#easy magic

[edgeandaltar]

10 Spells You Can Cast Right Now Using Absolutely Nothing

Because you shouldn't have to buy a single thing to practice magic.

No crystals. No candles. No herbs. No fancy tools.

Just you, your intention, and 60 seconds.

Here are 10 spells you can do right this second:

1. The Invisible Shield Breath Take three deep breaths. Visualize a protective bubble forming around you with each exhale. Say: "I am protected." Use before stressful situations.

2. The Threshold Protection Stand in a doorway. Place a hand on each side of the frame. Say: "This is the boundary. Only what serves me crosses this line." Step through with intention.

3. The Mirror Visualization Close your eyes. Imagine you're covered in tiny mirrors facing outward. Any negativity bounces off and returns to sender. Use when dealing with gossip or jealousy.

4. The Grounding Breath Count Breathe in for 4, hold for 4, breathe out for 4, hold for 4. Repeat 3 times. Imagine roots growing from your feet into the earth. Use for anxiety.

5. The Posture Spell Stand up straight. Roll shoulders back. Lift your chin. Say: "I am powerful. I take up space. I belong here." Hold for 30 seconds. Use before anything that scares you.

6. The Cord Cutting Visualization Imagine an energetic cord connecting you to someone draining. Visualize cutting it. Say: "I cut this connection. Your energy is yours, mine is mine." Use after toxic interactions.

7. The Open Hands Spell Hold hands out, palms up, like you're receiving something. Say: "I am open to receiving. Money flows to me easily. I have enough." Use for financial anxiety.

8. The Five Senses Grounding Name 5 things you see, 4 you can touch, 3 you hear, 2 you smell, 1 you taste. This pulls you out of your anxious brain and into your body.

9. The "No" Practice Spell Say "no" out loud 10 times. Say it different ways: firmly, kindly, loudly, quietly. Feel how it sits in your mouth. You're practicing the spell of refusal.

10. The Crisis Mantra Say: "I have survived 100% of my worst days. I will survive this too." Repeat until you believe it. Use during panic or bad news.

These are just 10 of the 50+ no-supply spells I wrote about. Want the full guide? Read it here: https://www.edgeandaltar.com/post/no-supply-spells-magic-without-buying-anything

Or browse 100+ more spells (organized by intention, time, and what you have available) in my free spell library: app.edgeandaltar.com

[rayoflighte]

Small Sun Work & Solar Magic Ideas:

- Read about the Sun and learn about how it works.

- Watch space documentaries.

- Study sun symbology & symbolism.

- Meditate on the Sun, or with solar deities such as Apollon, Sól (Norse), Sol (Roman), Ra, Horus, Shamash, Helios, and others. If your culture has a sun deity, study them! Meditating on the Sun tarot card can work as well.

- Create your own solar spells & fire magic.

- Read on the history of the Sun’s relationship with humanity.

- Study farming, plants, anything that involves the Sun’s light!

- Spend time out in the Sun (with sunscreen!). If you sunbathe, do it safely!

- Talk to the Sun.

- Wear bright and/or warm colors! Orange, yellow, red, etc.!

[gothgirlorgy]

Easy Everyday Magic Practices

Stir cinnamon in your coffee for success

Stir it clockwise

Say affirmations while you're putting on make up/lotion/sunscreen

Craft a special oil for your hair with essential oils and a carrier oil like jojoba. Put 3 drops on your hands and run it through damp hair.

Enchant a necklace or bracelet for protection or success.

Draw a money sigil on yourself before work

MEDITATE even if it's just closing your eyes and taking three deep breaths or journaling

Tell your problems to the trees

Leave out water for your ancestors or house spirits

Walk outside barefoot for a bit

Wear colors based on color magic

Sigil or Sachet for good sleep and dreams under your pillow

Draw a tarot card in the morning

Open a random book to a random page and read the first full paragraph

Sit quietly and observe

Practice gratitude (not super witchy but will really help your mood)

These are just a few that I use often, please feel free to add to this list. Witchcraft doesn't have to be complicated or intricate, sometimes it's just the way you breathe.

Love you!

[sharkboy305]

A Finnlena idea where instead of dying like usual, Finn is put into a coma to save him from Lucien's bite, so while his family is looking for a way to undue it, Finn's left in a dream state where eventually, through some weird magical way, he ends up stumbling across Elena, who was put into her sleep coma a year earlier.

Due to the fact their the only ones there, they end up bonding and getting to know one another as they learn what happened to get them into the mess their in and Finn explaining what's been happening in Mystic falls and New Orleans.

[aesethewitch]

An easy tip for my fellow spirit workers or others who use candles in their magic (especially "light it and leave it" style casters):

Put stickers on your lighter(s). Have a different colored lighter for various moods or purposes. Put stickers on those shits. My favorite spirit work lighter is hot pink (because it's what I had) and is covered in relevant stickers. A little holographic ghost, a candle, purple and yellow hearts, a butterfly, a white lily, the word "remember."

It's literally that easy. Enchant your lighters. With the power of STICKERS.

See also: Drawing on your lighters with sharpie

[coven-of-genesis]

LOW EFFORT MAGIC

MAKE AND CHARM NATURAL TEA

CONNECT WITH THE GRID OF THE TREESOUTDOORS

BURN INCENSE THAT CORRELATES WITH YOUR DAILY INTENTION

SIT IN SILENCE FOR FIVE MINUTES

GATHER ENERGY IN YOUR HANDS THEN SEND OUT YOUR INTENTION

INFUSE YOUR BREAKFAST WITH YOUR DAILY INTENTION

[the-corset-witch]

I put together a very small protection bundle, just a small vial of black salt & an amethyst, because one of our finance managers at work asked me if an amethyst would help her with protection. I gave her black salt for protection and and chevron amethyst because it's neat and if she's called to the stone then maybe it's the one she's meant to have right now.

When I gave it to her I told her how to make black salt for her own protective uses.

The theory of this is, since the little vial of black salt I gave her is simply corked, and not sealed, it can be uncorked, so it can kind of meander with the space she's in, absorbing & banishing any already existing negative energy while also rebuffing/repelling any new negative energy that would try to come into the space. It's as simple as "shake then uncork the jar to enact spell" type of cleansing.

To be fair, the vial I gave her is maybe less than an inch tall, it's a tiny thing, but she also now knows how to make her own black salt if she feels the need for more.

I really am the Work Witch.

[rainbowchewynuggets]

Story Nugget - Easy Magic

So, magic's really cool right? It gives you the power to change reality to accomplish the impossible. And it makes sense that such a power would have a cost.

I like the horror side of that. There's something cosmically unsettling about being able to manipulate the fabric of the world you live in. It's like introducing a cheat in a videogame that messes up the code of everything else because it doesn't know how to react.

Imagine a magic system that does this. Maybe it's used with good intensions. There's some kind of problem going on that would be a lot of work to make better and/or would cost something the wielder deems too important to lose. But the motive is also a little cowardly. It's a quick fix to get around a consequence or sacrifice.

Then, when the surreal consequences start to come out, it creates other problems. A mind changed by magic begins to lose its free associations. It only keeps what its new logic will allow until there is only that one thought left inside it. An object disguised to serve a different purpose can't do either job properly again, mangling the stability of whatever or whoever it is used with. The area where the action was performed looks... wrong--and becomes more wrong. An alien tangle daring that it be remedied in order to spread its shape.

Ideally, this all would scare a person away from ever using this power again. Less ideally, the guilt and shame might motivate them to "fix" their "fix", thinking they just did it wrong. Or they simply move on, having sworn to never use the power again.

There is no end to problems, of course, so there's plenty of temptation to cheat. It forms a hole in the wielder that they come to reason must be the power itself manipulating them (rather than, say, a loneliness and entitlement that drove them toward the power in the first place). As much as they try to resist, they use this power again and again with greater and greater impact.

Word of this bizarre phenomenon travels far and wide. People fill in their own explanations for what's happening because there must be a logic to it. A way to control it. A line that connects the conflicts they'd rather not face to the chaos eroding their world. Because the anatomy of the threat defies logic entirely and unravels those patient and curious enough to investigate.

What everyone ends up looking for is a perpetrator.

The wielder, themself, hasn't been able to show their face for years. They usually move quietly between small isolated towns, looming in the back of public spaces, careful not to touch too many things. They can't speak. They can barely see. They watch the vague shapes of passersby and pull the fabric of their cloak tighter over their garbled abstract body that grows harder to hide with each act of heroism.

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