#yuletide magic

Summary: Everyone has secrets, some good and some bad. Bree Wildes, a witch and god-daughter to the late Bobby Singer, is keeping far too many for Dean’s liking, leaving Sam torn between giving her the benefit of the doubt and his brother’s suspicions. But what happens when the holidays cause Bree to come crashing down? Sometimes, we need someone to lean on, even if it breaks us. 

Pairing: Sam x Witch!OFC

Warnings: angst, eventual fluff, eventual smut, mutual pining, mentions of depression, mentions of attempted sexual assault (nothing happens though), mentions of familial loss, asshole!Dean, mentions of past drug use, depictions of PTSD, mentions of past trauma, eventual holiday cheer

Beta’d by: TBD​

Divider by: @firefly-in-darkness​ / @firefly-graphics​

A/N: This is a bit indulgent for myself, encouraged by my therapist (that’s not a note you see everyday); certain characters and situations I pulled from my own personal experiences while others are the “what ifs” or are dramatized for the sake of the story. Story takes place in s12, beginning just before “LOTUS”, and then diverging canon from there.

MAIN MASTERLIST - SAM MASTERLIST

CHAPTER 1 - CHAPTER 2 - CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4 - CHAPTER 5 - CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7 - CHAPTER 8 - CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10 - CHAPTER 11 - CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13 - *END*

Tags are open!!

Nox * Malediction

What if the Grinch just got Grinchier? Nox would happen. This Blend will attack your target and steal his/her/their happiness. Nox enters your targets experience, attracts all the positive and happy thoughts, pulls it into one sphere and crushes it. Use at your own risk, deary!  

Items you need

Oak Leaves

Mistletoe

Datura Seeds

Eggshells

Peanut Butter Powder

Frankincense

Sage

Lithium Quartz

what to do:

Grind together all ingredients minus your lithium quartz. The entire time you want to focus on attracting all the fun, the life, the happiness of your target and then obliterating it.

Place your lithium quartz at the center of the blend and store for when you need to use.

Toss on targets foot track. If this is someone at work, you can sprinkle on their chair or somewhere they will come in contact with.  

other ideas:

Last year at this time, I (like most of us), felt very isolated. We were just beginning our first winter in quarantine and even though I’m not the most social witch, being disconnected from the few with who I share my magical journey was so very, very hard. Still, I prevailed and celebrated my first Yule alone. The ritual was wonderful and set most of the tone for the year ahead – in many ways (though I do not personally celebrate 00 Capricorn as the beginning of the year), it felt more like a New Year’s ritual than what I did on the New Year.

This year has been somewhat kinder and on Tuesday I was able to meet with my two closest (all tested beforehand, of course) for a small ritual to celebrate the changing of the seasons.

This was a simple spell – consisting of an orange for happiness and cloves and cinnamon for good fortune. We each chose a candle with a color representation of what we wanted to bring into our lives for the coming year and then – we had fun! I love that each of us had such a different interpretation of the spell. That is one of my favorite parts of doing spellwork with others – each of us creates our own beautiful work of art. You get to see spellwork through another’s eyes. I am so grateful for that. So grateful for every moment that I get to spend inside with these two important humans.

As we sat with our spells, chit-chatting and catching up, I couldn’t help but reflect on the past year and my goals. One of them was to write a blog post for every week. At times it has been incredibly challenging – at times I’ve almost completely lost my voice to the sea of emotions and complexities of navigating life in this pandemic. But still, I persisted. I chose to show up again and again – even when it felt impossibly hard. Even when it felt insurmountable. I am proud of myself for that.

Like all true magic, each spell had a mind of its own. Gray’s candle, dedicated to peace and calm in 2022 was quiet and tranquil until the very end and then a bonfire as the cloves caught alight. Dora’s crackled and sang to let us know that it was getting to its end. Mine burned out last, almost at the point when we had to leave to go and light our Yuletide fire – but even it performed on time in the end. It was beautiful and poignant.

This year flew by (especially in contrast to the last), but I have a few favorite memories to re-share now.

My Winter Walks Through the Frozen Woods

The Winter Syrup I Made to Beat the January Blues

The First Bulbs That Appeared in My Garden

Making Evergreen Salve

The Day That I Spent Wildharvesting on the Beach

Honestly, there were so many more adventures that I didn’t find time to write about! I will need to work on that and perhaps some of them will become blog entries as the Winter winds on and there is less going on.

Each year brings its own blessings and its own challenging and it’s important to acknowledge that. We realized as we went about our day that Gray hadn’t collected a Yule log from her place the year prior and so I volunteered a piece of birch that I’ve been saving since my wedding. It seemed like a lovely tribute to the Yule fire – a piece of myself and of the day that I remember so fondly. How can it not foretell a better year with better blessings yet to come?

Gray went to work engraving the log with sigils, runes, and kanji.

it came out so beautifully that I had to share. As they carved, Dora and I went to work creating a fire started out of old herbs that had been used as offerings and prior magics that we could give to fire – beautiful bits of our last year to fan the flames of tomorrow. In we packed bits of cinnamon and cloves from our magics, white cedar from our walks at the Cape, and tufts of Milkweed seeds from my garden (as well as many other things). We also wrote down all that we wanted to release (our coven’s Yuletide tradition).

Winter Blues

Tis this season to feel stressed out and down in the dumps. So if you want to bless some lovely fool with such an experience, this formula is just for you! Takes and gives the Winter Blues to your target.

Items you need

Dandelion

Palmarosa Essential Oil

Bergamot Essential Oil

Black Pepper Essential Oil

Licorice

Rose Quartz Chips

Black Tourmaline Chips

Carrier Oil / 1/2 Grapeseed + 1/2 Sweet Almond

what to do:  

Mix your Dandelion & Licorice together and set aside.

Add your essential oils to a container of your choice, the entire time calling upon the essence of Winter Blues.

Add your dry ingredients to the container, add your crystal chips. When you add your crystals focus on getting what you want out of it, Rose Quartz has the ability to depress, to bring somber energy and black tourmaline influences the blend to root itself in the physical.

Top off with your carrier oil and truly, whenever you feel any winter grumpiness coming your way, toss it into this oil to pack more of a punch.  

other Ideas:  

Take a deep blue candle and engrave your targets name on it, create and place a sigil over their name to align with what you want done, dress the candle with this oil and cast!

Thank You!