Apple: spirit work, offerings, love, healing, beauty, wisdom, harvest

Apricot: love, self love

Avocado: beauty, love, lust, fertility, spell work

Banana: wealth, luck, spirituality, religion, masculinity

Blueberry: protection, banishment, curses

Blackberry: protection, fertility, femininity, funerals, afterlife, moving on

Cantaloupe: spell work, protection, grounding, energy work

Cherry: lust, love, fertility

Clementine: childhood, dreams

Coconut: protection, cleansing, femininity

Cranberry: holidays, blood magic, spirit work

Date: fertility, luck, money

Dragon fruit: lust, passion, spell work

Durian: curses, cleansing, protection

Fig: happiness, divination, love

Grapefruit: cleansing

Grape: money, spell work, fertility, offerings

Guava: love, self love, lust

Honeydew: cleansing, energy, love

Jackfruit: divination, spell work, happiness

Kiwifruit: health, love, lust, happiness

Kumquat: luck, health, money

Lemon: cleansing, purification, protection, curse breaking

Lime: cleansing, protection, love

Lychee: love, self love, femininity, beauty

Mango: love, lust, fertility

Nectarine: love, self love, spell work

Orange: cleansing, protection, divination

Papaya: curse breaking, banishing, spirit work, love

Passion fruit: lust, love, passion

Peach: fertility, love, happiness, spirit work

Pear: offerings, happiness, luck, money, confidence

Persimmon: healing, love, luck, protection

Pineapple: protection, health, offerings, money, luck

Plantain: fertility, masculinity, lust, passion

Plum: love, healing, offerings

Pomegranate: offerings, blood magic, fertility, divination, spell work

Prune: cleansing, protection

Raspberry: love, dreams, health

Strawberry: love, wishes, dreams, happiness

Starfruit: lunar/solar magic, spell work, cleansing

Tangerine: solar magic, strength, energy work

Tomato: protection, cleansing, love, passion

Watermelon: healing, femininity, lust, love, spirit work, cleansing

Basil:  money, luck, prosperity, happiness

Bay Leaf: energy, cleansing, can be charged with almost any intention

Camomile: Caring, kindness, luck, growth, self-love growth, confidence, avoiding negativity, happiness

Cinnamon: passion, quick success, fire magick

Chia seeds: Growth, health, kindness, Property

Chilli flakes:  Pride, confidence, power, strength, Passion

Cumin: Courage, bravery, protection, loyalty

Dandelion: wishes, charisma, success, good luck

Dill: sexual love, luck, protection

Eucalyptus: cleansing, healing, purifying, relaxing, comfort

Fennel:  hate, anger

Flax seeds: Prosperity, growth, new beginnings

Ginger: fiery passion, success, and personal power

Jasmine: love, dreams, sensuality, luxury and kindness

Lavender: love and attraction, purification, relaxation, restful sleep

Nutmeg: luck, Health, Fidelity, Love, Prosperity, comfort, loyalty

Oregano:  comfort, love, warmth

Paprika:  Pride, confidence, power, strength

Parsley: Cleansing. purification

Peppermint: healing, purification, love and energy, cleansing, prosperity

Poppy seeds: protection, intuition, self-assurance, hexing and cursing

Rose: love, beauty, harmony, romance, attraction

Rosemary: cleansing, purification, wisdom, protection

Sesame seeds: Prosperity, growth, health, nurturing

Spearmint: love, cleansing, renewal, blessing

Sunflower seeds: happiness, growth, joy

Thyme: beauty, strength, courage

Turmeric: confidence, creativity, energy

Vanilla: love and sexuality

Sea water: good for curse/hex breaking, cleansing, healing, banishing and protection spells.

Dew water: beauty, love and fertility spells, as well as delicate magick. Also Good for Fae work.

Storm water: is great for spells and rituals that has to do with emotional strength, confidence, charge, motivation and force. It’s known for strengthening spells. Also good for curses.

Snow water: Spells and rituals that focus on purity, endings and change, as well as slow working spells.

River water: Good for creating changes, moving on and letting go of negativity, warding and focusing energy.

Rain water: Very multi-purpose, but specifically great for growth and rebirth spells. Great for spells that you want to keep gaining power over time.

Spring water: Growth, holy water, cleansing, protection, prosperity

Moon water: Depending on the moon phase it was created in, it can have different properties.

Sun Water: protection, healing, clairvoyance, courage, strength, prosperity, luck, self-love, cleansing and creativity.

Swamp Water: Used for banishing and binding.

Sweep the floor with a whisk broom before every reading. It shows respect for the old gods who will be coming in.

Answer only three questions for a querent in one seating. Revealing too much sacred information will dilute its meaning.

Always use the Celtic Cross for a personal reading. “You cannot truly appreciate the weight of the advice you are giving if you don’t fully understand the way the querent is feeling.”

Make an offering to the querent’s higher self before proceeding. “The body may want a reading, but the soul may be unwilling.” A piece of chocolate or anything sweet should be appropriate.

Ensure the querent’s hands are clean. Prepare a hot towel or a water basin. It rids their body of negative energy and keeps your cards from getting dirty.

Dim the lights before you deal the cards. “The Fates live next to Hades. They are not used to harsh lighting.”

Play soft and quiet music. It calms the mind and encourages the querent to bravely tell you what they really seek.

You shuffle, they cut. Shuffling lets the cards connect you to the source. Cutting allows the cards to feel the querent’s life force.

Honesty is better than sympathy. Exaggerating hopes and softening harsh truths do more harm than good.

Fairy tales have always been with us. Apart from teaching moral lessons and practical cautions, they remain a source of wonder and inspiration that persists even in a modern age dominated by technology.

There is magic in these tales as well - spells and charms that aid the worthy and conquer obstacles, heal the ailing and bring wealth to the poor, thwart the wicked and exact terrible revenge, or grant someone their hearts' desire and make their dearest wishes come true.

I have created over a hundred such spells, inspired by the tales recorded by the Brothers Grimm and the folklore collected by Andrew Lang. One volume was published back in 2017 and another is forthcoming. If you're curious (and maybe a little bit daring), here are some previews of the spells to be found in the pages of The Sisters Grimmoire.

After all, who couldn’t use a bit of Happily Ever After?

The Sisters Grimmoire, Vol. I

A Bellyful of Stones - A curse to punish the greedy.

Roughskin - To protect and disguise oneself from those who mean to harm you.

Table of Plenty - To obtain needed money or provisions.

The Red Flower - For removing enchantment.

The Sorrow Pot - To relieve your sorrows and bring justice for a grievance.

The Wall of Thorns - To protect one’s home and property.

The Sisters Grimmoire, Vol. II (forthcoming)

Make Sure You Lock Up - To set your household wards when you lock your front door.

The Ferryman's Curse - To curse another with the problems that plague your own life.

The Shining Web - To repel trouble from the home.

You can find more spells from The Sisters Grimmoire, Vol. I and potion and powder recipes from Pestlework by checking out the mid-month minisodes of Hex Positive, available on your favorite podcast platform.

All of my titles can be found on Amazon or ordered from the Willow Wings Witch Shop. (If you'd like to see them in your local witch shop, feel free to give the proprietor my contact information!)

Per this:

But here’s the rub of it - western psychology’s take on mindfulness and even meditation is incomplete. It’s definitionally appropriative. Because while a lot of the people who brought these tools to the western audience were trained in the traditions themselves, the versions of them most people are getting through their therapists and social media aren’t really those tools anymore.

I’ve mentioned stuff like this before but I wanted to provide an example of what I mean. On of my favorite Buddhist monastics to listen to is Ven. Robina Courtin. She developed and ran the Liberation Prison Project that provided Buddhist literature and letter exchanges for people in prison for many years. It’s still going though she’s since stepped down.

She’s mentioned in a few talks her frustration when she would talk to western meditation teachers who would go into prisons to teach. She’s mentioned asking them what exactly they taught inmates and they’d often reply with breathing exercises they used and commonly the noting exercise, where you calmly label what each thought is in your mind when it comes up.

“Oh that’s excellent,” she’d say, “And what do you tell them to do with the thought once they’ve noted it?”

“I tell them to let it go, note the next one,” was a common response.

She’s talked about why that’s no good. You see in Buddhism, these thoughts have remedies. There are insights to apply to those thoughts so that they don’t linger and cause unnecessary pain. There are often recommended chants or specific contemplative activities recommended. It’s also considered vital to practice them in groups regularly.

Western mindfulness and meditation largely ignores this. It pushes this idea of radical acceptance without actually teaching the steps of how to accept what is.  Western psych either charges you for the privilege of a group or says go it alone.

And if you’ve ever wondered in part why western pscyh doesn’t include more of the Buddhist remedies in their therapies and modalities - some of it is the idea that they needed secularized so they could more comfortably be used by people of different backgrounds but some of it is because western psych and Buddhism fundamentally disagree on what the human mind is capable of and what the goal of practice should be.

And when you know that, it makes way more sense why people don’t find western psych’s version that helpful. 

Western psych says the goal is to basically everyone has fucked up stuff in their heads and they always will to some degree. Lets teach them coping skills and how to change their behaviors to be more effective in their day to day life. This should help them face less stress and get more of what they want thereby reducing suffering. 

The Buddhist perspective is that literally all sentient beings have Buddha-nature - the ability to become Buddhas* if they so choose. They can rid their minds of all the qualities that bring about suffering - attachment, aversion, and delusion. There are methods that one can replicate to get to those states. That work can be done as a householder or a monastic. 

Ultimately, western psych’s perspective of meditation and mindfulness is shaped by the Christian ideas of Original Sin. I don’t think that’s a very hot take at this point, plenty of other people have said it better than me, and I think you can see the similarity. Human minds have bad crap in them, some of us deal with that better than others, the goal then should be teaching people better ways to deal - to be more psychologically and socially pious basically.

Well no wonder when you take a tool that’s designed with the idea that people can actually get rid of those negative qualities of the mind and put it in a context that believes that’s impossible, it doesn’t exactly work as well…

Anywho. 

Very very long winded way to say - you don’t need meditation and mindfulness to have a good life and/or practice paganism/witchcraft, but if you want to learn it, go learn it from a tradition that’s been practicing their methods for more than the last 50 or so years. 

November is gearing up to be a month of emotional intensity, spiritual exploration, and raw truth. These themes will be sparked, in part, by the New Moon in Scorpio. This lunation, occurring on November 4th, will set the tone for the remainder of the month by highlighting our need to understand ourselves and others on a more profound and intimate level.

Whether you’ve been feeling stuck, are looking for the right time to dive deeper into your healing journey, or just need your slate wiped clean, this New Moon in Scorpio is a radiant opportunity. Gaining a deeper understanding of its influence can ultimately generate the boost you need to make the shifts that your soul knows are right for you.

This Lunation

November 4th’s New Moon at 12 degrees of Scorpio represents the lightest light and the darkest dark, with Scorpio giving us an opportunity to acknowledge and release our personal darkness so it can be transmuted into light.

Additionally, the Scorpio New Moon signifies a chance to recognize any low-vibrational energy that we’ve been clinging on to. In fact, now is the perfect time to unshackle yourself from any icky feelings, resentment, or stagnation that have been holding you back.

Emotional purging is the main theme here, so it may be best to take some time out for yourself. Make time to journal, meditate, or reflect on what needs releasing, forgiveness, or acceptance.

Any New Moon or Full Moon can cause sleep interruptions and mood changes. Honor your body by sleeping when you’re tired and waking when you’re not — it may be a departure from your usual sleep schedule, and that’s okay.

Reflection Prompts

If you want a little extra to think about, here are some Scorpio New Moon-themed prompts to help guide you!

What within (or outside) yourself do you feel called to explore?

In what ways are you currently lacking intimacy? How can you foster intimacy in a healthy way?

Make a list of what (and who) you are most passionate about. What do these things (and/or people) have in common?

What darkness within yourself needs to be released? What do you want to replace it with?

So a couple of things

1. Witch is a gender neutral term

2. Not really sure how anyone practicing witchcraft at home is suddenly a "predator"

3. Not a man.

All that aside, you respond to a video criticizing someone literally targeting vulnerable people to take advantage of them, and your reaction is "the person doing the criticizing is just as bad because of the gender identity I assume they are?"

This rando: Ah, but I can see by your video that you are not what I consider female and therefore YOU are the abuser! Checkermate!

Seriously. Even setting aside the fact that Trae is not a man (the big genderqueer flag is visible in every frame, but I guess not everyone is familiar with that flag). There is so much wrong with the mindset that witches have to be female (and implied here as gender-conforming cis female) but also... just to touch...

Women can be predators. Women can be abusers. Women are fully capable of manipulating people for personal gain, whether that be for money or for something even worse. Women are not exempt from criticism of their actions.

the energy within your own home is very specific, and this is due to the number of your home. numerology can tell us a lot about a lot of things.

so how do you know what energy is within your home due to the number? for example, say the address of your home is **247 benson st. we take 2+4+7= 13. we need to have a singular number. so we take 1+3=4. the energy of this home corresponds to the numerology behind 4.

Happy Mabon my greenies! I’m so happy to bring this recipe for you to enjoy during this festive time. Like all my recipes, these can be used with or without a chant, you can create your own, or if you’re not a practitioner. I want to bring joy and comfort for this time of year. This is a recipe I used last year and decided to post it for y’all. I hope you enjoy!

Ingredients

5 Apples (I use honeycrisp)

1 tsp cornstarch

1 tsp lemon juice

2 tbsp granulated sugar

1 tsp ground cinnamon

Pinch of sea salt

Pinch ground nutmeg

Dash of vanilla

For Topping

¼ cup all purpose flour

¼ cup brown sugar

¼ cup old fashioned oats

¼ tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

Pinch sea salt

3 tbsp unsalted butter

Directions

First cut off the tops of the apples and core them. Make sure you spoon out the insides and save them. (Also save all peels to use as offerings or compost) Use the inside of the apple and cut into small ¼ inch chunks.

Mix together the apple chunks, cornstarch, lemon juice, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and vanilla. Put into the apple and make sure you leave a little space for the crumble topping. While mixing these ingredients, think on all you’re thankful for and fill the apples with love and hope.

Cut up the butter into little pieces and put some inside the apple. Then mix together the flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt and place on top of the apple. While mixing, you can say the chant below or your own. Use the rest of the butter to sprinkle on top of the apples.

Preheat ovan at 375 degrees F and place apples onto a covered baking sheet. Cover the tops of the apples with foil and bake for 15 min and the uncover and bake for 20. Wait at least 10 minutes before eating and enjoy with some ice cream.

Chant: While fog may cast in front of my eyes, the breeze of fall trails with browning leaves. A warm hand on my back and wisp of hair, let my future shine. Let my love rejoice and my mind rest with ease. My life, my hope, my dream.

Once again my lovelies, happy Mabon to you and your loved ones. I hope that with the shifting of seasons, brings change to our society.

With all my love, 

I tried looking for some informative posts about wards and warding, and there are a few out there, but I thought ‘hey, why not bung all of the information you’ve gathered into a nice little post of your own!’, and thus, this post has come to be.

So, what are wards? Well - to put it simply - wards are a means of protection against negativity, negative energies and any form of ill-will that seeks to harm yourself, your loved ones or your home. They are a form of ‘psychokinetic shield’ if you want to use the fancy terminology, - a thing to deflect nasties. Wards can be cast on objects and items, in the home or a space that you want to protect, such as a workplace or communal space, or they can be cast in certain rooms. Some wards can be cast around the whole perimeter of an area - grounds included. 

When is the best time to cast these, wards you speak of? Well, my hard rockin’ friend, the short answer is this: whenever you feel is best. I find that whenever your home has been busy, or a high-traffic area, you may want to take down old wards and cast new ones, or perhaps after you’ve had a mad deep clean in your home. That works best for me, anyway!

Alright, Rowan you’ve got me hooked. Where do I start?

The first thing you need to do is cleanse.  Cleansing is used in witchcraft all the time; we cleanse our tools and spaces often to make sure no residual energies or nastiness is in, on or around our stuff. It’s the same with wards and warding. When warding, you’re essentially creating a shield using energy and this is often done by visualising and forming a sort of… bubble. Cleansing any tools you plan on using and cleansing the space you intend on protecting (if this is your aim, of course) will wash away any left over energies or anything that you don’t want with the bounds of your ward(s).

You can cleanse using any of your preferred methods, such as smoke cleansing using incense, or by washing your area/tools/items in a charged water.

Right, so I’ve cleansed my things. Now what?

You’re clean, and you’re ready. Okay, cool beans. Let’s get down to business (to defeat, the Huns!). You need to decided on just how you want to cast your wards as there are various ways and means of doing so. You don’t have to stick to just one - you’re more than welcome to dabble and to experiment, or use combinations of methods as long as it’s safe and suits your wants and needs.

I like using sigils and symbols! 

So, you like sigils, do ya’? Me too! Sigils are a great way of establishing wards in and around the home. You can either choose a sigil that befits your intent, or craft your own - either is fine, and using incense smoke, oil blends or simply your finger and a little bit of visualization and a lot of focus on your intent, draw your sigils on the doors and windows of your home (primary access points), and on door frames and windowsills. If you’re creating wards for a property as a whole, you can engrave or draw sigils onto gates and fence posts too.

Incense floats my boat, Roe.

Ah, good old incense. Now, bear in mind that sometimes using incense smoke may not be possible or appropriate, or perhaps you don’t do well with smoke - totally understandable, lots of people don’t. If this is the case, you can cast wards using water and oil blends instead! This can be done by putting the blend into a spray bottle and then by ‘spritzing’ your object or area.

When you’re creating an oil blend or an incense, try your best to make sure that your protection herbs (rosemary, bay, cinnamon, salt, etc,.), are authentic because the magick is in your herbs!

A Quick Step-by-Step Guide to Incense Warding:  Smoke or spray/spritz your item, if it is an item that you are warding. If it’s a room/building or space, you need to pick a place to start. If you are not drawn to any area in particular, then starting by your altar (if you are that way inclined!) or at a doorway, would be best. *If you’re warding more than one floor, begin at the very top and work your way down.

Next, begin smoking/spritzing the room. You do this by moving clockwise around the room (to the right). As you do so, visualise the smoke or spray enveloping everything it touches; forming an impenetrable layer on all around you - a shield, if you will. If you have problems with visualisation, then simply focus on your intent: protection, protection, protection. If you’re setting up specific wards, e.g., ones to stop bad spirits or fae, focus on that.

As you work, follow the layout of the space you are warding. Work from room to room. If you aim to set up a ward that protects an entire property, you may want to establish a perimeter. You do this by walking full circle, including the ground and gardens, if applicable.

What if I work better with energy, Roe?

Then, my friend, the bubble/wall wards will work for you.

Some people are naturally very good at working with energy and so this form of warding may work best for you, if you are one of those people. Using visualisation, take your object (if, again, that’s what you’re doing, if not and you’re warding a space, apply the following steps to the space you are working in), and channel your energy into it. Do this by envisioning, as best you can, a cord or light or a tendril of some form, coming from yourself and into the object. During this time, focus solely and intently on your intent. Put as much power as you can muster into this.

If you are a proficient energy worker, you may be able to build a dome/wall/shield of energy that is capable of warding larger areas.

For Abundance

The Empress – Material Comfort

King of Pentacles – Financial Stability

Ten of Pentacles – Lasting Wealth 

For Love

The Lovers – Destined Love

Ace of Cups – Overflowing Love

Two of Cups – Mutual Admiration

For Health

Temperance – Body in Balance

Strength – Emotional Fortitude

Four of Swords – Peaceful Mind

For Reconciliation

Six of Cups – Second Chances

Three of Cups – Fateful Reunions

Page of Cups – Peace Offerings

For Improvement

Six of Pentacles – Elevated Status

Six of Swords – Leaving Turmoil

Eight of Cups – Moving On

For Knowledge

The High Priestess – Second Sight

The Hermit – Earned Wisdom

The Hanged Man – Heightened Awareness

For Movement

The Chariot – Moving Forward

Eight of Wands – Accelerated Developments

The Fool – New Journey

For Manifestation

The Magician – Reshaping Reality

Wheel of Fortune – Fulfilling Destiny

Ace of Pentacles – Creating Beginnings

For Recognition

The World – Achieving Fame

Six of Wands – Fleeting Triumph

Three of Pentacles – Appreciated Efforts

For Happiness

The Sun – Ultimate Joy

Ten of Cups – Fairytale Endings

Nine of Cups – Emotional Satisfaction

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