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“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”

—  Nayyirah Waheed

A Good Night’s Sleep Mojo Bag and Oil

There are two projects pictured here.

~ * ~ A Good Sleep Mojo Bag ~ * ~

1. Amythest - Relaxation

2. Rosemary - Eliminate bad dreams

3. Lavender - Calm an anxious mind

~ * ~ A Good Sleep Body/Annointing Oil ~ * ~

This oil can be worn and can be used to feed your mojo bag.

1. 9 drops of lavender oil

2. 9 drops of chamomile

3. Fill the rest of the bottle with a carrier oil

4. Add amythest chips

5. Add lavender buds

6. Shake and infuse with your intent. Conduct a ritual to aid sleep.

Clear and clean your space and materials before beginning. I cleaned my space and materials with sage and Florida water. Please let me know if you want a more detailed post!

🌙Simple Everyday Things You Can Do For Protection

Source | https://www.instagram.com/mariathearcane/

What are some simple things that you do that you think would help another witch?

🌙My list of daily or easy practices requires little to no prep-work

•Use a protection plant ally like a witch's burr, cloves, thorns, motherwort, black pepper, garlic, or onion. Close your eyes and place your plant ally in your hands. Ask the spirit of the plant if they will offer you protection to see you through the day. Carry it with you.

•Alternatively, you can also use crystals. My go to combo is black tourmaline and red jasper!

•Use a protection archetype tarot card like the Nine of Wands. Nine of Wands, for myself, symbolizes boundaries and protection when it comes to our growth/life path. Place it on your altar with intention since it is a portal to our intentions, our guides, and the liminal, or carry on your person.

•Smoke cleanse the thresholds in your home, yourself, and your loved ones. I personally like rosemary and lavender for this purpose.

•As you leave an offering for your guides/ancestors/deities during your daily conversation with them ask them for their help when it comes to protection.

•Write the word protection or a symbol of protection on a black candle with intention and light.

How to use lemons in witchcraft (Pt. 1)

Part one: whole lemons I've had a few people ask me for more information on lemons in witchcraft, so here's a new series for you guys! There will be a few parts: whole lemons, flesh/juice, peel, and seeds. For simplicity sake, there will likely only be a max of three or four ideas on each post, so that it's not overwhelming and I feel like I can go into detail without the posts getting too long. Without further delay, let's get right into it!

Basics of lemons:

Zodiac: Cancer and Pisces Planet: The Moon Element: Water Energy: Feminine

Whole lemons in witchcraft:

This ultra-easy negativity absorption trick

This slightly mean but ultimately useful-as-fuck-around-the-holidays spell

Bring a whole lemon with you when you're going somewhere that needs a significant amount of your energy. Lemons are extremely energizing and can offer a boost when you have tests, presentations, or interviews.

The first day after a full moon, press a whole clove into the feel of a whole lemon. Do this every day until the next full moon, preferably before you go to bed. The next full moon, bury it somewhere you consider a very peaceful place to invoke good luck and spiritual energy.

Throw one at your homophobic Mormon uncle.

Like I said, I'll probably keep each post at three or four ideas, but if anyone wants to add more ideas or suggest a new kind of posts, my asks are open! Always remember to do your research and always practice in a cleansed environment :) Blessed be! Tips and Commissions for a struggling witch: Ko-Fi

born to always mourn the present like it’s already become a memory

It’s that time of year to say no to the Salvation Army.

Never forget they let a Trans woman die instead of helping her.

Never forget they have tossed entire families on the street for having an LGBT child.

Never forget they tell non Christian families that unless they convert they will not help them.

Never forget that the Salvation Army is bigoted and hateful, many of the bell ringers routinely heckle and harass LGBT couples.

Sleep Magic

Herbs Associated with Sleep

Agrimony: Promotes sleep. When placed under the head it will make one sleep as if dead.

Ash: Use the leaves to bring about prophetic dreams.

Betony: Shields the sleeper from visions and dreams while sleeping.

Calendula: Provides protection while sleeping when scattered under the bed.

Chamomile: Calms the nerves when taken as a tea. Burned as an incense, chamomile will bring on a restful state for meditation

Cinquefoil: A bag of this herb suspended from the bed will promote restful sleep all night.

Daisy: Sleep with a daisy root beneath your pillow and an absent lover may return to you.

Elder: Place elderberries beneath your pillow if you have difficulty sleeping. Will allow for peaceful slumber.

Lavender: As a tea, lavender relieves nervous tension and exhaustion.

Mandrake (CAUTION: TOXIC): Hung on the headboard for protection during sleep.

Passionflower: Traditionally used for anxiety and insomnia, helps to fall and stay asleep.

Rosemary: Laid under the bed it protects the sleeper from all harm.

Valerian Root: One of the best herbs for sleep, help you to calm down. Usually taken as tea or tincture but warning, valerian has a very pungent smell.

Crystals Associated with Sleep

Blue crystals and those that are ruled by the moon work best for sleep/dream magic.

Amethyst: Helps to calm the mind and body. Drives off insomnia and nightmares. Will also ensure that the user does not oversleep.

Aquamarine: Ruled by the moon, good for rituals involving sleep and dreams.

Blue Lace Agate: Soothing and good for anxiety related to sleep.

Blue Tourmaline: This stone allows you to destress and promotes peace and sleep.

Celestite: Used to relieve headaches and tension in the body.

Citrine: Wear at night to prevent fear, nightmares, and to promote a good night’s sleep.

Coral: Best for peaceful sleep by driving off nightmares.

Green Jasper: Wear to stop hallucinations and to promote restful sleep

Holey Stones: Hang this stone near where a pet sleeps to guard it.

Lepidolite: Place on your nightstand or headboard to be free of nightmares and to promote restful sleep.

Malachite: Promotes tranquility and ensures sleep if worn to bed

Moonstone: Ruled by the moon, wear jewelry with moonstone beads to bed to fall asleep quickly.

Peridot: Is calming to the nervous system and is helpful in promoting sleep.

Sodalite: Wear or hold before bed to relax the mind and calm emotions.

Topaz: Fends off nightmares and ends sleepwalking.

Teas and Tinctures

A more mundane method of producing sleep are herbal teas and tinctures. Caution is advised when ingesting any herb, no matter how safe it may seem. It is important to follow proper instruction and take the correct dosages. Teas are the more simple of the two, amounts will vary but generally steep the herb in a cup of boiling/hot water. You can add milk, sugar, or honey for taste. Good herbal teas include lavender, chamomile, skullcap (caution), mugwort (caution), hops, and mullein.

Tinctures are usually made from a very high proof alcohol infused with various herbs. These are usually taken in smaller doses either alone or in a glass of water. You can make your own tinctures but if you don’t have access to the ingredients, you can purchase tinctures at herbalist shops and health food stores. Popular herbs for sleep tinctures include valerian root, hops, passionflower, skullcap, chamomile, lavender, catnip, and lemon balm.

Dream pillows

Dream pillows are a sort of catch-all for sleep magic. You can use them for any purpose regarding sleep. Dream pillows are traditionally made by sewing together two pieces of fabric and stuffed with herbs like lavender and mugwort. If possible, collect herbs for dream pillows during the waxing or full moon. Color is something that can be taken into consideration when crafting a dream pillow, use personal color correspondences. Crystals can also be added to dream pillows. You can also draw or stitch sigils into the pillow.

Herbs for Dream Pillows

Anise Seeds: Stops nightmares.

Bay: Will induce good and prophetic dreams

Betony: To prevent nightmares

Calendula: Brings clairvoyant dreams

Hops: Stops with restless nights, helps bring on sleep

Morning Glory: Add the seeds to prevent nightmares (CAUTION: morning glory seeds are toxic if consumed)

Mugwort: To induce prophetic dreams

Peppermint: Offers one glimpses of the future in dreams

Thyme: Cures nightmares

Vervain: Protection from bad dreams and nightmares

Sleep Charms

For protection during sleep place a bowl of black salt (or witch’s salt) under the bed while you sleep, renew with the Full and New moons.

Put selenite around the border of your bed to ward off bad dreams and night terrors.

To keep dreams away, wear a sprig of lemon verbena around the neck while sleeping.

Burn chamomile before bed to induce sleep.

Add a sachet of lavender to you bath before bed to help you fall asleep.

Hang vervain near the bed to keep you free from nightmares

If you have trouble sleeping, charge a blue candle with a visualization of yourself sleeping through the night and burn for a few moments before bed.

Place bay leaves beneath your pillow to induce prophetic dreams.

Wear a charm bag of vervain around the neck to provide protection from bad dreams.

To protect yourself while asleep, mix equal parts flax seed and mustard seed and place this mixture next to your bed.

A tea of rosebuds drunk before sleep induces prophetic dreams.

Sleeping with a sunflower under the bed allows you to know the truth in any matter.

If insomnia persists night after night, it may be cured by placing some datura leaves into each shoe and then setting the shoes under the bed with the toes pointing toward the nearest wall.

SOURCES:

Personal Correspondences + Experiences

Mastering Herbalism by Paul hudson

Magical Herbalism by Scott Cunningham

Earth, Air, Fire, and Water but Scott Cunningham

Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic by Scott Cunningham

Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham

The Black Toad by Gemma Gary

Green Witchcraft by Ann Moura

Treat!

Treat!

In honor of the full moon tonight- here are some witchy things to do!

Full Moon Witchy Activities:

Put out water, juice, or liquor to be charged (in sealed containers ideally). Moon charged juice and liquor is excellent for holiday cocktails!

Divination: Tarot, runes, scrying, shufflemancy, whatever you feel! It’s especially a good time to test out a new divination style you’ve been thinking about.

Bake full moon cookies! You can either focus on mixing and baking during the full moon (mix your dough near a window or outside) or bake before the sun goes down and leave the cookies to cool and charge near a window!

Collect autumn leaves and seedlings under the full moon. Use for Samhain wishes.

Set crystals or tools out to charge on a windowsill or porch.

Bring your spirit working tools outside (skulls, bones, memento moris, powders/oils, pendulums, spirit boards, cards, etc.) and work on your spirit communication during the height of the full moon.

Tend to your garden area during the full moon (depending on the season; weeding, planting, harvesting, fertilizing, etc.)

Craft a new tool like a wand, broom, witch’s ladder, scrying mirror, etc.

Reinforce/renew your wards and property protections.

Channel full moon energy for writing, drawing, sculpting, sewing, knitting, composing, etc.

Make a cup of tea or hot chocolate and step outside or near a window with it while it cools. Offer it to the moon for charging with prosperity and health. Drink it slowly.

Enjoy the moon. Treasure the moon. Thank the moon. Love the moon. The moon knows you are a fantastic witch regardless of what others (even youself) think. The moon loves you.

🔥🔥Firey Wall of Protection Oil🔥🔥 . . This is a little how to I’m sharing with you!! I made this pretty puppy on my own, and let me tell you this is POTENT!! I made it myself and can contest this shits awesome. Here’s how to make it! You’ll need: - jar - black salt - whole chilie peppers - cayenne powder - paprika - Palo Santo stick - cloves - cinnamon sticks - cinnamon powder - ginger powder - red pepper seeds - sea salt/pink Himalayan sea salt - bay leaves - oil (be it olive, cooking, almond, what have you) - black candle - sandlewood incense . Light your incense, make sure you’re grounded, and your mind is focused for the task at hand. Please know this will take up a lot of your energy. Make your base with black salt and all powdered ingredients. It’s important that this have a strong foundation with hella protection properties so nothing can find a way through the barrier. Follow your gut and add each ingredient according to your intuition. As you add each item, really focus on this oils intent. You want it strong, powerful, Firey, and most importantly impenetrable. You want to make sure all your loopholes are tied, that there’s no room for error. Once everything is added, go ahead and pour your oil in, saying an incantation of your choice. As you do, say out loud exactly what you want this oil to do. Charge it, give it a job, leaving out no detail. Tell it what it protects you and your family from. Hold it, charge it, kiss it–until it feels right. Afterwards, set the jar in front of the black candle and light it, letting the spell charge and burn. DO NOT let the candle burn out, and DO NOT burn it out early. Let it go down and out all on it’s own. Now here’s where your gut comes in. When the spell is over, I sat my bottle on my windowsill and let it charge in the sunlight for 30 consecutive days. You can write a sigil underneath it to add an additional charge, but the suns energy gives it the burn you want. You don’t have to do it for 30 days, but for me and this oil, it’s not as effective if it’s charged in the sun for less. Once the 30 days are up, use it at your own will. Pour it in a small vial and wear it as a necklace (that’s what I did.) Anoint your doorways, windows, threshold, doorstep, friends, your car, yourself, anything. It’s potent and powerful!!

It’s okay to not “dress like a witch”,  you are a witch, so you are dressed like one!

Sometimes spells don’t work, don’t get flustered, try again!

Not everybody in the community is nice and welcoming, hold your ground.

Find what path suits YOU, not your peers. 

Witchcraft is customisable to fit YOUR needs. 

Cursing is NOT a bad thing! 

Respect closed cultures always. 

You don’t have to be religious.

Witchcraft and Wicca are NOT synonymous! Witchcraft is a secular practice, Wicca is a religion completely unrelated. 

Remember to ground and cleanse every once and a while. 

Thank your tools occasionally. 

Witchcraft is not the solution to all of your problems.

Ingesting herbs can be dangerous at times, be careful. Especially if you take medication! 

You will not be able to control people, read minds, levitate, or use telekinesis. Those are all movie magic. 

Take everything with a large grain of salt. 

Read as much as you can, even the “bad” (cough silver ravenwolf) books, you can learn what not to do that way.

Avoid Silver Ravenwolf unless just reading for the meme.

You don’t have to keep up an edgy “witch” aesthetic, just be you!

There tends to be a lot of drama surrounding the witch community in particular, stay out of it.

STAY AWAY FROM PAGANSUNCENSORED.

You don’t have to do anything you don’t feel comfortable doing. 

Covens are NOT mandatory. 

There is no special ‘initiation’ to become a witch, you want to identify as a witch? You’re a witch! Just like magic.

Be careful of who you trust, just like any other community there are bad eggs who will try to hurt you. 

You don’t have to use divination to be a witch!

You don’t have to tell people you practice until you feel safe doing so, don’t feel rushed. 

RESEARCH, CROSS CHECK, THEN CHECK AGAIN! Never believe one source. 

Shielding and protection are important. 

Casting a circle is not necessary, it is a preference. 

People who have been practicing for longer than you will sometimes try to belittle you, do not believe them. You are just as much a witch as someone who has been practicing 20+ years, you’re just newer. 

DON’T LICK UNKNOWN ROCKS. Seriously, you could die. 

Using a ouija board is not going to summon a demon, but take the same precautions you would with any spirit work. 

Don’t be afraid to ask for help, or ask someone to teach you something. 

Remember that you don’t have to be ONE type of witch, you can practice forty different types of witchcraft at one time if you want!

Charging your crystals gives them an extra boost and aids in magic. 

If you don’t want to use the title “witch”, you don’t have to. There are many, MANY other ways to say you like a little magic in your cereal. 

There are many ways to practice in secret, but make sure you’re safe in doing so. 

Burying jars is awful for the environment. Find biodegradable things to use instead!

Be careful if collecting graveyard dirt (or anything from a graveyard) - you can get into some pretty extensive trouble. 

Be cautious about using rusty nails. Always wear gloves.

Basic fire safety goes a LONG way. 

Your own intuition is one of your biggest tools, learn to use it well. 

Learn at your own speed!

Don’t use witchcraft in place of medical/psychiatric professional assistance. 

Working with Fae can be dangerous, make sure you know what you’re doing.

Research before doing something, common sense right? 

Familiars will not always be your pets, unfortunately. 

Working with spirits can be dangerous, take necessary precautions. 

Lemon water is probably the easiest way to cleanse, just be careful around crystals. 

You are valid as a witch, no matter if you’ve been practicing 20 minutes or 20+ years. You are awesome.