Sporadic Sea Witch

Hi I’m Ronnie and I wrote a novel of some kind

It’s been a while since i made a more recent post about this

When Anna was little, she had a chance encounter with a strange man that would come back to haunt her many years later. Now 16, she’s starting at yet another new school in another new town, and the stranger has returned.

Anna is thrown headlong into the world of Norse Gods, shambling demons, and the impending Ragnarok, and finds herself trapped and bound through blood to the God of fire and chaos.

I wrote a story about a troubled girl and her four not very good at their job adoptive parent Gods hiking across some desolate and icy world beating the shit out of stuff! And occasionally doing other things, but hopefully setting out to prevent the end of the world: Ragnarok, and the first step of that is defeating the Wolf in the East, Fenrir

good thing she’s got four parents or something, otherwise that could be a real task

The story is heavily based on Norse Myth, with a lot of different twists and turns

You can follow the progress for the other books, see original art, and all my terrible jokes over at my writing blog @foolswritesabook

Runebound is one of three books, the other two of which are still in the process of being written (look this stuff doesn’t happen overnight), and its far more than my extremely vague blurb, and is available to read online for the low price of Absolutely Free!

Here is a Google Doc featuring all 131k words

🔮 Greet your deity, deities, household spirits, or the universe every morning

🔮 Incorporate your witchcraft into jewelry. Where rings on certain fingers for different correspondences. Wear gold or silver depending on what you want to attract. Wear symbols of your craft (pentacle, triquetra, cross, Star of David)

🔮 Use color magick when planning your outfits

🔮 Stir your morning coffee or tea clockwise to attract something and counter-clockwise to banish something

🔮 Find time to meditate for at least a couple minutes

🔮 Water any plants you have with moon water (water charged under a full moon) or sun water (water charged in the sun)

🔮 Carry around crystals to bond with them

🔮 Make a travel altar for work or school. You can add things like your favorite crystal, a pendulum, a pentacle charm, salt, symbols for the elements

🔮 Write sigils wherever you go to brighten someone else’s day, to stay focused on your task, for confidence, etc.

🔮 Pull a daily tarot card

🔮 Say a positive mantra every morning

🔮 Add to your book of shadows or grimoire if you have one

🔮 Make you meals into spells. Research the correspondences and use intent and visualization to add magick to your meals

🔮 Talk to your plants, crystals, and tarot deck

🔮 Tend to your garden if you have one

Just so you know, these aren’t all the magickal herbs out there. These are just ones I have written down in my grimoire and that I typically use.

Sea Salt: Purification and cleansing. (I like to sprinkle some at my doorway and windowsills).

Sage: Purification, banishing negative energies, and consecrating magickal tools and spaces. (This is an herb that I highly recommend all witches have in their possession).

Black Pepper: Banishing negativity, warding off evil, and protection.

Thyme: Invigorates the user and helps them move on from something that may be holding them back. Good for getting over losses.

Rosemary: Cleansing, purifying, and deals with matters of the heart.

Chamomile: Attracts money, luck, and helps reverse hexes.

Bay Leaves: Psychic matters and divination, success, money, and making wishes/intentions.

Basil: Domestic harmony, home protection, purifying, and warding off negative influences. (I’ve actually used this around my own home before. I’d say it works).

Parsley: Divination, psychic advancement, and protection.

Cinnamon: High levels of spirituality, psychic ability, and works in matters of lust and love. (This is a personal favorite of mine).

Cloves: Drive away negativity, cleansing, and bringing prosperity.

Ginger: Adds strength to any magickal working and can draw in new experiences. 

Oregano: Joy, strength, vitality, and energy.

Peppermint: Cleansing, peaceful sleep, bringing about change, and abundance.

Spearmint: Healing, sleep protection, and vitality. (I’ve found that combining this with peppermint really helps me get to sleep).

Poppy Seeds: Heightened awareness, luck, and helps with insomnia. 

Cayenne Pepper: Helps deal with separation, and can speed up any magickal working.

Orange Peel: Love, divination, money, luck, and emotional peace. (They also make great air fresheners!)

Hear me out! Consider some of these lovely colour names and some of their associations… and then tell me they wouldn’t be perfect for a little casual spellwork!!

💋iced iris- valor, faith, and transformation

💋fuchsia flood- attract a passionate love

💋sunset cruise- encourage peaceful endings

💋ruby ripple- the power to stir something stagnant

💋russet river- cleansing, moving forward

💋tulip tide- attract fame or popularity

💋lily lake- mimic royalty, incite chivalry

💋brimming berry- attract love or visions

💋juniper water- encourage visions, protection

💋crimson coast- healing and death work

💋orchid ocean- charm, and beauty

💋wine wave- coming celebration

I just moved in with my smoke sensitive boyfriend, so I had to store my eucalyptus smoke stick for now and come up with another way to cleanse and protect our new place. A spray doesn’t effect anyone, it’s quicker than a smoke stick is, and bonus points for smelling like cinnamon :) Lets get started !!

1) Gather your ingredients

I personally used:

-1 cinnamon stick

-3 bay leaves

-a couple pinches of rosemary

-some sea salt

-sage(homegrown and harvested in personal garden, not used for smoke cleansing)

-a couple lemon slices

-sea water

-rain water

All these ingredients have correlations with both cleansing and protecting, so I choose these, but you can pick which herbs you want to toss in there to modify the spray to your own liking! But no matter what herbs you choose, you will need these items:

-a small pot

-a pot cover

-stirring spoon

-something to strain out the herbs

-a cleansed spray bottle

-paint or marker

2)choose your sigil!

I chose this simple and lovely sigil to cleanse and protect made by @kore-amore ! You can choose any sigil you like to modify the spray how you want.

3) Get brewin

We have everything picked and laid out, now it’s time to grab your pot, pour the water and herbs into it, and set it to medium heat

Once it gets to a boil, I like to stir it counter clockwise and think about the negative things the spray will cleanse, and then stir clockwise thinking about the positive protection the spray will bring. After a few minutes of stirring, cover the top with your lid, set it to low heat, and let it simmer for about 10 minutes, or however long it takes till the water is potent in smell(most of the time, depending on which herbs you use, the water will also turn a different color, mine turned yellow, as seen below)

Here we have a finished brew!

4) Strain and pour

Once your brew has cooled down a bit, strain out the herbs and pour into your spray bottle!

5) Paint your sigil

I used the sigil I chose earlier and painted it on with black paint(once again, credit to @kore-amore for this lovely sigil), but you can choose any sigil or paint color you like! Just be sure to think hard about the intent of the sigil you are painting, as the sigil itself only does half the work, and the other is your own magik :)

6) Start sprayin!

This is actually really common! And it’s also totally in line with his mythology.

Consider that Loki has a bunch of kids in the myths, name and unnamed. And, painful as it is, consider that the greatest punishment the Aesir can come up with involves killing his children. His fondness also extends beyond just his own kids: Lokka Tattur involves Loki answering a prayer to rescue a child once and for all where Odin and Hoenir kind of left the family hanging.

I can’t tell you for sure whether you are or aren’t talking to Loki. (We do have a deity identification tag that might be helpful?) But the relationship dynamic you’re experiencing definitely isn’t inconsistent with Loki, either in terms of the experiences of other devotees or with the lore.

- Mod E

I wouldn’t say that Loki acts paternal with me either, but I do agree that it’s very in line with his portrayal in the mythology. As Mod E mentions he’s both mother and father to a number of different children in the stories, and he’s also involved in stories with children that aren’t his where he’s predominantly positive with them. I also feel as though the trickster archetype relates really well to children, because they are very open-minded to the unknown.

Let’s be honest here. Most of us bedridden peeps don’t have an awesome bed setup like this, and our nature exposure can be limited. However, here’s some tips and tricks to staying connected to nature while stuck in bed, with contributions from myself (@heatherwitch), @thewitchofthenorse, @spooniewitches, @persephoneandthepomegranates & @theepagangrace!

Open a window, or crack the curtains

Hang rainbow prisms in your window

Keep a houseplant nearby

If regular houseplants require too much energy: Try cacti, succulents, lucky bamboo, or spiderplants!

Hang nature/forest/plant artwork around

Get air freshener or room spray that reminds you of the outdoors

Watch a nature documentary or shows with people exploring nature – check out nature (photography) videos on Netflix for calming videos

Listen to forest soundscapes [X] 

Set a nature scene as your screensaver

Keep a jar of soil around

Talk with any nature deities you work with

Follow nature blogs

Get sheets, blankets, or pillowcases with leafy designs, flower designs, etc.

Get a star map app on your phone to be more connected to the night sky

Have a vase of flowers (real or fake)

Keep crystals around that remind you of nature (Moss agate, petrified wood, onyx, selenite, agate geodes, etc.)

Use sigils designed to connect you to nature

Use air conditioning or a fan to make it less stuffy in your room

Read and write poetry about nature

Press plants/flowers or hang dried herbs by your bed

Spend some time looking outside of your window

Burn a nature scented candle or incense (Irish moss, myrrh, frankincense, opium, and lavender)

Use astral travel or dream magic to get to outdoor areas

Watch livestream videos of outdoor areas

Make a sachet of grass, oak bark (or whatever tree you like), quartz, and salt. Hang it near your bed.

With help from others:

Get someone to collect rainwater for you, and use it to wash your face

Ask a friend to take some pictures of cool places they go in nature and send them to you

Have someone collect rocks/plants/feathers etc. from each day and bring them back for you 

Have someone pick wildflowers for you

Drink some herbal tea

Have someone you trust harvest wild edibles/berries for you – or at least bring fresh fruits and veggies!

Skype or video chat with someone while they’re outside

Take the scenic route/detour to some natural areas the next time you need a car ride

Note that I live in a heavily forested area of the PNW so not all of this may apply to you!

Please be mindful of animal parts laws. Not all bones are legal to possess.

Where to look (casual version):

Under bridges, you’ll often find owl pellets with rodent and bird bones in them.

If you see hairy scat (poop) get a stick and break it apart, sometimes there’ll be small animal bones/bone shards. Please be safe, predator scat can have icky things like parasites.

The sides of trails. I’ve found so many bones there!

The sides of the road.

Forest to meadow edges.

Driving pullouts that are a bit private, if you feel okay with using bones from roadkill/poached animals.

Where to look (dedicated version):

A few feet to 10+ feet into the bushes past a meadows edge.

Follow deer trails.

Go to the big trees, animals are drawn to them.

Get off the main trail.

Check out holes in the ground.

The sides of back roads/logging type roads.

Explore the parts of the forest you haven’t been to before. Make new trails. Walk along fallen logs.

In strangely clear spots in the forest. (As I’m editing this post, i see this and realize that’s exactly how I found a skull today)

Crawl. I’ve found so many bones by just crawling around (usually looking for other things/checking stuff out).

DEER. TRAILS. They take you to less humanized areas easily.

Keep in mind:

Bones can often get spread out, but where you find one you can typically find more if you look far/ wide enough.

If you live in a foresty type place, bones are rarely bleached white. Look for browns, greens, mild whites that don’t quite look like sticks.

Skulls are often not in the same area as the rest of the bones because it’s a good food source for animals so they’ll drag the head off for themselves! (However, this isn’t always the case).

Think about where animals would go to die, and where predators would take their kills.

You won’t always find bones! Some places just don’t have any! Some have bones that are buried.

This certainly isn’t all-encompassing, and I’d welcome people in different regions to jump in with their methods :)

Other posts:

On cleaning bones

On using bones in witchcraft

Animal parts laws (external site)

Angels do not Impress me, Nor Demons when they address me, My heart I feel it beating, The feelings gnaw it, teething… This mind is bleeding open, Each thought a crimson token The gears are grinding whirring, Emotions hatefully stirring I’ll not love what you are, Angel, Demon, or God from afar, The matter of love questions not what… But who.

Hair Witchcraft

Hello everyone! As you may know, I am very attached to my hair, and it’s one of the things I like best about my physical appearance. A persons’ hair has long been associated with spirituality; with many world religions placing doctrine on hair, whether in regards to covering it, not cutting it, or something else. As such, it makes sense for your hair to play a part in your Craft, especially if it is a part of yourself that you are particularly proud of.  

There are three main ways that you can use your hair in your Craft, to use strands within your spells and potions, incorporate magic into your hair care routine, or to use your hair as braid/knot magic. Most of these ideas focus on long hair, apologies! If anyone has any other suggestions for hair magic for short haired people - please add them on!

The way I incorporate my hair into my practise is to use it as a form of knot (braid) magic. Braiding hair whilst having an intention in your mind is the perfect way to set that intention and wear it with you for the day. As you braid your hair, set your intention for the day within each weave. You can either visualise your intention whilst braiding your hair, or sing/ say it out loud. For instance, you can make a little rhyme to sing whilst braiding your hair, and be all Rapunzel like!

To add another layer to this, you can add ribbons, coloured threads, beads, flowers etc, into your braids. 

In this way you can incorporate colour magic (here is a post with my colour correspondences) into your braiding - for instance a yellow ribbon for positivity, a black ribbon for protection. 

Adding specific flowers to your hair imbues your hair braiding with the connotations of that flower or plant. 

Tight french braids lend themselves to magic relating to productivity, motivation, energy increasing, offensive magic. Looser dutch braids or english braids lend themselves to magic relating to relaxation, cleansing, anti-anxiety, calming, soothing, and defensive magic.

You can also do a similar thing whilst brushing or washing your hair. Setitng your intent whilst brushing your hair in a certain amount of strokes (i.e. multiples of three) can imbue your hair with magic. 

At night brush your hair, starting at the left side and finishing at the right, all whilst visualising the stresses and struggles of the day being brushed away, and relaxing vibes being brushed in. This works for short hair too, if you have no hair, you can do the same thing by stroking your scalp in downwards movements.

Brushing hair is also a great grounding practise

Wash your hair with shampoos with specific ingredients and scents to suit your intent for the day - for instance, citrus for energy increasing, lavender for relaxation and soothing, teatree and peppermint for productivity.

Use washing your hair as a time to deep cleanse yourself, both physically and spiritually. Visualise built up or negative energies going down the drain with the soap bubbles. 

Similarly, use hair masks with specific ingredients to imbue your hair with magical properties. For instance, honey for self love (honey has mild bleaching effects so don’t use on coloured hair), avocados for nurturing and contentedness. 

Charm your hair oil, hair spray or other hair products with magical properties.

A productivity hair braid spell:

Consider your intent, make it as specific as you can. The intent will be active until you take your braids out, so keep it short-term. For instance, “I will be motivated to start writing my essay today.” If you like, you can create a little song or rhyme to sing whilst you braid your hair. 

Brush through your hair well, visualising any built up or negative energies being removed with each brush stroke.

Decide what type of braid you’re going to do, french braids are useful for motivation magic - if you can’t do one, stick to an english braid (the bog-standard one).

Start braiding, all the while keeping your intention in the forefront of your mind, say it out loud or under your breath if you like. 

The amount of braids is dependent on how you’d like it to look, your hair type, and if you’d like to add extra magic (i.e. number magic) you can braid your entire hair in one big braid, or just do one or two small braids throughout your hair. 

Finish it off with a hair bobble with a colour that matches the intent, green or yellow will work well. To go a bit extra, weave your braids with green or yellow ribbon. 

Keep in your hair until no longer needed, take your braids out and brush through.  

Lit a stick of incense I associate with high energy and passed my candle through the smoke focusing intent on motivation. Two other small candles we’re lit on my altar already. I usually associate orange and yellow with motivation, but I didn’t have either color in candles and I needed this boost of motivation right away. I carved the Sigil for “I am Motivated” into the candle with my Anthame after also passing it through the incense. Once carved I ‘sealed’ my intention into the wax by heating the Anthame over candle flame and smoothing out the lines and the little diddly wax crumbles, still pushing my intent into the candle.

Have a blessed Mabon everyone!

May your workings and life be guided by a light of motivation and happiness!

as far as sea themed plants & scents go, I mainly only see lavender and rosemary. So here are some alternative plants/flowers/scents to use for sea magic!🌴🐚💙

Cotton

Mango

Clean linen (scent)

Orange

Coconut

Lily

Jasmine

Hibiscus

Lemongrass

Aloe Vera

Passionfruit

Guava

Grapefruit

Dragonfruit

Watermelon

Lotus

Lime

Cocoa/ cocoa butter

Citronella

Palm tree

Cucumber

Banana

Starfruit

Passionflower

Carnation

Avocado

Orchid

Chamomile

Bird of Paradise

Agave

Tuberose

Plumeria