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stygiantarot:

Simple Spirit Work

🌻💀Ideas for Summer 🌻💀

(Summer is, in my opinion, the season that makes spirit work the trickiest. Those hot bright days and lush foliage can make the right “atmosphere” and frame of mind more delicate. Here are some simple ideas to help keep you feeling like your doing spirit work regularly without taxing yourself too much.)

-Leave offerings of food that goes well with the warmth of sunlight- berries, honey, breads, etc.

-Use grass clippings or other natural debris to create sigil and artistic design offerings! The wind will blow it where it needs to go!

-Lie under the sun and close your eyes and use the light filtering through your eyelids for simple divination (almost like scrying)

-Invite spirits to go on a hike or swimming with you! (Safely of course)

-Do your spirit communication in bare feet while standing on soil or grass/groundcover warmed by the sun

-This is a season to focus on using senses besides your eyes for spirit communication. I find spirit work using smell or touch/pressure particularly successful this time of year.

– Warm summer nights are perfect for stargazing!

-This is the perfect season to work with plant spirits (especially if you’re new or in a rut and need to brush up)!

-Use the splashes and drops of hose or sprinkler on a blacktop or concrete surface for divination style communication

-Take your spirits on a long car ride with the windows down and music to sing along to!

WAYS TO CLEANSE YOUR ROOM/SPACE WITHOUT BURNING ANYTHING

trippingpixies:

Some of us have breathing issues or parents/roommates who can’t be around burning stuff, and some people (like me) just have parents/roommates who don’t like the ashes and such left so…

1. Clean! And I mean really clean. Take all those dirty dishes back to the kitchen, take that rotting banana out of your unused backpack (I’m looking at myself there), do your laundry, and then really get in there! Dust, vacuum, do whatever you gotta do.

2. Open your windows during the rain! (Make sure you set up some plastic or such so you don’t get everything wet) I just really love the rain and there’s something so cleansing about it.

3. Get a essential oil diffuser!! I love these, and you can find oils at almost every grocery store just in case you don’t have a local witchy shop. Most of mine are from Wal-mart! (Remember that some oils are not for consumption or skin contact if they’re cheaper. Always read the backs before using them in those ways).

4. Meditate in the center of your space and really visualize all of the bad leaving and washing away. Use crystals if you like! Leave your room filled with bright, beautiful and uplifting energy 🙂

5. Perform! Read a piece of poetry or prose you love out loud. Give a little concert in your room for just your dog and stuffed animals! Dance your heart out. Just do something that helps you vent in a creative and constructive way! It leaves you and the space around you feeling lighter.

Feel free to add on!

everywitchway:

recreationalwitchcraft:

50 Magical Uses for Roses

Roses are one of the most common flowers around. They are widely adored, gifted often and grown in many places.  If you’re anything like us – you might even have too much of them laying around. What to do with all these roses?

  1. Bathe in them to encourage beauty
  2. Carry them to attract love
  3. Add them to a sleep sachet to promote sweet dreams
  4. Make a rose massage bar to encourage love through touch
  5. Make magical rose water
  6. Candy the rose petals to give to a lover
  7. Use them to honor the Goddess Aphrodite
  8. Use them to honor the Goddess Isis
  9. Let them rot in spells to break up couples
  10. Use them to represent the planet Venus
  11. Use them to honor the Virgin Mary
  12. Use them as offerings to spirits of the dead
  13. Use them to represent The Goddess
  14. Use in a spell jar for attracting romance
  15. Use their thorns to curse an ex-lover
  16. Make rose oil
  17. Use them to represent the 5 Wounds of Christ
  18. Use them in dream pillows to cause romantic dreams
  19. Uses yellow roses for spells involving friendship
  20. Substitute them for any flower in a spell
  21. Use them in spells for healing
  22. Use them in glamour spells
  23. Make a glamour-charged rosewater spray
  24. Make magical perfume with their sweet fragrance
  25. Preserve them in candles for love spells
  26. Make a romance-attracting bath melt
  27. Make a Sabbat Rose Garland
  28. Make a Rose Petal Salve
  29. Dry the Petals and make Flameless Rose Lights
  30. Make Rose Potpourri
  31. Use them in a Goddess Glamour bath
  32. Make a love attracting rose and baby oil sugar scrub
  33. Make a rose oil infusion for future spells
  34. Make a charged rose lip balm to bring on kisses
  35. Make a magical tea to encourage sexy times
  36. Preserve them for the altar using borax
  37. Use them in romance divination
  38. Use the petals as altar confetti
  39. Use them to honor Sappho
  40. Burn them and use the ashes to break off ties with ex-lovers
  41. Freeze them in ice bowls for seasonal spells
  42. Apply them to the skin to wear on Sabbats
  43. Use the petals as confetti for celebrations & Sabbats
  44. Make a rose glamour shower steamer
  45. Use the petals to cast circles
  46. Make rose tinctures
  47. Use the stems to make a Brigid’s Cross
  48. Make a sabbat flower crown
  49. Make a rose wreath for your front door to bring on relationships
  50. Propagate the stems for even more roses!

REMEMBER TO MAKE SURE YOUR ROSES AREN’T FROM A FLORIST, AND ARE PESTASIDE FREE BEFORE USING THEM ON/IN YOUR BODY IN ANY WAY

Source: recreationalwitchcraft

gensgrimoire:

Ways to get Closer to Your Craft

  • Open your curtains in the morning and look outside
  • Always try to stay grounded. Observe life around you
  • Make a list of the correspondences of certain soaps or other products that you have. Use a product with intent
  • Draw sigils
  • Chant in your head
  • Walk, sit, or lie down outside. Watch the plants dance in the wind and listen to your surroundings
  • Carry crystals or objects that mean a certain thing to you
  • Take time for yourself
  • Smile at strangers and visualize sending positive energy their way
  • Listen to music that represents your intent
  • Pick your outfits using colour magic
  • Light a candle
  • Do something for your community. By putting good things out, the universe will repay you
  • Try interpreting a tarot card for each day
  • Be creative. Find the magic in every day objects
  • Practice energy work
  • Meditate
  • Schedule days to go to the library and research plants, herbs, your religion, etc
  • Say thank you more often. Even when no one is there
  • Try to grow some plants
  • Have tea more often
  • Go outside!! I cannot stress this enough. Connect to nature. Go barefoot. Dance in the rain. Anything. Just go out
  • When hiking pick up things that call to you
  • Pick up trash. Give back to the planet
  • Take care and time for yourself
  • Be patient

Remember, its your craft. Do what feels right 🌱

Simple Witch Things You Can Do

the-heretic-witch:

â—‹ burn your favorite incense or candle

â—‹ walk around barefoot to connect with the earth

â—‹ burn random candles as you please

â—‹ cleanse your crystals

â—‹ thank your crystals, pendulums, tarot cards, and other tools

â—‹ give offerings to forest spirits or animals

â—‹ draw in sand

â—‹ paint your feelings

â—‹ meditate on cleansing your mind

â—‹ use your favorite essential oils !!

â—‹ write down all the things you hate and burn it

â—‹ listen to your favorite song, not caring about how many times it repeats

â—‹ draw or doodle with an intention, similar to sigils, but easer to hide

â—‹ love yourself

        witchcraft is what you make of it, if you make it hard, it will be hard

ofknightsandblood:

Dangers in the Spirit Work Community

Spirit work is becoming even more popular and drawing a mass of people to it. But not many think or talk about how to proceed if you or your family & or Companions were in danger. 

PSA:  I am by no means a pro, nor do I claim to be.  But please keep in mind, there are a lot of toxic & dangerous people– as well as sellers in the spirit work community.

                                                    ———–

 Firstly: Ward your ass off.  

I feel this is one of the most important things to do, even if you do not have any suspicion or need to do so.  

When I first got into Spirit Work, I ignored most of the advice to ward and shield myself. But it is SO important. 

There are lots of techniques to Shield and Ward yourself. They can be wards, shields, charms, hexes. Whatever you are more comfortable with,  I have some links below to help you if you need them as well. 

Warding

Shielding

Protect you and your space, as well as family (this includes humans and companions) as best as you can.

                                               ———

From here we will discuss if you have reasons to fear for your safety, as well as your companion/family.

Always practice Discernment. 

What is Discernment? 

–The ability to see and understand people, things, or situations clearly and intelligently.

(Basically, being able to tell if you ARE actually in danger & or Cursed; Or if its just you freaking out.)

That time a person got your order wrong at McDonald’s is probably not gonna be a sign you are cursed or in danger from being attacked.

Look for signs, be cautious.

How to proceed when you know you are being attacked/cursed: 

 You are not alone. 

You are strong, and WILL make it through this. 

Do not lash out, I repeat DO NOT LASH OUT OR TRY TO GET REVENGE RIGHT AWAY.

I know it makes you feel helpless, and even scared, it makes you fucking pissed. But Please for the sake of your safety and companions, as well as family; Try to determine WHY this is happening. Then Proceed to the safest course of action!

 This will only cause more drama and most likely more harm to you and others around you, especially if you ask for help from another friend or spirit worker in the community.

Effects of Lashing out:

– Entities & Companions can end up in comas, and even dead. 

– You can drag close friends into this, and then they will be hurt and in danger. 

The list goes on. 

This does not mean you cant get revenge, but you MUST be smart about it. 

                                                ——-

You first need to figure why you are being attacked, and who by.

You can get or do readings, whether it be by your own self; or friends. As well as People to look at your energy, even check on you and or your companions.

Reading or Divining for yourself

If you can’t, the best route is to get the curses taken off; as well as strength your wards and make more.

Warding & Protection 

Curse Breaking

If you are poor like me, and can’t go to a trusted conjurer or spirit worker who charges money, this tends to be the best way. As well as seeing if you can trade for services.I will link some trusted Spirit workers who know their shit below. 

I will add more as I get permission.

If you have gotten this far, I applaud you, Thank you so much for sticking with me. 

-Bia.

any tips for a beginner witch on how to reach out to a Goddess? I feel very drawn to Athena and would like to reach out to Her.

thequeenofsunflowers: