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This is a jar spell I put together for myself to promote my highest good and removing negative self-beliefs.

I started with a small glass jar and filled a quarter of is with salt

Salt- Absorbs and repels negative energy, used in baths, cleansings, purification, used as a protective barrier, associated with Earth

Alternatives to this include garlic and pine

The next quarter of the jar I filled small bits of rose and chamomile

Rose- Traditionally used in love spells, carried for good luck in love, encourages friendliness, security, and truth, associated with Water, Venus, and femininity

Chamomile- Used in spells for, money, peace, love, tranquility, purification, removing spells/releasing pain, associated with, Sun, Throat Chakra, and masculinity

Alternative plants/herbs include parsley, oregano, basil, cinnamon, and cardamom

I filled the rest of the jar with Lapis lazuli and Green Aventurine

Lapis- Strengthens intuition, attracts spiritual love and relationships, symbol of wisdom and truth, associated with Throat and Third Eye Chakras, Sagittarius, Capricorn, and Venus

Green Aventurine- Clears and releases blockages and allows new growth, acts as an outer shield to negative energies, associated with Heart Chakra, Venus, Taurus, and Libra

Alternative crystals include, agate, obsidian, and clear quartz

Lastly, I sprinkled in some cannabis flower

Cannabis- Promotes positivity and peace, aids in meditation, intuition, and dream magic, associated with Saturn, Capricorn, Gemini, Earth, and Water

This is optional, of course

I sealed the jar with yellow wax

Yellow- Healing, friendship, productivity, creativity, self-esteem, beauty, humility, intellect, associated with, Air, Mercury, Libra, and Solar Plexus

If anyone is in need of a spell jar to help you earn more money / get a hefty raise, here is one I made for my Mom! c: Feel free to use and add or change anything as you please! 💚

!This spell is also meant to be done on Wednesdays or Fridays during New, Waxing or Full phases!

Herbs List:

Anise to add power to spell

whole Allspice to attract money and luck; also adds power to spell

Basil for wealth and luck

Bay Leaf for good fortune and success

Buttercup to attract abundance

Cinnamon to invite success

Clove to attract abundance and prevent gossip

Coltsfoot for prosperity and wealth

Dandelion to grant wishes

Maple Syrup for money

Nutmeg for good luck and abundance

Parsley for financial increase

Pecans for job success and security

Pepper to repel negativity

Other Things You Will Need: Incense of choice to cleanse, a jar with lid or cork, sigils related to earning money on paper and burned or drawn onto jar, moon water, a green candle to seal, 1 penny(preferably the year you were born) adheared to bottom of jar, and black salt.

Crystals Used: Malachite, Green Adventurine, Amazonite, Clear Quartz, Amethyst and Tiger’s Eye.

well, school is starting up again and the holidays are over… so that means less hours. the government shutdown has left my household with one less income and i’m working on starting up several side projects which need start-up funding. in order to bring all the money vibes to me, i’ve decided to incorporate a prosperity bowl into my morning altar practice! the concept of the bowl (and why it’s not a spell jar or bottle) is to continually add to it as often as possible- to keep the income flowing.

📆Timing

best performed on a Thursday, or while the moon is in Taurus.

🧪Components

Crystals💎

citrine - prosperity and money

pyrite - attracting abundance

nephrite jade - manifestation

peridot - encourages luck and money

sunstone - positive action, energy, luck

Herbs🌿

basil - attracting luck and money

cinnamon - success and luck

mint - prosperity

lemon balm - success

marjoram - money

poppy seeds - prosperity and abundance

thyme - luck and attraction

Aromas💨

bergamot - success, money, prosperity

orange - money and luck

patchouli - prosperity, attraction, luck

Et Cetera🕯

King of Pentacles

shiny coins, bills (don’t leave larger bills in the bowl, but having them for their added energy is encouraged)

🔮Process

Light money/prosperity incense of your choice (see aromas above as well). I used a “Money Magic” herbal blend from my local metaphysical store but stick or cone incense work just as well! (TIP: if you use charcoal and a shell, don’t put it on paper bills like I did… that shit gets hot! I moved it to the top of a mason jar filled with coins after the photo.)

Add the herbs and crystals to the bowl, while stating their intentions one at a time.

Find a tarot deck you don’t use and pull the King of Pentacles, place this in the bowl as well.

Add a few coins to the bowl; I like to start off with a few shiny pennies and add bigger coins at later dates.

Part 1: Preparing Yourself

Part 1, Section 1: Introduction

Part 1, Section 2: Understanding the Shadow

Part 1, Section 3: Understanding Shadow Work

Part 1, Section 4: Mental Health and Stability

Part 1, Section 5: Basic Exercises

Part 2: Initiating Yourself

Part 2, Section 1: Initiating Yourself

Part 2, Section 2: Shadow Work Initiation Ritual

Part 3: Identifying Your Shadow

Part 4: Understanding Your Shadow

Part 5: Interacting With Your Shadow

I couldn’t give you the statistics on how often malicious spirits attack. But I have noticed that they tend to target novices. In the last ask, I mentioned that the first year or so is the roughest. That’s because entities will take advantage of a beginner’s ignorance.

I think people tend to over-emphasize wards because they don’t want people to have a bad spirit experience. In my opinion, negative experiences are pretty much guaranteed. I just want practitioners to come out unscathed.

Put up wards that you’ll have to refresh every half a year or so. Get good at divination. I can’t hyperlink because I’m on mobile, but I have written about detecting and handling malicious spirits: http://www.deathwitchenvy.com/blog/how-to-detect-avoid-and-handle-malicious-spirits

You don’t need a perfect setup to start spirit work. Most of this practice comes with experience, so if the warnings don’t dissuade you, then go ahead and start.

When I was first learning witchcraft, my magic teacher showed me how she rubbed oils on her window and door frames. This is not a new concept; many cultures, from the ancient Egyptians through the Middle Ages, rubbed oils on doors and windows.

More commonly, people would hang, plant, or scatter herbs near their doors for protection. Oil blends are easier because they are subtle and can work in any home, including college dorms and apartments.

You’ll need:

Rose geranium oil (use plain geranium if you can’t find rose geranium)

Lavender oil

Frankincense oil

A glass, airtight container for the oils

Clean and consecrate your container. I used a vintage perfume container that I found at a thrift store. You can cleanse the vial through many methods, from crystal charging to moon water. Personally, I consecrated it with myrrh incense.

Combine the oils with two parts rose geranium, one part lavender, and one part frankincense. For example, if you use two drops of rose geranium oil, pour one drop of lavender and frankincense oils. I did ten drops of rose geranium and five drops of the other two.

Leave it on your altar overnight to charge. I placed mine on a wooden Goddess symbol. If you perform this spell during a full moon, you may charge it with the moonlight. Do NOT charge it in sunlight; the light will degrade the oils.

The next morning, take your oil vial outside with a cotton ball. Place the oil on a cotton ball and rub it along your door and window frames. If you live on the second floor or above, you may do this inside.

Try to rub the oil on all four corners, if possible. You do not have to cover entire doors in oil. A little bit goes a long way.

Refresh this spell every six months.

Throughout my years of being a witch, I have traveled up and down the east coast, meeting different energies along the way. This post will include my personal experiences of death energy inside certain spaces I have been and continue to use as a death witch. This is just a fun post for me to do and I hope it will bring you all some fun experiences on your journey with death's energy. Enjoy!

First off, what does the word liminal mean?

In the book Weave the Liminal, by Laura Tempest Zakroff, we find the quote:

"So much of the experience of being a Witch and practicing Witchcraft is hard to put into words. However, liminal is one of those words that gets pretty close to describing much of what we sense. It is a good objective that captures that sense of there-but-not-quite as a sensation. Applied as a noun, it gives name to the in-between places we traverse as spirits still connected to the physical realm-while we work with spirits of other realms. What we call those realms has a lot to do with what culture we belong to, what myths we subscribe to, and how we view the invisible and the unknown. But they all find a home in the word liminal."

Dictionary.com gives us this meaning of liminal:

Liminal is an adjective that’s used to describe things that exist at the threshold (or border) between one thing and another.

So, what's a liminal space?

Liminal is the threshold between one thing and another, a border between things seen and unseen. It is the sensation we are here, but there is something else before us.

Put together with witchcraft, a liminal space is the door between our physical realm and the realm of other worlds. It is a doorway we can sense and feel, sometimes see, different energies and beings. Higher energies reside here, and are great for workings!

You know that sensation you get when standing in a space that feels like there is something there? When you look upon something and realize you are not alone? This is a liminal space.

Liminal Spaces of Death

Some spaces can be accessed at any time, others have limited openings. Please, be aware of your surroundings and do not attend alone if you are able to. These are my experiences, but most can be accessed at anytime. The times I use are when I experienced energies at their highest. Please, be safe.

A river or creek at dawn

Restroom stops on a large highway at 1 a.m.

Tree stumps in the middle of a forest

24 hour convenient stores at 3 in the morning

Bridges over a body of water (creeks, rivers, lakes) when no one else is around

Standing before the ocean at dawn

Abandoned buildings covered in graffiti at dusk

A dirt road surrounded by trees when fog and little light is visible

Driving down a major highway when everyone else is asleep

Hotel lobbies and hallways after 10 pm until 4 am

The silence after a concert is finished and everyone has left

Riding a bicycle or walking through a large cemetery (when there are paths and permissions to do so, of course)

Walking through Main Street of a small town after midnight

Sitting on a porch watching rainstorms from midnight to 8 am

Cleaning out gardens in early spring

Entrances to cemeteries

Museums just after opening and right before closing time

Antique shops and thrift stores

Exploring landmarks of history

Graffiti art that has begun to wash away

What can I do in these places?

Well, let me tell you!

Meditate

Collect energy from these places and store it for later use

Leave offerings

Ask to work with beings/begin working with beings of these spaces

Find objects from these spaces (with permission) to take home and draw energy from in workings at home

Access these spaces in lucid dreaming or astral projection as a doorway into other worlds

'Well, let us start at once,' said he. 'Lock your door, and put the key in your pocket.'

- A Lost Paradise (The Lilac Fairy Book)

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Intent: To set your household wards when you lock your front door.

Materials:

Your front door key

Ideal Timing: Whenever you cast or refresh your household wards

A witchling once approached me with the following question: "How do household wards know when and when not to let people in?" My answer was simple: "You tell them the difference." This spell is one example of how to do just that. It works best when you are the homeowner, but as long as you call the place home, it should work.

Upon completion of your ritual for setting household protections, whatever that may be, take your house key and go to the front door. Place your dominant hand flat against the inside of the door, with the key between your palm and the door's surface.

Say in a strong clear voice:

This is my home And I hold the key; No one may enter Unless bidden by me.

If you feel the need, you can repeat this on other exterior doors for added security. Upon leaving your home, make sure you lock your doors and windows. The act of locking the front door from the outside with your key sets the wards until you return.

After you lock your front door, place your hand upon it and say, "No one but me." If someone else is to allowed in, include them as well, i.e. "No one but me or my spouse/roommate/parent/child/etc." Again, this will work best for people who actually live in the home, or whom you've given permission to be there in your absence.

Please note that this is not a foolproof method for deterring intruders. Take any and all mundane measures of security needed to ensure the safety of your home and its' occupants.

Those uses aren’t exclusive—it has also been known to feature in baneful magics, and can be used in uncrossing rituals.

WAYS TO UTILISE BLACK SALT

To protect your property from negative spirits, people with ill-intent, unwanted visitors, and negative energy: sprinkle black salt around the perimeter of your property.

To both banish any residual icky energy that a person may have left in your home, and prevent them from returning: sprinkle black salt on the front step and sweep it away. If you’re feeling more traditional (and brave!) you can throw black salt at the back of someone that is leaving your home also.

To prevent nightmares: use in a sachet and keep beneath your pillow.

To repel negativity, unwanted visitors, and rumours/gossip: sprinkle generously across windowsills and doorways.

To cleanse your home and keep nasties from entering: add black salt to a floor wash and go ham on your floor. Focus especially on high traffic areas.

To undo a curse, hex, or other form of malignant magic that has been cast upon you: use in an uncrossing oil or powder. Learn more about uncrossing [here].

To alleviate any negative thoughts and feelings that you are carrying: add a pinch of black salt to your bath, or to an oil with a similar purpose that you anoint yourself with.

Carry Rosemary and salt in your pocket, purse, or keep in a satchel.

A lit white candle in a circle of salt will protect a room.

A lit black candle repels and banishes unwanted energy quite well.

Hang Garlic in your kitchen to ward away mischief and evil.

Add Pine essential oil to cleaners for an added cleansing boost when washing tile/hardwood floors.

Grow Rosemary, Lilac, Lavender or Rose at your doorways to protect them.

Use knot magick when tying shoe laces, bows, headbands, etc for added protection.

Draw protective sigils or wards onto your skin with make up or lotion/moisturizer before blending.

Hang protective charms off your pet’s collar.

What You’ll Need:

Herbs: (Amount of each herb is up to you, I used about a teaspoon of each except the powdered garlic, which I used a little more of compared to the other herbs)

Powdered Garlic

Ground Black Pepper

Dried Cloves

Crystallized or Ground Ginger

Optional: Cayenne Pepper to enhance each of the herbs power/ energy.

Stones/Crystals (Optional):

Hematite (1 or more, completely up to you)

Other Materials:

Blue or Black Candle.

Jar

Paper

Pen or pencil

Directions:

1. Place or pour all of your herbs and your stone(s) into the jar.

2. Write the names of those you wish to protect (include your name as well) onto pieces of paper (1 piece of paper for each person, so I’d recommend that each piece be small pieces of paper).

3. (For this step if you are interested, you can inscribe a protective sigil into the candle with a knife, but this is completely optional) Light your candle of choice and let the wax melt onto the inside of the jar’s lid. Make sure that you can still close the lid after melting it onto the inside of the lid.

4. Say this as many times as you wish:

“May those I love and myself be protected from all harm so that we may live safely”

5. Blow out the candle and place the pieces of paper into the jar and close the jar.

After the spell is cast, keep the jar in a safe place. I haven’t touched the jar since I casted the spell, so I’m not sure what will happen if you were to open the jar. But I recommend that you don’t open the jar since the candle wax and the incantation basically sealed the spell, meaning that if you were to open it, the spell might break or stop working. So just try to keep it off the side out of harm’s way.

What You’ll Need:

Rose Buds

Rose Water

Lavender

Mint

Full Moon

Instructions :

Fill a bottle with rose water and fill with all the herbs (optional : add lavender oil).

Let it sit overnight.

Strain it to remove the rose buds.

Leave it under the full moon (it can be your window)

And done!

Use this simple spell to draw love into your life, be it platonic, romantic or self-love. This is best performed on a Friday during a waxing or full moon.

Materials:

a glass bowl

a handful of sea glass in any color combination (ideally whatever colors you associate with love)

Cleanse the bowl and sea glass in your preferred method (smoke, water, moonlight, etc) to clear the items of any previous energy. Place the sea glass in the bowl and add enough water to cover. Use sea water if you have access to it, or try to use water collected from a spring, lake or stream.

After you’ve added the water, close your eyes and focus on feelings of love. Avoid thinking about a specific person – focus on the feeling of love itself, giving love and on being loved. Imagine this love is on a distant island, separated from you by the sea. Then, sense love coming closer to you, like a piece of sea glass washed up on the shore. See yourself walking on the beach, waiting, knowing this love is going to find you very soon. Hold your palms over the bowl and say the following:

Love may be far or near – When it’s time, bring him/her/them here. As water dries from this dish, bring me love, grant my wish.

Place the bowl on your altar or on a windowsill until the water has evaporated.

This spell is best done during the full moon (associated with love) or the new moon (associated with new beginnings). Performing this outside on a cloudless night is ideal, though it's fine to do it inside at a table or altar. This is a general attraction spell, it doesn’t target anyone specifically. 

Materials:

red candle (ideal for romance) or pink candle (ideal for love in general)

small mirror

clear glass bowl of moon water 

(optional) lavender or rose essential oil

In the evening, fill the bowl with moon water and place it in front of you. If you have any essential oil, add a few drops to the water. Relax and breathe deeply, clearing your mind. 

Light the candle and place it in front of the bowl of moon water. Hold the mirror up to the candle, then to the water, then to your face. Look into your eyes. Concentrate on your beauty, your lovability, your desirability, all the good things about you that can make other people (or just a special someone) happy to know and love you.

Hold the mirror up to the candle again and say,

“In the grace of the universe, And in the abundance of love, I am open to the bounty of love around me. The flow of love, romance and partnership is ever abundant. In line with the greater good, I create and attract romance.”

Wet your fingers in the bowl of water and hold your hand over your heart and contemplate your intent. When you’re ready, blow out the candles. You can pour the water out outside or into a river/stream/lake/etc.