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🌼Altar items/ symbols: salves, tictures, oils, honey, Himalayan salt lamp, lunar symbolism (mental healing), solar symbolism (physical healing), salts, teas, medication, cannabis, essential oil diffuser or humidifier, mermaid symbolism, snake symbolism, elephant symbolism, fresh flowers

🌼Herbs/plants: chamomile, lavender, aloe, passionflower, lemon, rose, lemon balm, calendula, oak, echinacea, apple, potatoe, cinnamon, cornflower, comfrey, milk thistle, thyme, basil, garlic, pine, lime, eucalyptus, rosemary, cannabis, elderflower, peppermint, ginger

🌼Stones: (any soft or round stones) bloodstone, agate, selenite, rose quartz, red jasper, garnet, jade, amethyst, pearl, moonstone

🌼Colors: blue, pink, lavender, green, red

🌼Deities: Eir, Brigid, Hygeia, Epione, Asclepius, Apollo, Toth, Gaia, Artemis, most moon goddesses

🌼Essential oils/ incense: lavender, mint, lemon, orange, eucalyptus, tea tree, pine, bay, frankincense, sandalwood, dragons blood

🌼Elements: all (water and fire especially)

🌼Time: full moon, Monday, Sunday, sunrise

Healing masterpost (not mine)

Healing tea recipes

Healing deity guide pt. 1 (not mine)

Healing witch ideas

-infuse ice cubes with herbs or essential oils for ice packs

-make homemade healing salves, tinctures, and oils

- make some healing tea mixes and give them as gifts when someone you know isn’t well or save then for when you’re under the weather

-take a healing bath with fresh mint leaves, lavender, and rosemary

-practice physical empathy (If you’re comfortable with it)

- make a personal healing list! Healing is a very individual thing (e.g. some people think chamomile is healing while others may be allergic to it, so for them, chamomile probably wouldn’t be a healing correspondence)

-healing correspondes with all elements, and each person has an element that heals them over others. Some people associate healing mostly with fire (to kill of diseases, protection from illness), and water (cleansing from illness, soothing pain, healing in general)

to heal with fire, light a blue/lavender candle or use a heat pack

to heal with water, hydrate yourself, take baths, use ice packs

to heal with air, do some deep breathing, art therapy, or aromatherapy

To heal with earth, use healing herbs and plants, use crystals, make teas

- you may find oracle decks to be more helpful in healing witchcraft than tarot

-enchant first aid items like bandaids for fast healing

If you were to look up the definition of both of the words on a search engine (hello, Google!) they are defined as follows:

Curse: (aside from meaning vulgar words) is “casting the evil eye or an evil spell upon someone.”

Hex: to curse someone.

Oh, dear sweet Google, you have tried your best but in this instance, every witch will tell you that you are wrong.

The general consensus is that ultimately, curses are worse than hexes; the target tends to suffer more at the hands of a curse than they do at the hands of a hex. 

Curses:

Usually more serious than hexes.

Can live on through generations if that is what the caster intended.

Tend to be long-term in nature.

Usually, curses are borne of anger; of hatred and even a need for justice.

They can usually be reversed or undone; reversals can be done by the caster, and undoings may be done by the caster, target or a third party.

Hexes:

Often cast as a “one-off” piece of magick.

Their effects are apparent very quickly, but they are not long-term - seen sometimes as an instantaneous form of malevolent magick.

Hexes are borne of revenge and/or annoyance, and they usually cause irritation and subsequent annoyance to the target - hexes are a way for the caster make their target feel what they have been made to feel for a short time.

Due to their nature, hexes are usually over and done with quickly and do not require a reversal or undoing.

Both of these forms of magick, are forms of malevolent magick that is used for many reasons. Some people curse their abusers, or people who have hurt them and some people hex their ex-partners, or someone who has brushed them up the wrong way. Like all magick, what you do is circumstantial and no one can tell you whether you should or should not perform magick of this kind (I am pro-curse and hex, but not everyone is).

Common Cursing & Hexing Components:

Taglocks:

Bodily fluids (blood, spit, semen, menstrual blood, tears, urine, etc.)

Fingernails.

Hair.

Photographs.

Personal possessions.

Poppets.

Usernames/nicknames/names.

Herbs/Plants:

Cayenne Pepper

Chilli

Lemon

Black Pepper

Thistle

Thorns

Poppies

Mold

Other items:

Nails (rusted for potency)

Razor blades

String/yarn/chord

Cemetery Dirt

War Water

Needles

Bones

Vinegar

Mirror (broken or whole)

Broken glass

Dead Wasps

You’ll notice that I’ve bunched the common ingredients for curses and hexes in one list - that is because these two are simply lesser and greater forms of the same kind of magick, so you must bear in mind what your intent is when you choose your spell/ritual ingredients.

instead of jars to bury your spells in, my i suggest the idea of peat pots planters?

not only are they biodegradable, they are useful for many different things. you can grow herbs and starter plants or use them to bury a home protection without the fear of broken glass rising to the surface, or your jar staying in the ground for a 100 years. they also come in many different sizes as well. from large to very tiny

and you can even make your own from left over toilet paper rolls for a byproduct option that lessens garbage going into landfills.

Banishing is the act of forcefully removing something, or putting an end to something. Banishing generally involves three different parts: the actual banishment, cleansing to clear out any lingering negativity, and protection from further negative energy. Banishing and cleansing can sometimes be done in one swift motion. 

Things you might want to banish:

Negative spirits or entities

Negative energy

Bad habits

Negative influences in your life

Methods of Banishment:

Sprinkling black salt or another kind of banishing powder around your home or property

Anointing doors and windows with blessed or charged water

Burning incense in your home

Creating a spray and spritzing it around your home

Drawing sigils or symbols on your doors and windows with blessed/charged water or oils

Physically cleaning your space to remove dust, grime, and negativity 

Playing loud music - metal would be a good choice

Making other loud noises (slamming doors, banging pots and pans together, etc.)

Crafting a poppet or representation of said negative influence and burning it

Binding the negative influence to an object and disposing of it

Simply saying “get the fuck out”

Herbs for Banishment:

Basil, Betel Nut, Black Pepper, Black Salt, Cactus, Cayenne Pepper, Chamomile, Chili Powder, Cloves, Dragon’s Blood, Elder, Garlic, Heliotrope, Horehound, Juniper, Morning Glory, Mullein, Mugwort, Oleander, Onion, Rosemary, Rue, Sage, Sea Salt, St. John’s Wort, Thyme, Tobacco, Vinegar, Wood Betony, Yarrow Flower

Crystals for Banishment:

Ajoite, Ametrine, Chrysocolla, Black Tourmaline, Bloodstone, Emerald, Epidote, Fire Opal, Garnet, Halite, Hematite, Hemimorphite, Howlite, Jet, Obsidian, Onyx, Smoky Quartz, Sugilite

Planets associated with Banishment:

Moon, Sun, Mars, Saturn, Pluto

Celestial Bodies associated with Banishment:

Black Holes, Supernovae

Lunar Phases associated with Banishment:

Banishing is the act of forcefully removing something, or putting an end to something. Banishing generally involves three different parts: the actual banishment, cleansing to clear out any lingering negativity, and protection from further negative energy. Banishing and cleansing can sometimes be done in one swift motion. 

Things you might want to banish:

Negative spirits or entities

Negative energy

Bad habits

Negative influences in your life

Methods of Banishment:

Sprinkling black salt or another kind of banishing powder around your home or property

Anointing doors and windows with blessed or charged water

Burning incense in your home

Creating a spray and spritzing it around your home

Drawing sigils or symbols on your doors and windows with blessed/charged water or oils

Physically cleaning your space to remove dust, grime, and negativity 

Playing loud music - metal would be a good choice

Making other loud noises (slamming doors, banging pots and pans together, etc.)

Crafting a poppet or representation of said negative influence and burning it

Binding the negative influence to an object and disposing of it

Simply saying “get the fuck out”

Herbs for Banishment:

Basil, Betel Nut, Black Pepper, Black Salt, Cactus, Cayenne Pepper, Chamomile, Chili Powder, Cloves, Dragon’s Blood, Elder, Garlic, Heliotrope, Horehound, Juniper, Morning Glory, Mullein, Mugwort, Oleander, Onion, Rosemary, Rue, Sage, Sea Salt, St. John’s Wort, Thyme, Tobacco, Vinegar, Wood Betony, Yarrow Flower

Crystals for Banishment:

Ajoite, Ametrine, Chrysocolla, Black Tourmaline, Bloodstone, Emerald, Epidote, Fire Opal, Garnet, Halite, Hematite, Hemimorphite, Howlite, Jet, Obsidian, Onyx, Smoky Quartz, Sugilite

Planets associated with Banishment:

Moon, Sun, Mars, Saturn, Pluto

Celestial Bodies associated with Banishment:

Black Holes, Supernovae

Lunar Phases associated with Banishment:

I was watching this foreign film the other day when 

Reminds me of Kafka

I don’t really feel like explaining my thoughts on it to you 

That really reminds me of Freud 

I was reading Freud the other day and

When was the last time you read Freud? 

You should really read some Nietzsche 

(muttering to myself) Camus was right…

I do a lot of reading and

Kafkaesque

I try to listen to a lot of hip-hop

I’m a huge fan of foreign cinema 

No, not exactly 

Ajit Pai will still have to take this bill to court and defend it. That’s where the real battle begins.