#container spells

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[themanicnami]

Sasha’s Emotional Strength Spell (Neopets Inspired)

“In her hometown, a fierce storm ravaged the long-awaited festival, but Sasha danced away, striking hope and inspiration into the hearts of the villagers.” -Neopets Altador Hall of Heroes

A spell to help you endure even the most brutal of emotional times and hold some strength when you need it most. This spell is one best done before hard times hit for it, like many spells, does require focus and energy put into it. 

You Will Need: 

🎵 Tea Leaves/Black Tea (strength, courage, energy)

🎵 Mugwort (strength, courage)

🎵 Mullein (courage)

🎵 Thyme (courage, determination)

🎵 Rosemary (mental protection, emotional strength)

🎵 Celery Seeds (mental strength, focus)

🎵 Sesame Seeds (hope)

🎵 Rose Quartz (emotional strength, hope)

🎵 Clear Quartz (energy, power, hope, focus)

🎵 Red Candle (small)

🎵 Jar or Tightly Closing Container

🎵 A Playlist of Songs that Make You Feel Powerful and Courageous

Set Up:

To set up this spell clean and clear an area, cleanse it as needed to prevent energy contamination. Make sure your playlist is set up and ready to play whether it’s through headphones or over some speakers from a phone or computer. If needed, put it on loop to ensure it plays the whole duration. Make sure you set up proper fire safety for this spell does require burning a candle down and over the container so make sure if needed there is wax paper or newspaper to catch any loose drips and that you aren’t working over carpet. Tie back all loose hair and roll up sleeves, due to motions that will take place near the flame. 

The Spell:

🎵 Turn on your playlist, if using speakers be courteous to any neighbors or roommates you may have and try not to have it too loud (especially late at night - don’t be that person)

🎵 Set up the jar or bottle you will be using and add in your herbs. The more herbs the stronger it is - though if it is a smaller container be sure to keep it from overflowing.

🎵 Once your herbs are layered in as desired add in your gemstones or shards

🎵 Screw the lid on tightly and place your candle on top, make sure as it burns it is able to melt over the lid of the container to seal it. Light it 

🎵 Once lit focus on the music playing and the energy it gives you, hold your hands to either side of the jar or container and focus that energy from the music through your body into the jar. Focus like this until wax is well melted from the candle on the jar lid and until you feel satisfied

🎵 If needed blow out or snuff out flame

🎵 Store somewhere safe but nearby. In times of dire trouble take far in hands or arms, hold it close without damaging or risking break to it and feel the energy from it enter you once more.

**spell is from my personal grimoire. Like what I post? Want to support me or buy me a delicious coffee? Feel free to check out my Ko-Fi Page!

[deviantwitch]

Anti-Anxiety Spell Jar

This spell jar can be as ginormous as you want or as small and inconspicuous as you'd like. This is great to bring calm, balance intense anxiety energies and help soothe the mind/body/spirit.

Items Needed

Sea Salt / Pink Salt - For Protection & Good Vibes.

Spruce - Ancient Wisdom, Healing, Spiritual Refreshment.

Bay - Strength & Psychic connection.

Blue Tansy - Healing Wounds, Soothing the Soul.

Sage - Mental Strength & Power.

Cedar - To Transform & Uplift.

Frankincense - To honor the spirit of all things.

Labradorite / Aquamarine Chips - To Balance Anxiety and Soothe the Body.

You may want to mix all the ingredients together or you may want to layer them in your bottle. Do what your intuition and spirit says to do. You are the one it is working for so you need to take it upon yourself to add to it. Make sure to empower and give life and purpose to each item before you add it to your jar.

Witchy Advantages & Tips:

You can add Kava to this to aid the anti-anxiety spell. You can charge this during the Waning Moon to go along with banishing your anxious energy.

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[themanicnami]

“Capture the Wind” Jar Spell

An elemental bottle spell to bring the energy and wind into your practice. Very good for divination, empowering wishing and creativity spells, and boosting one’s own energy.

You Will Need:

 💨 A jar with a lid 💨 Fluorite 💨 Amethyst 💨 Lavender 💨 Dandelion (preferably seeds or fluff) 💨 Rosemary 💨 Oregano  💨 Cotton Balls 💨 Incense of your choice (or rather the ashes from incense) 💨 Wind or a breeze

Steps:

💨 Cleanse your jar and yourself before starting the spell, center and ground if needed

💨 In your jar add your herbs one at a time. Only fill about a 1/3rd of your jar, leave plenty of room in it.

💨 Add your incense ash then your cotton balls on top in a layer

💨 Add in your gemstones on top of the herbs.

💨 If you are not already outside, go outside. If you are unable to for whatever reason, open your window as far as it will open. 

💨 Hold the jar (still open) in both of your hands and hold it out before you. Close your eyes and feel the wind through your hair, how it billows your clothing and brushes your cheeks. Visualize the energy of this wind as it blows about you. In your mind focus it swirling about your jar and into it, whether it is like a strong current or a tornado doesn’t matter; visualize it however you wish.

💨 “Wispy wild winds, lend me your energy, I ask you for your aid, to charge this jar with your swirling, free energy.” repeat as needed or desired.

💨 Once you feel your jar is properly charged with wind seal the jar tightly.

💨 Recharge it monthly with the wind or near an open window.

[themanicnami]

Wall of Stone (MTG Inspired)

A spell to put up barriers and keep malicious forces at bay.

You Will Need:

❏ Any combination of: Agate, Aventurine, Carnelian, Citrine, Dravite, Garnet, Jasper, Jet, Nuummite, Obsidian, Quartz, Snowflake Obsidian, and/or Black Tourmaline ❏ Salt ❏ Basil ❏ Mullein ❏ Soil from your property or garden ❏ Sigil for protection ❏ Paper and pen ❏ Burn safe bowl/dish ❏ Jar ❏ High place to put spell

Steps:

❏ Add your soil and herbs into your jar and set it aside for now

❏ Draw your sigil onto your piece of paper and focus on your desire to create walls of protection around your home/property that are tall and strong. 

❏ Carefully burn the sigil to ash in your burn safe bowl/dish

❏ Take your ashes and add them to your jar.

❏ Sprinkle salt into jar before sealing it tightly.

❏ Place it up somewhere high and create a line of your gemstones in front of the jar up on this high place, making a wall. Imagine their energy strengthening the wall you have already envisioned, making it glow with light. 

❏ Leave jar and gemstones up to keep the ward up. Occasionally cleanse and charge them with moonlight

[themanicnami]

Nightmare Curse (Pathfinder Inspired Curse)

A curse to cause a person who has been making your life a nightmare to have restless sleep full of baneful and unpleasant dreams.

You will Need:

Rotting Lettuce

Rotting old Garlic

Dirt

Black Ink

Poppet of the target (I made mine using cloth to make their face and stitched shut eyes)

A container (jar, tupperware, box, etc)

Time of Day: Just after sundown but not too late

Steps:

In the container lay down your rotting lettuce leaves and the old cloves of yucky garlic making a ‘bed’ for the poppet

Take your pre-made poppet you are using to represent the person you are cursing and lay them onto the ‘bed’ you have made them

“You have been vile to me, day to day, my life has been a nightmare. Now I seek my revenge, and curse you (target’s name), to suffer the same fate.”

Pour your black ink over the poppet. “May all the negativity sink into your dreams, making them black and restless”

Bury poppet with dirt until the container is full. Seal the lid. “So mote it be”

Keep container in a dark closed space such as a closet, cupboard, basement, etc. Avoid keeping it near your own bed.

Cleanse yourself once spell is complete and cleanse the space.

To break curse: break seal on lid and throw out contents into garbage and clean container well if you wish to keep it.

[trollkatt]

Calling All Witches & Other Lovelies in the Land of Woo!

I have to ask you. I don't get it. How do you who work contemporary witchcraft work your pretty little jars? Do you feed them, dance them, shake them, heat them, light candles on them, pray over them... What? Every container spell I see only list ingredients, but never what you do to wake them, or what you do to keep them awake and happily busy working for you.