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Gardenia

Dried petals added to healing potions and salves.

Place fresh blooms in rooms of sick people or on healing alters to speed recovery.

Scatter dried gardenia around the room to promote peaceful vibrations.

Used in love spells.

And here is a bunch of new Holiday Traditions!

3 for realm of magic, which I waited to do because when ROM was new I didn’t know how to tag non-spellcasters out, but now I do! Your non-magical sims will ignore these traditions so you can have ecclectic households!

1 Séance tradition for Paranormal

And finally a dark meditation tradition for Vampires

Download SFS: Merged ROM trads | Magic | Potions | Spells | Séance | Dark Meditation

You need the respective packs mentioned above for the different traditions and Seasons.

♡ What is the purpose of this spell?

Blessing? Protection? Banish? Manifesting? Love? Health? Money? Luck? Sleep? Dreams? Psychic abilities? Employment / Career? Beauty? Motivation? Happiness? Courage? Purifying? Vision? Energy? Growth? etc.

Yea, there’s a ton of situations that you can use a spell for and knowing what exactly it is you want to achieve will make it easier when go through the rest of the questions.

I have found being specific works best for me. But you might find vagueness to be more appealing and ideal for your particular situation. 

♡ Am I intending to alter/manipulate the physical world/something outside of me? or is this spell intended to alter me mentally and emotionally?

Basically you’re determining if it’s an “outside force” or and “inner issue.” For example if you want to something like a new job, an A on a paper, clear skin, a new home.. whatever it is.. you gotta ask yourself if you’re the issue? What has been stopping you from achieving these goals? Is it your poor time management, your poor money management or your lack of motivation? If it’s any of these reasons you want to consider focusing your intentions on changing within. 

If you’re doing all the mundane things and you’re still not able to achieve whatever it is you’re trying to achieve, you’ll want to focus on magic that will manipulate and alter your reality/the physical word. So you want to move out but every apartment you find that you love, someone else swoops in and gets it before you can. You can do a luck spell specifically focusing on your intentions to move out. You’re working magic to manipulate your reality, rather than your inner self.

♡ What do I have available or on hand that I can use for this spell?

This is so important because you don’t want to write/create an elaborate spell that you can’t even use because you can’t get ahold of what you need for it. Common herbs, crystals/stones, tools etc. are just as useful as those harder to get ones. Something being harder for you to obtain doesn’t mean it works any better than what you already have.

And also take into consideration what is actually useful for the spell. Don’t just add random shit because it sounds right. Do. Your. Research. Examine your past workings and see what did and didn’t work for you too. Common/well known uses for certain tools and ingredients and great but it truly is different for everyone and you should always keep a record of what worked and what didn’t work for you. 

♡ What method do I want to use?

Are you more comfortable creating a spell jar? Maybe you prefer candle magic? or maybe sigil magic? You gotta ask yourself what you think will work best for this specific situation. Sometimes if you’re doing a spell to alter yourself (as in, inner work) having a physical representation of a spell can be helpful to see everyday (like a charm, bottle, box, etc.). If you’re working a spell to alter or manipulate something outside of you, maybe it’s best you do a “set and forget” type spell (sigil, teas, potions etc).

♡ Is timing important to me?

Is it important that you do it at a certain time of the day/night? Is it important that you do it on a certain day? During a certain moon phase or some other astrological event? Take into consideration if this is something that you think can help your spell. Sometimes it’s helpful to do a spell during a certain phase of the moon and sometimes it’s pointless and adds nothing to the spell or it’s potency. You gotta determine if this is an important factor to you or not.

♡ Is the spell time sensitive?

Now you’re asking yourself if you need to achieve your goal in a specific time frame and/or is this an ongoing spell that needs to be effective for a long period of time? 

♡ Am I in the right headspace and/or have enough effort to do this spell?

Most important question... Are you mentally and emotionally prepared to do this spell? Spells can be energy drainers. So making sure that you’ve got enough energy is super important. So answer this question honestly. If your spell isn’t time sensitive and/or doesn’t need to be done now, you can plan out your spell so you know you’ll have the proper energy. Also, if you know you’re someone who naturally doesn’t have the energy, most of the time, to do spell work then that’s when timing your spells can be helpful. Using solar, lunar, astrological energies can be very helpful. 

I hope you’ve found this to be helpful in your journey, on your path and with your magical workings. Spell casting is fun but also tiring and should be taken seriously if you’re serious about wanting results out of it.

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