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[harvestmoss]

Hello!! I'm very new to witchcraft and have just started out with protection magic, do you have any tips for me?

As a beginner, I think it'd do you great (if you haven't already) to research the boring but also interesting questions of:

What is magic?

What is energy?

What is sympathetic magic? (homoeopathic magic and contagious magic)

Reason why is that you'd gain a better understand on how your spells functions, and what is happening while you're casting spells, and how you can make sure you perform a succesful spell. It helps also understand why spellwork and mundane actions are separated and not the same, typically have to do with energy work.

Obviously then it's a BIG bonus if you go into these common basics in the craft:

Meditation, centering, grounding - why are these aspects used in withcraft often?

Altered consciousness - why and how do we enter a different state of mind for spellwork?

Energy sensing/work - Now that we know what energy is, how do we sense it and work with it to do spellwork?

Finally we get into detailed understanding of:

Sacred geometry, magic circles - certain shapes have different meanings, why is that? what makes a circle extra sacred and special?

Movement, dancing, action in magic - certain actions create different outcomes, certain movement create en energy.

Noises, sounds, vowels, differences between speaking, murmuring, chanting spells - the way we speak SPELLwork has a different effect.

Then the fun stuff (which I don't think should be the final step, because we can always learn as we do and research more as we do):

Cleansing spells - to rid of lingering energy that could effect the energy you want to create-

Consecration and charging - to strengthen the energy you want to create

Protection spells - to protect you from outside energy interfering your created energy

Warding and banishing spells - to be sure that said unwelcomed energy fucks off.

I don't think there's anything wrong with jumping around and figuring things out yourself, or starting with spellwork and learning and researching afterwards. I did that too, before I created this specific research flow for myself, which helped strengthen my understanding and success in spellwork.

I don't know, have fun, hope this was helpful

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*A tall orange woman stands in front of Milo, looking down at him. She speaks with the sweetest voice*

“You must be the one they call Milo..”

@listeningtothe-mailbox

Um- Yeah- Hello? Who are you?

[tending his small vineyard of grapes, and now someone else is here. Okay then.]

[harvestmoss]

I recently met someone who deeply unnerved me on a spiritual level. I tend to have a good sense for bad people, yet still I have never met someone who has set off so many alarm bells for me. On top of striking me as a somewhat deceitful and manipulative person (not what she seems). This woman also is somewhat spiritual herself and claimed to notice some personal things about me which I had not told her. This has scared me in particular, since this person is not someone who I feel safe around and I’d rather not have someone like that knowing such things about me. My gut reaction was to ask my friend who is well versed in magic practices for help, however she is living multiple hours away from me right now and has her own life to deal with. I saw your post about the importance of protection magic for beginners and I thought you’d be a good place to start.

I would really appreciate any tips on how to protect myself. I am currently living in a dorm so I cant use candles however I am an art student and I am not half bad at drawing symbols such as Celtic knots. I also drink a lot of tea and have access to a number of herbs and spices if that should be helpful.

I’d also like to note that I am (relatively) new to tumblr. I only ever read it on Pinterest for years, and the time I do spend on here is far and few between. So, if any of my etiquette is wrong I apologize. I realize this sounds like an email, but I don’t really know how to talk to strangers on the internet.

You're doing just fine with your "tumblr etiquette" haha, just be nice to people online that's all, and I have an ask box open for precisely any length of question, I'm happy to give my shot at helping! Now...

Protection magic is magic meant to repel, prevent, and ward off danger, to turn away harmful influences, misfortune, and averting disasters from various sources like energies, spirits, people, etc.

I will say, candles can be a bit... overrepresented in the craft, because they're very pretty to look at in pictures on tumblr and pinterest! But I think for your situations you'd want something wearable, something to carry with you, or very simply something to do on the go.

Talismans, charms, phylacteries, and amulets are often used to avert evil (a famous amulet that may come to mind is the Nazar, the evil eye). So I would recommend looking at any sort of jewellery or accessories that you often wear and consecrate it for protective means (obviously cleanse it first, consecrate, imbue energy into it). A necklace is traditional, as the neck is seen as a vulnerable place. But you may also use bracelets, anklets, and rings if you desire.

Think it should be noted that amulets are not always fine jewellery, but may also be bags of herbs, iron objects, hag stones on a string, written words or sigils, or symbols like the phallic or the Nazar. Jewellery is just more discreet than a bag of herbs tied around your neck.

You may also use your clothing, you mentioned that you're handy at art, so I would also recommended crafting protective sigils that you can embroider, draw, or attach onto clothing like jackets, the hems of your shirts, or even draw them a the soles of your shoes. They're meant to "take the hit for you" and deflect it.

Aromatics and scents can also be used, a perfume, body mist, or oil you consecrate for protective purposes and wear. When the smell stops you know when to apply your protective smell again!

Baths and showers, the act of using water and oils. You could shower or bath with protective herbs or things like iron (attaching a teabag-like vessel with your chosen shower safe herbs for the water to hit and then shower you in it), can also keep it simple and dip a washcloth in the infused mixture and wipe yourself in the protective water, or anoint yourself with a protective oil. You mentioned you drink a lot of tea, so instead of a bath or shower or washcloth, you can also drink bodily safe herbs for their protective qualities, stirring with intention, murmuring incantations over your cup.

Let's say you have NOTHING to use, no herbs, accessories, waters, whatever. You can still protect yourself. You can merely create a phylactery on the go by braiding a small section of your hair to absorb the unwanted energies of the day, and then undo it by evening. I would recommend speaking or murmuring incantations of protective measures while branding it, imbuing it with protective energies.

Now let's say that you actually have no hair, you can still use incantations, words, gestures, and postures to protect yourself! Words you can recites with numerology out loud or in your head (I recommend numbers like 7 and 9 for their fairy-tale qualities (7 for luck, 9 for an almost completion and fullness, or 5 for the 5 fingers of your hand and for the way five is often seen a symbol of challenging, therefor challenging the unwanted energies).

Gestures may include the la corna or fig sign, hand gestures meant to ward off evil. Use this hand gestures when talking to that person or being near them, especially the fig sign being it's more discreet.

Perhaps a little outside of spellwork, but having good posture or a confident way of presenting yourself will seem intimidating and can deflect a bit of unwanted energies. The way you carry yourself is very important in spellwork, you must not believe but know your protective spells works. Being scared, worried, or afraid of someone knowing more about you, opens ways for them to feed of your energies, you're essentially vulnerable. Even if you feel worried, you must carry yourself with confidence, seem immovable, your energy is precious and strong, and it's not something you just give out for people to take.

I recommend working with other spells as well such as warding and banishing spells to minimize your encounters with that person. As well as confidence and glamour spells for yourself to heighten your confidence in your spells and yourself.

I hope my rambling helped you find some ideas of protecting yourself. Remember to do a quick cleanse first, then cast! :)

[harvestmoss]

it kind of makes me crazy when new witches keep trying to fit themselves into these neat little easy categorizing boxes of "what type of witch" they are. i feel like i keep seeing new witches go "i work with crystals AND herbs, can i be a crystal witch and a green witch?" like please break yourself free from the shackles you put on yourself. forget about these labels. i know they're everywhere, because they're so easy to make cute little aesthetic bullet points with. please just do magic and not worry about labels!!

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[harvestmoss]

hiiii, helloo

I am a baby witch, I'm trying to get into the witchy world, and so far my only sources of information are Pinterest and Tumblr blogs (like yours!)

I'm a bit lost about where to start, but I have a little altar in my backyard and I'd like to have a spirit friend/guardian to live there. The thing is, I don't really know what to ask, do I want a guardian? a familiar? maybe a spirit or a deity? I want a spiritual presence that can guide me through the magic world, protecting me and helping me develop my powers, and I could give offerings, or prayers to them.

One day, I left a food offering outside and called for any well-intentioned spirit to visit me in my sleep so we could work together. That night, I had a very clear image in my head of something (like a person with deer horns) and I had the certainty that its name was Faro. Faro hasn't communicated since, and I dont really know it (him?) or his intentions. How do I ask him to speak to me again?? I need him to be as clear as water in his message

There's a difference between deities and familiar spirits. Deities are gods, goddesses, higher beings, not of the earthly realm. Familiar spirits being the ones on earth, they're in the trees, the wind, the dead, the alive, the grass, ancestors, the elements, the unknown. In this case, I would suspect that "Faro" is a familiar spirit.

There's many different ways of communicating with spirits, first of all, you'd want to speak out loud to the spirits. Speaking is a vibrating energy, so spirits will more so actually sense you need/want them, if you speak out loud to them. It also helps your brain tune into trying to listen for spirits, because if you ask questions out loud, you expect answers. I also suggest to have gone into a meditative state or altered consciousness. To ensure you're better tuned in to hearing messages.

Here's the thing, some people are more skilled at clairaudience (same with clairvoyance, clairsentience, claircognizance - see spirits, feel spirits, and just know that spirits are there), in which they can just hear spirits and their answers in one way or another. There's ways to strengthen the skill, I suggest searching it up through other people's experiences with it, reading their tips and tricks to help develop your mind's ears.

There's also other ways to receive answers, like through tools. Tarot cards are an insanely popular one, it is not used for future readings, but also for communicating with spirits. Other methods include scrying, oomancy, dice, runes, trinkets, pendulums, etc. It would be my best bet for a "clear as water" answer, as the spirits will communicate to you through the cards (as an example).

Then there are real world visions in which the spirits give you messages through dreams, astral travels, or waking moments, day dreams, and seeing things from the corner of your eye or literal landmarks or situations. Many people when (example) praying to a deity for a sign, they'll turn around and it's as if it's staring at them right in the face, despite it just being some graffiti on a wall, a feather on the ground or dogs barking. Again, ask out loud or pray, and then it's as if you get an "ah-ha!" moment when seeing something.

There may also be possessions (don't think it's the right word, but I'll roll with it) it can be as if a spirit is inside you, or other methods, they get to inhabit something to communicate to you, like a candle, invite them to possess the candle (or other object like cards, water, etc...) to communicate with you. You'll be reading the candle's flames, flicker, noises, steadiness, sparks, etc.

You must keep asking, keep trying, and keep befriending. Communicating with spirits is a mutual benefit to the both of you. Keep giving offerings (it doesn't have to be extravagant meals every day, but picking up litter from the park, or giving a glass of water on the altar can be good to)

After all this being said, will this be a sure fire way of receiving crystal clear answers from spirits? No. Despite countless methods of communicating with spirits, it still relies on your intuition on how you read these messages. Many "advanced witches" will still receive messages from spirits that may never get answered, or get answered much later, or even get messages and just not realize that they're messages from their familiar spirits. So don't get discouraged.

Hope my long, more so rambling, answer can help at least a little. Also make sure you have some protection spells on and have a good and reliable warding and banishing spell in case the spirits you communicate with are not the nice sorts.

[harvestmoss]

What would you put in a spell to induce sexual chemistry with someone ?

( if it matters, someone who you have already been with )

feed them or share aphrodisiac ingredients. you can already find great sources online on what types of food has these effects. i would include them in a spell about sexual chemistry. foods like shellfish, chocolate, champagne, peaches, lots of others.

if you're able too, use some of their body as an ingredient, i'm not talking about chopping limbs off, but you know how hair is common to use in target spells? well for sex spells it would be pubes! but hair is good enough. other ingredients include adult fluids which sweat can be a substituted. you'd want your target's "sexual parts" mixed if "sexual ingredients" along with yours to invoke some sexual chemistry between the two of you.

say you truly have to perform a spell away from and not using anything off of your target. write your target's name and burn it on a red anointed candle. burning the name of the one you love invokes passion and sex drive.

now it's about attracting your target towards you, so perform spells onto yourself, and i would use a perfume/magic water/skin safe oils with strong smelling erotic herbs. rose, sandalwood, thyme, myrrh, cinnamon (if you and your target aren't allergic) and lavender (depending on if you feel more aroused or sleepy when smelling it haha).

and generally, look good, talk good, and be sexy. is there certain items of clothing your target particularly finds more attractive than others? use it! you mention you've already been with this person, i don't know if you left on good or bad terms, but if you caught them once, i believe you can do it again!

hope this helped!

[harvestmoss]

🫧 what's your favorite method of cleansing?

Thank you so much for the question!!

Generally, I like to smoke cleanse, I often light up incense in my home. It keeps the overall space cleansed, especially my living room. It's handy as well when I'm doing spells to cleanse out jars and such.

Secondly, If it so happens I have no incense lit or it just burned out, I like to use my spit. It's quick and effective. I often spit on my sigils to cleanse them. I sometimes swirling some holy water (or moon water) around my mouth and then "spray" it on my objects.

These are basically my two most used ways of cleansing! :)