Witchy Resources

This blog is a resource for learning about all the different forms of witchcraft and other witchy things. If you have an interest in learning more, click the links below and talk to people who practice it! (If you'd like to be added to one of the lists, have a post you think would work well, or have a suggestion to improve this page, my ask and submissions are always open)

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Could you give me some tips to get started?

This is gonna be a long ass post. My apologies. Anyone is more than welcome to add to this list.

Blogs I recommend: X

 Beginner Witchcraft

Old Motherredcap’s Reading List

Advice for beginner witches

Things to consider

Defining “witchcraft”

Magic and witchcraft

Research for Newbie Witches

Websites for Herbal Properties and Useage

Different Types of Witchcraft

Secular Witchcraft

Cultural Appropriation

The G word

Spells and charms for Beginners

Dispelling Spells

Lavender’s Wishing Spell

Burning Bridges Spell

Chocolate Money Spell

Spell to Ease Jealousy

Emotional Cleansing Spell

Rainbow Protection Bottle

Wreaths for Protection and Happiness

Energy Bath

Motivation Chant

Pick me up Cleansing Jar

Protection Jar

Rosemary and Lavender Smokeless Cleansing

List of Cleansing Spells

Meditation

50 Meditation Tips

An Earth Meditation

Benefits of Meditation

Breathe & Relax

Grounding, Centering, & Shielding

Grounding - Grounding Techniques - Ungrounded Symptoms

Grounding & Centering

Centering

Shielding: (1) (2)

Budgeted Witchcraft:

Tips & Tricks for Frugal Witches

Moonstone Beginning’s Frugal Pagan Resource

A Witch in a Pinch (Blog)

Budget Witch (Blog)

Witchcraft on a Budget

Being a Witch on a Budget

Budget Witchcraft (Site)

Accumulating Witch Stuff on a Budget

Ways to Practice Witchcraft with Little or No Money

Chaos Magic:

Chaos Magic in a Nutshell

What is Chaos Magick? 

Chaos Magic- The Misunderstood Path

Chaos Magick (a multitude of articles pertaining to chaos magic)

Introduction to Chaos Magic

Chaos Magic Theory

Chaoism & Chaos Magic: A Personal View

Oven-Ready Chaos; Phil Hine

Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic- Peter J. Carroll

Sigil Crafting:

A Beginner’s Guide to Sigil Craft

Ways to Use Sigils 

Sigils Reboot: How To Get Big Magic From Little Squiggles

An Essay On Sigil Crafting 

Practical Sigil Magic- Frater U. D.

Sigilmaking with Lee 

Sigil Magic: Making a Magical Sigil

Sigils… 

Sigil Daily: Creation & Activation

Magic/Sigil Circles 

Chaos Magic: Basic Sigil Magic

Sigils 

A Brief Overview of Sigil Magick

Sigils and Seals 101 

Sigils

Sigil Crafting Method 

Creating a Sigil

Sigil Masterpost (gif warning!)

Sigils in Theory and Practice

How Do You Make Sigils? 

On the Preparation and Usage of Sigils

Sigil Magic

Sigil 101 

Practical Sigil Magick

The Sigil Bowl 

Sigil Basics

What Are Sigils? 

Making Outdoor Sigils

Online Sigil Generator

Sigilisation

Sigil Magic

Sigil Making Process, by Rook 

Sigil Making Process, by Richtor 

Sigil Charging:

My Super-Physically-Mentally Intense Method of Charging Sigils…

How to Charge Sigils 

Firing Off Sigils

A Personal Method of Charging Sigils 

How to Charge a Sigil Playing Video Games

Charging Your Sigils- A Brief Explanation 

Charging and Firing Sigils 

How to Use Sigils 

The Fae Resources

Books

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries – W.Y. Evans-Wentz

The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies – Robert Kirk

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry – Yeats

Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore – Yeats

The Fairies in Tradition and Literature – Katherine Briggs

An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures – Katherine Briggs

The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends – Katherine Briggs

The Sidhe: Wisdom from the Celtic Otherworld – John Matthews

Through the Faerie Glass-Kenny Klein

Websites

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Sacred Texts)

The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (Sacred Texts)

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland – Lady Wilde

Puck – That shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow

The Fairy Family: A Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Mythology of Europe

The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries

“The Fairy Doctor” – Lady Wilde

Sacred Text: Fairy Mythology Index

Divination

Tarot

All About Tarot

All About Tarot Readings

Many Different Uses For The Tarot

Tarot Deck Outline

Choosing The Tarot Deck That Is Right For You

What To Look For In A Tarot Deck

Choosing A Tarot Deck Just For Reading Others

Connecting With Your Tarot Deck

Top 3 Beginner Tarot Books

When To Cleanse Your Tarot Deck

How To Cleanse Your Tarot Deck

Recharging Your Tarot Cards

Cleansing Your Tarot Reading Space

Purifying Your Tarot Cards

Three Ways To Shuffle Your Tarot Deck

Six Ways To Choose A Tarot Card

How To Clear Your Tarot Deck

How To Store And Care For Your Tarot Cards

Minor Arcana Keyword Chart

Tarot: Quick and Dirty Keyword Sheets

Tarot Cheat Sheets

Tarot Reversal Keyword Sheet

Major Arcana Meanings

Court Card Interpretations

The Major Arcana

Court Cards In Tarot

The Tarot Suits

Tarot Suit Info Cards

Topics You Can Use In Your Own Custom Tarot Spreads

Great Topics To Ask The Tarot With Only 1-3 Cards

Four Decks To Help You Create Your Own Tarot Spreads

How To Design A Tarot Spread For A Client

Classic Tarot Spread Positions

Interview Your New Tarot Deck

Effective Tarot Questions

How To Create Your Own Spreads

Tips When Reading Tarot For Others

New And Old Tarot Traditions

Four Myths About Fortune Telling

Fortune Teller Isn’t A Bad Word

Quirky Tarot Habits

Six Types Of Tarot Readers

4 Easy Steps to Learn Tarot

How To Read Tarot Cards

Why “Free” Tarot Readings Are Not Ever Really Free

How To Interpret Reversed Tarot Cards

What To Do With Jumper Cards

Tarot Exhaustion

Tarot Relaxation And Grounding Exercise

Four Tips On Reading “Negative” Tarot Cards

How To Deal With “Going Blank” During A Tarot Reading

Tips When Reading Tarot At A Special Event

Ideologies That Hold You Back As A Tarot Reader

Six Mistakes To Avoid When Reading Tarot For Yourself

How To Obtain The Clients Energy During a Tarot Reading Without Them Touching Your Cards

Reading Tarot With Confidence

Scrying

How to

Lithomancy

How to

Runes

Interpretations

Glamours

Glamoured Shower Disks

Goddess Glamour Bath

Witch of the Waste’s Glamour Enchanted Jewelry Spell

Blood Magic

Ethics and Safety

PSA to Blood Witches

Blood Magic 101

Starting Blood Magic

When you’re no longer a beginner

Blood Christening

How Not to Use Blood Magic

Sexual Sangomancy and Blood Bonding; Pros, Cons, and Safety

Blood and Bone Magick

Use of Blood in Folklore and Magic

Potions

Quick Guide to Potions and Lotions

Herbal Brews Introduction

Herbal How To: Infusion

Herbal How To: Tinctures and Extracts

Minerals that are NOT Suitable for Adding to Water

Magical Properties of Herbs, Roots, Flowers, Barks, and Resins

Herbs to Avoid During Pregnancy

Poisonous Herbs: Hazards

List of Poisonous Herbs (Magical Uses and Safety Warnings)

Familiars

What are they?

Is this my familiar?

The Familiar Self

Familiars and Gender

The Three Kinds of Familiars

Plants as Familiars

Working with Plants as Familiars

[theearthygrimoire]

“Fork in the Road” Tarot Spread

A good spread to help you evaluate two decisions and their possible outcomes.

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Witch Tip

Fir stands for youth and vitality and can be used to attract prosperity.

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Witch Tip

Thyme is related to Venus and water. It is a potent antibiotic and antiviral oil popular in herbal mouthwash.

[spiritvexer]

A Coursework List for Magical Education

This is half a list I want to go over with my new learning buddy, and half something I may make in to a master post in the future. Use it as a syllabus to guide learning and fill in all the answers with your own research. Let me know if you would be interested in this being made in to a master post.

Cleansing

Why do we need to cleanse?

When do we need to cleanse?

Self cleansing

Item/Object cleansing

Room cleansing

Banishments

Banishing a spirit

Banishing a person

Banishing an energy

Banishing a situation

Why do banishments fail?

What to do when banishing fails.

Protections

Protection from energies

Protection from people

Protection from spirits

Protection from situations

Balancing and layering protections

The consequences of too much protection

When do we need protection?

Protecting yourself

Protecting items

Protecting rooms/areas

Magical protection circles

Honoring Spirits

What are spirits?

Building altars

Making offerings

Maintaining healthy relationships with spirits

Working with problem spirits

Meeting your spirit companions

Making new spirit companions

Creating spirit vessels

House rules

Prosperity

Building your first prosperity altar

Money Magic: Your First Spells

Self-Work Magic

Uncrossing magic

Blessing magic

Self-love magic

Beauty magic

Spellwork

Spell theory

Working long-term spells

Working short-term spells

Different techniques of spellcasting

Different spellcasting tools

Crafting your own spells

Divination

What is divination?

Why does divination work?

Divination with tarot cards

Divination with oracle cards

Divination with runes

Divination with I-Ching

Divination with spirit boards

Divination with pendulums

Creating your own system of divination

Hexes, Curses, and Dark Arts

What the heck are they

Why do people use them?

Dangers of the left-handed path

Hex breaking

Healing

How does energetic healing work?

How do crystals and plants aid in energetic healing?

Basic energetic healing spells and rituals

When to heal

Advanced Magic

The problem with teaching next level magic

[sylvaetria]

This would make a fantastic witchy journal exercise, though. Focus on a topic a day, write down any thoughts and research you have on each topic, and maybe find some spells or resources related to it. 10/10 Thicket. :D

[danceinthemagic]

Storytelling Through Tarot

I’ve noticed that a lot of other witches also enjoy fiction and writing! Tarot itself tells a story, and you can do so much with using tarot to outline your story and characters! So here’s a 13 card spread that can be shortened down to six if you need to. The order in which you lay them really depends on if you’d rather do a six or thirteen card spread. 

1-6 are the main points of the story. 

Beginning - What are things like at the beginning of the narrative? Where do your characters start?

Climax of Act One - Something has drastically changed in your MC’s life. What is it? What do they need to do now?

Midpoint: big twist! - Need a plot twist? Someone is hiding a secret? Things aren’t going as planned? This is where something unexpected happens.

Climax of Act Two - It looks like the bad guy is winning, nothing is going right. What does the most intense part of your story look like?

Wrap up - What loose ends need tied up?

End - Where are things now at the end of the story?

Now, the other cards go in between those main six points. 

Beginning

Inciting Incident - What happens that shakes up the status quo?

Second Thoughts - What’s your character thinking now with these events looming on the horizon?

Climax of Act One

Obstacle - No one said this journey was easy

Obstacle - Yup, more things to keep your hero from meeting their goal

Midpoint

Obstacle - Getting frustrated? Good.

Disaster - The “oh shit” moment

Crisis - The “no no no no no this isn’t happening” moment

Climax of Act Two

Wrap up

End

And there you go! Hope this helps!

[wiccanartistry]

50 Simple Charms

Basil at the door, windows, or scattered in the home will increase money.

Lay thorny branches on your doorstep to keep evil from your dwelling.

Eat a pinch of Thyme before bed, and you will have sweet dreams.

Place chips of Cedar wood in a box with some coins to draw money to you.

Carry an Anemone Flower with you to ward against illness.

Hang a bit of Seaweed in the kitchen to ward evil spirits.

Keep a jar of Alfalfa in your cupboards to ensure the prosperity of your house.

Burn Allspice as an incense to draw money or luck to you, as well as speed healing.

Cut an Apple in half, and give one half to your love to ensure a prosperous relationship.

Carry an Avocado pit with you to let your inner beauty shine outwardly. Avocado is also an aphrodisiac.

Strawberries are an aphrodisiac.

Place a piece of cotton in your sugar bowl to draw good luck to your house.

Celery is an aphrodisiac.

Place Almonds in your pocket when you need to find something.

Scatter Chili Peppers around your house to break a curse.

Carrying a packet of strawberry leaves will help ease the pains of pregnancy.

Scatter some sugar to purify a room.

Throw rice into the air to make rain.

Carry a potato in your pocket or purse all winter to ward against colds.

Eat five almonds before consuming alcohol, to lighten the effects of intoxication.

Place a pine branch above your bed to keep illness away.

Chew celery seeds to help you concentrate.

Carry of chunk of dry pineapple in a bag to draw luck to you.

Ask an orange a yes or no question before you eat it, then count the seeds: if the seeds are an even number, the answer is no. If an odd number, yes.

Eat olives to ensure fertility.

Toss Oats out your back door to ensure that your garden or crop will be bountiful.

Eat mustard seed to ensure fertility.

Place Lilacs around your house to rid yourself of unwanted spirits.

Eat Lettuce to drive lustful thoughts from your mind.

Rub a Lettuce leaf over your forehead to help you sleep.

Add Lemon juice to your bathwater for purification.

Eat grapes to increase psychic powers.

Carry a blade of grass to increase your psychic powers.

Smell Dill to get rid of hiccups.

If you place a Dill sachet over your door, those who wish you ill can not enter your home.

Place cotton on an aching tooth, and the pain will ease.

Burn cotton to cause rain.

Place pepper inside a piece of cotton and sew it shut to make a charm to bring back a lost love.

Carry a small onion to protect against venomous animals.

Eat grapes to increase fertility.

Place a sliced onion in the room of an ill person do draw out the sickness.

Place an onion underneath your pillow to have prophetic dreams.

Place morning glory seeds under your bed to cure nightmares.

Walk through the branches of a maple tree to ensure that you will have a long life.

Mix salt and pepper together and scatter it around your house to dispel evil.

Smell Lavender to help you sleep.  (Lavender makes me fall asleep so fast).

Hang a pea pod containing nine peas above the door to draw your future mate to you.

Eat a peach to assist in making a tough decision.

Carry peach wood to lengthen your lifespan.

Carry a walnut to strengthen your heart muscle.

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New Home Blessing Incense (specifically for moving in with your significant other )

Peppermint: Protection, prosperity, healing, mental work, luck + attraction, trust Lavender: keep emotions and attitudes calm Lemon balm: Influence success in love + good love Blessed thistle: banish evil + breaks spells against you Myrrh gum: healing, protection, good blessings

Also sprinkling black salt in all entryways such as Windows and doors.

[I posted this on my blog harvestmoonmagik.wordpress.com ]

[elthealchemist]

Witchy Pro-tip!

Have a lot of balloons lying around? Draw sigils on them and pop them, it’s a great way to charge them!

[lampyridaewitch]

Temporary Tattoos: Sigil Edition

Okay, so I don’t know if anyone has thought of or mentioned this before, but temporary sigil tattoos. You know, like those rub on temporary tattoos you’d get as a kid whenever you put one dollar into a machine, or whenever you bought 20c chewing gum from your local video store? Yeah, those. How cool would that be!?

Just imagine how that’d work, though. You’d draw up a sigil for your temporary tattoo, and whilst your drawing it/preparing your temporary tattoo for application, you can visualise your intent. Then, when it’s ready to be placed on yourself, you can charge the sigil however you think is the most suitable. Viola! You have a temporary sigil tattoo that’d last until it either rubs/washes off, or when your intent has been fulfilled. The best part, too, is that most temporary tattoos last for 1-2 weeks! 

So, if any of you witches out there would ever like to try this out, please do so and let me know how you go! Since I only really follow one witch who makes sigils (I know, I need to get there more often, seeing as I’m obsessed with the idea of sigils at the moment), here’s a masterlist of sigils from Sigils Athenaeum that I go to whenever I’m in need. And, as promised, here’s some tutorials I found useful: 

How to Make Your Own Temporary Tattoo

DIY Custom Temporary Tattoo (Video)

Make Temporary Tattoos (There’s 4 different methods involved!)

Please feel free to add more. Happy witching! 

[witchybeauty]

🍬Bubblegum spells 🍬

1 ) self love with a small toothpick, sketch a sigil for self love into some pink bubblegum. Chew it to activate, spit it out when your full of self love.

2) curse to bring bad luck Chew some dark colored gum while talking about the person you wish to curse, keep going until you feel you’ve said enough. If you want, spit it out and stick the gum to a place this person always visits or spit it out in the garage while thinking of this person as garbage.

3) Cleanse and Chew Chew white gum to cleanse yourself of your troubles. Keep chewing until you feel cleansed.

4) bubble blowin’ glamour Chewing any gum you like. Blow bubbles while thinking of how amazing you are. When your done, blowing bubbles. Stick the gum back in its wrapper. Wrap it tightly and throw it away to seal the glamour.

[poppunkwitch]

Anti-Anxiety Exfoliating Salt Scrub Spell

Supplies:

Sea salt, 1 cup

Coconut oil, ½ cup

Lavender essential oil, 3 drops

Rosemary essential oil, 3 drops

Chamomile essential oil, (optional) 1 drop

Blue or green food coloring, 1 drop (I had to use pink because i didn’t have any blue.)

A container to keep the scrub in.

Directions: Put your salt into a bowl, followed by the (melted into liquid form) coconut oil, and mix. Then put your essential oils and food coloring into the mixture. Exact measurements are up to you and the size of your container. Find the right consistency for you.

(this spell can be tweaked for a different outcome using different essential oils and colors.)

((Loosely based off of/inspired by this recipe))

[liadine]

essential oils are awesome witchcraft components! they can also fucking hurt you.

so, I’ve been selling smelly things for about a decade now (which is crazy, but there you go), and I get super wired whenever I see people using essential oils for witchcraft/devotional perfumes/what have you. I also get worried sometimes, because some of what I see people doing - particularly on tumblr - is kind of dangerous. (sometimes in a low-key way, sometimes seriously.) use essential oils for devotion and witchcraft because essential oils are awesome, but be careful with them, because plants are assholes and want to kill you sometimes. Check out the contraindications before using anything. There are basically no essential oils that are 100% safe to use in every single situation. It’s important to double check even if you’re healthy, but particularly if you have a medical condition or are pregnant. (If you’re pregnant, be really fucking careful. Seriously. Essential oils are a minefield for you.)  Don’t give yourself a fucking chemical burn. One of my favourite party tricks (I am so boring at parties) is to put a few drops of something like peppermint oil on a thin plastic take-out container. If you wait a couple of minutes and then poke it with a fork, the plastic will have melted a little. EXCITING. A lot of people seem to think that essential oils are ~~natural and gentle~~, but fuck, a lot of them are used by the plant to get rid of insects/fungi/etc. All essential oils need dilution before using them (okay, sure, tea tree and lavender are generally safe, but otherwise), and some shouldn’t even be used on the skin in normally-safe levels of dilution. If you have sensitive skin and put some cinnamon oil lotion on it, you’re fucked, you’re going to be red and sore and pissed off at cinnamon, which is a sad state of affairs. Related note: don’t try to dilute with water. Essential oils aren’t lipids, but they’re still hydrophobic. Want to use essential oils in your bath so that you can focus on shit that isn’t all the stuff you have to do at work tomorrow? Awesome! My favourite is spruce, clary sage, and myrrh - that one’s fucking great. Dilute it with bath oil or some salt first, though. Being super focused on how sore and itchy you are isn’t ideal. Related note: citrus oils are assholes. You know that whole ‘use sun and lemon juice to bleach your hair!’ deal? That totally happens to your entire body if you use too much citrus oil in something that’s going on your skin. Bergamot is one of the worst, but all of them are guilty as hell. Dilute well, don’t slather it on before going out in the sun, and keep an eye on how your own body reacts.  Remember that essential oils are super concentrated. I fucking love putting essential oils on charcoal. Sometimes I mix them in with dried herbs, but sometimes I just drop them on the charcoal directly - too many drops and you’ll just have a hunk of sad wet charcoal, but it’s worth it for the billowing smoke that flows out over the rim of my charcoal-burning bowl and drifts along my altar. (SPECIAL EFFECTS FOR YOUR MAGIC.) Whenever I do that, though, I have to remember to be careful about how much I use, and how much of the smoke I breathe in. Inhaling ten drops of peppermint essential oil all at once is like eating more peppermint than anyone should or would want to eat, just fucking… bowls and bowls of the stuff. When I used clove oil on charcoal to get rid of a plague of flies, it worked magnificently, but then I also had to air everything out and ended up googling the effects of clove oil overdose. I had one customer who accidentally dumped a bottle of lavender oil on their head; they washed it off, but still had some fun hallucinations (this is sarcasm) and spent a while at a walk-in clinic. Don’t let that be you.  Essential oils go bad. This isn’t a safety tip, exactly, unless you’re dealing with an oil like jasmine that will make you cry and hate your life and the world if you smell it after it’s gone bad. Those oils are rare, though - your sadly ruined oil isn’t going to stink, it’s just going to stop smelling like anything and become an expensive bottle of nothing much. Store your oils in a cool, dark place - don’t set them out on your altar or shrine if that’s on a sunny windowsill. Most oils will eventually lose their potency anyway (citrus oils continue to be assholes and only last about a year even in the best conditions), but some oils, particularly resins, will keep for decades and just get better with time if you’re nice to them.  Be careful. Don’t burn yourself. Don’t overdose. That’s about it, really.  ETA: Be careful about pets and other animals. This needs a whole post of its own, honestly, but if you have pets (particularly cats or birds), read up on how they react to essential oils. This shit is important. Essential oils can be deadly to some animals. 

[chaosophia218]

Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Signs. The Pennsylvania Dutch were actually Germans. Their “hex signs” were painted on barns, carved into furniture, and hammered on to utensils. They were thought to bring luck, love, and abundance. and ward off misfortune such as fire and lightening. Hex signs were originally called “sech circles,” because the first ones all included six-pointed star in a circle. The Pennsylvania Dutch call them “Hexerie” or “Jinks”. They are usually painted in bright colors. These designs are just a few. The Unicorn Hex:  Strength and courage to strive for your goals; virtue; love; faith, hope and charity. The Six-Pointed Lobe Hex: All the kinds of love, and protection of them. The Lucky Star Hex: Each color symbolizes luck, in many things: lucky in love, lucky in fortune, lucky in friendship, lucky in your job, etc. Also protection against fire. The Oak Leaf Hex: Strength in body, mind, and character. The scalloped border represents smooth sailing in life. The Health Hex: Protection of your health from all disease. The various diseases are represented by different colors in the rosette. The Distlefink Hex: Good Luck, love, and happiness. Often put on new houses: insures a happy household, especially if it has a blue background. The tulips mean faith, hope, and charity. The Triple, Five-Pointed Star of Luck, Love, and Happiness Hex: Also strong protection against fires.

[the-chemical-demon-deactivated2]

I recall seeing some of this when I lived in Southern Pennsylvania. :o

[thesigilwitch]

Useful and beautiful!

[beewitch]

I love this…. Being mostly of German heritage, I feel these deep in my little witchy heart ^_^

[ethonydawn]

Full Moon in Virgo Tarot Spread is ready! 1. What baggage am I being challenged to leave behind? 2. How can I relieve my more critical energies this Full Moon? 3. What health and wellness area needs attention? 4. What area in my life needs reorganising? 5. What needs to get done this Full Moon?

The Enchanted Full Moon Guide link just went out. If you missed it you can grab your copy at www.ethony.com in the Full Moon in Virgo Tarot Spread post.

#tarot #tarotspread #tarotreading #tarotreader #virgo #fullmoon #moon #lunar #luna #astrology #oracle #Goddess #priestess #healing #energy #reiki #yoga #spiritual

[chelf]

Just about any herb you can grow will dry well in the oven. Clip herbs for drying before they flower and early in the morning right after the dew is off. The exception is dill, which should be harvested after the seeds have developed. Oven drying is best begun early in the day.

Harvest the herbs when mature but before they’ve begun to flower, as the flowering takes strength from the leaves. The most potent leaves are found at the ends of the stems, and they decrease in strength as you get closer to the stem.

Throw away any discolored or dead leaves. Remove the leaves from the stems and place in a single layer on each tray and place each tray on an oven rack. Be sure there’s room for the air to circulate around each leaf. Place the racks in the oven.

Prop the oven door open so that the air can circulate, but keep an eye on the thermometer so that the temperature remains between 140°F and 160°F. (You can speed up the process a bit if you have a small electric fan to set up so that the stream of air blows into the oven.)

Once you’ve got everything nicely settled, set the timer for 30 minutes.

When the timer buzzes, rotate the racks. Move each rack down one space and put the bottom rack on the top. Reset the timer. Each time you check you repeat this process so that every rack will have equal time. This will correct for any temperature differences inside the oven. You can also take this opportunity to turn the food over so it dries more evenly.

Repeat step 4 until the herbs are completely dried, about 2 to 4 hours (times vary depending on the herb).

info idiotsguides.com,pics mine

[dumbbbunnnyy-deactivated2021021]

“bitch, be gone” powder

ingredients: cinnamon black pepper rosemary sage garlic salt chamomile

combine, grind, and sprinkle around doors and windows to banish unwanted energy and to prevent the entrance of these energies in the future