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by Denny Bitte

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Quick Guide to Celebrating the Sabbats 🌻

LITHA

🧀Fruit & veg, herbed bread, cheese, honey cakes, chicken, pork, sunflower seeds, lemonade, ice tea.

🍋Lemon, orange, cinnamon, rose oils.

🔮Moonstone, tigers eye, amethyst, flourite, agate. {Or any crystals in warm colours}.

🌞See the sun rise & set, eat outdoors, make or buy a sun catcher, bake a sweet cake, let sunlight cleanse your rooms, clear cobwebs, wear a flower crown, make honey/sugar scrub, wear warm tones.

🎬Peter Pan, Fairy Tale, Ferngully, Stardust, Tinkerbell, Maleficent.

LAMMAS

🌽Multi grain bread, corn on the cob, bbq meats, fried chicken, potatoes, soup, rice, nuts, black current juice, beer, peppermint tea.

🌹Rose, chamomile, passion fruit, all spice oils/scents.

🔮Citrine, clear quartz, tigers eye.

📖Finish a project, make a bread to share, enjoy nature, take care of plants, decorate or craft, acknowledge what you are grateful for, journal future hopes.

🎬Parent Trap, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Cheaper by the Dozen.

MABON

🍇Pies, nuts, smoked or roast poultry [bbq chicken with smoky bbq sauce], soup, corn, apples, plums, grapes, cinnamon donuts, caramel popcorn, peanut butter, butterscotch.

🌲Sage, pine, cinnamon oils/scents.

🔮Amethyst, clear quartz, citrine, yellow agate.

🌾Make scented pinecones, spend time under the stars, donate food or goods [RSPCA], burn bad habits, visit the deceased, harvest take care of plants, bask in nature, meditate.

🎬Open Season, Brother Bear, Spirit, Pocahontas, Brave.

SAMHAIN

🎃Pumpkins, toffee apples, ginger bread, chai, nutmeg or cinnamon spiced foods, hazelnuts, sweets.

🌰Nutmeg, cinnamon scents.

🔮Obsidian, onyx, bloodstone, amber, fossils.

🕯Cook a family recipe, light a fire, remember & honour the deceased.

🎬Hocus Pocus, Addams Family, Monsters Inc, Little Vampire, Corpse Bride, Casper, Hansel Gretel Witch Hunters, Underworld, Van Helsing.

YULE

🍪Cookies, fruit cake, turkey, eggnog, ginger tea.

🕎Cedar, frankincense, myrrh oils.

🔮Bloodstone, citrine, clear quartz.

❄Give or volunteer, bake shortbread or sugar cookies, share a meal with loved ones.

🎬Santa Clause, Rise of the Guardians, 101 Dalmatians, Frozen, Snow White Winters War, Narnia.

IMBOLC

🍩Poppy seeds, pumpkin seeds, bread butter pudding, scones, muffins, garlic, onions.

☕Vanilla, cinnamon oil.

🔮Amethyst, bloodstone, onyx.

🕯Light white candles, plant seeds, bless your pets, declutter & clean your living space, bake orange and poppy seed muffins or cake.

🎬Mr Poppers Penguins, Happy Feet, Balto, Ice Age, Mirror Mirror.

OSTARA

🍌Roast ham & pineapple, eggs, milk, seeds & nuts, banana bread, chocolate milk, green vegetables.

🌹Jasmine, light florals, sweet garden, wild flowers.

🔮Amethyst, rose quartz, moonstone.

🌹Light candles, plant seeds, share a roast ham with loved ones, bake banana bread, finish spring cleaning, lay tumbled stones in your garden bed, take deep breaths [inhale new energy & exhale old energies], wear spring colours whites & florals, collect wildflowers or buy flowers that call to you & research what they mean, walk through nature.

🎬Epic, Strange Magic, The Secret Garden, Spiderwick, A Bugs Life, Barbie Fairies.

BELTANE

🍞Breads, cakes, honey, leafy greens, fruit & veg, seafood, iced tea, lemonade, milk.

🌼Florals, sweet garden, honeysuckle, jasmine, rose.

🔮Amber, citrine, moonstone, red jasper, rose quartz.

🌼Wear a flower crown or flowers in your hair, dress in red or white, make a bonfire & roast marshmallows, garden, take a walk, spend time in nature, pick fresh flowers to decorate.

🎬Moana, Arthur Trilogy, Avatar, Jungle Book, Tinkerbell, Barbie.

HOW I CELEBRATE ALL SABBATS OR ESBATS

☾Sage cleanse the house, light candles, diffuse oils.

☾Clean sheets/bedding/pillowcases/towels.

☾Eat at least one traditional food.

☾Watch a relevant movie.

☾Take notes in my BOS of how I celebrated the Sabbat to look back on next year.

☾Charge my crystals & tarot decks in the full moonlight.

☾Do a tarot reading relevant to the Sabbat.

☾Spend time outside with my dogs 🐶

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emoji spell for self love

like to charge reblog to cast

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Aphrodite

“Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love.”

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reblog if it's okay for random people to talk to you about witchcraft

it’s not always safe to be open about our craft and sometimes we all just need someone to gush to about that new crystal we got and that spell that worked surprisingly well

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☀️Summer Witch Tip☀️

💧Cleanse in summer rainshowers! it’s even more cleansing than regular rain, because of its connection to the sun☔

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BEKKATHYST SPRING 2018 GIVEAWAY

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Random rough crystals (selenite, lepidolite, rose quartz) 

Crystal points (fluorite, golden healer quartz) 

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Cleaning and tidying is never a fun activity, but with the use of some domestic magick it can become an enchanting and Cleansing experience!

Here are some tips to make your next housework day magickal!

💧add some peppermint or lavender essential oil into your cleaning wash for peace and extra Cleansing

💧wipe down the walls and surfaces with moon water with added peppermint oil. Your space will smell amazing

💧put on some witchy music or music that corresponds with your intent you want in your space

💧burn some incense or oil in a diffuser to cleanse the air

💧 Sage your living areas

💧when you’re sweeping with a broom, imagine that you’re sweeping negative energy out!

💧put on clean bedding and spray your sheets with a sweet Sleep Mist (recipe is on my blog)

💧sweep your windowsills and place crystals that love the sun on them

💧clean your altar space and redo it

💧find vegetable cuttings and biodegradable leftovers you can mix into compost to nourish your plants

💧when cleaning the floor, pour your cleaning liquid in the shape of a sigil. Wipe and scrub to charge and fire!

💧 draw sigils on your dishes with dishwashing liquid before you wash them

💧wash old jam jars and recycle them to hold moon water or spells

💧visualize negativity leaving your space when you take out the trash

💧If you can put chalk on your floors, draw sigils or write messages under your carpets

💧create or renew any wards you have put up

💧Enchant your mirrors to show your inner beauty

Happy Cleaning!

🦋💧Aphroditiful💧🦋

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🍷Finished Dionysus painting 🍇

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{ Amphitrite - Queen of the Sea } 

In the Greek Mythology she is queen of the sea, one of the fifty Nereids and wife to god Poseidon. Her name translates to “the one who has sea around her” or “the one who encircles the sea”.

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Mundane divination

Ways to simply consult the oracles

Flipping a coin

Plucking flower petals

Shuffling music

Opening to a random passage in a favorite book

Opening a fortune cookie

Cracking an egg (double yolks mean good luck is coming)

Watching raindrops race down a window

Magic 8 balls

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Okay I used to HATE roses as a symbol of romance and shit or whatever until I learned why they’re signs of love bc it’s the most metal creation myth of all time

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“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.”

— Vladimir Nabokov (via lesgardenias)

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LAVENDER

LAVANDULA OFFICINALIS

FOLK NAMES:

Elf Leaf, Nard, Nardus, Spike

GENDER:

Masculine

ELEMENT:

Air

PLANET:

Mercury

POWERS:

Cleansing, Love, Protection, Sleep, Dreams, Chastity, Longevity, Purification, Happiness, Peace

MAGICKAL USES:

LOVE + HEALING

Adding lavender oil to the wrist to help draw in love

Spread lavender around the home to promote peacefulness

Apply to temples to aid in relieving headaches

Helps to relieve anxiety

CLEANSING + PROTECTION

Burn to help in cleansing a space (known as smoke cleansing)

It can be worn to be protected from the evil eye

PSYCHIC POWERS

An excellent Dream Pillow can be made by combining Mugwort, Lavender, and Chamomile

OTHER

The scent can help fight fatigue

BLENDS WELL WITH:

Mugwort for peaceful dreams | Mint for Purification

SUBSTITUTIONS:

Fennel, Rose, or Sage

PRECAUTIONS:

Always take care when applying any essential oil to the skin. For some, it can cause irritation or worse.

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✨🍃🌙 lazy witch tips ✨🍃🌙

shuffle your tarot deck & pull a card for each day (also great to learn card meanings)

get an oil diffuser and use essential oils!! or incense!!

crystals are easy!! keep rose quartz under your pillow, or in your purse for good energy, or replace with a crystal correlating to what you want

emoji spells!! i love emoji spells!!

join a discord coven (there are loads on tumblr)

colour magic: burn candles, paint your nails, do your makeup in different colours depending on what you want to encourage

salt here, salt there, salt everywhere

go outside and take in the sun/moon’s energy!

grow plants!!

sigils can be drawn with literally anything including your fingers

making stuff!! this includes really simple stuff, like baking, or making your morning coffee, or drawing a bath ~ if you put intent into something whilst it’s preparing, it’s gonna have power!! 

remember witchcraft is about intent, you don’t and won’t ever need all the lovely aesthetically pleasing stuff you see all over tumblr, and you don’t need to spend loads of money on stuff! it’s really easy and basic at its core ~ i always find simple witchcraft to be the most effective!!