The Life and Times of Joss

Hey Christian witches and assorted magical folk! Want to pick up a novella about a Baptist chaos witch and a Catholic ceremonial magician trying to keep their marriage afloat while living in a haunted house? Plus LGBTQ protags, psychic exes, and smarmy secret societies?

💖Say a prayer while your still in bed, before you get up in the morning it counts as a simple offering.

💖Make some tea and add cinnamon to your tea to increase luck and energy.

💖Put thyme in your tea for good luck.

💖The type of tea you make should depend on your mood.

💖If you want alertness, energy, and to dispel negative premonitions of the day make black tea, chai tea, or oolong tea.

💖If you want to detoxify your energy and clear your conscious mind make green tea, jasmine tea, sencha tea, or matcha tea.

💖If you want help with clarity, serenity, and wisdom make white tea or an herbal tea.

💖For an easy boost place a crystal next to your tea cup to charge your tea.

💖If you want to boost clarity use a clear quartz crystal.

💖If you want to increase your chance of love and beauty use a rose quartz crystal.

💖If you want to stabilize and ground yourself use an obsidian, bloodstone, or onyx crystal.

💖If you want to intensify your awareness and spiritual powers use an opal or lapis crystal.

💖If you want to increase courage use a tigers eye crystal.

💖While your tea is charging do some yoga, exercise, or meditate. You only have to do this for as long as your tea is charging. So like literally five minutes, trust me it makes a difference.

💖If you make breakfast give a piece of your breakfast as an offering. If you don’t make breakfast give some of your tea you made as an offering.

💖While you get dressed and do your makeup light a candle. This way you start your day off with a little light, light acts as a positive omen, and wakes you up more.

💖If you want purity and beginnings light a white candle.

💖If you want courage and strength light a red candle.

💖If you want healing, luck, and prosperity light a green candle.

💖If you want calming and spiritual awareness light a blue candle.

💖If you want psychic powers and control light a purple candle.

💖If you want positivity and beauty light a yellow candle.

💖If you want beauty, serenity, and positivity light a pink candle.

💖If you want stimulation and energy light a orange candle.

💖While doing your makeup place a rose quartz crystal next to your makeup supplies. It’s a simple tactic that really ups your look for the day.

💖If you shower in the morning turn it into a cleansing ritual.

💖Color coordinate your outfit for your days intent.

💖Carry an appropriate crystal in your purse to help calm, stabilize, or motivate yourself.

💖Carry a rose quartz crystal in your makeup bag to increase your beauty for the day.

💖Carry a spell bottle you made for keeping calm in stressful situations in your purse.

💖Carry a spell bottle you made for good luck to come your way in your purse.

💖Carry a basil in your wallet to attract money.

💖Carry rose petals in your purse to help bring all kinds of love throughout your day.

💖Wear thyme in your bra to make yourself more alluring.

💖If you curl your hair enchant your curling iron.

💖For simple divination open a book to a random page and read it.

💖Enchant and wear a crystal necklace.

💖Everynight before you go to bed charge your crystal necklace under the moonlight.

💖Stir your tea clockwise to conjure up happiness and health.

💖Stir your tea counterclockwise to banish negativity.

💖Stir your tea for your days intent, while doing this you can chant a few words making a new little spell each day.

💖For your morning tea use sun water.

💖For your bedtime tea use moon water.

💖Try to always have an incense lit in your room for aromatherapy, positive energy, general witchiness, and reducing anxiety.

💖Use essential oil as a perfume.

💖Go for a walk to connect with nature.

💖Read your daily horoscope.

💖Write sigils in your planner.

💖Chew gum, use flavor associations.

💖Text yourself emoji spells when you need a quick boost.

💖Enchant your pen, marker, pencil, etc. Enchant the words you write.

💖Brush your teeth counterclockwise to banish negativity from your day.

💖Whisper a silent greeting to the sun.

💖Play some of your favorite music to invoke spiritual energy.

💖Whisper a “goodnight” to the moon before going to sleep.

💖Energy work, if you have the extra concentration to spare. This can go very quickly and is so versatile.

💖For protection carry a salt packet in your purse.

💖Carry a sugar packet in your purse to sweeten up your day.

💖Try weaving glamours into your foundation, clarity and true-seeing in your mascara, and authority in your lipstick. Red lends power to your words. Pink offers charm.

💖Put an appropriate tarot card in your purse or planner to give you a burst of energy.

💖Keep a Grimoire/BOS on your phone.

💖Wear a crystal to boost your energy while working out at the gym.

My mother also talked about periods to my brothers.

When I first got mine I had terrible cramps. Crippling cramps. I once was camping with my family and a few of my big brother’s friends when my period came. My cramps were so bad that my mom gave me a full pain killer ( I was 13 and before that she only gave me pills cut in half).

I literally laid down on my parents’ air mattress and cried in pain for an hour before the pill kicked in.

My brothers friend came in to the big tent and I was just curled up and sobbing. Now, I was quite the tomboy and was known to rough house with my brothers and their friends and made sure I wasnt seen as just “a little girl.” So my brother’s friend was confused to see me openly weeping in the fetal position (seriously, these were the worst cramps I have had in my life. My vision went white). He asked what was wrong with me.

My big brother stood up immediately and suggested a nice long hike. During this hike I am sure he had a pretty awkward conversation with his friend explaining menstrual cramps, because when they got back the pain pill had (mostly) kicked in and I was sitting up at a table when my brother’s friend sheepishly asked me if I was feeling better. I said I was better, and he said good.

When we made s'mores that night my brother and his friend kept me well supplied with chocolate.

Making sure sons know as much about periods and menstruation as daughters makes them better brothers, better sons better fathers, and better men. A man that understands a period will not lightly accuse a woman of “being on her period” if the woman is in an argument.