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You must know those three things before you start anything about witchcraft. This will be a long post.

I will explain those three things separately, as always:

PROTECTION:

Protection in witchcraft involves the use of various methods, spells, rituals, and practices to safeguard oneself, spaces, or others from negative energies, harm, or unwanted influences. It's an essential aspect of many magical traditions to maintain safety and well-being while practicing witchcraft. Here are some common ways practitioners protect themselves:

Warding and Shielding: Creating energetic barriers or shields around oneself or a space to prevent negative energies or entities from entering. This can be done through visualization, the use of specific symbols, or spoken spells.

Cleansing and Purification: Regularly cleansing yourself or your space with methods such as smudging (burning herbs [burning herbs is okay] like sage or palo santo and it is a closed practice for the native american and first Nations people), sprinkling salt, using consecrated water, or utilizing sound (like bells or singing bowls) to remove negativity and purify the environment.

Protective Symbols and Amulets: Wearing or carrying protective amulets, talismans, or charms such as pentagrams, evil eye symbols, runes, or specific sigils believed to ward off negativity.

Crystal Protection: Using crystals and stones like black tourmaline, obsidian, amethyst, or clear quartz for their protective properties. These can be worn, placed in a space, or used in rituals for protection.

Ancestral or Deity Protection: Calling upon ancestors, spirit guides, or deities associated with protection and asking for their assistance or guidance in warding off negativity.

Setting Intentions: Setting clear and strong intentions for protection through meditation, prayer, or visualization, reinforcing the desired protective barrier.

Creating Protective Spells or Rituals: Crafting and performing spells or rituals specifically designed for protection, involving candles, herbs, oils, and written or spoken incantations to enhance protective energy.

Boundary Setting: Establishing personal boundaries, both energetically and physically, and learning to say no to things or people that might compromise your safety or well-being.

GROUDING:

Grounding in witchcraft refers to the practice of connecting with the earth, balancing energy, and centering oneself. It's a technique used to help practitioners feel rooted, present, and connected to the physical world while engaging in magical or spiritual work. Grounding is essential for maintaining stability, mental clarity, and energetic balance.

Here are some common methods used for grounding in witchcraft:

Nature Connection: Spending time outdoors, walking barefoot on the earth, sitting against a tree, or gardening can help establish a connection with nature and ground your energy.

Visualization: Imagining roots extending from your body into the earth like a tree, anchoring you and absorbing excess energy. You can also visualize a protective shield around you, separating your energy from external influences.

Mindfulness and Breathing: Focusing on your breath and being present in the moment can bring awareness to your body and surroundings, helping to ground scattered energy.

Crystals: Certain crystals like black tourmaline, hematite, or obsidian are believed to have grounding properties. Holding or carrying these stones can aid in grounding practices.

Grounding Foods and Herbs: Consuming foods that grow underground (like root vegetables) or herbs such as ginger, turmeric, or cloves can also assist in grounding.

Physical Movement: Engaging in physical activities like yoga, tai chi, or dancing helps to connect with the body and the present moment.

Rituals and Spells: Incorporating grounding rituals or spells into your practice, such as casting a circle, lighting grounding candles, or using specific incantations, can help focus your intention and energy.

HEALING:

Healing in witchcraft encompasses various methods and practices aimed at promoting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. Witches and practitioners of various magical traditions often use a combination of natural remedies, energy work, rituals, and spells to facilitate healing. Here are some common approaches to healing in witchcraft:

Herbalism and Plant Magic: Using the healing properties of herbs and plants to create remedies, teas, poultices, and tinctures for physical ailments. Herbal magic involves harnessing the energies of specific plants for their healing properties.

Energy Healing: Working with energy to promote balance and healing within the body. Practices like Reiki, chakra balancing, aura cleansing, and energy manipulation are common in witchcraft for healing purposes.

Candle Magic: Utilizing candles of different colors, corresponding with specific intentions or healing needs. Lighting candles in rituals or spells while focusing on healing intentions can aid in the healing process.

Crystal Healing: Using crystals and gemstones believed to have healing properties. Placing crystals on the body, creating crystal grids, or incorporating them into rituals can facilitate healing energies.

Visualization and Meditation: Guided visualization and meditation techniques to promote relaxation, reduce stress, and facilitate self-healing. This can involve visualizing light, healing energy, or positive affirmations to bring about healing.

Rituals and Spells: Crafting rituals or spells specifically focused on healing, utilizing candles, herbs, oils, symbols, and spoken or written incantations to channel healing energy.

Divination for Insight: Using divination tools like tarot cards, runes, or scrying to gain insight into the root causes of illness or emotional distress and to guide healing processes.

Sound and Vibrational Healing: Incorporating sound healing techniques such as chanting, drumming, singing bowls, or bells to harmonize energies and promote healing vibrations.

Ancestral or Spirit Work: Seeking guidance or assistance from ancestors, spirit guides, or deities associated with healing and wellness.

If you face bullying, cruelty, or harm, you don’t have to continue suffering. You can send it back to where it came from.

This is not revenge. Let their darkness return to them. Stand in your power. You are not a victim—you are the force that restores balance.

12-Candle Reversal Ritual

Gather 12 Thin Candles – Representing completion and the closing of harmful cycles.

Tie Them Together with Red Thread – Symbolizing power, protection, and the will to break free.

Write the Names of Those Who Harm You – Fold the paper away from you to push their negativity back. (If you don't know the names, just skip this step.)

Place the Paper Among the Candles – Secure it among them.

Charge the Candles - place your palms over the candles, think of your suffering as a dark cloud going into the candles.

Light the Candles, call upon Your Ancestors, Gods, Spirits That Help You, and Chant Twelve Times:

Twelve flames I now ignite, Twelve words I now recite.

My guardians see me stand, No foe shall strike by hand.

The first flame—burn my foe. The second—let their strength erode. The third—cast them from their place. The fourth—bring their fall with grace.

The fifth flame—make them kneel. The sixth—let fire break their seal. The seventh—send them far from me, To scatter across the lands and sea.

The eighth—strip their force away. The ninth—cut through what they convey. The tenth—shatter shields they bear. The eleventh—leave me in their prayers.

The twelfth—set flames to guard my name, With fire and light, none bring me shame.

So it is sealed!

Fire Safety Precautions

Use a Fireproof Surface – Place the candles on a metal tray, ceramic plate, or fire-safe bowl.

Twelve candles together will create a big fire. But this powerful fire is just what is needed to remove negativity.

Keep Water Nearby – In case you need to extinguish the flames quickly.

Do Not Leave Unattended – Stay with the candles until they burn down safely. Negative energy often tries to resist expelling, so Never Ever leave your candles unattended.

Be Aware – Burning multiple candles will generate smoke, so you will need to open the window.

Have an Emergency Plan – Know how to put out the fire safely if needed.

I mean, it does not seem like being a witch is glamorous.There are warning signs.

I have been practicing for a year and a half, and these are a two tips I picked up. I still have a lot to learn but I think this might be helpful to people!

When doing a spell research the ingredients.

Not only because some ingredients could be harmful in certain applications (like for ingestion or on your skin or safe to burn or if it’s safe for your furry friends). But you start getting a catalogue in your head of herbs and correspondences, opening up the door for you to understand why you’re using the thing and doing the things.

Tracking your own practice and seeing what works for you.

Write down all the things! Keep in mind correspondences can be personal or you might connect to certain ingredients for different workings or doing things a different way. If you hate the color pink and your doing a self love spell? Use a color that makes you feel beautiful! You like to do circles in salt water or have to have physical repsentation of the elements? Sure go for it! Hate the smell of sage? There’s bells and sprays and plain salt! Witchcraft is personal to the witch and writing things down helps you figure out these things.

La luna negra

En la astrología moderna, la Luna Negra o Lilith, representa algunos lados oscuros del alma humana, profundamente vinculados al inconsciente, que deben ser reconocidos para no ser abrumados. El descubrimiento de la Luna Negra ocurrió en 1846, coincidiendo con el descubrimiento de dos planetas, Neptuno y Plutón. El nombre Lilith derivaría del hebreo "Layil" que es de noche o del sumerio "lilitu", que es un búho, el animal profundamente vinculado a la muerte, a los fantasmas, a las brujas, a la oscuridad de la noche. En la iconografía mesopotámica, se la representa como una mujer con cabello largo, alas y garras, parada con dos leones y una lechuza a cada lado.

El simbolismo de Lilith tiene sus raíces en los mitos y en las leyendas más antiguas, especies de origen bíblico. En los mitos de Babilonia y Asiria, Lilith representaba a un demonio femenino que, al acercarse a la oscuridad de la noche, salió del desierto o del mar para seducir a los hombres con su belleza, o para incitar a las mujeres a la rebelión o contra ellos.

Para los babilonios, Lilith era un elemento perturbador del orden familiar y social: en el mito judío, fue la primera mujer en aparecer en la tierra, creada por Dios directamente del barro como Adán, simultáneamente e independientemente de él. Lilith habría reclamado la igualdad de derechos y se habría negado repetidamente a someterse a los deseos de Adán, atrayendo la ira divina. Su obstinación habría sido la causa de su expulsión del Edén y su triste final como demonio errante. Lilith le da voz a un arquetipo profundamente impreso en el inconsciente colectivo, el de la mujer carnal, instintiva, peligrosa como rebelde al patriarcado.

Es la imagen de la mujer libre y emancipada, que sabe asumir una personalidad propia y un papel independiente, y que se niega como resultado de someterse al hombre o vivir a su sombra. La luna negra representa para el hombre, el aspecto oscuro e inquietante de la mujer, el conjunto de todas las experiencias negativas que tuvo con su madre y luego con las mujeres, sus deseos permanecieron insatisfechos con esta última, sus temores de una naturaleza sexual y amorosa. representa esa parte de su feminidad eliminada que Jung llama "sombra", en contraste con su ideal consciente, simbolizado por la Luna.

Mientras el hombre y la mujer no hayan integrado conscientemente estos valores negativos expresados ​​por la Luna Negra, esto actuará en su vida, como un saboteador peligroso, capaz de deshacerse de cualquier relación de pareja. La posición de Lilith en el tema La Navidad puede ayudarnos a arrojar luz sobre nuestros misterios y sobre los lados sombríos que vemos reflejados tan voluntariamente en otras personas.

Hello there! I am Kate! I’ve decided to make a place just for my discovery into the way of wicca. 

I have been discovering this new side of myself the past year and a half. Very slowly focusing on learning and experimenting with magick. 

 I have been sticking to a more solitary eclectic practice as of late, however I am still finding what works/speaks to me.

This is rather short and I have been putting this off this post of sometime. But there are somethings  I want to start putting here and needed to make some kind of introduction first.