Potions are probably one thing that almost everyone thinks of when they hear the words “witch” or “magic”, and with good reason. For a long time witches used plants prepared properly to treat disease, which eventually became the modern practice of medicine. Potions are a form of magic very close to science, which makes me love them, as I am a big fan of both.
These days I’m not as inclined to get willow bark when I can get aspirin easily, but I still use some potions for both their effects, and their taste. By this of course I mean teas. There are dozens of types of teas with more uses than I know or can possibly fit in this post (foreshadowing!) so I’ll just talk about my personal favorite tea as an example.
Almost daily I drink a green tea with a few mint leaves mixed, and a little honey if I want something sweet. The green tea I use mainly for its metabolism boosting properties and caffeine, although I also like the energy and healing properties it has magically. The mint is use for its calming magical properties, and sometimes for its more scientific stomach settling properties. Finally the honey is mostly for flavor and a little protein in case the tea is my breakfast, and I’ll usually use it to draw either a sigil for peace or luck into my tea depending on what I need that day. I much prefer to use loose leaf, but I’ll use premade tea bags if i’m in a hurry.
This is one that’s tough to really put much of a “manly” spin on, since tea is a very unisex thing to begin with, but for the naysayers: Many warrior cultures drank tea before battles, either as a form of offering and honor as with the samurai, or to try and boost their abilities as with the viking berserkers. If you desperately need it too be as manly as possible, leave out the honey and it’ll be about as bitter as coffee.
That finishes up my ramble on teas and potions. Practice safe and Ret'urcye mhi!
Ingredients: Agarment to use as your focus Thyme, orange peel, dragon’s blood
Steps: Light the herbs as an incense and pass your focus through the smoke while focusing on the inner qualities you are trying to bring out, such as confidence or calmness
Zodiac: Cancer and Pisces Planet: The Moon Element:Water Energy:Feminine
Lemon Seeds in witchcraft
My favorite way to use lemon seeds in witchcraft is using what nature gave me. I clean some seeds, add to tamp paper towels, place them in a baggy, and hang them on my window for about 2-3 weeks. Once they sprout, I’ll plant no more than two into a tiny little cup planter and keep it on my altar. Every time i go to water it, I’m reminded to care for my altar. Every time I care for my altar, I’m reminded to water it. It’s a simple but extraordinarily effective way to measure my own personal growth as well. Once they’re big enough to need a home outside, I’ll replant it, and start all over with another kind of seed. My orchard is ever-growing.
Wearing lemon seeds can be a little difficult to style, but it can be done. I personally let them dry for about a month before I do this. You can take a small lemon seed and slip it into a locket to carry with you. Make a little wire cage, or simply poke a hole in it and string it onto a piece of leather cord. Lemon seeds are little pockets o sunshine for your soul and represent the ability to grow and harvest a new way of life wherever you end up. Gifting someone jewelry with lemon seeds represents you wishing them a lifetime of good health, energy, and spiritual wellbeing.
Lemon seeds are also great ways to add lemon essence to things like spell jars. If they’re dried properly, they allow you to harness that lemony effect without needing to watch your spell jar turn into an ecosystem of manifestation and mold.
Please consider this post open for all ideas, comments, tricks, and tips! I use a lot of interaction from my blog to come up with new things to post about - so if you wanna say something, go for it! As always everyone, be safe out there, and Blessed Be :)
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Zodiac: Cancer and Pisces Planet: The Moon Element:Water Energy:Feminine
Lemon peel in witchcraft
I love incorporating witchy things into my showers. Even if I melt down a soap bar and add lemon zest, toss in a few lemon slices into the tub, or make a sugar/salt body scrub with lemon zest, I feel like that little touch adds an energizing and wonderful spark in the mornings when I shower!
Lemon peel is also FULL of what is essentially… essential oil. You know when you have some orange peel, and you bend it about, a find mist propels into the air around it? Lemon peel does the same thing. Hack a slice off, spritz it onto the front of your shirt, and you’ll carry a light, refreshing, cleansing aura around with you all day! Plus, the effects linger, so when you wash it, your diluting a tiny bit of positivity into all of your clothes.
You can also use dried lemon peel as a smoke cleanse. It’s not very pleasant to smell, but it has an amazing effect. Lemon sucks up negativity like a vacuum, so naturally it’ll do just that as it’s wafting around your space. Open a window, turn on a fan, and watch a week’s worth of stress and anxiety rush right out of your home.
As always, if anyone has any other tips, tricks, or witchy hints on the subject, you are all more than welcome to add your ideas into comments, tags, and reblogs! My blog runs off of the ideas that you all give me, so interacting with posts not only get your ideas out there for others, but it also helps me find new topics to post about. As always, be safe, and blessed be!
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Zodiac: Cancer and Pisces Planet: The Moon Element:Water Energy:Feminine
Lemon flesh/juice in witchcraft
The best lemonade you’ll ever have is also a potent spiritual protection spell/potion! Cut off the peel of 2 large lemons, and slice the flesh into bits. Remove seeds. Add bits to a pot with a sprig of fresh basil, 2 cups of water, and 1 cup of sugar(or to taste, I personally only use ½ a cup). Simmer for 10 minutes and stir occasionally while mashing the lemon bits with a spoon. Remove from heat, cool to room temperature, and strain over 2 cups of ice water in a pitcher. This should give you about 4 or 5 cups of lemonade depending on your sugar taste. You can also add water, use more lemon - whatever calls to you.
Lemon juice is just full of cleansing energy and potent negative energy absorption. Add a bit to your water in the mornings to help absorb negativity all day! Easy, fast, delightful in sparkling water (but I am secretly a 65-year-old grandparent in a 22-year-old body so I like sparkling water)
Lemon juice is also very protective outside your body. You can dab it onto your clothes, add a tablespoon to your washing machine or dishwasher, or even just sprinkle a tiny bit into your mop bucket (And I mean TINY: a tablespoon to a gallon ratio, or even less). All of that with infuse you and your home with a clean, fresh energy.
Of course, these are just a few easy broom-closet-friendly ideas, so if you aren’t worried about keeping your practice hidden, feel free to add on your ideas and tricks! My blog is geared mostly towards beginners or people living in unfriendly environments, so a lot of my lists, tricks, and tips are for them. As always, remember to do your research and always practice in a cleansed environment! Blessed be!
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I’ve had a few people ask me for more information on lemons in witchcraft, so here’s a new series for you guys! There will be a few parts: whole lemons, flesh/juice, peel, and seeds. For simplicity sake, there will likely only be a max of three or four ideas on each post, so that it’s not overwhelming and I feel like I can go into detail without the posts getting too long. Without further delay, let’s get right into it!
Basics of lemons:
Zodiac: Cancer and Pisces Planet: The Moon Element:Water Energy:Feminine
Bring a whole lemon with you when you’re going somewhere that needs a significant amount of your energy. Lemons are extremely energizing and can offer a boost when you have tests, presentations, or interviews.
The first day after a full moon, press a whole clove into the feel of a whole lemon. Do this every day until the next full moon, preferably before you go to bed. The next full moon, bury it somewhere you consider a very peaceful place to invoke good luck and spiritual energy.
Throw one at your homophobic Mormon uncle.
Like I said, I’ll probably keep each post at three or four ideas, but if anyone wants to add more ideas or suggest a new kind of posts, my asks are open! Always remember to do your research and always practice in a cleansed environment :) Blessed be!
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These little cookies may not look like much, but they’re seriously some of the best ones I ever had. Improvised the recipe but here goes:
Ingredients
- 4,5 dl / 2 cups flour - 200 g dairyfree butter/margarine/other veggie fat - 0,5 dl / 0,25 cups white sugar - 0,5 dl / 0,25 cups unrefined sugar - Zest from organic lemon - Dried lavender - Dried rosemary - A little maple syrup
Instructions
Mix all ingredients except the syrup in a food processor until it’s one big lump of dough.
Roll the dough to a cylinder shape (see pics), cover in plastic and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour.
Turn on the oven to 175 degrees C.
Cut the dough cylinder into 0,5 cm thick discs (well obv you can make them whatever shape you like). Spread them out evenly on a baking tray with some space in between.
Brush the cookies with a little syrup, sprinkle some rosemary on them, and bake in the middle of the oven for like… 8 minutes (keep an eye on them, it’ll differ depending on the oven etc).
Now you’ll never want to eat anything else ever again!
It enhances all psychic work, is highly protective and smells beautifully witchy in any incense mix.
Bay has so many properties to boast about including: cleansing,wishing, warding negativity, healing, romance, protection, psychic abilities, fidelity, divination and dreamwork.
Have a big day ahead of you at work or school? Fill a reusable water bottle with some sprigs of mint and sliced strawberries to infuse your water with luck and success.
Vetivert is a traditional incense burned to entice money and riches, and to drive away evil spells. It is easy to get ahold of, if you know where to look. Usually, your local herb or witch shops will carry a supply.
Use in spells for:
Love
Prosperity
Money
Hex-breaking
Luck
Anti-theft
Use in these spell types:
Sachets
Poppets (used here to mean “an effigy of a person who is the target of a spell”, and does not have any cultural connotations)
Burning spells
Enchantments
As an incense or oil
Other uses:
Place in cash registers to increase business
Carry vetivert root to attract luck
Burn vetivert root to ward off evil curses
Medicinal Uses:
Can be used topically to reduce stress, repel insects, and to treat lice.
Can be taken internally by mouth to treat circulation and nerve problems, but be sure to check with your general practitioner first.
Pregnant women should not take vertivert internally. It is rumored to induce abortions and start menstration when taken orally, so I would be very cautious when using this herb medicinally if you are a woman.
I should also note that essential oils of any kind are not always made to be taken internally, and you should only do so under the supervision of a physician.
