The Equestrian Witch

My name is Kylie ☆ 31 years old ☆ Practicing Eclectic Pagen ☆ Body Positive ☆Equestrian ☆ Star Gazer ☆ Candle Collector ☆ Kitchen Witch

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Basics of Kitchen and Cottage Witchcraft

Kitchen witches believe that the kitchen is a sacred place where all of the magick happens. They focus on the use of edible ingredients and kitchen tools.  A cottage witch is a witch that brings magick into the house and are protectors of the hearth and home. They bring cheer and warmth to every room they enter. Their focuses are on the family, home, and daily needs. Both the cottage and Kitchen witch believe that by honoring the home it honors the Gods and Goddesses. They bring magick into everyday life and daily chores.

Ways a Kitchen and Cottage witch can bring magick into a home:

Create a kitchen altar

Stock your shelves with herbs and spices

Bring maximum feng-shui to your home

Keep the home physically and spiritually clean

Paint the house walls in colours that bring happiness, warmth, and coziness

When making a sandwich put mustard or mayo sigils on it

When making meals add herbs that correspond to your magickal needs

Decorate the home according to the sabbats

Brew some special teas

Make your own candles, salves, and tinctures.

Make offerings to Gods and Goddesses of hearth and home.  

Ask your deities to keep your house safe and healthy.

Create your own recipes and add your own touch of magick to them

Put intent into everything you cook and clean

Make an incantation or short song to sing while you stir.

Inscribe your wooden spoons with sigils  

Carve your wooden shelves with sigils - carve them at the bottom of the cupboard to remain discreet

Craft oils, incense, soaps, potions, and salves.

Make herbal remedies

Chant while cleaning or preparing a meal

Use numerology in their practices by the number of times they stir or the number of times they knead dough.

During the mead moon, brew mead with magickal intent.

Decorate the home with your own art or art done by your children, poems, knits, woodcraft’s, paintings, quilts, diy’s, or tapestries.

Enchant your crafts.

Use weather magick, candle magick, ribbon charms, and anything else used to add magick to your home.

Honour the ancestors.

Bless the home.

Start a garden and will it with organic and in season fruits and vegetables.

Charge herbal oils by moonlight or candlelight to heal, bless the home or to clean and protect the woodwork she polishes with it.

Scatter charm bags, witches ladders, chimes, and bells around the home.

Grow an indoor jungle

Learn herbal remedies to treat MINOR injuries

If you work with meat make sure to thank and honour the animal it came from.

Sing or play music to raise good vibrations

Bake and cut cookies in shapes to match your intentions

Provide someone in need with a free meal

Volunteer at a local soup kitchen to bring magick into it

What their altar may display:

Candles

Tools used for sacred use

Four elements

Statues of the honoured deities

A doll weaved of corn

A kitchen witch’s altar is often displayed in the corner of the kitchen and is not permanent

Food made by the witch left as an offering

Some beliefs followed:

Magick is not used to inflict pain on others or block anyone’s free will

Believe in living simple lives

Believe in using organic items, products that aren’t animal tested, recycling, and composting.

Creativity is a form of devotion

Keep peace in the household

May the home always contain good food, good talk, and good company

Welcome guests into the home with open arms

Cottage and Kitchen witch superstitions/wives tales:

Stir clockwise to bring good luck

Never stir with a knife as it is considered bad luck

Place a piece of amethyst near the stove top to make the food cooked there tastes better

If an apple bursts in the oven while baking it means good luck is on its way for the cook

Eggs that are cracked while they boil is a sign that visitors are on their way

Dropping silverware means that company is coming

Spilling water on the table cloth means that rain is on its way

Seeing a spider in the house is good luck, killing it is bad luck

Wild animal tracks in the snow encircling your house is a sign of good luck and protection

When your cupboard doors are left opens it means that people are gossiping about you

If a broom drops across the doorway it means that you will soon head off on a journey

If you spill salt throw it over your left shoulder to undo any bad luck

To keep evil spirits away chop an onion in half and place it on the window sill

Chosen tools:

Wooden spoons

Knife

Bowls

Cooking pot or cauldron

A ritual knife used to only cut spiritual ties

A Fire place

Broom

Mortar and pestle

Kettle

Jars and bottles

Sewing kit

Cook books

Spells are cast to bring:

Healing

Prosperity

Protection

Abundance

Happiness

Fertility

Harmony

Peace

Deities worked with:

Hestia

Frigga

Brighid

Demeter

May your house stay warm and full of magick!

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To Buy Your Own Home...

If You are Struggling to Get a Foothold in the Market.***

You will need:

Children’s toy bricks

Twelve gold-colored coins

A blue candle

Timing:

For twelve days.

The spell:

On day 1 build a house from toy bricks, saying, “Up the ladder, stage by stage; borrow, save, or loan. I/we’ll soon buy a home of my/our own, starting life’s new page.”

Then put a coin directly in front of the toy house to start a straight pathway from the house, saying, “Money grows slowly, seems so far away, but my/our home I/we swill move toward, before too many days.”

On days 2 to 12, add a coin to the path until you have placed twelve coins, saying the same spell words each day.

On day 12, light the candle at the end of the path (next to the twelfth coin), saying, “The road is hard, yet I/we do know, through progress sometimes seems so slow, money will grow, it shall be so, and I/we will realize our dream.”

When the candle is burned, pick up the coins, moving along the money path toward the house, and buy something small for your new home.

***This spell can be altered to change it for an apartment you want as well.

“1001 Spells: The Complete Book Of Spells For Every Purpose,” by Cassandra Eason

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Jupiter and 4 of her moons peaking out from behind our moon! 

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☁️Dream Oil🌙

An oil to induce lucid dreams, a deep, peaceful sleep and all-around dream magic. It also makes a great offering to Morpheus, the God of dreams. Rub it over your third eye before you sleep to induce lucid dreams and help you recall your dreams in the morning.

Ingredients:

☁️carrier oil

☁️Lavender -buds or essential oil

☁️Jasmine- buds or essential oil

☁️Chamomile- buds or essential oil

☁️Patchouli- essential oil

☁️Ylang-ylang - essential oil

☁️Sage-essential oil

☁️Eucalyptus-essential oil

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Emergency cleaning: Unfuck your whole house in the shortest time possible

So, your landlord/parents/home inspector/favorite movie star is dropping by, and your place is a disaster. You don’t have much time to clean it up. You’re in emergency mode. Let’s get started.

Don’t panic. Panic leads to fear, fear leads to procrastination, procrastination leads to the dark side. You can do this, but you have to stay calm.

Unlike maintenance cleaning, we’re not looking to completely unfuck one space at a time. Instead, we want to decrease the overall mess in stages, spread evenly across the whole area that we’re concerned about. If you think your home is at Level 10 filth, we want to bring the whole thing down to a Level 9, and then down from there. One really clean spot in an otherwise messy home is not going to be helpful here.

Get prepared. You’ll want to shut the computer down (or turn the modem off if you need your computer to play music). Trust me. Get your music going. Gather up trash bags, your vacuum and mop, some rags or paper towel, sponges, and other cleaning supplies. Use what you have on hand. Don’t get distracted running to the store and spending an hour browsing cleaning supplies. A multi-purpose cleaning concentrate or a jug of vinegar will be just fine.

Breaks are very important. Depending on your time constraints, work in 20/10s (20 minutes working, 10-minute break) or 45/15s. But take breaks because otherwise you’re marathoning, and marathon cleaning is no one’s friend. Keep hydrated, don’t forget to eat, and check in with yourself frequently to make sure you’re physically doing OK.

Make your bed. This will be your home base if you get overwhelmed or need somewhere clear to take a break.

Start with the garbage. Going from room to room, throw out anything that is obvious trash. Once you fill a bag, take it out. Repeat as many times as necessary.

Move on to dishes. Gather the dishes from all over your house and bring them to the kitchen. If you can, start them soaking in a sink of hot, soapy water or start loading the dishwasher. After the dishes are all in one place, spend one 20/10 getting started getting them under control.

Now it’s time for your flat surfaces. Countertops, tables, dresser tops, etc. Clear them off and wipe them down. Don’t get distracted in too much sorting and organizing. We’re in crisis mode here. There will be time to get in-depth once this is all done. The same applies to cabinets and closets. Unless you have reason to believe people will be opening closed doors, leave these alone for now.

Attack the floordrobe and shoe pile. Get your clothes either put away or in the hamper. Start a load of laundry if you need to, but keep in mind that laundry and dishes have three steps: wash, dry, and put it away, goddammit!

Get random stuff up off the floors. If something is trash-worthy, throw it away now rather than just move it around a bunch of times. Otherwise, put stuff where it belongs.

Take another 20/10 or 45/15 to catch up on more dishes, if needed.

Head into the bathroom. Pour some cleaner in the toilet bowl, fill the sink with hot water and cleaner, and either spray the tub and shower with cleaner, or fill the tub up with some hot water and add cleaner and let it soak. Put everything away that’s out and shouldn’t be, clean the mirror, counters, and toilet seat. Sweep or dry mop the floor. Wipe down the sink and tub/shower, and give the toilet bowl a scrub. Mop the floor.

Sweep and mop the kitchen floor.

Vacuum everything you can, and sweep everything you can’t.

Walk outside of your house (don’t lock yourself out, please). Walk back in and see what catches your eye first. Go and deal with that.

If you’re being inspected or your landlord is coming in for repairs, spend time on whatever area they’ll be focusing on.

Give the whole place one more once-over and pay attention to anything you’ve missed so far.

It’s an old trick, but if your place is a little funky-smelling, put a pan of water on the stove on low heat and add some citrus or cinnamon or vanilla. Don’t leave it unattended or forget about it.

Take a shower, put on something clean, and eat something.

You can do this. It’s overwhelming, yes, but it is not impossible. You just need to do it. You have a list. You have directions. You have a whole bunch of Internet strangers who have been there before and who are cheering you on. You can do this, but you need to get started.

Why are you still here? GO. START. NOW.

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the number of times in my past that I desperately wanted/needed someone to sit me down and tell me this stuff. I will never get back the hours and hours lost to headless-chicken mode, but it’s nice to know that in the last year I’ve learned so many coping mechanisms :D

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Reblog if your blog is a safe space for

- witches of color - male witches - lgbtqpiad+ witches - non religious witches - young witches - beginner witches - plus size witches - disabled witches - witches suffering mental illness

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☼☾ i need witchy blogs to follow! ☼☾

i need active witch blogs to follow! 

please like / reblog if you post about:

- slavic deities - astrology - divination (pendulum, runes, tarot, scrying, etc) - witch tips (especially for baby witches!) - aesthetic witch blog - informational witch blog - herbs - spells / rituals - kind of weird, but reliable etsy shops and places to order witchy books!

i reblog mostly what’s up there, and i follow back with @roygbvs! 

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Munich Indoors 2017 | Michael Jung & SOLUTION in the 1,50m class

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heal yourself spell

This is an immersive and powerful self-healing spell to use to combat emotional pain. I have used it for heartbreak, but you can use it for anything that hurts you. You will need:

- Pink cotton fabric and pink cord (spiritual and emotional healing)

- Spearmint (healing, love, protection)

- Willow leaf (overcoming sadness, healing)

- Cinnamon (healing, prosperity)

- Lavender (healing, tranquility)

- Lemon balm (healing, mental clarity)

- Quartz crystal (honing/amplifying the energy of the herbs)

1. Hold the quartz in your hands, close to your heart. If you’re able, let all your sadness surface. Weep into it. Squeeze it. Cry until you can’t anymore. This quartz is you; it’s absorbing your energy and taking the burden away from you.

2. Lie your fabric square on your workspace. Place the willow leaf in the center of the fabric, to act as a bed for the quartz.

3. Placing the quartz in the center, sprinkle the herbs one by one in a circle surrounding the crystal. As this quartz contains your sadness, the herbs surrounding it allow that energy to be released and cared for.

4. Lovingly fold the corners of the fabric, making sure the herbs don’t spill, and wrap it shut with the pink cord. Sleep with it under your pillow until you think you’ll manage without it; once you feel ready, sprinkle the herbs outside and cleanse the quartz under the moon.

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Tarot Card of the Day. The Magician. Shed fear so that you can unleash your full potential and personal power. Turn obstacles into into productive expression. Your intentions toward making dreams come true will manifest through sheer will. You can make things happen because you are the ruler of your reality

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A glimpse into my Altar ❤️

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📆witch’s week magic

🔥sunday (the sun) +  gold, yellow, orange + quartz, carnelian, tiger’s eye, amber, citrine + sunflower, cinnamon, cedar, calendula, buttercup, frankincense + success, wealth, healing, charisma, prosperity, growth

💧monday (the moon) + silver, white, grey, pastel blue/purple + opal, selenite, pearl, moonstone, abalone + sage, chamomile, mint, catnip, willow, jasmine, myrrh,  + divination, dream work, astral travel, lunar magic, fae magic

🔥tuesday (mars) + red, orange, black + bloodstone, garnet, ruby, red jasper, flint + pepper, thistle, basil, wormwood, pine, ginger, dragon’s blood + strength, courage, passion, lust, aggression, reversing hexes

💨wednesday (mercury) + orange, purple, silver/grey, yellow + agate, aventurine, sodalite, fluorite, citrine, pumice, zinc + lavender, lily, fern, periwinkle, dill, lemongrass + wisdom, education, business, travel, creativity, communication

🌿thursday (jupiter) + royal purple, deep blue, emerald green + amethyst, malachite, lapis, sugilite, turquoise, tin + honeysuckle, anise, nutmeg, oak, cedar, musk + good fortune, health, prosperity, expansion, leadership

💧friday (venus) + aqua, pink, pale green, copper + coral, emerald, rose quartz, blue lace agate, jade + rose, damiana, sandalwood, violet, ivy, strawberry, vanilla + romance, friendship, self-love, fertility, harmony, beauty

🌿saturday (saturn) + black, indigo, maroon, dark purple + obsidian, hematite, tourmaline, jet, smokey quartz, onyx  + mullein, thyme, patchouli, comfrey, skullcap, mandrake, witch hazel + death magic, banishment, cleansing, spirit work, curses

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🍷witch’s potion cabinet

💦moon water + water charged under the light of the moon, most often when full + commonly used for purification rituals, divination, and kitchen magic + different energies enhanced as moon moves through zodiac signs

💦rose water + commonly used in beauty and love magic + astringent properties useful for mild bruising/swelling + often combined with other ingredients for its aroma

💦mars water + useful for banishing, protection, unbinding, cleansing + potent ingredient for curses and black magic (war water)

💦witch hazel + soothing and astringent properties + useful for healing salves and bath magic

💦honey + can be used to enhance the potency of various spells + useful for love and friendship magic + mixing with different herbs/flowers increases certain effects

💦vinegar + used for banishing and protection + also useful for curses and black magic

💦olive oil + may be used as a base for ritual oil blends

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Tips on Grimoire Organization

Please note that if you are using a hard bound notebook or journal, adding in additional pages will bulk up your book, like so: (these are the exact same journals, btw)

- Envelopes. Let’s say you’re doing a section on Tarot in your Grimoire, and you want to include a few Tarot spreads, but you don’t want to waste two or three pages. Glue an envelope onto one of your pages to make a “pocket” where you can store little cards or papers with the tarot spreads written on them.

- Pockets. Similar to the envelope idea. If you have a page, or section for example, on herbal teas, you can make a pocket out of a piece of paper to keep your current favorite tea recipes in.

- Dividers, Cover Pages and Ribbons. If you’re like me and you like to have “sections” in your grimoire, you can easily make dividers by gluing a sheet of paper in your book (to make it heavier to make the sections stand out more). You can go further by turning your divider into a cover page for that section. And if you don’t like the idea doing that, you can always glue a ribbon, or a string, to the spine of your book to act as a bookmark.

- Double pages. I always had a problem with “wasting” pages in my grimoire. For example, my page on consecrating and charging. These two concepts are very similar to me, and I didn’t want two page stating the same thing. So, what I did was write out all my information on charging on a separate sheet of paper, then glued the top of that page into my grimoire. This way I could flip up the page on charging (as if it were on a clipboard) and have my page on consecrating underneath.

- Extended pages. Similar to the one above. In my Crystal section of my Grimoire, I decided to write out a chart that let me search for crystals by intention. So I drew my chart on a long sheet of paper, then folded it over (side to side) so that it fit comfortably in my book, then I just glued one side down into the book.

- Brochures. In my Elements section, I had a ton of information I wanted to write down, but I didn’t want each element to have more than two pages. So I used a piece of computer paper and folded it into a brochure (or into thirds) and glued it into the book so that the flaps would open and give me double the space to write.

- Clear Tape. There are many times where i finished a page in my grimoire only to find out there was a section that I left out. A simply way to fix this was with clear tape. I would write my forgotten bit of into on a separate piece of paper and then use clear tape to tape one side of the paper to my page. This allows me to flip the paper back and forth without covering up anything that I had written.

Other Resources on Grimoire Organization:

- Witch Tip by @pumpkin-bean - Grimoire Index by @triplevirgo - Witchy-Woman’s Grimoire Organization by @witchy-woman - Altar in a Journal by @thesubtlewitch

I hope this helps everyone with their Grimoire organizing needs! If anyone knows of any other awesome organizing tips, feel free to share!

P.S. Check out my Grimoire Masterpost for more tips on making a grimoire!

~L

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🌑 2018 Black Moon 🌑

What is a Black Moon?

A Black Moon can mean one of two things. Similar to a Blue Moon, its when two new moons appear in one month. Or, it could refer to a month with one new moon and no full moons. (source x x x)

On February 15, 2018 there is a Black moon; a new moon in a month with no full moons. Since January and March both have Blue Moons, that means February is having a Black Moon, being the only month it can happen in and happening once every 20 years or so. It’s not once in a lifetime, but still special. The last one was in 1999 and the next one is predicted to be in 2037. 

What does this mean?

Some witches believe that a Black Moon is an especially powerful new moon. It is common to perform banishing and binding spells or to start projects and growth. Whichever correspondences you give to a new moon, they are heightened here. (x)

Since this moon will be on the 15th, the day after Valentine’s Day, it might be a good time to send out attraction spells or perform relationship building rituals. Use the emotions that come along with Valentine’s Day to increase the potency of spells alongside the power of the moon. 

New Moon Lore

Besides spells, there’s a lot of luck, good and bad, involved with new moons. Many people believe that if you see the new moon (its rim?) over your right shoulder that you’ll have good luck and can make a wish. 

Here’s a spell/wish found in Folklore (1939) by W.E. Mockler for when you see the moon over your right shoulder. 

New moon, true moon, 

may my wish come true

 before tomorrow noon. 

New moon, true moon, 

I wish I may, I wish I might, 

have my wish come true tonight.

Mockler also lists superstitions, mostly to do with cultivating plants and crops, but also tidbits about making soap and cutting hair. He suggests making soap under the new moon to keep it better longer. 

Multiple sources also mentioned cutting hair under a new moon so that it will grow back quickly. Mockler says if you cut your hair on the Friday after a new moon then you’ll never go bald and your hair will grow back thicker. Maybe not the best advice for shaving, but if you’re looking for full, thick, long hair, might not hurt to trim those ends. 

Another spell for relationships, new love, or friendships:

“Looking for love? When the Moon is New, braid your hair or some kind of string while saying: I braid this knot, this knot I braid, To know the thing I know not yet, That while I sleep I plain may see. The man (woman) that my husband (wife) shall be. Not in his (her) best but worst array, Just what he (she) weareth every day. That I tomorrow may him (her) ken, From among all other men (woman).” (x)

Click x or x for more on folklore. 

Personal Note:

The moon being a traditionally feminine energy, I believe that a new moon, or in this instance a Black Moon, would be a good time to commune with goddesses of darkness, be them of the afterworld or the night itself. If you work with these deities I suggest communicating with them under this moon.

What’s interesting about this event is that it’s unobservable. I think this helps with introspection and would suggest meditating in complete darkness to embrace the absence of the moon, which won’t be too difficult since it’s still winter and gets dark early. Remember, if you’re doing a ritual that requires movement or working with materials, keep the lights on. 

Let me know what your plans are for the Black Moon, my ask and messages are always open! 

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As my personal grimoire here has grown, I finally felt it was time to begin compiling posts from amazing witches into lists for people to use as references in their own learning (None of this information is my own, I just feel that it needs to be shared).

So here is my current list of posts relating to the magickal properties and uses of herbs, this is an ever growing list so check back to see if there have been any additions or send me a message if you find a post that you think should be on the list and don’t forget to follow the people who originally posted these amazing information sheet, they really deserve your support.

General Information ☽  Herblore ☽  List of Herbs and their Uses ☽  How to use Herbs ☽  Witch’s Garden ☽  The Magick of Rosemary ☽  The Magick of Cloves ☽  Herbalist Symbols ☽  Sabbat Herbs + Incense ☽  Herbal Incense

Storage ☽  Mini herb storage ☽  How to Store Magickal Herbs ☽  How to Dry Magickal Herbs

Magickal Associations ☽  Herbs Associated with the Dead ☽  Herbs in Rituals ☽  Banishing Herbs

Kitchen Witchery ☽  Kitchen Herbs ☽  Elder Flower Syrup ☽  DIY Salves

Pouches ☽  Sleep Tight Sachet Baths ☽  Herbal Tea Baths ☽  Herbal Bath ☽  Purification Bath

Teas ☽  Herbal Teas ☽  Calm Anxiety Tea ☽  Good Day Tea ☽  Witch’s Brew - Tea Recipes ☽  Herbal Tea Remedies ☽  Evening Tea

I will be gradually expanding this list as I find more useful information, I hope this helps someone, I am certainly using all of this information.

Don’t forget to follow the original posters, they post some great information.