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Keys in spell work 🔑

Road Opening Spell Using Keys 🔑

Keys symbolize opening doors, moving on, new chapters, opportunities and remind me of the death card's energy. 💀 I love using keys in road opening workings, which help opening the path ahead for multiple uses. It works incredibility well with abundance workings, achieving goals or accessing other paths you want to encounter more easily.

In this working i wanted to enchant the key with road opening energy. I love to layer forms of spell work and as mentioned, road openers work wonderfully with abundance and prosperity workings. I want the key to work in future spells at keeping obstacles out of my way when it comes to money and abundance. As someone who works heavily with the element fire, I decided to do this enchantment with a custom incense burn. 🔥

Rituals like this are fairly straightforward but a fun way to connect to the element fire outside of using a candle. Steps

Cleanse: cleanse items you're going to use first. I prefer smoke cleansing using lavender or incense I've given as offering to my deities.

The Sigil: I designed a general road opening sigil focused on the paths ahead of me and the goals I have being open for opportunities to flow. I placed this under my cauldron to help charge the incense burn.

Herbs: I picked herbs associated with my intention. In this case I did herbs associated with abundance, road opening, dominance, etc. Make sure you are specific with your intention. Ask your herbs to work with this specific goal and help enchant they key, object or bring that energy into your life.

Oracle Cards: I love charging spellwork with tarot or Oracle cards. I used one of my favorite decks, Woodland Wardens. I picked cards associated with success, overcoming obstacles, and luck.

Charcoal Disks: light it up, allow to burn for a minute or two and then place your herb mix on top. Try and stay focused on your specific intention you choose.

Key: I then took the key and held it over the smoke, I focused on the smoke encapsulating the key and enchanting it with road opening energy. I then placed it on the edge of the cauldron to allow it to sit while the herbs burned. I also decided to enchant a key necklace the same way. Now that they key is enchanted, I can take it and use it in future workings. 🔑

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Rail Road Spikes 🛤️

People would use them to keep away negativity and protect the home. Placing four, one at each corner of the house or property line, would ensure your house was warded. We can use them still in this way if you have a home or property to do this with. If not, you can place them on your altar, in a home protection spell area, hang on the ceiling or use in protection workings.

I personally love using mine in protection workings and warding. ✨

Protection oil used is available in our Etsy you can find here.

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Me almost every full moon being fully aware it’s a full moon but not vibing with doing full moon rituals

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Welcome to The Cottage 👻

Hi I'm Tori. I've been an active witch starting at the end of 2019/ beginning of 2020. I've been interested in the occult, ghosts, spooky shit, and horror movies my entire life. At 16 I was gifted my first pendulum after a ghost encounter and spent most of my teenage/ early 20s searching for more experiences. But in 2019 was when my partner, Noah, and I decided we could actually invest time in witchcraft. A bit mind blowing I didn't dive in before because of the years of interest, experiences, and wishful thinking.

I currently live in Washington state with my partner Noah and our cat, Jiji: my extremely helpful store assistants. I'm an LGBTQ+ member, pro trans rights, black lives matter gal. I consider myself a pagan witch, working with Celtic and Norse deities. In my practice I consider myself fairly eclectic but love working with plants, herbs, and the element of fire in my workings. I enjoy crafting apothecary items to use in my craft and trying to reopen my connection to spirits and entities.

I opened up the shop, The Spectral Cottage, in 2021 as a revamp from my previous etsy store where I sold my handmade art. I started adding crystals to my shop in 2020 for fun and realized i wanted it to be a larger focus. The shop is very heavily connected to my own practice. I sell items I love personally, have handcrafted and spelled myself, or was interested in adding into my own workings. We sell things from crystals and herbs; spell oils and sprays; incense and railroad spikes. I’m constantly trying to improve the items we carry and branch out to carry more unique items so any witch with any need can come to us. We’re still quite small so that exact goal is being worked on more and more each day. This shop is my absolute passion, and witchcraft is something I’ve dedicated my life to

I wanted to come to tumblr to post spell ideas, witch tips, information, about my personal practice, and help create a community. Growing up, I loved tumblr so it seemed a little fitting to come back. I will also be posting updates about the shop like new items or markets we're attending. If there's ever something you've been on the lookout for feel free to send us a message and I'll try my best to get my hands on it. 🌿

Thanks for reading. Tori🦇

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New herb packaging 🌱

When I first started selling herbs, packing was a struggle. 🫠 I like being as eco friendly as I can, and I’m constantly trying to make changes to help the shop be more and more eco friendly. So when looking for herb packing, the only options I could find originally were expensive glass jars, plastic resealable bags or paper envelopes. ✨ I decided to do the envelopes knowing I would want to change it in the future because they weren’t to easiest to store. Recently I found these tins, they have a window and I’ve put a sticker on the back so you can easily grab the exact herb you need. The window is a plastic, which isn’t ideal but I figured they’re reusable, and you can keep them long term by refilling them or using them for other things.

We currently have 26 different herb options available which you can snag here. 🦇

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Life of a witch 🧙🏻‍♀️