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[mulberry-moons]

Tarot spread for when dis bitch (me) is empty.

[traitspourtraits]

Everything is going to be okay, I read it in my teacup.

[artofjoohei]

🍀Forest witch 🍀

[my-witchy-journal]

🌱✨🌷Magical Associations of Natural Items🌷✨🌱

Regently I have been reading ‘The Green Witch’  by  Arin Murphy-Hiscock and I have found a really good and detailed list in it about all kind of herb, flowers, plants,trees and spices’s nature and I thought it may be useful for other ones too. 

I tried to categorize all the information, but as you can see there are ones which could be placed in more than one category. So I put these in just one category. 

🌶️SPICES🌶️

Allspice: prosperity, luck, healing, purification, protection, money

Cinnamon: healing, love, lust, success, purification, protection, money, psychic awareness

Clove: protection, mental abilities, attraction, purification, comfort

Coriander: healing, love, lust

Cumin: protection, antitheft, love, fidelity

Dill: protection, love, attraction, money, strength, luck, eases sleep, mental abilities, weight loss

Fennel: courage, strength, cleansing

Garlic: healing, house blessing, protection, lust, antitheft

Ginger: healing, love, money, energy

Majoram: protection, love, happiness, health, money, marriage, comfort

Nutmeg: clairvoyance, health, luck, fidelity

Oregano: peace

Parsley: healing, lust, fertility, love, passion, protection, hex breaker, prosperity, purification, eases grief

Pepper: protection, purification

Rosemary: cleansing, protection, healing, longevity, improves memory and concentration

Tarragon: cleansing, regeneration, transformation

Thyme: purification, psychic cleansing, divination, healing, enhances memory, eases sleep, courage

Vanilla: love, prosperity, lust, energy, mental abilities, creativity

🌿HERBS🌿

Anise: psychic abilities, lust, luck, purification, love

Basil: love, trust, abundance, prosperity, courage, discipline, protection, marriage, purification, luck, mental abilities

Bay: protection, purification, endurance, fidelity, psychic powers, divination, wisdom, strength

Catnip: cats, love, beauty, happiness, tranquility, luck

Chamomile: purification, healing, soothes anxiety, gently heals bad luck, soothes children

Mint: purification, preserves health, clarity of mind, protects travelers, attracts money, health, love, success

Sage: healing, longevity, good health, psychic awareness, protection

Verbena: purification, protection, blessings, communication with nature spirits

Yarrow: marriage, courage, love and friendship, psychic abilities, hex breaking 

🍎Fruits🍎

 Apple: love, healing, peace

Lemon: purification, love, protection, happiness

Lime: love, purification, luck, sleep

Orange: love, joy, purification, prosperity

🌷Plants🌷

Angelica:  protection, hex breaker, healing, psychic abilities, house blessing, purification

Bayberry: abundance, prosperity

Chickweed: animals, love, fidelity, healing, weight loss

Cinquefoil (five-finder): eloquence, cunning, money, protection, sleep, prophetic dreams, purification, love

Clover:  lust, hex breaking, prosperity, purification, love, luck, protection, success, fidelity, comfort

Comfrey: healing, prosperity, protection, travel

Daisy: nature spirits, love, children

Dangelion: longevity, enhances psychic ability, intuition, spiritual and emotional cleanser

Echinacea: healing

Elderflower: protection from lightning, beauty, divination, prosperity, purification, house blessing, healing, sleep

Eucalyptus: protection, healing

Eyebright: truth, pierces through illusion, certainty, psychic ability

Feverfew: love, fidelity, protection, healing

Gardenia: love, attraction, peace, meditation

Geranium: love, healing, protection, fertility

Hawthorn: protection, fertility, happines

Heather: protection, rain, luck

Heliotrope: clairvoyance, psychic abilities, health, money

Hibiscus: love, lust, divination, harmony, peace

Honeysuckle: abundance, luck, prosperity, eases sorrow, enhances psychic abilities (do not use the berries; they are poisonous)

Hops: healing, sleep

Hyacinth: love, comfort, protection

Hyssop: purification, protection

Jasmine: love, attraction, prosperity, tranquility

Juniper: cleansing, purification, protection against accidents, protection against illness, love, antitheft, fertility, psychic abilities

Lavender:  healing, love, happiness, heals grief and guilt, sleep, tranquility, protection, purification, peace, house blessing, wisdom, children, marriage

Licorice: love, lust, protection, fidelity

Lilac: protection, beauty, love, psychic abilities, purification, prosperity

Lily: protection, love antidote, truth

Lotus: blessing, meditation, protection

Marigold: positive energy, protection, eases legal stress, increases psychic awareness, peace

Meadowsweet: peace, love, happiness, psychic awareness

Mistletoe: healing, protection, love, fertility, sleep, luck

Mugwort: divination, protection, healing, strength, lust, psychic power, fertility, protects travelers

Nettle: cleansing, protects from danger, protects health

Patchouli: money, fertility, lust, clairvoyance, divination, love, attraction

Poppy: fertility, abundance, sleep, love

Rose: healing, love, conciliation, restoration, self-love, attracts love and good fortune, heals trouble, enhances psychic ability

Rowan: purification, house blessing, protection, healing, psychic abilities, wisdom, strengthens spells

Rue: protection, mental abilities, purification, health, comfort

St. Johnson’s Wort: courage, power of the sun, fertility, purification, healing, positive energy

Valerian: purification, protection, healing, love, sleep, attraction

Violet: tranquility, love, luck, protection, healing

🌳Woods🌳

Birch: protection, purification, new beginnings, children

Cedar: healing, purification, protection, prosperity

Cypress: protection, comfort, healing

Elm: love, protection

Maple: sweetness, prosperity, marriage, love, money

Oak: purification, protection, prosperity, health and healing, money, fertility, luck, strength

Pine: prosperity, healing, purification, fertility

Willow: communication, eloquence, protection, healing, love, dreams

🌰Seeds🌰

Almond: love, money, healing, wisdom

Hazel:  mental abilities, fertility, protection, wisdom, luck

Flax: money, protection, beauty, healing

Walnut:  healing, mental abilities

🧅Others🧅

Ash: protection, strength, healing, prosperity

Benzoin: purification, healing, prosperity

Onion: healing, protection, purification

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

A young innovator!

[north-of-annwn]

To be a Local Witch

Throughout history and our legends, Witches and Wizards were the crazy men and women that lived on the outskirts of the village. Their craft was wild and strange to those that lived in the village, but, nonetheless, people would seek after their wisdom of the land, the plants, the local spirits, and for wisdom or guidance in their path. These men and women, often bachelors, would know the ins and outs of the region and often went walking alone. 

Today, our villages are less rustic and more like local towns, and suburbs. But one can still be a Local Witch, and develop special connections with the land you call home. 

Become a Local Witch: 

Learn Local Lore Folktales, legends, and even tall tales develop the culture of a town or area. Learn these. Retell them over summer campfires, and over drinks with friends. People will start to LOVE your stories. 

Start Frequenting locally owned shops and stores Develop connections and relationships with the owners and those that work there every day. Learn their names, and introduce yourself after visiting more often. Supporting locally owned shops helps small business owners and provides nourishment to your community. This is putting down roots, and develops your connection with the people that shape your town.

Find a Local Bookstore This is an extension of 1 and 2. Locally owned bookstores always have a Local Writers, Local Plants, and Local History sections. Ask inside where these sections are, and start devouring these books. Not only will you be supporting a local shop, but you have a direct source of helpful information. Oftentimes, employees and owners also know a lot of Lore. Talk to them about what you’re interested in learning. They probably have some hidden gems of information. 

Learn about your Indigenous Plants Start researching and learning about the flora that grows locally, learn their lore, their uses, and magical or folklore associations. If Natives from your area used these plants, find out how. Learn where these plants grow and research local foraging. If you’ve never foraged, see if you can find a local group that can serve as helpful guides to stay safe. Never ingest anything unless you are SURE. 

Start a local Plant Grimoire Keep dried presses of flowers and plants in it, draw and diagram to help you remember what they look like. 

Learn about the indigenous animals Research their folklore and mythology. Start finding out what they eat, and what their habitats are. (Safely) Do your part to help foster their growth and health. This could be making insect houses to help local endangered pollinators, or leaving out special birdseed for endangered bird species in the area. (Safely) Start interacting with the non-aggressive species and leave them treats. This is great for birds, deer, rabbits, moles, chipmunks, hedgehogs, etc 

Join local Conservation Projects  Getting directly involved in wildlife conservation strengthens our spiritual and natural ties to the land we call our home. Taking personal responsibility and interest in it’s stewardship is honoring the spirits of the land, and the Gods. 

Use Google Maps while exploring parks, or protected open spaces to drop pins and places where you find animal habitats or useful plants for foraging. 

That’s all for now. More will come later I’m sure. Now go be the best local Witch or Druid you can be! 

[natureandthecraft]

- Buy produce from a local produce stand/farmers market if you can instead of a large chain grocery store. (Where I live, Winco grocery store also tries to locally source their produce)

- Find a community garden in your area. Learn from seasoned gardeners about local plants, soil, and get to spend wholesome time with your neighbors!

- Join your local library. Like the bookstore, but free! Some also have events to get to know people in your community.

- Explore local walking paths or hiking trails. My town is littered with walking paths that I use as nature trails and helps with my grounding. Also gives you a chance to scope out local plants.

[therestlesswitch]

for those of us in North America, esp for us settlers, we need to include finding out who’s land you’re on.

Know who the land belongs to. Make reparations and give back to them if you can. If you own your land, consider looking into a Land Back agreement/program with the Native Nation that it belongs to.

And then, if you’re able to, and if the community invites settlers to learn, learn from them directly about the local lore.

Campfire stories, legends and myths and the like are all well and good, and really do play a formative roll in a place’s history. But they’re often tinged with collonialism. So find out your local place’s history from the people to whom it belongs.

[magickrosegalaxy]

What to ask tarot

So tarot card questions are actually a lot different than asking a specific question. You wouldn’t say, for example, “Is my dad going to graduate?” because if you got the 3 of cups, you would be utterly confused as to why I did not provide a yes or a no. So below I am going to list questions that are good to ask the cards. 

• I’m at a fork in the road. Which way should I go?

• How do I weigh out the choices I have? What are the Pros and Cons?

• What do I need to know to make the best decision? What do I need to know?

• What do I need to know about a situation with a family member?

• What do I need to know about my love life?

• What do I need to know about my career?

Moving forward

• How do I move forward in my career?

• How do I move forward in my relationship/ love life?

• What is coming forth in my life?

• Which foundation is the strongest to build on in my life?

* What should I do?

• What should/ shouldn’t I do about a situation with my job?

• What should/ shouldn’t I do about a situation with a friend or family member?

• How can I restore my hope for the future?

• What overall positives do I bring to my life?

• What positives do the people in my life provide me?

• Is there meaning in my life?

• Is there love in my life? Hidden Elements

• Are there things I am ignoring that are important?

• What am I not seeing?

• What is holding me back?

• Are there truths that I am denying?

• Are there things that I see that are untrue?

• What important things have I forgotten?

• What could get in my way?

• What is most important for me to get done?

• How will a certain occasion or event turn out?

• What will be the best way for me to communicate with certain people?

• What should I learn from my past?

• What is the impending future telling me?

• What cycles am I stuck in?

• What have a learned from my past?

• Where am I strongest?

• What should I look out for?

I hope this helps!!!!

[thewitchystuff]

A little witchy calendar to look forward to next year, since this one was a little bit.. cursed.

This lets you know about the full moons, new moons, wheel of the year celebrations and zodiac entrys, I hope you can use this to aid you on your practice.

[samwisethewitch]

A simple spell to release stress

When we hold on to excess stress, it creates a blockage in our personal energy system. Imagine that your is body filled with tiny, invisible wires that carry energy from one point to the next. When you hold on to stress in a certain area, you tie a knot in the wires that keeps energy from flowing smoothly to the rest of your body. This can manifest as fatigue, lack of motivation, overwhelm, or other mental and physical symptoms. This spell is designed to untie those knots and let the energy flow freely.

This spell is very loosely adapted from the book Light Magic for Dark Times by Lisa Marie Basile, which I highly recommend for anyone looking to bring witchcraft into their self care practice or vice versa.

What you will need:

A piece of white paper

A pen or pencil

A bowl or cup of clean, fresh water (water from the tap is fine!)

(Optional) a few drops of lavender essential oil

Performing the spell:

Set aside some time when you can be alone and won’t be disturbed. If you like, set the mood by lighting candles, burning incense, or playing music. If you chose to include lavender oil, add it to the water now.

On the paper, write a detailed description of the situation that is causing you stress, and of how it makes you feel. Be as specific as possible. What emotions do you feel? Are there physical sensations associated with these emotions? Where in your body do you feel them? (If you are more comfortable drawing than writing, draw a picture that represents your situation and how it makes you feel.)

Keep writing/drawing until you run out of things to say. Get a second piece of paper if you need to. Don’t worry about making it pretty or even legible. What matters is that you get the emotions out and onto the page.

Fold the paper in half, folding it away from yourself; rotate it to the left and fold it again; rotate to the left again and fold one more time for a total of three folds. With each fold, repeat out loud or in your head, “I acknowledge these feelings and I let them go. I release.”

Submerge the folded paper in the bowl of water. Make sure it is completely covered. Watch it soak through, and watch the ink bleed from the paper.

Say, “Spirits of water, keepers of emotion and the subconscious, spirits of healing, help me to cleanse and release. Help me restore my energy.”

Allow the envelope to soak in the water for at least an hour before disposing of it.

[euge--rome]

modern witch 🍒💫

[melissajanart]

134/365

Why do witch’s keep cats?

[witches-ofcolor]

Witches of Color Shop List

Hey Yall! Here is the link to the shop lists for witches of color. This will be updated weekly (hopefully), and as more people submit. If you’re a witch of color or practitioners of color and want to submit your shop info to be added to this list, HERE’S the link. 

You don’t just have to offer witchy services, if you are a practitionor of color and have ANY TYPE OF SHOP feel free to submit. 

[the-upper-shelf]

There are no words that can express how much i love black cats.

[autumncozy]

[scarletdianthus-deactivated2025]

🌙✨🌒⭐️😴⭐️🌒✨🌙

An emoji spell to help you get a good nights rest likes to charge, reblogs to cast

[midnight4ever]

[pixeljeff]

Happy Halloween

2020.