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Who is celebrating Imbolc today?! 💙 ❄️Here is a spread for you lovelies to incorporate into your sabbat rituals and celebrations! ✨🕯
1. The bird - Messages the universe is communicating to you at this time 2. The Goddess Brigid - Blessings you are receiving/will receive 3. The butterfly - Transformation that will occur during this time
🕯💙🌟I hope everyone has a blessed Imbolg! 🕯💙🌟
Witch crafting is happening today ✨🔮🌿 Salve + loose incense.
Exciting news! ❤️❤️❤️ I’ve revamped an old favorite into a pattern you can now purchase in my shiny new Etsy shop! ✨ Go check it out here!
Here's a little salve recipe for you crafty witches 🌿✨
My personal invocation to the element of fire 🔥
Invocation + graphic by me.
My personal invocation to the element of earth 🌿
Invocation + graphic by me.
My personal invocation to the element of water 🌊 Invocation + graphic by me.
My personal invocation to the element of air ✨
Invocation + graphic by me.
Name: Yarrow Botanical Name: Achillea millefolium Family: Asteraceae Common Names: Milfoil, Old Man’s Pepper, Soldier’s Woundwort, Nose Bleed Part Used: Flowers, leaves and roots
Actions and Energetics
Diaphoretic, astringent, tonic, stimulant and mild aromatic.
Traditional Use and Folklore
Yarrow was once known as “nosebleed”, its feathery leaves making an ideal astringent swab to encourage clotting. Yarrow skin washes and leaf poultices can staunch bleeding and help to disinfect cuts and scrapes. Supposedly it is the same plant with which Achilles stanched the bleeding wounds of his soldiers, hence the name of the genus, Achillea. It was called by the Ancients, the Herba Militaris, the military herb. It was one of the herbs dedicated to the Evil One, in earlier days, being sometimes known as Devil’s Nettle, Devil’s Plaything, Bad Man’s Plaything, and was used for divination in spells. Yarrow, in some Eastern European countries, is termed Yarroway, and there is a curious mode of divination with its serrated leaf, with which the inside of the nose is tickled while the following lines are spoken. If the operation causes the nose to bleed, it is a certain omen of success:
‘Yarroway, Yarroway, bear a white blow, If my love love me, my nose will bleed now.’
Preparations
Use yarrow infusion by taking 1-3 drops, 1-3x/day.
Tea can be made from both fresh and dried cut leaves and flower heads. The bitter taste can be masked with sweeter herbs and a bit of honey. Fresh leaves also can be used as a poultice to stop bleeding and chewed to relieve a toothache. Yarrow can also be taken as an extract. A yarrow poultice can also be used on a cut or scrape to encourage clotting.
Yarrow Tea is a good remedy for severe colds, especially to combat fevers. The infusion is made with 1 oz. dried herb to 1 pint of boiling water, drunk warm. It may be sweetened with sugar or honey. It opens the pores freely and purifies the body by encouraging perspiration, and is recommended in the early stages of children’s colds, and in measles and other eruptive diseases.
Safety Issues and Precautions
If you are pregnant or nursing do not use yarrow internally. Do not use if you have a bleeding disorder. Do not use if you have an allergy to ragweed or related plants.
Magickal Uses
Yarrow is associated with Aphrodite, Hermes, the Horned God and the hero Achilles. Magickally, this herb is used for divination; the I Ching was originally not thrown with coins but with dried yarrow stalks. It makes a nice ingredient for dream pillows and for divinatory incense and tea (great to combine with mugwort for this purpose). Rubbing your eyelids with yarrow is said to enhance psychic abilities. Drink yarrow tea prior to divination or sleep to encourage heightened psychic powers.
* Herbs are medicines!!! Please complete your own thorough research before using herbs!!! *
Hello, lovelies! Here's a freebie worksheet for everybody ❤️ I recently started planning my rituals based on how I wanted to appeal to my senses and it's really been working for me! Feel free to use this worksheet as a starting point for planning your own rituals and tweak it to suit your practice! Much love to all ✨
"Accept the mystery and work with what your current circumstances have to teach you." Deck * Wisdom of the Oracle by Collette Baron-Reid
Happy Litha! May you all enjoy the fruits of the summer 🌞
Found a magical little place this afternoon! ✨ I love our new city.
Ask and know ✨ I'm so happy to have finally gotten these oracle cards!
🌙Book of Shadows Update! 2.19.17 📚
I have an artist inside of me????? She’s emerging????
1. Opening page. 🖌"This book is protected and safe" sigil, watercolor goddess imagery and my moral guideline, the Rede, on scrapbook paper.
2. Book blessing. 🌼'Action’ is my focus word this year and it’s surrounded by petals. I also used spray glitter to activate this word!! I’ve whited out my actual book blessing as it is written by me and is really personal. I love this mineral card stock too ❤️
3. About the witch page. ♈️This is by far my favorite page! I traced my hand and added some watercolor for emphasis. I added some personal identifiers on the fingers and used magazine clippings and pressed baby’s breath. There is also a LDR quote in the corner. I plan on adding to the path page as I grow and change.
Things I’ve Learned Thus Far; ✨ • Watercolor is AMAZING • There’s no right or wrong way • Don’t be afraid of messing it up • Remember to have fun!
