Jul 11, 2025
I found this discarded wasps' nest in my backyard this morning. I thanked the wasps for leaving this symbol of spiritual protection and strong defense for me💛.
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I found this discarded wasps' nest in my backyard this morning. I thanked the wasps for leaving this symbol of spiritual protection and strong defense for me💛.
Insect Magic
The Butterfly
Associations:
Element of air
Transformation
Regeneration
Souls of the Dead / Ancestors
Renewal
Use in your practice:
The butterfly can be an aid for love spells and dream work. It also helps when working with the fairy realm and contacting ancestors/spirits.
Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.
The Bee
Associations:
Providing and nurturing
Abundance
Community
Fertility
Prosperity
Use in your practice:
The bee can help in spells that help attract prosperity, unify your family, strengthen bonds in a relationship. Etc.
Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation. Honey from bees is also a great offering.
The Spider
Associations:
Creativity
Renewal
Aggression
Wisdom
Use in your practice:
The spider is great when we need support with creativity and developing skills. Visualizing energy as a spider web - ideas, manifestations, outcomes all weaved together.
Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.
The Dragonfly
Associations:
Element of water
Shape-shifting / Transformation
Change
Courage
Use in your practice:
Dragonflies are useful for dream work and meditation when seeking clarity/truth. Use in spells dealing with change our courage.
Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.
The Firefly
Associations:
Element of fire
Happiness
Hope
Energy
Guidance
Use in your practice:
Great for spells involving removal of negativity/darkness. Adds energy/boost to spellwork. Call on the firefly to give you energy.
Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.
The Moth
Associations:
The element of air
The moon
The soul
Seeking the truth
Balance
Use in your practice:
Great for use in divination, defense magic, lunar magic. Similar to the butterfly it is useful in ancestor work.
Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar for esbats. Visualize during meditation.
The Cricket
Associations:
The home
Luck
Happiness
Security
Use in your practice:
The cricket is great in all hearth/home magic. Use in luck spells, communication spells, boost energy. Useful in rain work
Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.
The Ladybug
Associations:
Luck
Happiness
Romance
Use in your practice:
Perfect for use in luck magic. Aids in romantic/love spells.
Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.
(Source: ‘The Magic of Mundane Garden Creatures’ by Sandra Kynes - Llewllyn’s 2018 Magical Almanac)
Insect (and non-insect) Correspondences
Ant: strength, industry, community, power
Bees: messages, communication, community, family, teamwork, luck, love, hidden wisdoms
Butterflies: beauty, grace, transformation, change, growth, death and spirit work
Caterpillar: transformation, transition, change, youth, preparation, new paths and possibilities
Cricket: luck, blessings, abundance, happiness, joy, song and meditation
Dragonfly: truth, change, wisdom, learning, water and air elements, energy, speed, acceleration
Earthworms: growth, fertility, life and the underworld
Fireflies: guidance, illuminating problems, love, passion, inner self, self discovery, freedom, ancestors and spirits, often associated with the moon, fire element
Fly: travel, flight
Grasshopper: freedom, air element
Ladybug: good luck, blessing, dreams, happiness, wishes
Moth: the truth, wonder, happiness, joy, passion, sometimes associated with the moon and nighttime, light, fire element
Praying Mantis: directions, finding your way, new beginnings and paths, stillness, peace, fullfilment, spiritual perception, paitence
Scarabs: reincarnation, rebirth, creation, eternal life and immortality, creativity, astral travel
Scorpian: speed, reflexes, survival, intuition, battle and competition, aggression, protection, peercetion, offesnive magic
Snail: luck, divination, birth, meditation, peace, protection
Spiders: creativity, dream work especially nightmare prevention, mysticism, life, creation, good fortune, fate, destiny
Wasp: warning, strength, independence, adaptablity, offensive magic, curses
Woolly Bears: weather magic and weather divination
Woolly Bear Weather Magic
Woolly Bear Weather Magic
The woolly bear, sometimes called the woolly worm, is a well-known harbinger of weather to come. If you do any sorts of workings involving weather magic, it’s not a bad idea to keep an eye on these crawly critters, which are typically seen during the end of summer and into late fall. Where I live, they’re starting to pop up already — of course, in my neck of the woods, our seasons are Winter,…
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Scarab - The Egyptian Symbol of Eternity
Gifts: Eternity, Cosmic Forces
Energies: Creativity, Imagination
Magic: Astral Travel, Sacred Knowledge
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Picture: Earth Boring Scarab Beetle
Butterfly - Free Spirited
If a butterfly is seen while vision questing, no negative energy will be in the immediate area.
Gifts: Grace, Beauty
Energies: Divine Feminine, Reiki Healing
Lessons: Transcendence, Magic of Believing
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