#insect magic

The Butterfly

Associations: 

Element of air

Transformation

Regeneration 

Souls of the Dead / Ancestors 

Renewal

Use in your practice: 

The butterfly can be an aid for love spells and dream work. It also helps when working with the fairy realm and contacting ancestors/spirits.

Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.

The Bee

Associations: 

Providing and nurturing 

Abundance 

Community

Fertility 

Prosperity  

Use in your practice: 

The bee can help in spells that help attract prosperity, unify your family, strengthen bonds in a relationship. Etc. 

Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation. Honey from bees is also a great offering. 

The Spider

Associations:

Creativity

Renewal

Aggression 

Wisdom

Use in your practice: 

The spider is great when we need support with creativity and developing skills. Visualizing energy as a spider web - ideas, manifestations, outcomes all weaved together. 

Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.

The Dragonfly

Associations: 

Element of water

Shape-shifting / Transformation

Change

Courage

Use in your practice: 

Dragonflies are useful for dream work and meditation when seeking clarity/truth. Use in spells dealing with change our courage.

Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.

The Firefly

Associations:

Element of fire

Happiness

Hope

Energy

Guidance 

Use in your practice: 

Great for spells involving removal of negativity/darkness. Adds energy/boost to spellwork. Call on the firefly to give you energy.

Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.

The Moth

Associations: 

The element of air

The moon

The soul

Seeking the truth

Balance

Use in your practice: 

Great for use in divination, defense magic, lunar magic. Similar to the butterfly it is useful in ancestor work.

Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar for esbats. Visualize during meditation.

The Cricket

Associations:

The home

Luck

Happiness

Security

Use in your practice: 

The cricket is great in all hearth/home magic. Use in luck spells, communication spells, boost energy. Useful in rain work

Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.

The Ladybug

Associations:

Luck

Happiness

Romance

Use in your practice: 

Perfect for use in luck magic. Aids in romantic/love spells. 

Use photos or drawing in spells or on your altar. Visualize during meditation.

Ant: strength, industry, community, power

Bees: messages, communication, community, family, teamwork, luck, love, hidden wisdoms

Butterflies: beauty, grace, transformation, change, growth, death and spirit work

Caterpillar: transformation, transition, change, youth, preparation, new paths and possibilities

Cricket: luck, blessings, abundance, happiness, joy, song and meditation

Dragonfly: truth, change, wisdom, learning, water and air elements, energy, speed, acceleration

Earthworms: growth, fertility, life and the underworld

Fireflies: guidance, illuminating problems, love, passion, inner self, self discovery, freedom, ancestors and spirits, often associated with the moon, fire element

Fly: travel, flight

Grasshopper: freedom, air element

Ladybug: good luck, blessing, dreams, happiness, wishes

Moth: the truth, wonder, happiness, joy, passion, sometimes associated with the moon and nighttime, light, fire element

Praying Mantis: directions, finding your way, new beginnings and paths, stillness, peace, fullfilment, spiritual perception, paitence

Scarabs: reincarnation, rebirth, creation, eternal life and immortality, creativity, astral travel

Scorpian: speed, reflexes, survival, intuition, battle and competition, aggression, protection, peercetion, offesnive magic

Snail: luck, divination, birth, meditation, peace, protection

Spiders: creativity, dream work especially nightmare prevention, mysticism, life, creation, good fortune, fate, destiny 

Wasp: warning, strength, independence, adaptablity, offensive magic, curses

Woolly Bear Weather Magic

The woolly bear, sometimes called the woolly worm, is a well-known harbinger of weather to come. If you do any sorts of workings involving weather magic, it’s not a bad idea to keep an eye on these crawly critters, which are typically seen during the end of summer and into late fall. Where I live, they’re starting to pop up already — of course, in my neck of the woods, our seasons are Winter,…

Scarab - The Egyptian Symbol of Eternity

Gifts: Eternity, Cosmic Forces

Energies: Creativity, Imagination

Magic: Astral Travel, Sacred Knowledge

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Butterfly - Free Spirited

If a butterfly is seen while vision questing, no negative energy will be in the immediate area.

Gifts: Grace, Beauty

Energies: Divine Feminine, Reiki Healing

Lessons: Transcendence, Magic of Believing