The New Witch

BEST WITCHY BOOKS FOR THE BEGINNER WITCH

Buckland’s Complete Book Of Witchcraft - This book is a most have in every Wiccan’s (If you are) collection because of how informative it is. I highly recommend this book to really every witch who hasn’t read it yet.

The Modern Guide to Witchcraft: Your Complete Guide to Witches, Covens, and Spells - This book is a nice add to a baby witches collection, for how simple of a read it is. Not to mention how aesthetically pleasing it is.

Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner - This book is also a very nice read, it has a perfect amount of information where you wont get information overload too quickly. Its unbiased and offers a great first start to starting the craft.

Wicca: by Harmony Nice - If you are a complete newbie to Wicca or the craft, then this is the book for you. This book is easy to swallow, and offers easy to understand information for newbies without being too difficult to process. 

Of Witchcraft and whimsy - I think this is the book for newbies who want to seek the more modern practices of witchcraft. This is a book that focuses more on the craft than Wicca itself. It is also complete with plenty of unique and fun spells perfect for beginner level.

Pastel Spells - A perfect book for newbies looking to try out spells of all types at a beginner level.

The Green Witch - Perfect for a beginning green witch, this book is complete with all the basics of Green magick complete with the correspondences of herbs and food, recipes, and basic practices and morals of a green witch.

Spellcrafting: Strengthen the Power of Your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells - Perfect for a new witch looking to formulate their own unique spells.

The Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guide - Perfect for new witches looking to expand their knowledge on herbalism.

The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs: Your Complete Guide to the Hidden Powers of Herbs - Beautifully illustrated guide to herbs and their magickal properties.

The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary:Rituals & Recipes for a Year of Earth Magick and Sacred Medicine Making - Perfect for the beginning witch interested in herbalism, ands its all around a pretty little book.

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Rosy Witches: with bright eyes and smiles, hair that does what it pleases and still manages to look good. Scented lip balm, satchels, and no shoes when possible. Warm days where gardens drink in the sun.

Tea Leaf Witches: with their hair always up, as it just gets too distracting. Sleeves pulled over icy hands, nervous habits, chipped nail polish from last month. Sweaters even when it’s too hot. Overcast days and people watching.

Midnight Witches: with dark lips and cheeky grins. Quiet power, chunky heels, dark nails running across the lines of books. Picnics in the graveyard, parasols. The first days of Autumn where you can feel what is to come.

Now is the time to feel cleansed by the changing of the air, embrace new endeavors, and shed all the things which no longer serve you, letting them fall away like the leaves. ♡

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i recently got gifted a beautiful new deck, and whenever i get a new deck, the first thing i do is bond with it! one of the ways i do that is holding a little interview session with it.

you’ve probably seen hundreds of ‘deck interview’ spreads, and they’re all really helpful! however, i find them a little limiting. i tend to use a different, more conversational method of interviewing my deck. i talk to my cards, pull cards when i feel an answer is ready, and just keep going and pulling cards as i go until i’m satisfied i know the deck well enough to proceed! here are some useful questions i tend to use for this.

who are you? (how do you see yourself?)

how do you see me?

what are your main goals?

how do you view life?

what’s your main characteristic?

what can you teach?

what kind of questions do you struggle with?

how should i continue with you?

what can you offer me?

what will the outcome of our relationship be?

what do you think i need to know?

how can i achieve that?

what do you want from me?

do you want to be used for others?

do you want to be used for paid readings?

should i read reversals?

from these questions you can get a scope of how the deck answers questions, its nature, whether it’s optimistic/pessimistic/realistic, whether it sugar coats or gives it to you straight… honestly, interviewing new and even old decks is invaluable.

also, this way i manage to get a feel for how the deck likes to be handled. all my decks like to be shuffled, cut and stacked in different ways - handling them how they like for me tends to give more accurate and helpful readings!

Cleansing is a way of removing negative or unwanted energies, spirits, and imprints from an object or a space. There are a number of simple rituals and actions that are done to cleanse. You can do as many or as few as you like, and create your own cleansing methods/rituals. 

✨ CLEANSING ONESELF

Brush your hair, morning

Ritual baths

Dancing singing

Visualization 

Drinking a tea designed to cleanse

✨ DISCREET METHODS

Brush your hair

Open the windows, let the new air come in and the old air out 

Light a candle

Playing a song you associate with cleansing

Ringing wind chimes

Wetting your hands in salt water and flicking the water through the area

Visualize light and colors, and manipulate the energy away

✨ OPEN AREA METHODS

Ring a bell through an area

Smoke cleansing / cense (not smudging)

Waft incense smoke around

Burn herbs, such as sage, rosemary, bay leaf, etc

Spritz lemon-infused water around, or salt water

Light a candle

Sprinkle salt or eggshell pieces in the windows and doorways

Use a besom to clean the negative energies out of the air like cobwebs

Wave a branch of a strong-scented herb through the area, such as mint

Toss a pinch of salt or herbs in the door ways and window

Touch each corner of the room and say a short prayer over each

✨ CLEANSING OBJECTS

bury in a salt bath

if water-compatible (not soluble, won’t react poorly, etc), let sit in a moon or salt water bath

pass through smoke

incense