the-urban-witch

[flowercrownwitch]

Basic Color Magic

Color Magic is all about representation in your craft. It’s easy to add a little more power to your spellwork by using colors that represent the theme of what you are trying to accomplish. This is one of the most useful kinds of magic for beginning witches because color is found everywhere, unlike obscure herbs or stones, and can be found easily in most homes without having to buy anything new or expensive. You can write you words out in a colored pen, or on colored paper, use ribbons of specific colors in chord magic, or use colored candles. Color magic is great for beginners, and easy to add into spells, even for experienced practicians. All you need to know is which colors to use for which purpose.

First and foremost, White is used for: all purpose, cleansing, purity, peace, balance, concentration, innocence, healing, truth, and spirituality,

Black is used for: grounding, wisdom, learning, protection and safety, reversing or uncrossing and unhexing, abolishing negative energy, transforming, defense, scrying, and pride

Red is used for: passion, vitality, strength, survival, fertility, courage, sexuality, mercy, action, danger, war, conflict, independence, assertiveness, competition, and as a representation of the element fire

Orange is used for: creativity and self expression, intellectual matters, overcoming addiction, justice, joy, business success and ambition, vitality, fun, action and opportunity, and celebration

Yellow is used for: pleasure, success, happiness, learning, memory and concentration, persuasion, inspiration, imagination, charm, confidence, travel, flexibility, and to represent the element of air

Green is used for: prosperity, abundance, money, physical and emotional healing, growth, luck, marriage, plant magic, acceptance, weather, counteracting, jealousy, and envy

Light Blue is used for: spirituality, tranquility, peace, and protection

Blue is used for: communication, will power, focus, forgiveness, good fortune, truth, fidelity, patience, domestic harmony, organization, removing bad vibrations, sincerity, and representing the element of water

Indigo is used for: spiritual guidance, psychic ability, upholding dignity, divination, meditation, ambitions, and overcoming depression

Violet is used for: spirituality, connection to higher self, insight, clarity, tension, and representing the divine feminine

Purple is used for: wisdom, influence, spiritual power, driving away evil, changing one’s luck, independence, breaking habits, and representing the element of spirit, soul, or life force

Lavender is used for: knowledge and intuition

Pink is used for: love, compassion, nurturing, femininity, friendship, romance, partnership, spiritual and emotional healing, protection of children and innocents, domestic harmony, self improvement, and maturity

Brown is used for: house blessings, animal magic, concentration, material goods, stability, food, financial crisis, and representing the element of earth

Grey is used for: loneliness, glamour, contemplation, and removing negativity

Silver is used for: feminine divinity, stability, psychic awareness, intuition, dreams, victory, medetation, communication, luck, and moon magic

Gold is used for: masculine divinity, great fortune, abundance, prosperity, understanding, divination, fast luck, positive attitude, justice, health, attraction, luxury, and magic involving the sun

Copper: business success, passion, money, fertility, and career growth

[theaetherwitch]

Drawing Sigils: My Way

Dedicated to the anon who asked, thank you~ <3

 My sigils are basically just a variant of the Witch’s Sigil Wheel. I’ve just added my own flare to it. If you don’t know what that is, it’s this thing, you kind find pictures of it on google pretty easy.

The first thing you’re gonna want to do is come up with your phrase. This will set the sigils intention. We’re gonna use the phrase “The Earth keeps me safe” for this example. Once you’ve got that figured out, pick out the words that are most important to you. We’re going to use “Earth” and “Safe” as our keywords.

(note: traditionally letters that are doubled are taken out, and only single appearing letters make the points.)

Next thing you’re gonna do, is draw lines from one letter to the next. You’ll be making separate lines for each word. Feel free to curve some of these lines, but i think it looks like a mountain or a crystal so we’re gonna keep it c:

And then the next word.

This is really starting to look like a crystal in my eyes! Now it’s time to add some flare. One thing I like to do is add circles around letters that have multiple points on them. And I add crossing lines to any other line that doesn’t have an angle or connection.

To really long lines, I like to add another line parallel to it.

The last part, make it personal! Add some sort of your own flare to it.

I played around with the crystal idea that I was getting, and added things to make it look sparkling and an arrow in the middle to represent protection. 

Lastly I like to keep my sigils in circles, but feel free to skip this step and call it done! Here’s what I came up with!

If you make one, please reblog with a picture! I’d love to see ^u^ Hopefully this helps.

[hot-girl-midsommar]

bindrunes!! 

[sigildaily]

Simple Sigil Creation: A How-To Guide

One of the most common messages I get on Tumblr goes something like this: “What is your process for creating sigils? It can’t be as simple as scrambling up letters, so what’s the real secret?”

The truth is, there isn’t a secret. Making sigils is actually quite simple. Anyone can do it. Even for a complete newcomer, the process should take less time than a coffee break. While there are many, many ways to create sigils — magic squares, automatic drawing, grid overlays — the methods don’t really matter all that much.

In this post, I’m going to show the step-by-step method I used for creating the most recent sigil I’ve published. It came at the request of a young woman who wanted to catch the romantic attentions of another female. It said simply: “She will see me in a romantic way.”

As you can see, I’ve gone with the most basic sigil-creation method here. I’ve written out the text, and I’ve isolated the consonants from the sentence. While there is an “occult” tradition behind this method, I wouldn’t get hung up on thinking that it’s the “right” way to make a sigil. It’s no better than any other method, it’s just easier to explain.

This first step is meant to abstract the coherent words into a less-coherent jumble of letters. The words stop being as meaningful, but the symbols behind the sigil’s intent remain. To keep things simple — and to speed up my next step — I arrange these letters into a grid.

The next step is to abstract the remaining letters even further. Here, I’ve simply started combining elements of the letters together. I generally start by picking two letters from the grid of consonants, and start combining lines, curves, curls, dots, and other pieces of those letters together.

I try to keep these new symbols as simple as possible — four or five pencil strokes at most — because I’ll be further combining them in the next step.

From here, I generally play around with a few ideas, combining elements of symbols as I go. Sometimes these ideas come easily, as seen in the picture, but sometimes it can take pages and pages of sketches to find one I like. In particularly thorny situations, I’ll even start the entire process over from scratch, just to give myself a clean slate.

Once I’ve found a design I like, it’s time to start on the final design. Much like every other stage in the process, there is no one “right” way to do this. This is also the step where most people could happily stop. When the sigil looks and feels “right” to you, it’s done. The sigil is complete, if you want it to be.

In my case, however, I’m also making art for my website and social media. That means creating a version of the sigil that will (hopefully) catch other people’s eyes. There are countless ways to do this — charcoals, crayons, digital painting, markers — and I’ve experimented quite a bit over the years.

I also like to have an excuse to play with ink and brushes, so that’s how this one came together. I like that it’s a little unpredictable — with streaks and globs and splatter — and I’m always thrilled when a happy accident improves the design.

As you can see, I create tons of variations, tinkering with brush sizes, stroke direction, the amount of ink in the brush, and other stuff. While I liked some of these versions, none of them looked quite right. So, I kept going until I found one that did.

A few ink-soaked pages later, and this version was the clear winner. From here, it was just a matter of scanning the image in and doing a few technical things in Photoshop to make it look better in black and white. I add the text, the watermark, and … that’s it.

Here’s the finished version.

As you can see, there’s no great secret to making a sigil. Nor should there be. Sigils are about focusing intent, and even a few pencil scratches on notebook paper can become a perfectly wonderful sigil with the right intent behind it. Yes, some people (like me) like to do a little showing off with things they picked up from art class, but that should never be a barrier to creating your own personal sigils.

Questions? Thoughts? Leave a comment or drop me a message.

[orriculum]

🍾 Spell of Release 🍾

a simple spell for ending dry spells of romantic, creative, or other natures

🍾  gather: a bottle that seals, soda water or alcohol, a pink candle, sea water, a pinch of coconut shreddings, a comfortable and private space. 

🍾  light the pink candle in a safe space

🍾  in the bottle add an effect or herb that symbolizes the aspect you often need, rose for love, cocoa for lust, etc. 

🍾  combine with soda water or alcohol inside the bottle

🍾  burn the coconut shreddings on the candle. 

🍾  optional, use the climax of sexual or creative pleasure to charge the ingredients in the bottle

🍾  blow out the candle, gather the energies into the bottle.

🍾  seal the bottle and attach burned coconut around the seal. 

🍾   open when you need a dry spell to come to an end. 

[power-of-three]

Creativity Spell Jar

I recently made a creativity spell jar for Belinda and I thought I might as well post the ingredients for you guys in case anyone finds it helpful.

This spell jar is used to encourage creative ideas and to prevent any sort of creative block

Ingredients 

Fern: mental clarity 

Basil: prosperity, wealth, creativity

Rosemary: mental clarity, enhances memory, creativity

Clover: luck, success

Pine Needles: perseverance, prosperity, strength 

Wild Sunflower Petals: optimism, creativity

Optional: I always like to write the personal/name sigil of the recipient on the spell jar as I believe that it helps to direct the energy and intent towards the specific person.

-Mod Pyre

[diaryofadaringwitch]

Want to witch but not sure what to witch?

Try…

Paint your nails with color magic

Check on your plant babies

Tea/Coffee spells

Try a new tarot spread in a reading

Go for a walk and observe the world around you

Bath/shower spells

Go make your bed and cleanse it 

Tech or emoji spells

phone cleansing

Doodle some new sigils

Pray/offer things to your deities 

Clean something physically and spiritually 

Baking or other kitchen witchery

Exercise for strength and flowing movement 

If you’re stuck, that’s a start!

[orriculum]

💅🌟 Celestial Nail Polish Magic 🌟💅

by choosing a corresponding color, painting sigils on your nails, or invoking a planet’s influence, here are some small celestial glamours and charms you can do by painting your nails!

💅 glitter - invokes general star magic - unity, strength, peace

🌟 rhinestones - invokes asteroids - strength, protection, stability, courage

💅 ombre - invokes a nebula’s influence - foundation, illumination, radiance, renewal, cleansing

🌟 french tips - invokes comets -  stillness, isolation, balance, control, transformation

💅 Red -  strength, courage, passionate love, lust, anger. represents mars.

🌟 Orange -  legal matters, success, vitality, passion, enthusiasm. represents saturn.

💅 Yellow -  friendship, happiness, communication. represents the sun.

🌟 Green - healing, money, prosperity, luck, employment, youth. represents jupiter.

💅 Blue -  healing, sleep, calm, peace, wisdom. represents neptune.

🌟 Purple -  power, exorcism, astral, psychic abilities, spirituality. represents mercury. 

💅 Indigo - protection, the home, intuition, travel. represents uranus. 

🌟 Pink -  romantic love, fidelity, truth, gratitude, technology. represents venus.

💅 White -  new beginnings, quiet, seriousness. represents the moon, 

🌟 Black - elegance, power, absolution. represents pluto.

correspondences compiled from my personal grimoire

[flowercrownwitch]

20 Household Herbs and their Magical Uses

Sea Salt: purification and cleansing

Sage: sacred purification herb, used to banish negative energies, and consecrate magical tools and spaces

Black Pepper: banishing negativity, warding off evil, and protection

Thyme: invigorates the user and inspires them to move on to new things- good for getting over losses

Rosemary: cleansing, purifying, and matters of the heart

Chamomile: money and luck, reversing hexes, and representing masculine energy

Bay Leaves: psychic powers and divination, success, money, and granting wishes

Basil: domestic harmony, home protection, purifying, and warding off negative influences

Parsley: divination, and psychic advancement, protection

Cinnamon: high levels of spirituality and psychic ability, lust and love

Cloves: drive away negativity, cleansing, and bringing prosperity

Ginger: adds strength to any working, and draws new experiences

Oregano: joy, strength, vitality, and energy

Peppermint: cleansing, peaceful sleep, bringing change, abundance, and wishes

Spearmint: healing, sleep protection, wishes, and vitality

Vanilla Bean: love, lust, passion, and restoring energy

Poppy Seeds: pleasure, heightened awareness, luck, and relief from insomnia

Cayenne Pepper: dealing with separation, speeds the effect of magical workings

Orange Peel: love, divination, money, luck, and emotional peace

Paprika: adds an extra boost to any magical working

[witchinthenight]

Egg Shell Powder tutorial: how to make it and use it

Egg shell powder is useful in witchcraft because it protects and purifies. 

It helps block non-corporal beings from a physical space so pressing it into chalk form, or sprinkling it can work as a barrier to keep unwanted nasties at bay.  

Some say it even blocks out the benign energies at work as well, so it’s great for those times when you need to just sit and be a muggle for a little while. 

Sprinkle it across thresholds such as windows and doors or even use it to draw sigils. 

It can also be used to enhance psychic ability in a way because it protects you from that which seeks to take advantage of you when your engaged in psychic activity. 

Simply rubbing a little of the powder on you or dabbing a dot onto your third eye energy point is said achieve this. 

Another use is purification and is especially useful in the bath. 

It dissolves easily in water so adding it to a bath intended for purification can amp up the cleansing effect.  

 How to make it:

Boil water in a pot

Place empty eggs shells in boiling water carefully (don’t burn yourself)

Boil for 10 minutes

Drain water from shells and place on paper towel to dry overnight

When shells are completely dried, place them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment

Bake egg shells for about 10 minutes or until they are completely dried at 200 degrees (F)

When cool enough to handle, place egg shells a few at time into an electric coffee grinder and pulse until finely ground

Store in airtight container away from heat or moisture. 

To protect from Salmonella (a harmful bacteria that can make you sick) store your used egg shells in the egg carton and refrigerate until you are ready to boil your shells, making sure never to leave them sitting out for long. 

Added bonus: Egg shells make great plant food so you can share with your plants. I use this in my homemade pet food as a calcium supplement. 

[sstoness]

What kind of water should i use?

Sea Water: Water from the sea is great for cleansing and healing rituals. I recommend it for cleansing crystals (but be careful, not every crystal/stone can/should be cleansed in water). It’s also great for banishing and protection spells!

Storm Water: Spells and rituals that has to do with emotional strength, confidence, charge, motivation and force. It’s known for strengthening spells. Storm water is great for curses as well.

River Water: Spells and rituals that has to do with moving on, focusing energy, breaking through rough paths, and warding. Great for powering tools.

Rain Water: This is very multi-purpose, but especially great for growth and rebirth spells. Great for spells that you want to keep gaining power over time.

Snow Water: Great for spells and rituals that focus on purity, endings and change, as well as slow working spells.

Dew Water: I recommend this for love and fertility spells, as well as delicate magic. Great if you’re going to do fae work.

[broomsandbrews]

[anthonythewitch]

•🔮 The Wonderful World of Crystal Magick 🔮•

Many modern people only recognize crystals in jewelry or geology, but humans and crystals actually have a spiritual relationship that goes back at least 30,000 years. Crystals, with their unique colors and designs, have been utilized as talismans for a variety of purposes since prehistory, and humans have invented a plethora of ways to utilize their powerful energies since then.

💎 What is a crystal?

Dirt and rock - the stuff the earth’s crust is made of - are composed of a vast cocktail of metals and compounds in random order. Under certain conditions tho, these molecules will arrange into geometric patterns, creating a structure that is very stable and unique. These formations are called crystals.

Crystals occur all over the planet and come in hundreds of types, each with its own unique atomic crystal structure. This unique structure imbues each type of crystal with its unique type of energy.

🕉 What energies do crystals possess?

Crystals are basically tiny vessels that contain a unique type of energy, and they will emanate this energy as long as they exist. This makes them extremely stable sources of energy that can be channeled or utilized for a variety of purposes.

Every type of crystal contains a unique energy. Rose quartz, for instance, carries the energy of love. Citrine carries the energy of prosperity. Lapis Lazuli contains the energy of transcendence. Etc. With their being so many types of crystals in existence, a crystal can almost always be found to match the intention of your spell.

➡️💎⬅️ How are crystals used?

Crystals are magical in and of themselves. The Law of Attraction declares that Like attracts Like. The presence of an energy will draw similar energy to it. Because of this law, crystals naturally attract similar energies. For instance, a rose quartz crystal will draw love to it. Citrine will draw prosperity to it. Lapis will draw transcendence to it. Etc.

As such, crystals can be kept on your person, in your home, on your altar (etc.) to draw a desired energy to you. They can also be placed in spirit jars, spell bags, added to a wand, used in rituals (etc.) for the same purpose - to utilize and/or summon a specific energy.

A common method of utilizing crystals is in a crystal grid, where various types of crystals are laid out together in a specific pattern, creating a powerful beacon that attracts a large amount of energy.

Alternatively, crystals can also be programmed, which is perhaps their most advantageous use.

🔮 What is crystal programming?

The exact metaphysics behind this property of crystals is complex, having to do with vibration and atomic crystal structure. But basically, crystals will readily accept energy patterns from their environment, record them, and project them back.

In witchcraft, this property is utilized in a process called ‘programming’. Essentially, programming is imbueing your own unique intention into a crystal, which will then be stored and emanated by the crystal for a period of time.

For instance, a citrine crystal can be programmed to attract money. It naturally attracts prosperity, and when programmed by a witch with the intention of ‘money’, it will specifically begin to draw monetary prosperity to itself. Alternatively, a citrine crystal can also be programmed with ‘happiness’, and it will begin to attract an abundance of happiness. Etc.

💻 How do you program a crystal?

Crystals are extremely receptive and very sensitive to their environment. As a result, they are relatively easy to program. The simplest form of programming consists of holding the crystal in your hand and meditating on your intention (ie: “happiness,” “money,” “lover,” etc.). Programming can be as simple or complex as you want it to be though. Crystals can be programmed through emotions, smoke, sigils, spirits, deities, words, mantras, or any other imaginable way of transmitting intention.

🌙 Cleansing and Charging Crystals

As mentioned above, crystals continuously draw in energy from their environment and internalize it. While useful in the short term, crystals can quickly become corrupted because of this as well.

Crystals left in stagnant energy (such as on a shelf, in a box, or even on an altar) will begin to dull over time, like stagnant air becoming stale and dusty, and they may lose their color and ability to attract. Alternatively, crystals subjected to lots of energy (such as repetitive spellwork or intense emotions/environments) can become cluttered, jumbled, and erratic. In some cases, crystals subjected to too much energy have even been known to crack or shatter.

When either of these extremes happen, it’s time to cleanse the crystal.

Put simply, cleansing a crystal is removing all of its artificial programming and returning it to its natural state. This can be achieved through a variety of methods, such as with water, salt, sage, moonlight, fire, or even other crystals. There are an endless number of ways to cleanse a crystal, and it’s best to experiment and figure out which ways your crystals like to be cleansed.

My personal favorite is one of the most traditional ways: placing my crystals in a bowl of water once a month underneath the full moon and letting them soak in the moonlight overnight. By morning, they have been purified and charged up with lunar goddess energies, and are ready for use.

As a rule of thumb, crystals should be cleansed regularly to avoid unwanted results when using them. How often is ultimately up to you; spend time with your crystals and they will let you know when they need to be cleansed.

I could literally go on for hours about crystals and all the ways to befriend them, speak with them, unlock their secrets, work with them, and utilize them in witchcraft, but this post is already ridiculously long. So keep your eye out for more master posts on crystals, including a masterpost list of types of crystals and their unique properties.

Happy Witching 🕉

[magickspellrequests-deactivated]

Third-Eye Awakening

A simple spell to awaken your third eye before any psychic work, divination, spirit work, meditation, etc. 💜

What you need 💜

A white candle

Amethyst (optional)

Sit down in front of the candle, if you have amethyst than keep it in your lap

Light the candle

Close your eyes and stare at where your third eye would be

In your mind when you are focused on it and calm, chant “awaken and let all be seen”. Say it as many times as needed

When you feel ready, open your eyes and blow out the candle

Lean forward and let the smoke drift over your face, cleansing it

** I always accept spell requests **

[the-urbanwitch]

My super religious mom: Watch out for the darkness tempting you! Make sure you pray!

Me: Mom.... I do witchcraft.....I am the darkness.

[xxxxxxxnut]

A School Spell Jar

(sorry for the crappy image quality, I’m desktop only. also, the sugar and coffee mixed together, at the bottom. grrr)

soooo, this was my very first spell I made myself, and I’m really glad with how it turned out. I first made it back in December, just before school started back up. I knew I had a hard time with school, so I decided to do something witchy about it! At this point, I was still totally a baby witch, and I’m proud of how I was able to step out of my comfort zone and make a spell jar.

Now, for the spell jar;

Ingredients:                                                                                                         Sugar to sweeten the rest of the school year to me and me to school in general Coffee grounds for energy and courage to do better and not slink to the back Cayenne pepper to burn away old, bad habits.                                               Cloves to aid in seeking what is sought, good luck, friendship, and keeping negativity at bay                                                                                                  Rosemary for success                                                                                       Basil to protect against stress and, again, the courage to be a good student

also, I didn’t do this the first time I made this jar, but bc I had some extra space in the jar, I topped it off with some coarse sea salt, for cleansing and idk what else.

Beforehand, I cleansed the jar. Since I couldn’t find my cleansing spray, I rubbed some hand sanitizer on the jar to cleanse it. Then, I just kind of thought of my intent a lot, and as I was layering the herbs, focusing on what they would each bring me.

The last time I made this jar, it helped me get out of bed easier in the mornings and also go to sleep easier! This time, I’m not sure how it’s manifesting, but it’s only been one night.

Feel free to message, ask or dm, me and tell me how this works out for you! Add feel free to reblog/like to bookmark, and you have my full permission to use and alter as you see fit, just if you post your spell jar anywhere, please link this post/tag me/etc.

I’m tagging @cosmic-witch bc she mentioned that if you posted some original content, to tag her bc she wants to see it, so…yeah.

[witchtarts-blog]

Making Rose Water

Making rose water is actually more simple than you think. Rose water can be used in multiple things such as love spells, self-love, attracting love, etc. The things you will need are:

- Rose Petals - Rubber Band to seal the rose petals in the coffee filter(optional) - Coffee filter for a quick tea bag(optional) - Water that fits your purpose (I’m using rain and moon water) - Sealable Jar

First, collect your rose petals. The more petals you use the more potent the water will be. After you’ve done that, put your rose petals in the center of your coffee filter and fold it up to create a tea bag, use the rubber band to seal it off. If you dont have a coffee filter or don’t want to use one, you can always just let the rose petals stay in the water loosely.

After you’ve made your tea bag, you can put water in a Sealable jar. You could use a variety of waters that fit your purpose. I am using moon and rain water for this. Once you have an amount of water that you are satisfied with, add in your tea bag and seal off the jar. The lid is important because the water will evaporate if you dont put one on. Now all you have to do is wait 1-3 weeks depending on how potent you want your water to be.

Blessed be!