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Leave the water on a sunny windowsill or outside, preferably in direct sunlight. Sunrise, 9 am, 12 pm, and 3 pm are perfect times for this, or you can leave it from sunrise to sunset. You can also add herbs and flowers to it as well (lemon peels, orange peels, marigolds, chamomile, cinnamon, sunflower, etc.) Or charge it with some stones (like sunstone, orange calcite, citrine, tigers eye, goldstone or carnelian), but please don’t put these stones in the water. You can also make a sun tea with sun water for a very potent solar spell.
Leave the water on a sunny windowsill or outside, preferably in direct sunlight. Sunrise, 9 am, 12 pm, and 3 pm are perfect times for this, or you can leave it from sunrise to sunset. You can also add herbs and flowers to it as well (lemon peels, orange peels, marigolds, chamomile, cinnamon, sunflower, etc.) Or charge it with some stones (like sunstone, orange calcite, citrine, tigers eye, goldstone or carnelian), but please don’t put these stones in the water. You can also make a sun tea with sun water for a very potent solar spell.
The following will address how I would teach people to activate their witchy sides. There are of course other methods and different strategies. This post is very small and I will probably write a better one eventually but right now I need a nap.
The First Steps
1. Interest and What You Want to Learn
To become a witch all you have to have is intent and interest!
There are so many different aspects of witchcraft and even more kinds of witches. You have to find something that you love and enjoy doing and practicing. The term “baby witch” is a modernized name for beginner witches, finding posts with these tags are good for beginners. You DO NOT want to dive headfirst into experienced witchcraft without first developing an understanding of what you’re dealing with. You risk offending your deities, the universe or the nature that surrounds you.
This being said there are a LOT of “witch” posts that are outright wrong, you do not want to get guidance from a witch who has put little to no research into what they’re teaching. So ALWAYS check what you’re reading especially in relation to potion brewing, you NEVER want to ingest poisonous plants. In addition to fact checking always be weary of blood magick, practices like these do more than harm your physical body, they hurt your mentality and they can hurt the people around you. If you are using blood or any other bodily fluid, because some people will do it despite the warnings, always sanitize the area and correctly treat the wound.
There are also a large range of books that are directed at witches or plants for green witches. The books that I currently have in my possession are “The Good Witch’s Guide” by Shawn Robbins and Charity Bedell and “The Languages of Flowers” by Mandy Kirkby. I have downloaded “The Green Witch” by Arin Murphy-Hiscock and “Moon Spells” by Diane Ahlquist. Best of luck in your adventures!
By finding this post you’ve already taken the first step. Tumblr has a massive platform for all different forms of witchcraft, you can find some on Instagram and YouTube but I’ve never found them as accessible due to the misinterpretation of witchcraft for views. This section ties in with the first one but I felt that it deserved it’s own section as I feel that the research side of witchcraft never ends, there are always new things to learn and different perspectives to see so never limit yourself on what you want to know.
A Book of Shadows is practically a text book of magick. It can also be called a Grimoire as a Grimoire is a book of magic, although in many cultures, other sacred texts that are not grimoires such as the Bible, have been believed to have supernatural properties intrinsically. In this manner, while all books on magic could be thought of as grimoires, not all magical books should be thought of as grimoires.
A Book of Mirrors can be used to jot all of your thoughts and experiences if you don’t want to include them in your Book of Shadows.
[THIS READING IS NOT FOR YOU. IT IS A PERSONAL READING TAILORED TO MYSELF. DO NOT CLAIM THIS READING FOR YOURSELF. IF YOU WOULD LIKE A READING, PM ME TO DISCUSS PRICING. RESPECT ME.]
Is a common “baby witch” question I see a lot. I also see it answered a lot, but I rarely see it stated that it’s the opposite in the two hemispheres and I’ve never seen it explained. So here we go.
The powers behind clockwise and anticlockwise are whether you are turning with or against the direction of the sun:
East to West in the Southern Hemisphere (anti-clockwise)
West to East in the Northern Hemisphere (clockwise)
Witch use of these directions probably comes from the Scottish druidic practices and surrounding folklore where sunward, or clockwise in their neck of the woods, was known as deasiland the opposite direction was known as widdershinsortuathal.
Deasil was considered the auspicious direction, whilst traveling widdershins around a temple or conducting a business such as stirring an offering in this direction was bad luck. A tale even told of a boy dancing widdershins around a fairy circle 9 times and being taken by the fairy court as a result.
Now in common magic practice deasil is considered best for healing, drawing magic, and closing circles. Widdershins is used for undoing magic such as opening circles and breaking curses or banishing.
Similarsunward and away from sun rules are found in Tibetan and Hindu cultures, particulalry in the passing and construction of shrines and temples, however which direction is favourable is not consistent across practices even within the same country.
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If you’re still struggling with recalling this on your own I highly recommend obtaining a sundial and getting highly acquainted with it so you’re familiar with the suns movement and its translation onto a flat plane (you can make ones at home with paper plates) xoxo
