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• Benefits for health: improve digestion

• Benefits for health: treat skin irritation (like eczema, bruises, scars, scrapes)

• Benefits for health: antitheft

•  White: peace, healing
• Red: sex, love, passion
• Yellow intellectual movement
• Rose: disappearance of disagreements  

• Benefits for health: sooth stomach problems, calm headache, calm nerves

• Benefits for health: astringent,  cooling (topically), demulcent, relieves itchiness

• Benefits for health: antimicrobial, aromatic, astringent, mild stimulant, relieves wind

• Benefits for health: bitter tonic, diuretic, liver cleanser,  mild laxative

• Benefits for health: fight cold, calm stomach, suppress nausea

• Benefits for health:  antioxidant, heart  tonic,  lowers  blood  pressure, relaxes blood vessel

• Benefits for health: antidepressant, antispasmodic, insect repellent, relaxant, relieves  wind, topical  anti-viral

• Benefits for health: calm headache, stimulate appetite, aid digestion, antiseptic,  antispasmodic,  diaphoretic, mild analgesic, mild bitter, mild sedative, relives wind

• Benefits for health: antacid, anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, astringent

• Red: passion, peace, welfare  
• Yellow: commitments  
• White: spiritual love

• Benefits for health: calm headache, stimulate circulatory, nerve and digestive tonic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antispasmodic

• Benefits for health: calm anxiety,  antimicrobial, antioxidant, astringent,         digestive tonic, oestrogenic, general  tonic,reduces sweating

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• Wicca Herbal Magic by Lisa Chamberlain
• Charms, Spells and Herbs by Esteban Portela
• The Green Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
• Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch by Rachel Patterson

• Set your social media to private
• Do a clean up of your public posts
• Block everyone of your friends who have voiced pro-government sentiments. You don’t know who will sell you out.
• Do a check of your facebook groups. If you’re part of anti-admin groups, make sure it’s legit and not a fake group used to redtag.
• Increase your email security
• Stop signing petitions vs terror bill on change.org as this is what they’re using to redtag (remember the influx of fake accounts? Yeah)
• Instead, send emails to your representatives using a vpn
• Have your lawyer’s number on standby
• Be aware of your rights (i will post a refresher here later on)
• Look out for your friends and family

I have listed first the four essential tools traditionally used in more formal Wiccan rituals, noted with an asterisk. The others can add to a ritual but are not necessary.

• This is set in the eastern corner of the altar, to the right of the incense, and represents the element of Air.
• Athames are traditionally double-edged and black-handled, but a single-edged blade is safer (some Wiccan traditions begin the ritual in the east and not the north, and so use the athame for Fire in the south), However, the blade that corresponds with the tarot suit of Air seems to me most natural in the east.
• You can obtain an athame from a specialist magickal shop or online. Alternatively, buy an ornamental knife in souvenir stores or in antique or hunting equipment shops, or you can simply use a carved silver paper knife. The latter is ideal for a miniature altar.

• The sword is a more elaborate form of the athame and is usually reserved for larger-scale indoor or outdoor ceremonies. Like the athame, the sword is placed in the east ((or in the alternative tradition, the south) of the altar, to the right of the incense (the left if you have the athame as well). It is a tool of the Air element if set in the east.
• Swords can be used for drawing magical circles on a forest floor, in the earth, or in snow (my favorite). They can also be used greeting the Guardians- the traditional protectors of the four directions- in formal rituals. The Guardians are often regarded as four Archangels, four deities, four Power animals, or as the Elemental Spirits, who signify the four forces: Earth, Air, Water and Fire.
• You can easily obtain reproduction ceremonial swords that are not sharp. Military museums may sell ornate ones.

• The chalice or ritual goblet represents the Water element and is placed in the west of the altar, to the right of the bowl of water. On a smaller altar, it can be used to contain the water instead of a bowl.
• The knife, sword, or wand is ceremonially plunged into the chalice as a symbolic union of the God and Goddess energies, which is the climax of a ritual (especially love rituals).
• The chalice is also central to the sacred cakes and ale rite that occurs at the end of very formal ceremonies and is in this case filled with red wine or fruit juice that is blessed and passed around the group to drink, or carried around by the High Priestess (who represents Goddess energies) for everyone to drink. The chalice is traditionally made of silver, but you can also use crystal glass, stainless steel, or pewter. This corresponds with the Water suit in the tarot.

• The pentacle- a pentagram or five-pointed star enclosed within a circle - is a symbol of the Earth and is placed in the north of the altar.
• The pentacle may be found as a freestanding item but is more usually painted on a flat round dish or disc. The pentagram itself is protective or empowering, depending on which way it is drawn, and has many uses in ritual.
• You can buy a pentacle dish made of metal, wood, or pottery from a New Age store, or paint or etch your own pentagram/pentacle on a plain glass or ceramic dish.If you prefer you can trace an invisible invoking or attracting pentagram on any plain dish with the index finger of the hand you write with each time before use.
• This corresponds with the Earth tarot suit of pentacles or coins.

• The wand is a symbol of Fire in many traditions and should be placed in the south of the altar, to the right of the candle. Wands can be obtained from New Age stores or online,  but if possible, try to handle a wand before buying it in order to make sure you’re choosing the one that’s right for you. Alternately, you can use a long, clear quartz crystal , pointed at one end and rounded at the other, as a wand.
• While wands are traditionally made of wood, they can also be made of metal, and especially copper. However, if you don’t find the right wand in stores or online, you can easily make your own. The wand is used for enchanting or filling a symbol with power in a spell or ritual by making circles over a symbol (clock wise for attracting energies and counter-clockwise for banishing energies). It can also be used for raising and releasing magical power.

The bell stands in the north of the circle, to the right of the salt, and is an Earth symbol. Use silver or gold colored bell or a Tibetan pair of bells you can strike together. The bell is often rung nine times at the beginning and end of each ritual standing in the south of the circle, facing north, or at each of the four directional points to call the Guardians.

• This is a three-legged iron pot. It is one of the most versatile items of magic since it can be set in the center of a large space indoors or outdoors or in its true elemental position in the north. In less-formal rituals, it can sometimes form the central focus of a ritual instead of an altar, and this works especially effectively outdoors.
• Cauldrons can be bought in New Age stores, by mail order, or from  antique markets. If you look around cookware or even gardening centers you may find your cauldron under a different name.