Put sand in first and then the water in the jar. (this represents the ocean.)
Burn your sigil in the flame and put the ashes into the shell you chose.
Then, swivel the ashes around in the shell and then pour the ashes into the jar.
Take your gull feather and fan the flame with it towards the direction jar (carefully) while chanting “Oh Mother Sea, I ask that you protect me.” as many times as you need.
Seal the jar and pour the blue wax onto it.
Place this jar near your bedside on carry it around in your pocket.
Sea Water: Water from the sea is great for cleansing and healing rituals. I recommend it for cleansing crystals (but be careful, not every crystal/stone can/should be cleansed in water). It’s also great for banishing and protection spells!
Storm Water:Spells and rituals that has to do with emotional strength, confidence, charge, motivation and force. It’s known for strengthening spells. Storm water is great for curses as well.
River Water: Spells and rituals that has to do with moving on, focusing energy, breaking through rough paths, and warding. Great for powering tools.
Rain Water: This is very multi-purpose, but especially great for growth and rebirth spells. Great for spells that you want to keep gaining power over time.
Snow Water: Great for spells and rituals that focus on purity, endings and change, as well as slow working spells.
Dew Water: I recommend this for love and fertility spells, as well as delicate magic. Great if you’re going to do fae work.
Swim. If you, like me, are lucky enough to live by the sea, swim in it. All year round. Get used to the cold. If you are landlocked, find a local pool.
Practice swimming with your legs together, like a mermaid. Even better if you can afford a monofin. And even better if your local pool allows it.
Use sites like Noises Online to listen to waves crashing or water running, close your eyes and let yourself be entranced by the rhythm.
Brush your hair once you leave the sea and shower after leaving the pool. Trust me.
Buy a boss-ass swimsuit that makes you feel amazing both in and out of the water.
Light candles that smell like the seaside while you bathe.
Get a fish tank. Put some fish in there. You have new friends,, take care of them. (Do your research before buying fish!! Make sure the tank is big enough and has what they need.)
Walk with your head high and your shoulders back, as if the waves are carrying you to your destination. You are the crashing of storms on the coast, and the softness of calm shores on a sunny day.
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This is a general guide to my particular path! There are three basic components: air, water, and cosmic witchcraft!
Air☁️: wind and clouds! Ground using the wind or practice divination with the clouds. Also good for sigil work. Associated with the colors yellow and light blue, swords and other blades, clarity, and education. Dawn and springtime are good times to work with this element!
Water: rain, mist, and clouds! Gather rain or try making moon/sun/storm waters. Associated with blue, mirrors, cups, emotion, and healing. Sunset and autumn are this element’s associated times.
Cosmic: sun, moon, and stars! Perfect for stargazing and charging stones or sigils with the sun or moon! Associated with black, indigo, silver, gold, fate, and wisdom. The best times for this are year-round at night- special events like meteor showers or eclipses can be very helpful!
The types of divination that go well with it are cartomancy, astrology, and aeromancy (divination by clouds/weather phenomena)! Thanks for reading!
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.
Title:Water Witchcraft: Magic and Lore from the Celtic Tradition
Author:Annwyn Avalon
Review: ★★★☆☆
I wouldn’t call myself a water witch since I have yet to fully incorporate my affinity for water and the sea into my practice, but I am always hunting for resources to bring my magic and the water closer. A long time “to-read” on my list of witchy reference books, Water Witchcraft wasn’t quite what I was looking for, but it still has a lot of potential as a beginner’s book when it comes to water magic.
Before I really dive into this book (sorry, I had to!), let me go ahead and say that Avalon does mention smudging in this book. As a book so heavy-handed in lore from the UK, it really went over her head that smudging isn’t from that tradition.
Speaking of lore, if you aren’t into old folk tales, myths, legends, and cautionary tales, I wouldn’t recommend this book. A large portion of most of the chapters are dedicated to brief synopsis or full tellings of these kinds of stories, and while they’re interesting, I’m not sure how useful they are if you’re just looking for a more technical understanding of water magic. But, who knows, they might inspire you.
When Avalon starts talking about exercises and her practice, that’s when this book shines. The exercises in this book are simple and fairly adaptable, and she manages to include things for those major markers of the year like solstices, sabbats, and moon phases without dwelling on the basics of phases and cycles that many beginner books get caught up on. The final chapter, “Water Witchery” is a shining example of this.
Overall, this is a solid and interesting read, though it is easy to get bored when she dumps pages and pages of lore on you and she has a tendency to let the organization of the book (by body of water for the most part) get the best of her and lead her off topic or otherwise reveal her unfamiliarity with the specifics of an environment. Water Witchcraft is a book that you will have to go beyond to make it useful, though. What makes this a three star read and nothing better is that Avalon has these moments of addressing things you might not often see in witchcraft books and then leaving them behind. If she had just pushed things a bit further (and taken a step back on the frog and toad stories), this book would probably be great instead of just good.
It almost goes without saying. And yet the weather patterns on our planet-such as the drought in California- as well as the leering threat of major corporations, who wish to privatize water, should make us stand back and take a good look at this element which is literally everywhere in and around us.
We are a microcosm of the universe and within us the entire universe resides. Therefore we as individuals as well as a collective human consciousness hold the keys within our own conscious awareness to heal the state of water, because it is essentially an extension of us, just as we are of it.
You will see what I mean if you have ever looked into the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese researcher who discovered that water is deeply impressionable and that by subjecting water to various sounds, words, and intentions, it would literally change at the molecular level to reflect the vibrations to which it was exposed.
The point in all of this is that we can absolutely change the quality and state of water through our thoughts and intentions. Here are 3 specific ways:
1. Heal Your Relationship with Water- This step could actually be an entire article in and of itself. In actuality, when we bring something within the self totally into alignment, we are bringing healing to the collective. To have a healthy relationship with water, we need enough water in our bodies to function properly on all levels which means staying hydrated and drinking high quality water like alkaline, spring, or at the very least filtered.
Additionally, it is good to learn to respect water. That means appreciating the water you drink, swim, and bathe in as well as cook and clean with. If you possibly can, it is respectful to reuse water. For instance, if water stagnates, it can become quite unpleasant. Use it to water the plants or clean something if you forget a glass of drinking water.
Finally, start the day with a glass of fresh water. Mindfully. Stand facing the rising sun and drink a big glass of water with gratitude and with good intentions for the day ahead.
2. Pray or Meditate to the Water:In using the word ‘pray’ I simply mean to use whatever method is appropriate to you for connecting with the greater essence of life and focusing positive intentions somewhere. Because water is impressionable, praying to or meditating for bodies of water like a local lake or creek or the ocean will have an effect on the water. This effect is highly intensified if many people participate at once. Getting a group of people together to pray for the water can affect the over-soul of consciousness of the water everywhere on the planet as well as the water in your own living cells. This type of ceremony would benefit greatly from including music and song which creates and shifts vibrations with great power.
3. Alchemize the Water- As Masaru Emoto demonstrated with his life’s work, you can create specific changes in water through your intentions and the use of sounds, intentions, the written word, and imagery. If this appeals to you here is an experimental ritual to try:
Take a small quantity of water, no more than a gallon, and place it in a glass container that can be transported easily. Now spend some time with the water. Hold your hands on the water and pray or sing, visualize the water taking beautiful forms or being full of light, color, and beautiful energies. Write positive words on small slips of paper and stick them onto the container facing inward. Expose the water to sacred geometric symbols or healing frequencies such as 432hz or to healing mantras. You could also place crystals like clear or rose quartz in the water for several hours or overnight on particularly a full moon, and allow the energies to be imprinted into the water.
Now specify your intention for the water, because you will use this water as a sort of ‘concentrate’ to heal a larger source of water. So state or imagine your intentions clearly and communicate them to the water. The inention may be your image of all the waters in the world being pure, clean, accessible, and full of healing light. Once you have sent these thoughts and intentions into the water, give the water as a gift to a larger source of water. This could be at the seashore, a lake, a creek, or even down your own drain to heal the city water which badly needs healing. Hold your intention as you give the water away as you allow it to flow away and bring the beautiful vibrrations it contains with it. See it as a sort of concentrate of energy impressions that will shift the vibration of the entire water source to which it is flowing.
The water on our planet dearly needs to be healed, but the first and most primary aspect of the healing of water is for us to come into alignment with water as individuals. After we are in a good relationship with water personally, then we can follow our inspiration and use other methods to project healing to water throughout the world.
This is the ritual I did for the Jan 31 blood moon.
Purpose:
to attract love and happiness in this new year.
Dieties:
Aphrodite
Crystals:
moonstone (cleansing, femininity, forgiveness)
Clear quartz (cleansing, positivity)
Rose quartz (love, calmness, peace)
Amethyst (healing, spirituality)
Herbs:
Rosemary (love, femininity, healing)
Chamomile (love, healing)
Basil (love, good fortune)
Oils:
Orange (harmony, happiness, power)
Peppermint (change, magic, anti- negativity)
Lavender (healing, health, peace)
Eucalyptus (sacred place)
Lemon (energy, healing, protection)
First I cleanse my space with sage, and cast a circle.
I spray a mixture of sea water and eucalyptus to cleanse my work space.
I light my candles.
I invite Aphrodite into my space with an offering.
I ring a bell around my space just to make sure no negativity lingers.
Now I’m ready to begin.
I draw a pentagram in the middle of my work space. I place four moonstone crystals around it in each of the cardinal directions. I place clear quartz, rose quartz, and amethyst in the open sections of the pentagram. In the middle I place a shell with the sea rune for love on it.
I then gather a chalice (I don’t have a cauldron) with a bit of moon water. I begin adding my ingredients.
First I add sea salt, rosemary, chamomile, and basil. Then I add three drops of each oil. I also add dried rose petals, and a pinch of my original Aphrodite herb mix (I’ll make another post about this)
I place the mixture in a small container, along with a small coin as an offering.
I seal the container, and place it in a sachet with moonstone, and leave it outside to charge under the power of the full moon.
To manifest it’s power, I throw the container to the west (this just feels right to me)
(I of course pick it back up and store it somewhere safe.)
