Accents in Madness

I made these super easy Tea Light Candles today and added herbs, dried flowers and essential oils to use in future rituals. (Or basically whenever i want to)

Step One: Add your Tea Lights to a pot and put it on the stove by low to medium heat.

Step Two: After the wax melted down, add your chosen herbs, flowers or oils. You can literally do anything here, get creative!

Some of my creations contained dried lavender buds and lavender essential oil (for inner peace, balance and good sleep), dried sunflower (to brighten up your mood or day, to bring happiness), sage (to purify and cleanse) and a mixture of black pepper, sea salt and cayenne pepper (to banish and absorb negative energies)

Step Three: After you added your ingredients, take the pot off the stove and let the Tea Lights harden again.

And that’s it! It’s super easy and the outcome is just as effectful as gorgeous.

• guess I get to vacuum again

• these wax bits are important

• my nails are feirce but I can’t shuffle my tarot cards

• 10% of the herbs actually made it into the tiny jar

• this rock is important

• my plants have names

• and personalities

• purse and pockets filled with rocks

• shit I left the amethyst on the windowsill

• pillowcase also filled with rocks

• the bed is grainy bc u threw SALT ON IT

• burned my fingers again

• these acorns: important

🍃Memory Spell🍃

I have 7 tests/quizzes to take in the next two days… I have a LOT of studying to do, so I’ve made a lil’ jar spell that I’ll keep with me to help me remember what I studied for whatever test or quiz I’ll be taking. Feel free to use this, witchy’s!

Materials:

• 🕯at least one candle (you really don’t need any color, but if you’d like one, purple for wisdom and/or orange for energy and education)

•🍃rosemary - for mental clarity and memory

•🌱peppermint oil - study and memory

•⚗️some kinda jar (big or small, doesn’t matter)

• 🖤hematite (optional) - for memory

• 🔮purple string or rubber band (optional) - for wisdom

Process🍂

• light your candle and place materials beside it

• sprinkle the rosemary leaves into the jar until it’s filled to your liking while focusing on your intent of memory, imagining that each sprinkle is a little sprinkle of light and clarity of mind (if that makes sense)

• put as many drops of peppermint oil as you’d like (if it pools more and could spill, don’t use a cloth and string to secure it, as it could spill)

• *optional* hold hematite to your forehead, holding the other in your other hand, and focus on the flame in your candle. Focusing on your intent and imagine a white light entering the bottle.

• either put a cork or stopper thing in your bottle to cap it or take a piece of cloth, place it on top of the opening, and tie/wrap a piece of purple string/a purple rubber band around it to seal it

• blow out your candle

You’re done! My memory jar is small enough for me to place in my pocket so I can keep it with me tomorrow and the next day. You can change the spell to your personal liking and available resources.

Happy Crafting!

Carry them in a sachet to attract love.

Add them to your bath to balance emotions and increase confidence.

Use the petals to cast your circle or sprinkle on your altar.

Use them to make magical perfumes, tinctures or rose water.

Use red roses in spells for love and passion.

Use white roses in spells for unconditional love.

Use pink roses in spells for friendship.

Use yellow roses in spells for joy and healing.

Use red roses to represent the masculine, active principle and use white roses to represent the feminine, respective principle.

Cat Whitney’s thread of her favorite spooky plants includes some of the plant kingdom’s most horrifying denizens: Aristolochia Salvadorensis…“looks like a flayed skull, and reminds some of Darth Vader”; Hydnellum peckii…“The infamous bleeding tooth or Devil’s tooth fungus”; Antirrhinum seed pods…“the seedpods of some species resemble human skulls”; Tacca chantrieri…“the Black Bat Flower”; Monkey Orchids…“as I’m personally terrified of primates & apes, I’m putting them on here”;

Here are some quick magickal techniques you can use first thing in the morning to help make your day go a little easier!

Morning Shower Meditation - use the element of water to cleanse yourself of any lingering negativity from the previous day. Use herbal soaps, herbal bags for aromatherapy, oils, or other means to help you focus on your intent to wash away negative energy down the drain.

Light some incense - I do this on most mornings to set a tone for how I want the day to proceed. Aromas can produce powerful emotions and moods. Here’s a brief list of some of my favorites scents and some of their attributes.

Frankincense and Myrrh - uplifting

Glass Beach, Fort Bragg, California

Orphaned baby bats are often swaddled tightly like teeny burritos to mimic being cuddled by mom and help ease separation anxiety.

They also seem to find pacifiers soothing.