#ritual work

[magickkate]

Purpose: Create a protective shield around yourself or your space to ward off negative energies and harmful influences.

Materials:

Black candle (for protection)

Salt (for purification and protection)

Protective herbs (such as rosemary, sage, or basil)

A small bowl of water

Protective crystal (such as black tourmaline, obsidian, or amethyst)

Incense (such as frankincense or sandalwood)

White cloth or altar cloth

Athame or wand (optional)

Instructions:

Preparation:

Cleanse Yourself: Take a cleansing bath or shower, using salt and/or protective herbs. Visualize any negative energy being washed away.

Set Up Your Space: Choose a quiet, undisturbed area for your ritual. Lay out the white cloth or altar cloth on a flat surface.

Create a Sacred Space:

Arrange Your Altar: Place the black candle in the center of the cloth. Arrange the bowl of water, salt, protective herbs, and crystals around the candle.

Light the Incense: Light the incense and let the smoke purify the space. 

Cast a Circle:

Use Your Athame or Wand: If you have an athame or wand, use it to trace a circle around your working area. If you don’t have one, you can use your finger.

Visualize: As you draw the circle, visualize a protective barrier of white light forming around you and your space.

Light the Candle:

Invoke Protection: Light the black candle and focus on the flame. Visualize it growing and creating a protective barrier around you. 

Salt and Water Blessing:

Bless the Water: Hold the bowl of water and say an incantation and blessing directed for protection.

Bless the Salt: Hold the salt and say a blessing for this specific protection intention.

Mix: Add a pinch of salt to the bowl of water. Stir it clockwise and visualize it becoming charged with protective energy.

Herb and Crystal Empowerment:

Empower the Herbs: Hold the protective herbs in your hands and visualize being protected while focusing on the intent of this work. If you have an internal conversation going on, continue an incantation through thoughts or aloud.

Empower the Crystal: Hold the protective crystal in your hands and focus your intent through the crystal allowing it to hold your energy.

Anoint Yourself and Your Space:

Anoint Yourself: Dip your finger in the salt water and touch it to your forehead, heart, and wrists.

Anoint Your Space: Sprinkle the salt water around your space, especially at doorways and windows.

Close the Circle:

Thank the Spirits: Thank any deities, spirits, or energies you called upon for their protection.

Close the Circle: Use your athame, wand, or finger to trace the circle in reverse. Visualize the protective energy being absorbed back into you.

Ground and Center:

Ground Yourself: Sit quietly for a few moments and visualize any excess energy flowing into the Earth. You can also eat something small to help ground yourself.

Dispose of the Remnants:

Dispose of the Herbs and Water: If you use herbs and salt water, dispose of them outside in a respectful manner, returning them to the Earth.

Additional Tips:

Repeat Regularly: Repeat this protection spell regularly, such as monthly or whenever you feel the need for extra protection.

Customize: Feel free to customize the spell with additional elements that resonate with you, such as using specific deities, chants, or personal symbols of protection.

[ome-magical-ramblings]

Earth and Gnomes.

The Gnomes...are wonderful!

I Honestly don't know where to start this piece in a way that REALLY cover my whole experiences with gnomes and earth element in one light. There's so much that the gnomes really encompass than just the usual gnome=money or gnome=material wealth. Gnomes are more alive than we think and working with them it gives a better perspective of the consciousness in stuff we think doesn't have consciousness or a soul to begin with. EVERYTHING have that soul and awareness to it!

It's hard to really stop and say that the gnomes and earth element start and ends here, because they encompass the house, electricity ، water, comfort, attitude, places of worship, etc. What do I mean by that?

House, Electricity ، Water

The house is pretty simple idea of having a house spirit but what the gnomes provide is this buffer zone between you and the house spirit without you having to deal directly with micro-managing the house-spirit, if you're amicable with the gnomes' wisdom and ingenuity then that would lead to a more harmonious house, no? that include how the electricity, plumbing, and everything that make the house goes smoothly. A little bit goes a long way and what the gnome need is usually abnormal by our standards. That buffer zone, between us and the spirits is usually important to cover any compromise or mistakes on our parts.

Comfort, Attitude, and Place of Worship(Feng Shui?)

Coming to one's own place of worship, and even your attitude and how you feel around places...The gnomes awaken that sense of "knowing" how the place is! We all can definitely sense if something is off in a place or not but we often sometime ignore our own place and the places we are usually in. At least for me the gnomes and working with the earth elementals awaken the land, the flow, the chi, the energy going around us and make us feel how the whole place is breathing and operating. The gnomes, once we begin to work with their wisdom we start to EMBODY the place we work with and get grounded in the forces around us.

Embodiment(Etc)

In a Rahuian(Rahu-bodiless world) we are always looking at screen ignoring our bodies and the world around us throwing ourselves into a semi-digital world. We truly start to feel that we are disconnected from the world and if we truly don't go back and touch grass then we start to lose our sense of touch with the world! I tell you, the best reason to work with gnomes is to embody your work, to embody your spiritual path, and to be attentive of the foundation that you're building. That's truly the most important lesson with gnomes. Building the foundation, being attentive, consistent in one's own practice and life. All of these aspects of work culminate to become the structure shock-absorber of other more intensive phenomena of the spiritual realm so they don't get stuck being a purely spiritual thing but grounded and manifested into the real world!

O Invisible King Who, taking the Earth for Foundation, didst hollow its depths to fill them with Thy Almighty Power. Thou Whose Name shaketh the Arches of the World! Thou who causest the Seven Metals to flow through the veins of the rocks! King of the Seven Lights! Rewarder of the subterranean Workers! Lead us into the desirable Air and into the Realm of Splendor. We watch and we labor unceasingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve stones of the Holy City, by the buried Talismans, by the Axis of the Lodestone which passes through the center of the Earth. O Lord, O Lord, O Lord! Have pity upon those who suffer. Expand our hearts, detach and upraise our minds, enlarge our natures. O Stability and Motion! O Darkness veiled in Brilliance! O Day clothed in Night! O Master who never dost withhold the wages of Thy Workmen! O Silver Whiteness! O Golden Splendor! O Crown of Living and Melodious Diamond! Thou who wearest the Heavens on Thy Finger like a ring of Sapphire! Thou who hidest beneath the Earth in the Kingdom of Gems, the marvelous Seed of the Stars! Live, reign, and be Thou the Eternal Dispenser of the Treasures whereof Thou hast made us the Warders! Amen.

Title: Angels with The Ramparts of Heaven Creator: Sir William Blake Richmond Date created: 1891/1904 Physical Location: St Paul's Cathedral Quire Aisle

[raining-tulips]

eight years into my spirituality and I finally know what they mean when people talk about raising energy.

To raise energy you must get completely out of your mind. You must get into your body, into the present moment, forget time exists. It's about getting to a place and a mindset where you're simply just doing, being, not thinking.

And it cannot be forced. For years I've tried sitting, meditating, willing energy into objects or worse, into the world in general, and found it doesn't work.

Whether you get there by dancing in the shower, by meditating, by allowing yourself to feel an emotion viscerally, it doesn't matter. It just matters that you're not thinking.

And you can literally feel it. To me it feels like a blood rush to the head, my arms will usually raise above my head on instinct, and my face smiles. It feels like a shot of b12. It tingles.

Then the energy just moves with nothing more than a thought, an impulse, a desire. It just becomes. It just is.

[casualwitchbitch]

Shadow work ALWAYS comes before ritual work. Like, it’s all very well to do a spell for anxiety, but where is that anxiety coming from? Is it straight up fear? Unresolved trauma? Is your nervous system fucked? Is it a mental disorder? Is it generalised or specific? Are your hormones all over the place? Is someone in your life just being a dick? Without doing the work to find the root cause, you can’t know where to point your ritual compass, ya know? Do the shadow work, THEN do the ritual.

Important side note: not everyone is in the right place/time to do shadow work. It can be a lot. Make sure you have the right support (professional if needed!) if you’re gonna do it. 🖤

[arcane-abomination]

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[seafoam-serenade]

Opening ritual/offering for a guided divination with Aphrodite 🩷🩷

[goodenoughformeee]

How my furina pulls went!

Hope everyone who wanted furina or sigewinne win their 50/50 and/ or get them early!!!

:DDDDDD

I lost my 50/50 to jean when furina first came, it's just funny that I lost the 50/50 to jean AGAIN XD

[crazycatsiren]

Incense cones my beloved. That's all.

[ome-magical-ramblings]

Water, Undines, and Nymphs.

O Vastness wherein all the Rivers of Being seek to lose themselves, which renew themselves ever in thee. O Ocean of infinite perfections!

I love the water, the sea, and all the spirits of water are amazingly beautiful but somewhat dangerous!

Working with water element and undine is an interesting work, on multiple front it is both a tricky topic to deal with because the water is the channel of communication with spirits and reflective of our own nature. If we come knocking on water's door and say this, that without respect to anything then we are asking that demanding nature to be reflected on us and the spirit themselves would be more demanding of us. Water and water spirits really reflect what put into it, it is the channel, the mirror, the fluid, and all the forces and qualities we give it, it gives it back. That's WHY the traditions have moral codes and ethical teachings to allow us to come to the spirits truthfully, honestly, and confident in them would lead them to be confident in us. If we come from a religious or a pious approach then the spirits of water will come pious and religious!

Emotions

That's the first thing people think about when they think of water, water elementals, undines, and nymphs. Of course there's more to it than just the emotional aspect but also hearing, talking, and listening about this first is better than bringing it later on. Watery emotions as most of them are the fluids that animate us, that truly are e-motions, give us that motion stirring out of spiritual fluids. The Water is that animated movement of our divine spark and without we would be dull and jaded, we can easily restrict and cause stagnation if we are not careful. Then what? the water become this toxic, stagnant, stale water full of bugs, mold, and gunky growing inside of it :( similar to the real world stagnant water, when our emotions and spiritual water become stagnant then it become a breeding ground for astral larave and toxic parasitic spirits to feed off our jaded and barely flowing water. It doesn't matter if you get worked up, loosen up because in the end where does it matter? when it reach the fruition of it. If you imagine the stuff at the "start" and the "end" of it, that's where your emotions is most important but in the middle you can let it transform and transform you alongside it. If you try to micromanage the flow of your emotion at every step of the way then you would strangle it but that doesn't mean you shouldn't start positively and choose in the end if the emotion is worth expressing outwardly or not.

River of Enlightenment and Stream.

Sotāpanna or stream entry, a term of someone who have entered the stream of enlightenment in buddhism. It is very similar to the way traditions operate in the worlds. We can often get lost in the "it's all the same" or the over syncretism without the important thing, which mean that you have to follow through the stream, go down the stream into the ocean. You can't just say "oh they're all the same streams leading to same ocean". Walk it out, go through it, that's a motivating thing to say that despite how shallow or how thin and weak your connection to the supreme reality, to God, to guru, to Jesus, or to the divine providence you can foster it. That's the wonderful thing you have the chance no matter how far you're from Divinity to draw yourself and walk toward it and gain the blessings of it, you just have to follow that refreshing stream of water. Next week...Sylphs and Air.

Holy, oblique, who swiftly soar thro' air, Fountains and dews, and mazy streams your care: Seen and unseen, who joy with wand'rings wide And gentle course, thro' flow'ry vales to glide; With Pan exulting on the mountains height, Loud-founding, mad, whom rocks and woods delight: Nymphs od'rous, rob'd in white, whose streams exhale The breeze refreshing, and the balmy gale;

[grimiorething]

Io Lupercalia! Hope everyone also had a good St. Valentines day yesterday. Cross-posted this to some of my other socials. Small clip of some of my ritual work today, will be preparing a feast later tonight.

[casualwitchbitch]

🦀 How to use crab shells in witchcraft

Use them on your altar to symbolise the element of water

Use as a candle holder or offering bowl

Use in rituals for protection, strength, resilience, tenacity, transition or independence/self sufficiency

Hang them in doorways or windows as a protective charm (you can also paint sigils on the inside of the shell)

Use small shells (or shell powder) in spells bags, bottles and amulets

Use them as a focus point for a meditation/visualisation on change, life cycles or strength

Remember…

Crab shells have bacteria that can make you sick - boil them for 10 mins and clean them thoroughly with a stiff brush

Don’t be smashing crabs like a Vogon - vacated shells only, please!

If you forage them from a beach, take only one and only when needed - leave the others for nature

If you buy them, consider the ethical implications

When you forage on the beach, make an offering by litter picking as well

If you let them dry out too quickly, they will crack

[lexstellaris]

lol not me forgetting (and I did remind myself last week) that I should be doing the Rite of Her Sacred Fires for Hekate at the full moon tonight.

Ahh well, it gives me more time to prepare the protection magic, bc I will need some Supplies. >_>

[briefinfluencernacho]

The Ritual of the Wine of Affirmation

Choose Your Chalice Wisely Do not drink from any common cup! Choose a vessel that pleases you—let it be heavy, let it feel like a king’s goblet or a warrior’s horn. The weight in your hand should remind you: I am worthy of greatness!

Pour With Intent As the wine (or whatever libation you choose) fills the cup, watch it closely. It is the blood of Dionysus, the gift of intensity, of passion, of rapture! Say to yourself: “This is no drink of escape, but a drink of awakening! I drink not to forget, but to remember who I am!”

Lift It High—A Toast to the Self! Raise the chalice as if addressing an invisible council of gods, as if Zeus himself waits for your words. Proclaim aloud: "To me! To my strength! To my laughter! To my will! To the life I carve with my own hands!" Let the world hear, let the heavens know—you stand as your own master!

Drink Deeply, Without Hesitation Do not sip like a coward, like one who fears the taste of life! Drink with boldness, with full embrace, with the wild abandon of one who says Yes to existence! Feel the warmth, the fire, the affirmation spreading through your body. This is not drunkenness—it is remembrance of power!

The Final Decree Once finished, slam the cup down (if the moment demands it!) and declare one truth about yourself. Not a wish, not a dream—a truth! “I am strong!” “I am the creator of my fate!” “I am dangerous, I am beautiful, I am becoming!”

And there, my friend, the ritual is complete! You do not merely drink—you affirm! You do not merely exist—you exult!

The Wine of Affirmation—this is no mere drink, no passive indulgence, but a sacred act of power, of "Yes!" to life! The weak sip in forgetfulness, but the strong drink in remembrance—remembrance of their will, their strength, their destiny!

[deathcoregoblin]

That full moon last night was so crazy. So much emotional energy finally understood and released.

Happy Wolf Moon 🌙

[ome-magical-ramblings]

Setting Light into the past, for spells, ancestors and beyond.

Setting light is a common practice in a lot of tradition, spiritual lamps are used EVERYWHERE...so it isn't very restrictive to one tradition but as a concept that you can tweak your petitions and your intentions when you set it, I hope that people try it and report back :D

A candle burn straight down, but the light it gives off goes all the way and around. It goes forward, backward, and all around...That's how we are as human when we are "time" burns one way, but the light it gives off is all around. That's how time is, that's how our spiritual families are, that's how a lot of magical work should be, by reaching into the past. Even if I say this in a million way, don't do a candle spell to change the future, change the future by setting that light into the past.

The spiritual dead people who are connected with you by blood, by soul, and by actions are many and as many as the grains of sand in the world. To think of that it's only a backward motion is to only look at them as dead people not as people in different stages in their "life", the difference between them is the difference between an old person and a baby. Not much except time have passed. Really what you think of as ancestral predecessors are only what you see, hear, touch from your own "genetics" but if that was the only way we live, we wouldn't have spiritual heroes like the prophets, saints, righteous people, immortals, wanderer, hermits and so on. The world as we know it is only the tip of the iceberg for the whole "world" as it is. To assume that it only extend to your family is to assume that your family is only related to you by blood and nothing more. Your Ancestors from the start till today are all here and listening carefully to each letter you read, and each word you speak for they carry their weight for them as your words are the "scale" by which they can elevate and evaluate you, it's not a one-way street or two-way street, the streets and paths are endless as the street and paths in sand tracks, YES there are easily more identifiable ones but that's not important, what's important is that you go to each path and "Call" with a sincere heart and offer a sincere word, that's what really carries the Word not if this path is more identifiable than that path. Light, and it was there. To close off, instead of praying to someone to improve, pray to their ancestors, send your prayers of light to their "spiritual family", let it go beyond in time to the past. That's the important thing, there's a million way to skin a cat and reach Rome and this is my way of opening up a different approach to the petition and workings you do, REACH into the past and work with that. The past is just as malleable as the future, and the present is the only thing we "have" and can work with to influence all other points. Remember, Your future and past are two columns by which you enter the mysteries of the holy temple of God and Time. Let the Light go into the past and see it illuminate you right now. His light is like a niche in which there is a lamp, the lamp is in a crystal, the crystal is like a shining star, lit from ˹the oil of˺ a blessed olive tree, ˹located˺ neither to the east nor the west, whose oil would almost glow, even without being touched by fire. Light upon light!