#witches tips

When it comes to charging moon water or crystals you want to set it where moonlight actually hits it and you want to create a tether that draws and directs the moons energy into it. Don't expect that having a form of light simply hit it will make it magical.

You can also draw water from lakes or the sea once the moon has been out for more than a few hours.

If you leave or forget your moon water long enough that the sun hits it it isn't moon water anymore. Restart the next night.

Moon water created during different days of the week, or when different astrological signs are up, have different associations as well as uses.

Refrigerate your moon water if you plan on keeping it for another day as bacteria grows in everything.

Boil water you draw from a lake or river if you plan on ingesting it.

~Personal protection~

1. The easiest and most accessible tool is probably putting up an energy shield. Don't worry, this is not as complicated as it sounds. What you do is close your eyes and focus on your breath for a moment, making sure to breathe deeply and slowly, then start to visualize a bright white ball of protective light growing inside of you, and as it grows, feel it pulse and vibrate with powerful protective energy. Visualize it growing and growing until it grows outside of your body, eventually incasing you completely, going around the top of your head and even below the soals of your feet. Now imagine a negative force, a ball of dark energy, coming towards you, and watch as it just bounces off the surface of this shielding sphere of white light you have created around yourself, and know that you are safe.

Note: if you cannot seem to conjure up these images in your mind, do not worry, try it anyway and see what you can do. If you can feel the emotions of what's happening, hear the sounds, or even taste the energy, go with that.

2. Make, and carry, a protective amulet or sachet. This can be done as simply as drawing a pentagram with your finger over a favorite necklace or other piece of jewellery. Or sewing a small pillow out of a scrap of blue fabric, filling it with lavender, bay leaves, black peppercorns or sage, and mark it with a pentagram, either by stitching it on the front or drawing it on there with a permanent marker.

~Protecting others~

This is really more of a note to the above. If using the energy shield method you can bring a child, friend, family member or pet into it by sitting with them as you make the shield.

If choosing the route of amulet or sachet you can put intent of protection into a piece of jewellery for your friend or family member, even your pets collar if it wears one. You can also gift them a protective sashet, well, people that is.

As for children that may be too young for jewellery and sashets you can stitch a pentagram onto that favorite teddy they bring everywhere, their favorite blankie, or draw a pentagram over their binki/pacifier with your hand.

~Room/house protection~

1. Sprinkle with moon water, or selenite infused water. This one is pretty easy to do, and it works well. Also, you can do this as often as you feel the need.

*selenite water is simply water infused with selenite crystal. As in put a piece of selenite into a jar of water and let it sit for at least a day or two.

2. Energetic shield. Follow number 1 in the first category on this page, but instead of only letting the shield sphere grow to cover you, visualize it growing to where it encompasses the entirety of the space you wish to protect.

3. Burn protective incense or smudge the space. White sage is popular but other good choices are palo santo, lavender, cedarwood or cinnamon (carefully with the last one as it's very volatile)

4. Selenite grid. Place a piece of selenite at each corner of the room or space, as well as one at the center of it all. This one is especially useful for empaths that need strong lasting protection. (This one is for those with the means to aquire crystals. If you don't have the money, simply use one of the above instead.)

Picture this: [You are holding a crystal in your hand and, in a moment that is out of your control, the crystal slips from your grasp and lands onto the floor, shattering into countless pieces.]

This has happened to me, and oh, did I despair. Once you’ve mourned the loss of your sweet mineral child, do not throw the shards/pieces away! Instead, you can use the pieces in jars, sachets and poppets; you can grind it down to a finer, grainy consistency and use it that way.

Even though the crystal is no longer it’s crystalline shape, the properties remain the same!

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