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Blood Magic Resources

Resources, Introductions, and Information

Blood Magic 101 (pomegranateandivy)

How to Start with Blood Magic (pomegranateandivy)

Intermediate Stuff (pomegranateandivy)

PSA on Blood Magic (wicked-bitch-of-thewest)

Sangomancy Writings (mothensidhe)

Blood and Bone Magick (blessedbeandmerrymeet)

Blood Magic and Paradigms (chaoticwanderings)

Spells

Blood Ward by Mothensidhe

River Waters from the Land of the Dead by PomegranateAndIvy

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Quick spell from my grandma that was passed onto her from her mum and however many generations…

Lost something?

Stick a pin in your sofa and it’ll return to you.

Why does this shit work? No clue, fam. But mum and grandma swear by it and I’ll be damned if it didn’t work for me today

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The Zodiac Signs as Pokémon Generation One & Explanation.

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Behold! The accompanying tarot spread for the January Shadow Work Challenge. So if you don’t want to commit to the whole challenge, feel free to give this stand alone spread a go. Best wishes and happy new year!

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The Best Of WitchTips (So Far) Part II

Part I

❣ Actions In Witchcraft

❣ Budget Witchcraft Supplies Masterpost Part II

❣ Common Animal Associations in Witchcraft Part II

❣ Flower Associations in Witchcraft

❣ Fruit and Vegetable Associations in Witchcraft

❣ Menstrual Magick

❣ Pet Funerary Spell

❣ Ritual To Invite Spirit Contact

❣ Runes - An Introductory Masterpost

❣ The Planets, Retrograde, and You

❣ The WitchTips Podcast (All) (Tumblr, Soundcloud, YouTube)

❣ The WitchTips Podcast Episode #1 - The Bell Witch Haunting

❣ The WitchTips Podcast Episode #2 - The Occult and The Music Industry

❣ The WitchTips Podcast Episode #3 - Ouja Boards

❣ The WitchTips Podcast Episode #4 - The Afterglow Vista

❣ What Is Beltane? A Short History and Explanation

❣ Witchy Etsy Shops Masterpost Part I

❣ Witchy Etsy Shops Masterpost Part II

❣ Witch Tip #140

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❣ Witch Tip #142

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The Witches Ladder

Witches ladders (also known as witch’s ladders) are a type of knot magic that can be used for a wide variety of purposes. They are commonly made by braiding or knotting cords together while incorporating other materials that represent the intention of the creator. Witches ladders can be easily customized for every practitioner and used for nearly any purpose, making them a very versatile and convenient talisman to create. Witches ladders can be used for purposes like attracting or manifesting things, creating a more positive environment, warding off negative entities or energies, protecting yourself or others, or banishing certain behaviors or individuals, just to name a few.

To make a basic witches ladder, you will need:

- Several cords of equal length in colors of your choice

- Whatever materials you choose to weave into the cords (such as feathers, bones, herbs, hair, flowers, seashells, ribbons, beads, hag stones, sticks, crystals, keys, charms, etc.)

Optional but helpful:

- Tape

- A ruler

Some other ideas: You can incorporate pieces of paper with sigils drawn on them, drawstring bags filled with herbs or crystals, or personal symbolic items that have been made from clay or another material. If you are making a witches ladder for an individual, you may wish to include a taglock (a personal item that is strongly associated with the target) to further bond the person to the talisman. Taglocks may include hair, jewelry, etc. Depending on your practice, you may wish to incorporate numerology into your witches ladder by using a specific number of knots, number of cords, or number of items used.

For my witches ladder, I used thick dark green yarn, twine, seashells, goose feathers, ribbon, a pine cone, and a sand dollar. I chose to arrange my goose feathers with the smallest ones at the top and the largest ones at the bottom. I also decided to make a double witches ladder purely for aesthetic reasons, but you can stick to one or make as many as you want.

Creating the witches ladder

1. Start by gathering your materials and getting your cords ready to knot or braid. It may help to tie the cords together on one end and tape the knotted end to a table or another surface. I found that doing so helps to prevent the cords from getting tangled in the process and it helps maintain a nice tension while braiding.

2. As you braid or knot your cords, begin adding your chosen materials. You may wish to recite something or chant as you are doing this, but it is not necessary. Depending on how many items you are using, you may wish to space them out evenly. For this, a ruler may come in handy. In my own experience, I have found that certain materials such as feathers, herbs, flowers, and certain bones can be difficult to braid around. It may be helpful to braid the cords first and then insert your objects into the braid later on.

3. Continue braiding or knotting until you have made your witches ladder as long as you would like it. To finish your witches ladder, you may choose to simply tie off the cords, or you may choose to add something extra to the end. I chose to add a pine cone and ribbon to one of my witches ladders, and a sand dollar to the other. Finish off your witches ladder however you see fit.

4. Hang your witches ladder. You may wish to hang it near a doorway in your home, near your bed, or even outside. The best location for your talisman will depend on both it’s intended purpose and your personal preference. If you have cats or other mischievous pets, it may be a good idea to hang your witches ladder up high or out of their reach.

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The Veil Method: How To Block Out Others' Emotions

This method was taught to me by a fellow empath. Sometimes being an empath is a great gift, but it can be quite burdening at times. Try this method to keep yourself from emotionally infiltrated by outside emotions.

Step 1: Identify the feeling you want to avoid or the person who’s emotions you want to avoid feeling.

Step 2: If you’re shielding yourself in advance make sure you take a moment to get acquainted with your own current emotions so you can differentiate between yours and others’ later on.

Step 3: Close your eyes. Breathe. Picture yourself from the shoulder up.

Step 4: Try to feel and picture a long, dense veil being unfurled from the crown of your head to your shoulders.

Step 5: Take a moment to feel your new emotional guard and its strength.

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Why does everyone say “smudge” or “smoke cleanse”, when there’s a perfectly fine, non-appropriative term already? Do you realize that lame wording sucks the life right out of ritual?

“I smoke cleanse you by the elements of fire and air…”

Or…

“I cense you by the power of the elements of fire and air.”

You do what you want. But doesn’t it honestly evoke more feeling and power when you read the second one?

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🔥 Burn Your Wishes Curse 🔥

a simple curse to keep someone’s wishes from coming true. 

🔥 gather: seeded dandelions, matches, burnable area, paper, taglock

🔥 you can choose to make a ring of dandelions like in the gif, or bundle, or simply use one. note, the more dandelions the more wishes you destroy. 

🔥 if you want to target specific wishes, write them down on slips of paper and wrap them around the stems of the dandelion

🔥 place taglock in the middle of the circle, or around the bundle. 

🔥 burn the dandelions.

🔥 dispose of safely. keep the taglock.

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The birthstone for August is peridot. This stone is associated with positive relationships and healing. To see the birthstones for other months, go here.

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what about a blood magic spell to overcome fatigue?

Oh, I never shared this one! I actually have this already.

Blood Magic- More/Extra Energy

Mix together 1 part salt and 2 parts flour. Add some lemon zest, some spearmint (peppermint works fine if you don’t have spearmint), some blood, and then enough water to make a dough. Make yourself something out of the clay. I make simple clay disks I can carve sigils into. You can also make something that is just simply art and has a lot of “movement” to it. Bake it at 180 degrees F until it’s solid. You’ve now got a necklace, clay disks for a witches ladder, or a decorative piece to put somewhere that is filled with energizing intent, and your own blood tying you to it. If you want you can use your little clay bits to make a witches ladder or a witches purse with other energizing things added to it too.

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Blood Magic- Intermediate Stuff

If you’re unfamiliar at all with blood magic, and interested in learning the basics, then check out these two posts I’ve done on blood magic before.

Blood Magic 101

Where Do I Start?

If you’re trying to figure out what comes after the 101 stuff, then that’s what this post is for. I’m not an expert, I’m not the sole authority on blood magic, this is just my practice, and what I’ve learned, but I’m willing to help out the curious by sharing what I know.

In this post I’m assuming you already understand the basics of safety when handling and using blood in spell work, and I’m assuming you’ve already considered the moral implications for yourself in using blood, and what kind you like to work with. This is not a “how to” for what blood magic “really is.” That’s talked about more in my introduction to blood magic, where I explain safety, and realistic standards for incorporating blood into your spell work.

So, having said all that…..do you work with blood magic? Feel like you’re just “tacking it on” to a spell? Or maybe you aren’t sure of how to use blood magic effectively? Fear not! I’m here to share my own piddly knowledge and experiences. Side note, while my knowledge isn’t super-awesome-master level, let me put that into perspective real quick. Every single person who does spell work has their own unique experiences, they have their own associations, their own practices, and entirely different cultural bases on which they build their skills. I can’t know their backgrounds and the same things they know, at least not in the same way. I will always have more to learn, until the day I stop breathing. That’s how the universe works. So I’m not saying I don’t know jack, I’m saying more that mine is a single drop of information, drawn from an ocean of knowledge.

The essence of blood magic is strength, equal to that of a life. That’s both the appeal and the terror behind blood magic. Blood, on it’s own will make any spell stronger. But working that blood as you would other elements of a spell, makes it into something even greater. Beyond just determining the associations of blood in magic depending on how it was gathered, we can also tap into its other potential. One grossly important part of that is intimately understanding blood as an ingredient. Just as you can study and learn all the properties of a specific plant or stone, and learn how to manipulate it to its full potential in your spell work, you can do the same with blood. At it’s core, blood is about creation and life. From it, all animals exist. Blood holds the very code for who each individual is. Your body is constantly producing more blood, to keep you alive. You have blood that carries oxygen and nourishes your body, and you have blood that fights disease and infection. From your blood (especially thinking about donating blood in this instance) others can live, well past an otherwise fatal incident. Without blood, our lungs and brains and limbs are all useless and lifeless. At the same time though, a single blood cell is a short lived, expendable drone. It is a single point, and the system functions the same without it. It is all possibility, all creation, all change, and yet on it’s own…completely insignificant.

When you draw blood for spell work, you can already begin to charge and focus it towards an intent before you ever add it to a spell. Just like when you pick an herb to use because you want it for it’s ability to protect, but not for it’s associations with love, you can do that with blood. One way of do this is to pair the ingredients with other items that have the same desired association as your spell goal. Another is to take an ingredient with that desired association, and when you charge it, specifically focus on that one aspect of it. If you’re drawing your own blood, this can be done prior to the spell work and the drawing of blood, by meditation or trance work. Through your meditation, focus not only on the intent you desire the spell (and your blood as an ingredient) to have, but on tying that intent to your blood. Listen to your heart beat, feel it. Each time it beats, it’s driving that intent and energy deeper into the individual blood cells. You can also do this focusing on blood that’s already been obtained from another source as well, just focus that energy into the ingredient, rather than allowing it to run through your own being.

This charged blood can then be used for many purposes. You can include it as is, as an ingredient in it’s own right. You can include it to charge a spell, allowing the blood to be a constant carrier for your energy and intent, inside the spell. You can also use it to enhance other ingredients. For example, you’ve charged your blood, focusing on protection. You want to enhance the protective abilities of basil before adding it to a spell though. You can combine a small amount of blood with basil, and mix them (if your basil is powered/ground) or smear a bit of blood onto a basil leaf. This essentially takes the charged blood, and focuses it on one of the spell ingredients, to basically tone down all the other latent associations, and bring the desired one to the fore-front in order to keep the spell intent from getting muddled. This can also be used to nudge an ingredient over to where you want it. Say you associate all roses with love, but specifically yellow roses with platonic love, and orange-ish roses with friendship. You want a spell for strengthening friendship, but can’t find orange-ish roses. You can charge blood and apply it to any color rose to nudge it’s energy more into line with what you desire. For me, this is easier than just trying to charge the rose with the exact intent I want, because I have trouble getting ti to “stick.” However, since my blood is a stand in for me, it holds my will, and when I apply that to the rose with the intent of shaping the energy to my will, it holds much easier.

Blood can be mixed with wax for many purposes as well. Use this blood to seal spell jars. Add a few drops to the melted wax in a partially burned candle and let it cool to have a candle with the exact intent you charged the blood with. Use a mold to cast wax dolls with blood inside the wax. A blood and wax seal with a sigil or other symbol pressed into it can be used to bind something.

Speaking of sigils. You can make your own sigil inks using blood magic, that enhance the abilities of the sigil. Charge your blood that you’ll be using for the sigil. Add it, along with powdered dry ingredients and liquid ingredients that match your intent, or are simply designed for adding extra energy and power to a sigil, and mix them all together until you like the consistency. Essentially all you need to make ink is color and liquid. Gum arabic, or another thickening agent will keep your ink from being too runny and going all over the place, and it also helps to make the ink appear crisper and darker on paper, though too much gum arabic makes the dry ink stiff and brittle. By custom making your inks for sigils, you are insuring that every fiber of the sigils creation and existence is custom tailored for your purposes.  

This is just some of the examples of how to start using blood magic in a more advanced way. I may do another post with more information, and specific examples late on. I hope this was interesting for some of you, at least. And as always, my ask box is always open. :)

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Blood Magic

I know this is a touchy subject, and I’m really hoping that nobody get’s offended by this topic, but blood magic is a valid branch of magic that I practice and it has come to my attention that it’s really hard to find any good sources on blood magic. Everything I’ve found outside of personal experience and familial teachings is either steeped in “ooooo, mystery” or painted heavily with “never do blood magic, it’s eeeeevil!” So, I’m going to talk about blood magic a bit. Keep in mind, I don’t claim to be any kind of authority, and this is all my personal practice. I’m more than willing to hear how others use blood magic, but please, NO SHAMING. If you don’t like blood magic, you’re free to state why, but avoid blanketed statements such as “it’s evil/wrong/sick/ect…” because, just because it’s not okay for you, doesn’t mean your morals and life experiences apply to everyone else. I may go into more detail on specific things later on as I think of more things I want to add. 

Keep reading

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RAIN WITCH

“Darling, I’d gladly miss the sun if I could have a wealth of storms,”

Requested by Anon

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Witch Tip

Don’t want to make a mess with a salt circle? Use warding sigils or other forms of warding this works just as well and is less of a mess