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Simple Everyday Things You Can Do For Protection
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My list of daily or easy practices requires little to no prep-work
•Use a protection plant ally like a witch’s burr, cloves, thorns, motherwort, black pepper, garlic, or onion. Close your eyes and place your plant ally in your hands. Ask the spirit of the plant if they will offer you protection to see you through the day. Carry it with you.
•Alternatively, you can also use crystals. My go to combo is black tourmaline and red jasper!
•Use a protection archetype tarot card like the Nine of Wands. Nine of Wands, for myself, symbolizes boundaries and protection when it comes to our growth/life path. Place it on your altar with intention since it is a portal to our intentions, our guides, and the liminal, or carry on your person.
•Smoke cleanse the thresholds in your home, yourself, and your loved ones. I personally like rosemary and lavender for this purpose.
•As you leave an offering for your guides/ancestors/deities during your daily conversation with them ask them for their help when it comes to protection.
•Write the word protection or a symbol of protection on a black candle with intention and light.
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Simple Everyday Things You Can Do For Protection
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What are some simple things that you do that you think would help another witch?
My list of daily or easy practices requires little to no prep-work
•Use a protection plant ally like a witch’s burr, cloves, thorns, motherwort, black pepper, garlic, or onion. Close your eyes and place your plant ally in your hands. Ask the spirit of the plant if they will offer you protection to see you through the day. Carry it with you.
•Alternatively, you can also use crystals. My go to combo is black tourmaline and red jasper!
•Use a protection archetype tarot card like the Nine of Wands. Nine of Wands, for myself, symbolizes boundaries and protection when it comes to our growth/life path. Place it on your altar with intention since it is a portal to our intentions, our guides, and the liminal, or carry on your person.
•Smoke cleanse the thresholds in your home, yourself, and your loved ones. I personally like rosemary and lavender for this purpose.
•As you leave an offering for your guides/ancestors/deities during your daily conversation with them ask them for their help when it comes to protection.
•Write the word protection or a symbol of protection on a black candle with intention and light.
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Full Moon Beauty Water
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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!
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Rainy Day Mood
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Everything has felt so impossibly loud this week and it has taken its toll.
I’m taking note from the sky, from the rain falling in gentle streams, and just releasing today.
Today I’m taking a step back from the pull to go-go-go, letting myself enjoy intuitive body movements/stretches when called to, digging into a book that’s been sitting in my kindle, and relishing the gentle rhythm of the rain outside.
How are you?
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How We Develop Magickal Plant Correspondences
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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
Deck - Seed & Sickle - @liminal_11&@rosdottir
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A Few Floral Correspondences
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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.
Blue cornflower - Divination & Creativity
Orchid - Beauty & Saucy Magick
Dahlias - Dignity & Innerself Revealer
Passionflower - Sweetness & Attraction
Babies breath - Communication & Familial Love
Wisteria - Antiblockage & Magick
Red roses - Protection to Thrive & Beauty
Honeysuckle - Happy Home & Sweetness
Dandelion Seed Flowers - Wishes & Expansion
Lavender - Calmness & Magick
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Working With The Sun
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I am a big fan of working with the sun’s daily energy, unlike the moon, it repeats a constant cycle daily. It rises, finds its way to the top of our skies, and then makes its descent to welcome the moon.
When it comes to spellwork, in my personal practice, I like to concentrate on manifesting quick and fiery energy. Spellwork I need to be done now, with quick results. If I need bigger results or ones that are longer-lasting I may work with the days of the week’s correspondences in conjunction with working with the sun.
Sunrise | Intention setting
Sun’s ascent into the sky | Growing and cultivating energy
High Noon or when the sun is the highest in the sky | Larger spellwork and protection spells
Sun’s descent | Slowing and releasing energy
Sunset | Cleansing and throwing things into the void for renewal/fresh start
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What was the first witchcraft book you deeply connected with? -tell me below-
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It is my birthday week so I thought this week I’d share a few of my favorite things and magickal birthday thoughts/celebrations. To start this celebratory time, I wanted to talk about the first book I read that I deeply connected to as a witch.
When I first dived into witchcraft I lived on a military base with my parents in Germany, and when it came to resources, all I had was a one-half shelf of New Age books available at our local book store. This was right after the height of 90’s Wiccan popularity, so that bookshelf was jammed packed with books that encompassed that, and unfortunately, that religious path never really resonated with me. I did read them and took what resonated and left what didn’t, but it wasn’t until I got my hands on Spiral Dance that everything seemed to click into place. I’m sure there were other non-wiccan books I read, but Spiral Dance is the one that which time hasn’t erased the title from my mind.
I constantly still quote and find solace in Starhawk’s words. I pick up this book (a newer copy, the old lost to time) whenever I feel disconnected from my craft and I want to return how I felt all those years ago when I sat in front of that small bookcase at the store and poured over her words. Or when I finally purchased it and would hide the book under my mattress at home.
But please, tell me about your first book that deeply resonated with you! Does it still inspire you today?
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A Few Things I Do With Offering for Guides & Deities After the Fact
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What are your methods?
•If it is good/drink/herbs that is safe for the earth, return it to the earth. This is my usual method.
•Ask to share the meal and eat/drink it. I do this with foods/drinks that aren’t safe for the earth, such as when I leave a soda out for my grandmother.
•Non-edible things should chosen out with care and consideration for the long term. If you must put things away do so with care and verbally express what you are doing and why.
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NEWMerry Meet Plaques now available at Eclectic Artisans Pagan Marketplace. Hidden within the plaque are 2 stags, 2 pentagrams, moon phases and a chalice, can you find them all? These plaques are perfect for your home, garden or sacred space. They are a perfect size too: 8.0" x 5 7/8". Each plaque is lined on the back with felt and comes with a hook to securely hang.
Get yours now, here at Eclectic Artisans: http://www.eartisans.net/collections/home-garden-plaques/products/merry-meet-plaque-wood-finish
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“The Hermit” ✨ This vintage tarot card shadowbox I created is sold and on its way to its new home! ❤️ It features a sculpted glass mushroom, hand painted paper butterfly and ethically sourced raccoon bones. I have just one more shadowbox left from this series available on my website but I have a few more vintage tarot cards. Should I make some more tarot inspired shadow boxes?
Potion jars and bottles now available at Steampunk Pomegranate!
These have been a hit at conventions and ren faires, and now you can purchase them from my Etsy shop! If you see one you love, be sure to get it quick. These are all one of a kind and once it’s gone there probably won’t be another like it!
More on the way soon!
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