#witchtip

[foragewitch]

spell jar for mental health:

pink wax: emotional healing

alder cones: strength

amaranth: protection

lavender: anti-stress

himalayan salt: emotional balance

[herbariumcaelestis]

Do you practice candle magic, or do you just use candles in your magic? ⁠ I've always been captivated by the power of candle magic. 🕯️✨ The way the flame dances and flickers, carrying intentions out into the universe, is truly mesmerizing. ⁠ It is so simple too! Carve a #sigil, word or phrase representing your intention into a candle and light it. Before lighting the candle, put all your energy and visualize your intention coming to fruition and imbue it into your candle. Once the candle has burned down completely, you can divine the results of the spell from the remnants.⁠ ⁠ What's your favorite way of using candle magic spells or #rituals? Share with me in the comments below!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁠ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁠ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁠ #candlemagic #witchcraft #spells #intentionsetting ⁠#witchtip #beginnerwitch #candlespell #divination #witchesofinstagram⁠ #witchy #witchyvibes #witchywoman #spellwork #witchcraftspells https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdErJINpqz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[angelmilkdreams]

ʚ♡⃛ɞ Tip for exercising your clairvoyance, mediumship, and sending “spirits”

ʚ♡⃛ɞ It’s good to start with thinking in a metaphorical/poetic way.

ʚ♡⃛ɞ Ask yourself, what kind of ��ghosts” are remaining and residing in a specific space or area. You can also ask locals about the history of a space or area to help as well. It’s also similar to how real estate agents explain what kind of people stayed in a house before leaving

[tears-of-amber]

Crystals For Mindfulness

First off, I thought I’d do a very brief explanation of what “mindfulness” is. Mindfulness is basically the practice of bringing the brain to the present moment in an attempt to slow down life and achieve a better level of inner-peace. It comes from Zen Buddhism, but you do not have to be Buddhist or believe in any of the aspects of Buddhism to benefit from mindfulness, as it is psychologically proven to lower stress and boost engagement in the present moment. Now, for the top  three crystals that I personally have found increase and assist my mindfulness capabilities:

BLACK ONYX: This crystal is amazing and has been dubbed the “stone of attunement” by one of my favorite gemologists, reiki healers, and published authors, Shannon Marie. It helps us get in touch with the “here” and “now”. As well as lowering stress and anxiety significantly. It also helps us to learn life’s lessons without judging ourselves so harshly. 

CHRYSOPRASE: Personally I find this crystal to be very balancing when it comes to moods. When our moods are balanced, it becomes much easier to be mindful, as we can be more present and observe our thoughts without extreme emotional reactions. 

RED GARNET: Known for it’s protective and courageous qualities, some of garnet’s other metaphysical properties often get overlooked. Red garnet helps us to acknowledge the beauty in the mundane, and be more mindful of our own actions. When we can see the beauty in the little things, that’s super beneficial to your mindfulness practice. 

[americanwitch13]

In episode one of Secrets of the Craft, Melissa St. Hilaire travels to the Green Man store in North Hollywood, CA to meet with Carrie Wolf, their resident High Priestess, partner, and co-owner to discuss what being a witch means, British Traditional Craft, what it’s like to be a High Priestess, witch tips, working with spirits, how to cast a spell to protect yourself from shade being thrown, and more!

Watch here on Dead Air Full Spectrum today, Friday the 13th at 5pm Pac/8pm East: https://youtu.be/NO3ju2e3vdg (link in LinkTree https://linktr.ee/americanwitch13)

#secretsofthecraft #americanwitch13 #deadairfullspectrum #witch #witchesoftumblr

[mxdmagic]

For when you're tired of fussing and fighting with coworkers, friends, family, or lovers. 🩹 #balmofgilead #herbalshop #herbalwitch #herbalmagic #mxdmagick #apothecary #apothecaryshop #herbswelove #simplespell #witchwork #witchtip #herbaltips (at mxdmagic) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp0Bx8bOULE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[witchycottagecore]

Remember! You can enchant perfumes, cologne and deodorants!

[incorrect-dnd-classes]

Druid: Wearing a peach pit around your neck will ward off evil. Ranger: Several peach pits and a slingshot will ward off everything else.

[calcifugous]

Things what I have learnt as a baby witch

As a baby witch who has recently became more spiritually connected and grown as a pagan, i want to give out advice what I have learnt over the 2 years of doing witchcraft.

1) Don’t jump straight into the deep end

Never jump into the deep end by doing spell’s straight away, witchcraft isn’t some aesthetic cutesy thing, it can be serious, jumping into spells without having no idea what you are doing can be extremely dangerous.

Ideally, you want to ease yourself into it, by doing research, yes the word research can be daunting but it will help you in the long run. Research on what witchcraft is, get an overall understanding what its about, find out the pagans holidays, pagans new year, and so much more!

If you have no idea where to start I highly recommend buying this book - ‘Wicca For Beginners’ by Frank Bawdoe

The book explains the introduction of the basic Wiccan religion including Wiccan beliefs, a brief history of Wiccan Religion, and their traditions. How to practice Wiccan Religion, the benefits of witchcraft and so much more.

2) Never buy your own tarot deck

this is very important so please take note and to remember! Never! buy your own tarot card decks, in witchcraft, it is extremely bad luck for you to buy your own tarot decks. So always either get a family member or a friend to buy it for you.

3) Connect with your spirit guide and your tarot decks!

Importantly, I personally believe its very useful and helpful to connect with your spirit guide, the more you connect with them, the more you’ll know a lot about them and who they are in general.

You can do this through connecting with your tarot decks first and getting a special bond with them, you do this by

- Keeping the tarot decks on your desk when your studying, or reading a book

- Shuffling through the decks every day, you don’t even need to do a reading or to use them, just shuffle them. This way you’re putting your energy into the cards.

- Place the tarot decks under your bed when sleeping.

- Ask your spirit guide questions, like what are the tarot cards intentions, am i being protected. Things like that.

- Doing Tarot readings

Doing these things will help you bond with your decks and your spirits guides.

4) Never touch someone else’s Tarot decks

I’m highlighting this in red because this is a massive 101 rule in witchcraft is to never touch someone else’s deck unless they have gave you consent and permission. By breaking this rule, you are also disrespecting and breaking the person who owns the deck boundaries. Everyone’s tarot deck is very personal for them, its their personal business and item, they are spiritually connected and bounded with that deck. If you touch it, not only are you putting yourself through harm. But you’re also pissing off the person’s spirit guide and disrespecting them too. So don’t do it.

5) Things don’t have to be expensive!

When people think of witchcraft and hearing about crystals, herbs and books, they think “oh god this is going to be a lot of money” but in reality you don’t have to go out your way to buy really expensive things! I’m from the UK so i buy most of my books from a store called WHSmiths or Work entertainment. Work entertainment is best for spell jars which only cost £1 or a simple crystal shop which sells those £1.50 crystals!

6) Learn how to do protection spells before doing anything!

If you feel like you are ready to do spells but don’t know where to start or what to do, practice doing protection spells, protection spells is pretty self explanatory but it will protect you from any negative energy or spirit

7) What to do if you got a negative spirit/energy

You’ll know when you have a negative energy or spirit around you as your mood and your health will change, if you feel like your mental health has been a bit down for a while and you’re constantly feeling drained and tired. That means something is draining your energy.

So what do you do?

Do an egg cleanse spell! This will help you detect if someone has set a curse, negative spell or if theres negative energy around you.

By doing so, grab a glass cup and fill it up half way with water, adding salt to it is optional but i recommend doing it as salt is really good at protection. Grab an egg, place the egg on your head, with your hand you would want to move the egg counter clock wise around your body, start from the head, and move the egg down to your arms and legs, back round to the other side of your body. Do not let the egg leave the body.

After you’re done crack the egg into the cup and wait 5 minutes, if its all clear then you’re okay! but if the egg whites starts forming like spider cobwebs with bubbles between it, it means someone has set negative energy around you or a curse. If you see a triangle base shape in the cobwebs and a bubble on top. It means you have been hex with the evil eye. If theres also red or brown spots in the yolk it also means a banishing spell or a curse spell.

So you do a return sender, if you got any spices, add a f*ck ton of it in the cup, the more spices the better as that will f*ck whoever sent you the hex up. Grab the cup and pour everything down the toilet, look away while you flush the toilet. Once its flushed look at the bubbles, less the bubbles less of the negative energy. Sometimes you have to do this more than once.

8) Your spirit guides will show you the answers in different ways

One thing I’ve learnt is your spirit guide will show you the answers in different ways, if you want to know if you are protected, there will be signs, for example I personally believe if a a white feather falls in front of you or by you or if you even see a white feather it means you’re being protected by a angel/your spirit guide. So if you see a white feather it means you are protected by them, or if you see your spirit animal or if you know a dead relatives spirit animal and it starts to show up.

Sometimes the signs will be right in front of your face, example for me is: My spirit guide warned me about people being back stabbers and to watch out. After seeing that in a reading, i had my mother who im very spiritually connected with, call me up saying she had a dream about me being stabbed and she feels like it represented me being back stabbed and warned me who i hang out with.

Then my closest friend used my tarot deck which broke my boundaries, pissed off my spirit guide so she started to get headaches, neck pains, back pains and it got to the point she had to leave. When she tried approaching me the day after that, a white feather fell right by me, seconds later, she started to feel unwell and went back inside. I suddenly felt the sense of relief and happiness, and when i said to my self everything is okay, another white feather fell and it landed on my leg. That made me personally feel that it was my spirit guide confirming me and saying yes everything will be okay.

That’s all the advice i can think of at the moment but hopefully this has helps a lot of you small baby witches! just remember, if you ever feel burnt out or you start to do witchcraft but dont have the passion or get into it but still want to, thats okay! it takes time!

9) Know what you are doing when doing spells!! And do it when you are ready!

Another thing, i know i said previously doing research is key! but please know what you are doing when doing spells especially jar spells! Don’t do what I did, I thought I was ready to do spells, I tried doing a protection spell and I ended up summoning a trickster spirit who is still attached to me and can be a little pissbaby sometimes by moving my things around. But overall he also does protect me when need be so he can be good when he wants to be.

Also if you’d like to know what books I have, i have these! (the pictures below) these have helped me over the past 2 years with my journey so I highly recommend checking them out!

Good luck and i wish you all positive energy!

[foragewitch]

The magick of dandelion

Native americans would boil dandelion in water to treat kidney disease, swelling, skin problems, heartburn, and digestive issues. 

All parts of the dandelion are edible (preferably fresh). The roots are best harvested between June and August as they are the most bitter at this point, and the leaves can be harvested at any time throughout the season. 

When collecting dandelions make sure you pick them from an area that you know hasn’t been sprayed or treated with any chemicals or pesticides. 

Dandelion can be used to enhance psychic abilities. Dandelion root tea aids in divination and prophetic dreaming.

The best time to harvest the dandelion blossoms is in the afternoon when the flowers are fully open. 

Magickal properties of dandelion: creativity, inspiration, sun magick, courage, bravery, wishes, divination, dispels negative energy, banishment, increases psychic abilities, prophetic dreams, growth, transformation.

[lunasapphire]

My collection of Scott Cunningham works I have read so far:) - more coming soon! Just bought six books of his

[lunarreminder]

Let us enjoy the night and welcome the Winter of the year with our arms wide open.

Spread the joy and have a great year ahead.

I wish you a nice Samhain.

[wolverinesorcery]

What is a commonplace book

Commonplace books are a method of compiling knowledge into one place, traditionally by handwriting but more recently with computers/word processors. They’re different from journals in that rather than containing exclusively personal thoughts or feelings, they’re a collection of external writings, informations, or other snippets of things recorded whenever it is encountered + usually organised.

To simplify – a commonplace book contains anything that captured it’s owners attention! Poems, extracts of fiction & non fiction writings, remarks or comments by others, anecdotes, observations, pertinent images, or other things along the same lines are all things that belong in a commonplace book!

Commonplace books have quite the history – their uses range between reading logs, reference books for students, and historically they were required by young women to demonstrate their upbringing.

How do they work

The exact system you use in your commonplace book is entirely up to you and what you will remember to use. Usually information is organised under themed/topic-based headings, but this can be as flexible or stiff as the keeper desires. My personal commonplace book is organised by source material – all of my book extracts & notes are kept together and demarcated by paperclips.

A commonplace book has no requirements in terms of physical format, size, page type, etc. As long as it is something you will be able to keep using happily! There is also no rules around decorating any pages with stickers or washi tape, or any rules around using sticky notes to add information on the go.

A commonplace book can also be as expansive or restricted as possible in terms of subject matter. For example, I keep a specific commonplace book for Babalon & Sekhmet. Nothing else enters this book.

What’s their use in religious practice or witchcraft?

A commonplace book can function as an in-between for a Grimoire (a book of magical knowledge and instruction, usually written by someone else and usually for transmitting knowledge within a specific tradition or branch of religion/witchcraft) & a Witchbook/Book of Shadows (more akin to a magical/religious journal for recordkeeping). They’re also exceptionally useful if you read a lot of metaphysical, occult or spiritual/religious books and want to keep organised notes in a hard copy form!

Commonplace books can be used to record interesting information from other, non-metaphysical but useful sources too, foraging notes and recipes are an obvious choice to keep a record of, along with notes about celestial events from astronomy sources.

In some cases, a commonplace book can also be a devotional activity, or a shrine of sorts. Commonplace books as a devotional activity is easy to parse – collecting and mindfully recording information about an entity, deity, divinity or other spirit is a good means to show care and interest.

A commonplace book as a shrine has a similar function to an e-shrine on tumblr, by collecting things that remind or represent an entity, deity, divinity or other spirit, a notebook can be made into a shrine or sacred object. This can also be a useful way to have a sacred touchpoint with an entity and keep it relatively out of sight, for those who are not open about their practice.

Examples

More reading on Commonplace books

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book - The wiki page for Commonplace books that delves into their general & regional history, along with more variations on memory/infokeeping under See Also

https://notebookofghosts.com/2018/02/25/a-brief-guide-to-keeping-a-commonplace-book/ - A brief history & how-to on commonplace books, along with notable people that kept one.

https://bookriot.com/commonplace-book/ - An informal look at commonplace books, including using a tumblr blog/other digital formats as a commonplace book.

https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-and-why-to-keep-a-commonplace-book-ea80e25b63f1 - Information about commonplace books, alternatives to notebooks, and a small guide.

[mxdmagic]

It's getting dreamy, and we're oh so excited! Who's ready for unlimited artistic projects that we may of MAY NOT finish? 😌♓ #mxdmagic #witch #witchcrafting #piscesseason #astrologymeme #witchtip #witchwork #piscesfacts #newmooninpisces #venusinpisces #piscesmemes #astrologysign (at mxdmagic) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co0M-qfuM1C/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[voiceoftheseavoiceofthestorm]

Blessed Yule! ✨