All Sorted Out

Behind the Curtains Tarot Spread : Pull back the curtains of any situation with this spread. Meant to help you “defog” your mind and your emotions. Might also help you uncover some of your own personal bias you may have towards someone or something. 

coffee magick ☕️🤍

coffee has strong grounding properties and effectively boosts confidence, energy, and mental strength/clarity!

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coffee boosters; optional add-ins to give your coffee an extra witchy kick

cinnamon [x]

vanilla; kindness, purity

coconut (creamer/sugar); cleansing, peace, prosperity, luck

moon water; purity, healing, love, energy

rose-infused milk (or ‘milk’); love, healing, diety work, calming, comfort

thyme; fae work, kindness, communication, success, peace

lavender-infused milk/‘milk’; tranquility, love, healing, calming, purity

chocolate; divination, love, comfort, happiness, luck

rosemary; mental clarity, memory, calming, strength

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💙 ~As i’ve been thinking on making this for a loooong time, and some people requested it, here are my personal correspondences for River, Lake, Sea or Ocean creatures! These includes fishes, mollusks, amphibians, reptiles and many more!!! warning: long post ahead lol ~💙

💙 Freshwater creatures 💙

💧 ~ Amazon river dolphin: The pink dolphin! It represents love and harmony, sweetness, family, friends, home and health.

💧 ~ Axolotl: These are unusual among amphibians in that they reach adulthood without undergoing metamorphosis.It represents youth, children, play, having difficulties growing up, but also being able to adapt to different situations easily.

💧 ~ Betta fish: These adorable river fishes represent fertility, love, health and change.

💧 ~ Alligator: These represent resilience, magic, honor, fears, primal and ancient power.

💧 ~ Carp: The beautiful koi fish! In traditional chinese mythology it was thought that carps competed a yearly competition to leap the Longmen Falls, in China, and those who succeed transform into dragons. They represent good luck, protection, balance, health, wealth, abundance.

💧~ Catfish: These fishes represent adaptation, trust, opportunities, prosperity, acceptance of love, self-love and self-discovery.

💧~ Crayfish: These crustaceans represent mostly regeneration, abundance and protection, but also love, dreams and the subconscious mind.

💧 ~ Crocodile: These strong animals represent opportunities, change, patience and growth.

💧~ Estuarine Crocodile: the world’s largest living reptile, found in Southeast Asian and Australian estuaries. These have the same meanings as those before mentioned but also wisdom, knowledge, strength and regeneration.

💧 ~ Electric eel: These represent adventures, confidence and protection.

💧~ Frog: These amphibians represent cleansing, innocence, renewal, rebirth, fertility, abundance, transformation, metamorphosis, life changes and ancient wisdom.

💧 ~ Piranha: They represent strength, savagery, fears, using destructive powers for good. Really good for curses/hexes/jinxes.

💧 ~ River otter: It is a semiaquatic mammal endemic found in and along its waterways and coasts. It represents adventure, freedom, curiosity, going with the flow and overcoming difficulties. 

💧 ~ Toad: These represent fertility, change, restless behavior, love, truth, confidence and intuition.

💙 Saltwater creatures 💙

🌊 ~ Abalone: These are small to very large marine gastropod molluscs. They are better known for their flesh and the beautiful shiny interior of their shell (iridescent nacre/mother-of-pearl). These colorful creatures represent, love, beauty, gentleness, caring, communication, compassion and peace. It’s shell helps develop intuition and is really good for healing magic and purifying magic.

🌊~ Albacore tuna: These represent stamina, agility, strength, experiences, adventure and travels.

🌊 ~ Anchovy: These represent love, hope, good luck, success health and wealth.

🌊 ~ Angelfish: These represent purity, beauty, transformation, emotions, navigation, and assistance.

🌊 ~ Barracuda: These are also good for curses, or destructive magic. They represent wildness, predation, danger and aggressiveness, but also strength, courage, action, speed and power.

🌊 ~ Blue whale: These represent deeper awareness, connections, truth, community, balance, knowledge, wisdom, navigation, movement, songs, music, rhythm and understanding.

🌊 ~ Bull shark and Great White shark: I’m putting these together because they share a lot of meanings. They both represent strength, strong emotions, smartness, survival. It is believed that sharks can bring storms. A shark amulet can bring good luck and protection.

🌊 ~ Crab: These are highly related to the zodiac sign of cancer, and to the Moon. They represent rebirth, cycles, protection, prosperity, family, home and health, trust, emotions and regeneration.

🌊 ~ Clam: These mollusks represent balance, answers, truth, strength against adversity, deep emotions, the seek for harmony and health and healing.

🌊 ~ Clownfish: Also known as anemone fish, these represent learning new lessons, growth, wisdom, knowledge, beauty, camouflage, transmutation and protection. Really good for glamour spells!!!

🌊 ~ Cod (Fish): These represent wealth, health, prosperity, money and success.

🌊 ~ Conch snails: These are also mollusks, they represent speech, truth, love, trust, spiritual growth, art and beauty.

🌊 ~ Coral: Corals are marine invertebrate animals, mostly living in colonies that form by the budding of new coral polyps from an original, founding individual, and some colonies are strengthened by calcium carbonates. They represent fertility, protection, spiritual awakening, beauty, patience, longevity, friendship, playfulness and harmony.

🌊 ~ Cuttlefish: These are cephalopods, molluscs with internal shell, from the same family as squids and octopuses. They represent adaptability, camouflage, awareness, internal strength and gentleness.

🌊 ~ Dolphins: Dolphins are really smart sea mammals! They represent intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, staying strongly tuned with your instincts and intuition, and also joy and playfulness, peace, gentleness, harmony, protection, inner strength and cooperation.

🌊 ~ Dragonet (Fish): A tropical fish of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with dragon-like eyes and fins. They represent happiness, changes, the feminine, wishes, beauty and inspiration.

🌊 ~ Dugong or Sea cow: Herbivorous marine mammal, a threatened species of the coastal Indian Ocean. They represent gentleness, family, friendship, bonding with people, love, self love, self care.

🌊 ~ Eel: Long-bodied fishes mostly living in shallow waters. They represent overcoming difficulties and reaching inner peace, opportunities, fertility and responsibility.

🌊 ~ Elephant seal: A large seal, with big-nosed males, living in the waters around western North America and Antarctica. They represent strength, protecting what’s yours, bravery, travel and also sometimes playfulness.

🌊 ~ Emperor Shrimp: a bright-colored shrimp of the Indo-Pacific region that lives cooperatively on other sea animals. They represent joy, gatherings, family, self-care and confidence.

🌊 ~ Flying Fish: a tropical fish with wing-like pectoral fins. They represent, pure happiness, joy, freedom, escaping from reality. Flying fish do not actually fly, but they can glide over the sea for long distances when trying to escape from predators, this can represent that even in difficult situations, when you can’t seem to find an answer, there’s always a solution or a positive aspect.

🌊 ~ Giant Squid: one of the largest living animals, up to 43 feet long, found in the world’s deepest oceans. They represent having strength and power while being soft, graceful, agile and flexible.

🌊 ~ Hammerhead shark: These sharks, thanks to the unusual structure of their heads, have specially strong senses. They represent deep instincts and intuition, confidence.

🌊 ~ Jellyfish: Among the world’s most ancient multicelled animals, with a soft, jelly-like “bell” body and tentacles. These represent going with the flow, balance, harmony, love, company, family, travel, cooperation and sociability.

🌊 ~ Krill: tiny shrimp-like crustaceans, very numerous in all oceans, important food for other creatures, like whales. These represent health, wealth, prosperity, life, renewal and cycles.

🌊 ~ Leafy Sea Dragon: Fish with seaweed-like appendages for camouflage. They represent gentle masculinity, currents, protection, power.

🌊 ~ Limpet snails: These small mollusks represent persistence, peace, flexibility, focus, determination and strength, balancing emotions, grace and harmony.

🌊 ~ Lionfish: A venomous fish with red and white stripes and spiny dorsal fins. These represent facing dangers, courage, power and also danger and strength hidden in beauty. Things that make us look good can also be our weapons. They also represent speed, agility and movement.

🌊 ~ Manatee: Large sea mammal, related to the Dugong, but with rounded flippers. These represent acceptance, slowing down, calmness, gentleness, peace, love, stewardship, trust and sometimes connection and exploration, adventure and good things to come.

🌊 ~ Manta ray: Very large (up to 20 feet), a filter-feeder fish of open ocean. Manta rays represent quietness and gentleness, peace of mind, while facing difficult or complex situations. Also navigation, travel and purification.

🌊 ~ Mussel: These mollusks represent self-care, love, expression, being oneself, strong beliefs, family, friends, health, travel, good luck and communication. Strongly ruled by Mercury.

🌊 ~ Narwhal: an Arctic whale whose males have a long tusk, the “unicorn” of the sea. These represent dreams, the subconscious mind, deep emotions, wisdom and freedom, but also strength, power and magic.

🌊 ~ Nautilus: a primitive mollusk of the tropical Pacific, with a spiral shell and tentacles. They represent ancient wisdom, logic, knowledge and adaptability, to find balance and proportionality in all things, blending into surroundings, empathy and insights.

🌊 ~ Nudibranch: Colorful marine slug. These represent emotions, love, hope, grace, harmony, elegance, letting go harmful relationships and feelings, clarity of mind, confidence, listening to intuition and to your senses, camouflage (good for glamour magic!) and confidence.

🌊 ~ Octopus: Octopuses are soft-bodied cephalopod mollusks, with eight arms and no shell. They represent wisdom, intelligence, smartness, flexibility, adaptability and camouflage, really good for glamour and study spells!.

🌊 ~ Orca: Toothed, predatory black-and-white dolphin. These represent beauty, grace, connection, leadership, travel, navigation, confidence, deep thoughts and creativity.

🌊 ~ Oyster snails: These mollusks represent balance between numerous aspects of oneself that may be really different from one another, harmony in emotions, open mind, intuition, wisdom and magic.

🌊 ~ Scallop snails: These beings represent harmony in thoughts, communication, patience, open mind and spirit, gaining a new point of view or understanding of a situation, expression.

🌊 ~ Sea butterfly or Sea angel: This is a type of gastropod sea snail, mollusk, that has beautiful “wings”. It represents freedom, currents, letting go, flexibility, delicateness, and duality: gentleness and inner strength. They also represent dreams, magic and ethereal beings.

🌊 ~ Seahorse: Seahorses represent patience, serenity and persistence, as well as the ability to pause for a moment, rethink your actions, listen to new voices, find new facts, and gain a new perspective of a situation.

🌊 ~ Seal: Seals represent change, creativity, dreams, emotions, good luck, imagination, love, lucid dreaming, intelligence, intuition, success and understanding.

🌊 ~ Sea urchin: These are small, globular, spiny animals from the echinoderm phylum, closely related to starfish. A good example of them are sand dollars! They represent good luck, tough exteriors and sweet, gentle interiors, softness, inner beauty and strength, wealth and grounding.

🌊 ~ Shrimp: These are little crustaceans with long bodies that play really important roles in the marine the food chain. They represent health, opportunities, abundance, good luck, love and self-care.

🌊 ~ Squid: Squids are cephalopod mollusks. They represent movement, productivity, prosperity, travel, change, cycles, camouflage, concealment, art, communication, curiosity, 

🌊 ~ Starfish: These beautiful echinoderms can come in many forms! not just the five pointed one. Anyways, they as a whole represent wishes, dreams, goals, movement, purification, love, healing, empathy, protection.

🌊 ~ Stingray: These are, as manta rays, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks, but with stingers on the tail for self-defence. They represent inner strength, guidance, power, awareness, elegance, grace and tenacity.

🌊 ~ Walrus:These are marine mammals with prominent tusks, present in both the male and female specimens, native of the Arctic ocean. They represent wisdom, kindness, inner power, sociability, calmness and friendship.

💙 ~hehe, that was a really long post indeed. I’ve worked on this post for a really long time and I spent a lot of energy into researching these! Hope you all like it and find this useful :’D ~💙

🌊A list of useful one-word spells, easy to remember, and helpful for every sea witch and mermaid!🌊

🌊 LUNAIATA (luna+waiata)

Moon(Latin)+song (Maori), glamour for having a subtle but strong, enchanting vibe like that of the Moon.

🌊 OQEANXIN (oqean+xin)

Ocean(albanian)+heart(chinese), to inspire love and compassion in your heart or in other people’s. To put negative feelings and sadness away, and make other’s feel better.

🌊 WEISPEARA (weisheit+peara)

Wisdom(German)+pearl(Maori), to call down the wisdom of the sea, compacted as a shiny, pure white pearl. (better if you touch your lips, as if taking a pill, and imagine a white pearl of light entering your body, after saying it)

🌊 DANTROLLUSCO (dentro+mollusco)

Inside(Italian)+clam shell(Italian), to be protected like a pearl inside it’s seashell. Imagine yourself surrounded by a bubble of iridiscent shimmering light (like inside an abalone!).

🌊 MERMEDIE (mermaid+melodie)

Mermaid(English)+ melody(Romanian), to make your voice sound harmonious like a mermaid’s song. Can be used before singing or performing.

🌊 VINDAPPEL (vind+appel)

Wind(Danish)+ call(French), to raise the winds.

🌊 PRESVIND (prestat+vind)

Cease(Czech)+ wind(Danish), to calm the winds.

🌊 CYCLIETUS (cyclone+lietus)

Cyclone(English)+ rainstorm(Lithuanian), to bring storms (can be used as prayer), to make rain fall (preferably when conditions are already given).

One thing I’ve noticed as I’ve started teaching tarot cards to other people is that they have a tendency to think that every card has an individual meaning and it is their duty to memorize 78 complex sets of meanings before they can begin reading for others. 

That’s simply not true. 

It’s also incredibly inefficient and totally kneecaps you when you move on to learn another deck (and try memorizing ANOTHER 78 complex sets of meanings). Cards exist in relation to one another. Understanding those relationships lets you remember meanings quicker, better understand how cards in a spread might be connected, and give much smoother readings. 

If you’re learning Tarot for the first time or looking to bush up, here’s my advice after reading cards for 10 years. Please, learn from my mistakes.  Tarot is a language

In the same way you learn letters and string them into words and then string words into sentences to communicate, tarot is a language you learn so your intuition can communicate more fully with you and others. And like a language, it’s often best to start with the phrases that you’ll use the most. 

Practice: Go through your deck and pick out no more than 12 cards that are really calling to you and look up those meanings. Write them down if you’re up for it. Go through your deck and pick out no more than 12 cards that give you a feeling of unease and do the same. Notice any reoccurring symbols?

  Tarot is a story

How you understand that story may vary on your tradition, your experience level, your aims. Most standard Tarot decks follow the Fool’s Journey through the Major Arcana as he becomes more skilled and then more enlightened. A similar pattern can be seen in each of the suits. The Court Cards are less narrative in my opinion but a similar progression can be seen. 

Practice: Take out each of the suits one at a time and lay them out in a row. Read the meanings of each card and see how the story progresses. Write down a summary. Do the same with each of other suits’ courts and the major arcana.

Tarot is a system

You aren’t fluent until you know the language well enough to speak smoothly and in most situations. Similarly, it takes understanding Tarot at a high level to give the best quality readings and read without a book. No card exists in isolation and just like when they show up in a reading, you must read them in relation to the rest of the spread - it helps a lot to know them in relation to the rest of the deck. 

☕  what is a coffee witch?  

☕  coffee energy grounding

☕   coffee flavor correspondences

☕   coffee brews correspondences

☕   various coffee and tea potions

☕   coffee lore and superstitions

some spells involving coffee beans/ grounds

new job protection pouch - a requested spell, a pouch to protect you while you start a new job

hamilton nonstop motivation spell -  a spell to give you motivation like alexander’s.

plant growth spell -  a spell for helping plants/herbs grow and stay alive

rose quartz shielding spell -  protects from and dispels negativity

waiting for the bus in the rain - night vale spell to make the bus come

what kind of man - spell to help get away from a bad relationship

“Current Magic Upon Me Be Null And Void”

Thing to know:

Theories on how magick works Theurgy and Thaumaturgy 

Magic Vs. Magick 

Types Of Witches

List Of Magick Tools 

Magickal Tools   

List Of Different Theistic Doctrines

List Of Acronyms For Magickal Concepts 

Derogatory terms that I have ran into in the magickal community

The Crazy Stage 

Things to remember 

Belief 

Understanding substituting, and reworking in spells, and rituals. 

Reasons that a magick spell, or ritual would fail 

Spiritual Verification? UPG To Lore!

How to undo a spell

Things you can use instead of candles in witchcraft, and other forms of magick.

Simple methods in order to help you opening your third eye 

Energetic Blockages 

Energetic Burnout

Energetic Overflow 

Basic:

How to get started on your magickal journey!

Chi Energy 

Visualization 

Exercise ideas for strengthening your visualization skills 

Centering

Centering 2

Grounding

Grounding 2

Power Hand

Power Hand, and Receptive hand   

Affirmations

Magickal Names 

Magickal Names 2

Altered States Of Consciousness

Book of Shadows (BOS) 

Pentagram, Pentacle, And Goat Of Mendes 

Invoking, And Banishing The Pentagram 

Casting And Undoing A Circle 

Bubble Of White Light Protection

Warding In Witchcraft

Ways to cleanse a room

Shielding

Raising the cone of power

Liminality    

Taglocks, And Magickal Links 

Tarot Reading For Beginners 

Connecting To The Elements

Spiritual Senses: The Clairs

Make:

Making A Magickal Wand, Or Staff 

How exactly do you use a sigil?

Creating your own tarot spreads, and oracle cards spreads 

Learning to write your own spells, and/or rituals 

Curse:

Symptoms Of Being Cursed, and Diagnostics methods 

The 3 steps to get rid of a curse.

Meditation:

Meditation 

Focal Meditation 

Void Meditation 

Problems, And Solutions For People Who Can’t Meditate 

Universal Maps:

Planes Of Existence   

The subtle bodies of the soul 

The 10 Dimensions 

Guides:

Types of Personal Spirit Guides 

How To Find Your Spirit Guides, And Guardian Angels

Spirit Guides

The Higher Self 

Laws:

The Laws Of Magick 

The Seven Hermetic Principles of the Kybalion

The laws of magick are laws in which have been accumulated in order to explain how magick will behave in certain situations. These laws have been gathered by many individuals who have had the same experience, and effects from magickal workings. These laws are good to know in order to understand how to use, and create new types, and forms of magick. Through understanding of these laws one’s knowledge of magick will be forever changed. You’ll be able to see these patterns in your everyday magickal practice, identifying them, and realizing they affect your working. You also might be able to figure out some uses for these laws to enhance your practice. I feel that these laws have something to offer everybody no matter what part of your path you are on.

The Law Of Knowledge

The law of knowledge is the more you know about something the more power you have over it. Knowledge is truly power. By knowing about something you have the ability, and the means in order to change, or control it. This law is not exclusive to magick. The law of knowledge is the most basic law of magick, but maybe one of the most important.

The Law Of Self-Knowledge

The law of self-knowledge is a sub law of the law of knowledge. It is basically you should know thyself. Knowing yourself gives you power over you. Understanding the ins, and outs of yourself is the best way to grow, and learn. Without knowing yourself you do not know your limitations, and weaknesses, or the max of your power, and can never hope to raise to heights unknown. You are the master of your destiny, and the captain of your soul.

The Law Of Cause & Effect

The law of cause, and effect is if you commit a certain action, or actions it will usually produce the same result every time. Applying the this magick is different than applying it in science to the inherent fact of the amount of variables that you can not regulate, or even understand to perceive magick. This leads practitioners to focus on the more important effects to get there certain outcome.

The Law Of Synchronicity

The law of synchronicity is there is no coincidences. Two or more events seldom happened without being interconnected in some way, or form. Isolated events, or experiences can occur, but it is rare.

The Law Of Association

The law of association is where two things have in common one, or more properties, and these properties can be used to control both of these things. These two things are connected by imposed, or imaginary conditions giving you the power to control both of them if you use the imposed, or imaginary conditions.

The Law Of Similarity

The law of similarity is having an accurate representation of an entity, a place, or a thing that will allow you to gain power, and control over the entity, place, or thing it represents. We see this law used a lot in different types of curses, love spells, and binding rituals were you need a picture representation, or to visualize the person. Having things that look similar to your target will give you power, and control over them.

The Law Of Contagion

The law of contagion is if something has contact with something else it will continue to have contact with it even after they are separated. This means if you touch something, that something we’ll have a direct line to you even after you leave connection with it. This connection can also be used as a target in magickal working to get to you. Which makes everything that you own, or come in contact with have a part of you in it.

The Law Of Positive Attraction

The law of positive attraction is energies are attracted to the same certain energy. Two energies that are alike will come, and be attracted to each other. This means that if you put out happy energy, more happy energy will be attracted to you.

The Law Of Negative Attraction

The law of negative attraction is energies that are the opposite of each other are attracted to each other. One energy goes out in the opposite energy of it will come in. This means that if you put out happy energy, more negative energies will be attracted to you.

The Law Of Names

The law of names is if you know the true name of an object, a being, or a process you will be able to control, and manipulate it. The name is one of the most powerful targeting techniques in all of magick. This is why people use secret magickal names. It allows people not to have power over you. If you say names of things that are negative it gives them power, because even mentioning there names gives them your energy.

The Law Of Words Of Power

The law of words of power is there are some words in this reality in which hold power for certain people. Depending on what word it is, who it is spoken in front of, and who has spoken it. Can affect, manipulate, and control certain people. This is like the word witchcraft. It’s a good, and positive thing when you’re talking to other witches, but becomes a bad thing if you were to speak of it in a church to the pastor, or to most people in the congregation. Words have power.

The Law Of Personification

The law of personification is by treating anything as a entity, or being, and considering it to be alive it will be easier to control, and work with.

The Law Of Invocation

The law of invocation states that it is possible to communicate with entities from inside, or outside external self from entities that seem to be on the inside.

The Law Of  Evocation

The law of  evocation states that it is possible to communicate with entities from inside, or outside external self from entities that seem to be on the outside.

The Law Of Identification

The law of identification is where a thing is so highly associated with another thing that it actually takes on the knowledge, and power of that being.

The Law Of Infinite Data

The law of infinite data is exactly how it sounds. The amount of information is unlimited, and there is always something to learn, create, or to be discovered. There will always be something new.

The Law Of Finite Senses

The Law of finite senses is entities are limited by range, and type of information they can perceive. This means most likely that one entity can not perceive everything for something will always be hidden. No entity will be able to make accurate judgment through a hundred percent of all universal information.

The Law Of Personal Universes

The Law of Personal Universes is every individual creates his/her own personal universe that can never be the same as anyone else’s.

The Law Of Infinite Universes

The Law of Infinite Universes is there’s an infinite number of possibilities for universes the can, and do exist.

The Law Of Pragmatism

The law of pragmatism is if it works, it is true.

The Law Of True Falsehoods

The Law of True Falsehoods is if it’s a paradox it’s probably true.

The Law Of Synthesis

The Law of Synthesis is everything can be split down into multiple opposing characteristics that in body a little bit of each other. These multiple opposing characteristics are not naturally at war with one another, and can work in harmony.

The Law Of Opposites

The Law of Opposites is is a sub law to the law of Synthesis. The opposite of something is uniquely connected to that something. Control over the opposite of something will also give you control over that something.

The Law Of Dynamic Balance

The Law of dynamic balance is a very important. It states that one’s universe must be in a constant state of dynamic balance so that one does not become an an extremist on one of the sides. This law make sure you did not get completely consumed by one aspect of any form. Balance is key in life, and magick.

The Law Of Perversity

The law of perversity is pretty much just murphy’s law which states anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

The Law Of Unity

The law of unity is everything is connected directly, and indirectly of each other regardless of time, or space.

sources, and people can explain this much better than I can:

http://deoxy.org/lawsofmagic.htm

http://www.themystica.com/mystica/pages/magic.htm

http://www.neopagan.net/AT_Laws.html

Uncrossing is when a person removes a curse, hex, jinx, or other spell that was casted against them which brings them negative energy, bad luck, or catastrophic events. Remember to take care of yourself after performing an uncrossing spell by cleansing and protecting yourself and your home.

B A T H M A G I C K

Bath Magick is the easiest form of witchery to practice, as all you need is a tub and some intent along with things you can easily find around the house or from the kitchen.

Ritual baths are a great way to cleanse your mind, recharge, set your intention and work some magick for the following day or week. Water holds positive energy and has the ability to realign your whole body and mind.

Your basic Bath Magick tools should include:

💧Candles 💧 Salt (coarse sea salt or epsom salt) 💧 dried or fresh herbs 💧 dried or fresh flowers 💧 homemade or store bought essential oils 💧 crystals, rocks or gemstones

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The first step to a successful Bath Spell or Ritual Bath is to set up an altar on the rim of the bath or the counter close to your tub. Choose crystals that match your intent, as well as a candle in a color that corresponds to it. Arrange your crystals around your candle and on the rim of the bath. Light the candle to start your ritual.

Draw your bath, adding your salt first for protection and Cleansing, and then follow with your chosen herbs and flowers. Put in a few drops of a corresponding essential oil. If you have a crystal that is safe to use in water, you can add it into the bath. When the temperature is right, get in and soak. Meditate on your intent as you relax and let the water calm you.

When you have finished, rise and blow out the candle, whispering or thinking: The Ritual is now over.

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Energizing Bath 🌸 Yellow Candle 🌸 Orange Calcite, Carnelian, Tiger’s Eye 🌸 Orange slices, lemon slices, cinnamon, mint 🌸 4 drops of Peppermint essential oil (be careful, only a little)

Self Love Bath 🌸 Pink Candle 🌸 Rose Quartz, Clear Quartz 🌸 Rose petals, Rosemary, Lavender Buds 🌸 Geranium or Rose essential oil

Prosperity and Luck Bath 🌸 White Candle 🌸 Aventurine, Pyrite, Snowflake Obsidian, Malachite 🌸 Basil, Parsley, Mint, Thyme 🌸 Sweet Apple essential oil

Calmness and Rest Bath 🌸 Lilac or White Candle 🌸 Amethyst, Clear Quartz 🌸 Lavender leaves, Lavender Buds, Thyme and Rose petals 🌸 Lavender essential oil

Beauty Bath 🌸 Red Candle 🌸 Clear Quartz, Pearls 🌸 Oats, milk powder, red rose petals

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Take care that the essential oils you use are safe to use in the bath, and less is always more when it comes to oil!

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Soak up the magick!

Bells might just be the earliest form of superstitious practise that I remember. My baba attached three sakura-patterned suzu bells on my schoolbag as a kid, purportedly for good luck and protection from evil spirits – and Japan is far from the only place to have associated bells and bellringing with mystic practise. They’ve been used worldwide to ward off evil and carry messages – and in a more metaphysical sense, sound is the movement of energy through substance. Sounds have the potential to work powerful magic.

Here are some of the ways I’ve found utilising bells to be helpful to my craft. While I’m more likely to use traditional suzu type bells, your own background, path and culture will likely have its own types of bells – and as ever, bells can be ornate antiques or they can be a bottle cap in a tin can, as long as they’re used with intent.

GETTING STARTED

🔔 As with so much of the craft, if you’re new to the witching bell, it’s a matter of exploration and experimentation. Get a “feel” for what works for you and the specific bell you’re using.

🔔 It’s good practise to ensure that the bell itself is cleansed, warded and protected – you don’t want anything nasty tapping into that power. All witching tools can do as much harm as good, intentional or accidental.

🔔 A good way to begin incorporating bells into your craft is infuse them into any typical ritual that you’re comfortable with, or even just a prayer or moment of contemplation at your altar if you have one.

🔔 Give the bell a soft ring while focusing on the energy it’ll ripple and move, try to track the movements it creates and what it touches. The tone it’s sending out.  The most primal and versatile use of the bell – and what many of the below come down to – is simply another manner of physically channelling energy, giving it shape and direction.

PROTECTION

🔔 “Passive” bells such as windchimes or small bells attached to belongings you don’t want disturbed are a starting point. They will scare off some forms of spirit all by themselves, especially if appropriately blessed, charmed or enchanted. Or cursed.

🔔 Gently tolling can draw energy into a ward or circle you are forming and enforce its protective properties, or for a simple cleanse, letting the sound travel to every corner of the area you are protecting. It’s a little more “cutting” than a smoke or incense cleansing, which I view as more “gentle” forms of cleansing. Both have their uses.

🔔 Harder tolling is, in my opinion, one of the most powerful ways in which to enforce a banishing – however, it’s best to you know what you’re doing with the bell before you go bashing it about.

DISCERNMENT

🔔 Bells can have quite the effect on your perception and awareness. Ringing and then stopping, listening to the silence left in its wake, can bring you new perceptions or make things you’d previously missed obvious. Let it attune your mind and senses to something new, whether that’s in your thoughts or something with a little more presence. Visualise travelling with the sound, taking heed of the energies it touches and disturbs. Take note of the echoes – you’ll learn what they mean with experience.

🔔 A set of windchimes can let you know if something is passing through or if there’s some unusual energy afoot – and, yes, it may also just be letting you know that it’s a particularly breezy day, but that’s witchcraft for you.

CONJURING

🔔 This can be as simple as calling good energies to witching tools, spell jars, tarot decks, crystals, altars and shrines, your favourite teddy bar, anything at all.

🔔 With spirit work, it can truly help to magnify your “calling”. This can range from gently bringing your latest offering to the attention of your friendly neighbourhood house spirit – all the way to trying to catch the attention of something more. Be mindful, however. As I said, I consider bells pretty powerful tools and a call that’s too loud is not good spirit work practise for the spirit worker’s own sake. It can really help coax something out of hiding if you’re gentle with it, though.

COMMUNING

🔔 Some use bells to mark the beginning and end of a ritual, and I’ve read that in Wiccan practise an altar bell can be used to invoke the Goddess, although as a non-Wiccan, I’ll welcome corrections on that if I’m wrong.

🔔 In my experience, very simple forms of communication via bell work a lot better than anything too complex – “come here” and “stay away” have already been covered, and other than that they can serve as greetings or signals of a start or end of some practise or ritual, the opening or closing of a door, etc.

🔔 They can also serve as a warning or a litmus test regarding spirits, a signalling of your presence and awareness, lack of fear, or willingness to defend – but be prepared to deal with whatever responses these garner.

BINDING

🔔 Bindings are where you most often see that famous (clockwise) circular motion of the bell, embodying the meaning of the spell. This can be a simple binding to seal a spell or charm or enchantment, or a spirit-binding.

🔔 Personally, spirit-binding is something I do as little as possible simply due to my beliefs holding the autonomy of spirits in very high regard. However, sometimes situations arise that call for it, and I’m aware that not all bindings are unwilling. Far from it – and some spirits are dangerous when unbound.

🔔 As an animist (believing that all things, including inanimate objects, contain a spirit of their own), I consider gently nudging a spirit back into its physical form a sort of semi-binding, and that can be useful.

I’ll leave you all with a note that I am an urban apartment-dwelling witch through and through, so I understand that we can’t all be jangling away at all hours. I myself have a glass windchime in my front window that makes a distinct but muted sound when disturbed by passers-through, and highly recommend wooden ones also. I also only use my small and relatively quiet suzu bell for my crafting – one given to me by my baba herself.

A circle of protection here I cast. No evil shall enter, no ill shall pass. A shield rise up and surround us all; Protect those who dwell within these walls. Within this space, may safety be found. No ill shall enter our circle round.