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@poseidonsfall - Anything Poseidon, Water, or Sea/Ocean related. My Main blog. 💙🌊

@littlelabradoritewitch - Anything Crystal, Stone, or Mineral related. This includes correspondence as well. 💎

@persephonessprout - Anything Herb or Plant related. This includes correspondence as well.🪴

@altarpresence - Anything having to do with Altars. Be it things I would put on mine, inspirations, what to put on one, or ones that I just find lovely 🥰

@awitchspurse - Anything having to do with a witchy aesthetic, also including cottagecore, gothic, and Moodboards. 🍂

@onseptember12th - My own personal blog that may have witchy things (including witch humor) on it and some that may not. Just regular things to reblog ♥️

@lifespells - Random Collection of Spells, including spell jars 🏺

@grimoirecentury - Anything having to do with a Grimoire or BOS. This includes different correspondence, reminders, spells, information about deity work, fae folk knowledge, etc. It also has others Grimoires & BOS and even some of mine. 📖

@awitchsfire - Anything fire related as Fire is an important element to me. 🔥

@roomremedies - Anything I wish to have in my room or rooms I like the general aesthetic of. Inspirations for when I can decorate my own space freely.🪞

@artofthewitches - Anything Art related to witches. It could be of witches, by witches, or for witches. Even just music or artwork. Or just things that remind me of such. 🖼

@awitchswoods - Any place that gives me magickal vibes whether purposely or not. Ethereal places. 🪵

@sigilsorcery - Anything Sigil related. Whether it be others sigils, multiple ways to make them, or things to charge them with. ✍️

@bakeryblessings - This includes recipes whether they be kitchen witch ones or not. There is also tea mixtures and spells. Even kitchen witch aesthetic photos. 🥧

@familiarfamily - Blog full of familiars and animals. Of every type. Including insects or just silly little videos/pictures. 🦔

@mediamaiden - This blog holds different books, songs, movies, bands, websites, YouTubers, etc having to do with witchcraft. Any form of media for witchy things. 🎥

@divinepractice - This will include Deities, Tarot, Palm Reading, Scrying, and even some Astrology 💫

@celesteselene - Will have things to do with the moon, moon phases, the cosmos, the sun, some astrology, and Spells 🌙

@thebudgetwitch - Is Witchcraft on a budget! Dollar Tree, Five Below, and Goodwill Can be your best friend when you’re a witch with a budget. I post tips and hauls, including pictures, a total price, and what I use the items for. 💵

Reminder: I reblog things that I also do not practice on every blog simply for my fellow witches who do. I do not participate in certain practices but want other witches who do such practices to be able to obtain the knowledge they are searching for.

🌊Phone Altar🌊

My second time turning my phone into an altar to Poseidon and I have to say as much as I loved the simplicity of my last one, I adore the colors and chaos going on with this one 💙

Rosemary can be used in place of any herb

Roses can be used in place of any flower

Clear quartz can be used in place of any crystal

White can be used in place of any color

Other tips

Download a dice app on your phone for easy yes/ no answers (1-3 is no, 4-6 is yes)

Print out a deck of tarot cards for free online (look up tarot pdf)

Buy candles from dollar tree, dollar general, etc.

Dollar stores also sell incense

Use birthday candles and tealights for candle spells

Instead of buying an incense burner, you can just place the end of the stick inside of a jar filled with uncooked rice

Visit some thrift shops/ flea markets (you’ll thank me later haha)

Use an old kitchen knife, pocket knife, or letter opener for an athame

Use a decorated chopstick or regular stick for a wand

When you’re first getting started with witchcraft or another magical practice, it can be easy to get caught up in all of the material stuff involved. Witchy hashtags on social media are filled with pictures of huge sparkly crystals, gorgeous handmade ritual tools, and beautifully elaborate altars. Many spells in books or online call for a long list of herbs, some of which are expensive or hard to come by. For baby witches, it’s easy to feel like you can never be a “real” witch unless you have money for these expensive tools and toys.

This is not true. As we’ve talked about in previous chapters of this series, you don’t need any tools or material components to cast a spell — however, harnessing the energy of plants, crystals, and imagery can be a helpful way to add energy to your work. This doesn’t mean you need to spend a lot of money. In fact, many of the most powerful and useful magical tools can be found on the spice aisle in your local supermarket, or even at the dollar store.

For example:

Salt. Salt is a witch’s best friend. It can be used for cleansing, banishing, protection, grounding, or to neutralize energy. Surrounding something with a circle of salt will protect it [Note: do NOT make salt circles outside, as salt will kill plant life!], and washing something with salt water will cleanse its energy. I often include salt in any spell that I feel needs an extra layer of protection.

Sugar. Just as salt banishes unwanted energy, sugar attracts the things you want into your life. Sugar can be used for any and all attraction spells, whether you’re looking to attract love, money, success, or something else. It can also be used to “sweeten” a situation, or make it more favorable.

Cinnamon. There’s pretty much no positive spell that doesn’t benefit from cinnamon. Cinnamon has associations with healing, love, success, and material wealth, but is also strongly associated with protection. I love burning cinnamon as incense — it fills the whole room with warm, cozy energy.

Cayenne. Cayenne is often used for banishing or binding spells, but a lesser known use is for getting things moving. Cayenne is a very fiery plant, so any spell dealing with passion, motivation, or drive can benefit from its inclusion. Cayenne can be used to “light a fire” under someone to motivate them to action. However, cayenne is a more harsh energy, so I often pair it with lavender or another soothing herb.

Coffee. I most often use coffee for grounding or to anchor things to the physical world. For example, I might include it in a prosperity spell to make sure the results manifest in my everyday life. Coffee is also energizing and brings mental clarity, and can enhance psychic abilities. Brewed coffee is also used in some traditions as an offering for spirits.

Bay leaves (Bay Laurel). Bay leaves are one of the most popular spell components because of their association with granting wishes. You’ve probably heard of the practice of writing a wish on a bay leaf and burning it to manifest your desire. I often include bay leaves in manifestation magic for this reason. Bay leaves can also be used for purification, cleansing, and exorcism.

Ginger. Ginger adds power to any spell it is included in. Ginger tea or gingery food can also give you a personal energy boost. I add ginger to any spell that needs some extra “oomph.” It is also associated with success.

Basil. Basil is very commonly used in money spells. Carrying a basil leaf on your person is believed to attract wealth. It also has associations with protection.

Peppermint. Peppermint is another herb that can add power to virtually any spell. It can bring healing and purification, can remove obstacles and free up stuck energy, and can enhance psychic abilities. Peppermint is a common ingredient in dream pillows. You can find peppermint tea at virtually any grocery store, and many stores also carry the essential oil.

Lavender. Lavender is my favorite herb for bringing peace to a situation. It’s very good for healing magic and for soothing difficult emotions. Lavender is also associated with love, and I especially like to use it in spells for self love. Most stores carry lavender essential oil, and you can also find herbal teas that include it as an ingredient.

With the above herbs at your side, you’ll have everything you need to cast virtually any type of spell. Honestly, even if you just have salt, sugar, and maybe some white candles, you can create powerful spells for dozens of different intentions, from protection to self love to getting a job. Remember, what matters isn’t so much what you have — it’s your intention.

These are also edible, so they can be incorporated into magical recipes for different intentions. In fact, most of the ingredients you cook with every day have magical associations and can do double duty as powerful additions to your spells. For more information about the magical uses of common household herbs and spices, I highly recommend the book A Green Witch’s Cupboard by Deborah J. Martin, which is where most of the info for this post came from.

Other useful magical items that you can pick up at the grocery store include:

Olive oil. Olive oil can be used as an all-purpose anointing oil for candles, ritual tools, or your body. It can also be used to dilute essential oil, or as a base for custom magical oils.

Tealight candles. These small candles are perfect for candle spells. White tealights can be used for any intention.

House plants. Many common houseplants have magical associations. For example, aloe brings protection and healing. You can also grow some witchy herbs, like peppermint or rosemary, indoors.

Epsom salt. Epsom salt is a great base for bath spells. You can add essential oils and herbs to make custom bath salts — just be sure to research oils and herbs ahead of time, as some can cause skin irritation. [Note: Epsom salt is not actually salt, and cannot be substituted for salt in spells.]

Notebooks. Writing things down is an important part of witchcraft. Keeping a record of your spells, divination, and magical experiences makes it easier to keep track of everything.

Here is a list of unconventional and affordable ingredients that can be used in spells and witchcraft along with their correspondences; good for witches “in the woods” and witches on a budget. Many of these can be easily found for inexpensive prices or at home.

Acorns/Acorn Caps: security, abundance, longevity, good luck, youth and brings good health

Animal toys/stickers: relates to correspondences of that animal

Artist’s Charcoal: banishing negativity, protection; cursing

Baby Powder: cleansing, beauty, youth

Baking Soda: cleansing, purification, protection

Birthday Candles: wishes, joy; color magic and number magic depending on their color and/or what number they display

Black Tea Bags (used): earth magic, grounding, strength, stability, banishing negativity; ending, death 

Bottle Caps: prosperity, luck, material gain

Bubble Bath: self-love, relaxation, emotional healing, serenity; plus whatever scent the bubble bath is affects correspondences

Bubbles/Bubble Liquid: wishes, joy, whimsy, imagination, fantasy

Buckeye Nuts: luck, sexual energies, warding

Butter: femininity, flattery, friendship, warmth, happiness; good for fae work

Candy Bars: love, romance, happiness, lust, fertility, emotional healing, healing of the heart, forgiveness, friendship

Candy Corn: courage, imagination, endurance, energy, motivation, happiness, celebration

Candy Foil: sweetness, secrets, protecting one’s emotions; color magic

Chocolate Syrup/Milk: happiness, love, lust, romance, sweetening relationships

Cocktail Swords: strength, assertiveness, competition; cursing, revenge; ending rumors

Cotton Balls: beauty, gentleness, warmth, sleep

Cotton Swabs: cleansing, purification

Dice: chance, opportunity, luck; number magic

Dirt: grounding, earth magic, growth, prosperity, patience, home and family; cursing

Dish Soap: cleansing

Duct Tape: binding, storing energy, cursing

Egg Shells: cleansing, protection, warding

Energy Drinks: energy, motivation

Envelopes: messages, communication, protection during travel

Epsom Salts: purification, cleansing, protection, pain relief, serenity, comfort, stress relief

Fake/Play Money: wealth, prosperity

Fish Sauce: prosperity, water magic, curses

Foil: glamour, protection, storing energy, binding

Glue: sealing, immobility, binding, curses

Googley Eyes: vision, divination, scrying, creativity, protection, imagination; curses, paranoia, nightmares

Grass: growth, nature, learning, healing, new beginnings, recovery from loss

Hand Soap: cleansing, curse removal

Hole Punches: good for cursing

Hot Sauce: motivation, lust, confidence; cursing, anger, revenge, emotional pain

Koolaid: youth, sweetness, happiness; color magic, corresponds with flavors as well

Lip Balm: glamour, confidence in speaking, honesty, beauty

Lollipops: sweetness, innocence, ending rumors and lies, lust and sexual energies, love

Lotion: protection, beauty

Laundry Soap: cleansing, purification

Marshmallows: friendliness, comfort, gentleness, fidelity, sleep and dreams

Metal Crafting Wire: binding

Modeling Clay: poppets, earth magic, grounding, balance, stability, creation, change

Mud: grounding, earth magic; curses

Muslin: poppets, change, creativity

Noodles: Longevity, good health

Pompoms (craft): gentleness, comfort, love, sleep, dreams

Paper Clips: balance, focus, organization; curses, binding

Pennies: luck, wealth

Pickle Juice: curses to sour things

Plastic Bags: protection; binding

Plastic Ribbon (wrapping): happiness, glamour, delight; binding; color magic

Plastic Wrap: binding

Popsicle sticks: poppets

Scissors: offensive magic, curses

Seltzer Water: purification, removing negativity; curses

Sewing Needles: curses, pain

Shaving Cream: cleansing, softness, patience, calmness

Stamps: travel, communication

Sour Cream: cursing

Soy Sauce: protection, banishment; cursing

Sticky Notes: communication, memory

Strawberry Milk: love, self-love, beauty, sweetness, friendship

Syrup: joy, sweetening one’s emotions

Taco Sauce: Focus, Energy, motivation

Taffy: joy, flexibility

Thumbtacks: curses

Tissue Paper: softness, serenity; color magic

Toothpaste: cleansing

Toothpicks: curse

Walnut Shells: protection, warding

Wasabi: Energy; curses, anger, envy

Whipped Cream: beauty, light-heartedness

Whistles: communication, attention grabbing, warding

Other Tips:

Recycle bottles, jars and medicine bottles for jar/bottle magic

Reuse tea bags (though not too long after use) in bath magic

If you do wish to use herbs, it is cheaper to order them online in bulk rather than the supermarket. Trust me, supermarkets and grocery stores really over price most herbs. You can get triple the amount for 2 dollars less online

Make up and toiletries are great for glamours

Its fine to use kitchen knives if you can’t afford am athame

Look at the ingredients in food you eat to see what is in it and determine that food’s correspondences, quick and easy kitchen magic

Crayons, colored pencils, markers and pens are good for easy sigil and color magic

THIS JUST IN -

In an effort to help witches who are stuck at home and in need of good books, I’ve dropped the price of all my ebooks by a dollar.

This new pricing will be in place until April 1st, or whenever the quarantine lifts for my county. Links are below:

Grovedaughter Witchery - $7.99

The Sisters Grimmoire, Vol. I - $7.99

Pestlework - $6.99

The print versions of all my books are now discounted by $2.00!

Furthermore, I have decided to extend the sale until the end of April. The reduced print and ebook prices will now remain in place until May 1, 2020. If you happen to purchase or are reading my work during quarantine, please feel free to tag me in a photo (@BreeNicGarran on Twitter and Instagram) and drop a review on Amazon.

I wish you all good health and the best of luck during these difficult times!

Bonfire: Get one of those wooden wick candles that crackles. Yankee Candle has good deals on them. If that’s too expensive, literally any candle (try leaning towards red or orange colors)

Wine: Lemonade (quintessential summer drink)

Maypole: Pencil (a tool of creativity and creation) with ribbons wrapped around it.

Mayday Bouquet: Just whatever grows in your back yard (as long as it isn’t dangerous to touch). Even just a bundle of grass is fine.

There’s lots of tutorials for mini maypoles online. The pencil is an awesome idea! Could also use a chopstick, a twig, or a wooden dowel (usually cost under 50 cents)

Flower pomanders are a fun and cheap Beltane craft! You can use flowers from your garden or yard or Dollar Tree flowers. All you need is a foam ball and either toothpicks or glue!  Make a flower crown!!

Celebrate with food! There are a ton of Spring and Beltane related recipes that are very simple and don’t cost much! Breads, drinks, deserts, etc. 

Try a colorful ribbon craft: - Do some knot magic using ribbons - Write intentions on ribbons, tie together, and hang from a tree - Make jewelry - Weave and braid

aka, little things to distance your craft from capitalism

Let’s all just admit that buying stuff is fun. That said, there’s a big issue of consumerism within the witchy/pagan scene. As magic work and the pagan “aesthetic” becomes more of a commodity in the mainstream, there’s a mounting attitude of needing All The Items in the highest quality (even if we’re not certain we’ll use them,) and big corporations mass-producing cheap stuff to make a buck off of a growing trend. Here’s some things you can do to help detach your practice from that and support other people in the craft:

Go outside. Check your backyard or local park for local plant life, waters, roots, etc. If your work involves things from nature at all, you can probably find a lot of your supplies… in nature. It takes a little more time, but it’s free and then you’ve gathered stuff yourself! 

Make stuff. This one is pretty straightforward. There may be key items to your practice that you can make yourself instead of buying it! That said, I know sometimes spending money is inevitable so I won’t dwell too much on this… let’s talk more about shopping:

Shop mindfully. The price of a lot of items will skyrocket once it has a pentacle or other symbol engraved on it. For example, little mortars and pestles can be very pricey in witchy shops, but you could probably get a bigger one that’s actually food safe for less at a nice grocery store. Antique stores and international markets are now your new best friends.

Support small businesses! Things are cheaper on Amazon, but the extra money goes to support real people, likely other practitioners. If you can, supporting small, local, independent shopkeepers and crafters does a ton of good. It also helps build and sustain a local community. 

Shop based on need. Don’t get something “just in case” (unless it’s banishing or hex breaking stuff; those are decent to have on hand.) It’s tempting to impulse-buy a ton of niche items and ingredients, but unless you have a reasonable idea what you’re going to use them for in the near future, it’ll probably just create clutter for you to deal with later.

Prioritize effectiveness over aesthetic. Ultimately your practice has to work for you, not just look good. I think making your work aesthetically pleasing to yourself can be an important part of really connecting with what you’re doing, but don’t make that desire burn a hole in your wallet and distract you from what brought you to this path in the first place. Altar envy is a real thing. 

Recycle/Upcycle. Use old clothing fabric for an altar cloth. That old trinket dish makes a great offering dish. Enchant jewelry you already own. That jar of strawberry jelly you just finished off will work just fine for that spell. Things can be re-purposed and made into new things.

Analyze your offerings. Special occasion wine isn’t a special occasion if you do it every time. Not every offering needs to be a grand gesture, regular maintenance is more important generally.

Organize trades. Have any pals that also practice? See if you can help each other! You could trade different goods (that old mini cauldron you bought and never used for that abandoned tarot deck, maybe?) but also services. A protection spell for a luck charm. A reading for a reading. You help them with the laundry and they cook you a meal one day. 

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I am partnered with them to offer 15% off every order, but I am genuinely and consistently impressed with the quality of their items. I’d definitely encourage you to check them out! 

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