🔮BANISHING VS WARDING🔮

(what really is the difference?)

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Banishing is far more specific and direct than warding.

WHY IS IT USED?

Banishing is used to get rid of a particulur energy, spirit, or person. Think carefully before banishing, as it's a strong form of defensive magic.

BANISHING METHODS

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Warding is a gentler form of defensive magic that is used in a more general sense.

WHY IS IT USED?

Warding is used to protect and guard from negative energies of any kind - it redirects energy away from you or your space.

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WARDING METHODS

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I really hope this post was informative and helps some of you! If you have any questions please feel free to message me!🥰💕 merry meet- B

Key Herbs for your Craft

Here are some really basic herbs for your magic workings :

green correspondences

i’ve made a list of all kinds of correspondences you can find in nature and in the supermarket, based on the book The Green Witch ☆

♡ WOODS

♡ FLOWERS 

♡ HERBS

♡ FRUITS

♡ VEGGIES

Healing Onion Stew

Serves one person.

Charge the ingredients and tools and cleanse your workspace as you please.

Chop the onion, garlic, and any fresh herbs and throw them on the pan with some olive oil.  If you have a sigil, form it out of the ingredients (I recommend drawing it on the pan with oil). To charge it, heat until the onions start to look translucent. Pour in the cream, add a pinch of salt, and stir clockwise, imagining your healing process.  The stew is done in 5-10 minutes. .

Serve on bread with some tomato slices or as a side dish.

I made this recipe to combat a cold, but I imagine it can work for other illnesses as well. You could switch out sage and/or thyme for something more specific though.

🕯️🌿 banishing spell to break someone’s hold over you 🌿🕯️

I’m in a time of transition right now, and as I’m going through all of these big changes, I realized that I was being held back by certain unresolved relationships in my past. I designed this spell as a way of letting go of those people and freeing myself of their influences, so that I can move forward without all this emotional baggage. 

What You Will Need:

Optional Components: 

I had two different people I wanted to let go of, so I had two black candles and two pieces of paper. Ordinarily, you should just need one of everything.

Note: This ritual involves setting objects on fire. For this reason, I recommend performing it outside.

Casting the Spell:

This spell is all about your healing and personal growth. It’s not about removing the other person from your life, or wishing any harm on them – it is simply a way of cutting the ties that allow them to control you. Because of this, I find that this spell works best after the person or thing you want to let go of is no longer a part of your life, and after you’ve had some time to process your emotions and allow yourself to grieve. Pain has its place, and sometimes we need to allow ourselves to feel it instead of trying to get rid of it immediately. 

Bedroom Witch Tips

🌿Herb sachets hung above your bed (request herb sachet recipes from me if you’re interested).

🌿Hang Dry herbs upside down in your bedroom (Lavender helps for anxiety and depression… it is very calming or Mugwort for dreams. Mugwort is very invasive, you can find it growing everywhere).

🌿Herbs placed inside your pillow sheet (I place Mugwort leaves inside to active lucid dreams).

🌿Setup an Altar near your bed: add elements of earth, fire, water and air. You can also use your windowsill as an altar.

🌿Place Black Tourmaline under your bed: shields you energetically by taking the electromagnetic frequencies, and instead of absorbing them, tourmaline changes, redirects, cleanses, and purifies the energy. This is how it handles negativity, even energies of psychic attack too!

🌿Place Sigil writings or powders for protection and restful beauty sleep under your mattress.

🌿Keep a dream journal under your pillow! Dreams can help us get a glimpse into our subconscious and the more dreams you write the easier it becomes for you to remember them.

🌿Unless you are allergic, sleep with the window halfway open or cracked to let good energy move around and circulate in your room and keep skin hydrated during the night.

🌿Drink herbal tea before bed each night. (Request free herbal tea recipes from me if interested) Mugwort tea is great to have in the evening before bed to reach high levels of lucid dreaming

🌿Smoking Herbs before bed is great as well. I recommend this book for further reading: Smoke Plants Of North America by M.R. Ross. (Request free Smoke Blend recipes from me if interested). With reverence, Rosemary Milk 🌹

LAVENDER-ROSEMARY-LEMON SHORTBREAD

These little cookies may not look like much, but they’re seriously some of the best ones I ever had. Improvised the recipe but here goes:

Ingredients

- 4,5 dl / 2 cups flour - 200 g dairyfree butter/margarine/other veggie fat - 0,5 dl / 0,25 cups white sugar - 0,5 dl / 0,25 cups unrefined sugar - Zest from organic lemon - Dried lavender - Dried rosemary - A little maple syrup

Instructions

Mix all ingredients except the syrup in a food processor until it’s one big lump of dough.

Roll the dough to a cylinder shape (see pics), cover in plastic and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour.

Turn on the oven to 175 degrees C.

Cut the dough cylinder into 0,5 cm thick discs (well obv you can make them whatever shape you like). Spread them out evenly on a baking tray with some space in between.

Brush the cookies with a little syrup, sprinkle some rosemary on them, and bake in the middle of the oven for like… 8 minutes (keep an eye on them, it’ll differ depending on the oven etc).

Now you’ll never want to eat anything else ever again!

Historical Witchcraft 101: The Compilation

My historical witchcraft series is (for now) finally over! Thanks everyone to all the support I got, I’m really glad you seemed to enjoy those posts as much as I enjoyed making them. Feel free to message me about things you’d like to see from me in the future!

For ease of reference, I thought I’d compile all the posts here:

Spirit Work Terminology

Metawork Terminology Series: [ Energy Work ] [ Astral Work ]

These definitions are not put forward as the only possible meanings, they are simply based on my own experiences and personal definitions. Like my other two posts, there are no citations because these definitions are based on my own experiences and may or may not describe the experiences of others.

BASIC SPIRIT TYPES & CLASSES

Spirit - An organized cluster of energy with at least some level of sentience that has an energy body and in most cases also an astral body. Spirits generally do not inhabit physical bodies unless they are possessing an entity with a physical body, are attached to a vessel, or are reborn as a spirit incarnate.

Vessel - A physical container that helps a spirit manifest on the physical plane.

Spirit incarnate - Any living being with a physical body (usually a human being) whose energy and astral bodies would be classified as a non-human spirit. This most frequently occurs as the result of a non-human spirit being reincarnated as a human, which is how the spirit became incarnated in a physical body.

Spirit species - A variety of spirits who all share many common traits in their general appearance, energy signatures, and other features. Spirits of the same species will generally be able to produce offspring that carry most of the same traits as their parent(s).

Class of spirit species - A broad grouping of many spirit species that are interrelated in terms of their energies and morphological features. They may also possibly share cultural, linguistic, political, regional, and other commonalities.

Deities - A class of spirits who are powerful beyond the scope of most other spirits and who have control over forces in a specific area or the entire universe on a macro scale. (friendly reminder: these are all my personal definitions, not universal ones)

Nature spirits - A very broad class of spirit species that relate to the forces of nature. I consider plant spirits, tree spirits, fae spirits, land spirits, and many elemental spirits to all be types of nature spirits.

Fae (faeries) - The faefolk are a sub-class of nature spirits. The many different fae species have a wide diversity of outward appearances, but they are all distinguishable by the common aspects of their energy signatures that every fae species shares. Fae energy is a specific combination of nature and pure magic energy. Some live on Earth’s physical plane while others reside in any of the many different fae realms across numerous astral planes.

Land spirits - A sub-class of nature spirits who are very closely associated with a certain territory and primarily live to protect that land.

Night spirits - A class of spirit species that are aligned with the nighttime. They are often classed as “demons,” but many are actually just various species of nature spirits. Usually but not always quite dangerous.

Parasite - A class of spirit species who are energy feeders and prey on certain entities as their hosts. Often warded and protected against.

Human spirits (ghosts) - The deceased spirit of a human being. All human spirits are a part of one single spirit species.

Ancestral spirits - A class of spirits who are the ancestors of an entity either from that entity’s current lifetime or across other lives. Typically, the terms “ancestral spirits” and “ancestors” refer to a person’s human ancestors from their current lifetime.

Twin flames - Two entities with energy signatures that are identical, almost identical, or so interrelated in some fashion that they clearly are two halves of a whole. Twin flames being reborn during the same lifetime seems to be rare.

SPIRIT WORK

Metawork - The practice and discipline of the three highly interrelated fields of energy work, spirit work, and astral work.

Spirit work - The practice and discipline of sensing, interacting with, or commanding spirits. A sub-field of metawork. This is not necessarily a type of witchcraft, but can be referred to as witchcraft when spirit work is incorporated into someone’s witchcraft practice. Closely associated with hedge craft. Many other types of magical traditions that are not forms of witchcraft also include spirit work.

Ancestor work - The practice and discipline of working with ancestral spirits. A sub-field of spirit work.

Conjuring - The act of bringing a spirit to a specific location. Conjuring encompasses a wide variety of different methods which can range from voluntary such as using a beacon of energy to request a spirit’s presence to involuntary which magically force a spirit to manifest at the target location.

Banishing - The act of sending a spirit away from a certain area (the opposite of conjuring). Banishing techniques can be voluntary such as communicating or negotiating with a spirit for them to leave or involuntary when magical methods are used to forcefully remove the spirit against their will.

Binding - The act of using magical means to control a spirit’s behavior in some way. Binding is frequently used to ensure that a spirit remains connected to a vessel, but it can also be used to keep a spirit in a general location or prevent them from transgressing certain predetermined rules. It not uncommon for binding to be completely consensual between spirits and spirit workers.

Possession -  When a spirit inhabits and/or takes control over a physical body that is usually controlled and inhabited by someone else. To some, this term implies that a spirit with harmful intentions has forced control over a human being, but in many religions, spirit possession is welcomed and invited. Whether or not being possessed by a spirit is a negative thing usually depends a lot on the specific context and the spirit involved.

Spirit adoption (reverse adoption) - When a spirit wishes to become a spirit companion or live and work with a spirit worker and voluntarily chooses to do so. Adoptions are often facilitated by a spirit adoption center or shop.

SPIRIT ROLES

Spirit spouse - A term usually used to describe a human spirit worker’s spouse who is a spirit or a deity.

Spirit companion - Any spirit and spirit worker who have established some kind of meaningful relationship and who wish to use this term to describe that relationship.

Spirit guardian - A spirit who has taken on the role of protecting something or someone. I typically use this term as a generic way of describing a spirit who spends a lot of time and energy looking after a person or another spirit. It is not uncommon for people to have spirit guardian(s), and sometimes a spirit companion may also wish to act as as a guardian.

Thoughtform - Any spirit who was created by a spirit worker through magical means (whether purposefully or accidentally). “Tulpamancy” comes from the Tibetan word tulpa that relates to practices within Vajrayana Buddhism, so this is not a secular spirit work term that is appropriate for general use.

If any of these definitions resonate with you, feel free to use them but if quoting me or reposting somewhere, please attribute credit back to me. Thanks!

Spell to get over someone

This is for anyone who needs this. I recently went through something with someone and couldn’t seem to get over them no matter how hard I tried, until I did this spell from The Love Magic Book by Gillian Kemp (which is an amazing book, all of her work is). It’s simple and really powerful. “Onions are ruled by the planet Mars and are said to resemble the cosmos. The core is the earth and the heart is the moon.” This spell is best done on a waning moon, since the waning moon takes things (i.e. heartbreak, bitterness, negativity, etc.) away while the waxing moon brings things (i.e. new love, energy, etc.)

Materials:

• 1 blue candle

• 1 raw onion

• large saucer or plate

• Water

• Pot

1. Light a blue candle someplace you will not be disturbed.

2. Sitting in front of the candle, take the onion and gently peel away each layer, placing the pieces on a saucer in front of the candle. If the onion makes you cry, let it– its purging you of pent up emotions and negativity.

3. Once you are done peeling away the onion pieces and they are all on the saucer, leave them there and let the candle burn for 1 hour and then snuff it out.

4. Boil all of the onion pieces in a pot until the water turns yellow, then throw out the water and onion pieces somewhere outside, preferably as far away on your property as possible. Alternatively, throw out the water and bury the onion pieces. As they rot and decompose in the earth, your heartache will ease and you will move on.

We’ve been receiving non-stop asks about the retrogrades, so I figured I’d go ahead and make a post about them in order to have all of the information in one place. 

Q: What is a retrograde? A: 

Go here to find out in you have a planet in retrograde in your natal chart. You’ll see a little chart, look under ‘Zodiac in degrees’. It’ll list a placement, what sign you have in that placement, and the degree your sign in that placement is in. If you have a planet in retrograde, there will be an ‘R’ next to the degree. 

Q: Who will a retrograde effect?  A: A retrograde will effect everyone. However, you will experiences amplified effects if: 

Go here to find out your sun sign and what sign you have in the planets. 

Q: What does it mean when a planet is retrograding in a sign?  A: The dates that a planet is in retrograde will, of course, always match up with a sign. That sign is what the planet is retrograding in. For example, Mercury is in retrograde May 8 - June 11, which is within the Gemini range, so Mercury is retrograded in Gemini. 

Q: How does the sign the planet is retrograded in effect people?  A: The energy of the planet in retrograde will be influenced by the energy of the sign it’s retrograded it. This means that we will feel the planet in retrogrades effects more in the way that the sign it’s retrograded in would. For example, if Mercury is retrograded in Gemini, we will likely want to focus more on our communications, while if Mercury is retrograded in Virgo, we will likely want to focus more on our thoughts. 

Q: What retrogrades? A: All of the planets (excluding Earth), many small satellites and moons, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. Not all of these apply to astrology, though. There will only be information about the planets throughout this post. 

Q: How often do the planets retrograde? / When was the last retrograde date and when is the next retrograde date?  A: 

Q: How will the *planet* retrograde effect people?  A: 

And that concludes this post :-) I believe I addressed all of the most common questions and most important information. If you’ve read through this post and are still confused about something, feel free to send an ask. Also, let me know if you see any errors/misinformation in this post. Thank you for reading! 

I really like this post. It’s very straight forward, simple and easy to understand, even for those who have no clue about astrology.

However, I have to mention that it’s *affect* and not *effect*, when you’re using it as a verb - there’s a context when you can use “effect” as a verb (e.g. “We want to effect a change in public thinking”), but it doesn’t apply to any of the context above. So when in doubt - use “affect” as a verb and “effect” as a noun and not the other way around. (Once again, “affect” can be used as a noun, but the context rarely asks for it - e.g. “He did not share any affect for the poor children.”)

I wouldn’t have mention it if it was not for the fact that “effects” is misused in almost every question. Totally worth the read, though.

Daily Witch Rituals for Busy Witches

I do Pay What You Can Tarot Readings!

Candles 🕯

🕯White - Purity, Peace, Healing, Divination, Substitute for Other Candles

🕯Black - Protection, Banishing, Safety, Hexes

🕯Red - Passion, Lust, Strength, Action, Hexes, Fire

🕯Orange - Creativity, Joy, Legal Matters, Justice, Happiness, Well-Being

🕯Yellow - Joy, Positivity, Memory, Happiness, Sun, Intelligence

🕯Green - Money, Growth, Luck, Earth, Success, Prosperity, Envy 

🕯Blue - Focus, Wisdom, Truth, Forgiveness, Psychic Abilities, Peace, Dreams

🕯Purple - Spiritual Power, Third eye, Psychic Abilities, Energy, Healing

🕯Pink - Love, Care, Healing, Friendship, Attraction, Relationship, Harmony

Shield yourself!

We’ll talk about energy shields in this article, why? Because they’re important in your magic work. You can’t just start to do magic or witchcraft without protecting yourself against “things” out there. And no, I’m not being paranoid.

Basic shield - first of all, create basic shield. This isn’t a matter of a ritual, but matter of your willpower - as everything in magic is, anyway. 

The key to using your willpower is imagination and your will, of course. 

Prepare an energy source. Are you used to use the power of elements? The power of nature? The power of sun? Try to connect with it. Ask it for the energy you’ll need for your shield. 

Now let’s get to shield making: start with simply picture of YOU in your mind. Picture yourself as best as you are able to - basically try to see yourself, feel yourself with closed eyes. Now re-connect with the energy source you chose and use the energy of it - imagine yourself pulling out, drawing out or sucking out the energy you’ll use and picture it covering the space around your body. Make it seem you’re inside of this egg made of energy, that will protect you. And this is important - while you’re creating the egg, think about what the egg is supposed to do - protect you. Nothing evil, nothing bad, nothing that would hurt you won’t enter the eggshell you’re creating. Take your time, this can’t be done in 10 seconds :) 

Once you feel satisfied with your eggshield, make sure there is no hole (basically imagine it being perfectly content). Disconnect yourself from the energy source and once again imagine your shield being perfectly sealed. 

This kind of basic shield requires weekly check ups and occasional fix. 

Two simple ways to improve your shield

Camouflage - you can use the energy of your surroundings and cover the outer layer of your eggshield with it so no one (people who are able to “see”, other magic workers) could tell you have one.

Mirror - you can add a “mirror” layer to your shield that would deflect everything bad sending towards you. 

Enjoy :)

⊱ new moon ritual ⊰

for dedicating a crystal to your spirit guide ♡

the new moon is an excellent time to start new beginnings — so why not start a deeper relationship with your spirit guide or deity? with this easy little ritual you will dedicate a chosen stone of yours to your dear spirit guide or deity so that you can always carry them with you! ♡

you’ll need: a fire proof surface to perform on ; tealights ; bay leaves ; your chosen crystal ; essential oil OR your own mixture of olive oil + a corresponding herb for your guide ; an organza sachet ; matching incense for the session if you like to make it cozy ♡

how to: take as many tealights as your spirit guides name is long and carve each one letter of their name into each of the candles. place them in a circle around your crystal. anoint the candles with the essential oil gently and focus on your spirit guides name. light the candles. write your three most important intentions that you have for the connection with your spirit guide onto the bay leaves. burn the bay leaves a little bit with one of the candles, repeat the intent in your mind, and drop the leaves next to your crystal on the fire proof surface. put your crystal into the organza sachet, blow out your candles and quickly move your sachet into the smoke of the blown-out candles.

your crystal is now dedicated to your spirit guide! :3 have fun ♡

bonus: seal the deal with kissing your crystal. sleep with your crystal for the next few nights to really bond. take your crystal anywhere you go :)

Spell to make someone miss you or think of you

The Ingredients:

- Pink/Rosa paper - Red pen - Yellow candle - Needle - Himalaya salt - Water - The Moon I do not need to mention that with every performance of these spells, you need to be alone and very focused on what you are doing.

The Spell:

1. Take the piece of paper and your cell phone. On that piece of paper, write down the name of the person. 

2. Light the Yellow Candle which symbolizes positive energy and stimulates the power of the mind. Let it burn a few moments; during this time, imagine the person. 3. Get yourself a glass of water. Place it in the open window and sprinkle some Himalaya salt in it. 4. Take the needle and gently write the name of that person into the candle. 5. Take your piece of paper with the name and warm it up carefully.

6. Look to the moon and say: “I see the moon\The moon sees me\The moon sees (Name) whom I wish to see". 7. Close your eyes drink the water. 8. Put the piece of paper under your phone case. This is my first self made spell i hope it can help you <3

A sigil to go against the saying “ Out of sight, out of mind”, to keep our love strong despite time and distance, to remember dear ones and for them to remember us.

Spell for Emotional Healing and Moving Forward

Cast this spell at dawn.

Materials:

As you light each candle (starting from the middle, then right, then the left), say:

This is the turning point in my life. I am erasing the past. The future is mine to choose. Right at this moment, I am making my tomorrows. I forgive myself for all past mistakes. I start over with a clean slate. I choose for myself only that which I desire to experience. I choose (health, wealth, companionship, happiness, etc.) As I will it, so it shall be.

Extinguish the candles.

Emotionally Soothing Bath Sachet

This is something I whipped up only maybe thirty minutes ago. I just finished my last final of the semester and have done two all-nighters in a row to prepare for my last four major projects that were due tonight. So, I’m pretty fucking exhausted and mentally drained. What’s better than a bath to ease my mind?

What you’ll need:

What to do: