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Planning Out Your Apothecary
We've all seen em'. Those beautiful shelves filled to the brim with pretty jars of herbs and essential oils galore. They're gorgeous, and I'm sure those who have them are capable of fully utilizing them, but that isn't true for everyone. First of all, if you're not growing or foraging a good portion of what you use, you will easily break the bank trying to upkeep such a large inventory. Secondly, if you aren't one who uses a lot of herbs and oils in your practice, many things will simply sit and go to waste. As someone who is easily tempted by the idea of a large apothecary, I had to come up with a way of vetting the herbs I wanted. Here's a little guide I put together to help you do the same.
This is a beginner's guide, and over time, your apothecary will grow and change as your craft changes. Do not take this as a set of rules but rather a set of loose guidelines.
What Do You Want?
Avoid writing down specific plants unless they are an absolute must-have. Try writing down what sort of spells you're going to be doing and their intent. Find a few options for plants that match that intent and can fill that role. While you may end up with a bigger list, the goal here is to determine what is most prudent to source for each category and avoid redundancy your apothecary.
What Do You Use?
What plants have you already used and had good experiences with? This question will get you thinking about what it is you do and don't really do in your practice, thus helping narrow your list a little bit.
What Do You Have?
Your spice cabinet has more than you think when it comes to helpful herbs and spices for magick. Cinnamon? Use it to speed up a spell, bring luck, or prosperity. Black Pepper? But in black salt or in protective workings. Salt? You get the point. These things are easy and comparatively cheap to purchase from the store. Sure, the containers don't look #witchyaesthetic, but that isn't the point here. We are going for functionality first. Other things like fruit peels, cores, seeds, and any other organic matter your throw out should at least be considered for witchcraft.
What Can You Find?
Can you can forage safely, ethically, and legally where you live? Then get out into the great outdoors. Buy a foraging guide for your area and learn about the myriad of plants that grow all around you. Though I recommend not foraging for mushrooms unless you absolutely know what you're doing as that can be quite dangerous. And please learn how to clean and preserve what you forage for as it can easily rot if you're not careful. Do not consume anything you forage unless you are absolutely sure it is safe to do so.
What Can You Grow?
Not all of us have access to the garden of our dreams, but there are at least some things one can grow and use. From simple potted herbs to flower beds, if you can grow it, you can use it. It's also a plus if the plants being grown can double as culinary or medicinal herbs.
What Can You Substitute?
Most likely, you're going to have either exotic or difficult to source herbs left over that you'd like to purchase. But if they are expensive and you aren't going to be using them often, then this is a problem. Try to find a more affordable substitute. For example: if a recipe calls for galangal, ginger can be used in its place. Vanilla extract instead of vanilla pods. Things like that.
What Are You Buying?
Hopefully, you've narrowed down your list enough to where you only have a few items on there that are relatively cheap and simple to source. If you use certain ingredients enough, try purchasing them in bulk as it is less expensive in the long run.
Essential Oils
These are tricky as the good ones tend to be expensive, especially for small bottles. A great way I have found to circumvent this is by making my own oils from herbs and a carrier oil rather than resorting to the essential oil. It may not smell as nice, but they do the job just as well. I mostly use any essential oils I have for giving my homemade oils fragrance (thankfully, it doesn't take much) rather than applying them directly to things like tools or spell candles.
Storage
Ideally, you would be able to use cobalt or amber glass jars to prevent uv rays from coming into contact with your herbs or oils, but those are expensive. Your apothecary may look beautiful on that sun-soaked shelf, but if you are using herbs medicinally or as entheoens, they are going to be less potent as a result. You apothecary should be in a cool, dark place in your home, any cabinet will do really. Glass is preferred for storing herbs and such, so keep those jelly jars with good lids when you finish them. Extra things like oxygen absorbers and silica gel packets may be added to keep them extra fresh, but if the ingredient is purely for spell work, then this isn't necessary.
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hey do you have these spiky guys lying around in your neighborhood?
they’re called sweet gum tree balls ((or witches burrs)) and they fall off of sweetgum trees that are native to eastern north america, the eastern mediterranean, and east/southeast asia!
these little guys can be used for witchcraft purposes in case you haven’t already guessed. they’re good for banishing negative energy, protection, making wards. etc. so next time you see some lying around outside grab em and use them in your practice!
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Sabbats Masterpost
The History of Samhain
Samhain Facts
Samhain Correspondences
Samhain Crystals
Samhain Colors
Samhain Plants
Samhain Incense & Oils
Samhain Animals
Samhain Foods
Samhain Ritual & Magick
Samhain Deities
Samhain Altar Ideas
Samhain Activities
Last Minute Samhain Ideas
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The History of Mabon
Mabon Facts
Mabon Correspondences
Mabon Crystals
Mabon Colors
Mabon Plants
Mabon Oils & Incense
Mabon Animals
Mabon Foods
Mabon Ritual & Magick
Mabon Deities
Mabon Altar
Mabon Activities
Last Minute Mabon Ideas
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Lughnasadh/Lammas History
Lughnasadh/Lammas Facts
Lughnasadh/Lammas Correspondences
Lughnasadh/Lammas Crystals
Lughnasadh/Lammas Colors
Lughnasadh/Lammas Plants
Lughnasadh/Lammas Incense & Oils
Lughnasadh/Lammas Animals
Lughnasadh/Lammas Food
Lughnasadh/Lammas Ritual & Magick
Lughnasadh & Lammas Deities
Lughnasadh & Lammas Altar Ideas
Lughnasadh & Lammas Activities
Last minute Lammas Ideas
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Litha History
Litha Facts
Litha Correspondences
Litha Crystals
Litha Incense & Oils
Litha Colors
Litha Plants
Litha Animals
Litha Foods
Litha Deities
Litha Altar Ideas
Litha Ritual & Magick
Litha Activities
Last Minute Litha Ideas
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The History of Beltane
Beltane Facts
Beltane Correspondences
Beltane Incense & Oils
Beltane Colors
Beltane Crystals
Beltane Plants
Beltane Animals
Beltane Altar
Beltane Food
Beltane Deities
Beltane Ritual & Magick
Beltane Activities
Last Minute Beltane Ideas
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Ostara History
Ostara Facts
Ostara Correspondences
Ostara Colors
Ostara Crystals
Ostara Incense & Oils
Ostara Plants
Ostara Animals
Ostara Food
Ostara Altar Ideas
Ostara Ritual & Magick
Ostara Deities
Ostara Activities
Last Minute Ostara Ideas
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The History of Imbolc
Imbolc Facts
Imbolc Correspondenses
Imbolc Colors
Imbolc Crystals
Imbolc Incense & Oils
Imbolc Plants
Imbolc Animals
Imbolc Food
Imbolc Altar
Imbolc Ritual & Magick
Imbolc Deities
Imbolc Activities
Last Minute Imbolc Ideas
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The History of Yule
Yule Facts
Yule Correspondences
Yule Crystals
Yule Colors
Yule Plants
Yule Incense & Oils
Yule Animals
Yule Foods
Yule Ritual & Magick
Yule Deities
Yule Altar
Yule Activities
Last Minute Yule Ideas
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IMBOLCﾟ. ｡*ﾟ🌨🕯🦌🌱
February 2nd
Other names: candlemas
Imbolc is the celebration of light, new growth & rebirth. It is the halfway point between yule and ostara.
🌱Colors: red, green, brown & yellow.
🕯Crystals: garnet, ruby, bloodstone, onyx, amethyst, moonstone & carnelian.
🦌Herbs/incense: rosemary, basil, cinnamon, sandalwood, blackberry, frankincense, bay leaves, myrrh & vanilla.
🌱Altar: seeds, bells, candles, pinecones & brigids cross.
Spellwork: cleansing, new beginnings, creativity & candle magick.
🕯Activities: cleaning, simmer pots, making a brigid's cross, start planning your garden for spring & nature walks!
🦌Symbols: sheep, brigid's cross, candles, the sun, corn dolls, seeds & besoms.
🌱Foods: bread, milk, honey, scones & soups.
Imbolc simmer pot - orange slices, blackberries, cloves, basil & bay leaf.
~ p1nk-sanri0🌿🌸✨️🔮🧚🏼♀️🎀🪻
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A spell to release old toxic connections
What you need:
However many pieces of clear quartz for however many connections you would like to release
A jar
Magic water (this can be moon water, florida water, any type of cleansing water will work)
A protection stone or symbol
Something sharp
Ritual
Get your jar and fill it with just regular water
Gather all your pieces of quartz
With each piece of quartz, scratch the persons name of the connection you wish to release into the quartz. (No their name doesn’t have to be carved into the quartz, just scratched is fine). Ask the stone to hold all your negative energy about the connection. Tell the stone every negative thing about said connection. When you are done place the stone in the jar with the water.
Repeat step 3 with however many connections you need to release.
When all your stones are in the jar pour the magic water in the jar. You can pour it in a clockwise circle and ask it to cleans the connection and a counter clockwise circle and ask it to get rid of the negative energy.
Place your protection stone or symbol in the jar (make sure it is water safe).
If you have an alter space you can keep the jar on the alter, shake it up whenever you feel the negative emotions starting to come back.
Note
This ritual was told to me by my patron deity. We all practice magic in our own ways so feel free to tweak this to suit your specific needs and situations. Make spell work fun, and make it yours. If you have any questions know that you are welcome to message me.
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Cleansing, Charging, Warding & Banishing
Cleansing
How to Cleanse
Find the target of your cleansing
Pick and appropriate method of cleansing
Hold your intention while cleansing. Stay focused and grounded
Follow up by filling the cleansed space with positive energy to avoid negative energies from coming back in
When to Cleanse
When you get a new tool
When a tool/room feels stale or off
When your tools or space come into contact with negative energy
Whenever your intuition tells you its time
Common Methods
Use the Elements Cleanse a room with water, fire, earth, or air. Soak or sprinkle with water, pass through flame or smoke, sprinkle or bury in dirt
Smoke Cleansing Use the smoke of herbs and plants to cleanse a space, item, or person. Pick herbs that correspond to your needs, light a bundle, and lead the smoke
Salt Salt will soak up all negative energies
Sun & Moonlight Let your item cleanse in the sunlight or moonlight, or open your windows to cleanse a space
Crystals Use corresponding crystals to cleanse a space or item. Carry them around to cleanse your spirit
Charging
How to Charge
Pick your target. Anything you want to fill with energy
Choose a method of charging that is appropriate for your item
Hold your intention while charging. Stay focused on transferring energy to the target item
Listen to your intuition. You’ll know when an item has been charged
When to Charge
After you cleanse a tool/item
When an item/tool doesn’t feel as potent or feels weak
When energy becomes stagnant
When you want an item to hold a certain intention/purpose
Charging Methods
Sun & Moonlight Set an object in the sun or moonlight to let it soak up that energy
Crystals Crystals that have been charged and cleansed can be used to charge other items
Elements Use the power of the elements to charge items metaphorically or literally
Visualization Picture your energy and intention flowing into your item and filling it with power
Herbs Charge an item with corresponding herbs by passing them through herb smoke, anointing with herbal oils, etc
Sound Use singing bowls, bells, or corresponding music to fill an item or space with energy
Banishing & Warding
What’s the Difference?
Warding is… a gentler form of defensive magic. It’s used in a general sense. Warding is used to protect and guard from negative energies. It is used to redirect energy away from you or your space.
Banishing is… far more specific and direct. It’s used to get rid of a particular energy, spirit, or person. Banishing is a very strong form of defensive magic.
Warding Methods
Guardians Create a guardian to guard your home or space from negative energies. Use a small object, enchant it with your intention, and keep it in a safe, permanent place.
Crystals Corresponding crystals can be worn as jewelry to protect against negative energy. Placing crystals in a room or around your house will create a protective barrier.
Salt Sprinkle salt around your doors and windows or make protection jars.
Herbs Burn protective herbs and pass the smoke through your space or tools or sprinkle herbal oils and tinctures on yourself and your space for protective barriers.
Visualization Use your intention and energy to visualize a powerful barrier of protecting light around yourself or your space.
Banishing Methods
Use the Elements Burn a slip of paper with your target's name on it. Throw a leaf with your target’s name on it into a running river. Burn corresponding herbs and pass the smoke through your space.
Candles Anoint your candles with corresponding herbs and oils, then burn it. When the candle has burned out, the banishing is complete
Sigils Make your own banishing sigil or find one that resonates with you. Place it in the space or on the item you are banishing energy from.
Herbs & Tinctures Use herbal smoke to force energy out of a space or object. Make a spray or herbal tincture to sprinkle around your home.
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My Oh Sh** Spell Kit
Listen, sometimes things just happen, and you feel the need to get something done. But what if you're away from home? In a hotel? Traveling? Well, let me introduce you to my oh sh** spell kit, the to-go spell jar kit that I keep in my car, most of it from the dollar store.
In a shoebox-sized bin, I have:
A package of dollar store small glass jars
Tiny bags filled with basil, parsley, dried orange peel, cilantro, black pepper, salt, sugar, bay leaves, and a few other basic herbs.
White tealight candles
A lighter
A small travel bottle of blessed oil
3 quartz points
A small travel bottle of moon water
2 sticks of incense
A Sharpie
A very small ceramic plate
A metal spoon
A small paintbrush
It's just enough to do very basic spell jars and very simple burn spells. With the incense and herbs, I can also create back salt, and mix it with moon water to create a powerful 'paint' I can use to draw runes or sigils.
It's not much, but it's helped in a pinch!
Support your local witch on Ko-Fi or at my store, Hallow Grove!
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ARE YOU OVERTHINKING IT?!
Yeah, okay, we all overthink a lot of things in the craft especially when we first start out. We have no idea what we are doing and rely a lot on our peers or other witchcraft communities for guidelines and shit that, for the most part, may not even be needed.
Here are some frequently seen pitfalls that we can fall victim to and how to overcome them.
"I saw a (insert random thing here). Could that be a sign?"
Nobody knows for sure, we weren't there and we're not you. Maybe it's magical, maybe it's just mundane. Always take into account other external factors in your mundane world before going directly to "it's a sign!"
Maybe that flock of birds isn't a sign, maybe it's just migratory season for that bird.
Maybe all those spiders you are seeing aren't a sign, maybe it's just spider breeding season.
You get where I'm going with this? You can also ask for signs that are specific. BE SPECIFIC with the universe. You aren't asking too much, the universe will answer you. You can ask for a specific sign that is a Color + Noun like an Orange Cat or a Blue Rose, something like that. If you're not expecting a sign about a specific thing, let the Universe know what your standards are. "I will read things as a sign only if (blank)."
--------Too Many Spell Factors--------
More spell factors, generally, helps hone and amplify a spell. You can also go overboard. If you're exhausting yourself trying to find the exact moment the astrological hour, moon phase, and relevant constellations all line up with you having specific rare ingredients, memorizing a chant in another language, blah blah blah, you usually don't need to go that hard. Just pick two or three you can reasonably achieve and do what you need to do.
-------Overprotection--------
Protection is what everyone preaches, but there is such a thing as "too much" protection. Yes, always layer your protections like an onion and have a lot of GOOD protections up, but that's not necessarily what i mean by that.
Yeah, sometimes magical shit can affect us and bring us down seemingly for no reason, but if you set up protection after protection to keep you from all harm and all negative shit, how are you supposed to grow and learn? How are you supposed to learn lessons that the universe has in store for you? Oftentimes what we see as "negative" is just a learning opportunity and isn't bad in the grand scheme of things. I will always layer all of my protections as strong as i can manage but i will always give them a boundary of sorts that is "of my highest good"... Protect me from XYZ and all this shit that is NOT of my highest good. Anything that is meant to get in, anything that is meant to be learned from or experience gained from them are allowed in, but nothing that will harm me for no damn reason. Giving wards limits are important as hell.
-------- Needing Second Opinions --------
Sure, we all need help now and again with spell ingredients, interpretations, deity signs, or anything else, but don't solely rely on these other opinions for things in your own craft and practice. Your craft is your own, it is no one else's. It's important that you gain a sense of independence and learn to trust your gut. Your brain will overthink everything that your gut is trying to tell you, so yeah, you may need someone to bring reason into it all, but you got this. Don't freak out, and just go with it. You live, you fuck up, you learn. That's how it works.
-------- Mundane over Magical --------
Not everything is gonna be magical (see the first entry about signs and birds and shit). Sometimes it just is what it is with no magic attached to it. Sometimes your cat just rubs against your legs to show affection, that does not mean it is your familiar. Sometimes you don't need to perform a binding and or banishment on someone when blocking them on social media works just as well.
Figuring out if someone likes you romantically can be a question for the cards, or you can just ask them (Yes, that's super nerve-wracking. You can do it, I promise).
Not everything has to be magical. As witches, we still need to retain logic and skepticism to remove magical bias that we may fall into. Some things can be as they are with no magical connotations tied to them.
-------- Getting Lost in Research --------
"I'm not ready to cast this spell until I __." Research and prepping yourself properly are important, but it takes years to become a true "expert" (and even then, "experts" are never done learning and growing). At some point, we need to be confident in ourselves and actually take the jump. Don't overthink it. Just go for it.
Stop waiting for the right moment to do XYZ or the right sign or the right anything. You will figure it all out when you just take the leap and do it. Follow your gut but don't forget to bring reason and logic into it all as well. You're gonna do great. I promise.
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Types of water and their uses
A lot of witches use different types of water in their practices. Here are a few. And remember intention is very important.
Sun water - vitality, happiness, strength, positivity
Sun water is made by cleansing your preferred jar in your preferred method, filling it with water, and putting the jar out into the sun for however long you would like.
River water - moving on, changing, letting go, cleansing
River water is made by collecting water from a river in a jar that has been cleansed. (Boil before consumption.)
Rain water - growth, change, cleansing, protection
Put a preferred jar that has been cleansed out in the rain.
Dew water - beauty, glamours, love, fertility, calmness
Dew water is made by collecting dew in a cleansed jar. (Boil before consumption)
War water - used for hexes, curses, bad luck, general negativity
War water can be tailored to what you have on hand. You just want to put nasty shit in there or things like rusty nails, dead bugs, moldy things, vinegar. Do not consume this at all.
I hope this information helps some people. You can always use methods that work for you. Happy witching my friends !!!
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New Witch Resources
I’m gonna say it again, I made a google doc full of online resources for new witches!
See see see it’s absolutely packed with good stuff! We’re talking PDFs, small businesses to get books from, and tons of links. Please go check it out! And remember my DMs are always open if you have any or many questions 💕
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Gentle reminder: you don't have to believe in something whole heartedly in order to learn it, try it, and have fun with it. Things like astrology, divination, deity work, spirit work... you should go into these fields with skepticism. A sense of doubt is helpful, not detrimental to any practice. It keeps your senses in check. Discernment is how you separate the mundane from the supernatural. Critical thinking is what keeps you from falling into spiritual traps.
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