You can either make this during the full moon and leave it out to catch some of the full moon rays or use the full moon water you have in your fridge on a Friday!
Ingredients •A jar or bottle •Tablespoon of dried red petals •Tablespoon of dried jasmine •Tablespoon of dried yarrow •small pinch of catnip •Small pinch of saffron •Extra credit: A dried pink or white orchid flower •Full moon water or water depending on when you make this
Add each ingredient with intention as you add it to your vessel. Envisioning or thinking about your inner beauty shining through to the surface.
Feel free to strain with a cheesecloth after 24-48 hours.
Add a little to shampoos, conditioners, body lotion, etc, and apply directly.
If you like to full moon bathe, apply some the next full moon bathe ritual to further enhance its properties and longevity when applied!
As always, this is how I personally do things, which may be different for you and that is a-okay! Everyone’s practice can and should be different!
It is so easy to look up correspondences now in days and find keywords given from others, but where do they even come from? Do you find yourself using correspondences that you hardly understand or you just add spellwork ingredients willy nilly despite them not resonating with you in the slightest?
In order to connect with the materials you are using, I recommend looking them up before spellwork. Not just their keywords. It will help you understand the herb and connect with its unique spirit on a personal level.
Correspondences come from a few different things •How they grow •Historial aspects, magickally or otherwise •How they involve your senses (taste, touch, smell, sound, and looks) •How they have been used for healing, health, poison, etc •Their color •Most importantly, your experiences with the plant
What is your favorite flower to do spellwork with?
Spring is right around the corner so all sorts of flowers will be blooming soon, which means it will be a terrific time to add some floral inspiration to your spellwork! I thought I’d share a *few* of my favorite spellwork flowers and *some* of their magickal correspondences.
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As an offering or to connect with Artemis I write her letters. They don’t have to be anything special. You could just write about what happened in you day.
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Step 1: Pick leaves Gently twist the leaf near the base, it should snap off the plant cleanly. Good cuttings will be slightly rounded at the ends, and have no ‘open’ wound:
Bad cuttings will not grow, you need to make sure the whole leaf comes off in one go. Bad leaves are jagged, torn, or cut:
Step 2: Lay all cuttings inside on a piece of cloth. I usually put a piece of old scrap material down on my desk and lie all the leaves out in rows. I try not to pile up the leaves, as this tends to promote rot. Do not water at all. AKA no misting the leaves, no watering the leaves, nothing. Everything the baby succulent needs to grow is stored in the mother leaf, watering may rot the leaf before the new plant is big enough to survive on its own! Make sure the leaves aren’t in direct sun, as they will wither before they form new plants. Filtered light from a window is strong enough!
Step 3: Waiting After about 4 weeks you will start to see the first signs of life. The leaf may send out roots first, it may start to grow with no roots. Both are okay!
Step 4: Planting (Start watering once a week at this stage) After 6-8 weeks the baby succulents will be big enough to plant outside! I do this by placing the leaves on top of loose, sandy soil that has not been compacted. I do not bother burying the leaves, as it tends to do more harm than good (you may snap roots/damage new shoots in the process):
I place all the plants together, they don’t really seem to mind! These is how they look after about 10 weeks:
When the plants are big enough, the mother leaf will shrivel up and start to die off:
TADA! You’ve created baby succulents :)
I’m sorry, this is a very beautifully illustrated, informative plant post, but every time I read “Make succulent babies” I put the emphasis on the wrong part of the phrase and expect something.. very… different.
I was reading my witch book on break at work, and it told me to keep black obsidian with me to absorb negativity.
And I laughed because I literally have a small potato in my pocket right now for exactly that.
idk why I think of potatoes as ‘absorbent’, but I do. And at work, every day there is at least onesmall potato that breaches containment from its cardboard box home and lands on the floor. Instead of throwing it out immediately, one day I just tucked it into my pocket and then threw it out at the end of the day. 10/10, do recommend.
ok but potatoes are ABSOLUTELY magically absorbent and that is an excellent use for a spare potato.
In cooking if your soup is too salty you can put potato in it, simmer it, and discard the salty potato. So, that makes since.
Potat: It ABSORBS!
Tbh I trust the potato more than obsidian. What has obsidian ever done for me personally?? Now a potato on the other hand … that’s an honest creature. I trust it.
THIS IS A MAGICALLY SOUND PRINCIPAL
Sympathy, the second law of magic. Like attracts like. What absorbs the flavor of the mundane world must absorb the flavor of the metaphysical world.
Obsidian is REFLECTIVE. It might DEFLECT negativity but why would it absorb.
After a whole month of doing absolutely NOTHING (yay post grad film holiday!), I’m determined to get my tush back to my desk and tablet and sketchbook and start working on my stuff again :D
Here’s a little comfort zone-y witch to break the ice
