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☽ little tips for witches ☾

here I will leave some very useful tips for those who have been in practice for some time, as well as for beginners. I hope this text will illuminate and help each one on their way! ✨

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• to do energy cleaning in your home, put in a glass: water, coarse salt and charcoal. position it behind the entrance door.

• bury egg shells in a pot or in your home garden to ensure abundance and fertility in your home.

• do not put the ashes left over from the incense out, they can be reused in making the black salt.

• burn dry rosemary to attract protection, purification, psychic abilities and openness for healing.

• to attract positive energies to you, spread several mirrors around your home, just avoid those with sharp details on your edge. they also help to clear the mind.

• to ward off any bother that is bothering you, write the key words of the situation on a white candle. light the candle and ask the fire beings to burn this evil that you want to destroy.

• spread blackheads under the bed for protection during your sleep.

• make a wreath with chamomile flower and hang it on the door to protect the environment throughout the year from physical and spiritual damage.

• use cinnamon to improve your individual skill with prophecy through divination, channeling and working with oracles.

• when making your own oils, use olive oil and dried herbs of your choice.

• press and store rosemary leaves in your books. this will increase your wisdom during your studies and your memory, making you learn more easily.

• burn some thyme on your altar to clean up your magic space. thyme when burned with incense strengthens psychic power.

Too much light! 🌿 🌿

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Good Morning Witchblr!!!!

I’m back!!! Took a break from posting but i’m back and better than ever baybey. ostara is the perfect time to return i think,,, lots of nice new energies!!! i hope to see u guys around a lot more :)))

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I cant wait to use my sodalite pendulum🤩

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Black Salt

Black Salt is used for cursing, protection, banishing, cleansing, breaking spells or hexes, and repelling negative energy. Black salt is made by combining either activated charcoal or ashes from burned herbs or incense with sea salt. 

Using activated charcoal will actually make your salt a dark black color, whereas using ashes will turn it into a lighter grey color. 

Depending on what you plan to use black salt for, you can add different types of ash or other ingredients that correspond with your intent.

Ashes from various herbs and incenses for black salt: 

Basil - banishing, protection, spell-breaking

Cedarwood - cleansing, protection

Cypress - protection

Dragon’s blood - cleansing, protection, cursing, banishing

Frankincense - cleansing, protection, spell-breaking

Mullein - protection (especially for acts of magick involving spirit work)

Rosemary - cleansing, banishing

Rue - banishing, cursing, protection, spell-breaking

Sage - cleansing, protection, banishing

Sandalwood - cleansing, protection

Thyme - cleansing, banishing

Tobacco - banishing, cursing

Valerian - protection

Wormwood - cursing, protection, spell-breaking

Other ingredients you can add to black salt: 

Black pepper - cleansing, banishing, cursing, protection

Cayenne pepper - banishing, cursing, protection

Chili powder - banishing, cursing, spell-breaking

Garlic salt - banishing, cleansing, spell-breaking

Iron shavings (like from the bottom of your cauldron or a cast-iron pot or pan) - protection

Nutmeg - protection, spell-breaking

Onion salt - banishing, spell-breaking

Making black salt: 

Combine the ingredients and grind together using a mortar and pestle, coffee grinder, or herb grinder

Using black salt:

Add to spell jars or sachets

Sprinkle in areas around your home to create a barrier

Create a circle of protection before performing spells

Keep a container of black salt under your bed or pillow to prevent nightmares or bad dreams

Add to a jar to create a Negativity Trap

If using skin-safe components and ingredients, make a facial scrub or mask for cleansing

Anoint objects with black salt

Add to a container of War Water (especially if your black salt contains iron shavings)

Sprinkle a small amount on a neighbor’s lawn to make them want to move

Add some to a hollow pendant and wear to deflect negativity 

Sprinkle on items that hold bad or negative memories to cleanse them

Add a line of black salt in front of doorways and windows to keep out negative energy and spirits or entities 

Add a pinch to homemade floor washes for cleansing

Use to symbolize the waning, new, and dark moon; or Saturn and Pluto

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I've NEVER seen him go off this hard on the internet before ...... the king shit in this bus is astronomical

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BEST WITCHY BOOKS FOR THE BEGINNER WITCH

Buckland’s Complete Book Of Witchcraft - This book is a most have in every Wiccan’s (If you are) collection because of how informative it is. I highly recommend this book to really every witch who hasn’t read it yet.

The Modern Guide to Witchcraft: Your Complete Guide to Witches, Covens, and Spells - This book is a nice add to a baby witches collection, for how simple of a read it is. Not to mention how aesthetically pleasing it is.

Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner - This book is also a very nice read, it has a perfect amount of information where you wont get information overload too quickly. Its unbiased and offers a great first start to starting the craft.

Wicca: by Harmony Nice - If you are a complete newbie to Wicca or the craft, then this is the book for you. This book is easy to swallow, and offers easy to understand information for newbies without being too difficult to process. 

Of Witchcraft and whimsy - I think this is the book for newbies who want to seek the more modern practices of witchcraft. This is a book that focuses more on the craft than Wicca itself. It is also complete with plenty of unique and fun spells perfect for beginner level.

Pastel Spells - A perfect book for newbies looking to try out spells of all types at a beginner level.

The Green Witch - Perfect for a beginning green witch, this book is complete with all the basics of Green magick complete with the correspondences of herbs and food, recipes, and basic practices and morals of a green witch.

Spellcrafting: Strengthen the Power of Your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells - Perfect for a new witch looking to formulate their own unique spells.

The Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guide - Perfect for new witches looking to expand their knowledge on herbalism.

The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs: Your Complete Guide to the Hidden Powers of Herbs - Beautifully illustrated guide to herbs and their magickal properties.

The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary:Rituals & Recipes for a Year of Earth Magick and Sacred Medicine Making - Perfect for the beginning witch interested in herbalism, ands its all around a pretty little book.

I love you all! My DMs, mail, and comments are always open! 

xoxo, Angel

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“my personal understanding of what I classify a witch to be doesn’t even require casting spells technically... Any person who lives consciously and acts as a creative force of their reality is a witch to me and that doesn’t have a particular skill set or even effort requirement...” A reply I just read on a post about how witchcraft requires effort to achieve results.

The obvious cringe of “uwu magic is whatever you want it to be uwu it’s what ever makes you feel comfy and special inside” and the usual witchblr “implying practices take effort is gatekeeping” nonsense aside, it strikes me that there’s a genuine cultural dissonance going on in a lot of these discussions. 

It’s not even necessarily just about witchcraft, and the fact that it’s usually deployed on here as just a catch-all term for any kind of “spiritual practice™”. Magic in general is treated on here by a bunch of people who have never experienced its real miracle-generating capacity as essentially a quirky aesthetic as opposed to the cultivation of a real skill that can bend reality. To reproduce one of my favourite quotes by Jason Miller, which we also have up in our FAQ:

“A Theban Magician did not painstakingly preserve and hide the Greek Magical Papyri with its many formulas because intention was all that mattered. The Grimoires were not passed among a network of underground clergy and literate laity because the precise instruction did not matter. Families of African slaves did not preserve traditions of Congolese Magic in the New World at risk to their life just because your intention is all that matters!” - Jason Miller, The Elements of Spellcrafting

I was born in a part of the world where, among the rural villages, local magicians are relied upon and perform a vital community function. There are no nearby hospitals, so when someone is ill, the local shaman needs to be able to actually heal in the way their title as “shaman” implies. When someone has been cursed because they offended a local faery or guardian spirit, the magician needs to intercede and make right, diagnose the issue, make the proper offerings, and lift the curse. When someone has stolen goods from someone else, they need to be able to figure out who the culprit is using their spirits and divinatory practices. Historically, when invading powers were coming to conquer the region, the magicians were relied upon for protection, negotiation/bargaining with spirits and gods, and creating glamours to buy time for the vulnerable to escape, if not even shield the village from invasion. There are many documented cases of historical battles between the shamans of different communities, often resulting in the weaker dying as their soul never returned to their body during the spirit-flight combat. 

What I’m getting at is that “witch”, “magician”, and other such labels were descriptive titles used to denote individuals who had certain skills and were able to reliably perform them. If they couldn’t reliably produce results, no one would go to them, pay them for their services, or acknowledge them as genuine. It wasn’t because the community was “mean”, but because there was and is a real need for these abilities and it had nothing to do with anyone’s feelings. I’m not a lawyer, I’ve never been to law school, I am not qualified to represent anyone legally and provide legal advice. If I start identifying as a lawyer, any clients I manage to get would quickly realize I have no idea what I’m talking about and would rightly dismiss me. If I’m purchasing the services of a blacksmith, jeweler, tailor, etc. - I’m paying for their time and accumulated training/skills. Folk magicians in traditional communities are regarded in much the same way.

I honestly don’t think there’s anything wrong in enjoying and consuming the modern, media-driven aesthetic of witchcraft, but at the end of the day operative magic is about results. Did your job spell work? Did you get the job? Did your petition to receive a particular boon actually succeed? Don’t be intimidated if a ritual doesn’t manifest - no one has a 100% manifestation rate. Even the most famous, skilled lawyers lose cases. Take it as an exciting opportunity to diagnose the issue, consult with your spirits, and hit the target again from another angle. Did you lack sufficient links to the target? Maybe you should seek out the assistance of a stronger spirit? Time your ritual with planetary days and hours? 

Think back to any other skill you had to slowly develop over time. Once upon a time I was a horrible swimmer, drawer, and writer, but now I’m quite competent at swimming, decent at drawing, and an excellent creative writer. It all depends on how much effort you put into nurturing each craft. Honestly, getting better at magic is exhilarating; surpassing your goals one by one, coming into contact with more powerful beings and making pacts with them, actually building a set of powers that can reshape your world through your own discipline, etc. Don’t ever let yourself be so proud that you can’t bring yourself to admit you could use improvement. Our predecessors in magic fought, killed, and died for the knowledge that is freely available to us now. What stories of your feats and miracles will the people who knew you pass on after your death?

- Mod D

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Hey tasseography beginners! Here’s a quick guide on cups in tea leaf readings; more specifically on how to pick one and what the different part of the cup relates to. I’ll be posting a lot more basic guides on Tarot, Tea Leaf, and Rune Stone Readings in the coming weeks so keep an eye out for those! As always, feel free to message me with questions, to book a reading, or to simply chat and say hi 😊

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HONEY ALMOND CEREAL BARS FOR HAPPINESS

A treat or breakfast, anytime you need a pick me up throughout the day. You can infuse these bars with your intentions, and charge them with a crystal of choice. I hope you guys enjoy! ~ Angel.

For the Bars:

½ cup (170g) honey

happiness, healing, prosperity

½ cup (120g) almond butter

prosperity, universal love, luck

1 box Honey Nut Cheerios

happiness, nostalgia, prosperity

For the Coating:

½ cups (75g) white chocolate

friendship, self-love, fun

1/3 cup (85g) greek yogurt

2 tbsp honey

happiness

1 tsp vanilla extract

self-love, attraction

Directions

On medium heat, combine honey, almond butter, and your honey nut cheerios in a rather large pan. Make sure the almond butter has melted and the cheerios are fully coated. This should take about no longer then 7 minutes. About 3 plays of Set Fire to the Rain by Adele. 

Once you have done this, spread evenly into a glass baking dish until it sets completely. This can take 1-3 hours.

Cut them into bars. Combine your greek yogurt, honey, melted white chocolate, and vanilla together, and dip the bottoms into the mixture, Let them set for an additional hour.

Enjoy!

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☀️ Summer Tea ☀️

You Will Need

☀️ ½ cups berries (Raspberries or Strawberries work best)

☀️ 4 slices of lemon

☀️ 1 teaspoon mint tea

☀️ 4 cups of water, charged by the sun!

To Prepare:

☀️ Bring 4 cups of water to a boil. Add the berries and lemon. Let simmer for 15 minutes.

☀️Turn off water. Add mint, let steep for about 10 minutes.

Drink this tea to help bring the warming energy of the sun into your body. Sip it and think of the warmth of the earth as grain grows and rocks absorb solar heat. Think of warm waters at the edge of the shore and warm breezes that stir the night air. Think of bright golden light and let the energy of the sun burn all the negativity from your mind and body.

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Archer's Protection Powder

You will need:

°ground sea shells ° rose petals ° rosemary ° thyme ° sage ° bloodroot

Grind the sea shells and herbs; a mortar and pesel works best, but use what you have. Bottle the powder for wards, bury jewelry in it to charge it with the properties of the powder, it has endless uses.

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Quick PSA to all the witches trying to cast spells, especially baby witches.

If you wanna cast a spell to help the black lives matter movement,please DO NOT cast a hex. I am not against hexes in the slightest, but if you're a baby witch, please leave that to more experienced witches. You don't know if it will backfire you or not and you don't want to risk that. Also the whole system is much bigger than you. A simple hex will not stop police brutality.

You know what you can do though? Cast a protection spell. Instead of trying to hex the police, protect the protesters. It will be more affective AND safer.

Leave the hexes to the more experienced witches.

(Feel free to reblog it to spread the word)

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WITCHES! On June 5th (the full moon) we are doing everything we can to help our black siblings in this fight. Protection spells, binding spells, curses, and hexes are all welcome. Please craft responsibly and don’t do anything out of your comfort zone!

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Hex the police. Protect the protestors.

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Knot magic and witches ladder

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A Spell to Protect BLM Protesters

Although magic is no substitute for genuine activism, not all of us are able to attend protests, donate money, or even be outspoken about our support. This spell allows you to magically lend your energy to the cause.

What you will need: 

a sheet of white, red, or black paper

a black pen

a protection oil, a protective essential oil like myrrh or rosemary, or salt water

Performing the Ritual:

Write the words “Black Lives Matter” in the center of your paper. As you do so, visualize these words forming a connection between yourself and the protesters who are a part of the movement. 

Draw a circle around the words, moving your pen counterclockwise.

Say: “I cast protection around those protesting on behalf of the Black Lives Matter movement. They are under my protection from anyone who would do them harm or oppose their goals.”

If you work with sigils, runes, or some other kind of magical symbols, feel free to incorporate symbols for protection and power into your circle.

Take a little bit of your oil or salt water on the tip of your index finger and use it to anoint the circle at each of the four cardinal points (north, east, south, west), starting at the top of the circle and moving clockwise.

Say, “May this [oil/salt] protect those protesting on behalf of the Black Lives Matter movement. May it shield them from harm and surround them with a wall of protection and light.”

Focus your energy on the paper, and visualize the protests going on around the country right now. Focus on sending your energy to those protests to protect and support those participating.

I’m a Reiki practitioner, so when I did this spell I also incorporated a distance Reiki session to send Reiki energy to those protesting, and to add an extra layer of protection. If you practice any kind of energy work, that would be a beautiful thing to incorporate into this spell. 

If you worship any deities associated with justice, feel free to call on them during this ritual. 

Finally, if you have an altar, fold up your paper and place it on your altar once you finish the spell. Keeping the paper in a sacred space will allow it to keep receiving energy, and you can come back to pray for/send energy to protesters again in the future. 

What to do next

If you can, donate to organizations that contribute to the cause, like Black Visions Collective, Reclaim the Block, or a similar local organization. 

If you can’t donate, raise awareness on social media and in real life. (For my fellow white folks: try to focus on sharing stories from POC, rather than talking over them. Yes, we should use our privilege to raise awareness, but we should do that in a way that keeps the focus on those who are directly affected by the issue.)

IF YOU ARE ATTENDING A PROTEST, be smart and be safe. Keep your face covered, don’t talk to reporters, don’t take pictures (especially if you use iCloud!), stay the fuck away from anyone with a camera, and don’t post about it on social media.