point me

a potion to surround you with love from others and yourself.

“Nights of love to never end // A great happiness that takes its place Troubles, sorrows, fade away // Happy, happy to die When he takes me in his arms // He whispers to me, I see life in p i n k.”

🌹 gather: cup and saucer, rose petals, cloves, cinnamon ginger, rose tea leaves, and rose quartz.

🌹 prepare a cup and saucer, draw a pentagram on the saucer

🌹 place a pink petal at each corner of the pentagram.

🌹 prepare a cup of hot chocolate

🌹 create a sigil for ‘rose’ on your palm, where you will place a pinch of cloves, cinnamon and ginger, before brushing into the cup

🌹 add a spoonful of rose tea leaves, stir in and let steep. 

🌹 charge the rim of the cup with rose quartz, enjoy the potion

Bubble bubble, in size double

Noodle and chicken broth

Carrot and celery and onion too

Will bring better health to you

Salt and pepper, garlic to boot

This brew of healing

Makes sickness moot

Flutter and fly at speeds unseen

On your glittering pixie wings

With a wish and a happy thought

By your dust magic be wrought

Share with me that secret power

Visit me this witching hour

Neath the most ancient trees

I shall leave an offering

By candle light and incense smoke

The power in me I invoke

Ash stains upon the floor

And candle wax upon the door

Herbs and oil spilled here too

From all the magic that I do

My prayers are scribbled here and there

On paper, post-it- anywhere

Mismatched decor all around

I work magic with all I’ve found

In all my thrift shop majesty

I beckon the gods to aid me

And here I am, a witch, a man

[ I N T R O ]

I’m talking about Grimoires, Books of Mirrors, Books of Shadows, or any other book you might use to record various parts of your spiritual path. This can go from witchcraft related information or correspondences to simply record your dreams and delving into the meaning. I’m going to talk about some of the different types of spiritual journals, talk a little about how I use my personal spiritual journals, and then give ideas, tips, and tricks on things you can incorporate into your spiritual stationery.

I am writing this to help those who have a tough time with their spiritual stationery as I did when I was first starting out. Maybe you feel like you don’t know where to start? What should you call your book(s)? What should you use? What could you put into your book(s)? I understand that there may be others who want to record their path, but feel like something is preventing them from doing so. This is to help those people, but this might be helpful for anyone who is trying to establish regular documentation of your spiritual path. :)

Generally, when we talk about a Grimoire, a Book of Shadows, and a Book of Mirrors we are referring to three different types of journals. A Grimoire would normally only holds your finalized spells and recipes. A Book of Shadows if generally for information about correspondences of the things/tools you work with or anything that pertains to what you use in your craft. Finally, your Book of Mirrors is kind of like your personal journal. Inner thoughts about your spirituality, things you want to contemplate, your beliefs about magick/the universe. You would also normally work out things in your Book of Mirrors before you put them into your Grimoire once they’re finalized.

That was just a little bit of information about the general ‘definitions’ on these three different kinds of spiritual journals. However, I would like to say that you don’t have to have three separate books in order to document your path. You can even combine them all into one, or only have two books, or even have so many books that you feel like you have a library. Don’t feel afraid to create your own versions of spiritual stationery, or giving them your own names. Your path is your own and you can do with it as you please, and this also means you can do whatever you want to do with how you decide to record your path. It’s different for everyone.

How I use my Spiritual Stationery

I have three books that I use, but I don’t have a Book of Shadows. I have a Grimorie (Which you could say is a mixture between a grimoire and a BOS), a Book of Mirrors, and my Book of Spirit. Personally, I not only put spells and recipes in my Grimoire, but I also put poetry and dedication pages to my deities and spirit companions. My Book of Mirrors not only holds my thoughts on magick, but it also holds poetry dedicated to my deities, my dreams, and all of the tarot readings I have done for myself. As for my Book of Spirit, that is actually a spiritual art journal that I am using to connect with my path/craft/spirituality through the lens of art.

What to use as Spiritual Stationery?

You can use anything. You can decide to use a physical journal that you have to write in (like I do) or you can make one that is digital. There are a lot of different apps that you can find that will let you have different notebooks in one app so you can organize things the way you want. Evernote is something I use (not for spiritual stuff) and it has the ability to create notebooks and different kinds of entries. But you can totally also use physical binders of folders if that is what you wanna do! Remember, this is for you. Do whatever makes you feel comfortable.

A Tip or Three

If you are one who feels like you can’t start or continue with an actual journal you have to write in (maybe you feel like you won’t make it ‘pretty’ enough, or that you might ruin the journal), maybe think about starting a digital one.

Though you might be like me, and you might really, really want to have a physical book. A big problem with this is having a really nice book and messing it up, or making a page you don’t like. Here is some advice for that: You can always cover a page with another page. Just glue it on top. Or even tear the page out. This is your book and you can do whatever you want with it. Also, remember that’s it doesn’t have to start off as pretty as you would like it. You can add things as you go along to previous pages. The book never has to be finished until you say so.

Seriously, the whole idea of covering pages with pasted pages has saved my life when it comes to having a physical spiritual journal. I would start a book, hate what I put in there, and then I would rip the pages out and use the book for something else. Now I just cover up a page. Because of this, my Grimoire is nearly done, and my Book of Mirrors is halfway done. These are now my most important tools.

I’d also like to mention having a rough draft, and multiple if you feel like you need more. Think about it. Your path can change at any time. There are some things that might work for you now but won’t later. This is okay! Don’t worry about this! But you might not want to put alot of energy into a really big expensive book that you won’t really use.

Information to put into your Spiritual Stationery

I would categorize these things into what I would put in what book, but I am just going to let you decide :) I will split them up based on 'basics’ and 'personal’ stuff, though, just for some organization for this post.

Please take note that you don’t have to include everything or even anything at all that I’ve listed here! These are just ideas to help those who don’t know what do to! Also, some may feel that a few of these things listed under 'basics’ are actually personal things, and that’s okay! Do what you want with these! Put them in any book you want!

Basics

Crystals

Botanicals

Colors

Misc

Personal

Thoughts on Energy

Prayers/chants

Your thoughts on magickal and energy

Your dreams

Your readings

Meditation methods

Your deities

Your element

Your astrology chart

Personal correspondences

Ideas for your altar

A page for your Astral home

Shrine pages

Secret pages

A page for things to use to summon you once you’ve passed on

Ancestor pages

And with that, I am finished. I hope this post has helped anyone in any way. I remember never being able to keep a Grimoire, like ever, and these things have helped me with motivation and inspiration. :)

The Yearly Spread

Present Position 

Positive Influences New Year

Negative Influences New Year 

Goal(s) for New Year

Yearly Lesson 

Relationships (romantic, family, and or friends)

Work/School

Health 

Spirituality

Deck’s Comment/Reading Reflection

Advice

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Hey everybody!

I had someone ask if I could make a post on how to create your own cartomancy system, and thought it would benefit a lot of people, so here it is! It involves the ‘do-it-from-scratch’ tutorial, but if you have a deck of cards in mind that you would like to do this with, disregard the part about making the cards and go for the gold :)

Step One:

Decide a theme for your deck if you want to have one. It can be whatever you want; vampires, planets, office supplies, socks. You can even make a deck for your favourite book or show.

Step Two:

Outline how many cards you’d like your deck to have. A traditional tarot deck has 78 cards, playing-card decks have 52 (54 with jokers), and Pokemon cards/etc. can be pretty much unlimited for divination.

Deciding how to get the most out of your deck number-wise can be tricky, so play around with the idea until you get the perfect number figured out. I suggest a number higher than twenty, since you can add a lot more meaning to each card, and include more symbols for your use.

Step Three:

Figure out what style of art you would like to use. You can make collages, minimalist drawings, line-work sketches, animated images, or anything else really. You can even keep it super symbol by just drawing little images on each card. Whatever vibes with you the most is the best thing :)

If you want to get super fancy, or are talented in designing artwork, decide on what the back of each card should look like, I have a friend who spray painted her playing cards white on the back, plaid lace over it, then sprayed it black. They turned out really cool, and I bet it would be great for a cartomancy deck!

Step Four:

Create your cards.

Spend time on this process, since the quality of the work is a lot more important than how fast you get your deck done. This is especially true if you plan to design and create each individual card, and hand-draw them out. 

You might decide after a little while that you don’t really care if your cards match artistically speaking. And that’s totally okay. If it feels right, and you like your deck altogether, do whatever you want :) It is your deck after all!

A little note/tip I have for you is to get your cards laminated/otherwise sealed after you’ve finished them; it will really keep them in nice shape if you plan to use your deck fairly often.

Step Five:

Give each individual card a meaning based off of what you think of when you see the card. The symbols with in it can be included as answers as well. Alternatively you, can create the meanings first and then draw/create your cards from there.

Something I personally do every so often is ignore the meanings of the cards, and view them as new images. I ask myself what I think it mans when I look at it, and interpret the meanings from there. Sometimes they’re the same/similar, sometimes not.

Step Six:

Come up with your system of divination.

You can borrow from tarot if you want, by using the tarot spreads and methods of pulling the cards, or you can completely nix those traditional ideas and create something totally different and unique.

Maybe you draw three cards, and drop them on a table. Perhaps the way they lay when you put them down holds a different meaning than when they lay straight. You could do something like that as a piece of your divination system, or really anything else you’d like to. I use my cartomancy deck, draw three cards, and read them differently than some other people might. It’s still accurate, and I feel closer to my deck :)

Step Seven:

Write out all of your ideas for the system and decide what may influence it. Numbers, symbols on the cards, the time of day, etc. can all be small little things you can take into account.

If you wish, you can give certain cards different meanings under those circumstances. Maybe when your card is reversed, it holds a slightly altered meaning. Maybe that doesn’t really affect anything for you. Define these types of things as well as you can, and create a final draft. Know that this can be edited, but having a good guide before you start tweaking it is very helpful.

Step Eight:

Experiment with your cards and methods of pulling them, Try them out with a few questions to see what you get, and play with the concept for a while, When you feel comfortable with what you have, you can begin journalling about it and maybe sharing your methods :)

Please note - though I myself am not a spirit worker, I’ve done enough research and seen enough of other people’s personal stories to say this: spirit work is not always light and fluffy and happy (obviously it can be, but not all the time). Spirits are not all willing to work with you peacefully - some are even downright rude or aggressive. It can be dangerous, and there are risks of getting involved with other entities not of this world. Make sure you know what you are getting into completely and are well prepared before engaging.

Updated: August 18th, 2016

General

[All the Spirits, All the Places] (tw: gif)

[A Beginner’s Guide To Spirit Companionship]

[Bonding 101] (tw: gif)

[Boundaries - The First Component of Constructive Spirit Work]

[Caution: Calling/Attaching Spirits]

[Common Spirit ‘Scams’]

[Considerate Spirit Offerings]

[Dealing with Spirit Anxiety]

[Dealing with Spirit-Induced Trauma and Injuries]

[Dealing with Spirits You Don’t Want to Deal With]

[Guardian/Protective Spirits]

[House Rules]

[How to Make Your Home More Inviting For Spirits]

[I Have No Time for My Spirit Companions]

[If an “Unbound” Spirit Approaches You]

[On Large Spirit Families]

[Settling In: Getting to Know Your House Spirits]

[Spirit-Caused Wounds]

Spirit Companionship: [What Is It?]; [Why Choose Companionship?]; [Misconceptions]; [It’s a Commitment]

[Spirit Companionship and Insecurity vs. Trust in Yourself]

Spirit Companionship FAQ: [Part 1]; [Part 2]

[Spirit Defense]

[Spirit Do’s And Don’ts]

[Spirit Work]

[Spirit Worker Reminders]

[Spirits And Astral Walking]

[Spirits and Demons and Where to Start]

[Spirits and the Danger of Spirit Work, FAQ]

[Working with Spirits]

[Working with Spirits: Contracts]

Communication

[Contacting Spirit Guides and Other Entities]

[Contacting Your Spirit Guides]

[Guide: How to Communicate with Spirits, Gods, and Other Unseen]

[How I Communicate with Spirits]

[In-Depth Psychic Communication Guide for Spirit Contact]

[So You Want to Talk to Spirits?]

[Spirits: Communications And Customs]

[Tuning to the Dead]

Channeling

[Channel a Spirit] (an ask)

[Tips on Channeling Spirits] (an ask)

Possession

[How to Avoid Getting Possessed] (an ask)

[On the Topic of Possession, Attacks, and Other Spirit Problems]

[Spirit Vessels]

[What Exactly is Horsing] (an ask)

Banishing / Exorcism

[Dealing With Dead People - Banishing & Exorcism]

[Exorcism 101]

[How to Banish a Spirit]

[Kicking Them Out - An Intro to Banishings, Cleaning House, and Astral Relationship Intervention]

Spells and Magic

[Banishment Spell, Spirits Begone] (tw: sigil)

[Candle Spell to Banish Negative Energies or Spirits]

[Ritual to Invite Spirit Contact]

[Selective Spirit Door-Bar]

[The Soul Alchemists Trap Box]

[Spirit Drive-Out]

[Spirit Poppets]

[The Spirit Vessel]

[Spirit Working Powder]

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You will need:

Four small bowls

Frankincense oil or tears

Myrrh oil or tears

Vervain oil or plant matter

Yarrow oil or plant matter

Salt

In four small bowls, in four corners of the house, place one tablespoon frankincense, one tablespoon myrrh, one tablespoon vervain, one tablespoon yarrow, and surround each bowl with a circle of salt.

Sitting in the center of the house, you then surround yourself with a circle of salt, and seek your own power. This is your home. It is your territory. You are the power of this place and it is your temple. It has meaning because it is yours. It is a home because you make it one. 

Seek feelings of security, stability, and confidence within yourself, remembering your home as a place of safety and rest.

When those feelings are strong within you, cast a claiming and warding.

The claiming and warding I prefer is quite simple, “This house is mine. I have claimed it with frankincense, that there may be riches within it. I have claimed it with myrrh, that evil cannot enter here. I have claimed it with vervain, that it may be a sacred space, a temple for my earthly flesh. I claim it with yarrow, that only good health may enter here. This house is mine.”

But you use whatever warding affirmation you prefer.

Gather each ingredient from the four bowls and place them in a container of your choice. Place this somewhere in the home – the mantle of the fireplace, inside your chest of drawers, on your altar, etc. Gather the salt from the circles and scatter it around the outside of the house, reinforcing your warding, for example, saying: “This house is mine. This house is mine. This house is mine.”

Hey witches! As some of you may know, I am a hearth witch. Here is a small list of some witchy things I incorporate into my home. My home and my family is my pride and joy, and it brings me great joy to have little rituals in place for a comfortable, cozy and tranquil living space, and fulfills my nurturing spirit. Enjoy! 💖🌙

🔮 Hanging rosemary at your front door for protection.

🔮 Lavender sachets for under pillows to promote relaxation and calm.

🔮 Spraying bed linen with a blend of water, witch hazel and lavender essential oil.

🔮 Candles in the hearth area of the home can be a replacement for the traditional hearth fire. I have a fireplace, however often burn a candle instead in the warmer months where a fire would be too hot.

🔮 Growing herbs on windowsills is a beautiful touch, and especially useful for witches without access to a garden space. Grow herbs based on your desired intent for the home, and the bonus is they can also be used for cooking.

🔮 Opening windows can let in fresh air and drive out stagnant energy.

🔮 White vinegar infused citrus peels can make a great cleaning spray. Citrus is associated with sun energy, so it can help bring vitality and uplifting spirit to your home.

🔮 Spraying curtains with a blend of basil essential oil and water can bring peace, wealth and settle conflict in the home.

🔮 Enchanting blankets to provide comfort, reassurance and solace.

🔮 Sweeping and vacuuming can be looked upon as getting rid of unwanted energy.

🔮 Mirrors are thought to amplify the power of everything they reflect. Placing beautiful items such as flowers, crystals, shells and candles, along with keeping them out of sight of clutter can invite beautiful energy into the home.

🔮 Essential oil diffusers are an amazing tool. Use them to infuse whatever essential oils you want in your home, as different oils have different magickal correspondences. I also place my diffuser at the bottom of my wardrobe, to infuse my clothing with different scents and for magickal intent.

🔮Fresh flowers in the home are a great way to liven up a room and have magickal correspondences. Blue flowers are associated with drawing peace and tranquility into the home, so I often have blue hydrangeas in my flower vases.

🔮 To keep away unwanted guests, smear patchouli oil on door handles. Make sure all family members are in the home when doing this.

🔮 Place salt on the windowsills for protection. If a room in your home feels full of negative energy, placing salt in the four corners of the room and letting it sit there for 48 hours will absorb this energy.

Kitchen witches believe that the kitchen is a sacred place where all of the magick happens. They focus on the use of edible ingredients and kitchen tools.  A cottage witch is a witch that brings magick into the house and are protectors of the hearth and home. They bring cheer and warmth to every room they enter. Their focuses are on the family, home, and daily needs. Both the cottage and Kitchen witch believe that by honoring the home it honors the Gods and Goddesses. They bring magick into everyday life and daily chores.

Ways a Kitchen and Cottage witch can bring magick into a home:

Create a kitchen altar

Stock your shelves with herbs and spices

Bring maximum feng-shui to your home

Keep the home physically and spiritually clean

Paint the house walls in colours that bring happiness, warmth, and coziness

When making a sandwich put mustard or mayo sigils on it

When making meals add herbs that correspond to your magickal needs

Decorate the home according to the sabbats

Brew some special teas

Make your own candles, salves, and tinctures.

Make offerings to Gods and Goddesses of hearth and home.  

Ask your deities to keep your house safe and healthy.

Create your own recipes and add your own touch of magick to them

Put intent into everything you cook and clean

Make an incantation or short song to sing while you stir.

Inscribe your wooden spoons with sigils  

Carve your wooden shelves with sigils - carve them at the bottom of the cupboard to remain discreet

Craft oils, incense, soaps, potions, and salves.

Make herbal remedies

Chant while cleaning or preparing a meal

Use numerology in their practices by the number of times they stir or the number of times they knead dough.

During the mead moon, brew mead with magickal intent.

Decorate the home with your own art or art done by your children, poems, knits, woodcraft’s, paintings, quilts, diy’s, or tapestries.

Enchant your crafts.

Use weather magick, candle magick, ribbon charms, and anything else used to add magick to your home.

Honour the ancestors.

Bless the home.

Start a garden and will it with organic and in season fruits and vegetables.

Charge herbal oils by moonlight or candlelight to heal, bless the home or to clean and protect the woodwork she polishes with it.

Scatter charm bags, witches ladders, chimes, and bells around the home.

Grow an indoor jungle

Learn herbal remedies to treat MINOR injuries

If you work with meat make sure to thank and honour the animal it came from.

Sing or play music to raise good vibrations

Bake and cut cookies in shapes to match your intentions

Provide someone in need with a free meal

Volunteer at a local soup kitchen to bring magick into it

What their altar may display:

Candles

Tools used for sacred use

Four elements

Statues of the honoured deities

A doll weaved of corn

A kitchen witch’s altar is often displayed in the corner of the kitchen and is not permanent

Food made by the witch left as an offering

Some beliefs followed:

Magick is not used to inflict pain on others or block anyone’s free will

Believe in living simple lives

Believe in using organic items, products that aren’t animal tested, recycling, and composting.

Creativity is a form of devotion

Keep peace in the household

May the home always contain good food, good talk, and good company

Welcome guests into the home with open arms

Cottage and Kitchen witch superstitions/wives tales:

Stir clockwise to bring good luck

Never stir with a knife as it is considered bad luck

Place a piece of amethyst near the stove top to make the food cooked there tastes better

If an apple bursts in the oven while baking it means good luck is on its way for the cook

Eggs that are cracked while they boil is a sign that visitors are on their way

Dropping silverware means that company is coming

Spilling water on the table cloth means that rain is on its way

Seeing a spider in the house is good luck, killing it is bad luck

Wild animal tracks in the snow encircling your house is a sign of good luck and protection

When your cupboard doors are left opens it means that people are gossiping about you

If a broom drops across the doorway it means that you will soon head off on a journey

If you spill salt throw it over your left shoulder to undo any bad luck

To keep evil spirits away chop an onion in half and place it on the window sill

Chosen tools:

Wooden spoons

Knife

Bowls

Cooking pot or cauldron

A ritual knife used to only cut spiritual ties

A Fire place

Broom

Mortar and pestle

Kettle

Jars and bottles

Sewing kit

Cook books

Spells are cast to bring:

Healing

Prosperity

Protection

Abundance

Happiness

Fertility

Harmony

Peace

Deities worked with:

Hestia

Frigga

Brighid

Demeter

May your house stay warm and full of magick!

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Apple: spirit work, offerings, love, healing, beauty, wisdom, harvest

Blueberry: protection, banishment, curses

Basil: protection, grounding, happiness, peace, money, love, luck

Black (general): strength, cleansing, rid of negativity, protection

Cornflower:  femininity, fae, acceptance, health, beauty, protection

Catmint:   healing, animal magic, relaxation, calmness, happiness, psychic ability, love, wishes, meditation

Cinnamon: safety, calmness, love, happiness, money, blessing, protection, healing

Cranberry: holidays, blood magic, spirit work

Clover: money, prosperity, luck, happiness, spirit work, fae, protection, healing

Chai Spice: love, money, luck, witchcraft, psychic ability

Chrysanthemum - healing, samhain, ancestral work

Chamomile - calmness, money, love, peace, cleansing, love, meditation

Dandelion: wishes, dreams, psychic ability, lunar magic

Elderberry: healing, protection, blessing, banishing, cursing, cleansing

Earl Grey: peace, happiness, relationships

Ginger: energy, speeding things along, passion, travel, healing

Ginseng: love, fertility, beauty, healing, strength

Green (general): healing, sexuality, energy, peace, witchcraft

Honeysuckle:  sexuality, fertility, love, luck, prosperity, sweetness

Herbal (general): peace, serenity, health

Kombucha (general): sexuality, health, luck

Lavender:  calmness, cleansing, love, happiness, fertility

Lilac: love, protection, fortune, new love, banishing

Lemon Balm: cleansing, confidence, overcoming challenges, relaxation

Lemongrass: psychic ability, divination, cleansing, communication, protection, love, luck, jobs

Lemon: cleansing, purification, protection, curse breaking

Lime: cleansing, protection, love

Lychee: love, self love, femininity, beauty

Mint: communication, energy, money, spirit work, cleansing

Mugwort: healing, divination, astral projection, dreams, psychic ability, cleansing, protection

Matcha: energy, alertness

Nettle: spirit work, protection, curse breaking

Oolong: love, difination, serenity, peace

Peppermint: healing, cleansing, sleep, love, money

Passion fruit: lust, love, passion

Pomegranate: offerings, blood magic, fertility, divination, spell work

Peach: fertility, love, happiness, spirit work

Rose (general):  love, beauty, attraction, fertility

Raspberry: love, dreams, health

Raspberry leaf: fertility, femininity, menstrual cycle, lunar magic, love, creativity, protection

Sage: cleansing, protection, spirit work, smoke cleansing, wisdom, wishes, funerals

White (general): happiness, lunar magic, protection, cleansing

Buttons are incredible little tokens much like coins or rocks that can be used for a plethora of fun and useful witchy crafts. They’re small, portable, wearable, transferable, and can be made easily or found for very little money at most thrift stores and craft shops!

Useful and fun ways to incorporate buttons into your craft:

 ⭐ Draw or paint sigils on the back of buttons with a sharpie and seal with some clear glue/resin. Sew them onto your shirt, bag, or thread them to wear as jewelry!

⭐ Friendship spells! Buttons are a kind of clasp or connection, therefore using buttons in spells for bonding can symbolize a connection, or clasp, of two or more people!

⭐ Buttons can be used as altar decorations, and larger buttons can act as tiny plates, display stands, or bases for mini offerings!

⭐ Buttons of certain materials can be used to harken back to certain elements, like clay or wooden buttons for Earth, or shell buttons for water.

⭐ Ancestral work! If anyone in your family has sewed they probably have a box/jar/tin of sewing supplies left around with some buttons in it! Use these on ancestral altars to again create that connection.

⭐ Divination. Often buttons are used for eyes on dolls and stuffed animals and placing a button in front of you during a divination ritual can help you visualize and therefore open your third eye.