I finally did my first proper libation for Apollo and my heart is racing I’m so soft–
I did it before but I wasn’t that happy with it, but now I actually got the chance to pour milk in a pretty wine glass and got to put it on his altar. I am actually so proud of myself I’m sobbing
I lit his candle up so I could tell him about it and I was just so happy, and when I saw the flame in his candle was forming a heart shape I just could not and still cannot physically handle it I feel like my chest is gonna explode.
He seems so happy, like the flame was like dancing around in the candle. I could feel his energy and it felt so light and idk happy?? It felt like he was looking down at me and was like “I’m very proud of you” with a smile on his face snsnfbdbdnfbdj
You tried to tempt fate, be careful what you wish I’ll take you deeper and strip you of salvation It’s a crusade to bring you to your knees It’s what you wanted, your last manipulation - : @baberoham
Hello, my greenies! This spell is a ritual bath for mending a broken heart. It is not to attract a new love, but to heal that which was injured by a past one. It’s not easy to forgive or to forget, but hopefully with this spell I can ease the pain a little.
Please make sure you understand a little about bath magic before you perform this. Some ingredients can irritate certain skin types and I want everyone to be careful. For those who have sensitive body parts I recommend taking a shower after, so you can rinse off if you feel irritated.
Ingredients
1 tbsp of dried lavender
5 drops of lemongrass oil
5 drops of tea tree oil
2 dried bay leaves
4 ounces of epsom salts
a bowl of any size
jar of some sort
paper and pen (not color specific)
Directions
Place dried lavender and bay leaves together in a grinder of sorts and grind a few before adding the epsom salts. After a minute or two add, one by one, lemongrass and tea tree oil. Mix after each oil and then stir and grind together until in a combined form. Place the completed salt into the mason jar and label.
As your bath is filling up take the paper and pen and write your feelings of hurt and suffering on the parchment. Once complete, fold and place paper into the bowl. Move the bowl next to the bath, we will use it later.
Get the bath ready and once the water is hot place 3 tbsps in the bath and mix with your hands. While you mix chant
“The heart is but broken glass, and mind fragile flower petals. Mother strengthen my soul, heal the wounds of an old love, and birth me anew. Like the phoenix, like the butterfly, I come naked and ready to fly.”
Before you step into the bath, place a good amount of the infused bath water into the bowl with the paper in it. Place it next to your tub and hop in.
Sit for about 30 minutes and carefully step out. Slowly dry your body.
When you are ready, take the bowl and dump the contents into the bath. Make sure you take the paper out and you can roll it into a ball, rip it apart, or just throw it away. Once you are done, I recommend sitting with a nice book or listening to calming music.
Love is a strange emotion that can morph into something we don’t recognize. Don’t let someone turn you into a stranger. Love yourself enough to knowing you are beautiful and amazing and deserve love.
Gather your rose on the 27th of June; let it be full blown, and as bright a red as you can get; pluck it between the hours of three and four in the morning, taking care to have no witness of the transaction; convey it to your chamber, and hold it over a chafing dish or any convenient utensil for the purpose, in which there is charcoal and sulphur of brimstone; hold your rose over the smoke for about five minutes, and you will see it have a wonderful effect on the flower. Before the rose gets the least cool, clap it in a sheet of writing paper, on which is written your own name and that of the man you love best; also the date of the morning star that has the ascendancy at that time; fold it up and seal it neatly with three separate seals, then run and bury the parcel at the foot of the tree from which you gathered the flower. Here let it remain untouched till the 6th of July; take it up at midnight, go to bed and place it under your pillow, and you will have a singular and eventful dream before morning, or, at least, before your usual time of rising. You may keep the rose under your head three nights without spoiling the charm. When you have done with the rose and paper be sure to burn them.
I salute thee and conjure thee, O beautiful Moon, O most beautiful Star, O brilliant light which I have in my hand. By the light which I have in my hand. By the air that I breathe within me, by the earth that I am touching: I conjure thee. -Grimorium Verum
O Moon shine brightly, for I will sing softly to thee, O Goddess, and to Infernal Hecate. -Sod, The Mysteries of Adoni
Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again; How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me-in vain! -Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
But oh, the night! oh, bitter sweet! oh, sweet! O dark, O moon and stars, O ecstasy Of darkness! O great mystery of love. In which absorbed, loss, anguish, treason’s self Enlarges rapture, —as a pebble dropped In some full wine-cup overbrims the wine! - Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Browning
Upon the dusty, glittering windows cling, And seem to cling upon the moonlit skies, Tortoiseshell butterflies, peacock butterflies, A couple of night-moths are on the wing. Is every modern nation like the tower, Half-dead at the top? No matter what I said, For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud. - Blood and the Moon, William Butler Yeats
If tonight, O moon, thou hast found us In peaceful, happy rest, May thy laving lustre leave us Seven times still more blest. O moon so fair, May it be so, As seasons come, And seasons go. - Carmina Gadelica, Volume 1
Using your blood in magic is a personal choice that some witches are more comfortable with than others. In my experience, dealing with blood is not particularly dangerous. There is this vampire-I-know-who-lives-in-a-château who once told me not to drink too much blood. A vampire was warning meabout drinking too much blood! Can you imagine? What nerve! Although to be fair, I was doing shots of one-part-bourbon, one-part-blood. My own blood, people. This paragraph is really going off the rails - but the point is that blood magic is mostly more dangerous in a mundane world toxicity-and-sanitation sense than it is in a magical sense.
It is very binding to use blood in your magic though. Despite this being a blood moon, I would not do blood magic on this day if you haven’t done it before/have a good idea of what you are doing. If you have done blood magic before and want to do it during the blood moon, you should have a very specific intention and purpose in mind. If you fall into that category, you probably do not need my advice.
If you have a specific idea of a spell or ritual you think blood would be good for during this moon, but don’t want to commit to using actual blood, I would recommend the juice of a blood-orange as a replacement.
Charge your crystals? Make moon water?
I feel like “it depends” is the most common answer I give to all questions - and it is also the answer to this question. Charging things (crystals, water, etc.) under some astrological event imbues them with the energy of that event. So, for example, if your moldavite has not been causing enough chaos in your life - then sure, leave it out under the blood moon. If you are using a crystal or your moon water for peace and tranquility… this may not be the moon for that vibe.
Create amulets?
This is kind of an extension of the previous answer - I’ve mentioned before that I’m not a super crystal-y person, but I am interested in amulets. These could be crystals, or it could be anything you want to charge with the energy of this moon. If you are using an eclipse or blood moon to mark some specific event - like perhaps you are leaving something behind, or being reborn from the ashes of something, or you are newly embracing the chaos of the cosmos - you may want to lock that energy into an amulet so you can invoke that strength whenever you need it again. Or you may want to harness some eclipse energy for a future time when you are stagnant and crave change.
Divine?
Divination is one of those things that it is always safe to do. This may be a good option if you need some clarification about how the message of the lunar eclipse pertains to you or what purpose the eclipse energy might serve in your life. Of course, you may not like the answer. I asked my tarot deck about the eclipse and got The Moon, so…. yeah. Reeeeal helpful.
Do protective spells?
You can’t really protect against the eclipse - if that is your intention. It’s understandable. There are certainly things that I don’t want to lose or don’t want disrupted. My advice though is to face this kind of thing head on. You cannot really defend against cosmic energy. You might be able to fight it. However the best tactic - if you are worried about this kind of thing - is to embrace the changes that are brought about. Easier said than done, I know.
Do other spells?
Again, it depends. Don’t do a spell just to do a spell or because you think you are supposed to. If you have some business with the eclipse, you probably know better than me what that business is.
Manifest?
Witches commonly use the moon cycle for manifesting - and the rule is usually that waxing moons are for things you want to increase, and waning moons are things that you want to decrease. Solar and lunar eclipses have a similar split - solar eclipses bring things, while lunar eclipses push things out. Use these energies for your manifestations accordingly - lunar eclipses are not the time to manifest abundance or prosperity.
I wrote a much longer and more in-depth newsletter about this topic here: Blood on the Moon
apolune: The point in an orbit around the moon where the orbiting body is farthest from the moon.
blue moon: The third full moon in a three-month calendrical season that has four full moons.
earthshine:The sunlight reflected from the earth’s surface that illuminates part of the moon not directly lighted by the sun.
geoselenic:Relating to the earth and the moon, or to their joint action or mutual relations: as, geoselenic phenomena.
gibbous moon: A lunar phase either side of the full moon when the moon’s disc as seen from the Earth is larger than a semicircle.
increscent: Showing a progressively larger lighted surface, as of a planet or the moon; waxing.
lunicurrent: Changing periodically with the position of the moon.
luniolatry:Moon-worship.
lunisolar:Of or caused by both the sun and the moon.
lunistice: In astronomy, the moment of the moon’s greatest northing and southing in her monthly revolution.
lunitidal: Of or relating to tidal phenomena caused by the moon.
moon illusion: The optical illusion whereby the moon looks larger when it is low in the sky than otherwise.
moon-dial: A dial for showing the hours by the moon.
moonblind:Affected with moon blindness.
moonblink: A temporary evening blindness said to be occasioned by sleeping in the moonshine in tropical climates.
moonbow: A meteorological phenomenon also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow, well documented at Cumberland Falls near Corbin, Kentucky, Victoria Falls in Africa as well as other places such as Yosemite National Park.
moonchild: One who is born under the sign of Cancer.
moonglade: The track of moonlight on water.
moonrise: The event or time of the appearance of the upper circumferential edge of the moon as it rises above the horizon.
moonset: The event or time of the disappearance of the moon’s upper circumferential edge as it sets below the horizon.
moonwake: The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
neomenia: The time of new moon; the beginning of the month.
new moon: The phase of the moon at which the moon, as viewed from Earth, does not appear to be illuminated by the sun. The new phase marks the beginning of a single revolution of the moon around the earth.
novilunar: Pertaining to the new moon.
old moon: The waning moon.
paraselene: A luminous spot on a lunar halo.
perilune: The point in an orbit around the moon where the orbiting body is closest to the moon.
plenilunar: Pertaining to the full moon.
plenilune:The full moon.
saros: The period of time, just under 19 years, between successive lunar or solar eclipses occurring when the sun, earth, and moon are in the same positions relative to one another.
selenography: The study of the physical features of the moon.
supermoon: a full moon or new moon, when the Earth-Moon distance is in the lowest tenth of its range
I love the tidy charts in this particular version, and all of the elegant different coloured inks. For my next grimoire I’d like to veer towards this particular style.
I thought this post from@zamolxiana was an interesting idea, so I built a map of herbs to represent the human body by combining this list of zodiac sign to body part correspondences, and this list of zodiac sign to herb correspondences.
Joints & Skeletal System | Capricorn | Rosemary/Marjoram
Ankles & Circulatory System | Aquarius | Fennel/Violet
Feet & Lymphatic System | Pisces | Basil/Borage
Assuming that if a body part corresponds to a certain zodiac sign, and an herb corresponds to a certain zodiac sign, we can use zodiac signs as a way of translating between herbs and body parts. You can probably use that as a method to translate between lots of different correspondence lists.
Best tarot cards for love spells: The Lovers, Two of Cups, Ace of Cups, Ace of Wands, Eight of Wands, Empress, The Moon
Best tarot cards for money spells: Ace of Pentacles, King of Pentacles, Ten of Pentacles
Best tarot cards for career spells: Ten of Pentacles, Ace of Wands, Eight of Pentacles, The Hermit, Queen of Wands, Ten of Cups, The Tower, Two of Wands, The World
Best tarot cards for beauty and health spells: The Sun, The Star, The Empress, The High Priestess
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