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As a witch who’s always on the go it can sometimes be hard to focus on magical self care. I’m traveling and moving and working with lots of people and life is kind of a whirlwind and I love it but sometimes it all gets to be a little… much. In all of the hustle and bustle my ability to take care of myself and my ability to take care of my magical practice can start to go south. I forget to practice good magical hygiene (such as cleansing and banishing) and I start to feel a little disconnected from the whole thing.

When this happens I like to turn to magical self care! Now, there are two types of magical self care: there’s magic that is used as self care and there’s self care for your magic. The methods I’m about to discuss happen to be useful for both! 

  The Most Important Magical Self Care Tool In A Witches Arsenal: Grounding

Grounding is a vital part of learning to practice magic in a safe and healthy way. The term comes from the process of grounding an electrical circuit. Essentially if an object is negatively charged, grounding allows excess electrons to flow from the object into the earth, and if an object is positively charged, electrons flow from the earth into the object. It’s a method of balancing and equalizing the flow of energy.

Similarly, in witchcraft grounding is the practice of balancing personal energies. Many things can pull us out of balance, emotional turmoil (for empaths it doesn’t even have to be our own emotional turmoil, often we pick up other people’s emotions far too readily!), illness, performing rituals or spells, astral travel, even simple things from our day to day lives can create a state of too much personal energy or too little personal energy.

This can be an incredibly uncomfortable experience.

Symptoms of unbalanced energy:

Dizziness, feeling spaced out, light headed or a floaty feeling

Headaches

Forgetfulness

Misplacing or losing things

Feeling generally unwell or exhausted

Daydreaming and an inability to focus

Sensitivity to light and noise

Feeling over stimulated and nervy

Bumping into things or other general feelings of clumsiness

An uncomfortable sensation of buzzing under the skin

Nausea and vomiting

Pain

Irritability

Insomnia

These symptoms typically become more severe the further out of alignment you are.

It is essential that you learn to ground properly before beginning to practice magic. Often I see newer witches who have yet to learn this skill experiencing unnecessarily strong backlash from their spell work.

Magic is energy! When you move and manipulate energy in such powerful ways it can and will pull your own energy out of balance. Grounding allows you to avoid the unpleasant side effects of spell casting which means a you’ll be a happier witch and have more time and space to practice your craft!

How To Ground Yourself

There are many ways of grounding yourself, I suggest you try a variety of methods and find the one that is most effective for you.

Rooting Yourself

This method works best if you are barefoot and standing on grass or dirt. Imagine your energy extending down through your legs and sinking into the earth, becoming roots and burrowing into the soil to trade energy with the earth. Feel the earth’s energy flow up into your body, filling you all the way to your head and then back down and out through your roots. This energy will cycle through you and clear away any excess energy as well as solving any energy deficiencies you might have. Continue this until you feel calm and comfortable.

Laugh

Laughter is an amazing way to release pent up energy as well as building our personal energy from within! Give yourself time and space to have a good laugh, put on your favorite comedian and enjoy yourself.

Food

Nourishing your body can help to reconnect you to your physical self and refuel depleted energy. Sit down for a hearty meal and give it your full attention, this helps to pull you back into your body fully after astral work or other intense spiritual experiences and gives you a moment to rest and relax.

Water

Water is a wonderful conductor of energy, sitting with your feet in a stream, your hands under a running faucet, or drawing yourself a bath can equalize your energy very quickly. Playing in the rain can also equalize your energy but if it’s sunny out visualizing rain washing your energy clean will work just as well.

Go for a walk

Getting out in nature, especially if you can walk barefoot, will allow your body to trade energy with the earth and equalize your energy levels. Walking in nature also helps to build mindfulness and create a sense of ease in your life!

Wind Visualization

Sit comfortably and begin to visualize your energy body. When you have a solid image of it in your mind imagine a strong gust of wind blowing your energy around you, removing blockages, carrying away excesses and refueling any energetic deficiencies.

Exercise

Gentle exercise can help to release any excess energies. Do not ground this way if you feel lethargic, exhausted or in any kind of pain. This method is ONLY to be used when you have an energy excess!

Body Awareness

Simply giving your body attention can encourage your energy to equalize on its own. Take a few minutes to consciously take stock of every inch of your body. Begin at your head, feel your scalp, then move to focusing on each part of your face. Move downward and feel your neck, your chest, then your arms, your elbows, your wrists, your fingertips. Focus on your torso again, now placing your energy on your stomach, feel it move with your breath. Continue this all the way down to your toes. Try to remain relaxed throughout this process.

Let Yourself Cry

Crying or screaming will release excess emotional energy very quickly. If you’re the sort of person who loves a good cleansing cry then this one is for you.

Stones and Crystals

Certain stones and crystals can be grounding. Hematite is particularly good for this purpose.

Play in the dirt

Getting in contact with the earth through gardening or rolling around in the dirt like you did when you were a kid allows your body to exchange energy with the earth. So let go of your adulthood for a few minutes and get in the dirt!

When To Use Grounding

Grounding is a wonderful tool to use but it isn’t a cure all. It’s also not always desirable to be completely grounded! There are certain types of magic that can be hindered by grounding and other types of magic that are simply not energy based and won’t require grounding to be effective.

When working with spirits being too grounded can make it more difficult to connect to the entity

If you’re fueling magic with emotions or excitement grounding beforehand will not help. You want your emotions and energy high in order to perform that sort of magic.

Sigils generally do not require grounding

Any kind of astral or out of body practice will be made much more difficult if you’re grounded beforehand. Ground after this sort of practice, not before

Dream work will be hindered by grounding

Grounding is most often used for post-spell backlash but it can also be utilized in your day to day life to enhance focus and happiness, lessen anxiety and protect you from emotional runoff.

If you struggle with any of the symptoms of being ungrounded regularly you might benefit from adding a few minutes of grounding into your daily practice!

New to witchcraft? Not sure where to start?

Maps! Maps! MAPS! If you're a death witch, get one for the cemeteries you visit and mark gravestones/areas you've practiced in! Garden witches! Map out your gardens! Green witches! Map where you find specific herbs in your area! Lunar witches! Mark the best spots to go look at the sky! Make a key! Take notes!

Recipes for COMPONENTS! Write down how to make the mixtures you use in spells often- A special salt mixed with herbs and put under the moon, a mixture of oils for protection, the herb mixes sachets you keep making to add to sachets, whatever!

For green witches- press samples of stuff and glue them in! Go to an arboretum and ask for permission to take leaves to press, they'll usually let you take some- add them in with your notes about trees

Cool ways to make spells! I make spells in envelopes and on empty spools, what are some ways you do?

The local plants in your area and what they do. You're not going to be likely to find chrysanthemums to forage in Missouri, but you will find creeping charlie and prairie plants. What can you do with a thistle?

When you celebrate a sabbat, write down what you did and include samples! Ribbons from your Beltane altar, a pressed sample of your lemmas harvest, a scrap of your Yule decorations. Maybe do a spell and tape the remnants into your grimoire in a plastic baggie

Learn how to make an envelope out of paper just by folding it, how to string seeds, how to dry plants, how to macrame rocks and hang them from your window. Find those little witchy skills and write them down.

How to incorporate your hobby into your magic. Sigiling origami paper, weaving knot magick into your crochet, making blessed bookmarks, etc

Substitutes! Rosemary, rose and clear quartz are good for most things, but there are more substitutes to be used that are more powerful. Roanoke bells are good substitutes for bluebells, apparently.

Correspondences of odd things. Turns out different kinds of cats have different correspondences, huh.

Superstitions and such from where you're from.

For kitchen witches: easy to alter recipes. An egg noodle recipe that takes herbs really well, a simple bread recipe that can be dressed up for spells or rituals, how to make a good pie crust that you can sprinkle nutmeg in or whatever you desire.

Taglocks are objects that are used to connect your magick to a person, or entity. These taglocks are most commonly heard of in curses, but can also be used in other forms of magick. They are used to make your spell more powerful by giving them a direct connection to what you would like them to effect. It is a lot like building a bridge for your spell the crossover from you to your target. This connection comes from the magickal law of contagion which states that, if something has contact with something else it will continue to have contact with it even after they are separated. The taglock can be anything the person has come in contact with, but is more commonly a piece of the person such as hair, nails, spit, dandruff, pee, blood, sexual fluid, etc… Once you have that you have a direct connection to the person. You can pretty much use that taglock in any type of spell with positive, or even negative intentions. If your taglock is not a piece of the person it will still work good in spell work, but it will be weaker, due to the fact that a piece of the person’s body has been with them, and in their energies for a longer period of time, and is far more connected to the person. Which will build a very strong connection that will be harder to break. Taglocks that are not a piece of the body can actually be cleansed of the energy of that person, so that it cannot be used as a taglock. This can be done through any cleansing method. It works, because the item is not innately your energy, and can be returned to “factory default”, but where a piece of your body is your energy, there would be no way to separate your energy from your energy, and not have it still work as a taglock.

Sometimes after you cast a spell you will wish to undo it, because you do not actually want it to manifest into the world. Knowing how to undo spells can help you in many situations in order to stop yours, and other people’s magick from taking shape. In order to use the information in this post you are probably going to need to know the fundamentals of creating your own spells, and rituals, so that you will be able to put together something  to accomplish your desires.

Undoing Spells:

Cleansing is the act of resetting energies back to how they were naturally. This process will remove all the energies that have stuck themselves onto an person, place, or object. In this post we will be looking over how one can go about cleansing a room, so that a practitioner could clear it of all negative energies in order to make the room a more hospitable environment. There are many ways to go about cleansing a room, and we will go over a few of them, so that we can get a range of different approaches one can use to cleanse a room.

Physically cleaning the room:

This is a very straightforward way of cleansing a room in which all you have to do is physically clean it up. This does not have to be an extensive cleaning job but should be good enough that there is a clear visible difference. By straightening up the room you will rearrange the energies to a more harmonic natural state, so that energy will flow more smoothly through it, and allow it to be balanced, and cleansed.

Opening your space:

Opening windows, and doors will allow the room to be cleansed, because it will open up energy flow in the room. This will allow energy to circulate, and will return the room back to a more harmonic and natural state.

Clap cleansing:

In order to do this one all you must do is walk around the area why clapping loudly, and while focusing on your intention for the room to be cleanse. This will allow you to send out your intention with your claps, so that you can literally clap away the negative energies.

Music cleansing:

By playing forms of music that are spiritual and/or calming you will be able to cleanse the energies of the room from the sounds of the music. This works because the music will release a very calm, relaxing, and spiritual energy that will overtake the room allowing it to be cleansed.

Chant cleansing:

By walking around the room, and chanting phrases that have to do with your intent of cleansing, or are in some form of way spiritual, or religious you will be able to cleanse the room. These phrases would be like something out of a holy book, or could quite literally just be your intention. It could be something like “negativity leave this room”.

Energy cleansing:

if you have practice in energy work you will be able to use your energy in order to cleanse the room. In order to do this you must imagine your energy as a clear cleansing light. Once you have that picture in your mind force it out of your being, and allow it to wash over the room. See in your mind’s eye the negative energies breaking away, and dissipating into nothingness. Do this over, and over again until the room is cleansed.

Water cleansing:

In this method you are going to need some form of water, spiritual water, or salt water, so that you can spray it around the room in order to allow its energies to cleanse the area.

Salt cleansing:

For this method all you have to do is simply take salt, and sprinkle it around your room, so that the metaphysical properties of the salt will be able to cleanse the area.

Cleansing sigil:

You can go about finding, or creating a sigil to cleanse the area. All you would have to do is take the sigil, and charge it, and activate it, then wait for the cleansing energy to manifest.

crystals and Crystal grid cleansing:

Some crystals have the metaphysical properties of cleansing, and these crystals could be placed around the area in order for it to cleanse the space that they are in. These crystals could also be taken, and used to form a crystal grid that could be placed inside the room for the purposes of cleansing. Crystals that would be good for cleansing, and to incorporate in the crystal grid would be selenite, citrine, shungite, black tourmaline, obsidian, and onyx.

Cleansing with smoke:

The title is a link to the New York Metropolitan Museum website, where you can download and read this piece of work for yourself for free.

I started reading this because it was a very easy and comfortable read, and I cannot resist an old book. This was published in 1943 and investigates the Medieval history of herbs, and I can only say I wish I physically owned this book.

It's a curious read, and can be very inspirational, but I wouldn't go as far to use it as a source without consulting modern herbal ideas, as even the 'at present' information may have changed a lot in the last century.

However, I did still learn a lot of curiosities from this read. Here's some of my favourite things the book mentioned which I do find very valuable or inspiring (to witchcraft):

Betony is supposed to keep off monstrous nighttime visitors. This gave me some cool ideas for sleep paralysis spells.

Chaste Tree leaves strewn under the pillow and bed are said to keep off evil dreams.

Mallows and Rue (known as the herb of grace) were supposed to keep a witch from your home.

To just look at marigolds was said to draw out evil humours.

Mints were often used to adorn the city streets upon a triumphant return.

Peonies were known as 'blessed roses' and said to guard against storms, nightmares, devils, and fears.

In the medieval era, they believed that to carry periwinkle that was touching the skin meant the devil had no power over you. They also thought it stopped witchery entering the home and would drive any within out. They noted it to drive out any evil spirits.

The medieval population were seriously obsessed with worms and evil dreams/spirits. Another one they believed to rid evil dreams was rosemary. They also thought it kept you youthful, which even in the 1940s, people were still using this herb for.

"Why should a man die whilst sage grows in his garden?" is a popular medieval phrase.

Bees love thyme!

If you're a Middle Ages kind of witch, vervain is essential! It was known as a holy herb and said to magically work all sorts of wonders: escaping from your enemies at battle, being blessed with love, finding master knowledge.

I think also what this book allowed me to understand is that the Medieval age was more intellectually inclined than I thought.

By this I mean it mentions all these herbs they used and knew of, and how they used to eat meats, omelettes, pies, salads, and more.

They mention names of ailments and illnesses that even in this present day, people seem to not believe in/understand.

In the cooking entry for primrose, a recipe from the medieval era references using almond milk.

It's a pleasant reminder that medieval people were people with recipes and palettes and knowledge just like us, and not some far off figments of our imagination living in stick houses.

However, it is funny how much they talk about worms, and whilst they knew of illnesses, they definitely didn't know how to cure them.

Spell creation is one of the most personal and individualized part of a magician’s craft.  Between each kind of magician, there are different methods of magic and spell-work. Then, between those kinds, there are sections and lineages who draw their inspirations from different places. Within those lineages, there are individuals who pull from their own life and sense of the world to craft their spells. There can be a lot said about a witch when looking at their spells. The different cultures, the subtle differences in elements or components, the incantation, the ritual action, etc. It’s all very telling of who they are as a practitioner. 

Solely relying on others’ spells can take away the identity of the practitioner. Don’t get me wrong; taking spells from books, blogs, websites, etc is not a bad thing. It helps a great deal, especially when you need something specific and they have it when you’re not sure how to get there. I think that’s why I get spell requests so often. I’ll tell you a secret though; not even half of those spells are in the Black Book. They were created there and then for the person who requested them.

But how? How do you connect the ends? I think it’s important that you reread that last line, but in a different light. There is no definite way of creating spells. There are common factors in spells to make them successful, but they do not limit individuality. It’s all individualized and up to the practitioner. The way they make spells, the way they cast spells, and the way they approach spells can help them understand who they are as a practitioner. So I’ll pose the question again. “How do you connect the ends?”

Factors

I mentioned before that in most spells, there are common factors. Many witches and magicians use these as guidelines for crafting spells. There are three factors that are the most often encountered in age old spells. 

1. Intention/Willpower/Want

2. Incantation (whether spoken aloud or internally)

3. Ritual action 

While the last two components may be interchanged in order, the first must be spread out through the entire operation. To cease the intent is to deprive the fire of oxygen, and thus end the spell before it starts. 

These three things are fairly self explanatory.

Before you do a spell, you have to want it. You have to want it badly enough that you’d bend the world to get it. That desire fuels your will, your intent, and seeps into the words you say and the actions you perform. When focused and harnessed, it sets your work ablaze and makes it come true. This want can also be replaced with need, which can quicken a spell faster than almost any other power. 

The spoken part of a spell is often what many people mistake for the spell itself. Incantations are only words. When power is put behind them, then they have the chance to make magic. Rhyming has been a popular method of incantation for a very long time, but incantations simply speaking the caster’s intention have been just as popular. Many people like to create their incantations before creating the rest of their spell, some after. Some also speak theirs intuitively in the midst of casting the spell. 

The ritual action is often what drags the spell into fruition. The act of ritual mimicry has been used for millennia across every culture in nearly every magical tradition as a way to create change in the world. That which is mimicked is created. Skins and pelts are worn for shapeshifting, stabbing and smashing have been used for curses, wrapping and tying have been used for binding, etc. The ritual action mimics what the creator wishes to bring into the world. For the practitioner, their ritual action should speak to whatever the goal is to them symbolically. 

Components and Ingredients

I like to use cooking as a metaphor for spell-work. Why? Because everything has to be cohesive and harmonious. Otherwise, the spell will be haywire or shite.  When you create a spell, you have to take everything into account. Remember, specifics are important. I’m not just talking about incantations. I’m talking about knowing what you want, down to the nitty gritty.  Let’s say that we’re cooking up a love spell. Except, this isn’t your run of the mill love spell. Let’s say that this love spell isn’t looking to inspire lust, or at least not to a large degree, rather strong affections.  One of the first things I think of is what elements or ingredients speak to my goal, based on previously earned knowledge and old folklore. If we’re talking about gentle love, I’ve got a few go-to elements; a small amount of vanilla bean, dried apple flesh, and a pinch of coriander. These components will be bound together and put into a doll or a pouch. The name of the one who is to be charmed is whispered over it and kissed.  What do these components have in common? Sweet things. Vanilla is sweet and warm, and so are apples. They make me think of home and a warm oven, a hearth (or in this case a heart). Coriander is that touch of spice needed to move things along, but it doesn’t overpower the other two. Whispers to a lover’s ear and a soft kiss I also see as sweet things. This is a charm of romance. It’s a delicate thing, though with a simple spell.  It’s incredibly easy to upset it. Adding more things like cinnamon, clove, or allspice, though used in making sweet things and baking, could have turned that lover into a lust addled fool. Using saliva instead of a kiss could’ve also done the same.  What could’ve also harmed the spell is if wildly different ingredients are mixed together. Bleeding hearts, vanilla bean, and orris root would make for a rather unruly, or confused, spell. They are all associated heavily with love and love magic, but each constitutes different subtleties about what love is or what love means, thus each warrants a different use in a different situation. Is there a time when one of those two are married, or maybe even all three? Perhaps. This will be a very specific case, though.  The goal of the spell must be spoken in the actual components of the spell just as much as in the words and the actions. The ingredients are not to be thrown together with general (and sometimes sloppy) associations found in Barnes and Noble witch books. They are to be carefully chosen, handled, and married to produce the most fluent, successful spell. What is done with those components is just as important as the components itself.  Actions and Deeds Cursing for one person might be pricking a wax image with hot needles, but for another it might be lighting that wax image on fire and watching it burn. Different circumstances, styles, and magicians will make for different approaches. A bone that is crushed and blown on the wind will conjure spirits, but the crushing of the bone itself could also remove influence from spirits in the area. It is the intention, as well as the other factors of the spell, that will decide this.  The physical nature of spells if often written off in New Age methods and modern ways. Traditional spell-casting is tethered to some sort of action that serves as a symbol and a doorway through which the spell enters the world. Are these actions incredibly complex? Absolutely not.  Witches have been calling up winds and storms with nothing but whistling for a long time. Witches also have been reputed to cast spells simply by staring or touching things. This lore is as old as anything and exists alongside witches in many cultures.  An action, no matter how minute, is an intention put forth and succeeded. It breaks the barrier of the mental and causes something to become real. Actions are results.  As with all of the other part of a spell, this needs to be unified with everything else. Harsh, quick motions won’t do for a spell that is to inspire gentle love. It needs a soft hand. What that looks like depends on the magician. It’s important to remember that when choosing actions for spellwork they must resonate with the practitioner. A protection spell might involve waving a rod of oak over the boundaries of one’s home. It might also be slapping the stick off of the ground around the boundaries of the home. Whatever the intention and style of the practitioner will influence how a spell is cast. It tells a story about who they are, what they’ve done, where they’ve learned, and the nature of their magic. Though the differences might be slight, it shows the individuality of the practitioner.  Bonus: Sacrifices

Most modern practitioners have no idea what this word truly means, let alone how to use it in magic. The word conjures up images of animals being cut open, bloody knives, and killing. Though this is a form of sacrifice, it is not all sacrifice. Simply put, sacrifice is the giving up of something in exchange for something else. That thing you give up, though, has to be something of value to you. It’s not sacrifice unless it stings.  The use of sacrifice in spellwork causes the magic to burn hotter and brighter. It works faster and it becomes stronger. It also tends to make magic a bit more permanent.  It can look like a pin prick on the finger, but it can also be someone destroying gifts from someone to set a spell on them. It can be offerings, taken from yourself, and given to spirits or deities in exchange for favors. It can be burning a treasured photograph of a lover to make them love you back.  This aspect of spellwork has become increasingly less popular over time, with people not wanting to pay for what they ask. It is not always a necessary part of magic, but the strongest spells have some form of sacrifice behind them. As artists bleed for their passions, so must the magicians for their magic. It makes it real, especially in the practitioner’s eyes. You wouldn’t give something you cherished unless you truly believed in the goal looking to be accomplished.  Individualizing 

Or, they might mean doing classic landscaping, but with rocks and xeriscape plants:

Or having a cactus garden:

♡ The world has practically come to a stand still which gives us a chance to do the things we were too busy to do prior. So I've decided to make a list for myself, and for others looking for inspiration ♡

And before getting started, A BIG THANK YOU to those still working and risking their health and well being during this Pandemic, and I extend that beyond our "borders"

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CLEAN. YOUR. SPACE. Sacred and living space. Not just cleaning (dusting, vacuuming, disposing of what no longer serves) but spiritual cleansing (light your favorite incense and candles, smudge, the whole 9 yards) 🕯🧹

Also clean and cleanse your cell phones. Lots of germs, oil, and grime build up on phones, so wipe with disinfectant or if the phone is waterproof then actually wash with antimicrobial soap (IF IT'S SAFE! I've done this with my Samsung Galaxy 8) 📱🧼🧽 BUT! Also take the time to go through photos and files and delete them. Actually delete, by going to trash bin and removing them. On the same note, also take time to cleanse your social media

CRYSTALS. Give your crystals some TLC. It may not be a full moon but there are several other methods of cleansing crystals. Also thank them for their contribution, cuddle them, love them, appreciate them 💎📿🔮

Rearrange/redecorate your altar (if applicable) 🔮🧿🕯

READ THE WITCHCRAFT BOOKS (or any books) THAT YOU HAVE BEEN PUTTING OFF 📓📚📖🖋

It is SPRING! A time of change, rebirth, the beauty of Mother Gaia (Mother Earth) will be surrounding us. Take peace in knowing this is not the end 💐🌸💮🏵🌹🌺🌻🌼🌷⚘🌱🌳🌴🌾🐝🐞🐛🦋🐦🌿☘🍀🌵

My therapist said this would be an excellent time to develop a regular schedule. Did you have a ritual you wanted to start? Maybe drawing a single oracle or tarot card for the day? Dedicate time to yoga and/or meditation? 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️ Now is a good time to start!

Interested in kitchen or green witchery? What better time to start during a complete shut down, in which cooking from home 🥪🥗🥣🥘🍝is the best option, brushing up on teas 🍵 and herbalism 🌿 inspired by the fresh breath of spring! (Also a good time to learn about immunity boosting plants)

Journaling, or catching up on journaling. Catch up on writing in your grimoire 📖🖋

Reorganize your herbs and teas

CANNOT! STRESS! TEAS! ENOUGH! 🍵☕ Herbs incorporated into teas have medicinal and magickal properties. Some even have immunity boosting properties such as ELDERBERRY

If you can, take a bath with herbs/teas/crystals/candles/bath salts 🕯🚿🛁🔮

I know I mentioned meditation before, but with all the bad/negative media/news going around I do believe now is the time to get into meditation. There's guided meditations on free apps, but i prefer just rolling out my yoga mat, setting some crystals around, and playing very neutral nature sounds and allowing my mind to calm. And of course with all things, it may work for some and not for others, so don't get discouraged 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️

Of course, I'll end this post with a message: it may look bad out there, especially through news networks and media. But it is not the end. Positive environmental changes are occuring due to lack of human activity, and perhaps this will be a turning point in how we address humanity's impact on the environment. It may also bring about positive change in healthcare in the United States and perhaps elsewhere. There are also countless stories of humans being kind to one another, i'd list them but I didnt save them. They are out there. In times of crisis, we see the worst, and the best, in people.

We will overcome. We will evolve.

Blessed be,

This was a spell my English teacher shared with me (witches finding other witches lol) to get rid of someone negative from your life without harming them or you.

I’ve done this spell and it seriously gets the person the FUCK out of your life in a way that is not harmful to both parties, it kinda just creates these natural barriers between interacting with one another 💯💯✌️😌

There are two methods:

You will need

✂️A ziplock bag

✂️Water (or other, explained below)

✂️A piece of paper

✂️red ribbon

✂️Red pen

✂️1 white or black candle

✂️Half a lemon (optional)

✂️Scissors

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-Start by taking the red ribbon and tying it on the candle,

one knot is fine you will be undoing it later while the candle is lit so make it easy to unknot, this represents how this person is currently tied to you, the “bind”

-Light the candle

-Set a paper in front of the candle

Fold the paper in half and open

On one fold write down the person you never wanna see again, and on the other fold write your name both in red ink.

-Take the scissors and cut the paper in half so now there are two separate sheets one with your name and one with theirs.

-Take the lemon and squeeze some juice on their name, this is to make the bins go sour

-Untie the ribbon from the candle and imagine the ties between you breaking

Take the red ribbon and rub across their name counter clockwise three times and recite

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“I banish you from my life

You’re actions and words no longer reach me

Begone! Begone! Begone!”

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Or whatever you want idk get poetic with it

-Fill a ziplock bag with water and place their name in the bag. You can get more hexy/ curse-y here by adding ingredients of what you would like to happen to them, like vinegar or rotten fruit, stuff like that

If you simply want them out of your life just use water

-Now go to your freezer and put the bag inside it to let it freeze

-Close the fridge and blow out candle

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For as long as you have that bag frozen they will not be able to enter your life

💔🖤💔🖤💔2ND VARIATION💔🖤💔🖤💔 For my sea witches~~

Yup this involves the oceannnnnn🌊🌊🌊

Everything is the same except there is no ziplock bag part. After having rubbed the name with the ribbon you will then go to 💧TWO DIFFERENT NATURAL WATER SOURCES WITH TWO DIFFERENT CURRENTS. 💧br /> So a river, the beach, a pond as long as these two bodies of water have different currents

You can use a more biodegradable paper, or substitute a different material other than paper, I am going to continue using paper as an example here, but I would definitely recommend using something environmentally friendly, such as writing the names on two different rocks, or shells, or leaf 🌊You will toss your paper name in one body of water, and toss their name in the other body of water

For example I live in New York, so I tossed one at the Hudson River and one at Coney Island while technically they are the same body of water, the currents were different

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As you toss them say

“Let our paths never cross as these currents never meet”

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And as long as the ocean doesn’t fuck you over you good

This spell is meant to unbind you from a person, place, or situation. 

Ingredients & Items: 

Two chime candles (one to represent yourself, one to represent the thing you’re trying to separate yourself from)

Candle holders for your chime candles

A carving tool 

String (long enough to tie the two candles together)

Lighter 

Basic fire safety knowledge

Instructions:

Carve your name into one of the candles, and something to represent the target or situation in the other candle

Tie one end of the string to one candle, and the other end to the other candle, leaving a few inches between each one

Place the candles in their designated candle holders

Light the candles

As each candle burns down, it should also burn the piece of string along with it - this represents the separation of yourself and the situation or person you want to be rid of

Meditate on your intent as this happens

Once the candles have severed the string, the spell is complete and you may extinguish the flames

So I thought I would go over the main reasons why large amounts of money is so hard to manifest through magick. Hopefully this will also be able to explain to people why all magick practitioners are not rich, and are even able to have financial problems, and difficulties, even when they are able to practice money magick. I also have written this in response to the asks that I get regarding money, and the lottery, and will most likely choose to direct people here who ask such questions in the future.

Practitioners come to magick in order to manifest what they want into the world, and quite often these practitioners will decide that riches are what they want to manifest into their life. It is important to understand that one can manifest wealth, and abundance, but higher end, or or continuous versions of this will be more difficult to produce. It is not impossible, there are magical practitioners who have gone through the process when manifesting these things within their life, and do enjoy a good amount of luxury. Though there are many pitfalls one would have to watch out for that would allow the process not to work, and because of this it seems to only really be effective for a select few in specific cases.

The two points that I would like to talk about in this post are probability, and power. Probability being the likeliness of it happening, and Power in reference to what it would take in order to get it done. These are two of the main reasons why I see this to most likely not be a very effective form of practice and why many people who study these practices don’t have a high abundance of a material wealth.

Probability, and Power:

Let’s first talk about probability, and how this money will end up in your life. There are not many ways for riches to be manifested into your life, and being in the right place at the right time in order to receive these riches are usually places in which most people do not have access to. Magick works in a subtle way, and travels through the path of least resistance, and it would be hard for there to be an outlet of high amounts of money for most common people. A spell targeted to bring you a million dollars would have very limited ways of getting to someone who is impoverished, or is even of the middle class, though if someone of a position of the higher class who works with this type of money all the time did a spell for it, it would most likely have many different ways that it would be able to appear in their life. It’s not like someone was going to drop 1 million dollars on the ground, and not notice, so the way it gets to you is very important, and most people do not have the privilege to be in such positions that’s such money can enter their lives. Because it would have a harder time to manifest in such a person’s life who did not have access to these situations it would also require more power on their end in order to force it to happen through other forms of channels.

This is also usually why people go for the lottery, or influencing other forms of gambling, because that could act as an outlet point for receiving such money. But, we also have a probability problem with the lottery, and because of this it’s already insanely hard to get anything out of it. You are also not going to be the only person playing the lottery, and you are already at such a physical disadvantage for winning. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning twice then winning the lottery, and even with a spiritual advantage from whatever form of magick you can cook up you still most likely will not win. There are also many other people consciously, and unconsciously who have put their spiritual practices into the ring, which does not bode well for your probability of winning. Other people are going to be using magick, prayers, and other forms of things to get an advantage in the lottery. Every person who even goes to the process of buying a lottery ticket puts power towards them manifesting winnings, which in turn decreases your chance of winning. Because of how difficult this process is it would take a lot of power in order to even come close to manifesting a lottery win. This amount of power most likely will not be able to be mustered simply through the magical practice of any individual, and would most likely require some divine intervention in order for it to come to pass, or you would have to get extremely lucky.

A practitioner also to be wealthy needs to have money coming into their life continuously, so that they can sustain their way of living. Practitioners can definitely make money come to them, but when you need money to come to you on a continuous basis that is much harder to be manifested. It would be much easier to manifest money once rather than a continuous income, but a continuous income is needed for life, for people do not need to be fed once, they need to be fed continuously. You may be in the right spot to receive a couple dollars here in there, but it usually is never financially stable enough to live off of which would require you most likely to manifest a job rather than money.

Fairies often try to extinguish Midsummer bonfires via whirlwind, but can be stopped if fire is thrown at them.

Leaping through the Midsummer bonfire protects one from fairies.

Driving cattle through the embers of the bonfire with protect them from them from the attention of evil spirits.

In order to escape the chase of fairies, cross a stream of running water.

Carry rue in your pocket to ward off evil fairies.

If you are being pixie-led or troubled by fairies, turn your clothes inside out to confuse them and then make a run for it.

If your companion is being dragged into a fairy circle, throw in one of your gloves and they will disperse giving your companion time to escape.

Scatter flax on you floor to keep fairies out of your bedroom.

When confronted by fairies show them any form of iron and they should vanish as they are terrified of iron. Lore says to keep a knife or nail in your pocket or under your pillow at night.

Hanging a Hag Stone above your door frame will keep evil fairies at bay.

Rowan wood tied into a cross with red thread will protect the hearth when hung up somewhere high.

A besom placed beside the fireplace will stop fairies from coming down chimneys.

Burying a Witch Bottle in front of your doorstep will also provide protection from pesky fairies.

Oatmeal sprinkled on clothes or carried in pockets will keep bad fairies at bay.

 St. John’s wart prevents fairies from carrying you off while you sleep.

I remember in my early days trying to find resources on historical Celtic witchcraft. I wanted to learn about the witchcraft from the places I descended from. So, I searched for answers. I read book after book on the supposed witch practices found in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland (Raymond Buckland never steered me so wrong, and that’s really saying something). However, I remember feeling…unsatisfied. It didn’t seem historical or based in any pre-Gardnerian lineage. It seemed like Wiccan influenced witchcraft based in Gaelic and Gallic mythology. However, the authors of the books were claiming that it was truly historical and traditional. Lo and behold, I was correct. So then came the question “What is historical ‘celtic’ witchcraft and where can I find it?” 

First of all, there is no one Celtic witchcraft. The word ‘Celtic’ applies to both Gaels and Gauls (though it’s said that Gauls aren’t included in that term at all, but for now, we’ll use it). There are six nations covered under ‘Celt’; Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, The Isle of Man, and Cornwall. Any witchcraft that originates from those lands can be considered ‘Celtic’, but the use of that term can create confusion and misinformation. Though they may look similar at times, and though they are all witchcraft, they are not the same. Methods changed from environment to environment. The witchery has always been based in the Land. 

I’ll briefly describe the practices and lore found in each land, but it is by no means exhaustive. 

Cornwall

In the circles of traditional witchcraft, Cornish witchery has been made very clear and accessible with much thanks to the wonderful Gemma Gary. Cornwall has perhaps one of the strongest histories of magical practice out of the Celtic Fringe. Not only witches, but Pellars (cunning folk), were a large part of the culture. Folk magic, the basis of both witch and pellar magic alike, ran rampant through Cornwall. The Pellars of Cornwall held a very strong likeness to witches, so much so that some folklorists consider them the same. The Pellars made it a point to have a wide range of services available to their customer. That meant that they would both curse and cure. The magic of Cornwall often came in the form of small spell bags filled with either powders, folded written charms, or other magical ingredient. These bags did a number of things, from love conjuring, curse breaking, and spirit banishing to healing, luck magic, and finding lost possessions. According to Cornish witch lore, a witch’s power fluctuates with the seasons, and it was in the spring that a witch’s power was renewed. The different pellars and witches of Cornwall would also clash through reputation of power. Though they clashed, the witches of Cornwall would also gather for their sabbats, which were a strange thing to behold to outsiders. Witches, both young and old, would dance with the Devil around fires, faster and closer to the flames with each pass, and never be singed. The ability to spontaneously disappear is spoken of (which may suggest flying). Black animals, especially black cats, are often spoke of in Cornish witch lore. The association with witch and toad is especially strong here, and it can be seen as a familiar, a shapeshifting witch, a charm, or an indicator of a witch. 

Wales

Witchcraft that comes from Wales can be particularly tricky to find. The term ‘Welsh Witch’ has been popular since the early days of Stevie Nicks. This makes it notoriously difficult to find any historical references on actual Welsh witches. In actuality, there were two kinds of magical practitioner in Wales. The first was a wizard (known as a cunning man in England) and the second was a witch. Wizards were very popular and plenty in number in Wales. Their practice was based mainly in healing the ill and livestock. They also did favors, like giving love potions and undoing witch spells. One Welsh tale, however, tells about a conjuror who is unable to undo a witch’s spell on a butter churn, so the farmer must turn to another witch to reverse it. Welsh witches were thought to have great power. They were able to raise the dead, curse their enemies, and according to older legends, shape shift and fly. Observing the myth of a sorceress named Cerridwen and the legends of Morgan le Fey and Nimue, there comes a general idea of what a witch was in Wales and Welsh legend. The idea of someone brewing potions and poisons was most definitely associated with witches, but more broadly, elements of water and weather seem to have importance. Interaction with the fairies also holds a very strong importance in Welsh craft. Walking between worlds, particularly this world and the world of the Fairy (Avalon, anyone?), was a skill that many wizards, witches, and heroes of Welsh myth acquired. All in all, the witchcraft in Wales is quite similar to the witchcraft found in England, as is the interaction between Wizard (cunning folk or Wise Men and Women) and Witch. 

Brittany 

In Brittany, a very strong fear and dislike for witches is found that is unlike Wales. Witches in Brittany were thought to be many in number. The legends suggest that they targeted farmers especially, making sure always to turn milk sour and spoil butter. They were also accounted to be particularly dangerous and vicious. Any man who watched their Sabbat would either not be found, found dead, or found scared witless and unable to speak. The witches of Brittany, however, were also sought out by the townsfolk. Indeed, there were witch doctors to fix their issues, but the witches were sought out for love spells and favors. Witch-cats are also mentioned, which could be either a reference to familiars or shapeshifting. Most strangely, Breton witches are said to very rarely cast spells on their targets and instead cast spells on the animals and possessions of the target. Every village is said to have a local witch. Some villages are said to be completely filled with witches. Many of them carry cane-like sticks with which they cast their spells. They were also said to be skilled in spells to find things, like lost objects and buried treasure. The line between village conjuror/wizard and witch is difficult to draw here. They may choose to help or harm, depending on their inclinations. For that reason, they still hold a strong reputation in Brittany, despite it being a place noted for its skepticism. 

The Isle of Man

On the Isle of Man, both witches and magicians were an important part of the environment. The first thing you’ll find on the witches from the Isle is that they practiced much magic involving the weather and the sea. Magic was used to help the fishermen catch more fish, make sure the winds were good for travel, and settle storms at sea. A charm was made by a witch and given to a sailor that stored the winds inside. When he was at sea and in need of a gust, he would use the charm. Interestingly, the line between witch and cunning person seemed to blur here. Cunning folk were known as Charmers and Witch Doctors. Witches, however, were employed when needed. There was a perceived difference between the magic of different kinds of practitioners. Do not be mistaken, though. The fear and dislike of witches still existed. Many farmers feared the wrath of witches, especially when their crops failed and their cattle died. To reveal the witch responsible, they would burn whatever died. The person in pain the next day was thought responsible. As throughout all of Europe, witches were thought to have gained their power either through birth or through the Devil’s grace. However, witches were looked upon differently in the Isle than other places. Because of its long associations with magic, it had many kinds of magical practitioners and witches were not always considered to be the most powerful of them. Magicians, who practiced an art to compel and work with spirits and powers beyond other kinds of practitioners, were revered. They were usually compared to the image of Manannán Mac Lir, considered both a sea god and a powerful magician. The ability to fly and walk between worlds was also attributed to the witches and magicians of the Isle of Man, most likely due to the latter. 

Scotland

Witchcraft flourished in Scotland perhaps as much, if not more than, in Wales. Scotland’s witch trials are famous, and perhaps the most famous among them was Isobel Gowdie. In her free confession, she detailed a story that most labeled imaginary. She spoke of fairies, elf bolts, curses, shapeshifting, flying, and lewd activities with the Devil. When comparing it with the confession of Alison Pearson, another Scottish witch she had never met, a Scottish fairy tradition begins to appear. Alison also details stories of going under the hills to meet the fairies, as well as them making elf bolts. More trials begot more folklore and legends. Stories of witches working the weather to destroy crops, sink ships, and cause havoc spread. More tales of a Man in Black appearing to future-witches and witches alike began to run rampant. John Fian, a male witch, was famed for his botched love spell, teaching witchcraft, harshly bewitching people whom he didn’t like, and attempting to sink the fleet of King James VI with a storm. Much of Scotland’s witchcraft was influenced by Gaelic legend and myth. Scotland’s witchery was not Gaelic alone, however. Norse invaders came and brought their magic with them. In Orkney, a Scottish Isle filled with witch history, the Vikings came often. Their language and culture mingled with the Scots’. Soon, cunning women were referred to as Spae Wives. The word Spae comes from the Old Norse spá,which means ‘prophesize’. These spae wives told fortunes, created charms, and protected against foul magical play. The witches of Scotland, however, proved a match for them. They killed cattle, cursed babies, and brought general havoc with them. 

Ireland

Historical Irish witchcraft is perhaps the most difficult to find out of all the Celtic regions, and this is for a few different reasons. The first being that many lineages of Wicca have taken Irish mythology and applied it to the Gardnerian influenced witchcraft that they have. Many times when the word ‘Celtic Witchcraft’ or “Celtic Wicca’ comes up, this is what is being referred to. The second reason that it’s difficult to find is because the witch trials in Ireland are few and far between. The trials barely touched Ireland, amounting to a whopping 4 trials. The generally accepted reason for this is that Ireland was extraordinarily lax with its witchcraft laws. Most times, using witchcraft against another person’s possessions or livestock resulted in prison time. Only by harming another magically would a witch be executed. Interestingly, many people took this as a sign that Irish witches were generally less severe than their other Celtic counterparts. Florence Newton, the famed witch of Youghal, put the assumption to rest. When a woman refused to give her any food, she kissed her on the street. The woman became extremely ill and began to see visions of Florence pricking her with pins and needles. Florence also kissed the hand of a man in jail. He became very ill, cried out her name, and died. In a Northern Ireland trial, eight women were accused of causing horrific visions and poltergeists in the home of a woman. The ability to create illusions is a trait attributed to fairies in Gaelic myth. Those fairies are said to have taught the witches their skills in both Ireland and Scotland. Irish witches were said to turn themselves into animals, especially hares and crows, to spy on their neighbors. They would also place spells on those whom they wish in their animal form. They were also said to have used bundles of yarrow and branches of elder to fly. These sticks they flew upon, before brooms, were known as ‘horses’. They were said to fly up out of the chimney of their own homes. A tale of witches using red caps to fly also appears in Irish lore. This is another example of their strong ties to the fairies. The similarity between Irish and Scottish witchery has been noted, as they both have strong ties to Gaelic lore.