Saturday, Jan 21

Monday, Feb 20

Tuesday, Mar 21

Thursday, Apr 20

Friday, May 19

Sunday, Jun 18

Monday, Jul 17

Wednesday, Aug 16

Friday, Sept 15

Saturday, Oct 14

Monday, Nov 13

Tuesday, December 12

FIRST QUARTER MOONS OF 2023:

Saturday, Jan 28

Monday, Feb 27

Wednesday, Mar 29

Thursday, Apr 27

Saturday, May 27

Monday, Jun 26

Tuesday, Jul 25

Thursday, Aug 24

Friday, Sep 22

Sunday, Oct 22

Monday, Nov 22

Tuesday, Dec 19

LAST QUARTER MOONS OF 2023:

Sunday, Jan 15

Monday, Feb 13

Wednesday, Mar 15

Thursday, Apr 13

Friday, May 12

Saturday, Jun 10

Monday, Jul 10

Tuesday, Aug 8

Wednesday, Sep 6

Friday, Oct 8

Sunday, Nov 5

Tuesday, December 5

HOLIDAYS OF 2023:

Samhain (All Hallow's Eve, Autumn-Winter Cross Quarter Days): Oct 31 - Nov 1

Yule (Winter Solstice): Dec 21 2023 - Jan 1 2024

Imbolc (Ground Hog's Day): Feb 1 - 2

Ostara (Spring Equinox): Mar 20

Beltane (Mayday): May 1

Litha (Summer Solstice): Jun 20

Lammas and Lughnasadh: Aug 1

Mabon (Autumnal Equinox): Sep 21 - Sep 29

*stupid little footnotes: i'm trying out some colors. idk. i think it's cool. more organized. lmk if you guys like or dislike it

[dragoncastings]

Witchcraft: Magical Mornings

Every now and then, I find myself and others wanting to spend more time actively practicing witchcraft. I also love to wake up early in the morning to get rid of a funk, and these tips assist me in making that task more magical. Good Morning!

Enchant your mug for morning beverages with the intentions of your goals for the day. Coffee symbolizes speed and luck, whilst Tea embodies healing energies. Water is always cleansing as well!

Establishing a five minute daily Tarot Card, Rune, or Pendulum ritual. This can be done in an app if that makes it simpler. This gives you something to focus on each day for self improvement.

Cleansing yourself through bathing, showers, and other hygienic care when in need for a deep purification. This can range from brushing your teeth and hair to facial masks and changing attire.

Listening to a fifteen minute Meditation video and then journaling about what you contemplated. If you desire, consider preforming a shadow work prompt each morning.

Practicing Color Magic through your wardrobe choices. For example, If I desired to attract protection, I would wear the corresponding shade black. This involves jewelry, tops, jackets, to hair dye choices.

Designate fifteen minutes to researching a particular occult or miscellaneous topic of interest to you. You can als document notes if you wish to in a Grimoire.

Stretching to Center your body can be empowering and beneficial both spiritually and physically. Make your bed and cleanse your bedroom by physically tidying it up first thing in the morning. Then add positive energies to space through music or scents.

[domestichearthwitch]

Rice In Witchcraft

Rice in witchcraft is known for it's properties of Prosperity, Wealth, Protection, and Fertility. You can add rice to your spell jars, placing it around your house, or to carrying it with you.

Other uses for Rice:

Burying stones and other items to cleanse and charge them

To represent the Air Element

Using rice in your food to bring your intentions to those who eat it.

Use as a base for money bowls to attract wealth in your life

Keeping rice near your door to ward off negative energy

Using rice as offerings to deities, especially ones associated with agriculture.

[little-witchys-garden]

How to hang dry herbs!

Start your at home Apothecary now!

Herbs should be picked on season of course so do your research on whwn your herbs are ready! Or do as I do and just watch them.

Now you can do this before or after the flowers develop depending on the flavor you want from your herbs.

They should be harvested on warm, dry mornings after the dew has completely evaporated but it's always best to still dab them down just in case!

 you’ll need to discard any damaged leaves or stems.

Check for bugs and dirt!

 hang drying herbs is super easy!

tie sprigs or branches into small bunches! We do small because large, dense bunches can develop mold and discolored leaves!

Hang the bunches up to dry, leaves downward, wrapped loosely in muslin or thin paper bags to keep out dust and to catch falling leaves or seeds.

Avoid using plastic bags because of mold development from the moisture!

Allow seven to ten days to dry, depending on the size of the branches and humidity.

If the leaves sound like crisp cornflakes when crushed, they’re good to go!

[wildwitchm]

I love working my craft in the kitchen. Its where I can focus the best and place my most powerful intentions. These are the most common herbs used for different workings whether its a simmer pot or introduced into your cooking.

[welshwitchrobyn-deactivated2023]

Lemon Bread

Recipe

Ready in 45 mins + cooling, making 1 loaf (12 slices)

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs, room temperature

1 tablespoon grated lemon zest

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup 2% milk

For the glaze: 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar and 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In large bow, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 mins.

Beat eggs, lemon zest, and juice. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; gradually stir into creamed mixture alternately with milk, heating well after each addition.

Pour into greased 8x4 inch loaf pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean, 40-45 minutes.

Cool in pan 15 mins before removing to a wire rack. Combine glaze ingredients; immediately drizzle over bread. Serve warm.

[cajunwitch101]

[hiddenhearthwitch]

☕🌿Coffee Magic🌿☕

☕Flavors + Correspondences☕

Almond(milk): mental clarity + fortitude, luck, abundance, healing + good health

Amaretto: opening the mind, warding against negativity, creativity, luck

Blueberry: aids in memory + mental clarity, calmness, youth + glamour magic, restoration, aura cleansing + strengthening

Caramel: aids in changes + transformations, soothing quality to spells, good in Fae magic, increases tenacity

Chestnut: warding + protection, prosperity, longevity + increase stamina

Chocolate: self love + nurturing energy, ancestral magic, grounding, love + sexual prowess

Cinnamon: spiritual + personal power, healing, success, lust, luck, prosperity, strength

Clove: protection, actualization of desires, banishing negative + hostile forces

Coffee: inspire creativity, clear emotional + spiritual blockages, dispel nightmares, fortitude + increased stamina, encourage diligence

Coconut Milk: confidence + aid in glamour magic, strength, beauty, love

Cow milk: nurturing, fertility + prosperity, protection, abundance, aid in motherhood

Hazelnut: self-love and compassion, inspiration, creativity, wisdom + insight

Honey: happiness, offerings + Fae magic, sweetness, love, prosperity, healing, passion, spirituality

Irish Cream: dreams + intuition enhancer, prosperity, growth, aid in change

Peanut(butter): stability, aid in manifestation + intuition, attraction, energy

Pecan: spiritual purification + protection, abundance + prosperity

Peppermint: healing, purification, psychic powers + transformation, sleep, prosperity, passion

Pumpkin: wishes + dream fulfillment, protection + guarding, prosperity, magic enhancer, love

Oat(milk): tradition + ancestral work, health, stability + fortitude, beauty + youth, comfort, home magic, healing

Raspberry: invoking fertility or love, kindness + compassion, desire fulfilment, creativity, libido + sex magic

Sugar: used to amplify spells, sweetness + love, attraction, comfort, Fae magic

Soy milk: success + strength, growth, healing

Toffee: playfulness + youthfulness, friendship, easing transitions, courage + strength

Vanilla (creamer or vanilla extract): love, release of stress + anxiety, success, vitality + healing

🔮Bonus Magic Tips🔮

Pick ingredients for your coffee that align with your ambitions for the day.

It can be used as an offering to deities, spirits, ancestors, etc.(e.g. for Sif I sweeten the coffee with oat milk + honey but for Hel I leave the coffee black for an offering)

Consider the way you stir! Counterclockwise banishes and repels negativity, clockwise invites + brings energy to you.

Stain pages for you journal, spell work, or book of shadows! You can also use a strong brewed coffee and a paint brush to paint sigils onto the pages! .

See the full post + bonus recipe at the hidden hearth patreon.

References: The Herbal Alchemist’s Handbook by Karen Harrison

**Disclaimer: a lot of the nut and milk correspondences are personal + intuitive**

[le-coffee-witch]

Uncle Alabaster’s Master List of Dandelion Recipes!

Dandelion season is upon us! 

Dandelion’s are a neat little weed, unique because EVERY PART of the plant is safe for consumption! Yes, the heads, the leaves and stems, the roots, are all safe to eat. Not to mention the health benefits of dandelion’s and all the nutrients found inside. Here are some recipes I’ve found that are dandelion centric!

EDIT: Please remember to pick dandelions that have not been sprayed with pesticides or fertilizers! Stay safe. 

Great Depression Dandelion Salad 

Fried Dandelion Heads

Dandelion Vinegar, Dandelion tea, Fancy Dandelion Salad

Fried Dandelions and Potatoes  

Dandelion Root Tincture 

Dandelion root Tea

Dandelion Root Coffee, Dandelion Head Jam

Dandelion Jelly (Poor Man’s Honey) 

Dandelion heads : Pan Fried, Deep Fried, Dandelion Fritters 

Dandelion Petal Wine

Dandelion Petal Mead , Part 2

[cajunwitch101]

[nikkas-cottage]

Some delicious gingerbread cookies I made on Christmas Eve ✨🌲

[cajunwitch101]

[l-vingdeadgirlz]

𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐁𝐒 🌿

sea salt - though not technically a herb , sea salt is great for purification and cleansing while also helping to balance emotions .

black pepper - black pepper is most commonly used to protect and banish negative energies . it also tends to ward off evil .

basil - the magical uses behind this herb span out from protection to love to wealth to driving away the evil eye . basil is also sometimes known as the witches herb .

sage - sage is both a powerful and magical herb with varied different uses . these properties include wisdom , cleansing , lifting spirits , purification , healing and longevity .

rosemary - this herb is blessed with a variety of different uses — from purification to lust and love to good health to cleansing and preventing nightmares .

oregano - this herb is good for promoting joy , strength , vitality and energy .

bay leaves - one of the most common herb found in a witches cabinet — these are good for love , protection , money , success , manifestion and binding . they can also be used to remove jinxes .

lavender - most commonly used for protection , peace , love , purification and clarity . lavender can also be used to assist in mediation , divination and even sleep . pair lavender with a piece of amethyst for a great night sleep .

chamomile - primarily used in love , healing and stress reducing spells , but can also used for luck and gambling .

thyme - the best herb for attracting loyalty , affection and a good reputation . other properties include courage and strength . it's also believed to be a stimulant for psychic gifts .

peppermint - peppermint is a great herb for cleansing energy , rest , dreams , renewal and prosperity , passion , fluidity and psychic stimulant .

cardamom - cardamom is an amazing herb for love and lust , sexuality , building and reigniting intimacy .

cloves - commonly used to attract prosperity & friendship . some other uses include , banishing evil , attracting love , promoting home and personal protection , attracting money and preventing gossip .

ginger - provides protection from evil and is widely used to heat up love affairs and sexuality . some other properties include passion , love , money , luck and energy .

parsley - this herb is used for purification and protection . it can be used to promote fertility and lust .

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[icedcoffee-and-cigarettes]

[esoterictea]

Herbs and Their Uses: A Practical Guide

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