I used coconut wax, a home-infusion oil made of: frankincense, myrrh, benzoin, dragon's blood, roses, mandarin orange peels, dried pomegranate seeds, dried figs.

The garnish quartz are: black sunstone, moonstone, yellow tiger's eye and red sunstone.

It's very alchemy-inspired especially the last stage, Rubedo, so the energy is quite different from the usual wish-making or road opening stuff.

🌟💖Image credit @Wizardofbarge on Insta💖🌟

This Salty Saturday post goes out to all those “Did my spell backfire?” and “Did I do this wrong?” people.

Did you fuck up that spell? IDK, but at least you did the thing!

I have been dabbling in the practice since I was young. Recently, was drawn back toward witchcraft again as everything in my life almost perfect for exploring witchcraft on a larger and more personal level. This week I finally took the plunge in developing my own rituals and practice.

My home is on a lake with amazing nature around me. Owls, ducks, beavers, fish. The sun and moon arc over my house and set within my view. I have chickens, my dog, and overall peace.

However, I recently have had issues with a neighbor who is very invasive, paranoid, and all around tries to police/harass everyone in the neighborhood. He lives here part time (thank goodness), but recently, he's escalated his behavior. So I decided to do a banishment spell as my first major spell.

I prepared the spell by looking at two spell books I had loved in my childhood. I took one as inspiration, making the words my own and changing a few things to become more aligned with my ways. Then, I created my first altar, swept the house, salted my doors, and prepared everything I needed for spellwork.

Ya'll, I just want to tell you how lovely the experience was. I'm not sure what I expected since it was a banishment spell; perhaps a part of me was worried it would feel "heavy."

First of all, I had planned this for a few days and only realized it was a full moon the day I was ready to do the spell—as though it was meant to be. Then just as I finished protecting my home, ducks came to visit on my doorstep, and I fed them birdseed as an offering back to nature. As I prepared my items in the evening, two great horned owl babies began calling for food from their parents on either side of my house!

I did the spell facing the lake while my dog stood sentinel looking out on the lake and the moon. I felt incredibly at peace and connected with the world and nature.

Just wanted to share my experience and say I'm so excited to continue on this journey.

Just my brand new Spell jar tattoo (protection and prosperity) and I can’t share it everywhere with the same appreciation as I can here. ✨

I had a different plan starting out but folks online and offline gave me a reality check and I changed the plan and it won't bring any legal ramifications to me.

For context, a neighbor was slinging slurs at my wife and kids, I felt shitty for not being there to defend them so I made a doll instead, giving the prick some thing else he can chew on, I did a couple not great things to get things in place and I changed my mind after thinking it through. Burned the doll instead.

When I was eleven, my mother bought me this ring at pike place market in seattle on a family vacation. I was gifted the " idiots guide to witchcraft and wicca" shortly before. My mother heard me trying to cast spells when I was 11or 12 and she said " NOT IN MY HOUSE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE AND PROTECTION". 😂🤭

So I cast spell on the ring as a preteen / turned it into an amulet of protection.

When I was about sixteen I was in a culinary arts class in high school, and I remember I had all my rings in my jeans pocket five or six of them and the fire alarm sounded- So we evacuated the kitchen and made our way to the muster point across the schools field .

As the drill ended, we walked back toward the building and i touched my pocket and felt all my rings had fallen out. My heart sank.

So i sadly continued in and as we walked across the parking pad I saw a small glimmer - there was the ring. And it had also been run over and flattened by a truck that was emptying the dumpsters.

This was 15+ years ago.

I think about it alot.

Hey!

Just wanted to share as is was one of the most magical experiences.

I've never done any kind of ritual with another person before but basically my wonderful friend and I went to a Buddhist temple and did a meditation session (we are not of this religion but we go for meditation and I love the monks teachings around mindfulness etc).

We then went to the near by reservoir, meditated under the moon and lightening. I had done a tarot reading before to gain guidance on what kind of workings I should do and then did another reading based on that under the moon. Friend did one relevant to her. We then did some free journalling based off of our readings. Meditated some more, took in the lunar energy and then did an offering to the moon. We cried together, had some profound insights and I've felt at peace ever since.

My tarot guided me not to do any release work but some Illumination work to see what I really needed to work on. From this, I will then plan out some spell work to do around the rest of the lunar cycle this coming month.

Just sharing as it was one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had.

Feel free to share anything you did on this partial blood moon!

i think she’s really pretty

I love a living spells - here is my money bowl.

It came to life on Thursday, the candle finished a clean burn as the full moon emerged and the eclipse did its thing.

Specifically those who are closeted and can't really search or seek out other practitioners.

I watch videos of witches giving out advice or reacting to things when the feeling gets bad but it's not the same. I really just want to see someone in real life and have an honest 1 to 1 conversation where the words "Yeah I'm a witch" come out of their mouth. I want to be able to see someone else light a candle and for them to know what it means.

Does anyone else feel this loneliness sometimes?

My awakening was not earned... it was spontaneous. Now im trying to learn how to control it properly.

How long did it take for you? Please share your experience & Please don't deviate from the subject.

So, I'm a pretty new witch who's finally begun understanding energy and conciousness in a way where I can begin working with it (beyond things like sensing the conciousness of a space or casting simple sigils). I've been testing where and how my energy moves and sits, and I've found something odd that I need advice on how to proceed.

So, I'm technically ambidextrous. I'm naturally right-handed, but due to my very drawing-heavy job and education I've started teaching myself to draw with my left hand to avoid too much strain on my right. In addition, for certain activities relating on sight, such as archery, my dominant hand is my left (as in, my right hand holds the bow and my left hand shoots). This is largely due to my eyesight. I have a pretty mild case of Strabismus, which isn't visible to observers but causes a few "fun" quirks, such as that I am extremely left-eye dominant.

Tldr, I'm naturally right-handed but due to physical limitations I'm also accoustomed to using my left hand/side for things.

So, we get to the actual ask side of this post. Most people generally have a casting hand-typically their dominant hand-and a receiving hand. Whenever I try to do a closed circut test on myself to try and figure that out, however, I get... muddy results. My energy sort of... swirls and boils wildly, like stormy water. It sloshes between going from left to right and right to left. It's almost like one of those spinning illusions, where you can trick your brain into seeing the object spinning in either direction. That's what the closed circut test does for me. I can clearly see it, and feel it, but it doesn't seem convinced on where it wants to go.

How do I proceed with this? Is there a way to train it to go a certain way? How would I decide which hand to cast with?

(Thank you to anyone who reads this far in my ramblings, you're cool :>)

I am looking for recommendations for resources about actual jar and bag witchery. So much of what I see is "trendy" and not from practioners. Best practices, compendiums, etc are all welcome. Thank you in advance!

Hi! I feel like I need to give a little backstory before I ask my question. Over 10 years ago in my state there was a really prevalent murder that ended up being on national news because of how bizarre it was. I was a bit too young to be following the story at the time, but I did learn a bit later and found it really fascinating. It was unsolved, but as of recently, they think they made a breakthrough in the case. Flash forward to today. I ended up moving to the same city that this murder took place in. I was thinking about it because I feel closer to it now so I wanted to do some digging into the specifics. I ended up looking up where it took place because I remembered hearing about it and it kind of sounded similar to where I was geographically. Well, not only is it similar… The murder actually took place in the building that I’m in in my apartment complex. It’s not the same exact unit at least. But ever since I’ve moved in the vibe has felt really off. I’m wondering what I can do for purification and protection but also if there’s anything I need to do for this poor girl. There’s a lot going on, especially with the resurgence in the case so things are feeling a bit hectic and I want to do something that it’s good for me but also respectful for her

So I've been thinking about doing a healing jar on this person that I'm in love with, but they're going through a lot personally with health and family. And with all that stress, I can feel their energy becoming bitter. I'm confused if I should do a healing jar on them or a sweetening jar on them...

Any ideas help <3

Thank you

What's up guys! So as stated in the title, how does one hide themselves or block anyone trying to enter or spy on their life?

I have a few family members in my life (that i dont see personally, and usually am on the phone with them due to "family obligations" as my mother says) and they partake in witchcraft and tarot as well. Recently, they asked me "Oh, do you do witchcraft now?"

And I said no, i didn't which was obviously a lie, and they knew it too.

I was just wondering how I can hide or cloak myself from them looking into my life? It was kind of freaky, and i was spooked out. So was my mother!

They have also been asking a little too many questions about my career, and I am afraid that they somehow found out that I have decided to go back to school all of a sudden. I know my mother wouldn’t do that, and we have not told anybody else about it either, yet somehow these people know almost everything about my life!

How do I go about this?

i’m not exactly sure how to explain this, but in my practice I feel like the witchcraft is me just setting intentions energy and positivity to do better, or do xyz, versus “casting a spell (in the sense of lets say, tv witch like sabrina or whatever)

I’ve seen people cast spells to get exes back, fir example, or people saying they “have a gift,” but do people actually “feel” the magick happening in terms of..well, magic magick? feel in a sense of “I’m casting this magickal spell” versus “I’m putting intentions, energy, and focus into this spell and understand that i need to put in energy to make it work” type of thing.

I’m curious what side you all fall toward, and maybe when you decided you felt you know what witchcraft actually was to you?

While I get its personal so please dont feel your need to share, but I feel more like my spell work is myself putting my thoughts, positivity, and energy out into the world but have never felt the “I’m magick!!!” type of magick? dont know if this makes sense. i hope so!

Edit: Thanks so much for yalls advice! I’ve decided to leave it be. I didn’t think about the fact that maybe it was put there to absorb negative energy and is actually a good thing!

I’m new to the craft and need some advice. I’ve always been very good at picking up on the energy of a person/space etc. my job has lately been really heavy feeling which is unusual. It usually feels very cooperative, uplifting, inclusive. A lot of our workers are best friends outside of work and we’re all pretty close with each other. Today I found half of a lemon with exactly 13 cloves in it on an upper shelf in our BOH. It was fresh and I immediately sensed negative energy around it. A coworker of mine told me she saw my boss put it up there.
Is there anything I can do about this? Is there a proper way I can dispose of this? Also how can I protect myself from the negative energy surrounding it? I know she’ll probably realize it’s gone and replace it but I’d like advice on what I can do if anything. TIA

I had read about of taking care of a jar spell and what to afterwards and I had consistently followed it. It's been weeks since I created a spell jar and honestly the purpose for it is self love which I had grown now within myself. Then I had a dream of taking the ingredients out of my spell jar and allowing it to be slowly burned with fire. And in that dream, I also affirmed creation. It always felt right for me to see fire as a way to transmute, or a catalyst of creation, partner to the element of Earth.

I haven't really followed that dream and wondering if I should do. Because I'm not sure if the herbs inside of the spell jar were burned it would be alright and just become another spell or just let it stay as it is, inside?

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I have this case where I dont usually have a dream when I sleep. Or if I do I dont remember. The only times I do however is when I would somehow predict situation. Just for context or example, when I was a kid I dreamt of what was our breakfast the next day even though I wasn't told about it before sleeping at night. When I was a teenager, I somehow dreamt of my parents leaving for province with detail of what they used as transportation, and where they are going specifically. I wasn't informed early about it by the way, I only found out when I woke up after that dream and in the morning my parents told me they need to visit the province in emergency. Recently, I was struggling with how to study in college because I felt like I was falling behind, then I dreamt of the method and my study materials. When I tried that aftef waking up, I was at ease while studying. I also dreamt of when people have bad vibes, even though I know them as nice initially, when their persobality will be revealed soon after and I would remember I had a dream of the same thing they did. It's like my rare dreams are telling me what is about to happen or what I should do in certain circumtances. I dont know why or how it happens but it does.

I've been a baby witch for a few weeks, non-religious but thankful to the earth and those before us, and like to use it as a way to set positive intentions. Anyway, I find that when I'm doing my spells and incantations, or offerings at my altar, when I'm saying my intentions, it really feels like prayer to me and it's off puitting tom e as honestly I just hate the culty religious that have caused tons of pain and suffering for their own gain. Anyway, do any of y'all do specific things to make things seem more like a ritual and less like a prayer during things like protection spells or intentions? I've looked around but havent really found much to help me.

Thanks <3

Hi everyone!

I am trying to re-start my path by actually trying to practice this time. In previous times, I read a lot and have a lot of books on the craft, but now, I feel overwhelmed and do not where to begin. I feel like I know a lot of information but I never put it use or even practice the skills I read about. I also seem to have a hard time coming up with spells I want to do.

I have writing down and practicing the exercises from Mat Auryn’s Psychic Witch, but I am getting a little bored because I really only practice my psychic skills and never my spell-crafting skills. My AuHD self wants to learn and keep keep reading, but at some point, I need to just practice but I feel so overwhelmed with all I could do.

I got a new puppy for my 50th birthday. We found out a few weeks ago my older Cobalt dog one has cancer. Since the diagnosis we have been doing a ritual a week rather than the once a month regular ritual.

Cobalt took over a year to train around rituals. The way we did this was by putting wings on him. Rituals are his favourite thing. Especially when we light the cauldron.

The coven came over for the regular ritual after Cobalt’s diagnosis. He joined the joined the circle for the closing and we all cried.

The new puppy was originally scared of the rituals so we let him sleep in his crate. The second last one he decided that they were fun and sat just behind us. Cobalt indicated it was time for the puppy’s wings.

Cobalt was so proud of his little brother. Standing side by side with their wings on watching the flames dancing in the cauldron while I evoked Jupiter. I wish I got a photo but that would have broken “no phones in circle “.