#grimoiregripes

Preparing my foraging notes! Starting with everybody's favorite lmao. It's already going to be in the 70s this week. It came out of nowhere but I'm really excited. Now we just need a little rain and there's going to be food all over the damn place.

Anyway I'm drawing dandelions and feeling some hope again. Obv they're notorious for being hardy mother fuckers and I have a hard time reframing that as determined, persistent, or dare I say abundant. I've always been stubborn to the core but I've never really considered that a strength until now.

I take a taglock, split it in two. Ripping with your hands is more immediate, but cutting or smashing with a tool is more potent.

I burn half.

"Where there once was passion, now there is pain."

I put the other half in the freezer.

"The strife you cause me will not be your gain."

When I am finally able to escort myself out of this building for good, the other half is getting burned too.

Phase two is really exciting, so in a way, doing a big rite like this is actually just a vacation lol. I'm having so much fun writing these up.

Seeds of Sagittarius, Guide where I roam. Take me far away from my home.

The spell can take many shapes. Here are some of my recommendations on how to get the most out of it.

The first day was the big spell so the incantations each day are mostly maintenance, to keep yourself on task and moving through each motion fluidly. If you are unable to do the whole practice and you're looking for something you can do without having to throw a major wrench in your life, just do the spells! With or without a circle, this one I did without, but go ham and meditate through the phases instead.

Citrine, yellow jasper, carnelian, or turquoise, lapis lazuli, blue lace agate or amethyst. Cater you spell to regard what it is you feel you are needing in this moment. If you feel cold, stalled out, or lethargic, take a yellow or orange crystal for energy. If you feel powered up, ready to tackle this challenge (not a challenge, btw, we're healing), or overly anxious, take a lapis or blue lace agate to refresh your mind and stay in the present.

Green tea would be an excellent friend to use at this stage no matter your state of mind. Anything with focus would fit here too such as mint, sage, rosemary, basil and citrus. Or again, if you're feeling extremely cold and stuck, use ginger, calendula, or chamomile.

Out of all the practices involved in this rite, I feel this one is the most important to include, even if simplified or minimized to suit your needs. It involves leaving home, or at the very least spending time in nature, alone. If this idea seems terrifying, that's likely a sign all the more you need it: your demons know their day is coming and they're sounding the alarms.

This doesn't need to be a 5 day long wilderness fast. That would be insane for the layperson to accomplish safely without a guide. This could be as easy as camping in your backyard. This could look like camping at your most local wildness preserve. This could be visiting your city park for a few hours a day and observing the squirrel drama. This could be reading about your local ecosystems in a library. This could be preforming the spell and holding vision quests in your bedroom.

The key points are that you do it privately. This doesn't need to mean the same as secret, but find something you enjoy and do it entirely for your satisfaction only and totally without support. Prove to yourself that you are capable. Your body and your spirit will guide you. You will start to find that most things are only scary, not difficult. Learn the difference between fear and danger.

The second goal is that you focus entirely on the present. Some call this being mindful. A moving meditation, perhaps. Keep your eyes on the nature around you. You are part of this nature. You are here to reconnect with your own human nature and your deepest spirit powers. Focus on you, focus on slowing down, and be grateful for what you find.

You've done new and scary things before, and you'll do it again. And again. And again, and again, and again and agai-

My offering to the New Moon. This rite is mostly based on observations during 2024's new moon in Scorpio transit through to full in Taurus (tropical, Northern Hemisphere). This was a super crazy powerful time, and I think it usually is for anyone with really strong Taurus placements. Scorpio is a perfect nadir to contrast our native tenacity, but anyone can utilize this. Again, it was written with the intention to be paired with this specific lunar event, and so such an event is regarded often, however other phases or trail mile-markers could be substituted.

This rite is designed to take the course of two weeks. This is wholly recommended, and I'm not sure if this could be accomplished to the fullest in under a ten days. In a social sense, you'll be pretending to be dead. It will be necessary to confront your responsibilities and commitments prior to beginning the rite and inform them of your situation and let them know you'll be absent and unavailable during this time. I believe communication should also be reduced to minimum and I even changed my diet.

This process is dedicated to focus on you. You deserve to focus time and energy on yourself and your needs. If the world collapses around you when you ask to focus on your basic needs, that is a red-flag indicator that something else is probably not functioning properly and it's time to troubleshoot. You may not understand yet where this discomfort is coming from. Adjust this ritual to your personal social ecosystem. It's designed to out any stagnant energy.

This rite is 15 days, but each step correlates to the moon as it passes through the signs from Scorpio to Taurus. Each stage is two or three days long, however you are encouraged to stay at each step until you're ready to move on. Take it at your own pace. I'm also throwing this into the void with the assumption that if you're here, you already know the basics of witchcraft. I am very happy to answer questions and take comments, but unfortunately I am unable to hold your hand from all the way over here.

I highly recommend reading through the whole rite before setting the intention as to how committed you're planning on becoming. Breadcumbs below.

Navigation | You are home.

Is this a ward? You could use it to enchant an item ig? Its not really a return to sender, and it's not quite a banishment? I don't really categorize spells in that way, but here it is.

My intention here is to break my people-pleasing and codependent habits. I struggle to notice my feelings, but feel like a sponge to others'. I'm practicing to realize which feelings aren't my responsibility. Just because I am witness to other peoples' emotions, I do not need to hold them, and doing so actually undermines my friends' ability to be responsible for themselves. Some things just aren't my business, and I'm allowed to walk away from them.

I don't need to take this, its none of my business. Put that vibe down, leave it, turn around.

🕯️white for wholeness and black for balance

💎selenite, smoky quartz, pyrite, hematite, sodalite, iolite

🌱rosemary, basil, chamomile, pink or sea salt, jasmine, sage

🫙 charged moon or spring water

🃏 The Moon, Temperance, 4 of Swords, 4 of Cups

🪐Venus for self-love and love for companions, Mercury for communication, cooperation, and hospitality, Moon for emotional wisdom and maturity

As we all already know, its crucial to follow a cleansing with a blessing. Banishing can sometimes create what is most akin to a power vacuum. If you are removing things, energy, habits, or friends from your life, you are bound to feel something is now missing. This stage is part one of forming and adhering to your new foundation.

The power of Pisces is fully realized in the dreamspace, or the mind's eye. Notable for their emotional strength and vivid imagination, we use Pisces' natural bewonderment to visualize what comes next.

This step is for reattuning to your intuition, your inner environment and self. You've shed parts of yourself in your life, now appreciate what you have left. Once you take out the trash, all you have left are gems. Discover if any parts of you have been screaming for attention under all that clutter. Listen to your body, and what it wants from you right now.

If you could have anything in the world, what would it be? Throw rationality out the window. What are your deepest desires? Let your mind run wild and watch where it goes when unsupervised. If you're looking for a spell, I recommend -

fluorite, sodalite, aquamarine, moonstone, blue kyanite, selenite, clear quartz, labradorite, rainbow obsidian

jasmine, mullein, bladderwrack, rosemary, passionflower, hibiscus

dew, spring or rain water

a mirror or crystal for scrying, if you need to look deeper

A way to move through this phase in your body instead of through your mind is to create art. Your body has a knack for communicating exactly what it is you need to hear, but not every body works primarily though language. Write a song. Paint how you're feeling and use images to make sense of it. Scry or read tarot to work through complex desires that might have some contradiction in them. Make art and let it be "bad." Make art just because you have hands or toes or a mouth and because you can. If this art is only for you, who is calling it bad? Is it you? What you create is not bad, it's amazing just because you created something at all.

Creating art in the real world is important, but it's only representative of what is happening in your spirit. Dream your dream life. Unearth what it is you've been missing and chasing. Discover what it is inside yourself that you are fighting for and fighting to become.

As you go soul-hunting, no doubt you might dredge old soil and till up stale emotions. Remember that the only way out is through. Any fear of your imagination is fear of your self. Agree to be an unbiased observer, and nothing in your mind can hurt you. You do not need to take action. You do not need to take these thoughts or emotions as facts or the true nature of reality. Be mindful that your desires may represent a hidden insecurity. You can identify these thoughts because they can be in contradiction with your values. Ground and center. Remember who you are. You may not be able to retrieve lost time, but in closing one door, another one opens. Your losses teach you about your values as well as your victories. You might have to try a window or two to rediscover who is at your core and underneath that hard outer shell.

Waxing rush of Capricorn grant to me your crown of thorns. Through this phase of moon I see, I recharge my energy. With your power by my side, through this endless wave I ride.

Today is a bath spell! Again these are mostly suggestions. Please do not fall prey to consumerism - use what you have! No milk powder? Almond milk from the fridge will do fine. I'm only trying to outline some key bullet points.

pink, red and/or green candles

rose, smoky, and/or clear quartz. petrified wood, tiger's eye, aventurine, fluorite, ruby are all good crystal options

For the bath mix

milk powder

rose petals, jasmine, or hibiscus

vervain, arnica, mullein, or comfrey

red raspberry leaf, strawberry leaf, or red clover

Typically 1/4 - 1/2 cup of material is used for a bath, and for chunkier herbs I recommend wrapping them up in a small scrap of cheesecloth to steep in the hot water. Don't ruin your pipes.

Literally just take the bath. That's all for today. Relax and recharge. Look at your mess if you have to, and if you feel up to it by all means tidy up your space a little bit, but it's not your main objective. Review what you've been experiencing so far, because the next phase is the doozie. Do something that makes you happy, and do it for you only. Touch grass, play an instrument, hug a dog. Focus on relaxing as fully as you can. See you tomorrow. <3