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perpetually consuming warm drinks, so as to not let your heart freeze again

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Wake me up - German Fields - March 2k18

Imbolc:

Lemon, Thyme, Rosemary, Dill, Fennel, Liquorice, Snowdrop, Dandelion, Mint.

Ostara:

Primrose, Rosemary, Daisy, Orange Peel, Basil, Garlic, Lavender, Mint.

Beltane:

Yellow/Orange Roses, Buttercup, Onion Salt, Bay Leaf, Oregano, Black Pepper.

Litha:

Pink /White Roses, Red Clover, Chili Powder, Chamomile, Cumin.

Lughnasadh:

Sunflower, Anise Seed, Cloves, Ginger, Mustard Seed, Turmeric, Blackberries, Sage.

Mabon:

Lavender, Maple Leaves, Pine Cones, Chamomile, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmeg, Paprika, Sage.

Samhain:

Pine Needles, Blackberry Leaves, Fennel, Allspice, Red Roses, Jasmine, Nutmeg, Cloves.

Yule:

 ingredients 

🌱full moon water (and a container for it)

🌱fresh soil

🌱ground eggshell powder

🌱dried leaves or roots you have collected from said plant

instructions:

1)re-pot and change your plants soil (you can look up how to do it if you dont know how)(also re-pot doesn’t mean you cant use the same pot)this is good to do for your plant every once in awhile even if you are not performing a spell

2) take some of the new soil from the pot and surround the container of moonwater so you have a ring of soil with the water in the center. sprinkle the eggshell over the ring. place the leaves/roots around the ring (or in between depending on how big you made your ring) you can also add any crystals or additional herbs you associate with healing to the ritual if you wish

3) hold your hands over the water and fill it with the energy of all the things you have surrounded it with. add your own personal intent and energy. this step might take a bit of concentration and prior knowledge in energy manipulation

4) once you feel the water is plenty charged, return the soil back to the plant’s pot and despose of the dried leaves.

5) use your newly charged water to water your plant (i recommend using a spray bottle but shwatevs) if you wish, hum or sing a song to your plant while you water it.

ostara moodboard 🐇🌸🐣🌸🐇

This is a list of things to put in your grimoire/Book of Shadows as a witch/Wiccan. I compiled it from other lists as well as my own. Add to it as you please! 

*Note: Not everything has to fit into one journal—you can split your grimoire/Book of Shadows into volumes of different subjects. It’s probably a lot easier this way, anyhow. 

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What to Put in Your Book of Shadows/Grimoire

Table of contents

A blessing for the book

A protection sigil and/or spell for the book

Your personal creed and the Wiccan Rede (if applicable)

Your personal beliefs about witchcraft and (if applicable) Wicca

Your witch path

Your personal special/unique abilities (clairvoyant, telepath, lightworker, empath, etc.)

Deities you worship (if applicable), why you worship them, who they are, how to worship them, etc.

Tips and reminders for yourself

(If applicable) Wiccan holiday names and meanings

Your personal daily routine/rituals/spells/etc. (including hygiene routine)

Books to read related to witchcraft in some way

How you became a Wiccan/witch

Your past journey with Wicca/witchcraft up to this point

Your personal goals in witchcraft for the future

Astrological information in general

Your personal astrological information

Your genealogy

Mythology of your genealogy/past/ancestors/history

Familiars and how to find and name yours

Your spirit animal and meaning

The Fae/mythological creatures

Quotes that inspire you (perhaps to decorate certain pages)

List of tools and their uses for your practice

Moon phases and meanings

Constellations and celestial events

Planet meanings and uses (including Pluto, the Sun, and the Earth’s Moon)

Five elements, uses and meanings

Types of magick and what you will and won’t use

Crystals, their meanings and uses

Herbs, their properties and uses (pressed plants can be used as examples and/or decoration)

Candles, color representations, meanings and uses

Essential oils, their properties and uses

Incense, their properties and uses

Types of water and their uses

Types of salt and their uses

Forms of divination and how to use them

Other common ingredients for spells/potions, their meanings and uses

Aura meanings and uses

Chakra meanings and uses

How to meditate/do yoga

Sigils (yours and others’)

Charging page for magickally charging an object

Crystal grid(s)

Pendulum board(s)

Altar diagram(s)

Altars, altar tools how to use them, description and/or picture of yours

Opening and closing a circle

How to start, do, and end a ritual

Banishing and summoning

Binding and unbinding

Grounding

Cleansing, consecrating, charging

Astral projection logs

Clair___ log (clairvoyant, clairaudient, claircognizant, etc.)

Slumber dreams and nightmares

Visions, premonitions, predictions

Lies and truths told to you and your personal beliefs about such

Desires and wishes to be turned into or used for spells

Chants and incantations

Prayers and letters to your deity/deities

Messages received from spirits, angels, and deities

Latin or other foreign words/phrases to use during spells

Potion/elixir/brew and tea formulas

Natural cosmetic and skincare product recipes you’ve found or made

How to sanitize your tools and equipment and what to use

Spells (yours and others’), including hexes, curses, charms, protections, etc.

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Other Journal Types

(Sleep) Dreams and nightmares

Prayers/chants/incantations

Meditation/yoga

[Test] grimoire/BoS (which you can rip the pages out of if you happen to like them)

Tarot/oracle card spreads

Divination log

Ritual log

Sigil log and code

Shadow work

Gratitude

Affirmation

Manifestation

Plants textbook

Recipes for magickal food

Recipes for magickal potions/brew/elixirs 

Recipes for natural cosmetics and skincare products

Spirit/spirit guide/angel dossiers

Witchy photo album

Aesthetically witchy scrapbook

Grimoire- Element correspondents (inspired by @lunaesteria’s post based on elements, go check her account out for info on all magick related stuff💓) also I managed to spill candle wax on the page so ignore the pink marks :\

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Just a few things I wanna mention:

A) thank you sm for 1000 followers I’m honestly so happy to have you all liking my page and ily all sm💜 I’ve already made some great friends from this account :3

B) y’all are gonna have to tell me what pages you want more of, like some of my posts have 1/2K notes and some have 200, I wanna make you all happy while I post this stuff so lemme know💜🌧

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These are some pictures of my current Book of Shadows. It’s clearly a work in progress.

To anyone looking to start their own BoS- just do it. Seriously. It took me forever to “start” on my BoS because I was afraid of messing it up or it not being ‘perfect’. But that’s the beauty of it. It’s YOURS. It doesn’t have to be perfect. Witchcraft is not perfect and neither are we as humans. I love my BoS, and every time I write in it, I get a rush. I can remember the first time I wrote in it- I was so scared and my hand was shaking. But it felt so right.

I cleansed my book and pen with sage before I began, and I also said a spell over both.

🧬 Book Blessing with a Protection Sigil

🧬 An ‘About Me’ Section (my age, when I began practicing, etc)

🧬 Table of Contents

🧬 The 5 Elements

🧬 The Wheel of the Year

🧬 The Sabbats (beginning with Samhain [Since it’s the start of the Pagan new year], followed by Yule, then Imbolc, then Ostrara, then Beltane, then Litha, then Lammas, then Mabon

🧬 The 12 Zodiac Signs

🧬 Symbols & Their Meanings

🧬 Chakras

🧬 Reiki

🧬 Auras

🧬 Color & Shape Meanings

🧬 Tarot (Major & Minor Arcana & their meanings)

🧬 Tools (for witchcraft and altar)

🧬 Planets

🧬 Moon Phases (& their correspondences)

🧬 Week Day Correspondences

🧬 Altar Set Up

🧬 Incense (& their correspondences)

🧬 Crystal Grids

🧬 Other Divination Avenues (tea leaf reading, pendulums, runes, etc)

🧬 Dream Meaning & Interpretation

🧬 Shadow Work

🧬 Different Means of Protection & Cleansing (moon water, casting a circle, white candles, sage, etc)

🧬 Grounding

🧬 Latin Incantations

🧬 Familiars

🧬 Witch Terminology

Other subjects I plan to eventually include herbs, oils, and crystals. I may do a separate book for these because I am very interested in these subjects and plan to include a vast amount of information. I also plan to include information about deity, gods/goddesses, and offerings.

Lastly, I plan to have a separate book just for cosmic witchcraft. I identify as a cosmic witch, so this where I will put the most time and effort. The book I posted above it going to be the “basics” of witchcraft.

My cosmic book will include:

☪️As many constellations as I can study and their origins

☪️Planetary Correspondences

☪️Planet Worship & Astrolatry

☪️My Birth Chart

☪️The Different Moons of the Year (January- Wolf Moon, February- Snow Moon, March- Crow Moon, etc) and their meanings, correspondences, etc

☪️Planetary Tarot Correspondences

☪️Plants and Corresponding Elements

☪️Planets and Days of the Weeks Correspondences

☪️Planets and Corresponding Divination Types

☪️Planets and Numerology

☪️Planets and Corresponding Metals

☪️Planets and Corresponding Minerals and Crystals

☪️Planets and Corresponding Colors

☪️Zodiacs

☪️Zodiacs and their Corresponding Essential Oils

☪️Information on Supermoons and Micromoons

☪️Lunar Phases

☪️Astorid & Minor Planet Associations

☪️Plutonian Moon Magick

☪️12 Houses

The subjects you can put in a BoS are literally endless. But the biggest suggestion I can give is to just start it. So many new witches are afraid to take the plunge. They want their books to be perfect and aesthetic- which I totally get. But the purpose of the book is not to be pretty, it’s supposed to help you in your craft. My book is nothing I envisioned it would be, and that’s okay. I love the way it is.

I know most people prefer not to share their pages in their books. I am hoping this post inspires others to begin working in their book. I searched online for pictures of inside a BoS for many months before I started my own. I finally decided to begin writing in mine, and I’m so glad I did. But I had to push myself to do so. I can continue to post more pictures as I add to my book if others would be interested!

The last piece of advice I can give is to make sure the information you are putting in your book is reliable and credible. I checked my information from a variety of sources to make sure they all added up. It is very easy to just put false information out there. Never believe everything you read.

Thanks for reading!