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list of stones and crystals

In relation to my second blog: The School of Magick. ⛥

stones and crystals masterlist

  • Amber (yellow, orange, brown): Helps clear the mind. Gives mental clarity and inner peace.
  • Amethyst (purple): Amethyst is the perfect stone for any spiritual seekers, as it is the stone of spiritual awakening and spiritual growth. It purifies and protects by placing a shield around the physical body and the energy field. It is said that it enhances mental acuity and focus. The most common use of Amethyst is for the purpose of increasing one’s intuition and psychic abilities, along with enhancing one’s connection with their Higher Self, their Spirit-Guides and the Angelic Realms. It offers psychic, mental, negative and self protection and balances the nervous system and both hemispheres of the brain. Amethyst is the perfect stone for anyone whom is just now venturing off down the path of their spiritual journey. However, it is recommended for anyone, as it metaphysical and healing properties are beneficial to all.
  • Ametrine (purple and golden brown): Ametrine, rare and powerful stone, combines the energies of Amethyst and Citrine to embody, both, the Violet Ray and Golden Ray. This combination elevates your spiritual nature and enhances peace and tranquility. Ametrine offers healing qualities of purification and encourages creativity through expression. Ametrine has this extraordinarily high vibration able to strip away old prejudices and beliefs.  Ametrine draws out negative energies from your body and replaces them with energy of Divine light. It brings harmony into the body with the aid of quieting the mind with the calm sound of nothingness.
  • Apache Tears (gray-black): Apache Tears is best known for it’s ability to help one overcome depression. It’s vibration is soft and gentle to allow one to come to a state of self-realization. The energy within it grounds and protects, which aids its already powerful healing abilities.
  • Aquamarine (light blue): Aquamarine enhances the connection with Higher Self. Aquamarine, evokes the sea in both its name and its color and embody energetically healing properties. It aligns all of the chakras and enhances the aura. The energy emitting from this stone is very soft and feminine, which enhances our intuitive knowing. Use this stone to open up to spiritual energies and increase your awareness. Aquamarine is an excellent stone for public speakers and teachers, as it helps one overcome the fear of speaking. For artist, it aids creation from the heart.
  • Aragonite (orange red): Aragonite is a crystal with this peaceful and calming energy. It is known to transmute stressful energy into a more uplifting and positive energy. Having this stone around the energy body is highly beneficial to one dealing with anxiety, as it aids in soothing the nerves. Aragonite has the potential to infuse the entire body with an easy going energy. It is definitely a mellow stone, which makes it a great stone to assist during meditation.
  • Aventurine (green): Draws money and prosperity.
  • Azurite (bright blue): Azurite is best known as a sacred stone that brings greater insight with amazing visionary powers. It speeds the vibration of one’s energy towards the spiritual realm and  activates the opening of the Third-Eye Chakra. It resonates with the Crown Chakra to help connect one with higher realms for spiritual guidance. Azurite, also,  aids one to get in touch with their spirit guides.
  • Bloodstone (green with red flecks): Promotes creativity, self-expression, and artistry. Also aids healing, especially from surgeries or blood-related diseases.
  • Blue Lace Agate (light blue): Healing and overcoming obstacles. Can be used as a “wish stone”.
  • Blue Stalactite (blue): Personal power and direction. Helps with finding and staying on the right personal path. Promotes self-knowledge, centering, and connecting to the Higher Self.
  • Carnelian (red-orange): Promotes personal power, strengthened magick, increased fertility or creativity and a happy home. Also helps combat jealous of others.
  • Celestite (light blue): Celestite comes from the Latin word “Heaven”. The energy of this stone vibrates at such a high level. It has become the New-Age teacher stone, as it provides one with hope and faith, while connecting one to the wisdom of the divine realms. Aids one in developing a sense of knowing who they are, physically and spiritually.
  • Chrysocolla (blue, green): Promotes balance and inner peace.
  • Chrysophrase (green): Clears blockages in communication and promotes eloquence and persuasiveness.
  • Citrine (golden brown): Strengthens self-esteem and promotes balance and good cheer.
  • Crazy Lace Agate (brown/reddish stripes): Awakens hidden talents and abilities and promotes success in career situations.
  • Clear Quartz (clear): Amplifies and directs energy. Builds energy pathways. Strengthens the energies of anything it is put with.
  • Diamond (clear): Earth’s hardest stone. Promotes personal growth, spiritual lessons, and perfecting of self. Also resilience, perseverance and permanence.
  • Dravite (dark brown): Dravite, also known as Brown Tourmaline, is a stone not most know about, but need to be informed of. Especially those whom venture off and start their spiritual journey. The main reason is because Dravite helps us understand our shadow self, that which is the unconsciousness. It does this by bringing the shadow self to full consciousness.
  • Emerald (light to dark green): Protection, success, and prosperity. Also promotes memory and learning.
  • Fluorite (comes in many colors): Promotes healing. The focus of the healing may be emotional, physical, spiritual and so forth, depending on the color of the fluorite. Fluorite is also known as the ‘fairy stone’ as it helps it’s owner communicate and see fairies as long as their intention is of light.
  • Garnet (dark red, wine): Personal power, focus, and protection. Also aids in healing, especially with blood-related diseases.
  • Goldstone (brown with gold flecks or blue with silver flecks): Used to draw money, especially through commerce or the collection of monies owed. Blue goldstone enhances magickal power of the wearer or spells and helps enhance anything in the metaphysical realm such as psychic work, healing, clairvoyance, etc.
  • Hematite (silvery black): Gives protection, absorbs negativity, and helps relieve grief or pain. A healing stone.
  • Jade (comes in many colors, but most common in green): Serenity, inner peace and balance, and good fortune. Promotes the perfection of self and connection to Spirit.
  • Jasper (red, brown): Helps promote openness to new ideas and influences, flexibility.
  • Jet (black): Sacred to Hekate. Jet gives protection, promotes mental and emotional clarity, deflects negativity and helps to overcome sorrow or sadness. Traditional stone of mourning.
  • Kyanite (dark to light blue): Kyanite is a very powerful energy conductor. It is best known for its ability to align all of the Chakras without conscious effort. It doesn’t absorb negative energy. Therefore, Kyanite will never need to be cleansed. The vibration of this stone is so powerful that someone with a lower vibration may feel horrible side-effects from Kyanite. This is due to its ability to raise the vibrations of the wearer to reach a higher state of consciousness. Blue Kyanite has a very strong vibration that creates very rapid transfers of energy. It can bridge emotional blocks between people to assist in the sending of telepathic information. It can also create pathways of energy. It helps restore energy balance and it an effective energy conduit that can balance most systems of the body.
  • Lapis Lazuli (dark blue): Promotes psychic opening and clairvoyance. Now grown rare.
  • Malachite (green and black): Malachite promotes success, whether in business or love. Prosperity, creativity and fertility. Malachite has been called the “mirror of the soul”, as it reaches the inner feelings of the person and reflects what is there, negative or positive. It is a powerful protection stone that aids intuition, creativity and imagination.
  • Marlenite (red, red and yellow): Also called “Philosopher’s Stone.” A very strong money stone, this synthetic stone is named for Marlena Berndt, famous metaphysical historian of gems and stones.
  • Moonstone (milky white): Protection and psychic opening. Absorbs negativity and promotes confidence.
  • Morganite (light pink): Morganite embodies the first pale rays of sunrise and vibrates an essence of purity, love and innocence. When it comes to love, it may attract love to one’s life or even rekindle love from the past. It encourages us to vibrate with the power of the Divine feminine energies. Morganite has a receptive, attracting energy that attracts love and power.
  • Mother of Pearl (iridescent white): Deepens emotional commitment, draws marriage, long-term love. 
  • Opal (iridescent greenish white with orange, red): Promotes psychic opening and development, sensitivity to spirits. Once considered unlucky by those who feared psychic phenomena.
  • Pearl (white): Peace, compassion, love. Pearls are said to retain positive emotions incomparably well. 
  • Rhodochrosite (pink and gray): Promotes sexual adventure, fertility, pregnancy.
  • Rhodonite (pink and black): Helps healing of emotional pain, especially from loss of love or loss of a loved one. Helps requite grief, draw new love. Promotes reconciliations of parted lovers or friends.
  • Rose Quartz (pink): Love, happiness, self esteem.
  • Sodalite (blue): Sodalite is very similar to Lapis Lazuli and is often used in place of it. Promotes psychic development, clairvoyance.
  • Tanzine Aura (iridescent indigo): Tanzine Aura, aka Indigo Aura, is a beautiful stone of the Indigo Ray with energy vibrations of a very high level of spiritual awareness. It is actually one of the most powerful crystals to aid development of one’s latent psychic abilities. It enhances the connection for conscious communication to Spirit. This is an incredibly beneficial aid for intuitive people, such as mediums, shamans, card readers, channelers, energy healers, along with anyone wishing to become more perceptive to the subtle dimensions.
  • Tiger’s Eye (gold and brown stripes): Promotes popularity, eloquence, persuasiveness. Helps improve communications. Also used for protection in traveling, and for protecting mechanical vehicles.
  • Titanium (Flame) Aura (multicolored quartz): With most crystals the vibrations do the healing. However, the healing properties are a little different with this crystal. Even though it shares the same properties as the Clear Quartz, it is the colors of this crystal that actually grant it enhanced healing powers. The vibrational energy, along with the color of this crystal has the ability to heal the human energy field. Together they merge with the aura to release any energy blocks and patch up holes in the aura by its color. It enhances ones physical vitality and brings more energy into the auric field. It is stimulating to the auric field and meridians, acting as a prism for soul-level energy, infusing the aura with a rainbow spectrum of light. Titanium (Flame) Aura allows for one to go deep into meditation to receive spiritual attunement. Overall this crystal is one that brings insight, compassion, energy, excitement and joy into life’s experiences. It is capable of carrying higher frequency range, excellent for trance channels, mediums, psychics and maintains grounding while in a higher state of consciousness.
  • Turquoise (teal-blue): Protection, good fortune, psychic opening. Considered very sacred.

Witchcraft Check-in

• Have you cleansed your space/tools/self? • Have you cleansed any new items or tools?  • Have you consecrated any new items or tools?  • Have you charged your tools? • Have you warded your space/self? • Done some divination lately? • Done some grimoire work lately?  • Left offerings to your deities? • Kept promises to your deities/spirits? • How are things with your familiar or deities/spirits in general? • Is a Sabbat/Moon phase or astrological event coming up that you want to do something for? 

The Color Brown

Element: Earth

Planet: Earth

Symbolizes: Earth, Concentration, Construction, Stability, Animals

Magical Uses: House blessing, Animal magic, Pet magic, Earth magic, Influencing friendships, Healing animals

The Color Black

Element: Air or Earth

Planet: Saturn

Symbolizes: Grounding, Protection, Safety, Death, Underworld, Restriction, Night

Magical Uses: Reversing, Uncrossing, Unhexing, Banishing, Black magic repelling, Banishing negative energy, Releasing, Defense, Scrying, Hexing, Cursing, Protection, Warding off negativity, Contacting spirits, Binding

Ya'll, please stop asking the tumblr void if doing X and seeing Y at that time was a sign.

Firstly, discernment is a vital skill in witchcraft and one you should cultivate. You also should have some kind of system that allows you to fact check your shit, find one and get good at it. These will serve you so, so well in your practice.

Secondly, if it's a sign for you then it's a sign *for you* and a sign is only a sign if you recognize it as one. The omens didn't mean anything to those who were not skilled enough to read them.

When you ask tumblr you aren't ensuring that you are getting accurate results, so why not just..decide for yourself?

Also, a lot of you ask if really mundane things are signs, which is moreso what this post is about than signs in general. You do know that you can ask for more/clearer signs..right?

If you're not sure then make a note of it, test it out (ask for X sign by Y date), see if there is a pattern of events, and make your judgement.

Stop being afraid of getting it wrong. Of course there are things in witchcraft that can cause serious damage if miscalculated or haphazardly approached but part of witchcraft is getting your hands dirty and fucking up and learning from that. Calculate your risks and act accordingly.

I'm not saying you can't check with your trusted friends for an objective perspective about a sign, that's fine! I'm also not saying, for example, if you think a sign is from X deity trying to contact you that you can't try to verify how they may have appeared to others, there's value in that!

What I'm specifically cautioning against is taking very mundane, singular events and putting it out there for anyone on tumblr to verify for you. I get that we all want to feel like we're doing the right things, making the right calls, and generally just on the right path with our craft - but sometimes foresight only comes from the ability to learn from things in hindsight.

This is very well written, & important. 

The Talon of Lilith

This sigil was received in shamanic dreaming meditation. Revealing itself as the Talon of Dark Mother Lilith when this sigil is drawn upon the flesh of the hips, thighs or buttocks in carbon ash its active powers include: physical healing from illness and poisons, immortality through regeneration, shape changing within the cloak of night, opening and creating portals and invoking the dark art of parthenogenisis.

Drawing the sigil onto the palm activates the power to make others obey.

To obtain dominion over another, for use as a familiar or healing totem etch this sigil into the skin of their back; upper back for physical control, lower back for emotional control.

🔔 BELLS IN WITCHCRAFT 🔔

Bells might just be the earliest form of superstitious practise that I remember. My baba attached three sakura-patterned suzu bells on my schoolbag as a kid, purportedly for good luck and protection from evil spirits – and Japan is far from the only place to have associated bells and bellringing with mystic practise. They’ve been used worldwide to ward off evil and carry messages – and in a more metaphysical sense, sound is the movement of energy through substance. Sounds have the potential to work powerful magic.
Here are some of the ways I’ve found utilising bells to be helpful to my craft. While I’m more likely to use traditional suzu type bells, your own background, path and culture will likely have its own types of bells – and as ever, bells can be ornate antiques or they can be a bottle cap in a tin can, as long as they’re used with intent.

GETTING STARTED

🔔 As with so much of the craft, if you’re new to the witching bell, it’s a matter of exploration and experimentation. Get a “feel” for what works for you and the specific bell you’re using.
🔔 It’s good practise to ensure that the bell itself is cleansed, warded and protected – you don’t want anything nasty tapping into that power. All witching tools can do as much harm as good, intentional or accidental.
🔔 A good way to begin incorporating bells into your craft is infuse them into any typical ritual that you’re comfortable with, or even just a prayer or moment of contemplation at your altar if you have one.
🔔 Give the bell a soft ring while focusing on the energy it’ll ripple and move, try to track the movements it creates and what it touches. The tone it’s sending out.  The most primal and versatile use of the bell – and what many of the below come down to – is simply another manner of physically channelling energy, giving it shape and direction.

PROTECTION

🔔 “Passive” bells such as windchimes or small bells attached to belongings you don’t want disturbed are a starting point. They will scare off some forms of spirit all by themselves, especially if appropriately blessed, charmed or enchanted. Or cursed.
🔔 Gently tolling can draw energy into a ward or circle you are forming and enforce its protective properties, or for a simple cleanse, letting the sound travel to every corner of the area you are protecting. It’s a little more “cutting” than a smoke or incense cleansing, which I view as more “gentle” forms of cleansing. Both have their uses.
🔔 Harder tolling is, in my opinion, one of the most powerful ways in which to enforce a banishing – however, it’s best to you know what you’re doing with the bell before you go bashing it about.

DISCERNMENT

🔔 Bells can have quite the effect on your perception and awareness. Ringing and then stopping, listening to the silence left in its wake, can bring you new perceptions or make things you’d previously missed obvious. Let it attune your mind and senses to something new, whether that’s in your thoughts or something with a little more presence. Visualise travelling with the sound, taking heed of the energies it touches and disturbs. Take note of the echoes – you’ll learn what they mean with experience.
🔔 A set of windchimes can let you know if something is passing through or if there’s some unusual energy afoot – and, yes, it may also just be letting you know that it’s a particularly breezy day, but that’s witchcraft for you.

CONJURING

🔔 This can be as simple as calling good energies to witching tools, spell jars, tarot decks, crystals, altars and shrines, your favourite teddy bar, anything at all.
🔔 With spirit work, it can truly help to magnify your “calling”. This can range from gently bringing your latest offering to the attention of your friendly neighbourhood house spirit – all the way to trying to catch the attention of something more. Be mindful, however. As I said, I consider bells pretty powerful tools and a call that’s too loud is not good spirit work practise for the spirit worker’s own sake. It can really help coax something out of hiding if you’re gentle with it, though.

COMMUNING

🔔 Some use bells to mark the beginning and end of a ritual, and I’ve read that in Wiccan practise an altar bell can be used to invoke the Goddess, although as a non-Wiccan, I’ll welcome corrections on that if I’m wrong.
🔔 In my experience, very simple forms of communication via bell work a lot better than anything too complex – “come here” and “stay away” have already been covered, and other than that they can serve as greetings or signals of a start or end of some practise or ritual, the opening or closing of a door, etc.
🔔 They can also serve as a warning or a litmus test regarding spirits, a signalling of your presence and awareness, lack of fear, or willingness to defend – but be prepared to deal with whatever responses these garner.

BINDING

🔔 Bindings are where you most often see that famous (clockwise) circular motion of the bell, embodying the meaning of the spell. This can be a simple binding to seal a spell or charm or enchantment, or a spirit-binding.
🔔 Personally, spirit-binding is something I do as little as possible simply due to my beliefs holding the autonomy of spirits in very high regard. However, sometimes situations arise that call for it, and I’m aware that not all bindings are unwilling. Far from it – and some spirits are dangerous when unbound.
🔔 As an animist (believing that all things, including inanimate objects, contain a spirit of their own), I consider gently nudging a spirit back into its physical form a sort of semi-binding, and that can be useful.

I’ll leave you all with a note that I am an urban apartment-dwelling witch through and through, so I understand that we can’t all be jangling away at all hours. I myself have a glass windchime in my front window that makes a distinct but muted sound when disturbed by passers-through, and highly recommend wooden ones also. I also only use my small and relatively quiet suzu bell for my crafting – one given to me by my baba herself.

Feel free to add any of your own findings, and happy tolling.

Drink white tea for breakfast, green tea for lunch, black tea for dinner & chamomile for bed.

🌟🔮Cleansing and Consecrating your Images🔮🌟
This post is for those involved in brujeria/hoodoo/espiritismo/African american Spiritualism/Africana traditions and/or even secular Black or Latine witches who are looking for ways to consecrate their images, statues, talismans, vessels, spirit dolls, etc for their spirit guides, Saints, whathaveyou.
Please do not steal the tips from this post if you’re not a part of these ancestral practices. Like deadass if you’re not of Afro descent or Latine this isn’t for you idc. This is specifically the way I was taught and how I’ve seen other rootworkers and practitioners do it, too.

Consecration is basically the act of ritualistically dedicating an image, space, or object to a divine religious purpose or a deity, essentially making it sacred.

In practices like Espiritismo and Spiritualism, a statue or image without consecration is just that: a plaster statue, a cotton or plastic doll, whatever. It is an image.

In the case of religious items like statues, spirit dolls, or any other vessel meant for spirits, we consecrate these so that our spirits have a home, a nice place to live, and a place to manifest so they can help us. Sort of like a portal, if you will.

In our traditions, we pamper and spoil these dolls, statues, etc with offerings, clothing, liquids, colognes and candles. How exactly varies from spirit to spirit. Certain spirits have things they like: like Santa Muerte is known to love tequila and roses, Saint Expedite loves his pound cake (and in my case, cinnamon)….it really depends on the spirit.

HOWEVER, it really doesn’t have to be an eleborate ritual if you don’t want to. You don’t have to sit on your ass for 2 moon cycles in a chalk circle with a bundle of burning herbs in your mouth and glowing eyes forcing yourself into some kind of fucking divine trance when Pluto is in retrograde to do it, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Listen to your gut. If you don’t think you cleansed it for long enough, then keep going. You think it needs to stay longer in the bath to fully be clean? You go fam. You think a spiritual bath is enough and don’t wanna smoke cleanse? You do you. I personally feel like it’s more important to go with your gut and listen to what the spirit wants and tells you other then following a strict guideline. The only important things are cleansing, charging, blessing, and awakening, which you can do in a variety of ways.

(This is also just how I was taught to do it lmao I’m just a conjuring bruja and spiritualist and this is how I was taught, u still got to go research the specifics of the spirit ur consecrating for yourself fam, this is meant to be more of a general guide, but if u want details on herbs and stuff u gotta find that out on ur own. ultimately the most important thing in consecration is cleansing, then charging, then blessing/evoking the spirit)

🌟Cleansing the Vessel🌟

The first thing you want to do when you’re consecrating anything to these spirits is clean it both energetically and physically.

Imo this is really important: stray spirits like to attach themselves to things, and in general things/objects like to soak up energy from their surroundings, not all of it being good.

Also tbh I feel like it’s a courtesy thing: if I’m trying to gift you this home, hell yeah Imma clean that shit before you move in! Nobody wants to live in a dirty house! We don’t need none of that nastiness still sticking around. If this is going to be the body which our spirits live and manifest through, it needs to be a clean one.

So these are some basic common cleansing ingredients you can use in the bath:

🕯💦Filtered or Holy Water

🕯💦Florida Water or another cologne of your choosing

🕯💦Cleansing herbs like basil, bay, rue, lemon, etc.

🕯💦Alcohol

🕯💦Tobacco/cigar

🕯💦 Salt

🕯💦A homemade or botanica bought cleansing or blessing oil

🕯💦 a white candle

You can also (I do both) smoke cleanse the statue with whatever incense and herbs you prefer, such as basil, rosemary, sage, etc.

You can bury the statue in salt, much like you’d do with crystals.

You can leave them outside over night, letting the energy of the sunlight bathe and clean the vessel.

It’s really a matter of what works best for you and what you can do in the moment.

What I personally do:

  • I prefer giving my dolls a cleansing bath because it’s the easiest tbh, and I keep a white candle lit while I do it. I mix filtered water, holy water, Florida water, salt and bay leaves, pray over it, and wash the doll with my hands (which I usually prewash with Florida water separately) or a rag, STARTING FROM THE TOP OF THE HEAD, and work my way down. I wash it as if it was a baby tbh, because that’s kind of what it is to me.
  • You wanna make sure your brushing down and “off” of the statue, and sometimes I’ll even use the wet bay leaves to like “brush off” the negative energy from the item. Make sure you get ALL of it, and then when I feel ready I dispose the liquid later.
  • I also like to “smoke out” my statues/dolls/images with tobacco, aka I blow tobacco smoke over the statues throughout the ritual

(Whatever you use to cleanse the statue, make sure you’re disposing it in a proper way, whether it be in running water or a drain or whatever, you just wanna make sure you’re not leaving the negative energy you just cleansed off the statue in your house or on you)

🌟Charging/Filling🌟

We also like to fill images and vessels with sacred herbs and roots associated or requested by the spirit as well!

Sometimes you can get statues (like some Santisima Muerte statues from Mexico) already filled with herbs and roots. A lot of times, you gotta do it yourself. (Sidenote: I’ve seen others do it and this is what I personally do and how I was taught but you don’t have to. I hear this is more of a Caribbean thing to do but don’t quote me on that)

An easy way to do this is to make a cloth bag that you’ll either be stuffing inside the statue or doll or tying to it. If you put the herbs inside the statue, close it with wax or fabric and glue or something.

What you put in the bag is going to vary greatly from one spirit to the other. Obviously not all spirits, Saints, Gods, etc. have the same tastes: so you’re really going to have to do your research, ask an Elder or ask the spirit itself.

🌟Birth/Awakening/Blessing🌟

After you’ve physically washed and spiritually cleansed the image/doll/vessel and filled it (if u wanted to), you’re ready to start invoking/evoking (whatever the dumbass word is) the spirit into the vessel. I personally call it “waking up” but w.e

How exactly you do this or which herbs or colognes to use is also going to depend on what Saint, God, Spirit, etc. you are invoking

The way I was taught and the way I do it: I give the vessel a “baptism”, I pray over it, I call onto the spirit to enter the vessel, give it time, and “breathe life” into it.

Things you will usually need

🕯💦Another bowl to mix everything in, large enough to submerge the vessel if you’re gonna submerge it

🕯💦Tobacco (or weed alternatively! Make sure ur spirit is OK with that tho)

🕯💦 Filtered and/or Holy Water

🕯💦 Florida Water or another cologne

🕯💦 Candles of the appropriate color

🕯💦 Herbs of the appropriate correspondence for the spirit (example: for the last spirit I invoked I used rose petals, tobacco, Florida water, copal, cinnamon, and more because they’re all associated with the Saint I was working with)

🕯💦 Oils of the appropriate correspondence for the spirit (I used rose oil for example the last time I did this)

🕯💦 A handkerchief or towel to dry the vessel

🕯💦 The appropriate prayers (you can EASILY find prewritten prayers for MAD Saints and spirits online if you Google it, examples being Saints like St Expedite, Santisima Muerte, etc)

Mix all of your ingredients together to make a nice spiritual bath for your spirit. Light a few a candles along with incense as well.

Immerse the image fully in the liquid, the same way you’d baptise someone. This is when you do your prayers, and you ask the spirit to enter the image. Take all the time that you need. But you essentially want to ask and give permission to the spirit to enter the vessel. Repeat your prayer until you feel the entity enter the vessel or a change happen.

I also personally like to breathe tobacco smoke on my statues to like…..give it life idk that’s how I was always taught but u ain’t gotta do it, I’m sure not all Saints like tobacco lmaooo u do u boo. I honestly feel like breathing life into the vessel helps but u do u.

Let the candles burn through.

To finish the ritual, show the spirit around the place! Show them where they are welcomed, show them their new home! Welcome them home! Talk to them as if they’re alive, because they are. Place your image/statue/vessel on the altar, and let the spirit know this is now it’s home, it is welcomed here, and promise to keep it’s sacred space clean and to feed it with offerings.

Simple basic examples of offerings u can give:

🌻Bread

🌻Water

🌻Coffee

🌻Home cooked meals

🌻Flowers

🌻Cologne

🌻Candles

And whatever the hell they ask u for tbh

That’s all there is to it: cleanse it physically and spiritually, charge it if you want, baptise/bless and give it permission to enter the vessel and intercede in your life. After that, you fulfill your promise and take care of them, and they will take care of you.

🌟Aftercare!!:

After that, build your relationship! Pray to them, talk to them, give them offerings, ask for their blessings, let the spirit bless your oils or baths, etc. Listen to your intuition. Double check with divination methods like candle reading and tarot cards. Keep giving them light/candles, keep them happy, they will do their best for you.

Notes+Warnings:

🌟PLEASE do your research on the spirit, saint, etc that you want to work with before full on bringing them into your home and life

🌟PLEASE do not try to evoke spirits like the Orisha, the Lwa, etc. this way. There is no if ands or buts about it: you will FUCK your own spiritual shit up, that is something you need an actual priest to do for you. You and other outsiders don’t know the taboos or the proper way to evoke the Orisha or Lwa and this guide is MOST DEFINITELY not for that. This is more of a general SPIRITIST way to consecrate: this has nothing to do with Santeria, Haitian Vodou, Palo, NADA. DO NOT try to apply this guide to make your own representations of Eleggua, Pomba Gira, Oshun, Papa Legba etc.

🌟Please ASK IF THEY EVEN WANT TO WORK WITH YOU FIRST!!! IF THEY SAY NO THEN IT’S NO. Don’t just jump into consecrating stuff!!

🌟If you KNOW you’re someone who is forgetful or gets into severe periods of depression where you can’t take care of yourself (like me), try your best to at least apologize and talk to the spirit (you’d be surprised how understanding they can be) and just try your best. But communication honestly is key. And tbh if you just really know it’s going to be an issue, I would personally stay away from spirits who are like really hot and quick to anger or retaliate.

🌟Don’t just start asking for shit immediately if you haven’t taken the time to actually build a relationship first, most times they’re just going to ignore you but there are some spirits who will retaliate if you keep and keep being disrespectful and demand shit without even offering a relationship or giving gifts

🌟Please do not start dedicating altar spaces, images, etc if you’re not actually committed to taking care of that spirit or you’re not 100% sure this is truly what you want: some spirits or saints might be understanding, a lot will not be okay with it and take offense, and you really don’t want those spiritual hands.

🌟Don’t make promises you can’t keep!!

🌟PLEASE do your research on spirits and saints, you don’t want to accidentally offend or piss someone off because you accidentally committed a taboo

🌟This could totally be a superstitious thing but I NEVER let anyone look at any of my statues or spirit dolls when they’re “newborns” aka freshly conjured or evoked; I just personally feel like it fucks with my spirit’s energy, especially because you don’t know who’s a hating ass person that could start sending bad vibes towards the spirit and start hindering it. I wait until it’s been a while, they’ve been fed a few times, i know/feel they’ve gotten stronger, etc before I let anyone see them or touch them. You don’t have to do this, but that’s just how I personally work.

🌟This could also depend on the person but I was always taught to NOT LET PEOPLE TOUCH THE HERB BAG. DO NOT TELL PEOPLE WHAT EXACTLY YOU USED TO FILL YOUR IMAGE WITH. This can easily be used against you if someone has bad intentions.

🌟DO NOT fucking invoke a spirit into a vessel and then just pretty much go back to ignoring it/not take care of it. It’s one thing if it’s truly a matter of illness, being busy, things out of your control: they will usually understand, especially if you communicate and apologize. But you don’t know how many people bring entities into their home only to neglect them and then STILL ask for shit, and that’s how you start getting yourself into spiritual trouble.

🌟Don’t leave your offerings to rot, don’t leave trash on their space, don’t leave dirt and dust in their space. Clean it. Make sure you’re maintaining everything nice for them.

🌟If you’re really not comfortable doing it yourself, then do the safe smartest thing and go find a botanica, a priest, an espiritista, aka basically an elder who can do it for you (and don’t be surprised or rude if they charge you, otherwise do it yourself)

🌟Your offerings don’t have to be elaborate, especially if you don’t got it like that. But if you do got it, be prepared that some spirits might ask you for more (which is totally fair)

🌟I know Im probably repeating myself a thousand times but Please do your own research

🌟Did I say do some research? Because you need to and should.

🌟DO YOUR FUCKING RESEARCH

LMAO I HOPE I HELPED SOMEWHAT?? But consecration is so simple, this is just a rough guideline but you yourself can decide specifically how you do it, just tailor it to you and the spirit ur working with!!!!! It really varies from person to person too

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Practicing Magic Ten Minutes a Day: Why It's Important and How to Do It

I highly recommend practicing ten minutes of witchcraft a day. Only ten minutes: don’t pressure yourself to work above that (at least not yet).

I can already predict commenters arguing that this approach is lazy. I beg to differ. When you’re lazy, you decide to do nothing because practicing too much effort. Performing magic ten minutes a day is doing something, even if you don’t want to do it. That’s the opposite of laziness. It’s dedication.

Before you decide that ten minutes doesn’t add up to anything, let’s lay down the math.

10 minutes x 7 days a week = 70 minutes. That’s over an hour of practice each week.
10 minutes x 7 days a week x 5 weeks = almost 6 hours of honing your magic skills.

Ten minutes isn’t too much pressure. It doesn’t intercept too much of your day. It’s doable. It provides enough time for practice and reflection. And putting in the time lends you the motivation to continue the habit in the future.

​Here’s how to employ the ten-minute practice.

  1. Pick an exercise that you can work on for ten minutes. Preferably, you’ll choose a skill that you want to improve. Examples include spirit communication, divination, astral projection, energy work, scrying, and dream interpreting.
  2. Carve out the time to work on that magic. From in between classes to morning/night routines to waiting for your pasta to boil, you’ll always have a ten minute block to spare. So, use it to your advantage. Set an alarm if you need to be reminded.
  3. Do it before you can second-guess yourself out of doing it.
  4. Frame your results in a positive light. Even if your spell failed, it still taught you something about magic and your skills. Write down what worked and what didn’t work. Decide what you’ll change next time in order to achieve better results. The point isn’t that it went differently than expected; the point is that you did it.
  5. Reward yourself in a small way. You can post on social media, play your favorite song, or tell yourself, “I did that pretty well.” Although this might sound arbitrary, research in 2008 by Dutch neuroscientists found that positive feedback activates the brain more powerfully than negative feedback. We understand positive feedback better since it’s put more simply, which gives us an easy push to work on our magic again.

I’ve been applying my scrying skills using the ten-minute practice and I’ve already noticed an improvement. I hope this post motivates you to tackle your witchcraft goals.

A Folk Witch Library

Hidden like Viking gold under the landscape there is a rich body of nearly lost folkwitch tradition hiding in plain sight on the internet. Particularly in the 18th and 19th century antiquarians, folklorists and ethnologists documented the rural and occasionally urban folk beliefs of practically all of the UK and much of Europe. Organizations like the Folklore Society, founded in 1878, were created to help catalog and publish this body of collected ethnological data. A vast repository of a spectrum of witch and cunning craft practices.

Below are a list of links to various sources on the internet. The non Abramhamic roots of British folk traditions date from an era of Celtic settlers, and thus much of the spirit tradition concerns beings we now collectively call “fairies”, though their origins and nature differ greatly.

Books Available Online for free:

Folklore Society/Folk-Lore Journal:

Over 100 publications made by the Folk-Lore Society can be found on Archive.org. Unfortunately these are mostly unsorted, although they represent a massive amount of folkwitch information. Particularly in the realm of curses, hexes, salves, second sight, and boundary magic.

I will be launching a separate blog dedicated to delving into the contents of the Folklore Society’s publications in the next few weeks. In the meantime - Happy digging: Link to archive of FOLKLORE JOURNAL

Books whose content focuses on first-hand accounts of folk traditions, alpha by author. (* denotes particularly important titles)

John Graham Dalyell - The Darker Superstitions of Scotland (1834)*

Walter Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911)

Richard Folkard - Plant Lore, Legends and Lyrics (1892)

Thomas Keightley - The Fairy Mythology (1828)

Robert Kirk - The Secret Commonwealth (1893, written 1691)*

Fiona Macleod (William Sharp) - Where the Forest Murmurs (Nature Essays) 1906

Benjamin Thorpe -Northern Mythology, Comprising the Principal Popular Traditions and Superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany, and the Netherlands Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3

Lady Wilde - Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland * Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3

Thomas Wilkie - Old Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Inhabitants of the Southern Counties of Scotland (1916) (History Of The Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club Vol 23 1916-18, pages 50-145)

Suggested books that are unfortunately in copyright or otherwise not currently available online:

(Links to goodreads and worldcat.org)

Thomas Davidson - Rowan Tree and Red Thread (1949)

Harold Hansen - The Witch’s Garden (1978)

DA Mac Manus -The Middle Kingdom (1959)*

Misc Short articles:

Thomas Forbes - Witch’s Milk and Witches’ Marks (link to pdf)* (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, XXII 1950)

Fae Honeybell - Cunning Folk and Wizards In Early Modern England (2010) (link to pdf)

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Masterpost of Followers of Hellenic Deities

This is the masterpost of follower lists for the deities of the Greek Pantheon. If you would like to be added to any list please either comment on the post featuring the list(s) you would like to be added to or shoot me an ask stating which lists you’d like to be added to and the name of the blog if it isn’t the one you’re using. If your deity does not appear on this masterpost please send me an ask or message and I will be happy to make them one! ALL deities and figures from the Greek Pantheon are welcome on this list! 

Any problems, corrections, or changes please feel free to message me! 

Magic[k]al Uses For: Lilies

LILIES (Lilum) are flowering plants that are known to grow mostly in the northern hemisphere. They carry gravitas in numerous cultures and in literature, and their colours are known to carry meanings varying from love to death.

✧ LILY VARIETIES:

  1. AFRICAN QUEEN (Lilum ‘African Queen [trumpet lily]).
  2. ALTARI (Lilum ‘Altari’ [orienpet lily]).
  3. ANASTASIA (Lilium ‘Anastasia’ [orienpet lily]).
  4. ARABIAN KNIGHT (Lilium ‘Arabian Knight’ [martagon lily]).
  5. BELLADONNA (Lilium ‘Belladonna’ [orienpet lily]).
  6. BLACK BEAUTY (Lilium ‘Black Beauty’ (orienpet lily]).
  7. BLACK OUT (Lilium ‘Black Out’ [asiatic lily]).
  8. BLACK SPIDER (Lilium ‘Black Spider’ [asiatic lily]).
  9. BRINDISI (Lilium ‘Brindisi’ [longiflorum-asiatic lily]).
  10. BRUNELLO (Lilium ‘Brunello’ [asiatic lily]).
  11. CASA BLANCA (Lilium ‘Casa Blanca’ [oriental lily]).
  12. CITRONELLA (Lilium ‘Citronella’ [asiatic lily]).
  13. CLAUDE SHRIDE (Lilium ‘Claude Shride’ [martagon lily]).
  14. DIZZY (Lilium ‘Dizzy’ [oriental lily]).
  15. DOT COM (Lilium ‘Dot Com’ [asiatic lily]).
  16. ENTERTAINER (Lilium ‘Entertainer’ [oriental lily]).
  17. FIRE KING (Lilium ‘Fire King’ [asiatic lily]).
  18. FLASHPOINT (Lilium ‘Flashpoint’ [orienpet lily]).
  19. GLUHWEIN (Lilium ‘Gluhwein’ [orienpet lily].)
  20. GOLDEN SPLENDOR (Lilium ‘Golden Splendor’ [trumpet lily]).
  21. GRAN PARADISO (Lilium ‘Gran Paradiso’ [asiatic lily]).
  22. GRAN CRU (Lilium ‘Gran Cru’ [asiatic lily]).
  23. KING PETE (Lilium ‘King Pete’ [asiatic lily]).
  24. LADY ALICE (Lilium ‘Lady Alice’).
  25. MANITOBA MORNING (Lilium ‘Manitoba Morning’ [martagon lily]).
  26. MONTE NEGRO (Lilium ‘Monte Negro’ [asiatic lily]).
  27. MRS. R.O BLACKHOUSE (Lilium ‘Mrs. R.O. Blackhouse’ [martagon lily]).
  28. MUSCADET (Lilium ‘Muscadet’ [oriental lily]).
  29. NYMPH (Lilium ‘Nymph’ [orienpet lily]).
  30. PATRICIA’S PRIDE (Lilium ‘Patricia’s Pride’ [asiatic lily]).
  31. PINK HEAVEN (Lilium ‘Pink Heaven’ [longiflorum oriental hybrid]).
  32. PINK MORNING (Lilium ‘Pink Morning’ [martagon  lily]).
  33. PINK PERFECTION (Lilium ‘Pink Perfection’ -trumpet lily]).
  34. POLLYANNA (Lilium ‘Pollyanna’ [asiatic lily]).
  35. PUSH OFF (Lilium ‘Push Off’ [asiatic lily]).
  36. REGALE (Lilium ‘Regale’ [trumpet lily]).
  37. ROBERT SWANSON (Lilium ‘Robert Swanson’ [orienpet lily]).
  38. ROSELLA’S DREAM (Lilium ‘Rosella’s Dream’ [asiatic lily]).
  39. SALMON TWINKLE (Lilium ‘Salmon Twinkle’ [asiatic lily]).
  40. SCARLET MORNING (Lilium ‘Scarlet Morning’ [martagon lily].
  41. SCHEHERAZADE (Lilium ‘Scheherazade’ [orienpet lily]).
  42. SILK ROAD/FRISO (Lilium ‘Silk Road’ [orienpet lily]).
  43. SOUVENIR (Lilium ‘Souvenir’ [oriental lily]).
  44. STAR GAZER (Lilium ‘Star Gazer’ [oriental lily]).
  45. STARFIGHTER (Lilium ‘Starfighter’ [oriental lily]).
  46. STARLIGHT EXPRESS (Lilium ‘Starlight Express’ [oriental lily]).
  47. SUMATRA (Lilium ‘Sumatra’ [oriental lily]).
  48. SUNNY MORNING (Lilium ‘Sunny Morning’ [martagon lily]).
  49. TERRACE CITY (Lilium ‘Terrace City’ [martagon lily]).
  50. TINY TODD (Lilium ‘Tiny Todd’ [asiatic lily]).
  51. TOM POUCE (Lilium ‘Tom Pouce’ [oriental lily]).
  52. GOLDEN-RAYED LILY (Lilium auratum).
  53. ORANGE LILY (Lilium bulbiferum var. croceum).
  54. MADONNA LILY (Lilium candidum).
  55. HENRY’S LILY (Lilium Henryi).
  56. DOUBLE TIGER LILY (Lilium lancifolium ‘Flore Pleno).
  57. TIGER LILY (Lilium lancifolium ‘Splendens’).
  58. TIGER LILY (Lilium lancifolium).
  59. TIGER LILIES (Lilium tigrinum),
  60. LEICHTLIN’S LILY (Lilium leichtlinii).
  61. EASTER LILY (Lilium longiflorum ‘white american’).
  62. EASTER LILY (Lilium longiflorum ‘white heaven’).
  63. MARTAGON LILY (Lilium martagon ‘Album’).
  64. LILY (Lilium pumilum).
  65. LILY (Lilium speciosum var. rubrum).
  66. LILY (Lilium superbum),
  67. TRUMPET LILY (Lilium regale ‘Album’).

✧ MAGIC[K]AL USES FOR LILIES:

Before you use Lilies in your craft, please note that they are toxic to cats and some may cause irritation if they are touched by you. These types are identified as Calla Lilies, Belladonna Lilies, and Lily of the Valley. 
  • Lilies are closely tied to and associated with the Moon, water, and emotions.
  • Use them in magic[k]s for protection; they can be used to repel baneful magic[k], negative energies, spirits/entities, and influences. Simply planting them in your garden will protect your property and those within it from the aforementioned. 
  • Use in magic[k]s to repel love or, conversely, to grow and attract love.
  • Use in magic[k]s to bring strength, peace, and harmony.
  • Use in magic[k]s pertaining to deities and divinity.

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Flower Correspondence Masterpost 🌹🌼🌷🌻

***Please note that some flowers are extremely poisonous (even fatal) under certain conditions. Please conduct thorough research and use caution while handling!***

African Daisy - divine enlightenment, energy, healing, psychic powers, protection

African Violet - spirituality, protection, healing

Alyssum - comfort, gentleness, grounding, healing, immunity, peace, staying true to oneself

Apple Blossom - love, fidelity, fertility, marriage, beauty, vanity, wisdom the soul, afterlife, eternity

Azalea - happiness, gaiety, first love, light spirits

Baby Blue Eyes - freedom from past hurt, gentleness, healing the inner child, letting go, relationship healing, trust

Baby’s Breath - purity, love, modesty, beauty, attracts fairies

Begonia - balance, psychic powers

Bird of Paradise - intuition, insight, protection

Black-Eyed Susan - cleansing, releasing, grounding, connecting with the deceased

Bleeding Heart - love, healing, emotional availability

Bluebell - luck, truth, friendship

Buttercup - self-worth, divination, energy, innocence, prosperity, youth

Calla Lily - divine connection, peace, sleep, soothing grief, innocence

Camellia - authenticity, decision making, energy, friendship, confidence, receptivity, prosperity

Carnation - protection, strength, healing, enhances magical powers, and achieves balance

Chamomile - love, healing, reduces stress

Cherry Blossom - divine love, forgiveness, gentleness, innocence, romance

Chrysanthemum - longevity, mental clarity, optimism, protection, solving mysteries, soothing grief

Clover - fidelity, protection, love, money, success, animal protection

Daffodil - love, luck, fertility, harmony, tranquility, peace of mind

Dahlia - elegance, dreams, dignity, eternity, spiritual evolution

Daisy - love, luck, innocence

Dandelion - animal protection, divination, happiness, healing, wishes

Dianthus - love, healing, strength

Evening Primrose - love, desirability, attracts fairies

Forget-Me-Not - clarity, focus, health, love, memory, organization, efficiency, perspective, success

Foxglove - protection, vision, immortality

Freesia - clarity, courage to make changes, healing depression, self-love, transmutation

Gardenia - peace, protection, love, friendship

Geranium - overcomes negative thoughts, protection, happiness

Heather - protection, luck, immortality, memory

Hibiscus - love, lust, divination, dreams, freedom, independence

Hollyhock - memory, healing from the past, remembering past lives, confidence

Honeysuckle - money, success, quick abundance, persuasiveness, confidence, intuition

Hyacinth - peace, dreams, love, luck, abundance, charm, influence

Hydrangea - hex-breaking, love, fidelity, binding

Iris - wisdom, creativity, intuition, purification

Jasmine - divination, innovation, attraction, dreams

Larkspur - protection, health

Lavender - purification, concentration, love, healing, sleep, dreams

Lilac - wisdom, memory, good luck, spiritual aid

Lily- fertility, renewal, rebirth, marriage, happiness, prosperity

Lily of the Nile - authority, confidence, elegance, excellence, intelligence, intuition

Lily of the Valley - soothing, calming, peace, happiness, mental powers

Magnolia - fidelity, independence, wonderment

Marigold - respect, admiration, luck

Morning Glory - binding, banishing, attraction

Orange Blossom - prosperity, stability, harmony, peace, love

Orchid - concentration, memory, focus, willpower

Pansy - love, relationships, rain magic

Passion Flower - friendship, prosperity, attraction, strengthen libido

Peony - protection from hexes, luck, prosperity, business success, attracts fairies

Petunia - beauty, joy, domestic bliss, inspiration, new perspective

Periwinkle - love in marriage, mental powers, money, restore memory

Poppy - fertility, prosperity, love, abundance

Primrose - disclosure of secrets, revelation, resolution

Rose - divine love, self-love, friendship, healing, domestic happiness, lasting relationships  

Safflower - aphrodisiac, love, healing, happiness, lust, strength, psychic awareness, wind magic

Senna - love, lust, diplomacy, faithfulness

Snapdragon - protection, exorcism, purification

Strawflower - luck, longevity, protection

Sunflower - energy, protection, power, wisdom, wishes

Sweetpea - irresistibility, femininity, personal power

Tulip - love, desire, happiness, beauty, prosperity

Violet - calms nerves, stimulates creativity, peace, tranquility, protection from all evil, night magic

Water Lily - creativity, healing, purification

Wisteria - raises vibrations, promotes psychic opening, overcomes obstacles, prosperity

Yarrow Flower - healing, divination, love, marriage, courage, confidence

Ylang Ylang - sexual attraction, persuasiveness, peace, love, reduces anxiety and depression, fairy magic

Source: w33d-witch