Here is a catalog of my most requested and most liked posts. I hope this helps you navigate your witchy world a little easier. Collecting resources is key!
SALTWATER SCHOOL Lessons for craft beginners and baby witches.
The Chicago library just posted a bunch of old manuscripts online to get the public’s help with translation and transcription. One of these manuscripts was “The Book of Magical Charms”, an anonymous grimoire from 17th century England.
This is PURE CHRISTIAN WITCHERY. It’s got spirit conjurings, (use with care), sigils, (also use with care), spells and potions, (USE WITH CARE don’t be eating anything a 17th century manuscript says to eat without researching it first), prayers galore. Some of it is in Latin, but if you hit the translator tab, a bunch of people have already translated some significant chunks. Me myself will be digging out my Latin textbooks because I am THAT LEVEL OF NERD.
STOP taking them out of their cultural contexts. STOP praying to them unless you’ve done proper research. STOP taking our spirits out of their worlds.
This is so incredibly disrespectful to the spirit and the people.
If you don’t know the difference between Chinese, Korean and Japanese dragons, you shouldn’t attempt to work with them. If you don’t know why Korean dragons are called 용, you shouldn’t be working with them. If you don’t know why Chinese dragons are known for being “wise”, you shouldn’t be working with them. If you don’t know why Japanese dragons sometimes carry an orb, you shouldn’t be working with them.
Our dragons are STILL CONNECTED TO OUR TRADITIONS. We still worship them! We still pray to them! Do not rip them out of their culture.
Sea shell symbolize the element water, love, protection, preparation, peace, and prosperity.
Abalone: Hidden beneath its drab shell lies a beautiful mother-of-pearl. Use this shell in spells when seeking hidden treasures, wealth, and good fortune. It is also often used in love spells, especially self love spells. Amulets made of abalone shells help with affirmations, balancing, and protection. As well as protection from negativity, attraction to creativity, and is often used for meditation and chakra balancing. A whole abalone she can bee used as an incense holder. Abalone is a healing shell. Helps stimulate psychic development. Abalone helps with anxiety, stress, arthritis relief, muscular problems, and heart and digestive system problems.
Auger: Used in spells male oriented magic, fertility, courage, power, and to aid in male healing.
Clam: Since Venus was painted coming out of a clam shell, this has been considered a symbol of her. Use this shell when you call on Venus for help. As well as for spells that have to do with purification, friendship and love.
Cockle: This shell is best used in spells for love, friendship, relationships, and emotions.
Conch: Can be used for spells that have to do with summoning, lost communication, difficulties in communication, and to aid in clearing misconceptions. As well as power, grace, beauty, nobility, strength, freedom, and forward movement.
Cowries: This shell is used in spells for anything of concern to females. Including menstrual and pregnancy difficulties. Also used for spells that include fertility, prosperity and money.
Limpets: Used in spells for courage, confidence, and physical strength.
Moon shell: It can be used for anything lunar related. Also for psychic awareness, purification, and peace.
Murex: Used for protection, defense, and preservation.
Nautilus: Used for any mentally related spells. This would include passing your exam, completing all your homework, remain focused, etc.
Oyster: Used in spells for banishment, love and good fortune.
Sand dollars: Used in wealth spells and wisdom spells.
Scallop: Good all purpose-shells and can be used to replace any shell. Also used in travel and movement spells.
Spindle: It is best used in meditations on destiny as well as any spell to do with inspiration.
Whelk: Used in spell to help gain control of the situation. Used for making dramatic, positive changes to your life.
Spirit work is a broaaad term and there’s been many disputes about it so I decided to organize a list. If there’s a specific branch of spirit work that isn’t on the list, please do message me and some info on it! or correct me if I got some parts wrong!
RELIGIOUS: Working with an entity or figure associated with a specific religion. This can include the worship of a deity depending on the person. Some examples include the Abrahamic God, Joan of Arc, Greek Gods, etc.
SPIRIT COMPANIONSHIP: Working with spirits bought from a companion store, usually binded to a vessel. Great for beginners because the vessels make it easier for the human companion to connect to their energy. This is NOT slavery nor is the spirit forced into it. It’s all consent.
ANIMAL: Works with animals, living or dead. This could be for reconnecting to a once living being, deep appreciation for all animals and/or animal deities. Some examples are dogs, cats, birds, wolves, etc.
POP CULTURE: Works with living entities from a fictional realm coming from a book, movie, anime, etc. They are conversed as energy being put into the idea of them, creating their own realm and able to access.
ARS GOETIA DEMONS: Where the whole, demon summoning archetype came from. Works one or more of the 72 demons from the grimoire, Lesser Key of Solomon. Some may or may not consider this “Hell”.
ANGELS: Works or worships angelic spirits. They are often described with large feathery wings or halos. Often works underneath God(or similarly) but does not have to be Abrahamic or religiously tied. Examples are Shinigami(death angels), Fallen.
VAMPIRES: Works with vampires, usually Psy or Sanguine. Psy vampires feed off the energy of humans to sustain life while Sanguine vampires are the ‘dracula’ archetype. They do not need blood but some offer raw meat as an offering but does feed off the human when eating meat.
FAE: Works or communicates with faes (also fay, fae; from faery, faerie, “realm of the fays”). Fae is a type of mythical being or legendary creature in European folklore, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural. Usually known as an umbrella term that covers many species.
DRAGONS: Works with dragons. Period. Usually known as a legendary creature,
typically scaled or fire-spewing; with serpentine, reptilian and avian traits, that features in the myths of many cultures. European and Chinese dragons are the most commonly known.
ELF: Works with an elf or a community of elves. Elves are mythical creature of various origins that is usually regarded as a good being that helps to make trees and nature good. Described to a taller human with long, pointy ears. Also considered very beautiful creatures.
ANCESTRAL: Works with spirits/those who have passed within their bloodline. Some may even work outside their bloodline with respect and permission from the ghost/human spirit.
CULTURAL: Works with spirits within their own culture or tied to their religion. Example of cultural spirits are yokai, Japanese demons.
HELL: Works with demons or spirits with relations to Hell. May or may not have relations to Goetia demons, depending on the individual spirit. Spirits may include hellhounds, lowborn demons, hellcats, etc.
DEATH: Works with the dead aka ghosts, those who have passed recently or awhile ago, helps the dead move on/guide them to dead. Also called a psychopomp.
MEDIUMSHIP: While they do work with ghosts, they have more purposes than helping the dead move on. Some functions include relying a message to the living, helping reconnect loose ends, etc. Thank you to @pathlesspagan!
GUIDES/GUARDIANS: Works with their guardians/guides in this life. This may be a guardian angel, a spirit that has been with them for a long period of time or someone they trust to protect them or to guide them through a path.
ELEMENTAL: Works with spirits of the 4 elements: Water, Earth, Air, and Fire. It does not limit to those four but can also extend to celestial, storm, void, corruption, poison, etc elements.
SUN: Works with spirits that works, worships, receives and/or contains energy from the sun.
MOON:
Works with spirits that works, worships, receives and/or contains energy from the moon.
SHIFTERS/WERE: Works with spirits who have more than one form such as their ‘human’ form and ‘animal’ form but does not limit to those two and can have more than two forms. Examples include werewolf, werecat, werebird, kitsune.
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