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Apothecary Cabinets // Black Cat Curiosity

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Coloured Threads - Bracelets

Red Thread - protection against enemies, malefica, gossip, evil spirits, afflictions of health. Serves well to overcome enemies, against the evil eye, invite love, luck, joy and auspiciousness.

Blue Thread - protection against evil words, evil eye, healing melancholy, subduing fiery aspects that detriment the person (such as harsh tempers and excessive work), dark blue aids in spirituality and legalities.

Green Thread - in correspondence to my previous posts on the colour green. Darker greens seem to help more strongly with works relating to love and herbal medicine. Mixing it with red thread combines the aspect of Fauna and Flora essentially combining two aspects of the forces of Nature. Aids healers.

Black Thread - good for saturnine spells, wards off malefica, enemies, evil spirits. Bringing good fortune, honours, dominating enemeis and incredibly strong protective spells.

White Thread - protection, blessing, peace, healing. Good in combination to red in spells to remove evil and protect the person against inauspiciousness. Strengthens lunar qualities in the person.

Yellow Thread - I can't help but think of pestillence when I think of Yellow so I would view this as a colour for protection against sickness, bestowing good fortune and healing pestillence. I remember Backwoods Shamanism making reference to the colour yellow being used to petition the spirits related to the sickness to either inflict or leave the person afflicted.

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i keep telling myself to start a dream journal but i haven’t had a dream since last september

How Do I Start A Dream Journal or Dream Interpretation if I Don't Dream?

This is a concern I get fairly often so I think it's about time I make an official post on it!

Record Any & All Dreams

The first thing I would suggest is record your dreams no matter what. Even if they don't happen often or it takes you another year to have one. You need to work with whatever material you can get and get in the habit of interpreting if that's something you're interested in. In my personal experience I have also found that recording my dreams and focusing my energy on them has increased the rate they happen and the clarity of them.

Increasing Dreams

The next thing I would suggest is doing things to increase the rate in which you dream. Getting a deeper, better quality of sleep can help you dream which is something mundane you may consider. There are also many witchy ways to increase dreams! Plants & Herbs There are many plants and herbs that can encourage good sleep and dreams. You may hang these by where you sleep or use them in one of the methods I go over below. I would suggest chamomile, lavender, jasmine, passionflower or willow for this purpose. Be sure to research ANY plant that you plan to work with or ingest and talk to your doctor. Make sure it won't cause a generally negative reaction, allergic reaction, or render your medications ineffective. Teas I find a hot cup of herbal tea before bed helps my anxiety and quality of sleep and therefore helps me dream. There are also certain kinds of tea that make me dream very intensely, and there are spells involving tea for dreaming. You may consider this as an option and it may required some experimenting to see what reacts with your body the best. This is a specific usage of the plants I mentioned above that you may consider. See the warning in bold above before working with any plants. Sachets A sachet specifically is a very common spell structure to increase good sleep and dreaming. Doing a sleep or dream sachet spell is an option you might consider to ultimately increase the rate at which you dream. The plants mentioned above in purple text may be used in a sachet spell but also see the warning in bold above before working with any plants. Other spells Sachet spells are the most common form of spell I feel I see for sleep/dreaming but I'm sure there are other structures of spells used for this purpose. You might also consider creating your own spell for this purpose if you're at that point in your path. The plants mentioned above in purple text may be used in a spell for dreaming but also see the warning in bold above before working with any plants.

Final Thoughts

Once you get in the habit of recording and possibly interpreting any dreams you have and work towards increasing the rate you dream a sort of snowball effect will eventually kick in. You record what you do dream, putting your intent and energy towards dreaming more so you dream a little more often. You'll also be pushing your energy towards this when you try to increase dreaming with one of the methods above even if it's a less successful method. Hopefully you'll eventually find a method that works, increasing your dreams by a lot and giving you more material to record. Then the cycle starts again. It might take weeks or months but keep at it! Dream work is beautiful and very powerful. It's unfortunately overlooked I feel. Good luck! I hope this helps.

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Dream Work In Witchcraft: What is it?

Part 1 of a Series, for more search #Oneironautics on my blog or leave me an ask.

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Dream Work or Dream Magick can refer to a number of different things from the perspective of witchcraft and the occult practitioner. This can include but is not limited to: 

Lucid Dreaming - Also known as Oneironautics. The act of becoming aware that you are in a dream. Often the lucid dreamer is able to interact with or even control their dream from inside of it to cultivate a desired experience.

Dream Interpretation - Analyzing dreams to derive meaning from symbolism and interaction that occurs while dreaming.

Dream Divination/ Prophetic Dreams - Also known as Oneiromancy. Often paired with interpretation, the act of gaining premature or previously unknown insight on a situation through dreams. 

Dream Spirit Communication - Sending or receiving direct communication from or to spirits in a dreamscape. This can include meeting entities, spirits, gods, etc for the first time, hearing their voice, receiving a sign or confirmation, or even meeting with them face to face. 

Dream Shadow Work- Exploring the subconscious and fears through nightmares 

and Dream Spellcasting - utilizing dreams to fuel or fulfill a spell. Included in this is intentionally using lucid dreaming to astral travel or cast a particular spell in the dream world. 

Next Up: Terms & Vocabulary

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Garden Witch tip:

If you can't figure out how much to water a plant a good indicator is how thick the stem is.

Sage has very thin stems even when it is getting big:

Plants with similar stems probably don't need that much water, but do need a well drained pot.

But plants with bigger stems like these flowers:

They need A LOT of watering, or their pot should retain the water, so you can put them in something that doesn't drain.

The stems above are only in about 4 inches of soil, but they stand almost 3ft tall because of how much I water them.

If you are ever in doubt of course Google is you best friend 😉🌱🌿🍃

** this does not go for succulents and desert plants, their stems are thick to retain water, they don't need much at all.

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The infamous I want peach cobbler in a week spell. Usually its for pie and usually it’s not put into practice. But I felt a need.

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your dream language

love dreams very much , but can not understand people who think all people's dreams share same language . not to say someone else can not at all help understand , but there not really any " universal " dream language . even themes that common can differ in meaning , if person get dreams like that at all .

suggest start learn your dream language .

how ? well ... this do take time . first step is record dreams . draw , write , record self narrate - whatever work . 

some dreams sadly fade , so might have days that wake up and ready record , but hardly remember anything . can try retrace steps , if remember one little piece . might sudden remember more as go through day , too . but would also say that even if not remember more , if only know one little thing . still worth record . you want set self up to remember more , and really only get there by use what already have .

might take long time before see patterns , or might have patterns very quick . start check in with dream journal , see if anything catch eye yet . weekly , monthly , not really important how often long as easy enough to do this . 

if have trouble figure out details record , here some ideas :

POV/self - you main character , or just watch other dream characters as if movie ? if main character , did you have role ? fearsome mage , tired retail worker , child self , so on . if just watch , then who ? see below :

characters - anyone that know from real life ? what about actor , someone on youtube , or character from fiction ? do characters seem like real people with real reaction , or complete not respond until right things happen ?

communication - how do you and characters communicate ? do people say words out loud , sign , or just " know " ? do you communicate in different way from characters ?

place - is this place somewhere that know in real world , or something that not exist ? could this place exist , or break physics rules ? did things not line up , like dream characters call ancient ruin when very clearly mall from 2000s ? did things ever change after you turn around , or maybe door lead somewhere random ?

setting - able identify time period ? do you or characters recognise this as game , and do visuals match ? 

events - what actually happen ? did you just " know " backstory ? did characters change , or swap out for different ones ?

feelings - how those events make feel ? did feel detach , or very emotional involve ?

to put these together , will share dream :

2022 , 23rd july - inside thrift store , try look for books about identify plants . have hard time understand what look at , and somewhere in mix see animal and bug pictures . decide give up and leave store , which no one notice or answer . when outside , that store not in sight - instead stand on big hill with waterfall in background , in orange autumn colours . see someone and ask for help , but he look very nervous . he say need visit city , and frantic dash away . sudden feel need chase down , and run after .

nothing special about this character , and shadow just self , so neither get special detail . not need write dreams in long either , if bullet point or TV script work better then do that ! some dreams need more than one type record , or different one from usual - try keep together much as can :) 

so that all good , but how learn dream language ? 

as check back on dream journal , see if things happen more than once . what in common between these ?

do you wander and feel detach more in some places than others ? say more detach in work dreams - if you do work in real life , what could this say about work situation ? do good things happen in these dreams or not , and how do you and others react ?

example : have very bad time in schools , so find either feel detach and wander around , or get harrass by young kids as if try again from start in adulthood . interest tidbit : detach wander dreams have more impossible setting , with things that could not exist in real school . hurt dreams take place in schools that mirror familiar ones .

if same person show up often in dreams , who ? do they make feel good or bad ? how do you interact ?

example : often dream about abuser , so in dreams almost always get in fight . not fun , but brain have those feelings and need let out .

do same or similar event happen many times , like pets talk to you in plain english ? could this reflect something you need process , or in some way mourn ? or maybe this something that make very happy , and brain return for joy !

do you play same role again and again , like princess that get kidnap ? how do you feel in this role ? role not always mean something , but if play same one many times , that might just reflect something important . hint hint , eggs . ;)

do some actions seem force you wake , like if close eyes ? this not always have meaning in self , but can help if ever able control dream and want quick out .

in your culture , do anything you dream about have meanings ? if sparrows have deep meaning for you , then this might reflect in dream .

remember also that dream language can change and grow , and not every dream have meaning . some dreams just happen so brain can process and file new information , or give chance practise skill without real world consequence . these still important , and think should record just like any other - even if only because hilarious see words like " hello kitty's death ray " . :)

happy dreams !

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me as a witch

monday: *meditates for 5 minutes*

tuesday:

wednesday:

thursday: *drinks chamomile tea*

friday: MAKES AMULETS FOR FRIENDS CLEANSES AND WARDS MY ENTIRE HOUSE CHARGES MY CRYSTALS TAKES A HERBAL BATH BLOGS FOR THREE HOURS HARVESTS HERBS TO DRY CREATES SIGILS SHIELDS AND GROUNDS

saturday:

sunday: idk I guess I’ll… light a candle or something

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Intent magic vs Animism magic

The underlying logic of most traditional witchcraft is animism. Animism in the sense that the physical components of witchcraft have spiritual agency and intention that the witch is able to cajole one way or another to their purpose. And furthermore, the power and agency of any target is taken to account as potentially having innate or obtained protections that could backfire should the spell be wrong somehow. Whereas much of modern witchcraft is not animist, and the only figure with agency are the humans involved: the witch and their target–a target whose will is assumed so weak that it must be protected by maxims. These stark differences dog much of the interwitch discourse. The opposite world views are chocked up as elitism by the modern witches against the traditional. And traditional witches dodge the insult that they are still in training wheels for using tools and components. The modern witches say my greatest witch tool is my mind whereas a traditional witch may say a tool is a useful constructed object (usually manmade but a few animals make tools too). Or the idea that magic does not work without taking major mundane actions to further them. That requirement coming from there being less effort taken in the spell itself and perhaps no assistance petitioned from the spirits of the materials employed so much the effort is taken non mystically. Most modern witches say spell components are mere props. Whereas traditional witches often befriend their spell components. I will never say modern witchcraft doesn’t work. It follows its own logic premised on inspiration. Verily inspiration is quite powerful and I won’t knock it. And the logic of inspiration carried out is acting in accord which is very effective combined with the tools of theatrics based off of personal correspondences. It may even be possible to reconcile the two. Many traditional witches in addition to their animistic approach also follow through with acting in accord which doesn’t have to hurt, but can limit the possibilities noticed for the result or can alternately pave the way to allow the animistic powers to flow more productively.

Additionally, traditional witches can find ways to work without tools and materials after learning to contact the spirits of those materials indirectly without the presences of the objects for immediate relating. Witches can use the animist power of words or strengthen their ability to harness fate to be able to do it with energy or psychic ability. But certainly it’s not only their own intent carried out, but a cooperation or dictation of the other powers that be to that end. So basically, there is more than one system. I use the terms modern and traditional merely as stand in identifiers. Of course there are those that identify with one or the other but have differing metaphysical practices than I used for demonstration purposes.

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🪐What In The World Is Warding?!���

Howdy! It’s your friendly neighborhood witch here: Let’s talk about warding!

Warding is any form of magick intended to protect a person/place/thing from a negative entity/energy

Warding is most often used in either a personal sense, or a spatial sense, let’s do a deep dive into what that actually means

SPATIAL WARDING ~~~~~

Spatial wards are put on SOMETHING or a PLACE/SPACE/NON HUMAN THING with the intention to protect it. This could be warding your room or entire house by contacting the egregore, this could be casting a circle when you are about to do a spell, etc etc. This is not the same as warding a piece of jewelry though, that goes into the next type of warding: Personal Warding

PERSONAL WARDING ~~~~

Personal wards are created with the intent to protect a person (most likely YOU, the practitioner). These are most often portable/wearable like jewelry or in some cases crystals! A lot of the time, you can create some wards to be both personal and spatial, in essence killing two birds with one stone

Keep reading

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Crystals 101: Crystal Grids

Unit 5 of Crystals 101 (Masterpost)

What is a crystal grid?

A crystal grid is an arrangement of crystals that helps set focus and amplify intention.

You can use a crystal grid for:

Increasing the power of crystals.

Cleansing and/or charging crystals.

Creating protective boundaries.

Raising the vibration of your space.

Spells, or to act like a spell. Any intention you can put into a spell, you can put into a crystal grid.

There are three (3) main components of a crystal grid:

1. The focus/main stone.

The stone in the center of the grid. It is the main base of energy and mixes with other crystals to create the desired effect. it is akin to the heart or control center of the grid.

2. The way stones.

These stones surround the main stone. They modify the energy of the main stone to get it closer to the desired effect—they will follow the main stone's example while adding their own flavor. The way stones can be a mixture of many different kinds of stones in order to have energy diversity.

3. The perimeter.

This is an optional outer ring of stones used to protect the grid.

The grid itself...

... is a symbol, sigil, glyph, or sacred geometry that the main and way stones are laid upon in order to give energy a path to travel.

... is able to make changes to the energy of the crystals depending on the layout used.

... leads all the crystals' energy to work together.

How to make a crystal grid:

Pick your intention. Try to make it clear and concise.

Pick your crystals. Do it intuitively, but still make sure they correspond with your intention.

Pick you layout. Again, use intuition, but try to keep it consistent with your desires.

Place the stones. Start with your main stone, then work from that with the way stones. A good place to start is by placing one directly above, below, to the right, and to the left of the main stone. if using many way stones, it's best if the grid is symmetrical, or at least harmonious, so the energies stay in balance.

Activate your grid using an energy directing tool (e.g., wand, pendulum, hand). Draw energy lines from one crystal to the next, connecting them all together in one giant lattice. Visualize light coming from the tip of your tool, and in your mind's eye, see light beams connecting the crystals. This allows your crystals to start working and marks the beginning of your grid activation.

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Types of Witches series: 💤Dream Witches💤

Dream witches are witches who primarily work with dreams of course. They can receive and send messages through dreams, and sometimes practice lucid dreaming. 

Dream Witch resources:

💤Dream Work Correspondences Masterpost

💤 Lucid Dreaming Masterpost

💤 Dream Oil

💤 Putting Things Under Your Pillow

💤 Restful Sleep & Sweet Dreams Spell Bottle

💤 Dream Witch Tip

💤 Remembering & Recalling Dreams Spell

💤 Bad Dreams Be Gone Bottle Spell

💤 Nightmare Magic

💤 Lucid Dreaming Tips

💤 “Sleep Better And With Nicer Dreams” Sigil

💤 Dream Witch Tip

💤 Peaceful Dreams Jar Spell

💤 “I Will Find Answers In My Dreams” Sigil

💤 Oneiromancy

💤 Dream Witch Tip

💤 Lucid Dreaming Tips

💤 “I Remember My Dreams” Sigil

💤 Dream Key

💤 The Spices Of Sleep Tea

💤 How To Send Dreams

💤 Bedtime Soak

💤 Dream Message Spell

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What I Burn When I Need Help

Burning herbs can be more than just cleansing. It can help banish, invoke, encourage, invite, and much more. A lot of times, when I feel like I'm struggling with a specific issue (with myself or with what is around me), I find myself drawn to burning single herbs to help me get back into the headspace I need to be.

Cinnamon: When I feel like I'm falling behind in my shadow work, I burn a bit of a stick of cinnamon to help encourage healing and mindfulness.

Dried Apple Peel: Apples are symbols of friendship and love. When I feel particularly down on myself or lonely, burning apple peels can help invoke an increased sense of patience towards myself.

Pine Needles: Burning pine needles welcomes new beginnings and fresh starts. Super helpful for things like breakups, graduation, and repelling negativity.

Rice: A bit tricky to burn! I tend to hold two or three in tweezers ad just roast the ends for a moment or two and waft that little bit of smoke around my space. Burnt rice invites financial gain, and protects you from negative energies.

Rose Petals: Rose petals invoke soft, genuine feelings of love and appreciation.

Rose Thorns: On the other hand, burning rose thorns protects you from people who have terms for their love, and protects you from people who lie about their affections for you.

Rosemary: This herb encourages good health, and is helpful in strengthening memory when burnt. It's also effective as a shower/bath additive!

Tangerine Peel: I use tangerine peels because that's what I have, but orange peels work the same! Burning these citrus peels invites more energy into your space, and can be great for sleepy mornings and early morning college classes.

As always, practice in a cleansed environment and do your research! There are many, many things that can be burnt for great effects. Blessed Be! <3

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🍄 Mushroom Correspondences 🍄

Please keep in mind that even if you know that a certain type of mushroom is edible that there are a lot of mushrooms that are toxic that look very similar to those that are edible, so make sure you are positive on the ID of a mushroom before consuming.

Edible - *Toxic* - Psychedelic

Bay Bolete- Creativity

Mild flavour, can be used as a dye

Black Trumpet- prosperity, luck

Rich, smoky

Button Mushroom- purification, happiness, cleansing

bland, soaks up flavour

Chanterelle- happiness, fertility, prosperity

Nutty or fruity taste

Chicken of the Woods- prosperity, luck

Similar taste to chicken

Common Mushroom- purification, peace, prosperity, happiness

*Death Cap*- baneful magick, binding, protection

Enoki- protection, banishing

Smoky, peppery

*Fly Agaric*- divination, astral travel, energy work, hexes, and protection.

Giant Puffball- healing, peace, happiness

Very bland

Honey Fungus- wisdom, divination (cook completely before eating!!)

Nutty

*Inky Cap*- cleansing, banishing, protection. (edible but can be fatal with taken with alcohol, probably better to avoid)

Lion's Mane- protection, banishing, courage, happiness

Similar to crab meat

Magic Mushroom- creativity, energy work, astral travel

Morel- happiness, luck, prosperity

True morels- necromancy, spirit work, protection

Earthy or nutty flavour

Oyster Mushroom- fertility, growth, love

Similar to oysters

Penny Bun- divination, energy work, spirit work

Meaty

Saffron MilkCap- growth, healing, cleansing, prosperity

Nutty or fruity taste

Shiitake- healing, strength, fertility

Meaty and smoky

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i really wish more witches and practitioners talked about the different types of energy and how you can use them. yeah sure theres the basic elemental energies and everyone knows about using “light” and “imagine a ball of light” and whatnot. but did you know you can use shadows? did you know you could use atoms specifically? did you know you could use colors? the void? the universe? stars? were you know that anything that has energy, can be used in energy work?? because when i was a novice, i didn’t. and it made me sad/disconnected because the whole “imagine a white light protecting you” didn’t resonate with me well. but what did was the abundant scale of color, and usage of shadows and darkness.

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Low Effort Witchcraft 💤

one of the largest misconceptions in witchcraft is that you constantly have to be doing huge elaborate rituals and spells that take lots of preparation

💤 emoji spells. they might feel ridiculous, but posting them somewhere safe or texting them to yourself or a friend can be a nice little boost

💤 don’t have the energy to create a sigil? sigilscribe.me creates them when you type in your intent

💤 music. perhaps you don’t have the energy or time to dedicate to writing your own chants for a spell. music can both add energy to a spell for you, and have the words you wish to use.

💤 your daily rituals have power to cleanse. from brushing your teeth to washing your hair, even clipping toenails. little moments of self care can be magical if you do them with intent

💤 scented soaps can be used in place of herbal baths if you have neither the time nor energy to do a full on bath. 

💤 stir drinks in clockwise to increase a quality, and counterclockwise to decrease something. 

💤 choose drinks or food with correspondences, and each bite has intention. 

💤 sleep with your tarot deck, shuffle the cards. doing so will help bond you with the cards, even if you don’t have the energy to do a full reading. 

💤 hold onto your favorite crystal, whether its wearing it or keeping it in your pocket. a little energy work can go a long way to keeping you magic in shape

💤 if you enchant your makeup on a good energy day, you can use those enchanted objects every day after. 

💤 if you need a curse but don’t have the energy to perform anything elaborate, the evil eye works in a pinch.

💤 cleansing an area can be a heavy task, setting up the herbs to burn or spritzing salt water can be more effort to prepare than it should be. ringing bells to cleanse and area works just as well.