“You would think that the answer to this question was a given but in truth it is a big fat… maybe…
This question can’t be as definitely answered as one might expect because of the diversity found within paganism and the difference between Spells and Ritual. Whilst it is safe to make the statement that all Witches engage in some form of ritual it is not possible to say the same about spellwork…”
Did you know, you can cast spells with just a candle, some oil and herbs? Yeah! Candles are a staple in many witches arsenal, so why wouldn’t we use them for spells?
Each colour means something new and exciting for your candle.
White - Protection, Serenity, Peace, Enhances Personal Strength
Black - Protection, Banishment, Hexes, Curses
Blue - Emotions, Mental Health, Depression, Anxiety
Green - Wealth, Money, Prosperity, Luck
Yellow - Friendship, Social Skills, New Beginnings
Red - Lust, Courage, Passion
Pink - Romance, Love, Self-Love
Purple - Creativity, Psychic Awareness
Brown - Health, Energy, Possessions, Pets
Orange - Broadens Horizons, Opens New Doors
So you wanna cast a candle spell? Good for you! The first step is to think of what your intent is. What are you manifesting? Put it into a simple sentence, “My home is well protected from all evil.”
Next step is to dress your candle. This is optional, but if you wanna add extra umph to your spell, you can dress your candle in oils and herbs to help strengthen the spell. Or, alternatively you could carve sigils or runes into the candle.
Final step, cast your spell. So say you dont have a dressed candle. What you wanna do, is pour all your intent into your candle. You can do this by meditation, chanting, visualization, etc. Once your candle is charged, light it. Some spells require a candle to burn down to the wick, others you light occasionally when you need that specific thing in your life.
Make sure to pick your candle colours to help go along with your intent!
A busy day in the kitchen today! Prepped for tomorrow’s Easter feast, made fresh blueberry and lemon muffins for breakfast, some gorgeous Italian bread and chicken and rice soup with homemade stock after cleansing and purifying my kitchen space!
Just a quick spell for good dreams or to help give you a bit of a boost of positivity before bed. No measurements, all to taste. This is really one of those spells that you can make your own very easily.
A perfect spell for beginner witches as well!
This is especially for my witches who don’t like tea.
Here’s what you do:
Grab a cute mug (optional but preferred because who doesn’t love cute mugs?!)
Put some milk of your choice in it. I chose 2% but nondairy would work too. Heat the milk up either on the stove or in the microwave.
Toss in some honey, or your fav honey alternative, to calm the mind.
Dump in a good bit of cinnamon for psychic protection.
Put in a bit of cloves, the tiniest amount otherwise it overpowers the other flavors, for banishing negativity or bad vibes.
A dash of nutmeg for love and good dreams.
Finally, add a tiny bit of salt, this will help balance the flavors and adds more protection.
Stir counter clockwise to dispel any negative energy, then clockwise while focusing on the intent of this spell. You can even say it out loud if you’d like. (Example: With this, I banish my nightmares/have restful sleep)
Feel free to top it off with whipped cream.
Sometimes I’ll add sugar as well if I don’t want to use honey.
This simple kitchen witch spell helps me calm down. You can use it before you go to bed to encourage a restful night’s sleep or to go back to sleep after a nightmare has woken you up. Using a bit of lavender syrup can help promote psychic dreams as well, just don’t use too much or it’ll taste soapy!
It takes all of 5 minutes tops and it’s all done to your taste so you also get a delicious drink at the end!
First, boil the salted water in a big pan and add your pasta. Stir for around 8 minutes, check and strain them if they are cooked. You know the deal, basic pasta making. For charging with intentions, stir clockwise and occasionally draw a pentacle with your stirring tool.
For the sauce, add some butter, custard and your spices into a pan and stir well. Chop your fresh mints, garlic and stir until it becomes more smooth and puddingy texture. Add the pasta into the sauce and eat with intentions.
living in the small house, it’s warm and cozy inside, basking near the fireplace, preparing dishes for supper with your friends, walking through park in order to find ghosts, looking in the window while reading books, the sound of wind and rain
In Lisa Chamberlain’s book called ‘Wicca: Kitchen Witchery’ I found some good informations for kitchen witchery and I would like to share it with you so it may will be useful for someone!
Basil
General Magical Uses: fosters loving vibrations, protection, wards off negativities in a home
Bay Leaf
General Magical Uses: protection, purification, healing, strenght, good fortune, money, success
Cinnamon
General Magical Uses: love, luvck, prosperity, success, raises spiritual vibration
️Dandelion️
General Magical Uses: divination, interacction with spirit world, wishes
Nutmeg
General Magical Uses: money, prosperity, good luck, protection
Oregano
General Magical Uses: peace, deepening love relationships, releasing old relationships
Parsley
General Magical Uses: protection, money, luck, lust, strenght, vitality
Rosemary
General Magical Uses: love and lust spells, promotes healthy rest
❁Sage❁
General Magical Uses: longevity, wishom, protection, dispels negative energy
⭐Star Anise⭐
General Magical Uses: luck, spiritual connection, psychic and magical power
Tyhme
General Magical Uses: attracts lovalty, affection, psychic abilities
Just made some herb butter; I plan on using some of it as an offering tomorrow. Chives, because I grow them and they feel solar to me. Lemon juice, because citrus also feels solar and to prevent browning. Garlic, because I could talk about the properties of garlic and its folkloric resonances all day but, more to the point, it’s fucking tasty.
In hindsight, I may have overdone the garlic just a touch. We live, we learn.
Red Thread - protection against enemies, malefica, gossip, evil spirits, afflictions of health. Serves well to overcome enemies, against the evil eye, invite love, luck, joy and auspiciousness.
Blue Thread - protection against evil words, evil eye, healing melancholy, subduing fiery aspects that detriment the person (such as harsh tempers and excessive work), dark blue aids in spirituality and legalities.
Green Thread - in correspondence to my previous posts on the colour green. Darker greens seem to help more strongly with works relating to love and herbal medicine. Mixing it with red thread combines the aspect of Fauna and Flora essentially combining two aspects of the forces of Nature. Aids healers.
Black Thread - good for saturnine spells, wards off malefica, enemies, evil spirits. Bringing good fortune, honours, dominating enemeis and incredibly strong protective spells.
White Thread - protection, blessing, peace, healing. Good in combination to red in spells to remove evil and protect the person against inauspiciousness. Strengthens lunar qualities in the person.
Yellow Thread - I can’t help but think of pestillence when I think of Yellow so I would view this as a colour for protection against sickness, bestowing good fortune and healing pestillence. I remember Backwoods Shamanism making reference to the colour yellow being used to petition the spirits related to the sickness to either inflict or leave the person afflicted.
Algol’s Degree is 26 Taurus according to Christopher Warnock. Furthermore, for election’s sake. the Star should be either rising or culminating on the ascendant or midheaven. The Fixed Stars are said to be rising or culminating 5-8 degrees on either side of the Midheaven or Ascendant with the Ascendant being preferred due to its strength. With that said, let’s get into it.
Algol’s stone is said to be Diamond. The plants associated with her are Black Hellebore with the addition of Mugwort according to Agrippa. The Bodleian MS says of Algol “Hellebore Juice with an equal amount of wormwood place under a diamond etc. to bring hatred and courage, preserve the members of the body and grant vengeance over those you wish’.
The Image of Algol is said to be the head of a man with a bloody neck.
Her Talisman brings the following effects: Success in petitions, obtaining boldness, preserving the body, reflects evil sent against the magus and protects against witchcraft.
Her talismans are favoured for spiritual protection. Black Hellebore is toxic as an incense therefore mugwort would be preferred. Black and red candles are good colours but Warnock mentions toning down the rough energies of Algol by way of white candles. She is a good star to work with but one that does not take well to disrespect in any form. She requires good focus and preparation in the working be it devotional, spellwork or the preparation of a talisman both before, during and after.
Invocation of Algol as given by Christopher Warnock:
said nine times
O’ Algol, Hail Unto You, Beta Persei. O Ras Al-Ghul, fearsome, powerful Star. I ask that you grant me personal protection (or protect these people and this space) from incantations and all attack, reflect all attacks back upon the attackers.
The Symbol of Algol
Extra Notes
Algol does hold a particular place in certain groups of black magick as a star suited to empower works, empowering the creation of monsters and the works of transformation and alchemy. It can be called upon to increase the power of the witch and is regarded as highly auspicious in the LHP. Due to its incredibly dark nature, as well as highly transformative effects, Algol does impose evolution onto the person calling upon Her. Saturating an area with this star’s energy has been known to cause its inhabitants to take on a darker nature. It aids in darker works of alchemy and enlightenment through darker avenues.
Green is my favourite colour and so I thought about doing a post to discern it and figure out its applications in personal craft. The thing about it, though, is that it seems to be an incredibly multi-faceted colour. I couldn’t pin it down to one single energy or face because it seemed to represent a lot of things without being confined to any of them. Every shade of green brings up new images when I look at them but one thing I did notice was this:
The Lighter the Green, the younger the archetypes. So a light green would be more representative of the maiden, the virgin, Persephone and so on and so forth. It has a sense of purity yet it still has a deep profoud wisdom behind it that is characteristic of the spirit of green. Even with that, let’s take Persephone, she’s not a unifaceted character but has a lot of aspects tied to her.
The Darker Shades of Green split up into two as well. Both of them seem to exhibit the same profound wisdom but one, what would be perceived as the more earthy type of green, is closer to nature whereas the more cultivated and clean type of green seems more tied to civility. The Earthier Greens seem to paint more of a feminine aspect of the Serpent, more tied towards the esoteric aspects of nature with an emphasis on flora. The Cleaner Greens seem to hold more potency over the powers of wealth, luxury, diplomacy and politics. All three of them bring up images of women but in different fields of power.
Earthier Greens bring up the image of a Lady garbed in green bearing a blade, at her feet is a coiling serpent and her clothes seem to be made of leaves. Cleaner Greens brings up a picture of a lady wearing black, her hair done in a regal fashion, sitting on a throne. Lighter Greens bring up the image of a young woman with flowers in her hair, wearing a white smock and holding a bundle of wheat in her arms. So you can imagine the confusion that I felt when it came to this.
So, here’s what I could at least figure out when it came to this colour.
Earthier Greens are best for workings when it relates towards herbal medicines, healings, working with the Serpent Force in relation to plants, working with the genius loci, nymphs, dryads and the like. She is also a good colour to work with when it comes to divination, especially through means that are rustic or natural such as bone reading, divination through the rustling of leaves and travelling in the Green. I couldn’t pin her down because she had a chaotic energy, much like the earth that she represents. The blade she holds could be a symbol of nature’s ability to create and to destroy. A certain aspect of her is very firmly grounded in psychopomp and chthonic virtues.
Cleaner Greens seem to correspond well to workings of honour, dignity, personal development, envy, jealousy, politics (in whatever way one may interpret that) and power. I keep seeing the image of a green jewel so it seems that this colour is also suited towards works of finances and the more luxurious aspects of Venus. The woman I see in relation to this colour is intimidating, potent but seems to be the more cunning aspect of the snake. So I would assume that this colour also serves well for works of Veneficium.
Lighter Greens correspond to fertility, youthfulness, beauty, healing, growth and abundance. It seems to have the optimism that the other two colours don’t really have, so I would also see this as a colour suited to emotional healing. She also seems to correspond well to workings of creativity and love. A sense of personal freedom accompanies her wherever she goes so I would also find that this colour relates well to self love, healing of issues relating to the self and to glamouries. That same ancient and aged wisdom of the other two aspects still shines through so, well still being optimistic, she is still a very practical and deep thinking individual. So, as a whole the colours could correspond to psychological work and the facing of one’s own issues.
Some other aspects I picked up on were transformation, rebirth, sorcery (in every means and aspect of the word), underworld travel, spirit work, working with the genii of plants, working with the feminine aspect of the serpent that relates to flora and psychic ability, I keep seeing a divination bowl in relation to this. Alongside this, sociability, friendliness, intellect and cunning.
As a colour of Venus, she also relates to the signs Taurus and Libra and thus takes on some of those aspects.
This seal was made using symbols from the Ars Vercanus to create a message saying, in effect, : Enchant future endeavours with good fortune and blessings. It also makes use of the upward triangle (a symbol of fire) combined with the symbol offered for Projection to represent projecting power into the spell and into the future. It also makes use of a bowl representing the womb (of creation) combined with the sigil proposed for earth to representing birthing it into physical reality. The lines on each side serve the role of protecting the spell while creating a circulation of energy through the talisman when empowered. The sigils are actually separate but have been integrated into a line to form the message as well as connect them all into one single spell.
Talisman Elections
Colours - Yellow Paper with Blue Ink (Jupiter - Blue - of Sol). Day - Sunday, Hour of Jupiter - preferably in the Day for Solar Empowerment Moon Phase - Waxing to Full
Incantation that can be used - Advanced Planetary Magick Jason Miller
I - YE (EE EUW - VIBRATED AT THE BEGINNING OF RITUAL)
Fill me with joy and jovial grace. Lift me up with your benevolent blessings. Crown me with majesty and magnamity. Kindly kings and majestic mediatoiors, augment my awareness, my assets and my vigor, that I may assist others in finding their joy.
(A bright blessing of Kingship and Wealth).
The talisman can be pasted on the wall of the business, kept on a money altar, folded and placed in the wallet, used as a base for the creation of servitors etc.
Blue is a strong colour against the Malocchio. You can incorporate it in rites to cure the evil eye or as a spell bottle filled with various things (like black eyed peas) to be kept as an amulet against the evil eye. I’ve heard of some people painting their porch blue to confuse spirits because, as the old homage goes, spirits can’t cross over running water. So keeping a blue welcome mat in front of your door can very well serve against evil eye or wandering spirits entering your home. Dark blue is the colour of Jupiter so a jar painted with the various symbols of Jupiter can be used as a money talisman, so good for money bowls or a talisman in the way that each thursday you place a coin in it for money to expand or grow. Due to Jupiter’s assocations with legalities (alongside saturn) and spirituality, it could also be a good colour for those types of works. Since Blue has associations with truth, expression and the voice, then one can assume that it can be used to expose the truth in court, or reversed in order to silence someone, create delusions or illusions and misguide someone to your advantage. To the same, it can be used discover the truth and considering its association with spirituality, it could be obtained through supernatural means (such as through dreams, scrying etc.). It does have a very watery, flowy and submissive energy though, and I do seem to find it as a very melancholic colour, so I do find that it can be used in order to heal someone of melancholy or to inflict it. Maybe I’m thinking of Sadness from Inside Out.
Iron is used in protective magick, sometimes cursing and othertimes war magick (basically anything under the rulership of Mars as Iron is a corresponding metal). Red soil is generally red due to a presence of iron nearby, and it rusts thus causing the red colour (similar to Mars). So, hear me out, what if we used red dirt as a powder. Red dirt to make a protective barrier. Red dirt mixed with a little bit of storm water to create a potent cursing paste. Red dirt as a base of martial powders, mix red dirt with black pepper and red pepper to make a warrin powder.
The Greek Magical Papyri states the following which can be used in bowl divination to the magus’s desire
Rainwater if you’re calling upon heavenly gods Seawater if the gods of the earth River water if Osiris or Sarapis Springwater if the dead
As to the above, I am also sure of its applications outside of its hydromantic usages. One could possibly also asperge an area with spring water or use spring water as a base for philtres, offerings or the glass kept on the altar in cases where one is to call upon spirits. Seawater has an astounding healing ability in magick and could be used in the glass or as an asperge for the communication of chthonic deities. Rainwater can be used in the creation of holy water with particular emphasis, especially in Catholic and other Folk Magick traditions, on water that is collected on holy dates such as Good Friday, Easter Sunday etc.
As the fingers each correspond to an element, and each hand to receiving or projecting, this can be used to the magus’s advantage in talismans Talismans of a watery nature are best anointed with the ring finger, for example. Feelings of being ungrounded or airy are counteracted by charming with the thumb (earth) of the left hand (disintegration). Furthermore are the various symbols associated with each of the elements including colours and words of power.
