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🌿✨Birch magick ✨🌿

✨Its bark can be burnt for energetic and physical purification.

✨You can carve runes or ogham sigils on it.

✨Its oil is excellent for love spells, and it can be used to anoint candles or diluted to wear as a magical perfume.

✨Offerings if birch wreaths can be made to water spirits to ask that storms or excessive rain be delayed or averted.

✨You can use birch wands to invoke Freya or Thor.

✨It’s associated with springtime and fertility, so you can use to decorate your altar during Beltane or Ostara.

✨It also helps invoke Eostre, Bel, Oengus and the Dagdha.

✨It helps to invoke protection against darkness.

🕊16 days of Shadow Work

✨ Here are the prompts as I promised! They are timeless, whenever they find you, feel free to use them.

Feel free to share your thoughts with me!!

✧ Day 1 What do I need to stop running away from? Why am I always running away from this and what is going to happen if I face it head-on?

✧ Day 2 What is my definition of failure? What’s something that I have previously failed at and how did it make me feel? How can I deal with failure in a healthy way?

✧ Day 3 How do I lie to myself everyday? Why am I doing this and what am I trying to avoid?

✧ Day 4 If I could say one thing to the person who hurt me the most, what would it be and why? How would I feel afterwards? 

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Plants & Herbs Magical Uses - Masterlist

Here you'll find a list of herbs and plants and their magical uses, including some tips and superstitions. The list will be updated, if you have any suggestions or want a specific herb to be added, let me know.

Basil Bay Leaf Catnip Cedar Cinnamon Cloves Heather Ivy Lavender Rosemary Poppy Saffron Sage Star Anise Thyme Turmeric Wormwood Yarrow

🌊 Water Magic 🌊

Water is a powerful tool in witchcraft. Whether you collect it from the weather, the ocean, a lake, or from your own sink or shower, it can be used in many spells and incantations and has strong magical properties… 

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Water Correspondences

🌊 Water: love, banishing, beauty, calm, change, compassion, creativity, emotions, femininity, fertility, flexibility, healing, intuition, meditation, psychic powers, purification, dreams, sensitivity, sadness, life

🌊 Ocean / sea water: vastness, fear, power, life, protection

🌊 Rain water: growth, power, regeneration, rebirth

🌊 Storm water: clarity, strength, purification, banishing

🌊 Lake water: abundance, unknown, wealth, spirituality

🌊 Swamp water: disease, invisibility, connection, links

🌊 River water: charging, energy, movement, power

🌊 Pond water: limitations, silence, conjuration, immobility

🌊 Melted ice: creativity, growth, harmony, motivation, purification

🌊 Melted hail: pain, curse, bad intentions, anger

🌊 Melted snow: change, balance, endings, healing, power, purity

🌊 Morning dew: love, charm, fertility, sensitivity

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✨ Spells & Magic

- Practice daily energy cleansing under the shower.  - If you have a bathtub, create bath spells to give you power. - Open windows when it rains.  - Make sprays with specific herbs for your home or your bed.  - Listen to waterfall / rain playlists.  - Charge jars of water under the moonlight to collect moon water. - Dress with blue colors to use the power of water. 

15 Herbs for Your First Aid Kit

1. Calendula: • Cuts & Scrapes • Minor Burns • Inflammation

2. Clove: • Toothaches • Strained Muscles • Flu Aches

3. Chamomile: • Indigestion • Rashes • Inflammation

4. Eucalyptus: • Antiseptic • Insect Bites • Minor Wounds • Minor Burns

5. Fennel Seed: • Indigestion • Gas • Bloating • Aids in Breast Milk Production

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Grimoire - Advice for New Witches

Getting Started and Going: “So, you want to be a witch?” Masterpost witchcraft masterpost Beginner Steps for Studying Witchcraft Basic research for beginner Witches “What Is My Path and How Do I Find It?” Tumblr as a resource When learning about witchcraft on Tumblr You're not going to find your spirituality on the internet Library Services for Witchcraft Research Setting Up An Altar Space Altar Building 101 A Beginners Guide to Spellwork 7 Ways to Strengthen Your Powers How to connect with your Spirit Guides Craft Names Magical Names Actually useful shit to have as a witch What to do when you first decide to start practicing witchcraft How you can subtly incorporate witchcraft into your daily life Misconceptions for beginner witches Witchy activities to strengthen your craft & relationship with yourself What Does It MEAN? Please read this if you practice witchcraft Witchy Things You Probably Did Before Learning/Realizing You Were A Witch Are you a natural witch? Ways to get closer to your craft Buying Your First Tarot Deck A beginner's guide to shadow work 20 ways to enhance your magic Focus - How to develop your Craft Things You Do Not Have to Be In Order to Be a Witch simple exercises for baby witches Grimoire Resources Use what you have at home Beginner Caution About Wicca Common Witch Misconceptions Pt. 1 Common Witch Misconceptions Pt. 2

Things to Beware of: The Dangers of the Perception of Witchcraft Why the “Law of Attraction” is actually a toxic mindset The Law of Attraction, Prosperity Gospel, and Other Ways of Controlling How People Think You Don't Need to do Shadow Work Witchy Mistakes to Avoid SPIRITUAL TRAPS Why Witchcraft Might Not Be Working For You practicing safe witchcraft Safety 101 in witchcraft Covens vs Cults: How to tell if its a harmful cult or a helpful coven! Cults? In my life? It’s more likely than you think. “Hey. Don’t join cults.” Example red flags.

Advice from Seasoned Witches: Practicing witchcraft when your religion tells you you’ll go to hell 101 Your Witchcraft Isn’t Ancient (and why that’s ok). What to do with your witchy motivation What to Do if Witchcraft Drains You When to take a break from witchcraft Why skepticism is important in witchcraft Fighting consumerism in magic How to be a functional witch Witchcraft, and all of its subcategories, is individualistic at heart Advice for the Beginner: You don't have to become a full-time witch Advice for the beginner: Start with the herbs you know Advice for the beginner: Don't get it until you need it Advice for the Beginner: Look for the Mundane before you assume it's Magical Advice for the Beginner: Know what you're going to do with your spell remains Advice for the Beginner: Be cautious, but don't live in fear How Correspondences Work The problem with correspondences Developing Your Own Correspondences Discipline in Witchcraft Covens How Find Safe Groups, Teachers, and Authors in the Pagan and Witch Community Tips for Discernment How to Become a More Confident Witch Doing Your Own Research

Just a Bunch of Tips: Big Compilation of Useful Witchy Tips Tips for baby witches, lazy witches, tired witches, or any witch really Witch Tips Basic Witch Tips & Advice 11 witchy tips for a healthy life "Ten witch tips I wish someone had given me before I started practicing magic" basic ass witch tips

Advice From Me: Books and websites to jumpstart your witchcraft journey We never have to be on our own Let me put your minds at ease You don't have to do it all Let's talk about fear Witchcraft "Rules" Not being a hereditary witch Anyone can be a witch Simple advice: start simple What I would tell my younger self So what do witches "look" like? Witchcraft is messy business.

Basics of Kitchen and Cottage Witchcraft

Kitchen witches believe that the kitchen is a sacred place where all of the magick happens. They focus on the use of edible ingredients and kitchen tools.  A cottage witch is a witch that brings magick into the house and are protectors of the hearth and home. They bring cheer and warmth to every room they enter. Their focuses are on the family, home, and daily needs. Both the cottage and Kitchen witch believe that by honoring the home it honors the Gods and Goddesses. They bring magick into everyday life and daily chores.

Ways a Kitchen and Cottage witch can bring magick into a home:

Create a kitchen altar

Stock your shelves with herbs and spices

Bring maximum feng-shui to your home

Keep the home physically and spiritually clean

Paint the house walls in colours that bring happiness, warmth, and coziness

When making a sandwich put mustard or mayo sigils on it

When making meals add herbs that correspond to your magickal needs

Decorate the home according to the sabbats

Brew some special teas

Make your own candles, salves, and tinctures.

Make offerings to Gods and Goddesses of hearth and home.  

Ask your deities to keep your house safe and healthy.

Create your own recipes and add your own touch of magick to them

Put intent into everything you cook and clean

Make an incantation or short song to sing while you stir.

Inscribe your wooden spoons with sigils  

Carve your wooden shelves with sigils - carve them at the bottom of the cupboard to remain discreet

Craft oils, incense, soaps, potions, and salves.

Make herbal remedies

Chant while cleaning or preparing a meal

Use numerology in their practices by the number of times they stir or the number of times they knead dough.

During the mead moon, brew mead with magickal intent.

Decorate the home with your own art or art done by your children, poems, knits, woodcraft’s, paintings, quilts, diy’s, or tapestries.

Enchant your crafts.

Use weather magick, candle magick, ribbon charms, and anything else used to add magick to your home.

Honour the ancestors.

Bless the home.

Start a garden and will it with organic and in season fruits and vegetables.

Charge herbal oils by moonlight or candlelight to heal, bless the home or to clean and protect the woodwork she polishes with it.

Scatter charm bags, witches ladders, chimes, and bells around the home.

Grow an indoor jungle

Learn herbal remedies to treat MINOR injuries

If you work with meat make sure to thank and honour the animal it came from.

Sing or play music to raise good vibrations

Bake and cut cookies in shapes to match your intentions

Provide someone in need with a free meal

Volunteer at a local soup kitchen to bring magick into it

What their altar may display:

Candles

Tools used for sacred use

Four elements

Statues of the honoured deities

A doll weaved of corn

A kitchen witch’s altar is often displayed in the corner of the kitchen and is not permanent

Food made by the witch left as an offering

Some beliefs followed:

Magick is not used to inflict pain on others or block anyone’s free will

Believe in living simple lives

Believe in using organic items, products that aren’t animal tested, recycling, and composting.

Creativity is a form of devotion

Keep peace in the household

May the home always contain good food, good talk, and good company

Welcome guests into the home with open arms

Cottage and Kitchen witch superstitions/wives tales:

Stir clockwise to bring good luck

Never stir with a knife as it is considered bad luck

Place a piece of amethyst near the stove top to make the food cooked there tastes better

If an apple bursts in the oven while baking it means good luck is on its way for the cook

Eggs that are cracked while they boil is a sign that visitors are on their way

Dropping silverware means that company is coming

Spilling water on the table cloth means that rain is on its way

Seeing a spider in the house is good luck, killing it is bad luck

Wild animal tracks in the snow encircling your house is a sign of good luck and protection

When your cupboard doors are left opens it means that people are gossiping about you

If a broom drops across the doorway it means that you will soon head off on a journey

If you spill salt throw it over your left shoulder to undo any bad luck

To keep evil spirits away chop an onion in half and place it on the window sill

Chosen tools:

Wooden spoons

Knife

Bowls

Cooking pot or cauldron

A ritual knife used to only cut spiritual ties

A Fire place

Broom

Mortar and pestle

Kettle

Jars and bottles

Sewing kit

Cook books

Spells are cast to bring:

Healing

Prosperity

Protection

Abundance

Happiness

Fertility

Harmony

Peace

Deities worked with:

Hestia

Frigga

Brighid

Demeter

May your house stay warm and full of magick!

==Moonlight Academy==

crystals every witch should have

every crystal has a vibration and an affect on a person. certain crystals prevent negative energies, whereas others attract love. these these are the top 5 crystals every witch should own. (in my opinion)

🌙rose quartz rose quartz is a very beautiful stone, a crystal of unconditional love. it represents tenderness, healing, nourishment, and comfort. i suggest using this crystal in any love spell.

🌙selenite selenite can evoke an immense amount of protection from foreign realms. It is an extremely spiritual stone, as it dispels negative energy. selenite is a crystallized form of gypsum. it can clear, open, and activate the crown and higher chakras, making it excellent for all types of spiritual work.

🌙citrine citrine is a yellow/orange variety of quartz. it is a powerful gem, as it is well known for it’s cleansing abilities. it can be used to cleanse you, your magickal tools, and other crystals. it can also diffuse a situation or disturbance in your home, such as nightmares.

🌙amethyst amethyst is a light to dark purple variety of quartz. it helps deepen meditation, improves psychic ability, and aids in the remembrance of dreams. wearing the crystal, placing it on your pillow, nightstand, or altar will produce the greatest effect. it is a good offering to any gods or goddesses you believe in.

🌙moonstone ruled by the moon, this milky white in color crystal aids in dream recall and increases intuition. it calms emotions, like rose quartz, and benefits health. like the moon in the sky, it seems to illuminate.

i believe that crystals choose you. in whatever time you need them most, their vibrations will draw you to them. if you are going to buy a crystal or start a collection, i’d suggest going to your local crystal shop to buy them, unless you know exactly what you want. enjoy your crystal collecting!

love,     mikey♡