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i literally spent the day clearing out weeds and making space for my spring seeds. they really made life just like stardew fr

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Ritual Baths: The Basics

So you've got the ingredients for a ritual bath, now what?

Clean this can take as much or as little effort as you want. Make sure the tub is clean and get a fresh towel. Put any laundry into a hamper and put it in another room and you're at a set for low effort cleaning. If you want to go all out do a deep clean of the bathroom leaving the fan on or windows open to air out any smell of cleaning products. Follow this up with your favorite cleansing method.

Wash take a shower. Clean your body, your face, your hair. Clear your mind. Let all the excess energies you've picked up wash away down the drain.

Prepare the Bath turn off the water and step out of the shower then, fill the bath and if there is any preparation specified by your ritual or spell do that now. Light a scented candle, incense or essential oil diffuser to add to the sensory experience. Tip: turn off the lights and use a small lamp or battery powered candles to set a cozy ambiance, keep these away from the tub.

Breathe take a moment to refocus your mind and energy on the purpose of the bath. Be it a complex multistep ritual, or a self care night with a cute bath bomb, this is your time. Put your phone on silent and let the people in your home know you are not to be disturbed for as long as your in your bath.

Get in the Bath if you feel compelled to you can thank the water for helping with your spell, then get in. A bath tray can be helpful if you need your spell book handy (no shame in not remembering all the steps of the spell your doing).

Ending the Bath this step is particularly helpful when doing healing, cleansing, or any spell involving letting something go or becoming something new. Stay in the tub as you drain the water and visualize whatever spiritual gunk the spell may have removed from you flowing away from you and down the drain. Tip: keep a mesh strainer nearby to scoop any loose herbs you may have added to the bath for easy clean up.

Wrapping Up be sure to hydrate after a hot bath, its hard to tell how much we sweat while we're in a bath, and it can help recharge you after a long spell. It can be helpful to journal immediately after a ritual bath, write down your experience, what felt right about the spell, what didn't. Lastly, take some time to 'wake up' before moving on. Regardless of what kind of spell or ritual you preformed, you most likely entered a state of deep relaxation and that deserves to be savored.

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This is a Sign

After sifting through bad advice and doing my own research, I decided to try deity work. Trying to find a deity to work with was a challenge. Knowing I wanted to work with a spirit that is deeply connected with nature I began to make offerings to nature as a way of reaching out, taking care of my plants, picking up garbage, yard work, etc.. Part of me was waiting for a sign, the other part was highly skeptical of anything resembling a sign.

When my research brought me to her it felt like the perfect fit. I lit a candle and pulled out my tarot deck and attempted to introduce myself. It was a clunky conversation on my part. In hindsight I could've practiced tarot more or found an additional way to communicate but my excitement got the better of me. I ended up offering to build a garden for her.

I left the conversation unsure of how it went. I wrote down my interpretations of what she told me but I worried I only heard what I wanted to hear.

The next day I started clearing the gravel in the spot I picked to start her garden.

in my digging i found a stone

placed by some gardener before me

the size of both fists

it shone,

volcanic glass

freckled with snow

i wanted a sign

she gave me a stone

A bigass snowflake obsidian telling me, 'yes, it went well'

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If I can ever hire someone to decorate for me this house is the blueprint. the show did a great job too

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Black Salt Spell for the Garden

Most of my free time is spent in the garden. Rain or shine, that's most likely where you'll find me. I also work with a deity of nature and plants. So it makes sense that most of my magic is garden related.

This is an idea that came to me while researching different organic powdered fertilizers. I started mixing different ingredients together based on what my plants needed and it was hard to not think of making black salt.

The two most common components of black salt are salt and charcoal. While we all know salt and plants don't mix, charcoal has been used in farming for at least 2,500 years in the form of Terra Preta aka, biochar. The salt can be replaced with epsom salt -which has magnesium, a valuable element for plant health- and you have a garden safe and beneficial soil amendment for your plants!

For the most basic approach to this recipe I recommend one part crushed biochar to 3-4 parts epsom salt.

But we can make this more special with the addition of more ingredients. Some examples:

Coffee Grounds after you brew your coffee you can dry out the used grounds and add them to the black salt base. Coffee is a great source of nitrogen and, contrary to popular belief, the used grounds won't add acidity to your soil. Some sources used coffee grounds for focus, luck, grounding no pun intended, or for speeding up a spell.

Tea Leaves similar to coffee, used tea leaves are a good nitrogen source and the microbes and worms in the soil will appreciate the already broken down bio matter. When tea is brewed with a specific intention that intention is passed into the tea leaves as well making them an excellent spell ingredient.

Wood Ashes incense ash is a popular addition to black salt, sometimes replacing charcoal altogether. Incense ash can be added to garden safe black salt, though I can't speak to its mundane benefits. Wood ash has an NPK ratio of 0-1-3 making it high in potassium as well as many micronutrients that can feed your soil. Saving the ashes form ritual fires can imbue the salt with that same energy. Wood ash will make your soil more alkaline so keep it away from acid loving plants like blueberries!

Egg Shells are full of calcium which is necessary for the structure of cell walls in plants. Save your egg shells after cooking and let them dry out before crushing them into as fine a powder as you can, then add them to the salt. The calcium won't be available to your plants for about one year as the shells break down s l o w l y but I like to use this to my advantage in spell work. Egg shells can be used for protection and fertility so that can be a year long protection or fertility spell.

Store bought Powdered fertilizers there are a plethora of powdered fertilizers/ amendments available at garden centers that can be added for their magical associations or just their mundane uses. I like to add Azomite to all my garden beds, its full of minerals that help out microorganisms in the soil, but I also recommend blood meal, bone meal, or ground oyster shell, depending on what your garden needs. I like the brand Down to Earth because you can buy single ingredient boxes or well balanced mixed fertilizers.

Basically, anything that would break down in a compost pile and can be dried can be added to this garden safe black salt. Trust your intuition and listen to your garden, If you pay attention it'll tell you what it needs.