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DON’T YOU DARE PUT SALT IN THE GROUND.
DO NOT CAST SALT CIRCLE IN THE DIRT. DO NOT SALT THE GROUND TO CLEANSE IT. DO NOT BURY SACHETS THAT INCLUDE SALT.
STOP SALTING THE GROUND.
YOU WILL MESS UP THE SOIL AND HURT THE PLANT LIFE. USE SOMETHING ELSE.
Try using ground dried eggshells instead.
Fatigue looks at things such as tiredness, drowsiness, exhaustion, weakness, lethargy and memory issues and says “I can do all that and more!”. It leaves you feeling utterly trapped in your own body; unable to move, or even think at times. It fluctuates, but is always looming.
While this post is open for all, it is written for those who truly relate to this all-consuming feeling (due to ME/CFS, other chronic illnesses, mental illness, or undiagnosed causes). Not all of these may work for you, but hopefully they inspire something that will. For general low energy witchcraft, check out my Bedridden Witch Series!
As always: witchcraft is to be used in addition to proper medical care, treatment and medication; not as a sole alternative.
If you cannot produce your own, magically created will be just fine!
Crystals.
Waters.
Other elements.
Brain fog:
Fatigue:
Headaches (and migraines):
Joint pain:
Memory:
Muscle pain:
For more categories of symptoms please see my posts for symptoms relating to chronic illness and mental illness!
Tips and tricks:
Many more tips and tricks in these posts:
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🧀Fruit & veg, herbed bread, cheese, honey cakes, chicken, pork, sunflower seeds, lemonade, ice tea.
🍋Lemon, orange, cinnamon, rose oils.
🔮Moonstone, tigers eye, amethyst, flourite, agate. {Or any crystals in warm colours}.
🌞See the sun rise & set, eat outdoors, make or buy a sun catcher, bake a sweet cake, let sunlight cleanse your rooms, clear cobwebs, wear a flower crown, make honey/sugar scrub, wear warm tones.
🎬Peter Pan, Fairy Tale, Ferngully, Stardust, Tinkerbell, Maleficent.
🌽Multi grain bread, corn on the cob, bbq meats, fried chicken, potatoes, soup, rice, nuts, black current juice, beer, peppermint tea.
🌹Rose, chamomile, passion fruit, all spice oils/scents.
🔮Citrine, clear quartz, tigers eye.
📖Finish a project, make a bread to share, enjoy nature, take care of plants, decorate or craft, acknowledge what you are grateful for, journal future hopes.
🎬Parent Trap, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Cheaper by the Dozen.
🍇Pies, nuts, smoked or roast poultry [bbq chicken with smoky bbq sauce], soup, corn, apples, plums, grapes, cinnamon donuts, caramel popcorn, peanut butter, butterscotch.
🌲Sage, pine, cinnamon oils/scents.
🔮Amethyst, clear quartz, citrine, yellow agate.
🌾Make scented pinecones, spend time under the stars, donate food or goods [RSPCA], burn bad habits, visit the deceased, harvest take care of plants, bask in nature, meditate.
🎬Open Season, Brother Bear, Spirit, Pocahontas, Brave.
🎃Pumpkins, toffee apples, ginger bread, chai, nutmeg or cinnamon spiced foods, hazelnuts, sweets.
🌰Nutmeg, cinnamon scents.
🔮Obsidian, onyx, bloodstone, amber, fossils.
🕯Cook a family recipe, light a fire, remember & honour the deceased.
🎬Hocus Pocus, Addams Family, Monsters Inc, Little Vampire, Corpse Bride, Casper, Hansel Gretel Witch Hunters, Underworld, Van Helsing.
🍪Cookies, fruit cake, turkey, eggnog, ginger tea.
🕎Cedar, frankincense, myrrh oils.
🔮Bloodstone, citrine, clear quartz.
❄Give or volunteer, bake shortbread or sugar cookies, share a meal with loved ones.
🎬Santa Clause, Rise of the Guardians, 101 Dalmatians, Frozen, Snow White Winters War, Narnia.
🍩Poppy seeds, pumpkin seeds, bread butter pudding, scones, muffins, garlic, onions.
☕Vanilla, cinnamon oil.
🔮Amethyst, bloodstone, onyx.
🕯Light white candles, plant seeds, bless your pets, declutter & clean your living space, bake orange and poppy seed muffins or cake.
🎬Mr Poppers Penguins, Happy Feet, Balto, Ice Age, Mirror Mirror.
🍌Roast ham & pineapple, eggs, milk, seeds & nuts, banana bread, chocolate milk, green vegetables.
🌹Jasmine, light florals, sweet garden, wild flowers.
🔮Amethyst, rose quartz, moonstone.
🌹Light candles, plant seeds, share a roast ham with loved ones, bake banana bread, finish spring cleaning, lay tumbled stones in your garden bed, take deep breaths [inhale new energy & exhale old energies], wear spring colours whites & florals, collect wildflowers or buy flowers that call to you & research what they mean, walk through nature.
🎬Epic, Strange Magic, The Secret Garden, Spiderwick, A Bugs Life, Barbie Fairies.
🍞Breads, cakes, honey, leafy greens, fruit & veg, seafood, iced tea, lemonade, milk.
🌼Florals, sweet garden, honeysuckle, jasmine, rose.
🔮Amber, citrine, moonstone, red jasper, rose quartz.
🌼Wear a flower crown or flowers in your hair, dress in red or white, make a bonfire & roast marshmallows, garden, take a walk, spend time in nature, pick fresh flowers to decorate.
🎬Moana, Arthur Trilogy, Avatar, Jungle Book, Tinkerbell, Barbie.
☾Sage cleanse the house, light candles, diffuse oils.
☾Clean sheets/bedding/pillowcases/towels.
☾Eat at least one traditional food.
☾Watch a relevant movie.
☾Take notes in my BOS of how I celebrated the Sabbat to look back on next year.
☾Charge my crystals & tarot decks in the full moonlight.
☾Do a tarot reading relevant to the Sabbat.
☾Spend time outside with my dogs 🐶
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This right here? This is perfect container for spells.
Is cheap (as little as 2 cents) or even free Can be written/painted on Is inconspicuous Is easily accessible Can be lit on fire Is biodegradable Floats
Budget witches, secret witches, all us witches.
Plain. white. envelopes.
You can even recycle old ones. But don’t use the ones with plastic windows to burn or bury.
It’s not a weird thing to have in your house
They can even be tied around candles if you don’t fill them to much.
Envelopes are amazing
I wanted to quickly apologize for not posting much at all lately. I haven't had much energy to do anything. I'll try to post more, as well as hopefully some original content. I promise this blog isn't dead!
Friendly reminder that when someone tells you to consider the mundane and non magical things that can be effecting something, such as a spell candle that won’t stay lit, a trinket shaking on a shelf, seeing certain kinds of animals during certain times of year etc, they aren’t trying to discredit you. They are trying to make sure that what you are seeing is truly magical and not just coincidence.
Dont be mad, don’t get defensive, be thankful theyre trying to help you see all sides!
Sometimes I will say or do something and my husband will give me the strangest looks. Over the years I think he’s come to accept my quirks without question, but I wonder if any of y'all have any traditions/superstitions that were passed down through your family. Here are some of mine:
Never sweep after the moon has risen. If your nose is itching, you’ll soon have good company. If a broom falls over on its own, you’ll have unwanted company. Never say thank you for plants given or they will die. If you drop a pair of scissors and they stick into the floor, don’t pick them up until they fall over. (I don’t know what would happen if you did.) Never lend a needle or salt… charge a penny each. Keep an amethyst by your bed to ward off bad dreams. If you tell your dreams before breakfast, they won’t come true. If the stuffing of your pillow forms a ring, a death is near. Put a piece of wedding cake under your pillow and you’ll dream of your future spouse. A mirror laying flat under a full moon will show you what you need to see. Prick the corners of your bread dough to “let the fairies out” so that the bread will rise high. Bad luck comes in threes. Paint your window sills blue to keep bad spirits away. They can’t cross water, so the color tricks them. Alternately, you can keep a bottle tree in your yard to capture them. When the sun rises, they’ll be banished. Copper by your door will keep insects away. Rain on a wedding day is good luck. If it rains while the sun is shining, the devil is beating his wife. Red sunrise means rain is on the way. Cows lying down means bad weather is coming. You can find clean water by looking for crawdads. Carved wooden spoons given to a new bride ensures a happy marriage. Bread, candles, and salt are traditional housewarming gifts. Hang a horseshoe over the door with the open side up to catch good luck. Rainwater caught during a full moon will cure warts. (among other things) Keep rosemary in the garden to ensure a thrifty home.
The rational part of me knows that most of these are just superstitions. Still, that doesn’t stop me from grabbing an umbrella when the cows are laying down, and making sure my floors are clean before dark. I know I’m not alone, either, because my aunt gives me clippings from her garden all the time and always says “you know what not to say” and I always assure her that I do! :)
Definitely heard a handful of these from older family members. And Haint Blue is totally a thing. It’s a specific color spectrum of blue painted on your porch ceiling to keep away maleficent spirits. Not just any blue will do, either. Here’s a few examples:
Inspired by @murmuring-forests ‘s plant lullaby⬇️⬇️⬇️
(Tagging a few people who might use this: @discoqueenxoxo @foxyfae @rebel-witch-scum @bitchywitchgirl )
I don't have my headphones so I can't listen right now but omg !! Thank you for crediting me for inspo btw. 💓
This water can be put in a spray bottle to spray around windowsills/doors, simply rubbed on objects, or maybe even splashed somewhere. Some of the items in this jar may not be available where you live, but you could change up the ingredients.
*this lullaby does not replace the care needed for a plant, it is just an aid.
I see you weary
But don’t fret for long
I’ll sooth your roots
With some song
I see your life
Still holding on
And I will help
Don’t fret for long
You still have so much to hear
The breeze in the wind, my gentle song
As you heal, I will keep you near
For this is where you belong
Little child, young and well
With leaves so lush, you will excel
Right now, you are so small
But with my care, you will grow tall
I’ll sing to you, and you with thrive
I’ll make sure you live your best life
Hi there. I'm feeling kind of lost, magically. Like everyone else is having a different experience than me. I can't feel energy, or see it, or the 'magic' or whatever it is I'm supposed to be working with. I feel like I'm operating blind. Everything starts losing meaning for me (gems, herbs, tarot) I stop trying to learn because I feel like it's wasted on me or useless for me. Like reading an instruction manual for a game I don't own, so there's no point. I don't know what I'm doing. Any ideas?
Magick can be more difficult for some than others but that doesn’t mean you should give up. I remember when I first started I was terrible, I couldn’t even figure out how to center myself. I constantly had migraines and felt tired and aggravated while trying to cast spells. But I found a way that helped me and I hope it will help you.
First let’s talk about what originally made you interested in magick. For this exercise I recommend finding a notebook or some paper you like to write on and begin well, writing! Here are some things I recommend writing about and thinking about:
After you get all of that out on the page, even if its messy and full of run-ons thats okay. This is for you, not anyone else. Read through it and think about the next step. Make a goal list, start small.
Next let’s focus on your concern that you can’t see or feel energy. that’s okay, if you are new at this, it is perfectly normal. You just need to attune yourself so that you can. There are all sorts of ways to start.
Some ways that I first started so that I could begin using energy and feeling it:
Some other suggestions:
There’s a “spirit worker” in a group I’m in who is asking my group how to do spells after their clients pay for them. PEOPLE NEED TO STOP PLAYING WITH PEOPLE`S LIVES IF THEY DONT KNOW WHAT THEY`RE DOING!
This is horrific! It’s because of people like that that people think witches/diviners/spirit workers are all scammers.
Please, to all the newbies out there thinking about selling spells: please wait until you know what you’re doing first! If you need to ask someone how to do a spell, you’re not ready to sell your spells. Practice more first until it becomes second nature to you. If you haven’t learned how to clearly communicate with spirits, don’t open a spirit companion shop. Really hone your vetting skills before you even think about pairing someone with an unknown spirit.
In the best case scenario, when inexperienced people sell metaphysical items or services, nothing will happen and the client will just be disappointed (and maybe demand their money back or accuse all practitioners of being fakers and scammers. You might even get into legal trouble if you don’t have the right disclaimers up.)
But in the worst case scenario? If a spell or something goes wrong, you could hurt yourself or your client. When you have no idea what you’re doing, your results could be totally unpredictable.
Metaphysical services like spell work are skills. That means they take practice to master. If you needed surgery, would you want to go to the doctor who claims to be a professional but who’s never practiced the procedure and only knows how to vaguely do it because they asked other doctors?
Please, your clients deserve better. The community deserves better. Until you know what you’re doing and how to do it well, please don’t sell your services.
This is why it is important as a client to also vet who you are buying from. Yes people lie, but are likely to slip up doing so as well.
Thank you so much for 15,000 followers! I'm so glad that people are using me as a resource for learning.
This year I'm going to really dig to find the most reliable and trustworthy information and I'm going to try and post more original content for you guys.
I was wondering if you had any uses for clover in spells? There's some growing outside my house and I was curious. I haven't seen it in any online. Thanks!
Heck yea! Two-leaf clovers are said to help in finding a romantic partner, three-leaf clovers are for luck, prosperity, abundance, attracting money, success, and as a protective talisman- you can wear it, carry it with you, or leave it in your left shoe and forget about it. It’s great that you’ve got some outside of your house, that’s said to be great for protection.Clovers also supposedly have a strong connection with the fae, in that they love it and it will make it easier to work with them, if you work with that. Four-leaf clovers used to be worn to help men avoid military service, as protection against madness, to strengthens psychic powers, to enable the wearer to detect the presence of spirits, and to lead the wearer to gold, money, or “treasures”.Then there are some correspondences for specific clovers, like for example where I live I see a lot of lemon clover, which are related with healing/ health/ spiritual healing, affection, joy, carefree energy, maternal tenderness, and a strong spiritual connection to the fae/forest. Red clover is related with lust potions, financial issues, and beauty. etc etc. I mostly use clovers for luck/success/prosperity, and will sometimes pick one on my way to wherever and just keep it in my pocket in hopes that my day will go well, especially if I’m nervous about it.
Whilst talking with my aunt–who is a devout herbalist in another circle in her own town– about herbal remedies, she brought up the word emmenagogue. In this case, the word refers to an herb or plant that can stimulate menstrual flow. For those who may have late menstruation or elongated cycles, this may be quite a helpful remedy, but to uninformed users, it may also have detrimental effects. Most emmenagogues also act as abortifacients, as in, they may harm a pregnancy or can cause miscarriages.
My reason for writing this post is that there are some common herbs that people use for other reasons that may in fact also have emmenagogue/abortifacient properties. Most posts that I see do not address this, and I’d like my followers and the rest of the online witchblr community to be informed as well.
In most cases, you should not take more than the recommended dosage of any herb anyways, especially if you are taking other prescribed medications. If you are pregnant or are thinking of conceiving, please stay away from these herbs entirely and look for alternatives, and please make sure to do extensive research beforehand on anything you decide to use!
The emmenagogues that I have found I will list below along with their common uses otherwise. Herbs in bold are mainly used as emmenagogues and/or are dangerous in anything other than 1 gram dosing.
Angelica (heartburn, insomnia), Bay Laurel (muscle aches), Blessed Thistle (diuretic, bacterial infections) , Bloodroot (emetic, bacterial infections), Blue Cohosh (reducing inflammation, cramps), Catnip (insomnia, headaches), Chamomile (insomnia, stomach ulcers), Slippery Elm (sore throat, heartburn), Feverfew (migraines, nausea), Goldenseal (respiratory infections), Horsetail (edema, incontinence), Lady’s Slipper (insomnia, anxiety), Majoram (common cold), Marshmallow (sore throat, stomach ulcers), Mistletoe (high blood pressure), Motherwort (anxiety, high blood pressure), Mugwort (tonic, sedative), Myrrh (indigestion, cough), Parsley (menstrual flow, high blood pressure), Pennyroyal (antiseptic), Peppermint (common cold, headaches), Rue (neuromuscular problems), Sage (digestive problems, heartburn), Tansy (migraines, stomach ulcers), Verbena (sore throat, depression), Wintergreen (analgesic, cramps).
If you have any questions about this post or about other herbs and their dosing or safety concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me through my messages! I will always respond and try to give as detailed or informed of an answer as I can.
Thank you for reading, and blessed be!
