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rosemary is a very powerful little plant and I recommend it as a witch's essential herb, a non-negotiable if you will, as it has so many uses.

Other names: sea dew, compass plant, polar plant

Nutritional and Medicinal Fun Facts:

Good for hair and scalp

Good for metabolic health

High in carnosic acid which has anti-cancer properties

Improves memory and concentration

Improves eye health

Can help regulate liver

Aeromatic may help reduce asthma symptoms

Aeromatic and eating it can help reduce stress and anxiety

May reduce inflammation

May help increase circulation

High in antioxidants, manganese pantothenic acid, niacin, thiamin, folate, and riboflavin

extra fun fact: part of the mint family; eucalyptol (camphor-like) and alpha-pinene (pine-like) are the compounds that primarily give the rosemary flavor

~Magical Properties & Lore~

Element: Fire

Planet: Sun

Gods: Apollo, Helios

Goddess: Aphrodite, Hebe

Spells & Rituals:

Love spells

Beauty spells, especially in an aromatic

Health spells and rituals; I also use it in spells to break unhealthy habits

Antifertility spells (along with safe sex! mundane first, always)

Protection and banishing spells regarding negative spirits; especially visitations at night

Sachets, tea, or aromatic for spells to improve intelligence and memory; excellent herb for student

Helps with nightmares and remembering dreams

Use as a tea or aromatic for dream work and past life remembrance

Burn to cleanse home or self of negative energy

Grow it inside to purify the air

Tip: pairs powerfully with Juniper in most situations

Lore:

Christians believe it grows for 33 years until it is the same height as Jesus. They believe it got blue flowers when Mary placed her cloak on it when fleeing to Egypt. It is a Christian symbol of fidelity and remembrance.

Couples should plant on their wedding day and interpret the growth as divination for the family.

Couples have also wore it at their wedding and given as favors to their guests.

Said to protect against the evil eye.

In Wales, it was used as a funeral favor and sprigs were lowered with the casket.

Embalming herb in ancient Egypt

Ancient Greece & Hellenism

Symbol of love, beauty, and eternity

Said to help people retain youth when smelled

Increases memory; students would wear garlands of rosemary for exams

Protection against evil

Witchcraft can be a powerful tool for protection, but it is important to approach it with respect and caution. Here are some tips for using witchcraft to protect yourself:

Set intentions: Before you begin any ritual or spell, it is important to set clear intentions for what you want to achieve. Visualize yourself surrounded by a protective energy that keeps you safe and secure.

Use protective symbols: There are many symbols that are commonly used for protection in witchcraft, such as the pentacle, the evil eye, and the hamsa. You can wear these symbols as jewelry or draw them on talismans to carry with you.

Use herbs & crystals: There are many herbs and crystals that are believed to have protective properties in witchcraft. Some popular options include black pepper, rosemary, black tourmaline, and amethyst. You can use these herbs and crystals in spells or carry them with you in a sachet or pouch.

Create a protective charm: You can create a protective charm by combining herbs, crystals, and other materials in a small pouch or container. This charm can be carried with you or placed in your home to provide ongoing protection.

Use visualization: Visualization is a powerful tool in witchcraft. Visualize a protective bubble of energy surrounding you, or imagine yourself surrounded by a circle of protective light.

Call on deities or spirits: If you work with deities or spirits in your witchcraft practice, you can call on them for protection. Some popular options include Hecate, Artemis, and Archangel Michael.

Cast a protection spell: You can cast a spell to protect yourself from harm. This can involve creating a protective circle, calling on the elements, and using candles, herbs, and other tools to set your intention and create a protective energy.

Create a protective sigil: A sigil is a symbol that is created to represent a specific intention or desire. You can create a sigil for protection by writing out your intention and then using the letters to create a unique symbol. This symbol can then be charged with energy and used for protection.

Use divination: Divination can be a helpful tool for identifying potential sources of harm or danger. You can use tarot cards, runes, or other divination tools to gain insight into potential threats and take steps to protect yourself.

Practice grounding & centering: Grounding and centering can help you stay grounded and focused, even in stressful or dangerous situations. This involves connecting with the earth and your own inner strength to create a sense of stability and protection.

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BANISHING

Banishing is far more specific and direct than warding.

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WHY IS IT USED?

Banishing is used to get rid of a particulur energy, spirit, or person. Think carefully before banishing, as it's a strong form of defensive magic.

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BANISHING METHODS

USE THE ELEMENTS

burn a slip of paper with your target's name on it

throw a leaf with your target's name on it into a running river/stream

burn corresponding herbs and pass the smoke through your space

CANDLES

anoint your candle with corresponding herbs and oils, then burn it

when the candle has burnt out. the banishing is complete

SIGILS

make your own banishing sigil find one that resonates with you

place it in the space or on the item you are banishing energy from

HERBS + TINCTURES

use herbal smoke to force energy out of a space or object

make a spray or herbal tineture to sprinkle around your home

FOLLOW YOUR INTUITION

use the method that calls to you

never use a method that feels wrong or that you haven't researched thoroughly

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WARDING

Warding is a gentler form of defensive magic that is used in a more general sense.

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WHY IS IT USED?

Warding is used to protect and guard from negative energies of any kind - it redirects energy away from you or your space.

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WARDING METHODS

VISUALIZATION

use your intention and energy to visualize a powerful barrier of protecting light around yourself or your space for more info on ENERGETIC PROTECTION click HERE

GUARDIANS

create a guardian to guard your home or space from negative energies

use a small object, enchant it with your intention,and keep it in a safe, permanent place

CRYSTALS

corresponding crystals can be worn as jewelry to protect against negative energy

placing erystals in a room or around you house will create a protective barrier

SALT

black salt can be ured in banishing rituals or used alone

sprinkle salt around your door and windows or make protection jars

HERBS

burn protective herbs and pass the smoke through your space or tools

sprinkle herbal oils and tinctures on yourself and your space for protective barriers

FOLLOW YOUR INTUITION

use the method that calls to you

never use a method that feels wrong or that you haven't researched thoroughly

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I really hope this post was informative and helps some of you! If you have any questions please feel free to message me!🥰💕 merry meet- B

These are the majority of the protective symbols I use in my practice:

My take on the SATOR square. Using my Pyroglyphs, a set of phonetic symbols that each have their own semantic meaning. Rather than “sator” it’s “Næwʌmætægæ”.

✨I revoke all energy that harms me

✨I revoke all unwanted access to my energy

✨I am spirituality protected from anybody and anything that is wishing me my downfall, negativity or harm.

✨I am protected from any and all ill will that could have a negative effect on my well being, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

✨I am powerful beyond measure. And protection exists all around and within me.

✨Any and All negative energy is blocked, washed away and wiped out of my energetic field.

✨Any blockage that is preventing me from success /reaching my goals and living the life I want is removed, destroyed and completely out of my energetic field.

✨I cut off any and all negative energy that tries to harm me in anyway

✨Any low, negative energy sent towards me is declined, deflect and returned back to its sender

✨I am shielded with a thick, protective, blue (or whatever colour you may see) light around me that is unbreakable. No negativity or bad energy can pass it. My barrier is impossible to penetrate.

✨I am safe with my spirit guides all around me, protecting me at all times.

✨I stand in all of my power and reflection will come to those who drag my name

✨I am surrounded by love and protection that shines brighter than the Sun and moon.

✨May all evil, malicious energy be revoked and matched with the same.

✨Those who speak evil against me will see me win at every opportunity they wish against.

These are a few I’ve used and like. If you see one that stands out please feel free to use it and if you think of one that’s missing please please add it 🥺🥰💗 stay safe out there loves. ✨merry meet,merry part,merry meet again✨- B

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Black tourmalines and labradorite crystal gemstones provide a shield of protection against psychic vampires. Wear them or carry them in a pocket so that they are close at hand, rather than tucked in a mojo bag.

Protection Jar

Ingredients from bottom to top:

Egg shells

Sea salt

Agrimony

Black pepper

The best thing I can recommend is something like a mirror jar. I've recommended this to a number of people for counter magic, return to sender spells, or simple protection from baneful magic. This post has one version of the spell that I've used in the past.

For something with a little more bite, skip the vinegar and fill your jar with mirror shards, a pinch of dirt from your yard, a palmful of peppercorns and mustard seeds, and nails or thorns. You can use decorative mirror tiles from the craft store if you don't feel like breaking a larger one for the spell. Seal the jar with wax or duct tape and place it where it will catch sunlight at least once a day, to reflect back any harm sent at you through magical means.

First, on a speaker, I played house cleansing singing bowls. You can play any house cleansing music you want, or you don’t have to play any at all. I find all of my music for cleansing on YouTube.

I prepared by gathering what I needed, which was:

-Dragons blood sage (I recommend buying from ethical sources from small businesses)

-Lavender

-Palo santo

-A wand (I just carved a stick and decorated it by gluing crystals to it)

-a singing bowl (you can use an altar bell)

You don’t need to use white sage. Smoke is ideal, but you can supplement with holy water if you can’t have smoke in your space. There is also black sage, blue sage, etc.

I used lavender for calming energy, palo santo for Angel and God energy, and dragons blood sage to clear the room.

Sage clears out ALL energy, so you should sage before putting any other intention during cleansing. Again- you can use holy water instead or you could use palo santo. Palo santo is cleansing but it holds a specific energy.

I used dragons blood because it is a powerful remover of any negative energy/hexes/beings in your space.

Step by step on how I recommend to cleanse your space:

-Put on your music

-Sage (or draw with holy water on walls with your finger, you can draw in the motion of a Sigil or rune) EVERY space, including closets

-open all of your windows to let the smoke out. This is very important. Imagine all of the unwanted energy going outside.

-say “no negative energy is allowed in this space. Only love, peace, light (and any other intention you want) is allowed to stay or enter.”

-use your bell or singing bowl to break up any stuck energy. Ring your bell in every room, corner, closet, shower, and small space where energy can get stuck.

-take your wand and imagine it carrying all of the energy out of your space. Imagine grabbing all of the energy and fling it out the window. Do this until you feel that the energy is gone.

-when all of the smoke and energy is out, close your windows and burn any incense you want. This will set the mood of your home. I use palo santo to bring in holy energy. I also used lavender for calm energy. You can also use a room spray.

-go around your house and draw protection runes or sigils with your wand on every door, window, wall, floor, ceiling, closet, and mirror. Imagine you’re drawing it onto the walls with energy. This will seal in the good energy and keep out the bad energy.

Known as the ‘universal cleanser,’

MEANING

Selenite is pure white light encapsulated in physical form and is a must-have for every spiritual practitioner. The immense energies of Selenite knows no boundaries when it comes to the restoration of our own auric field and spiritual body. Selenite slices through the air cleansing and recharging any environment it's placed in.

PROPERTIES

Quiets the mind

Protects from psychic attack

Helping with mental clarity

Stablising and balancing the emotions

Opening the connection to the spirit realm

angelic realms

purity

spirituality

inner peace

wisdom and beauty

It is believed to bring good fortune

wealth

wisdom.

The high-vibration energy of the selenite crystal can help you connect with your divine self and to lead a better and positive life. Selenite is a powerful crystal with high vibrations that can purify one’s soul from all the negative thoughts, intentions, or even people from life.it can help bring harmony to the daily routine, which will eventually lead you to live a good, better, and improved life.It should be noted that many Satin spar crystals are labeled as selenite, they are part of the same family but they do have some differences. One of the major ones is opacity. Selenite is see through we’re as satin spar is not.

CHAKRA

crown

ZODIAC

Taurus

NUMEROLOGY

8

PLANETS

Moon

ELEMENT

Air

HOW TO USE

Meditating with a piece over your third eye or crown chakra will allow you to raise your own awareness and intuition levels, Thoughts, ideas, and visions become more clear, consciously and subconsciously, while awake and asleep.

wear to feel the effects of any one of its properties!

Place any object on a piece of selenite to be cleansed

METAPHYSICAL TAGS

Protection, cleansing

For more info on crystals check out my crystal master post HERE

Merry meet, -B

Unfortunately, sometimes we can’t avoid certain family members at social events. Especially with the holiday season approaching. Luckily, there are ways to protect yourself and your energy when they try to bring you down. Here’s a few things I do to protect myself. All of these are discreet and don’t scream to your family that you’re a witch.

Wear enchanted jewelry 💍

What you need

- your favorite piece of jewelry or something you wear daily

- whatever you like to use to cleanse

- a quiet space

What to do

1. Cleanse the piece(s) of jewelry you would like to enchant.

2. Take as much time as you need to meditate with your jewelry and set your intentions to protect.

3. When you feel ready wear your jewelry!

4. After the social event remember to cleanse your jewelry again to remove any negative energy it may have picked up!

5. Optional: Rub the jewelry in essential oil correlating to your intentions. For protection I recommend Lavender, Peppermint or Orange.

Protection Satchel 💫

What you need

- a satchel or pouch deep enough to hold everything

- rosemary, peppermint and lavender (however much you want to use of each)

- amethyst

- piece of paper

What to do

1. Take a moment to hold the pouch, concentrate and think of your intentions. You may also do this with each ingredient if you so choose. 

2. Keeping your intentions in mind, add rosemary, lavender, peppermint, and your amethyst to the pouch. As you add each ingredient, repeat the phrase “I am protected from all harm that comes my way.” 

3. Once ingredients are all added, take the piece of paper and write either an affirmation or a sigil for protection. Fold this piece of paper as many times as you feel needed. Hold this piece of paper for a second and think of your intentions once more. Then drop it in the pouch. 

4. Finally, once the pouch is made, place this somewhere you can keep close throughout the day i.e. a purse, a bag or your pocket. 

Wear a Sigil ✨

Wearing a sigil doesn’t need to be obvious. This is something you can wear while keeping it discreet. There are a few different ways to wear one. You can draw one somewhere on your body using marker, or draw one inside your wrist using a perfume roller, or even with your daily moisturizer. The most important thing is ensuring you charge it before wiping it away. You may also opt for just using a piece of paper and keeping it in your pocket.

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This morning I crafted up some protection oil. This can be used for anointing candles, spaces, yourself and anything you want to protect. Let's look at the recipe

✧ Sunflower Oil

You can basically use any carrier oil. I use sunflower oil because it's inexpensive and carries sun properties of healing and happiness

✧ Pink Himalayan Salt

Salt has great protection properties and pink salt is great for enhancing spellwork and it's powers. A little boost for everything else in the oil

Sub: any salt you associate with protection (normal salt works too)

✧ Rosemary

A great catchall but I infused the intention of protection into this rosemary for the oil

Sub: Any herb you associate with protection. Sage and juniper are others

✧ Lavender

It smells nice...and also! It's good for inducing a sense of calm protection. When protected with this oil, I want to feel calm and safe

Sub: Any herb associated with calming. Like chamomile! (Tea bags anyone?)

How do I put it together?

☾ Gather your herbs. To start the intention train, make sure you know why you're grabbing each ingredient. Think about it. This begins infusing your ingredients with intention

☾ Place the ingredients into a mortar and pestle, thinking about the intention of each. This can include a keyword (protection, calm) and also thinking about the feeling (how does it feel to be protected and safe?)

☾ Grind the ingredients up into powder while thinking of intention. You can infuse while grinding clockwise to bring protection

☾ Add a bit of powder to little glass jars or whatever container you would like to use for your anointing oils

☾ Fill the rest with oil. Leave air room to shake it up

Self Protection Jar

This is a throwback to an old spell that uses a lot of sharp items to create a protection jar. Using sharp objects like thumbtacks, pins or broken pieces of glass is a way to create a ‘psychic fence’ so to speak. That way anything negativity coming towards you will be pushed back or deflected by all the sharp objects surrounding your energy field. 

What you’ll need

1 clean and cleansed jar (see note on this post on how to cleanse your jar)

Sharp items (Thumbtacks, pins, opened safety pins, needles. If you’re going to use broke glass PLEASE BE CAREFUL)

Add in any protection herbs or crystals if you choose to but I usually skip this step. 

Something that binds you to the jar such as fingernail filings or a lock of hair. The original spell asked for drops of blood but that’s a whole different thing if you want to do that. I recommend just using hair because of the risk of infection by cutting yourself.

Cleansing your jar

It’s important to cleanse your jar first and foremost. You can use any jar (Hello salsa and sauce jars!) Clean them out super well. If you are stuck with a smelly jar that has retained a strong odor even after washing out thoroughly you can rinse the jar with vinegar or let it sit overnight. That will usually get rid of any smell. 

Once you have cleaned your jar, I simply cleanse it by using incense. Light your incense and let the smoke thoroughly fill up your jar before releasing it into the air.

What to do

Set up your spell with any provisions you would normally use. Light candles, incense, and have any crystals out that you feel connect you to your magic. Protect your space by imagining a white light in a circle around you encasing the jar and sharp objects inside. 

Place each object inside until your jar is at least ¼ to ½ of the way full. Last, add a lock of hair or item that you chose to bind this jar to you. 

Once everything is inside, close the jar. If you want to seal the jar with wax you can take a candle and drip wax on top of the jar or on the sides letting the wax drop down into the seal. 

Close your spell and release your circle. 

Take your jar and hide it in a dark place where no one will find it.