dominic 🌱🍄✨🌞

my goddess,

you are the warmth of sun on my skin

the glisten of sweat on my legs

the wind in my hair

the buzzing of bees in my ear

the sweet honey on my lips.

let me bask in your glow

You & Them - The Future and Things to to Look Out For Spread 

Please don’t remove source/claim as your own! 

1 - You 

2 - Them 

3 - Situation looking to the future 

4 - What you are bringing into the relationship? 

5 - What are they bringing into the relationship? 

6 - What you need from a relationship with them 

𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐒:

🌿A page about you, your birthstone, birth chart…

🌿Types of Magick

🌿The wheel of the year

🌿The Sabbats and how to celebrate them

🌿Types of witches

🌿The history of magick/witchcraft in your countries/cultures

🌿All about the deities you worship, if any

🌿Local myths/legends of interest

🌿Herbs and their magickal properties

🌿Candles and their magickal properties

🌿Crystals and their magickal properties

🌿Essential oils and their magickal properties

🌿Chakras

🌿Gemstones

🌿Tarots

🌿Runes

🌿Sigils

🌿How to cast a circle

🌿Spells and how to cast them

🌿What days/times are best for spell casting

🌿Wandwoods

🌿Astrology

🌿The moon, and its different phases

🌿Altars, what they are and how you could set up yours

🌿Moonwater/sunwater

🌿Banishing

🌿Binding

🌿Cleansing

🌿Grounding

🌿Spirit work and how to do it safely

🌿Witch terminology

🌿Potions

🌿Safe herbs for potion making

🌿Best witchy books

🌿Ritual music/songs to listen to

𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐈𝐑𝐄:

🍁A table of contents is a wonderful idea and can be a great help, but it really is up to you.

🍁Try and plan what you’re going to write down and when.

🍁You can write down every idea you have in a notebook aside first to organise and plan if you want (this is what I do but I do consider myself a little bit of a perfecionist haha)

🍁You can print out photos, dry out flowers and herbs, add stickers, doodle and more to decorate your Grimoire if you’d like. It makes it more personal, but in the end the most important thing is that you understand it.

Already starting to plan this years garden so I thought I should do a post on Witch Gardens

Moonlight Garden

A garden that blooms in the moonlight, a great place to perform night time rituals, meditations, or to just take a midnight stroll. A garden that is full of magick even after the sun sets. 

Plants to add in your moonlight garden:

Moonflower: (Ipomoea alba) A nocturnal relative of the morning glory. Has fragrant flowers that open at dusk and close by dawn.    

Evening Primrose: (Oenothera biennis) Has beautiful, scented flowers that bloom only at dusk. 

Night Flox: (Zaluzianskya capensis) A sweetly fragranced flower that only unfurls its pinwheeled shaped flowers after dusk. 

Four O’Clock: (Mirabilis jalapa) Its scented flowers bloom at around 4:00pm (hence its name) and do not close up until morning. 

Queen of the Night: (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) A species of cactus whose flowers only open at night. Attracts moths and bats!!!

Night Blooming Jessamine: (Cestrum nocturnum) Strong, sweet scented star shaped flowers that only bloom at night. Attracts moths and bats!!! All parts are toxic, do not ingest!

Angel’s Trumpet: (Brugmansia) Produces a strong scent on warm summer evenings. All parts are toxic, do not ingest!

Evening Stock: (Matthiola longipetala) Produces lots of small blossoms that produce a perfume described as a mix of vanilla, rose, spice, and cloves only after the sun sets.

Ever-Flowering Gladiolus: (Gladiolus tristis) Release a strong almond fragrance after dusk.  

Lilac: (Syringa vulgaris) Although has a perfume during the day, it is said to be a lot stronger after dark. 

Flowering Tobacco: (Nicotiana) Open in the late afternoon and have a fragrance that smells of jasmine. All parts are toxic if ingested!

Summer Snapdragon: (Angelonia angustifolia) Preferably in white, to reflect the moonlight. Has a scent apple-scented foliage. 

Silvermound: (Artemisia schmidtiana) Has thick foliage that will shimmer under the moonlight.

Jack Frost: (Brunnera macrophylla) Hdeart shaped leaves of silver and green, perfect to add more highlights of silver to your moon lit garden. 

Any plant that blooms after dark or has white, lavender, pale pink, pale yellow on it is a perfect addition to your moonlight garden. 

Things to add:

Stepping stones that have the phases of the moon.

Fairy lights

A place to sit

Candles

A small fountain to sing along with the insects and birds of the night

String charms and bells on tree branches for a soft jingling every time a gentle breeze passes. 

Herb Garden

For witches who need a more practical garden for uses of healing, tea crafting, drying, and growing plants used in their practices.

Plants to add to your herb garden:

Anise: Helps to ward of the evil eye, find happiness, and stimulates psychic abilities. 

Basil: Use for anything pertaining with love, exorcism, wealth, sympathy, and protection. Dispels confusion, fears & weakness. Drives off hostile spirits.

Bergamont: Corresponds with money and prosperity. Provides with protection from evil and illness, improves memory, stops interference, and promotes restful sleep.

Borage: Corresponds with courage and psychic powers. 

Cat Nip: Is sacred to the Goddess Bast. Brings forth beauty, happiness, good luck, and good spirits.

Chamomile: Corresponds with love, healing, and sleep. Is known to reduce stress.

Chervil: Brings a sense of the higher self, placing you in touch with your divine, immortal spirit.

Coriander: Corresponds with love, health, immortality, and protection.

Dill: Corresponds with money, protection, luck and lust. 

Lemon Balm: Corresponds with love, success, healing, and psychic/spiritual development. 

Marjoram: Used to cleanse, purify, and to dispel negative energy.  

Mint: Promotes energy, communication and vitality.

Oregano: Corresponds with joy, strength, vitality, and added energy 

Parsley: Calms and protects the home.

Rosemary: Protects, cleanses, purifies, and aids memory. 

Sage: Used for self purification and dealing with grief and loss.

Thyme: Attracts loyalty, affection, and the good opinion of others.

Things to add:

A place to dry herbs

A place to compost any herb scraps

Rocks

A place to leave offerings before you harvest

Bee Garden

Make yourself a sanctuary to watch bees frolic and thrive

Plants to add to your bee garden:

Bee balm

Lavender

Crocus

Snow Drop

Wildflowers/Any native species

Catmint

Borage

Anise hyssop

Heliotrope

Sunflower

Oregano

Yarrow

Coneflower

Black eyed susan

Asters

Goldenrod

Foxglove

Marigold

Pansies

Sweet peas

Nasturtiums

Things to add:

Bee houses

Bee waterers/bee baths

Bee feeders

A place for offerings to the bees

Some other ideas for your garden:

Hummingbird garden

Medicinal garden

A garden whose plants and decorations represent/correspond with your practice.

Butterfly Garden

Faerie Garden 

The options are endless! I hope this gives you some ideas for this years garden.

Happy planting!

Bottle magic is probably one of the most versatile and easy forms of spell casting I’ve encountered. It could be as small as a bottle necklace or as big as a large vase or jar (preferably something with a lid, though, to keep the magic in).

Actually a form of folk magic, a spell is sealed inside a container. This serves a number of purposes - the first being that it keeps the magic concentrated, and prevents it from escaping before the spell has been completed. The other nice feature of a jar or bottle spell is its portability - depending on the size, you can take it anywhere you like, whether it’s buried under a doorstep, tucked into a hollow tree, placed gently upon your mantle, or tied around your neck. You could even incorporate this kind of magic in your altar.

What sort of container you use in a jar spell or bottle spell will partially depend on the intent of your working. For instance, if you’re hoping to do magic to facilitate healing and wellness, consider putting your spell ingredients into a medicine bottle, pill container, or apothecary style jar. Personalizing these spells is easy, and makes them much more powerful. Try to use a container that means something to you if you can.

The ingredients can be vary from very simple to complicated depending on your intent and available materials. It could be as easy as putting your money aside in a jar with a blessing, or you could fill a bottle with various herbs and oils and even objects to reach your intended effect.

Keep in mind that spell jars can be plain and simple, or you can decorate them to look pretty. The nice thing about a decorative, attractive jar is that you can leave them anywhere you like, and no one will even realize that magic is afoot.

Here are some examples of some basic bottle and jar magic, to get you started:

Healing Bottle Magic

Emotional Healing

All-Around Wellness

Physical Healing

Depression Spell and Ritual

Anxiety

Prosperity Bottle Magic

Money Jar

Attracting Prosperity

Attract a New Job

Love Bottle Magic

Mend a Broken Relationship

Attract New People

Call Someone to You

Sweeten One’s Disposition

Mind Bottle Magic

Memory Charm

Focus Charm

Courage Spell

Happiness Bottle Magic

Protection

Creativity Charm

Restful Sleep

Banishing Spell

If anyone would like me to add any examples to the list, please just let me know! I’m more than happy to accommodate for you.

-Berk

Back to Spells and Rituals

I like to use a bottle small enough to be used as a necklace for this one, so I can keep it with me when I need it.

You’ll need any of these elements:

a container, bottle or jar

a small candle (a tealight or votive will do, preferably in white)

lavender (oil or plant)

neroli or orange oil

nutmeg

sweetgrass or gardenia (fresh or dried)

obsidian or clear quartz

Add whichever herbs and oils you can to your container. If you have something a little bigger, consider adding moon water or some more personal items related to the spell. You can also write down your intention on a small strip of paper, and put it in the bottle or jar with the other ingredients, if you wish.

Light your candle, and say this incantation, out loud or in your mind:

“By Earth and Water,

Air and By Fire,

May you hear this wish,

Sources of Life and Light

Sources of the day and of the Earth,

I invoke you here,

Heal my body and mind.”

Seal your container and blow out your candle. The spell is finished. If you feel like the spell needs a boost, give the container a shake and it will bring more energy and revitalize it.

-Berk

Back to Bottle and Jar Magic Masterpost

Small devotional acts.

Walk barefoot

Drive on the backroads – take the scenic route

Eat wild berries (be smart about it)

Wear browns, greens, oranges and purples

Listen to music that reminds you of him

Get a cozy wool sweater or cloak

Buy some pottery mugs or bowls

Go into a wild space and sit for a while

Collect things from nature (feathers, rocks, mosses, etc.)

Donate to or volunteer with an organization that saves wild animals

Learn to play a new instrument

Go wandering through a meadow

Keep your window open

Buy/read a field guide

Drink fresh juice

Get a new houseplant

Make a nature scene your screensaver

Drink your morning coffee/tea outside

Listen to nature/forest background sounds

Find a new animal you’ve never heard of and learn about it

Watch a nature documentary

Wear leafy jewelry/patterns

Get a candle that’s scented like the forest

Try a new outdoor activity or explore a new area

PRACTICE LOVING YOURSELF

Personal Protection Jar!!!

So a friend of mine was having some issues with what we like to call "energy vampires" (i.e. they suck all the energy from you). And even though she wore cleansed protected crystals, she felt like that wasn't enough in some situations. We live in Los Angeles, which is a heavily populated city, and with that comes the energy from 10 million people. So I made her a handheld protection and energy cleanser jar that she can carry in her bag and make sure her energy isn't being stolen on the street.

Ingredients:

Salt - cleansing

Black pepper - banishing bad energy

Thistle - protection

Sage - cleansing

Ginger - protection/health

Thyme - cleansing/strength

Dried onion - protection

Marjoram - purification

Peppermint - purity

Taglock - I used a lock of her hair.

White candle - cleansing

Layer your ingredients in a jar, starting with the taglock. I like to alternate cleansing herb and protection herb so that they combine nicely. Don't forget to hold the meaning of each herb in your mind as you add them in. Seal with white candle wax, and charge by moonlight for full effects.

Mix these herbs together: 

Basil

Cinnamon

Nutmeg

Dill 

Poppy seeds

Oregano 

Use a mortar and pesle to grind these into a powder. Best made during the waxing moon. Sprinkle in your shoes to promote luck and happiness, use on candles, offerings, sachets, etc. 

Other herbs for luck commonly found: 

Allspice

Mint

Chamomile 

Corn

Oranges

Strawberries

Cabbage

Oak

Roses

🌟 [Visual Cleansing] 🌟 [Easy Cleansing Spray] 🌟 [Hekate Shower Cleansing] 🌟 [Cleansing Methods] 🌟 [When You Should Cleanse Yourself and/or Your Space] 🌟 [Cleansing in Witchcraft] 🌟 [Life Cleanse - What I did] 🌟 [Cleansing Chant] 🌟 [How To Cleanse Your Room of Bad Energy] 🌟 [Wind Cleansing] 🌟 [Energy Clearing and Infusing] 🌟 [Cleansing…] 🌟 [Cleansing Your Space Without Smoke]

Herb Correspondences

sage

lavender

myrrh

dragon’s blood

sandalwood

salt

lemon

rosemary

bay laurel

basil

rue

mugwort 

Crystal Correspondences

Quartz

Selenite

Black Tourmaline

Celestite

Moonstone

Lepidolite

Citrine

Original inspiration for this lesson comes from iladisparu’s Voodoo Doll Tutorial on YouTube. I make my dolls slightly differently, but they’re very similar :) 

Materials:

Yarn (color of your choice)

String

Sewing needle

Buttons

Other Accessories of your choice

Step 1)

Loosely wrap the end of your yarn around four fingers and tie a knot.

Step 2)

After tying a knot, wrap the end of the yarn around your four fingers 8-9 times. Then, remove the bundle from your hand, and, making sure it doesn’t come undone, begin wrapping the loose end of the yarn around the center of the bundle (second picture). Next, separate the bundle into four sections so that it resembles a sort of butterfly (these are going to become the doll’s limbs!).

Step 3)

Once you’ve separated your bundle into four different smaller bunches, start wrapping the loose end of your yarn around the center of the bundle to create a fifth bunch of loops (This is for the doll’s head, I recommend making 4-5 loops for this section). Then, you can begin solidifying your doll by wrapping the loose end of the yarn up and down one of the bundles of loops (do this for all four limbs). 

TIP: Every time you make a limb, wrap the loose end of your yarn around the doll’s center before moving onto the next limb. This helps keep everything together!

Step 4)

Once you’ve finished all the limbs, you can move onto the head. Wrap the loose end of your yarn up and down the bundle of loops dedicated to the head and bend the resulting stub over. Then, begin wrapping the loose end of your yarn around that, keeping in mind you want the result to look spherical. 

Step 5)

Almost there!

When you’ve finished making the head, you can either glue the loose end of your yarn in place on the doll, or, using a large needle, weave it back into the doll’s body.