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My husband gave me permission to share a picture of this special offering vessel that he made to propitiate his Kiln Spirit when working on ceramics.

I love it SO much.

There’s lots of Witchcraft within our modern times that can be done online. Especially mobile. Many people have a phone even if they don’t have a computer. This makes carrying a digital grimoire and/or secret craft a lot easier. Yet there are some, that still struggle with finding some good resources. So this post is made for just that.

Keep in mind that everything is meant primarily for phones, since that’s the most common thread among digital Witchcraft.

Free Apps

⚜️ TimePassages: An app for astrology lovers! It has a moon tracker as well as daily horoscope (if you’re into that) but one of the best features is its extensive and detailed birth chart information. It includes a birth chart wheel and all its aspects. It’s a great source for working with planetary energies within and without the self. It’s an all around great app.

⚜️ Rock Identifier - Stone ID: There are several apps that claim to identify stones and Crystals but this is the highest rated and the one I enjoy the most. It not only identifies the stone but can offer a bit of info on some of the beliefs around that stones energy.

⚜️ About Herbs: This is a wonderful app that doesn’t get enough love. It’s an app that discusses medicinal advantages and disadvantages of various plants. They are presented by the Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer center, and provide links to the research to back up their claims. They also make it clear that they are for informational purposes and not to self diagnose, or self medicate without proper treatments from your doctor. They are a wonderful app for those who prefer herbal medicine.

Web Sites

⚜️ Divination:

Tarot: This website sells their decks but also gives free single card draws for all of them. What’s great about it is that while tarot does have basic meanings they all share, the artwork on each deck plays a significant role in each meaning, making the reading far more unique then the average deck

Runes: A fairly simple and easy to use rune generator. They offer several spreads as well as the history behind the practice and meanings on each rune.

⚜️ Sigil Generators: Each website offers a different style to the sigils they create. Each as well has a downloadable feature for those sigils you make.

Sigil Engine

Psychic Science

Sigil Scribe

⚜️ Digital Altars: Digital altars can play an important role for the TechnoPagan. So these are some makers that you can use to make your own.

Picrew

Spells8

Text Symbols

These easily copy and pasted symbols are great for digital spell work and rituals.

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⚜️ Runic: ᚠ ᚡ ᚢ ᚣ ᚤ ᚥ ᚦ ᚧ ᚨ ᚩ ᚪ ᚫ ᚬ ᚭ ᚮ ᚯ ᚰ ᚱ ᚲ ᚳ ᚴ ᚵ ᚶ ᚷ ᚸ ᚹ ᚺ ᚻ ᚼ ᚽ ᚾ ᚿ ᛀ ᛁ ᛂ ᛃ ᛄ ᛅ ᛆ ᛇ ᛈ ᛉ ᛊ ᛋ ᛌ ᛍ ᛎ ᛏ ᛐ ᛑ ᛒ ᛓ ᛔ ᛕ ᛖ ᛗ ᛘ ᛙ ᛚ ᛛ ᛜ ᛝ ᛞ ᛟ ᛠ ᛡ ᛢ ᛣ ᛤ ᛥ ᛦ ᛧ ᛨ ᛩ ᛪ ᛫ ᛬ ᛭ ᛮ ᛯ ᛰ

⚜️ Ogham: ᚁ ᚂ ᚃ ᚄ ᚅ ᚆ ᚇ ᚈ ᚉ ᚊ ᚋ ᚌ ᚍ ᚎ ᚏ ᚐ ᚑ ᚒ ᚓ ᚔ ᚕ ᚖ ᚗᚘ ᚙ ᚚ ᚛ ᚜

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Things you can do on the first of the month - along with or instead of blowing cinnamon through your door

An extremely popular practice right now is to blow cinnamon through your door on the first of the month. It’s popular for good reason, as doing this can bring in prosperity for the new month.

However if you cant partake in this practice due to pets, allergies or any other reason - or simply would like to change/add more to your first of the month ritual, I’d like to offer some ideas!

First let’s talk about the significance of the first of the month and blowing an herb into the home. The first day of a month is a starting point. You can set the tone for how the rest of the month will unfold energetically. One is the number of beginnings and potential! Do not worry if you miss it or simply don’t feel up to it on the first you can of course still do the same practices any day of the month.

The act of blowing the cinnamon into your home is to symbolize that energy flowing into your household. This can be achieved through different means and different herbs all based on preference.

Want to change it up? - Alternative actions:

Cinnamon in your coffee

Put or refresh prosperous herbs & crystals in your wallet

Herbs & crystals in the mail box

Burning bay leaves

Prosperity front door wash (don’t forget the doorknobs!)

Cinnamon sticks in / on the mailbox

Burning a green or yellow candle

A small luck or prosperity ritual/working

Drinking mint tea

Sweeping! (Clear out that old stagnant energy!)

Prosperity herb scented hand / body soap

Make / feed / refresh money bowl

Blowing cinnamon in a house would be activating it using the air element - try a different element (burning, burying or putting in water)

Can’t use cinnamon? - Some other plants for prosperity:

Mint

Allspice

Bay leaves

Black tea

Catnip

Cilantro

Clover

Ginger

Moonwort

Oats

Oregano

Parsley

Peppermint

I hope this takes some pressure off and gives you new ideas!

A tiny anti-depression spell bottle from this post!

A motivation spell jar for my university work 🧡

Basil for Luck

Cinnamon for Motivation

Rosemary for Clear thinking and Concentration

Coffee for Energy

and Lavender for Anxiety Relief

I drew my own sigil on the lid of the jar and sealed it with orange candle wax for Creativity, Inspiration, Attention, Good Luck and Positivity 🧡

Mini insence holder for the broke witch:

Take a used tealight candle and fill it with salt, sprinkle in some herbs for intent if you are puting on an altar or using in a spell. You cant use a whole stick, but you can break off the end and save the rest for later. Perfect for altars and almost no cost )○(

“My mind is clear” sigil for @forever-angsty

Sigil requests are currently closed

-Mod Pyre

Alternative containers for jar spells!☄️

I love jar spells just as much as the next guy! They're a great place for baby witches to start and they're helluva customisable- any size, shape, or ingredients you want. Not to mention they look cool as hell! But sometimes a jar just doesn't quite...work.

Maybe you just don't have a suitable one kicking around. Maybe you're in the broom closet, and a jar full of witchy ingredients would be too recognisably 'witchy' if it was found. Maybe you wanna carry it around with you, without ending up with broken glass in your bag. (Not a fun time).

Whatever your reasons, I got you covered!

💋Lip product containers💋

These would be discreet and perfect to carry in a purse or in your pocket! They're well suited to spell jars to ease verbal communication, for 'sweet talking' or persausiveness, or to help with clamming up in front of crowds and the like! Lip gloss or lipstick would also suit a glamour nicely.

💄 Chapstick in particular is an easy one. Just pull out the part that had the product on it, et voila! You might want to take the screw part out too, or you could just work around it.

💄 Once a lipsticks run out, you can pretty much do the same thing as you would with a Chapstick!

💄 The lip balm that comes in little pots is even easier to work with! Just wash it out once it's empty and fill it up with your ingredients.

📝Stationery📝

These are among my favourite diy containers! They're perfect for spell jars to boost your creativity or to prevent artblock, as well as being good for manifestation. (Drawing is kinda the same as manifesting something, right?)

✏️ Container sharpeners are an obvious choice! Just take off the lid, pop the ingredients in, and gum up the sharp part with something so nothing falls out. Candlewax would be a good choice, especially if you wanna seal it with a candle like most jars.

✏️ Spent markers and highlighters are a little fiddly, but fun! You can take the nib parts with ink in them out of the end(s), then pull the 'guts' of it out with tweezers. Save the nibs, but you dont need to keep the inside part around. Then you can fill the empty casing up with your ingredients, and pop the end and nib back on to make it just look like an ordinary pen again!

✏️ The empty pots from paint testers are another good one to use, and ballpoint pens are easy to get a hold of and hollow out!

✏️ The color of the pen/marker/paint could be matched to your intent, too!

📷Photo film containers📷

Okay, so this one is probably only practical if you're into photography. But if you use a camera with film and have a few of em laying around, they make cute spell jars! These are useful for creativity and manifestation, again, but would also suit spell jars for aiding with memory, or for spells to make something stick around. Or you could make one for helping all your pictures turn out well!

📸 Just pop the ingredients in the container, no extra steps needed! I'm personally a fan of drawing a sigil on the lid or on the side.

💅Makeup containers💅

I know I already covered lip products, but all sorts of makeup containers would make good spell jars once they're used up! Mascara containers, concealer sticks, and nail polish bottles are among the most useful in my opinion, but you could really use anything. They're particularly suited to glamours and the like.

🖌️ For any containers that have an applicator/brush in them, like mascara or nail polish, you might wanna consider taking it to get some more room.

🖌️ It gives you a good excuse to keep that empty container with a really cute pattern on it! You could match the colors or types of the makeup to your intent.

🖌️ All of them are useful for glamours, but you can get more specific for other intents! You could use mascara for a spell designed to help you 'see', like ones that aid in finding things or being perceptive, for example.

🍬Sweet containers🍬

These are particularly suited for spell jars to 'sweeten' something! The only example that comes to mind while I'm writing this is tic-tacs, but anything that comes in a relatively sturdy container like a tub or box would be good!

🍭 Just like matching colors to intent, you could match flavors! Mint could be good for cleansing or awakeness, cinnamon for strength or wealth, etc.

🚿Hygiene products🚿

These would be great for health, vitality, or cleansing spell jars! Empty hand sanitizer bottles or soap containers would work great for this.

💧This one's a little specific, but I've seen little gumball machine type things in public bathrooms that dispense little chewable...toothbrush things? They look like this-

And the containers from them would be great for these!

⭐Lockets⭐

Okay, so maybe these are veering a little out of spell jar territory. But lockets are amazing for any sort of spell that needs a container! They can be for any intent, they're super discreet, and you don't even need to carry them or worry so much about losing them.

💍 Most lockets are pretty small, so you obviously cant fit *loads* in there. But if you have some tiny crystal chips, they work great! Those, along with tiny amounts of dried herbs and single petals from dried flowers, all work great for little locket spell jars.

💍 Lockets normally have a place to put a photo in, and you can use that for a sigil to suit your intent! Or if you work with any dieties or other entities, you could put an image of them in there, if they're involved in your spellwork!

💍 Any other jewellery with some kind of compartment would work too. I've seen rings which are basically tiny little lockets, which would also work great! You could even wear them on certain fingers to suit different intents. (I remember reading somewhere about each finger having different associations, but I cant find it. I remember the pinky finger being Mercury, though...?)

💚Medicine containers💚

These would be great spell jar containers for health and vitality. Make sure you wont confuse these for your actual medicine! I know it'd be pretty hard to mix up the contents of a spell jar with your allergy meds, but still. 😅

💊 You could try matching a medications purpose to an intent, too. For example, a spell jar to help ease depression in a bottle that previously had depression medication in it, or a spell to keep away unpleasant things in a painkiller bottle.

💊 While we're on the topic- remember to take your meds today if you haven't! And always remember that magic is not a substitute for going to the doctor if you need it.

All of these have their own associations to me, but theres nothing stopping you from using them for any intent- if you wanna make a spell for good health in a camera film canister, noones stopping you. I'm sure theres a million other containers I'm forgetting about, but these are the ones I personally find the most interesting or useful. I hope this has been of help!

Good luck and godspeed to you all! 💛

“Wandering eyes will forget their intentions” sigil for @moonwaterwitchy

Sigil requests are currently closed

-Mod Pyre

A little anti-depression spell jar I made the other day 💕

I used:

- Roses for self-love

- Lavender for healing

- Clear quartz for balancing emotions and purifying the aura and soul

- Citrine for increasing self-esteem and focus

- Himalayan pink salt for personal empowerment, healing emotional wounds, and dissolving self-doubt

- Spearmint for transformation

- Thyme for driving away negativity

- Lemon verbena for self-improvement

Keep it somewhere with lots of light like a windowsill or porch ☀

🌹 IG: femkitti 🌹

Working on a couple of good luck charms: a bottle and an acorn keychain.

thought my lil cauldron deserved to be on tumblr 🤍

“I feel worthy of life, love, and happiness” for @thewickedfaerie

Sigil requests are currently closed

-Mod Pyre

Sleep Sachet 🌙

Filled with;

• Bay leaves, for protection and for wisdom

• Chamomile, for soothing anxiety and for healing

• Lavender, for sleep, tranquility, peace, purification and for protection

• Rose petals, for restoration, self love and for attraction

• Rosemary, for protection, healing and for cleansing

🌙🌿

spell jar for attracting positive things into your life

slightly adapted from samra haksever, author of mama moon’s book of magic, but is mostly the same. includes quotes from her book in the steps for how to create the jar

not my gif

this spell jar is best crafted on a Sunday, when you can channel the energy of the day, and look back on your achievements of the past week.

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you will need,

7 small strips of paper

a pen

a mason jar, or a jar of similar size

2-3 cinnamon sticks

a pinch of patchouli, but i used rosemary

a magnet or lodestone crystal

orange or white wax (optional)

the cinnamon brings your happiness blessings, and the magnet and patchouli draw many more of these good things to you.

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“on each piece of paper, write down something that has made you happy over the past week; this is the time to celebrate anything and everything, from seeing a cute dog in the park and treating yourself to a cup of coffee on your commute, to taking an afternoon nap.

“fold the papers up, put them in the jar with the cinnamon sticks, patchouli/rosemary and magnet, then place the jar on a windowsill that gets plenty of sunlight.”

“optional, seal with orange or white wax. if you decide not to seal the jar, add to it as and when, or even try to make it a Sunday ritual.”

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Unconventional & Affordable Ingredients for Spells

Here is a list of unconventional and affordable ingredients that can be used in spells and witchcraft along with their correspondences; good for witches “in the woods” and witches on a budget. Many of these can be easily found for inexpensive prices or at home.

Acorns/Acorn Caps: security, abundance, longevity, good luck, youth and brings good health

Animal toys/stickers: relates to correspondences of that animal

Artist’s Charcoal: banishing negativity, protection; cursing

Baby Powder: cleansing, beauty, youth

Baking Soda: cleansing, purification, protection

Birthday Candles: wishes, joy; color magic and number magic depending on their color and/or what number they display

Black Tea Bags (used): earth magic, grounding, strength, stability, banishing negativity; ending, death 

Bottle Caps: prosperity, luck, material gain

Bubble Bath: self-love, relaxation, emotional healing, serenity; plus whatever scent the bubble bath is affects correspondences

Bubbles/Bubble Liquid: wishes, joy, whimsy, imagination, fantasy

Buckeye Nuts: luck, sexual energies, warding

Butter: femininity, flattery, friendship, warmth, happiness; good for fae work

Candy Bars: love, romance, happiness, lust, fertility, emotional healing, healing of the heart, forgiveness, friendship

Candy Corn: courage, imagination, endurance, energy, motivation, happiness, celebration

Candy Foil: sweetness, secrets, protecting one’s emotions; color magic

Chocolate Syrup/Milk: happiness, love, lust, romance, sweetening relationships

Cocktail Swords: strength, assertiveness, competition; cursing, revenge; ending rumors

Cotton Balls: beauty, gentleness, warmth, sleep

Cotton Swabs: cleansing, purification

Dice: chance, opportunity, luck; number magic

Dirt: grounding, earth magic, growth, prosperity, patience, home and family; cursing

Dish Soap: cleansing

Duct Tape: binding, storing energy, cursing

Egg Shells: cleansing, protection, warding

Energy Drinks: energy, motivation

Envelopes: messages, communication, protection during travel

Epsom Salts: purification, cleansing, protection, pain relief, serenity, comfort, stress relief

Fake/Play Money: wealth, prosperity

Fish Sauce: prosperity, water magic, curses

Foil: glamour, protection, storing energy, binding

Glue: sealing, immobility, binding, curses

Googley Eyes: vision, divination, scrying, creativity, protection, imagination; curses, paranoia, nightmares

Grass: growth, nature, learning, healing, new beginnings, recovery from loss

Hand Soap: cleansing, curse removal

Hole Punches: good for cursing

Hot Sauce: motivation, lust, confidence; cursing, anger, revenge, emotional pain

Koolaid: youth, sweetness, happiness; color magic, corresponds with flavors as well

Lip Balm: glamour, confidence in speaking, honesty, beauty

Lollipops: sweetness, innocence, ending rumors and lies, lust and sexual energies, love

Lotion: protection, beauty

Laundry Soap: cleansing, purification

Marshmallows: friendliness, comfort, gentleness, fidelity, sleep and dreams

Metal Crafting Wire: binding

Modeling Clay: poppets, earth magic, grounding, balance, stability, creation, change

Mud: grounding, earth magic; curses

Muslin: poppets, change, creativity

Noodles: Longevity, good health

Pompoms (craft): gentleness, comfort, love, sleep, dreams

Paper Clips: balance, focus, organization; curses, binding

Pennies: luck, wealth

Pickle Juice: curses to sour things

Plastic Bags: protection; binding

Plastic Ribbon (wrapping): happiness, glamour, delight; binding; color magic

Plastic Wrap: binding

Popsicle sticks: poppets

Scissors: offensive magic, curses

Seltzer Water: purification, removing negativity; curses

Sewing Needles: curses, pain

Shaving Cream: cleansing, softness, patience, calmness

Stamps: travel, communication

Sour Cream: cursing

Soy Sauce: protection, banishment; cursing

Sticky Notes: communication, memory

Strawberry Milk: love, self-love, beauty, sweetness, friendship

Syrup: joy, sweetening one’s emotions

Taco Sauce: Focus, Energy, motivation

Taffy: joy, flexibility

Thumbtacks: curses

Tissue Paper: softness, serenity; color magic

Toothpaste: cleansing

Toothpicks: curse

Walnut Shells: protection, warding

Wasabi: Energy; curses, anger, envy

Whipped Cream: beauty, light-heartedness

Whistles: communication, attention grabbing, warding

Other Tips:

Recycle bottles, jars and medicine bottles for jar/bottle magic

Reuse tea bags (though not too long after use) in bath magic

If you do wish to use herbs, it is cheaper to order them online in bulk rather than the supermarket. Trust me, supermarkets and grocery stores really over price most herbs. You can get triple the amount for 2 dollars less online

Make up and toiletries are great for glamours

Its fine to use kitchen knives if you can’t afford am athame

Look at the ingredients in food you eat to see what is in it and determine that food’s correspondences, quick and easy kitchen magic

Crayons, colored pencils, markers and pens are good for easy sigil and color magic

Binders are cheaper than blank books and make great grimoires

“I am in control” sigil for anonymous

Sigil requests are open !

-Mod Pyre

Creativity Spell Jar

I recently made a creativity spell jar for Belinda and I thought I might as well post the ingredients for you guys in case anyone finds it helpful.

This spell jar is used to encourage creative ideas and to prevent any sort of creative block

Ingredients 

Fern: mental clarity 

Basil: prosperity, wealth, creativity

Rosemary: mental clarity, enhances memory, creativity

Clover: luck, success

Pine Needles: perseverance, prosperity, strength 

Wild Sunflower Petals: optimism, creativity

Optional: I always like to write the personal/name sigil of the recipient on the spell jar as I believe that it helps to direct the energy and intent towards the specific person.

-Mod Pyre

Mental clarity bottle

Salt - cleansing

Mint - refreshing

Ginkgo - memory

Lotus incense ash - purity

Sage - cleansing

Juniper - rejuvenating

Clear quartz - clarity

White candle - purity

Cleanse your space well and layer the ingredients in the bottle, focusing on the intent of each one. Now some of these are more personal and can vary for different people, e.g. I used desert sage because it grows wild here. Maybe you hate mint, if so then don't use it. Etc. Put the candle in the bottle and light it any time you need to clear your brain fog or make a tough decision.

I don't have an incantation for this one because I typically don't use them. Instead I use bells (pictured) or some other instrument to raise the energy and bring everything together. In this case I rang the bells over the bottle, focused on their ring, and let the sound gradually fade, then focused on the silence.

I feel like selenite works be a good addition, I just didn't have any extra on hand.

Inexpensive Offerings

An orange peel with olive oil in it, stem burns like a candle, and remains decompose afterwards (honestly any oil will do if you don't have olive oil specifically but it works best)

A journal, write to your deity in it (you can get a little creative with this one, it can be physical such as a traditional journal or scrapbook or you could make a discord as a way to "talk" to them everyday or something like that)

Write them letters and burn them (or bury them*, or put them in a folder, or rip them up and throw them in the wind* or a river *as long as the material is friendly to nature. This also depends on the nature of the deity)

Poetry! You can speak it out loud or put in in a digital folder, but I personally put in in a decorated envelope on their altar space.

Tea, just make a little extra when you make some for yourself.

Rainwater, moon water, snow water, etc.

Origami, paper also decomposes outside

Sigils, make one for them and draw it on you as often as you'd like

Playlists (or you can sing to them/play music yourself)

Pinterest aesthetic boards

Art in general (this includes theatrical arts)

Talk to the moon at night (specifically for night related dieties) OR lay out in the sun

Keep a plant for them

Depending on the pantheon, you can consume foods as an offering

(This one is little weird for some but if you have reptiles, certain deities do appreciate sheds)

Certain deities will also enjoy helping you in your craft, you can request guidance if you want to use learning as a devotional act itself

“Those who would harm me suffer their own ill intentions turned back on themselves.”

“Protect” Sigil, used either on a person or object you wish too protect!

Trick or treat 🎃

You get a treat sigil! 

I Feel Safe sigil

Thanks for the ask!

Simple Spells - For New Years

Hello! I’m excited for the beginning of another year and I will be celebrating the special day with a few simple spells. You can do these without the knowledge of others that may be around you. All chants can be done without the spoken word. I hope you all have an amazing new years and I can’t wait to make more memories with all of you. Thank you for everything!

Sparkler Spell - This spell if for making a resolution clear and reachable. I have a goal in mind and I want to stick with it, so I perform this simple spell. As you light the sparkler, recite either out loud or in your mind your goal in the form “I will succeed through my own will. I gather determination and resilience to complete _____.” Then you can either use a sigil, sign your name, or use any motion that represents a promise. Make sure you have clear intentions and know what your goal is. This isn’t a spell to help find a goal for you, but instead to give you strength to complete the resolution you have already come up with.

Champaign/Cider Spell - This just a little bubble spell that I use. It is very simple and I like to throw in a few pieces of fruit, but y'all don’t need to do that. I just chant a few soothing words and encouragements into the glass both as a pour the drink and put the pieces of fruit in. I go with just telling myself I did a great job and that I worked really hard. That sometimes things got tough, but I overcame those struggles and I’ll make it through this next year. Very simple and easy. It really puts me in a good mind for the new year.

Popper Spell - I’m not sure everyone can do this, but if you have those firework things where you throw them on the ground and they pop…those are what I’m talking about. ***Also if you do this please please please remember to pick up those left over and not just leave them on the ground for an animal to eat.*** I use these to ward and warn previous negative energy and incoming negatives that this body and mind will not be up for grabs. I pop them in a circle around me and each one I throw I tell something to stay away. For example, “Leave out my anxiety.” or “No more paranoia.” This gives me a feeling of protection and strength. The action of throwing gives me power and the sound from the popper shows a physical reaction. This helps me a lot.

I hope theses simple spells can be of some use! None of theses require too much and are really easy to do if you are a closet witch. I find the coming of New Years to be hectic and I need fast spells that I can do surrounded by people. These really get my mind and body ready for the new year.

Happy New Year!

-Kenzie

🌱Soot Sprite Spell🌱 - Studio Ghibli Inspired

Hello my greenies! As most of you know I am always inspired by Studio Ghibli and I am going to do a series dedicated to it’s magical gifts. For this one I am going to use the Susuwatari or “traveling soot.”

This spell is to thank the old and welcome the new. Moving or receiving something old can be tricky, since some spirits can take offense or are spooked by the aspect of someone coming in and changing things around. This spell can be performed for anything really. It could be for a house, a box, an old broom, or even an old clock. It is just thanking the object/spirits for taking care of the object and asking for them to allow/accept you to use it now.

Ingredients

small cup of blueberries

white or yellow candle

small glass of room temperature water

water bottle cap of thick sprinkles (or something similar to the size)

three dark colored rocks - no shine

washcloth

Directions

Place the object (if you have one) in front of you with a good amount of space between you.

Then place the blueberries and sprinkles in the space between the object in you, but right behind the object. If you do not have an object, just place it in front of you with plenty of room between you.

Place the three dark colored rocks behind the blueberries and sprinkles in an arrow like position.

Then place the candle in front of you and the cup of water next to you.

Light the candle and begin an 8 minute meditation. Focus on the object and/or the spirit you wish to thank and ask for this object. Make sure your intentions are clear, you are going to be using this object and although it might belong and be changing, it doesn’t take away the memories or the meaning it had before you decided to use it. Feel free to say a chant, I will leave one at the bottom of this post.

As you meditate, take the washcloth and put some water on it. Try not to spill. Only dampen the cloth and wipe your hands and arms with the cloth slowly.

After 8 minutes, blow out the candle. Make sure the candle is stable and all blown out and then keep everything in the room and leave for 30 minutes. Do not go back into the room, unless it is an emergency.

After 30 minutes, go back into the room and thank them again. Depending on your belief, you can decide to bow or not. Then take the blueberries, sprinkles, rocks, and water outside. (You can reuse the rocks and store them in a place for another use.)  Place them or burry them. Make sure they are placed well before you leave. If you have water remaining, sprinkle it on them and you are finished with the ritual.

Chant

“Just as the tree grows more leaves after the fall of winter, pass this new journey and new life into my hands. Please accept my offering and allow me to love and take care of the (object, house, etc.).”

I hope you enjoy this ritual and look forward to this series. I hope I can continue to share my love and knowledge with you all.

- Kenzie

ingredient correspondences

blueberries - protection, psychic strength, ward against psychic attacks, protection of the home

yellow candle - Persuasion and protection

white candle - can be used to replace any color candle, purity and truth

thick sprinkles - an offering for the spirits and object + adding to the inspiration and happiness

three dark colored rocks - represents determination, strength, and warning off negative connotations towards you.

washcloth & room temperature water - cleansing, purity/truthfulness, and offering of new beginnings

🌿🌼Center Yourself -Holy Basil Witch Tea🌼🌿

Hello my greenies! I know I’ve been absent for quite some time, but I’ve been having some personal stress and needed to clear my head. While I was doing this, I came up with some tea and spells to help realign myself and goals.

Holy Basil is used in a lot of different ways, but today we are focusing on it clearing “mental fog” and centering ourselves in the present. This tea has helped my anxiety and feel as if I could move on.

*Holy basil can have an anti fertility effect on both women and men, so if you’re pregnant or wishing to conceive at the moment, I would recommend not using this herb. This does not mean it will make you infertile though.

Ingredients  

2 1/5 tbsps of dried holy basil 

a slice of ginger

1 tbsp of dry hibiscus

1 tbsp of honey

Directions

boil the water in a kettle.

place the holy basil and hibiscus in a spacious strainer, then clockwise pour the water over the strainer.

place in the thin slice of ginger and let steep for about 5 minutes.

after, take out the herbs and place in the honey and stir counterclockwise while saying the chant.

“I am treading in this misty lake, my mind wilts like the fall flowers. Clear this path and help me reach shore, for I am spring and am needed once more.”

I hope this can help ground you as much as it has for me. I expect to be posting regularly again and thank you all for your patience.

*^* …also it’s my birthday on April 13th…just a heads up <3

- Kenzie

☾ Hag Stones ☽

Common Uses: Cleansing, Connection to the Goddess, Fertility, New Beginnings, Opening of the Third Eye, Protection. Elemental Association: Water Planetary Association: The Moon Hag Stones, also known as Holey Stones, Witch Stones, or Adder Stones, are naturally occurring stones that have a hole or holes in them, typically found near the ocean and other bodies of water. The holes occur due to the elements taking their toll on the surface of the stone, eventually breaking their way through in a specific manner.  Known to be powerful protection charms, they are said to protect the owner from anything ranging from negative spirits to hexes to curses to spiritual harm. If hung up next to your bed side or kept under a pillow, it is said that they will aid in preventing nightmares. It is said that if one were to peer through one of a Hag Stone’s holes, it will allow you to see the Fair Folk and other otherworldly beings at will. At your own risk. Rumor also has it that if the stone were to break, it has used its power to protect a life. Who’s life? Good question.

☾ Rose Salt ☽

One of my personal favorite things to make, Rose Salt has a variety of uses. Whether you use it as a scrub in the shower to cleanse yourself and your energies, as a relaxing soak in a warm bath to relax in, or sprinkle it in doorways and on windowsills as a form of protection, it’s multipurpose and very easy to make! What You’ll Need: - Dried Roses - Salt - A Vessel With a Lid to Keep It In - A Mortar & Pestle Optional: - Rose Essential Oil Steps:

Take the petals and buds of your Roses, save the stems and thorns for other spells, and grind them finely with your Mortar & Pestle.

Add Salt.

Mix both well until they are combined well.

Add the mixture into the vessel you chose.

Add the essential oil, seal the vessel, and gently shake to combine everything together more easily.

One of the many properties of Roses is Protection as is with Salt so combining the two gives you a simple, fragrant protective material to keep around your home.