This is a little exercise for anyone that wants to begin going into energies and such. Do a little or as much as you’d like every day and you’ll find other exercises easier after having this foundation.
So, to begin, sit in a comfortable position and space. You can sit however you’d like, just make sure you have your hands available.
Start grounding yourself. You can close your eyes here if you feel comfortable doing so. Take a 3 second breath in through your nose and a 3 second exhale through your mouth. Continue doing this until you feel your heart and lungs begin to sync up and your center aligning.
Take your hands out in front of you. Personally, I find having them lined up to my ribcage the most powerful, but if you feel like you get a better reaction by holding them above your head or where ever, go for it man. With your hands out, face your palms together with your hands slightly cupped.
Start with your hands closer together, but not touching. Visualize your energy moving from your chest all the way down your arms and into your hands. You can visualize anything here, sometimes a visualization or sensation just happens, if this occurs, roll with it and embrace it. This is your energy.
Visualize your energy coming out of the palms of your hands. Now, at this point, start moving your hands away from each other and back closer again very slightly. You should just be slightly wavering your hands. If you feel a bit of resistance between your hands when they come closer to each other again, almost as if you’re squeezing a ball, then you’ve successfully created a ball of energy. Continue squeezing the ball between your hands.
This is generally a good starting point. It may take a few tries for you to feel anything, but once you do, get comfortable making a strong ball of energy between your hands.
But, if you want continue, the next step would to be to make the ball bigger. As you’re wavering your hands, start taking longer pulling them apart. Go bit by bit farther apart from each other. You may feel a temperature difference if you’ve gone too far away from your ball compared if you are close to it.
Aftercare (I guess you could call it lol) consists of you recharging. For someone who has never done energy work before, it can be draining. How I like to close this exercise off is by bringing my hands together all the way until they are clasped together. Feeling the energy dissipate or be reabsorbed by my hands lets me know that I don’t have any residual energy wafting around.
Afterwords, take a break. Drink some tea, watch a movie, do whatever that you like and recharges you that you don’t have to put a lot of effort into. Regaining the energy that you’ve let out into the world is an important part of energy work; if you don’t do it, then . you’ll just run yourself dry and ragged.
✰Have fun! ∩(︶▽︶)∩
Ok so I am gonna say this is my personal reference, its mainly through associations. You might TOTALLY disagree and thats chill!
Its more something to think about and a guideline of what I use myself…
Candle Magic:
Carve a candle when…. the candle represents the target, in sympathetic magic. When, essentially, the candle is a poppet and lighting it is a symbol of destruction or empowerment to the target.
Place something under the candle or before it when… you are doing general candle magic, when the candle represents empowering a wish, idea or concept.
Anoint the candle when… doing work with spirits and gods, when you mark the candle for a special purpose, when doing high magic.
Herbs and plant work:
Use dry herbs when… it is convienent to do so, when the herbs are out of season or when you need to store them in a jar or bottle for a long time.
Use fresh herbs when… the spell is very earth orientated, when doing magic on behalf of another or when the magic is sympathetic so that the herbs represent the target, within kitchen witchery.
Use flowers when… when the spell concerns love and sex, or perhaps fertility and attraction, due to flowers being the reproductive parts of the plant.
Use fruit when when… working with children as a target, or with children practising. When you work with fertility and abundance spells.
Use wood and twigs when… when the spell is for protection or binding, for hardiness.
Burn herbs (recaning/incense) when… you wish to cleanse or banish, or invoke an atmosphere - that being, for divination using herbs that are said to open up your perceptions, when banishing, burning acrid or pungent herbs.
Use oil infusions when… you wish to anoint something, when you wish to mark something permanently.
Use floral waters (rose water etc) when… dealing with spirits and gods, for glamour as it has a long history of being used to beautify.
Crystals:
Use metals (haematite, copper, ores etc..) when… you work in protection, when you do energy work due to the conductive properties of metal.
Use shell, pearl, coral and such when… you work in sea magic, when you work within emotional magic due to the element of water.
Use points when… you wish to direct magic to a target.
Use tumble stones when… you wish the magic to be gentle or manifest at a certain place on the body on a target.
Use geodes when… you work in protection, when you work with glamour aimed to obscure and hide.
Knot magic:
Use cotton when… it is convenient.
Use silk when… doing spells that benefit the target.
Use ribbons when… love spells and wealth spells, as well as confidence and beauty spells. Spells to ensure victory.
Use rope when… doing spells that aim to hurt or weaken the target, binding especially.
Poppets:
Use cloth when… the spell aims to benefit who the poppet represents, use particular care when sewing or cutting, choose colours that are appropriate to them.
Use wax when… you wish to manipulate the target.
Use clay when… wish to create fetches or servitors, when you wish to create permanency.
Use twigs when… you wish to bury or throw the poppet out, when you want the poppet to be easily destroyed by breaking or setting on fire.
Sigils:
Use an alphabet grid or circle when… you wish the sigil to be more random and less attached to you.
Combine the shapes of letters from a sentence… when your sigil is very specific and a short term goal.
Use your own personal symbols when… you want the magic to be connected to you, when it is personal.
♈♉♊♋♌♍♎♏♐♑♒♓ Got a new batch of zodiac constellation pendants almost finished! Should be listed in the shop this weekend, but if you see one you like I can hold it for you!
Daily Oracle Reading for 6-8-16 <3 Scrying: Intuition. To me, this card is all about opening that third eye chakra and letting your intuition guide you. Your intuition is such a vital and important part of your being, but often we push it away and even fear it. This card is a reminder to trust that little voice in our head, or that gut feeling. We can access our intuition with many different tools, one of my favorites being divination. Scrying is a wonderful form of divination, but it requires trust. It requires you to trust in not just your logical mind, but your intuitive one as well. Take a little time to open your third eye and trust your intuition. Read some tarot cards, scry, meditate, or just be <3 The Halloween Oracle by Stacey DeMarco (Blue Angel Publishing) Card descriptions are derived from the card manual, but are in my own words, and my own interpretation.
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Here is a list of crystals that could be useful to artistic witches.
Agate: inspiration, awaken talents and improve them
Alexandrite: creativity, imagination
Amazonite: creativity, intuition
Amethyst: creativity, intuition, perception, insight
Apatite: insight, creativity
Aqua Aura Quartz: motivation, making progress in goals
Aventurine: creativity, imagination, motivation
Beryl: creativity, helps relieves the feeling of tiredness (always good for artists)
Bixbite: creativity
Carnelian: creativity, precision
Cavansite: inspiration
Charoite: inspiration
Chlorite: inspiration
Chrysoberyl: creativity
Citrine: intuition, creativity, clarity
Coral: creativity, visualization
Dolomite: concentration, focus
Emerald: focus
Fire Agate: creativity, expression
Fire Opal: creativity
Garnet: mental rejuvenation, motivation
Girasol: visualization, imagination, creativity
Goshenite: creativity, originality
Hematite: focus
Howlite: expression, creativity
Kyanite: visualization
Magnesite: visualization, unconscious thoughts realized
Mookaite Jasper: expression, versatility
Mother of Pearl: imagination, intuition, mental clarity, adaptability
Opal: creativity, inspiration, spontaneity
Pearl: focus
Rainforest Jasper: variety, progress, creativity
Sapphire: creativity, expression, mental clarity, intuition
Sardonyx: creativity, mental clarity
Siberian Gold Quartz: inspiration, motivation
Tangerine (dyed) Quartz: motivation
Tanzan Aura: intuition, inner vision
Tiger’s Eye: motivation, focus, concentration, mental clarity
Tiger Iron: artistic skills, creativity, motivation
Topaz: creativity, individuality, expression
Ulexite: creativity, inspiration, imagination
I just had a fun idea!
Looking for a way to associate yourself with a spell, but don’t feel like cutting your hair or fingernails, or the like? What else do you have on your body that is solely yours, but that you don’t have to cut off to use?
Your fingerprint!
Using candles? Press your thumb into the softened wax! Using paper and ink? Stamp that thumb!
Since your thumb print is your biological “barcode”, so to speak, that’s a great way to add a self-identifier to your spell!
Hope everyone is staying strong and safe out there! This storm will pass
Fishtail Selenite 🔮🕉 #crystals #selenite #crystalporn #metaphysical #healing
You can call me Greg! I love crystals, tarot, runes, nature, space, and all things witchy and magical. Catholic-Male-Witch. Positivity, and an open mind are welcome.
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