wiccan// worker for the earth

brazilian soul but located on american land. just a teen witch trying to find her way to the light.

[sippingstarlight]

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happy yule 😌

[grandmawitch]

Vegan Mushroom, “Beef”, and Onion Hand Pies

1 tbsp olive oil

1 large sweet onion, diced

1 pint mushrooms, minced

6 garlic cloves, minced

1 ½ tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

3 tsp paprika

1 tsp cumin

1/3 tsp sage

1 tsp rosemary

1 13.7 oz bag Gardein beefless crumbles

For the pie crust

2 ½ cups flour

1/3 cup cold water

½ cup room temperature coconut oil

2 tbsp sugar

2 tbsp salt

Whisk together flour, sugar, and salt. Add the room temperature coconut oil. Work the coconut oil into the flour with a pastry cutter or your fingers until it forms a gravelly crumby meal. Slowly add the cold water, use just enough to bind the mealy bits into a dough, be careful not to let it become too wet and sticky. Knead the dough a few times then put it in the fridge while you work on the filling.

Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and cook for around 5 minutes. Add mushrooms and garlic and cook for another 5 minutes, stirring often. I like to add a splash of soy sauce when I add the mushrooms but this is optional.

Grind the spices in a mortar and pestle (or use ground spices) then add to the mushrooms and onions. Stir and cook another two minutes.

Add the meatless crumbles and another tbsp olive oil and mix until the crumbles are heated through. Turn off the heat and let the mixture cool slightly while you roll out your dough.

Lightly flour your work surface and roll out your dough to about ¼-1/8 inch thickness.

Use a 4 inch circle cookie cutter (if we’re being honest here I just traced a large mug with a knife) to cut the dough into discs.

Using your hands, pack about a tbsp or so of filling into the middle of the dough disc, fold it over to close and use a fork to crimp the edges sealed. Decorate with little leaves if you’d like.

Arrange on a greased baking sheet 1 inch apart. Melt a little coconut oil and brush over a very thin layer, sprinkle all of the hand pies with a pinch of salt.

Bake at 375F/190C for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

Enjoy!

PS– If you have leftover filling pop it in a container and freeze it for next time! If you can keep your partner and their fork out of it. I end up with a ton leftover every time 😂

[everythingwithwasabi]

Vegan Twin Peaks Cherry Pie 

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Apple: spirit work, offerings, love, healing, beauty, wisdom, harvest

Blueberry: protection, banishment, curses

Basil: protection, grounding, happiness, peace, money, love, luck

Black (general): strength, cleansing, rid of negativity, protection

Cornflower:  femininity, fae, acceptance, health, beauty, protection

Catmint:   healing, animal magic, relaxation, calmness, happiness, psychic ability, love, wishes, meditation

Cinnamon: safety, calmness, love, happiness, money, blessing, protection, healing

Cranberry: holidays, blood magic, spirit work

Clover: money, prosperity, luck, happiness, spirit work, fae, protection, healing

Chai Spice: love, money, luck, witchcraft, psychic ability

Chrysanthemum - healing, samhain, ancestral work

Chamomile - calmness, money, love, peace, cleansing, love, meditation

Dandelion: wishes, dreams, psychic ability, lunar magic

Elderberry: healing, protection, blessing, banishing, cursing, cleansing

Earl Grey: peace, happiness, relationships

Ginger: energy, speeding things along, passion, travel, healing

Ginseng: love, fertility, beauty, healing, strength

Green (general): healing, sexuality, energy, peace, witchcraft

Honeysuckle:  sexuality, fertility, love, luck, prosperity, sweetness

Herbal (general): peace, serenity, health

Kombucha (general): sexuality, health, luck

Lavender:  calmness, cleansing, love, happiness, fertility

Lilac: love, protection, fortune, new love, banishing

Lemon Balm: cleansing, confidence, overcoming challenges, relaxation

Lemongrass: psychic ability, divination, cleansing, communication, protection, love, luck, jobs

Lemon: cleansing, purification, protection, curse breaking

Lime: cleansing, protection, love

Lychee: love, self love, femininity, beauty

Mint: communication, energy, money, spirit work, cleansing

Mugwort: healing, divination, astral projection, dreams, psychic ability, cleansing, protection

Matcha: energy, alertness

Nettle: spirit work, protection, curse breaking

Oolong: love, difination, serenity, peace

Peppermint: healing, cleansing, sleep, love, money

Passion fruit: lust, love, passion

Pomegranate: offerings, blood magic, fertility, divination, spell work

Peach: fertility, love, happiness, spirit work

Rose (general):  love, beauty, attraction, fertility

Raspberry: love, dreams, health

Raspberry leaf: fertility, femininity, menstrual cycle, lunar magic, love, creativity, protection

Sage: cleansing, protection, spirit work, smoke cleansing, wisdom, wishes, funerals

White (general): happiness, lunar magic, protection, cleansing

Yarrow:  love, divination, dreams, psychic ability, marriage, courage, communication, focus

[aspelladay]

Blessing Incense

Not all incenses are dry. This is a liquid, steam-based incense formula from Yemen.

Gently warm rose water or hydrosol.

Add sugar, stirring until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Add some or all of the following: aloes wood, rose petals, sandalwood powder, black tea leaves, attars of jasmine, rose, sandalwood, and henna.

Simmer, until steam rises.

Use the steam to bless and cleanse an area, people, and/or objects.

(from The Element Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells by Judika Illes)

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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.

[theartofobesity]

Iemanjá by Brazilian artist Marcelo Jorge … sometimes spelt Yemanjá, she is the goddess of the sea

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🌳 everywhere in nature is a sacred place 🌳

[juicemetal]

Physically I’m here, emotionally I’m being embraced by the warm damp earth down by the creek

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I am one with all. Every plant, element, and animal. I am a reflection of love in its purest form.

-x

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Yarn Magic

Hello everyone! Now I know a lot of spoonies, and a lot of witches who either knit, crochet or sew. These activities suit both groups: for spoonies they offer a creative output without having to spend too much energy, and for witches they’re a really easy way to practise magic daily. So yarn/knot magic is perfect for spoonie witches!

This year (2017) I am crocheting a square each day, and making these into a massive blanket. I am choosing the colours of each square based on each day, how I felt, or magical colour correspondences I want to instil. 

As I crochet, I set my intention for the blanket within each stitch- for me these include protection, comfort and safety. Other ways to add magic include adding strands of your hair or the hair of a loved one into the blanket to add extra protection (this often happens by accident for me as my hair sheds everywhere!), or you can crochet with the colours specific to your intentions.

My colour correspondences are: 

white: cleansing and purity

black: protection and binding 

red: strength and passion

pink: love and harmony

orange: courage and comfort

yellow: communication and self love

green: fertility and wellness

dark blue: dreams and psychic abilities

light blue: joy and new beginnings

violet: divination and inspiration 

purple: authority and power

grey: neutrality and secrets

brown: the home and grounding 

silver: intuition and reflection

gold: prosperity and luck 

Happy Witch Crafting everyone! (see what I did there? good pun)

Emily xo

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tips for baby witches

so to preface this, it will be under a read more due to length and it’s just tidbits of information that may come in handy.

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I'm trying to dry flowers but my cat won't let me cos sHE WANT TO EAT THEM

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[thisdavidisnotreal]

The morning we met.

Freshly ground coffee scents

Do you remember the first look?

And how it changed us forevermore?

Did you still want to forget about those eyes?

And Where they have taken you today?

The smell of tea tree doesn’t help.

And the Coffee brings her closer.

We left mourning our distance.

And then we just left.

[glazedeye-s]

There’s a brazilian word that describes the feeling of missing something or someone intensively.

We call it saudade.

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How to make a jarrarium 🌿

I've been wanting to make this post for a while, and now I have the time so here we go.

I've always wanted an aquarium, but I don't have the time or money for one. I decided to try making my own miniature pond in a jar and it went well, so I'm going to share what I did here:

What you will need:

A lidded Mason jar

Containers for harvesting plants and substrate

Some gravel or rocks

An air-tight container, such as a water bottle or another jar.

Once you have all of your materials, it's time to pack your bag and go find a body of water. I suggest using river water because I find it cleaner and easier to work with. I have a river near my house, so this was relatively easy for me.

First, you're going to want to gather some substrate.

As you can see in the photo shown above, I chose substrate straight from the banks of the river, where the ground was still submerged in water. It's important to gather soil rich with aquatic life. Any other soil will be home to invertebrates that cannot survive in water and will die in your jarrarium.

Secondly, if you encounter any vertebrates, such as small fish, leave it alone. They cannot survive in your jarrarium.

Next you'll want to gather your plants.

Here I have some moss, some leafy plants, and a little bit of grass. Look for plants in areas of the river that are still submerged in water, or where the banks are still relatively damp. This means that the river rises in this area and is a sign that the plants growing there can survive underwater.

In some places harvesting moss is illegal, so look up your local laws. Also familiarize yourself with endangered plants in your area to avoid accidentally harvesting any, and never disturb plants in a conservation area.

Dig your hands into the soil and gently remove the plant from beneath the root. Try not to disturb the plants around the one that you're taking. Shake off the excess soil and lay them in your container. Never take more than you need.

I have some rocks and gravel shown here too. This river doesn't have many rocks so I took these from my driveway 🤭

If you don't have rocks or gravel, that's okay. This will still work without it, but I find that even a few rocks provide drainage, which will help your plants thrive.

Once you have your plants and soil gathered, fill up your water bottle with river water and be on your way home. I took two bottles so I could have extra to keep in my fridge, for when I need to change the water.

Now you're home and ready to start your jarrarium. Here are the step-by-step instructions.

Add the rocks or gravel to the bottom of your jar.

Cover with soil. There should be enough substrate for your plants to grow in, but there should also be enough room in the jar for a decent amount of water. A little less than half the jar should be enough.

Carefully add your plants. Make sure that their roots are mostly in the soil and that they are standing upright. I added my more delicate plants first and then layered in the moss over their roots.

Pour your water into the jar. If you pour it slowly over the back a spoon, it won't disturb the soil as much.

Leave it undisturbed for a week. You can cover the jar if you'd like, but remember to take the lid off for a while every day, to give the ecosystem some air. It also needs to be exposed to direct sunlight as often as possible.

Here are some photos of my own personal jarrarium at different stages:

The disturbed soil will leave the water very murky. Leave it alone for about a week and you will see the water become clear and the plants begin to thrive.

Ways to make this project witchy:

You can add water-safe stones or specific aquatic plants with correspondences that match your intent.

You can also draw a sigil in the soil before adding it to the jar.

Personally, I decided that this jarrarium and the plants that it houses would be a physical representation of my goals and charged it during the following full moon.

Also upon gathering materials, I asked if it was okay for me to take what I needed and made an offering. A rock, some water that you haven't yet drank from, or something easily biodegradable is fine. I also picked up any litter that I found on my way home in exchange for what I took.

Quick note: If there are no bodies of water close to you, you are disabled and can't hike to find materials, or can't leave your house for any reason at all, you can still do this project! All of these materials, including plants and non chlorinated freshwater, are available online.

- Allison 🖤

*Edit: If you notice algae forming in excess at the water's surface and on your plants, change the water immediately and clean the sides of the jar. Algae will take all of the oxygen and nutrients in the jarrarium, suffocating your plants and microorganisms. If your plants begin to die from the algae, start over.

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my name is juls! i’m a wiccan! i practice witchcraft and magick!

ilove to bake and cook and make teas and meditate! 🥖🍜

i can do reiki and i’m in training to be a doula (then later a midwife)!! 🕉💗

my favorite colors are green and purple, i love the earth more than anything!! i love earth tones and autumn and the outside! 🍄🎍🌱

i like hiking, crocheting, and loving! i like dried herbs and flowers, i love music (mostly 90s indie, alternative, and punk, though i’m a fan of porches, hippo campus, miniature tigers, the 1975, keaton henson, the front bottoms, and so many more!!)🌿🌱

my pronouns are she/her, i’m bisexual, and support anyone and everyone as long as they aren’t hateful towards others!

i’m vegan, but don’t mind people who aren’t (spreading the love around here)!

i love horror movies!

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