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Your grimoire is your personal diary of everything to do with witchcraft and spell casting. Your grimoire can contain anything that you personally find useful and inspiring🔮

Here’s a basic list of things you can include:

Moon phases and their meanings🌙

Spells (your own or other people’s)

Crystals and their meanings

Herbs and their properties 🍃

Candles and what the different colors respresent

Sigils

How to open a circle/close a circle

Latin words/phrases to use during spells

Write down any dreams or premonitions you have

Write down things you want to manifest

Any quotes that inspire you

Different types of water (moon, rain, storm, etc.) and what to use them for

Simple spells (such as bath spells and tea spells)

The different zodiac signs and their traits

How to banish negative spirits

How to scry

Basically anything because it’s your grimoire

Ariadne: *Kisses him*

Dionysus in a tie-dye shirt following him: sksksk

Apollo: DAAAD HE'S DOING IT AGAIN!!

Hermes, who was hiding inside the closet: I may have taken things a little too far.

Apollo: What did you do this time?

Hermes: Well... The prank this time may or may not have involved Dionysus's year's supply of wine and replacing it with water.

Dionysus: *screaming bloody murder in the background*

Apollo:

Apollo: HE'S OVER HERE!

Hermes:

1. Shuffle your cards.

2. Knock on your deck.

3. Hold them in your hands.

4. Hold your cards and meditate.

5. Keep your deck(s) in a bowl of salt for the day or night.

6. Take a few cards at a time and blow on them until you have gone through the whole deck.

7. Set your deck(s) in the windowsill at night or in the morning and let the sun or moon cleanse them.

8. Sort your cards in order, starting with Major Arcana then each of the suits of the Minor Arcana.

9. Burn sage and fan your cards through the smoke until you have gone through the whole deck.

10. Place some crystals on top of your deck(s) when you aren't using them (this also charges your cards).

11. Light incense and take a few cards and fan them through the smoke until you have gone through the whole deck.

When should you cleanse your cards?

1. After a draining reading.

2. After every reading (optional).

3. After someone else has handled them.

4. When you feel like they need cleansed.

5. After handling during negative emotions.

Tarot deck: Trust and believe in your gut

Me: *reshuffles and asks again*

Tarot deck: I told you to believe in yourself

Me: Imma ask one more time just in case..

-Glamour magick

-Spell your toothbrush

-Spell a candle

-Try out dream magick

-Grow plants

-Read Tarot

-Leave spell sachets around your room/house

-Spell a piece of jewelry that you wear daily

-Spell a bath bomb

-Draw sigils on yourself (personal fav)

-Start a Grimoire/Book of Shadows and carry it with you

-Meditate daily

-Light spelled incense

-Do your makeup/eyeshadow based on the sign the moon is in (personal fav)

-Practice kitchen magick

-Keep a crystal with an intended purpose in your pocket/bag

-Paint your nails with color magick

-Spell your morning coffee/tea/beverage

-Cleanse your space as often as possible

-Create a magickal routine for the week to help try and fit in more time for magick

-Emoji spells

If you, like me, cannot seem to make a sigil your happy with for the life of you, then sigilscribes.me is the perfect, simple way around your perfectionism. You can literally just type in what you want, and it produces a fully formed sigil. Feels like a bit of a cheat, but I’m happier doing it like this than stressing myself trying to make one I like aesthetically 😂.

What separates a Witch from a Powerful Witch are two things: time and discipline. Witchcraft is a craft, just like painting or singing. While there is certainly nothing wrong with doodling or humming in the shower if that is what makes you happy, if you want to end up in museums or sing opera, you’re going to have to develop the discipline in order to motivate yourself. Witchcraft is the same. Very, very few people are innately talented enough to master everything about Witchcraft without developing discipline and sticking to a routine.

Discipline isn’t something you develop over night; it is something that needs to be nurtured slowly over time. Discipline is a bit like a plant. You begin with a small seed that, with time, effort, and care, will slowly grow into a beautiful flower. However, if you neglect your plant by forgetting to water it daily, your flower will shrivel. And if instead of consistently watering your plant, you forget and allow it to dry out, and then dousing it in water once you remember, you may drown your flower or cause root rot. Discipline is the same way: you need to consistently care for it daily in order for it to grow properly. Neglect or excessive inconsistency can kill your discipline.

So how do you become a more disciplined Witch?

-First, identify the areas of your Craft that are strong. Perhaps you already have a daily meditation practice or perform a weekly cleansing ritual consistently. Reward yourself for these successes! If you don’t yet have something you do on a daily or weekly basis, find something in your Craft that you do regularly, but do it more often. For example, if you do a morning Tarot spread every now and then, transition to doing a daily spread at the same time each morning. Get in the habit of doing something, anything, related to your Craft on a consistent basis. In the beginning, it may be helpful to set an alarm when you’re supposed to practice if you are prone to forgetting until it becomes a habit. Once you learn how to create one habit, you can begin incorporating more into your daily/weekly craft.

-Passion and discipline go hand in hand. Do what you can to maintain your passion for the Craft while building your discipline to keep you motivated even when you’re ready to call it quits. Read books and blog posts about Witchcraft, follow more experienced Witches online, or join a local community or Coven. If you ever find yourself beginning to slack off, remind yourself just how much you love Witchcraft.

-Set tangible goals for yourself. Sometimes it can be difficult to maintain our sense of discipline if we don’t have anything specific that we’re working towards. Is there a ritual that you’ve always wanted to attempt but felt you didn’t have the skills? Begin planning out what you would need to do in order to get to a point where you can comfortably perform the ritual, and use that plan to structure your daily/weekly practice.

-Once you get comfortable with creating habits, setting goals, and maintaining your passion for the Craft, you may find it helpful to create a schedule in a planner or Google Calendar. Creating daily, weekly, and monthly schedules can help you stay organized and prevent yourself from being overwhelmed. When planning, be sure to mark down mundane responsibilities as well so you don’t accidentally overbook yourself or cause an imbalance between your mundane and Craft life. Creating a daily, weekly, and monthly schedule can help you keep track of regular tasks and auspicious days. You can even record astrological phenomena in your planner to help you choose the best dates for certain activities.

-While being disciplined is certainly helpful, burning yourself out is not, so be sure to schedule time for breaks and relaxation. While it may be tempting to do everything all at once, remember the plant analogy: if you over-water your plant, your flower may drown and die. If you push yourself too hard too quickly, you may burn out and find it even harder to stay on track. But if you consistently set aside time to unwind and step away from your Craft, you’ll be less likely to overwhelm yourself.

It is important to remember that your Craft is your own. Don’t be discouraged if you find your schedule only allows you to devote a small amount of time to your Craft. Discipline isn’t about spending every waking moment practicing Witchcraft; it is about consistently cultivating your Craft through regular practice. Practicing five minutes every other day is better than practicing for five hours once a month since it keeps your momentum going and your growth steady. Those five minutes each day bring you five minutes closer to your goals.

Originally posted on nightshadeandroses.wordpress.com.

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This jar spell will help if you have a test coming up you aren’t sure about or you need some extra luck for something you’re not sure how it’ll turn out. I love this one because it’s short, simple, easy, cheap, and can be customized! 

Ingredients: 

Small glass jar or bottle

Orange or yellow candle

Basil

Ginger

Peppermint oil

Directions: 

☾   Light your candle, and fill bottle with ingredients.  ☾   While filling bottle, state your intention for each ingredient ☾   Seal bottle and pour wax over it or inside of it while saying: 

“Good luck come to me, guide me through this test, so mote it be.” 

🎐 Baby Witch Tip #1 🔮

If you’re having trouble with or doubting your crafts effectiveness, there are a couple of questions you can ask yourself:

Whats my source? 📜

Well chances are if you got it off Tumblr, Pinterest, or the first page of Google…its crap. This isnt to say there aren’t exceptions but generally the mass of the online community seems to have hopped in bed with the idea that everything is arbitrary. Dont have a full moon? Do it whenever you want! Don’t have a candle? Use plastic! Don’t have moon water prepared? Just grab some Deer Park bottled water! The fact of the matter is, while witchcraft is constantly evolving and adapting there are just some things that work and some that don’t. Not everything is buzzing with magical energy and no two things have the same energy or effect. Emoji spells, jars of random things from your kitchen, and YouTube “chants to turn yourself into a werewolf” just aren’t going to cut it if you’re looking to make some serious magic. Think of it like cooking. Honey, agave, and stevia are all fine substitutes for sugar. But if you’re trying to make a rich chocolate chip cookie with dark brown sugar and you use stevia instead… You will not get the same cookie. No matter how much intention you put into it. The things you use matter. Tumblr likes to think you can just add more milk and not bake the cake and its basically the same thing as long as you put a lot of intent into it? Try serving that at a wedding.

Alternative sources include books by well known members of various witch communities (I.e. an herbalist/green witch might read Judika Illes). Thats not to say books and websites cant be trusted unless famous, but when youre a baby witch go with the most popular then work your way in as your BS radar and sense of self get stronger. But the best source will always be elders, reach out and try find pagans in your community. We’re a sneaky lot but we are out there. For eons, magick has been passed down through generations. I personally believe in the prowess of a magickal bloodline but many these days are the first of their line to pick up the craft and that’s okay. Plenty people who are born swimmers lose to people who are passionate. But what both need is guidance and training.

2. How strong is my mind? 💪

A witch is only as good as their intuition and if you’ve just googled love spells, went out and bought the pink candles, and plopped down to seduce Chad The Almighty then Im afraid that might not go well dear. While a good spell is a great help, ultimately items are simply there to aid, amplify, and channel your ability. If you are hasty or a poor listener then you wont go very far.

Meditation (of all kinds) is the best way to train your brain. If you can quiet your mind and channel your spirit then you stand a chance to make a potent spell with minimal aid. But this takes YEARS of practice. Hang in there.

3. Am I REALLY prepared? 🎓

Have you been meditating? How many books have you read? Have you been taking good care of your body? Do you have the right spell? The right enviroment? Are you taking your time? Have you taken moments to listen to the world around you and observe what the universe might be trying to tell you? Are you sure a spell is needed? Is the timing right?

If you feel like somethings just not clicking, then the answer is no- youre not prepared. Magic is intuitive and when its right its right. You’ll know.

Never. Ever. Ever. Rush into magic unprepared. If you force yourself down the throat of the universe, it will shit you out.

4. What am I contributing? 🔁

I’m not fluffy bunny. Every great teacher I’ve ever known, read, listened to, or heard of has made sure to make one thing very clear everything has a price. If you are drawing from within that means your personal energy, strength, happiness, safety, or more depending on the spell and intensity. Objects can help a lot with this, thats why spell ingredients aren’t arbitrarily thrown about and exchanged. If you work with spirits or dieties or other beings of any kind, then you must contribute back to them. Its a relationship, not a charity. If you want your house spirit to protect you, then you must get to know that house and treat it in a way that pleases it. If you want a spirit to bring you love, it might want offerings of honey or milk.

I mean, imagine this: You’re a rich bank owner and someone shows up and bangs on your door. They tell you they want you to bring them money and bring it now, here are some rocks that remind them of money, they’re holding a green candle. Would you just give it to them? Probably not. But if it was a friend, or if the person came with a gift, you might share just a little bit.

5. Does this even need magic? 🔨

You wanna drop 20lbs? Dont do a spell. You wanna find true love? Dont do a spell. You wanna make sure you dont burn your pastry? Dont do a spell.

Instead do spells that motivate you to go to the gym or choose that healthy meal. Do spells that make you a more confident and comfortable person so that you arent so worried about meeting the one. Do spells that help you show love to your bakes so that you know just when they are ready to come out.

And most of all, mundane before magical. Plenty of people live perfectly good lives without a single chant or gemstone. Make sure you are doing what you can, and the powers that be might just take a fancy and help you out even when you dont ask for it.

If you get nothing else out of this, the main thing I encourage you to do is READ READ READ.

Happy Casting

Friendship Attraction Spell Bottle

Your grimoire is your personal diary of everything to do with witchcraft and spell casting. Your grimoire can contain anything that you personally find useful and inspiring🔮

Here’s a basic list of things you can include:

Moon phases and their meanings🌙

Spells (your own or other people’s)

Crystals and their meanings

Herbs and their properties 🍃

Candles and what the different colors respresent

Sigils

How to open a circle/close a circle

Latin words/phrases to use during spells

Write down any dreams or premonitions you have

Write down things you want to manifest

Any quotes that inspire you

Different types of water (moon, rain, storm, etc.) and what to use them for

Simple spells (such as bath spells and tea spells)

The different zodiac signs and their traits

How to banish negative spirits

How to scry

Basically anything because it’s your grimoire

me, a witch: hey I'm a witch, maybe

I could do something magic-y to help

me: I have a pack of salt, salt is supposed to help protect and it's cleansing

me: but maybe I should put it close to my heart, to help cleanse my emotions

me: but how will I do that?

me:

me:

me:

me, a witch: *puts a packet of salt in my bra*

“Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.” ~Walt Whitman

If you have a sweetheart, here’s some things you can do to manifest more romance into your life;

💝 Create an amulet or talisman for love re-inforcement to strengthen bonds.

💝 Go for a romantic walk in nature. Find a souvenir such as an acorn, to bring home and display on your altar to remind you of your memories. Pick wildflowers together on your way home.

💝 Have a ritual bath together. enchant bath bombs, add flowers, bubbles and other magick ingredients to adorn your bath.

💝 Give your partner a massage with a scented oil, scan the body using healing crystals to sense energy blockages and remove them.

💝 Enchant an object to give as a gift to your partner. Make it a suprise and see how they react. If you want to, tell them its made up of your magick.

💝 Prepare a romantic candle lit dinner for your partner, infuse magick into the food you eat and the utensils you use.

💝 Bake goodies using ingredients for love such as cinnamon, nutmeg or hazelnut. Practice some Kitchen Witchery together.

💝 Bring lilac into your home to make a partner more gentle and loving. Write a poem or spell for your love and say it aloud, make them gush.

💝 Enchant rose or flower petals to lay on your bed and suprise your partner.

💝 Have a picnic outside in nature or take a moonlit walk on the beach. Making special time for love is most important, and you can connect with nature at the same time.

💘 Love Re-inforcement Spell 💘

If you have an existing relationship, here is a spell to strengthen emotional bonds and refesh the relationship again and bring in the high energy of love. The Greek Goddess Aphrodite inspired me to make this since she helps humans in the realms of love, in a social way.

💕 Red Candle

💕 Red Ribbon

💕 Green Jade or Lemon Jade

💕 Seashells &/or pearls

💕 Orange oil

💕 Pink/Red Incense

1. This is a spell that can be done immediately and can be used in a pinch. Put the sea shells and pearls around your candle. Annoint the candle with your oil.

2. Cast a circle if you wish. Call upon the elements to be present. Call upon the Goddess Aphrodite to help you. Light your incense and candle.

3. Take your red ribbon and rub a bit of oil on it. Take your Jade and wrap the ribbon around it, put a drop of oil on it.

4. Bring it through the incense smoke, visualizing your love and devotion being shared with the ribbon and the jade. “Red ribbon and Jade, our love is reformade.” Drip 3 drops of wax onto it to seal it together.

5. Thank Aphrodite and close the circle. Save this to put in the hand of your partner next time you see them. Give them a kiss, and immediately propose you make a date or social outing.

💘 Beauty-Boost Ritual 💘

If you need a bit of a boost, here is a ritual to increase self-love, condifence and uniqueness and can be used to make one more physically attractive to ones partner. The Egyptian Goddess Hathor inspired me to put this together because using the mirror, when we think positive healing thoughts, we have a chance to change the outer world with what we see in the inner world.

💕 Red or pink candle

💕 Make up or lip gloss

💕 Lavender oil or perfume

💕 A Mirror

💕 Piece of rose quartz

💕 Hibiscus tea (optional)

1. Put on a satin gown, comfy pjays or anything you feel comfortable in. Get yourself a hot hibiscus tea or other beverage of your choosing and sit at a vanity or comfortable place. cast a circle and call the elements if you wish.

2. Light your colored candle next to you and gaze into the mirror. Hold your piece of rose quartz. Call upon the Goddess Hathor, Smile in the mirror at yourself, and radiate a loving energy from your heart. Hathor will help you realize and know for a fact that you are truly beautiful. Think about what feelings you would like your partner to feel when you see them. (happiness, joy, ect.)

3. Think positive affirmations as you apply your choice of make up. Think about what you would like to manifest in your relationship. When you are finished, apply the scented oil or perfume to your pressure points, wear a piece of rose quartz if you can, this makes it more effective. If you like wear jewelry or clothing that you feel amazing in. This will really make you shine from the inside and out. Drink your tea. Thank Hathor and close the circle.

💘 Luscious Lip-Scrub Recipe 💘

Here’s a lip scub recipe you can use to take on the go to sweeten your kiss.

💕 1 tsp honey

💕 2 tsp Brown Sugar

💕 a very tiny bit of red or pink coloring for a lip stain (optional)

💕 2 drops of vanilla or essential oil (read safety label first to ensure its safe, optional)

💕 A small piece of rose quartz or other crystal (optional)

1. Mix ingredients until it is a uniform substance. Choose a jar or container for keeping. Set crystal inside.

2. Apply on lips, either lick off or wash with warm water. After you can apply a lip balm to rehydrate your lips. Now go kiss your partner!

Intended to be used a few times weekly. You can keep it safetly for up to a month. Wash crystal and keep it when you are done with the scrub.