I live in the U.S.! this means the things I learn and the things I am drawn to are going to be different from withes elsewhere.
For example, here money is green so we/I associate green with prosperity, but elsewhere it may be yellow or some other color!! I am biased because of where I live, so always always always follow your intuition and trust that over set rules!
“She’d written it down in her diary, which was a lot thicker now, what with all the pressed herbs and extra notes and bookmarks. It had been trodden on by cows, struck by lightning, and dropped in tea. And it didn’t have an eye on it. An eye would have got knocked off on day one. It was a real witch’s diary.”
– A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett
The Moon is still in Leo, and we are just as striking and extravagant as ever. Or at least we should be. If you’re like me, your day yesterday was rather shitty. BUT, if you aren’t like me, hopefully, you have been doing well.
“The Magical Art
of Crafting Charm Bags”
published by Red Wheel Weiser Books
available everywhere.
I am more focused when it comes to my path as of late. And I got a tiny leather journal and a few empty sketch books. So I roughly know what I want to put down in these books but I am kind of stuck on how to go about it. Should I do the classic hodge-podge version of the Grimoire/Book of Shadows or should I start doing more specific and specialized books?
The first up in my elemental series is going to be EARTH! 🌎 Here is a bit of the basics of what I learned during my research, compiled into an easy to read slideshow. Feel free to use it for yourself:)
-orla luna
Darcy: you’re smiling, did something good happen?
Icy: Can’t I just smile because I feel like it?
Stormy: Bloom’s hero complex meant that she got frozen again
The Stolen Child — Page 17
Hot off the presses. This page comes a day late due to last week’s winter storm and the ways such things can throw you off your routine. I’m safe, everyone I know has made it through safe and sound. I hope you have, too. Like the pandemic isn’t enough? Or the random attempts by fascists to take over my country, your country, so many countries? We can overcome these problems. We can make a better…
Before we start I would just like to say that most of this information comes from a YouTube video by Chaotic Witch Aunt. I am currently relearning the basics in witch craft and her videos gave me some information I had forgotten, and some information I’d never even considered before.
A ward is a spatial protection; it allows you to protect your personal space from energy vampires, negative spirits, and demons etc.
A ward lasts quite a bit longer than a standard protection spell because the tools last longer. Chaotic Witch Aunt suggested that we should be changing our wards once a week and our protection spells every two weeks.
There are many different ways we can create wards and here are a few I really enjoyed learning about that are cheap and really easy to do.
1. Sigils on Entrances.
You can draw a protection sigil on the inside of the doors and/or windows and as long as you can tether energy to the sigil it will keep protecting your space.
2. Ward Bags.
Small bags to have around the house that usually includes protective herbs (a post to come), protective crystals (post to come) and a protective sigil (a post to come).
3. Elemental Ward
This is a ward that focuses on energy magic, visual magic, and elemental magic. In my personal opinion, (there will be more ways to do this) you should collect objects to represent each element, then use them to call on the four major elements (water, fire, earth, and air). Once you feel you’ve meditated long enough to be grounded, ask the elements to help you ward the space you wish to protect.
Protection is very similar to a ward but it is for individuals rather than spaces. A ward and a protection spell can be tethered which we will explore later in this post. There are a few ways you can cast protection spells and there are a couple that I would like to share.
1. Tethering
Tethering your ward to yourself so it acts as a personal protection is a great start up to visual practice. Imagining a rope or cord connecting the ward to yourself then you should be protected as long as your ward stays strong.
2. Charms
Using herbs and crystals to create a charm spell on an inanimate object is a great way to make a protection spell. Making a charm spell bag, and placing something you can wear or carry on you all the time in it whilst you sleep, will keep recharging the item and you can stay safe whilst you’re out in the world.
3. Imagery
When I first learned about the craft, I was told to imagine something around me that would make me feel safe. My first choice was a suit of armour which worked quite nicely. The only problem with this protection is it takes constant concentration, or at the very least has to always be at the back of your mind.
if any one is interested in joining a new witchcraft themed discord server….
here she is!! we are desperate for memebers so feel free to join!!!
there are channels for anything to do witchcraft and i am open to add more
