Booklet Of Shadows

I guess this is where I leave my witch stuff

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Fish outfit

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seashell teapots.

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Victor Nizovtsev

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oysters

[effemimaniac]

hey. don't cry. I went to Mad At You island and none of your friends were there :)

[bakugou-kacchan]

why were you at mad at me island

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DEPOPULATING IT

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Witchy Tips: How to Make a Sea Altar

Craft stores supply many natural, sea-related items for you to use. However, if you live within a few hundred miles of the coastline, an annual “pilgrimage” to the shorelines to collect.

seagull feathers

sea shells

driftwood

dried seaweed

sea glass

loose sand

sandstone

pressed palm leaves

dried coconut

The difference between a sea themed table and a altar are the intentions and the energy you put into it. To make your altar start by pouring ocean water lightly over your altar to “refresh” the ocean energy, burn coconut incense to raise tropical vibrations, play “Sounds of the Ocean” soundtracks and meditate near your altar.

When using items for a spell try using sand in the color that matches your intention. If your a water sign, add your zodiac sign to a candle. Add a mermaid or a water goddess to it. Move the items around and or change them out as needed, do not let it get stagnant, it needs to flow just like the ocean and streams.

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Ocean Banishment Knot Spell

"What ever it was that required banishment, be it an illness or some other undesirable situation, a knot charm could be employed by tying knots, as many as there are troubles, or aspects to the trouble, into rope, cord or string, and touch these each to the thing to be banished, or a symbol thereof. The knot charm is then taken to the shore where it is buried at the mark of low water. The operator will then walk away and must not look back or catch sight of the spot for at least twentyfour hours."

Wisht Waters by Gemma Gary, pgs. 99-100

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shells & items for the sea witch

Id added later

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[devout-khajiit]

Made the protective amulet from this spell. It's intended to hang from my belt loop with a carabiner every day from now (I'm willing to accept odd looks for having rose bush twigs hanging from my belt for the sake of being protected), but for now I'm using a paracord bracelet with a clasp to attach it because I need to buy a carabiner first but I didn't want to wait on making this lol.

Sticks sourced from my personal rose bush, who I love and adore and have tended for many years now, so I'm hoping that makes this even stronger because I have a personal relationship with said ginormous rose bush

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Cleansing, Charging, Warding & Banishing

Cleansing

How to Cleanse

Find the target of your cleansing

Pick and appropriate method of cleansing

Hold your intention while cleansing. Stay focused and grounded

Follow up by filling the cleansed space with positive energy to avoid negative energies from coming back in

When to Cleanse

When you get a new tool

When a tool/room feels stale or off

When your tools or space come into contact with negative energy

Whenever your intuition tells you its time

Common Methods

Use the Elements Cleanse a room with water, fire, earth, or air. Soak or sprinkle with water, pass through flame or smoke, sprinkle or bury in dirt

Smoke Cleansing Use the smoke of herbs and plants to cleanse a space, item, or person. Pick herbs that correspond to your needs, light a bundle, and lead the smoke

Salt Salt will soak up all negative energies

Sun & Moonlight Let your item cleanse in the sunlight or moonlight, or open your windows to cleanse a space

Crystals Use corresponding crystals to cleanse a space or item. Carry them around to cleanse your spirit

Charging

How to Charge

Pick your target. Anything you want to fill with energy

Choose a method of charging that is appropriate for your item

Hold your intention while charging. Stay focused on transferring energy to the target item

Listen to your intuition. You’ll know when an item has been charged

When to Charge

After you cleanse a tool/item

When an item/tool doesn’t feel as potent or feels weak

When energy becomes stagnant

When you want an item to hold a certain intention/purpose

Charging Methods

Sun & Moonlight Set an object in the sun or moonlight to let it soak up that energy

Crystals Crystals that have been charged and cleansed can be used to charge other items

Elements Use the power of the elements to charge items metaphorically or literally

Visualization Picture your energy and intention flowing into your item and filling it with power

Herbs Charge an item with corresponding herbs by passing them through herb smoke, anointing with herbal oils, etc

Sound Use singing bowls, bells, or corresponding music to fill an item or space with energy

Banishing & Warding

What’s the Difference?

Warding is… a gentler form of defensive magic. It’s used in a general sense. Warding is used to protect and guard from negative energies. It is used to redirect energy away from you or your space.

Banishing is… far more specific and direct. It’s used to get rid of a particular energy, spirit, or person. Banishing is a very strong form of defensive magic.

Warding Methods

Guardians Create a guardian to guard your home or space from negative energies. Use a small object, enchant it with your intention, and keep it in a safe, permanent place.

Crystals Corresponding crystals can be worn as jewelry to protect against negative energy. Placing crystals in a room or around your house will create a protective barrier.

Salt Sprinkle salt around your doors and windows or make protection jars.

Herbs Burn protective herbs and pass the smoke through your space or tools or sprinkle herbal oils and tinctures on yourself and your space for protective barriers.

Visualization Use your intention and energy to visualize a powerful barrier of protecting light around yourself or your space.

Banishing Methods

Use the Elements Burn a slip of paper with your target's name on it. Throw a leaf with your target’s name on it into a running river. Burn corresponding herbs and pass the smoke through your space.

Candles Anoint your candles with corresponding herbs and oils, then burn it. When the candle has burned out, the banishing is complete

Sigils Make your own banishing sigil or find one that resonates with you. Place it in the space or on the item you are banishing energy from.

Herbs & Tinctures Use herbal smoke to force energy out of a space or object. Make a spray or herbal tincture to sprinkle around your home.

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Introduction to Altars

Altars are generally where you will do most of your working as a witch, but they aren’t a necessary part of your craft.  If you don’t want to have one, you don’t have to.  They are more than anything else, acquired out of want or convenience.  They make a good place to put your supplies and create an atmosphere within your home.  You hear about them fairly frequently within the community so this document will endeavour to help explain them, or otherwise help you put your own together!

Altar Etiquette

Alter etiquette mostly revolves around how you should interact with another witch’s altar.  Most of this is easily helped by consent, but it might not be immediately obvious that doing something like taking a photograph or picking up something off another witch’s altar would be frowned upon.  Oftentimes an altar has a lot of significance to a witch, everything might have been placed in a very specific way.  Sometimes people don’t mind, but it’s always better to ask first!

Constructing an Altar

Constructing your own altar can be done by a few methods.  From purely intuitive to more planned for best associations methods like putting objects associated best with the elements in their respective cardinal directions.

Intuitive Method

The intuitive method is about as straightforward as it sounds.  You get what feels right to you personally.  This can involve placing certain stones or flowers on the altar that seem to mesh with what you want the general vibe to be.

Directional Association

Taking a directional association is usually going to involve finding the cardinal directions or picking a part of your home that already falls under them, for example setting up at your most northern facing wall.

Using an Altar Cloth

An altar cloth similar to a table cloth in that it is used both to protect the table from things like spills and damage as well as acting as a decoration.  Some altar cloths come with instructions or designs that imply where certain objects should be placed.  These are found across different rituals, cultures, and religions.

Uses for an altar A few notes to help you get started!

Offerings

An altar is a good place for leaving offerings whether this be to gods, fae, or local spirits alike.  Usually placed in a vessel called an offering dish, offering plate or offering bowl.  This doesn’t have to be on the altar, and if you’d prefer to have it somewhere else, that’s also fine, but this is a very common place for it to be kept.  Often this comes with the idea that the being you are leaving an offering to is blessing your altar and it’s purposes.

Spellwork

Most of your spellwork is going to be conducted at your altar, especially things regarding the home and yourself.  All of your tools are easy to use and in one place, so this acts as both an area to help ground and amplify spellwork as well as a convenience.

Charging Objects

Setting objects on your altar is a known way to charge them.  Where some witches will put objects in the sun or moonlight, burn objects, or charge things otherwise, you might place something on your altar in order to let it acquire energy from the area around you.  Your altar tends to be your magical center, so the flow of energy would theoretically bring it charge.  Otherwise if you also put charged crystals on your altar periodically this effect could be amplified.

Affecting the Atmosphere of the Home

Another reason for an altar is having it act as spellwork in and of itself.  Decorating or otherwise arranging your altar be it per season or for certain effects could turn the whole thing into one large house spell.  You put your intent into your arrangement.

Storage

Perhaps the most practical use for an altar, it could very well just be an aesthetically pleasing place to keep your tools, objects, and materials.  A lot of the time when we choose things, it’s because we enjoy the feeling of them.  Having things we like around can just be largely pleasant while also keeping it all in one convenient place where we can find them.