#bookoftides

🌊 Learn how to read the sea. Sometimes it looks calm, but it can be storming beneath the surface. Adding to this, keep track of what the local reporters are saying about the sea, rip tides and currents that day.

🌊Sand is a good alternative to salt for cleansing spaces. Best used when you're in places with vegetation, as salt can damage plants. (this is for you landlocked witches! 💖)

🌊Shiny, pearlescent shells are amazing for protection. Reflect and deflect that negativity!

🌊Whatever you take, freely give back. Always give back to the sea if she has given you gifts.

🌊If you ever find yourself feeling strongly pulled to go into the sea, as if you're being lured there, do everything you can to not go. Especially if it is rough or dangerous. The Mer can be mischievous that way

🌊Do your best to save small critters in rock pools from drying out

🌊 Do your best to clean any litter found on the beach, washed up or left behind by people

🌊If you find a hag stone on the beach, you've just been given a very powerful protective talisman. Thank the sea and give back accordingly

🌊At low tide, or as the tides coming in, draw a symbol, word, sigil, (or even make it out of shells and rocks) of your intent, focusing as you do. The tide will charge it and carry it to be manifested. (this is a simple sea spell if you're in need of a quick spell, and you're running low on time and preparation).

🌊Dress accordingly if working at the beach during cold, wet and windy weather conditions. Do not go to the beach during unsafe weather conditions

🌊Beach quartz works just the same as clear quartz, with the added bonus of sea energy. Use it for all the things you'd use quartz for. Treasure and respect it.

It's literally drought proof. Use in spells that protect you from being drained of energy, spells for keeping you safe from energy vamps and spells for shielding or restoring your aura

A water spell for positivity and to connect to the boundlessness of the merfolk ✨🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♀️🌊

You will need:

🌊 A large seashell or bowl

🌊 A small bowl or shell with some sea water in it

🌊 A bottle or jar

🌊 Sea water

🌊 A moon shell (to represent earth)

🌊 A yellow shell (to represent air)

🌊 A white clam (to represent fire)

🌊 A shell with the colours of the sunset (to represent water)

🌊 Aquamarine (for peace), rainbow moonstone (for the energy of joy and positivity), labradorite (attracts good vibes), larimar (the energy of water/the sea)

🐚 (Optional) call upon your sea deity/mother ocean to help you with this spell

🐚 Set down the large shell, add your sea water. Arrange the shells and stones around it, as follows: North/Earth - moon shell and aquamarine. East/Air - yellow shell and rainbow moonstone. South/Fire - clam and labradorite. West/Water - Larimar/sunset toned

🐚 Using the smaller bowl or shell of sea water, sprinkle some on the western items, saying:

"Vastness of the Pacific".

Then do the same for North:

"Power of the Atlantic."

East:

"Strength of the Mediterranean."

South:

"Calm of the Sargasso."

This is a way of creating a circuit of energy to contain the spell. You can do this around yourself by casting a circle if you so wish.

🐚Place your power hand or the index finger of your power hand in or over the large shell of sea water. See a blue, sparkling light coming from you and into the water. See it then expand and forming a circuit, like a flow of water, around the shell, too. Let it form into a bubble.

🐚When you feel ready (memorise these prior to the spell), say:

By the power of the Seven Seas,

Water, I bless you to set me free,

Drown away all dark and bane,

So boundless freedom, I regain,

Mermaid and dolphin, wave and shine,

Wash over me with your glistening light,

Out of dark depths I shall rise,

Into sparkling shallows, I swim free,

Boundless as the merfolk, joy to me,

This is my will, so mote it be!

🐚 Let the water charge overnight in the circuit/bubble you created. Store once charged and use as an anointing or sprinkling water to feel refreshed, to promote joy or some positivity! ✨

Edit: some additional notes

If you don't have any of the crystals or shells for the directions, clear quartz can sub any crystal. And white scallops are the clear quartz of the shell Kingdom. If you don't have any shells, any items to symbolise the elements will suffice

If you're landlocked and you feel you can't get sea water, check out my post "Skye's Landlocked Sea Witch Tips." I give you a step by step guide on making your own sea water.

Hope the notes are helpful and you enjoy this spell! ✨

When at the beach, or from your shell collection, find two shells of the same kind. Evenly sized. Scallops, clams, cockles, cowries, ark clams, round shaped shells would work best. Toss them in your hand like a dice, whilst thinking of your question. The question needs to be answered with yes, no or maybe. Once you feel ready, toss the shells upwards, lightly, and let them fall on to the sand or a soft surface. Here is how to determine the answers:

Yes - Both shells have the mouths facing upwards.

No - Both shells have the mouth facing downwards.

Maybe - the shells are uneven. One mouth facing down, the other facing up.

Hello! This is a spell I came up with to feel connected to what makes me happy: the ocean. This is for those landlocked sea witches, but can be made for any witch really.

You will need:

🌊Blessed sea water/home made sea water

🌊A small glass charm bottle, like this:

🌊Small shells. I used: cowry (growth, spirituality, my sea goddess Yemaya), auger (protection from negative energies), moon shell (harmony, peace)

🌊Fake sand (you can use actual sand if you have access to it) - for being grounded in the sea bed

🌊A small charm from my little mermaid necklace (for freedom, joy and a carefree attitude) you can use anything that's small and reminds you of joy for this

🌊Blue food colouring (optional. But I added this for the blue ocean affect, and I associate that with joy so it fits with this charm for me)

🌊Silver or Copper Wire

🌊Cord

🌊Blue taper or dinner candle (to seal the bottle)

🌊✨ The spell ✨🌊

🌊Evoke or invite in Mother Ocean/Your sea deity. Ask for their blessing and energy to be placed upon the spell.

🌊Put a little bit of sand in a bowl. Move your jar around to fill it a little so it resembles a sea bed. Focus on being grounded and rooted to the sea as you do this. Maybe hold it after you've put sand in and visualise yourself as kelp being rooted in the sand.

🌊Next, add your small charm that reminds you of joy and being happy. Focus on the freeing happiness you feel when you think about that charms associations or the sea. "Pour" joyful energy into the bottle focusing on the charms personal meaning to you.

🌊Add each shell one by one. Focusing on the intent and correspondence of the particular shell as you place it in the bottle.

🌊Pour in the sea water. Add a drop, literally a drop, of blue food colouring. Focus on the colour and think about the clear tropical island waters of hawaii, the roaring waves of Ireland. Whatever aspect of the sea excites you and makes you happy and content. Focus on that for a while. Let the feeling run through your whole being. Still focusing on that feeling, put the Cork in the bottle. Take up the blue candle and gently drip wax on the seal of the bottle.

🌊Ask Mother Ocean again for her blessing. Give thanks for her help. Wrap wire around the top of the bottle and thread some cord through to make it into a necklace. You can either wear it straight away or you can charge it in the Moonlight if you'd like

Okaaay yall, so, I was at the poundshop (UK version of the dollar store) and they had these scented candles called “sea breeze.” And oh my gosh I loooove that scent. I used to have wax melts that were the same scent. And I bought myself a little jar candle of it, cus I just HAD TO. And, it inspired me to write ANOTHER bath spell. 

Some optional tips:

This spell is really about what you feel makes you calm, connected and relaxed. Whatever reminds you of the ocean (I’m talking scent here), should be your scent of choice!

Again, feel free to add your own oils to this, same goes for incense etc.

Really smell your candle and let that feeling rise up in you as you do this spell. Let it flow through you and out of you. The idea here is to channel the comforting, warm feeling you get into the energy of the spell

Needed:

Sea Breeze candle (if you can’t find one, purchase a scented candle that has a scent that brings you peace, comfort and makes you feel, “mermaidy.”)

Sea salt/pink salt/regular salt (again, whatever you can find. even bath/epsom salts!)

Rose petals, rosemary 

A bowl for mixing

Spoon

Place about half a cup of sea salt into the bowl. Place your hand over it, sending energy into it, as you say:

“As the winds blow,

And the tide rolls,

the air around me,

helps me know.

Salt of the sea,

Bring to me,

A sense of flow”

Add in the rosemary. About a couple pinches should be fine.

Place your hand over the bowl, visualise energy from your hand going into the rosemary, as you say:

“Clear as the wind,

my mind will be.

A scent so soothing,

you will release,

A spray of foam,

to bring me peace”

Mix in the rosemary with your spoon. Visualise the energies in the bowl, salt and herb growing and building as you do.

Add in the rose petals. Place your hand over the bowl, visualising energy going from you into the rose petals. As you do this, say:

“A dancing wave,

All troubles behave,

Under Lady Luna’s glow.

A jumping dolphin,

The power of joy,

I will now be immersed in”

Mix in the rose petals, visualising the energies building as you do.

Hold both hands on either side of the scented candle, visualising colours of the sea pouring into it. Do this as you say:

“A Breeze of the sea,

Finds its way to me.

And surrounds me in bliss.

A warm feeling!

my troubles will not be missed.

Candle of light,

Feeling of glee!

Shine your light around me”

Run your bath. Pour in your salt mixture, place the candle on the rim. Relax, soak and feel uplifted.

Happy bathing! <3

For those interested in the method of sinking (an ocean-linked way of grounding), here is my visualisation that I do:

I sit, cross legged, back straight. I take in a few deep breaths. I mentally tell parts of my body to relax. After a while, a sense of calm comes and that's when I begin the visualisation.

I visualise myself walking along a bay. In this bay, there is a waterfall just on the edge of it, where the water flows into the sea. I walk towards this waterfall. As I do, I immerse myself in the visualisation through the five senses. I *feel* the sand in my toes, I *smell* the salty sea air, I *hear* the waves crashing and the water flowing, I *feel* the heat of the sun and the wind in my face.

On either side of the water fall, are two rocks. Each one with a crystal on top. I walk to the one on the right, and place my hands on it. The crystal begins to glow and cocoons me in light. This light then lights up my heart space, making it glow brighter. And as this happens, my heart space sends out waves of light around and through me. As this happens, my own divine light, my essence, grows in my body and shines through my aura.

I then walk to the other crystal, placing my hands on it. It glows, and emits a strong light. This light fills me with unconditional love of the universe, raising my vibration. I then stand beneath the waterfall and let it cleanse me.

I then begin to walk towards the shoreline, to the place between land and sea. I stand just where the waves can lap across my feet and receed away. As they come in, a cord from my feet grows and grows, going deep down into the sea. And as this cord grows, I visualise it connecting with all the sea plants, coral and weeds. I visualise myself as a piece of kelp, rooted in the sand and swaying with the ocean's ebb and flow.

I then visualise clear, white-blue energy (like clear sea water) coming up through the cord, into my feet. This builds as each wave comes in/with each inhale and exhale. I visualise it filling my feet, filling my legs, knees, thighs, glutes, hips, stomach, lower back, chest, upper back, shoulders, arms, elbows, wrists, hands, fingers, neck, face and head. And as it reaches the top of my head, it shoots out like a fountain around me. Filling my aura with even more light. I visualise this as a greeny-blue layer of light on my aura, which is sea energy to me. This also protects me and filters out any lower vibrations, and things that don't serve my highest good. 

I then walk back to the waterfall. I walk through it, and on the other side, is me. I come back to the room/place. I wiggle my fingers and toes. Take a deep breath, come back into my body. Feel the floor beneath me. Open my eyes, and go about my day.