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Edit: After something like 2 years of being gone, I might be coming back :D

If/when I do, expect a bit of a change in content. Less informative, more “I did a witchcraft, here’s what it was.” A journal of sorts, or an archive of my personal progress, instead of an outright source, and a lot more casual

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I’ve noticed a lot of baby witch safe spells (spell jars specifically) using things that I don’t have easy access to, even as someone with other witchy family members, so I can’t imagine how hard it is for more broom closeted baby witches.

So my goal with this blog is to share my recipes for broom closeted baby witches!

I use almost exclusively things I have found around my house, with the occasional thing bought from my local “witchy” store or found for free near my house.

If you are interested in some broom-closet-friendly spells, I invite you to join me on this journey!

naturally I had to buy some, so here's what I got and some associations I found for them/associations I already had

(not sharing everything bc I practice internet safety)

tl;dr: in the ~2 years I've been gone I've done a lot of different types of growing and I've been thinking about practicing witchcraft regularly again. may or may not revive this blog to track it, no promises

long version under the cut I suppose

Litha is just around the corner!

Litha is the Summer Solstice, and is also called Midsummer(’s Day)

Litha is, of course, a celebration of Summer.

A really easy, subtle way to celebrate is by lying in the sunshine.

My favourite way to celebrate is wearing the associated colours. Great for broom closeted witches!

Litha’s colours are

yellow

gold

green

orange

red

Basically just Summer-y, warm colours!

If you wanted to try reaching out to a sun deity, now could be a perfect time, since Litha is so closely associated with the sun. Do your research before working with deities

So sorry for getting to this late!

Since the winter solstice (Yule) is the shortest day and longest night of the year, I just meant that you'd have plenty of time for making moon water and not have it touch sunlight.

Yule is the first sabbat on the wheel of the year, and starts on the Winter Solstice. It’s the shortest day of the year, meaning the days will only get longer from here!

An easy, subtle way to celebrate any of the sabbats is to the wear the associated colours.

Some of Yule’s colours are red, green, gold, and white.

The tradition of Xmas trees came from Yule trees, so if you celebrate Xmas at all, this is an easy one.

Some of the herbs and foods associated with Yule include mistletoe, pine, mint, and oranges.

Don’t eat mistletoe, it’s poisonous (also maybe don’t go around eating pine)

Some other ways to celebrate could be:

Eating food- this goes for all the sabbats

Making hot chocolate with intention (I like using cinnamon for abundance)

Making moon water- this is the longest night of the year, so there’s plenty of time!

Baking a Yule log cake (or baking in general)

Burning a Yule log- candles, bonfires, and fireplaces work just as well!

please don’t mix up your Yule logs

It’s been a while, I hope you’re all doing well :)

If an ingredient is in bold it is highly recommended you use it, all the others are optional.

Salt- protection (eggshells will serve the same purpose)

Nutmeg- luck (rosemary can replace any herb you don’t have)

Cinnamon- strengthens spell, luck

Orange peel- positive change

Luck sigil- this will make your intention very clear (my post on sigils)

Aventurine- luck (clear quartz can replace any crystal you don’t have)

Amazonite- luck

Yellow turquoise- luck

Something to seal- candle wax, crayon, glue, tape, etc. (I used green candle wax)

these aren’t all the correspondences of these ingredients, just the ones relevant to the spell :)

Samhain happens on October 31st in the Northern Hemisphere, and is generally considered to start at sundown.

Samhain is commonly referred to as the ‘Witch’s New Year,’ and comes from Celtic traditions.

An easy way to celebrate the sabbats is to wear their colours

Some of Samhain’s colours are

black

orange

purple

& dark red

Some of the foods and herbs associated with Samhain are

pumpkins

apples

cinnamon

& marigold

Some other ways you could celebrate:

honour loved ones that have passed (this can include pets if you’d like)

light a candle (if you use a battery-powered candle you can leave it on through the night!)

bake something

carve pumpkins

Mabon happens on September 20-23 (depending on the year) in the Northern Hemisphere, which is the Autumn Equinox.

Mabon is another sabbat celebrating the harvest. While Lammas is more about celebrating the beginning of the harvest, Mabon is more linked with the end of the harvest, and crops that get harvested later (think apples, pumpkins, etc)

A very easy, broom-closet-friendly way to celebrate is to wear the colours of the holiday

Mabon’s colours are

orange

brown

copper

yellow

red

just think Autumn colours

Pretty much every sabbat can be celebrated by having some sort of ‘feast.’ Since apples are being harvested around this time, you could have one of those. Cinnamon is also something tied to this holiday, so if you’re into apple-cinnamon things, that’s a good option.

This holiday could be compared to Thanksgiving, but I wouldn’t like to, if I’m being honest.

Some other ways to celebrate could be to:

Bake

Decorate your altar/room/house)

Look for acorns

Go for a walk and look at the pretty leaves (as I’m writing this I have about 1 orange tree ;-;)

Go apple or pumpkin picking

The sabbat after this is Samhain (the witch’s new year), which you may want to keep in mind

A pendulum can be any weighted object on a string or chain. Usually, they’re used to ask simple, ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions, but can also be used to select specific objects or be used with other tools to spell out words. Pendulums can be used as a form of divination.

I’m sure we all know that not everything is a sign, but it can be difficult to tell the difference between a magickal sign, and a mundane occurrence.

Personally, the way I usually tell the difference is by seeing if I can come up with literally any other explanation in the next breath.

For example, today I was thinking to myself, “Wow, there were a lot of crows at my elementary school, I wonder if Lord Apollo had anything to do with that,” but then my next thought was, “They always came after our breaks, because there was food on the ground. We were messy little kids, and they were hungry crows.”

That tells me that they were probably just crows being crows.

When I’m asking for signs on the other hand, I like to make them specific, but possible. I’m not going to ask to see exactly 17 crows in the next 24 hours. But when I still wasn’t sure if I should pursue witchcraft, I asked a tree to make a specific leaf change colour if I should. In the morning one day, nothing struck me as out of the ordinary with the tree. But when I was coming home from school, the entire tree had changed colour (including the one leaf I had originally asked for).

“If [sign’s purpose] then [sign] by [time].”

“If [you want to work with me] then [show me at least one sunflower] by [the end of the month]” is what I used when I reached out to Lord Apollo

There was a day when I had a spider crawl up my leg, my friend found a spider on their desk, then a different friend found one crawling on them, then I found a small, green one in my bathtub, then I had one drop down when I was trying to get a snack, then I remembered that Loki likes to send spiders. (This was in Summer, those spiders had no reason to be inside)

I see spiders daily, but I had never seen 5 different ones in one day, or had one crawl on my leg before.

In my opinion:

Just because a crystal didn’t come from the ground, that doesn’t mean it’s not a real crystal. Just because a crystal has been dyed, that doesn’t mean it’s not a real crystal.

Angel aura quartz, in a way, doesn’t actually exist. But that’s because it’s made by bonding different metals to the surface of a clear quartz. If you get told your angel aura quartz is fake, it could be because it isn’t actually a crystal at all (as in it’s glass, plastic, etc), but it could also be because angel aura quartz is all fake. (Which is a good thing to keep in mind to be totally honest)

I also have a slight issue with people who say that dyed crystals aren’t real. Sure, they might be dyed glass or plastic, in which case, yes, they’re fake (I think most of us can agree on that).

But if it’s a real crystal, that just so happens to be dyed, is it fake then? I say no.

The majority of my crystals have been dyed, but the place I got them from was very explicit about that. They had multiple signs saying ‘These crystals are real, but we dyed them to bring out their colours.’

Basically, what I’m saying is..

You have to decide for yourself what makes a crystal ‘fake’

Since this blog is meant to help out baby witches in the broom closet (or just with limited resources), I thought I’d share this app I found a while ago.

It’s called (don’t laugh) #Selfcare.

It’s actually pretty nice for that, but you unlock more and more options as you keep going to the app (I think it unlocks a new option every 24 hrs, but I could be totally wrong).

At first it’s just some little games, breathing exercises, that kind of thing. But as you unlock more options, more witchy things become available. 

Eventually, you’re able to do things like pull a tarot card every day, check the moon phase, or ‘light’ a candle with a specific intention*. Which is great for if you’re interested in learning about those things, but don’t/can’t have the resources to do so.

*these things don’t have to be witchy, of course, but many witches do these kinds of things as part of their practice

When you open the app, the ‘sun’ is down. As you do the activities, it rises, Once it’s all the way up, you get a random item. 

You can then take this item, and put it on your altar. Some of the items are herbs and crystals, like rosemary, amethyst, carnelian, etc.

If you do end up going looking for it, the icon looks like this:

From the outside, nothing about it says it could have elements of witchcraft, which is what makes it such a good broom closet tool.