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I would truly love to think it’s at the top of our to do lists to be good people. I would love to think that and also see it put into place. We can pray to our gods for others, we can (consensually) do a kind spell or sigil for them too, and it’s all well and good. But what can we do for the environment? I got you covered, let’s take a look at my many ideas on how you can be a conscious witch for nature’s sake!

But, Ariel, don’t you usually use a million links in your posts? This is true, but I’m writing this based on everything my amazing teacher taught me back in my Environmental Science class in college. Except without all the big science words because I didn’t do great at that part, however, I did great at solutions and human theory, which is exactly what we want here. So, I encourage you so much to be inspired by this and look for more sources online! Never stop reading on what you can do to help the environment!

And without further ado, this is a quick stop of A-level Environmental Science by someone who cannot for the life of them remember terminology, woo!

Devote An Activity

Whether this be an organised beach clean up, picking up trash on a footpath, helping a charity store or a petition sign up, or any other environmental activity, devote it to your deity/ies! Just some examples would be going to a beach clean up and praying or just speaking in your mind to, say, Poseidon about how you honour him with this action.

Side note, it’s also a good meditative practice as you clean something up or fulfil a list/sheet.

Pick Organic

You guys thought this was just about shopping, didn’t you? Well, it isn’t, but I do want to say that if you can buy organic you should consider it because it means no artificial chemicals and fertilisers have touched the food. Farmers have to leave previously chemically-touched land to rinse itself and be scientifically declared ‘natural’ again before using it for organics, so when you buy organic, it’s a sign to farmers that it’s worth their time and money!

But no, this is about how you can make sure your plants are organic. Put down the chemical pest control and pick up your phone to research! Something as simple as a two foot board can keep out carrot flies, or planting marigolds and keeping coin or egg shell barriers can stop slugs. There’s alternatives and they’re usually fun to learn about, interesting to undertake, cheaper for your wallet, and better on your little plants and environmental microcosm you have going on there.

Plant Cloning

So plant cloning can be easy or difficult depending on the species at hand, but for the most part all you do is take a cutting, snip it diagonally, and put it in water until it sprouts roots and can be planted. This is called micropropagation, but it’s also some pretty awesome green witchery if you ask me!

You can do this for your herbs so you don’t have to buy more, which is good for your purse, but I also thought that if you consider yourself a good gardener with abundant native wildflowers nearby, or some in your garden, why not try your hand at cloning one? Native wildflowers are the absolute best thing for your native pollinators (did you know some wasp and fly species are also pollinators? It’s not just bees!) Not only that but also native plants are a really good thing to encourage right now because in our current era we’re seeing the negative effects of invasive species. Rhodendrons are a famous invasive plant around the world because it just grows… All year… All the time… Swallowing anything in its path. It also happens with fauna species: Harlequin ladybirds, cane toads, west african giant killer snails (which I’m sure wasn’t the actual name, or was it?), european rabbits, and so on and so forth. Now, we can’t fix the fauna part, but we can do our own little bit for the flora part. Also, if you manage to grow wildflowers, you’ve beat my environmental science professor because he could never get them to survive in his garden, so props to you!

Create Habitats

This is a really great one you probably see people do all the time but never considered to be witchy. Buy birdboxes (or make some!), set up bee-friendly hives (have you see the nests you can get? Google!), but also consider actually leaving dead wood around. I can see the confusion you have right now, but here’s the thing: a fallen tree is an ecosystem for all manners of insects. It creates another level of ecosystem within the bigger environment. For instance, if you go to a nature reserve, ever notice they don’t cut the trees down at the same times? Forgive me, Richard (my enviro teacher), for I have sinned and forgotten the name of the method, but it’s done because it creates different types of environment. Where the trees are pollarded and light hits the floor, flowers may grow and that encourages certain types of fauna. Where the trees create a canopy overhead and the ground is left to be darker and cooler, it again attracts different species. In this same way, a fallen tree is great for certain species. Give it a little research and see what you could attract by leaving that log out a little longer!

Act Consciously

I’m not even kidding with you: trampling is actually a really serious issue with environmental protection and reserves. It straight up makes it onto the Legal Quantative Sheet Thing that people have to fill out when trying to assess if the plans for the land are going to be a gain or loss. It’s why you see designated footpaths and raised walkboards in SSSIs (Sites of Special Scientific Interest) and various other areas of designated protection. It’s really important we think more about how our visit reflects the visit of many. To throw some Kantian Ethics in here, using one of the three maxims, we should think universally. This means we should assume when we do an action, it permits everyone else in the world to do it and they have also done it. When you walk off the boards which are clearly labelled not to, so does everyone else. When you litter, so does everyone else. Honestly Kant’s maxims are a really good way to encourage yourself to be a more ethical person. Just don’t read too much into his whole ethical theory. It’ll hurt your brain. Anyway! Here’s things to try to be more conscious of actively doing:

Pick up litter

Stay on designated paths

Use walkboards when provided

Step around flora where possible

If it says keep your dog on a lead it’ll be because of the wildlife there - usually for safety both ways - so do so until you get to the lead-free zone

Visit the visitors centre to learn more about helping the site or what native plants they have

Don’t practice activities banned in the area, as in fires or driving, because it’s probably because the environment can’t take it

Just don’t invade nature’s space, friendsssss

Donate A Little

Sometimes, nature runs low on funds. If you’ve got £2 for the charity bin to help your local reserve build a visitors centre, why not chip in? Visitors centres allow for education of the public and also visiting school groups. It’s places like that that teach you information like this.

Pray

Simple one here, folks. In between the prayers to deities and thanks and wants or whatever you happen to pray for, pray for the environment. Yours or globally. Also pray for general world atrocities, but that’s another post.

Compost

Literally everything made of some natural material is compostable somehow if you do your research on what conditions and so on, but at the very least all your vegetable peels and fruit slices can be left to one side to decompose into dead organic matter. Dead organic matter is like gold to plants because its natural nutrients which seep back into the soil which originated from the earth anyway! You get to decrease what you send to landfill whilst also giving a little home brewed offering to your plant babies.

Reuse and Recycle

Collect your candle wax to fashion into new candles, collect the ash when you burn things to put into your soil, when you’re done working with magic water, pour it into your plants, turn an old shirt into a braided witches ladder, and so on and so on. There is magic in putting time into fashioning a disused item into something entirely new, or in giving away what you no longer need. I’m going to start calling this The Phoenix Rule and it’s going to be my new witch code as of now (15th June 2019, you read it here first, folks). This is about doing what you can to grow from your own ashes or plant something good out of something old.

Paper? Leaves

Do you find yourself using a silly amount of brand new paper for sigils or intent in spells? Start collecting leaves (or old newspapers and things!) and use these instead of brand new paper. In fact, you could match the folklore of the plant to your spell and sigil. Bay leaves for accomplishing dreams, oak leaves for wisdom and knowledge, there is endless possibilities. Start picking up those fallen leaves! They’re free and they’re not using lots of water and chemicals to make them. Okay water, but water from the sky and ground that isn’t excessively farmed and pumped from nature for the paper bleaching industry.

And I think that’s where I’ll stop for now, but this is definitely not the end of all the things you could do to incorporate environmentalism into your witchcraft. And also, since it wouldn’t be written by me without them, I found some articles to get you started on researching this all further if (hopefully) the eco flame burns on in you~

None of them are witchy because when you Google ‘Environmental Witchcraft’ it’s all some very angry blog posts about who even knows what. Zealots in one. Such strange people. Anyway:

Organic Gardening Tips

82 Tips for Sustainable Gardening

10 Organic Gardening Tips

10 Reasons People Buy Organic

23 Ways to Reuse Plastic Bottles

51 Ways to Reuse your Waste

Why Is It Important to Preserve Nature

Composting Tips

How to Reuse your Candle Wax

How to Reuse your Candle Jars and Wax

Creating a Wildlife Friendly Garden

Creating Habitats in your Garden

How to Grow a Wildflower Garden

☾ What is moonsalt?  ☽

I knew moonsalt since I was a little kid, and I  had no idea that it was witchcraft. thing. Basically moonsalt = salt+ash+oil. Of course you can add wahtever you want to  this is just a base.

☾ What i need to make it?  ☽

★ 1 or 2 teaspoons of salt (normal or sea salt, I prefer normal)

★ piece of paper and a pen

★ some oil (I use lavender oil)

Write a sigil on the paper. I mostly use protection or balance sigil. Then burn the paper (be carefull!)

Mix ash, salt and oil and keep it safe in a tiny bottle. You can carry your moonsalt in your bag for protection or keep it in your house for balance. 

☾ Why moonsalt? ☽

I was a kid when I called it like that, probably because of its colour. 

A collection of categorized links for your Yule needs! What is Yule? [X] Yule is celebrated on slightly different days depending on who you ask, but the broad spectrum is: December 20th to January 1st.

 The basics:

Yule correspondences

Celebrating Yule

Yule: A very merry sabbat

Guide to Yuletide plants + herbs

Yule - ‘tis the season

Yule practices

A Yule ritual

50 Yuleisms

Yule Crafts:

Yule potpourri recipe

Witch balls / more witch balls

A twelve-herb sachet for Yule

Mini herb wreaths

Yule log

Yule craft ideas

Pine protection balm

Dried orange slices

Yule Recipes:

Herbal shortbread

Bread dipping oil

Chocolate Yule log

Yuletide muesli

Yule tea

Yule Punch

Non-alcoholic mulled wine

Winter sabbat wine

Yule Spells:

Merry Yule spell jar / Season of peace spell jar

Holiday ornament snow spell

Yule bath spell

Blessed Yule - for a positive holiday season

Winter solstice spell

Spell for a happy family gathering

Yule energy sun spell

Winter stasis spell sachet

Holiday home blessings

Safe delivery envelope spell

Yule Tarot Spreads:

The return (2 card)

Yule spread (3 card)

Tarot spread for Yule (3 card)

Winter solstice spread (3 card)

Yule reflection + advice spread (5 card)

A Yuletime tarot spread (6 card)

Other:

Music ideas / Yule playlist / Winter witch playlist

Altar/celebration ideas / Yule altar guide

Yule plants / Mistletoe Lore

Yule oils/incense / Yule incense

Emoji spell for a merry Yule

Spell ideas for the holidays

A quick note: Please don’t send me asks relating to weather magic. It is an interest of mine but I am not comfortable teaching others yet. I’ll link some helpful blogs at the bottom!

To bring…..

Sun:

Sun invitation (in winter)

A spell for sunshine

Chants to bring the sun

Sunny day charm

Sunny weather travel spell

Springtime sun spell

Quick sun spell

Warmth:

Warm weather chant

Sun spell to bring warmer weather

Good weather spell

Spell for warmer weather

Rain:

Rain summoning spell

Rain summoning spell jar

Rain calling chant

Rain-bringing chant

To bring rain to a region

Heavy rain spell

Quick and easy rain spell

A summers rain

Cold:

Chant to bring cold weather

Cold weather spell

Snow:

A spell for snow

Chant to draw snow to you

Holiday ornament snow spell

A snow day incantation

Make it snow spell

Snow spell

Snow spell

Clouds and Fog:

Chants to bring fog + mist

Chant to bring clouds

Fog calling spell

Wind:

Wind charm

Chant to make it windy

Calling a strong wind

Whistling up a wind

A storm:

Thunderstorm spell

Long distance storm calling

“Song of storms” enchantment

Spell to bring up a storm

Storm calling incantation

Summon a storm spell

To raise a storm

To Banish:

Spell to weaken a hurricane

Anti-hurricane spell

Charm to seal up a storm

Spell to halt a storm

To lessen a storm

Protective storm ward

Spell to ward off rain

Stop the rain incantation

Untie the wind

“I’m tired of this heat” spell

Other:

A collection of spells + sigils

This post with even more spell links and resources for beginning weather magic

Some tips + Part two

Bedridden witch: Weather edition

Helpful blogs:

@rainy-day-witchcraft

@stormwaterwitch

We just had our first real snow here in Ohio and it inspired me to write a post about using snow in witchcraft and spellwork.

Associations:

Release

Cleansing

Innocence

Life/death/seasonal cycles

Time

Freezing/stopping

Blinding/cursing

Ideas:

Collect a bit to add to a bath spell for cleansing and releasing anxiety or stress (you can boil if needed while still retaining the qualities- or you can be like me and just use a small bit in the bath)

Use in a spell bottle or charm to stop a habit, stop a toxic person in their tracks, freeze a relationship, freeze intrusive thoughts, etc

Use in spells, enchantments, hexes or curses that need a timed release or slow release affect (as the snow melts, so does the working effects’ build or wan)

Use in offerings to spirits or deities associated with the cold, winter, ice, death, or the Underworld

Write a project or idea on a slip of paper, fold up and pack into a ball of snow. Charge with intentions of creativeness, prosperity, and inspiration (you can include herbs and spices you associate inside the ball as well). Leave out on a windowsill or porch or in a bowl inside to melt and release your paper to the projects’ fruition.

Use a cup or bowl of it to help in meditations or spellwork relating to connecting with your past, childhood, shadow work, nostalgia, and innocence. Ideal for soft snowfall that you’ve collected.

Use in curses, especially association with blinding, freezing, or trapping someone. Ideal for hard snowfall (like blizzards) that you’ve collected.

“Sister Wind, bring the cold

Bring the fierce, strong winds of old

Bring us snow and bring us frost

Bring us all that we have lost”

Hold your apple in your hand,

Say your question loud and clear,

Turn the stalk and say commands,

Yes, no, now, or near,

Use numbers if you wish to,

Or letters even still,

And when the stalk breaks off,

So you’re doubting your intuition

We have all been there, trust me. We all go back there, too. Doubting yourself is a powerful tool because with doubt comes the hunt for verification.

But how can you verify yourself? Show yourself your power? Sometimes, there are lots of ways, and sometimes, there seems like none. However, I have a quick, simple, and accessible method that literally any witch with access to the internet can do!

What you’ll need, either:

Crystals

Tarot cards

Herbs or flowers

Numbers

Colours

These are not physically required, but physical objects are best!

Now, what do you do?

Example: Crystals, Lepidolite

Pick a crystal you feel you know barely anything about. For example, Lepidolite.

Hold your crystal or look up just images of it. Try to Google ‘Lepidolite tumbled’ or ‘Lepidolite sphere’ etc to avoid meaning photos appearing.

Write down or mentally think about what you feel it means. What energy do you feel? What signs or deities do you think of? What do you think this would be used for?

When you feel you’ve developed a good idea of it, research it’s meaning. Go to several sites. How right were you? Did you feel anything very accurately, or almost accurately, or not at all?

Having read sources, rank your intuitive ideas out of 10. Base this on the vocabulary of the resources against your own lexical choices. E.g. You say wisdom and sites say knowledge? Tick!

Repeat for another. I suggest doing this 5 or 10 times in one go, 2 also works.

Calculate your % accuracy according to your personal review. What percent did you get?

If you got a percentage above 60%, well done, your intuition is looking pretty good! If you got a percentage below 40%, perhaps it’s time for some self reflective work or some shifts in how you practice. If you got 41-59%, you’ve got the ability, it’s just a matter of training it more accurately.

I hope this method helps someone to believe in themselves.

❤️💌❤️

With all my love,

green witch: freshly pressed flowers, walking through a field of wildflowers, talking to the trees, terrariums, plants sitting on the windowsill, forest sounds

kitchen witch: cookbooks, stirring tea with intent, lots and lots of jars, herbs and more herbs, the smells of baking, tea blends swirling in jars 

storm witch: lightning crackling, calling up a storm, dancing in the rain, getting excited when you feel a storm coming, checking the weather activity

dream witch: sleepy eyes, soft blankets, meditating in the mornings to remember your dreams, reality checks, sleeping with crystals under your pillow

divination witch: wearing your pendulum as a necklace, sleeping with your tarot deck, shaky hands, too many tarot decks, meditating with your tools

sea witch: jars of seawater, walking barefooted on the sand, sitting on the beach at night, missing the seashore, balmy sea breeze, seashell collection

lunar witch: setting alarms for moon phases, talking to the moon, making moon water, getting ready for the next lunar eclipse, quiet moonlit nights

spirit witch: bonding with spirit companions, feeling the presences in a room, setting out offerings, seeing shadows out of the corner of your eyes, amethyst

fire witch: a whole bunch of scented candles, the smell of incense, cosy warmth, dancing flames, jars of ashes, almost burning the whole house down

crystal witch: keeping crystals in your pockets, crystals sitting on your windowsill under the moonlight, crystalline light reflections

water witch: way too many jars, running out in the middle of a storm to collect water, carrying a jar everywhere, shower cleansing and grounding rituals

tech witch: embedding sigils in code, stereoscopic light of a phone screen, ambient soundtracks, witchy phone apps, emoji spells, digital grimoires

music witch: jamming to your tracks over a spell, shufflemancy, headphones on earbuds in, charging tools with your speakers, playlist for every occasion

urban witch: dollar stores, carrying around their magickal tools, sigils for not missing the bus or train, finding that one witch book in local bookstores

glamour witch: sigils on the mirror, rose quartz in random places, makeup bags, looking fly, youtube channels on makeup, on-the-spot glamours

closeted witch: hiding grimoires in drawers, sigils for invisibility, waiting for everyone else to go out, performing spells behind locked doors at night

From this post. 

**Please seek medical help if needed (nothing else is working, eating disorders n such) and keep an eye on your health** 

This is NOT a replacement for proper diet and exercise and won’t work if you don’t. 

1: Detox potion; lemon, lime, cucumber, mint, and purified water. Charge with intent. 

2: Write sigils on your stomach (preferably to make you more comfortable in your skin)

3: Take a candle and carve your weight at the top and how much you want to lose on the side. Burn while working out. As the candle burns imagine your fat burning. As you sweat, imagine fat melting. 

4: 2 teaspoons of cinnamon powder, add 2 cups of boiling water to it. Let cool then add 4 teaspoons of raw honey. Stir clockwise to instill your intent of raising your metabolism and losing weight. 

Stop using them in teas and salves and skin toner too.

Mass produced roses like the ones we find in grocery stores of flower shops are beautiful! - By design.. And “by design” I mean by chemicals and pesticides. They’ll wreck your skin far more than help (especially if you have sensitivities or allergies[ @ me] ). Make sure ANY flowers or herbs or roots you use are certified for culinary or therapeutic use. Get them from credible places. And use common sense.

Since I had a few exams today, I tried to create my own spell/charm to enchant my quartz crystal with good luck! It’s my first real spell that I’ve created, and I’m quite proud of it. 

Since I’m in a dorm, it’s a quick and easy spell that only requires a crystal and some sigils and some good intentions and energy!

* I drew a good luck sigil (but you can choose any sigil you would like) on the palms of my hands and clapped them together to charge the sigils

* Place your crystal between the two sigils and hold your palms together. Focus your energy on the crystal and what you want to charge it with and take a few deep cleansing breaths

* Chant : 

“Let this crystal charm

Keep me from harm,

Grant me good luck and clarity,

As I say so mote it be!”

* Once again, focus on your intent and take deep cleansing breaths 

* Carry the crystal with you, and if it’s part of a necklace or bracelet, even better!

I’m sure this spell can be modified for any crystal and any intent, and you can even use some candles to help focus your energy (for school related I would use yellow or maybe green) 

Ok this spell works well, I’ve done this one quite a bit and it works every time.

This is what you need:

Cinnamon

Dried bay leaf

Black salt (optional but really gives this spell a good punch)

Rubbing alcohol

A heat resistant offering bowl

Money Manifesting stones like Aventurine, Jade, lapis lazuli, citrine, clear quartz, pirite (whatever you have honestly, you don’t need all of these I just happen to have all of these)

A piece of copper

Coins

Matches

Ok this is what you do, around the bowl place your stones and your coins in any arrangements you find suitable for what your working with. I like to do stone-coin-stone-coin in a circle around the offering bowl. I also like to light candles and incense but that’s totally optional, I just like the ambience.

In the bowl put a little bit of rubbing alcohol and cinnamon. Mix it around a bit with a fork or something. (I use a letter opener shaped like a sword from dark souls lol. I do a lot of spells with fire bases, it’s my favourite way to cast spells. )

On the bay leaf write an amount of money you would like, do something reasonable… I usually write 5 dollars on it, and I do this daily (I always happen to find or am gifted 5 bucks after I do this spell). But you can always write more.

Put the bay leaf in the offering bowl and light the match. Throw it in the bowl, be careful, fire safety!!!

If you decide to use black salt, toss a little into the flames (be safe and use a spoon), it’ll make a magical little spark.

Let the fire burn out and there you go! This is also a great way to charge and cleanse crystals by passing it through the flames! Be careful of the heat.