Kitchen Witchie

❄ Gather pine cones

❄ Collect feathers from winter fowl. Do not collect feathers if you live in the     US!

❄ Collect snow and melt it. Charge the water under the December full moon to     create a powerful snow water to use in your winter spells. Use snow water to     protect your house and hearth, to charge your magick tools, and to purify         your amulets. Snow water possesses healing powers.

❄ Have a winter bonfire to celebrate winter solstice.

❄ Set yourself goals for the new year.

❄ Take a walk under the full moon when the snow is reflecting its light. This is        a time for reflection and visions. Record you experience and any important        thoughts or visions you receive. 

❄Stand outside in a blizzard and feel your energy restoring. 

❄  Brew yourself a cider. Add herbs and fruits with certain correspondences for      December such as joy, peace, family happiness, etc.

❄ December is a time for reflection of the passing year.

❄ Do Yule baking and incorporate kitchen witchcraft. 

❄ Weave a wreath with holly and plants that correspond with protection and         yule.

❄ Burn incense of cinnamon, patchouli, frankincense, orange, and myrrh.  

❄ December is a time for hearth and home magick.

❄ Burn candles throughout your home to invite positive energies, coziness,           and peace. 

❄ Collect evergreen, holly, cedar and pine clippings.

❄ Forage for rose hips.

❄ Tie up any loose ends you have in your life.

❄ Finish this years grimoire and add any last minute touch ups.

❄ Collect dried leaves. Define their properties and put them in your herbal             grimoire.

❄ Brew yourself new tea combinations to start off the new year with.

❄ Make witch balls and other magickal decorations to hang on your yule tree       and decorate your house with. 

❄ Make winter solstice lanterns.

❄ Throw a sprig of holly into a yule fire to burn away your troubles from the            past year.  A large amount or if thrown into an indoor fireplace may be      poisonous, use with caution!  

❄ Make a yule log. 

❄  Throw a ritual or celebration to welcome back the sun.

❄  Use elements from nature to decorate your home.

❄  At the end of the month do a deep house cleansing to remove all negative        energy and to give the new year a fresh start. 

Have a happy Yule! 

Alder - Alder is used in rituals to balance actions and emotions. Associated with charisma, journeys, self-confidence, bravery, supervision skills, and spiritual growth. Alder 

Apple - Used in rituals that focus on healing, love, and fertility. It is also associated with the fairy realm and wands made from apple trees are particularly effective when dealing with harmony, serenity, and peace. 

Ash - Ash is associated with the mental. It is useful when dealing with communication, intelligence, and wisdom. Ash is associated with linguistic arts such as poetry. It is also said to prevent drowning, protect against unwanted life changes, and weather magick. 

Beech - Beech can be used to help balance mental illnesses (in addition to proper medical treatment, of course). It is a great choice to aid in divination, contact with ancestors, and magickal research. 

Birch - Birch trees are heavily associated with rebirth and cleansing. Birch can be used to aid in healing spells as well as banishing spells and rituals. 

Cedar - Cedar is often used to create sacred spaces in which to perform rituals and spells. It is associated with protection, longevity, and preservation. 

Cherry - Cherry trees are often associated with stability and can be used to increase focus. Cherry is also associated with animals, familiars, and unification. 

Elder - Elder is most often used in association with fairie rituals, healing, imaginative endeavors, and banishment. 

Elm - Elm trees are often associated with stages of life, specifically birth and death. It is used both to usher in newborns and send loved ones off into the next life. 

Hawthorn - Hawthorn is used for psychic development and creativity. It is also associated with developing patience, magick detection and concealment, and male potency. 

Hazel - Hazel is associated with artistic ability and talent as well as optimism. 

Hickory -  Hickory trees are associated with acquisition, abundance, wholeness, and leadership. It is known to promote eloquence, creative expression, and inspiration. 

Holly - Holly trees are often used in sleep magick, but lore also exists concerning its ability to make those who possess Holly leaves and berries sexually irresistible. Holly can also aid those in mourning or those who are dealing with grief. 

Lilac - Lilac trees (and bushes) are most often associated with romance and love. Lilac can aid communication between lovers, offer protection while traveling, and help with concentration. 

Maple - Maple can help with intellectual pursuits and is often used in spells and rituals concerning beauty, art, and abundance. 

Oak - Oak is a fairly common tree and is associated with strength, vitality, truth, protection, and knowledge. Oak trees can be used to help in grounding exercises. 

Osage Orange - Osage Orange trees aid in repelling negative energy, astral travel and projection, and connecting with spirits. 

Pine - Pine trees are known to give protection and joy to those who have branches of pine in their homes. It can help harness inner strength, ease stress, and renew one’s sense of purpose.

Poplar - Poplar is often used as an all-purpose wood as it contains useful energies for a large variety of uses. It can be used for evocation as well as banishing and is useful when divining. 

Sassafras - Sassafras has long been used as a protection aid as well as a sleep aid. It is said that burying money by the roots of a Sassafras tree will bring the owner of the money prosperity. Sassafras has also been known to aid the digestive system.

Black Walnut - Black Walnut trees are associated with air and the astral plane. Black Walnut can be used to help one astral project or travel and work with the weather. 

Willow - Willow trees are considered highly emotional. Willow trees can provide energy to the weak and elderly. Burning Willow wood can bring peace to the deceased. It can also aid in love spells, healing, and rebirth rituals. Willow wood is considered to possess the very essence of magick and is an extremely powerful tool. 

🎵 A song, you could sing it or just play it from your phone. I sometimes do this when I’m on a nature walk and I pick up a few odds and ends for my altar. I’ll hum a soft melody as an offering. 

📚 A story or poem, write your own or recite one you found. 

💌 A letter. This is great for witches who aren’t verbal or who prefer not to speak when doing rituals, spells or leaving offerings. If you know you’re about to go for a hike and think you might pick up a few things along the way, write cute little “thank you notes” on paper. Most paper is biodegradable so it shouldn’t harm the earth.

🍬 Candies. Because who doesn’t love a sweet treat? Probably not the best offering to leave outside (don’t want any sugar high squirrels running around your yard lol)

🥕 Food. Really any food will do. Again be sure if you leave any food offerings outside that the local wildlife can eat it too, and don’t leave it out close to your home as you might attract ants/bug.

🕯️ Candle. Tea lights are best for this because they only burn for about an hour or so, don’t leave a candle unattended. 

🍷 Drink. Wine, coffee, tea… kool aid. Any and all will work.

⏳ Time. Just offer a moment of your time. If you’re working with deities or spirits just offer an ear to listen and be present with them. If you’re working with nature and the elements, take a few minutes to sit and absorb everything around you.

Absolutely! So, obviously, people differ when it comes to a preferred method - some ward with sigils, sprays, smokes, salts, purely through meditation, etc. I prefer working with physical objects so warding through intense meditation isn’t my style. I recommend reading Breelandwalker’s warding methods and seeing if you like anything there - I really love the idea of a spray bottle and salt water for instance. 

For myself, if I need powerful protection on my space then I’ll cleanse with burning herbs and lay salt in the doorway and window sills and corners and leave it for a few days to let it settle in place before cleaning it up, I may also make up a sigil for protection and place it somewhere near my doorway (under my front mat usually). I also really like enchanting an item to serve as a sort of ward (it will need to be renewed and when using this method I usually do this monthly but that part is up to you). So, for instance, you might build a witch bottle that you bury in a potted plant near your door. Or you might build a poppet guard or even mark a statue (or really any item) with a protective sigil and an item of yours and set it near your front door to catch anything before it reaches you (I recommend showing the object around the space that you want it to protect before setting it at its post). This is a great method for if you have roommates for instance or just need to ward your bedroom instead of cleansing and marking the whole house. 

There’s an awful lot of posts/websites that have lists of herbs by name which is great if you want the correspondences of lavender but not so great if you’re looking for herbs that correspond with health. So here:

ANIMAL MAGICK:

Catnip, Peppermint, Valerian

ASTRAL PROJECTION:

Cinnamon, Jasmine, Mugwort

BEAUTY:

Lavender, Rose, Catnip, Orange

CALMNESS:

Cypress, Vanilla

CONCENTRATION:

Rose, Rosemary, Thistle, Dill, Orchid

CONFIDENCE:

Cedar, Dill, Geranium, St. John’s Wort, 

CLARITY:

Lavender, Cypress, Clover, Rosemary

CLEANSING:

Lemon, Clover, Sage, Lilac, Cedar

DREAMS:

Peppermint

EMOTIONAL HEALING:

Cypress

EMOTIONAL OPENNESS:

Orange, Orange Blossom

FERTILITY:

Sunflower, Olive, Poppy, Daffodil, Oak, Honey

FEMININE ENERGY:

Daisy, Maple, Poppy, Rose, Thyme, Blackberry

FIDELITY:

Nutmeg

FRIENDSHIP:

Lemon, Sweet pea, Passion Flower

GOOD MEMORY:

Rosemary, Clove

GROUNDING:

Coffee

HAPPINESS:

Lavender, Catnip, St John’s Wort, Peppermint, Oregano, Saffron, Honey

HARMONY:

Orange, Orange Blossom

HEALING:

Lemon, Cypress, Allspice, Saffron, Cinnamon, Cedar, Thyme, Violet, Spearmint, Peppermint, Sunflower

HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS:

Vanilla

HOPE:

Chamomile

JUSTICE:

Nutmeg, Violet

LONGEVITY:

Lemon, Cypress, Acorn, Sage

LOVE:

Lavender, Violet, Apple, Chamomile,Saffron, Cinnamon, Clove, Clover, Lemon, Juniper, Peppermint, Rose, Rosemary, Vanilla, Strawberry, Rue, Ginger, Mistletoe, Thyme, Maple, Spearmint, Willow, Orange, Orange Blossom, Sugar Cane

LOYALTY:

Thyme

LUCK:

Vanilla, Chamomile, Nutmeg, Allspice, Violet, Strawberry, Olive, Poppy, Rose, Oak, Orange, Peppermint, Straw, Strawberry

LUST:

Celery, Cinnamon, Mint, Lemongrass, Sugar Cane, Olive, Nettle, Parsley, Dill, Violet, Vanilla, Saffron

MASCULINE ENERGY:

Allspice, Almond, Basil, Garlic, Hazel, Holly, Olive, Mistletoe, Cedar

MOON:

Lemon

MONEY:

Nutmeg, Peppermint, Jasmine

PEACE:

Lavender, Violet, Olive, Chamomile, Coffee, Clover, Passion Flower, Orange, Orange Blossom

PEACE OF MIND:

Coffee

PROSPERITY:

Orange, Orange Blossom, Onion

PROTECTION:

Lavender, Coffee, Oak, Clover, Acorn, Violet, Peppermint, Acacia, Willow, Thistle, Peony, Cypress, Lilac, Mint, Juniper, Ivy, Olive, Raspberry, Sage, Rose, Rosemary, Foxglove, Cranberry

PSYCHIC POWERS:

Celery, Acacia,Saffron, Cinnamon, Yarrow, Peppermint, Bay, Thyme, Mace, Star Anise, Lemongrass, Nutmeg, Bay

PURIFICATION:

Rosemary, Lemon, Saffron, Chamomile, Anise, Thyme, Parsley, Cedar, Turmeric, Peppermint, Lavender, Marjoram, Orange, Orange Blossom, Honey

RELEASE:

Peppermint, Spearmint, Fern, Mugwort

RENEWAL:

Peppermint, Spearmint, Ivy

SLEEP:

Celery,Thyme, Peppermint, Valerian, Chamomile, Passion Flower, Lavender, Rosemary

SPIRIT CALLING:

Sweet grass, Wormwood

SPIRITUALITY:

Arabic Gum, Gardenia, Sandalwood, Cinnamon, Frankincense

STABILITY:

Orange, Orange Blossom, Onion

STRENGTH:

Oregano, Saffron, Thistle

SUCCESS:

Cinnamon,Ginger,  Frankincense, Clover, High John, Strawberry

SUN:

Lemon, Cinnamon, Orange, Orange Blossom

TRANQUILLITY:

Chamomile, Cypress

WILL POWER:

Orchid

WISDOM:

Sunflower, Peach, Sage

WISHES:

Bay, Sunflower, Violet, Spearmint, Sandalwood

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🕯RED: Binding, Courage, Strength, Lust, Magnetism, Competitiveness, Fertility, Health, Attraction, Protection Magick, Conflict, Dispelling Anger & Hate.

🕯PINK: Emotional Healing, Spiritual Healing, Love, Friendship, Compassion, Protection if Children, Affection.

🕯ORANGE: Luck, Strength, Power, Attracting Luck, Creativity, Success, Professional Growth, Justice, Energy, Happiness, Ambition.

🕯YELLOW: Clairvoyance, Communication, Action, Inspiration, Psychic Power, Memory, Divination, Confidence, Imagination, Wisdom, The Sun.

🕯GREEN: Mother Earth, Balance, Growth, Wealth, Money, Health, Dispelling Envy & Jealously, Dispelling Greed, Beauty, Abundance, Luck, Harmony, Fertility.

🕯BLUE: Communication, Inspiration, Harmony, Occult Wisdom, Forgiveness, Fidelity, Focus, Protection, Truth, Loyalty, Banishing Anger.

🕯PURPLE: 3rd Eye, Psychic Power, Spirituality, Confidence, Success, Divination, Contacting Spirits, Increase of Willpower & Inner Strength, Independence, Spiritual Guidance, Protection.

🕯WHITE: Peace, Truth, Purification, Protection, Spirituality, Positive Outcome, Happiness, Moon Magick, Cleansing, Balance.

WHITE CAN BE USED IN PLACE OF ALL COLORS DURING SPELLS AND RITUALS

🕯BLACK: Binding, Dispelling, Reversing of Spells Hexes and Curses, Destruction of Evil & Negative, Habit Breaking, Grounding & Protecting, Repelling Spells.

🕯BROWN: Friendship & Balance, Intuition, Concentration, Animal & Earth Magick, Healing, Locating lost objects, Blessing of a Home.

🕯INDIGO: Balance restoring, Spell Blocking, Creating Balance, Karma.

🕯GOLD: Divination, Luck, Money, Success, Wealth, Sun Worship

Many witches have their own personal morning routine to get ready for the day. This is my personal morning routine and tips for those who are yet to have, but want one.

1. Get up early, before the sun rises. Begin by stretching your sleepy limbs, followed by 5 to 10 minutes of meditation.

☀(Tip: If you’re bad at getting up early, set an alarm earlier each week until you reach your goal.)

2. Make your bed and tidy up your room. This gives a sense of organization and clarity. Opening your windows invites the cool morning air into your home.

☀(Tip: Do chores the night before. Tomorrow you will be grateful! You can clean your room the night or day before, so you’ll only have to make your bed in the morning.)

3. Eat a good breakfast. My favorite is greek yogurt with berries, homemade granola, and honey drizzled over the top.

4. Prepare some tea! Use a tea associated to your intention. I drink peppermint tea in the morning to clear my brain fog and give me the much-needed motivation for the day.

5. (Optional) Eat your breakfast and drink tea outside as the sun rises. Take time to practice mindfulness with the tastes, textures, and aromas of your meal. Feel the gentle warmth of the rising sun on your skin, smell the fresh morning air, and listen to the birds sing.

6. (Optional. If yoga isn’t your thing, exercise… Or not. Your choice.) Set up your yoga mat either in your personal yoga space, or outside. Light incense and place crystals associated with your intention around your mat. Personalize your yoga routine with correspondences of each pose. I begin with the sun salutation to welcome the rising sun. Yoga increases your vibration and further clears your mind for the day ahead.

7. Clean yourself up. EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE, DO IT. Take a shower, wash your face, get into some clean clothes, and anything else that you do to get ready such as makeup and color correspondences. You can listen to your favorite music or sing while doing this.

☀(Tip: Set out some clothes and take a shower the night before if you have to.)

8. Now that you’re cleansed and have your daily intention set, you can continue with any morning spells and divination that you may do!

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Rainiest days call upon the best spells .°•☆`

Brought to you mostly by my grandparents, but also by my family at large. These are all things I heard growing up in the northern region of Appalachia and wanted to share with y'all. The lore and sayings may vary based on location, family tradition, and other factors, but this is just what I’m sharing from my experiences!

• Give the first pinch of a freshly baked loaf of bread to the Good Men to keep them happy. • Deaths and births always come in threes. • Spin around in a circle three times before you walk in the front door to confuse any spirits that are following you. • Don’t throw your hair out! If a bird builds a nest with it, you’ll have migraines. • “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailor’s warning.” • If the leaves on trees are flipped over with their backsides showing, rain’s coming. • If you hear a dog howl at night, death is coming. • If you’re giving someone a wallet or purse as a present, put money in it to ensure they’ll never financially struggle. • Spirits can’t cross running water. • Cats and dogs won’t enter a room where spirits are present. • Carry an acorn in your pocket for good luck, a penny for prosperity, and a nail for protection. • If you’re having nightmares, put a Bible under your pillow. They’ll go away. • Take a spoonful of honey to keep your words sweet. • Keeping a pot of coffee on ensures a happy home. • It’s bad luck to walk over a grave. • A horseshoe hung above a door ensures good luck. • A horseshoe in the bedroom staves away nightmares. • If your right hand itches, you’ll soon be receiving money. If the left itches, you’ll be paying it. • Wishing on a star works. “Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.” • When you have a random shiver, someone just walked over your grave. • If smoke from a fire rises, expect clear skies. If it rolls along the ground, expect storms. • Rosemary near the door provides protection. Lavender provides peace. • “A ring around the sun or moon, rain or snow is coming soon.” • Wind chimes and bells keep spirits away. • Seeing a cardinal means unexpected company. • For that matter, so does dropping silverware. • Rubbing a bit of potato on a wart helps it to go away. • If the soles of your feet itch, you will soon walk on strange grounds. • Black eyed peas, greens, and/or pork and sauerkraut should be eaten on New Year’s Day to welcome good luck and good fortune. • Driving a nail into a bedframe or crib will drive away curses. • If your ears are burning, someone’s talking about you. • If you dream of fish, you are or will soon be pregnant. • Listen to the wisdom of children, they see and know more than we think. • To dream of death means birth, to dream of birth means death. • To cure a headache, crush some mint leaves in your hands, cup them over your mouth and nose, and breathe in a few times. It should help. • Placing a fern or ivy on the front porch protects against curses. • In a vegetable garden, never plant the same plants in the same spot two years in a row. Rotate where they are, and you’ll save your soil. (Note: this is a real thing called crop rotation, and is actually kind of important) • A black bird (Raven or crow, doesn’t matter) on the roof or a windowsill is an omen for death. To avoid it, you have to scare it away without using your voice before it caws. • Say a prayer when you pass a coal mine for the lost souls still in the mine. • Thank the land and the Lord with every successful hunt or harvest you have, for nothing is guaranteed.

To add to the post

Never pick up a coin (especially a penny) if it isn’t heads up

Hold your breath when you pass a cemetery