Jar spell, a masterpost

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To begin

Want to know more about jar spell or witch bottle ? These are some links to help you with your practice. Don’t forget to check out your allergies before manipulating plants and wash your hands after you made your bottle : it’s cleaning and also can be the end of this ritual time. 

For home

Jars spells are strongly associated with domestic magic, and there are a lot of spell for protecting home and help you to create a safe place for you practice. In the past the bottles or jars were burned and the ashes buried into the witch’s garden. In modern time you can also put your spell on a self and look at it when you need it.

According to sabbats

Connecting to

Self care

Like a mandala or drawing, making a jar spell could be very meditative and calming, there are some links to take this little time for yourself and be at peace. 

Job/exam

Before to work just take a little time to motivate yourself and claryfind your mind. 

Good fortune

Love / Friendship

Curses / Hexes

Summon your magic

Others

Correspondances

As always check out the plants properties before you go, be carefull with fire and don’t forget to visualise your spell during your practice.

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WARD. Gather soil from the four corners of the house or property. Have also a match and brick dust. Nothing else is required, but you can add and flavor the spell as you like with other protective ingredients. Warning: messy-ish.

WORDS. Ash by ash, the soil. Dirt by dirt, the earth. Dust by dust, the brick. Brick by brick, the wall. Wall by wall, the ward. Word by word, the spell.

NOTES. This is the bare bones of my favorite ward. I don’t like to just visualize, but ground the protection in reality. I find the more I am letting my hands shape what I desire, the greater the effect; I excite the earth, compress the soil into bricks, build and shape the walls, trace the ward round, and build a mound of power within it. I repeat it every six months or so, or as needed by ~vibes~.

May original 7.29.16

EDIT: Bonus round. The dirt can be used in 1)jars, along with other protective objects, then placed in windows or other entry points. 2)returned from whence it came, now enriched with intentions and material. 3)kept to be used in spells involving home and protection. 4)in a pot, as the earthen base you sink the stang into when working inside. 5)Or, similarly, put into the base of the altar as an empowerment (connecting to the earth) and as a way to keep empowering the ward (working with the altar feeds the corner points you took from).

Quartzbound’s Home Protection Ritual

So I just moved to a new city, about a month ago. I’m not staying long enough to get a proper lease, so I’ve been subletting through Airbnb and it sometimes makes me really uncomfortable not knowing who else has keys to my apartment. I’m also pretty unaccustomed to living on my own since my partner and I have been living together for nearly 2 years, so this particular move has been particularly disorienting. Fortunately I was finally in a good place to start creating demonic sigils, so I gave it a whirl with some pretty ironclad wards. There were a lot of decisions that were a bit personal to keep this ~mine~ but the process seems pretty generalizable so I wrote it up. The whole thing from start to finish takes a couple of hours depending on your candle and the state of your apartment, but feels pretty damn satisfying.

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22 Domestic Witch Tips, Charms, and Omens

This is a list of tid-bits that I find useful in aiding the Domestic Witch in creating a comfortably witchy home. 1. Spray a bit of perfume, drops of essential oils, or room spray on light bulbs to make a room smell fresh and add a magickal aura according to the sent you’ve chosen.  Make sure you do this while the light is off otherwise the light bulb will likely explode. 

2. Keeping an acorn at your window will keep lightning from striking.

3. Keep a Kitchen Witch (Cottage Witch) doll in your kitchen to bring good luck and to keep away any ill meaning spirits.

4. Spilling water on your tablecloth means a storm is coming.  The same is true of a coffee pot that keeps boiling over.

5.Burn a candle on your stove to symbolize the hearth fire of the past.  This honors your patron kitchen Goddess and fills your home with love.  (Candles have a longer burning life if you place them in the freezer for a few hours before lighting them.)

6. To keep an unwanted visitor from returning sweep whatever room or rooms they were in as soon as they leave your home.

7. Never sweep your kitchen after the sun goes down

8. Two yolks in an egg foretell a marriage.

9. Cakes should be baked while the sun is rising.

10. Never turn a loaf of bread upside down after it has been cut.

11. It’s good luck to receive a loaf of bread as a house-warming present.

12. To throw away bread is to throw away any potential luck and prosperity that would come to your home, instead make breadcrumbs or feed it to the birds.

13. If a ring of rice forms around the edge of a pot it means money is coming.

14. Wine leftover from ritual…freeze it in ice cube trays then add a cube or two to gravies, sauces, and casseroles as needed.

15. To make your food taste better keep a quartz crystal on or near your stove.

16. When given a plant as a gift you should not say thank you or the plant will die.

17. Those looking for love should place a pot of basil on their windowsill.

18. Rosemary can be placed under pillows to ward of evil spirits.

19. In ancient times it was believed that in gardens “where rosemary flourished, the woman ruled.”

20. Lavender can be placed under the mattress to bring passion to the marital bed or hung on a bedpost for protection.

21. Growing ivy in your home guards against disaster.

22. Grow a spider plant (chlorophytum comosum) in a space you want to purify.

(Source: ravenrinspagannest’s blogspot)

Witch Tip

Mahogany strengthens blood ties and heals family rifts, perfect for living room or bedroom furniture.

To Release Your Hold on a House

Over a year ago I did my To Make a House a Home ritual. This is a little something in the reverse.

Very simple: candle with cayenne paper (to banish/expell) on top, sticks from my garden that I move from an enclosed square to an open cross while I mediate on saying goodbye.

Parade Your Home: A Basic Apartment Cleansing

Ash, I hear you say, how exactly do you cleanse a big space like an apartment or a house? (I also hear you saying “I know, I know, everyone has a different method of cleansing, but how do you DO it?”). The principle of cleansing a space is to unstick negative energy, sweep out what you don’t want, and clear the space for the good vibes you want to fill it with. There are lots of methods for this, more than I can count - your elemental cleansings, your basic smoke burning, auditory unsticking of vibrations, and so on! Below is a comprehensive method that uses many of the senses to fully clean out a larger space. The below is a variation on a home cleansing that both Whitehurst and Dugan have used in their writing (Magical Housekeeping and Practical Protection Magic, respectively).

You Will Need:

A tray, a candle (white is a good choice, or black for protection, but use your own personal judgement), some incense (ideally clearing incense blends like white sage or cedar), water,  salt, your two hands for clapping purposes (or something else you like that makes a lovely single-note noise, like a bell or a gong. I accidentally found tapping my pestle against my cauldron lid makes a gorgeous tone.)

1. Get ready! Tidy up the house, open the windows, and center yourself. Make sure the air has somewhere to go when you push it out of your home, e.g., an open window or a door. You may like to sweep the floors with a broom and chase the dust outside.

2. Place your items on the tray. Move to the room you want to start in. Mix a pinch of salt into the water, light the candle, and light the incense.

3. Start by clapping once very loudly, or ringing your bell/gong/etc. This will get all the auditory vibes of the room “unstuck”.

4. Move counterclockwise (widdershins) around the room, as we’re trying to reduce (remove, really) existing energy. As you move, sprinkle your salt water lightly around the room. Make sure the light cast by the candle and the smoke of the incense permeates every part of the room.

5. When you’re done, thank the room, and move on to the next one. Repeat steps 3 and 4 in each room, moving counterclockwise, until the house or apartment is complete.

6. When you’re done, put your tray with the materials on it in the metaphorical center of your house (maybe on a dining table or coffee table). You can lay an offering of thanks, like a snowdrop or a little salt, on the tray.

7. It Is Done! Enjoy your fresh, new house!

Variations on the Spell

- Some people like to wrap the broom cleansing right into the full cleansing. You can do this by setting your tray down in the room and sweeping counterclockwise around the room.

- If salt water will stain your floor, use only the tiniest pinch of salt. If water will stain your floor, sprinkle a bit or use your thumb to imprint the water on doors and windows.

Happy cleansing!

(Note: I’m also tagging all my secular spell/Craft posts in the blog as “non-denominational” - bear with me as I backtrack and add! :>)

A Cup of Mothers Love - 1 whole lemon squeezed, a teaspoon of honey, a sprig of rosemary, and a slice of vanilla bean. Soak it all in boiling water for 5 minutes, and drink. It tastes like childhood love, like comfort. It is the best for children who are restless at night and can’t sleep or are scared. It is “A Cup of Mothers Love”.

Doors & Locks Protection Ritual

This protection ritual literally requires no supplies that you don’t have—unless you don’t have a door. (And, you know, the back part of my house used to be made of cardboard—so it’s possible.) Perform the ritual at each of the outside doors in your house, one door at a time. 

I moved into a new apartment this weekend. Here is a cute spell for new homes. :)

Old Barbados IG: scenesofbarbados

Witchy Flora Stuff

So now that it’s warmer I’ve been getting more cacti & succulent on the back porch of the apartment but I just wanted to let any of you who want to get plants for witchy things know that there are lots of plants that can be useful for not only witch purposes this coming season!

Here are some examples of plants that have some extra bonuses to keeping around the apartment:

I have other stuff too but I’ll prob make a longer list later

i love my aloe plant and can recommend it to anyone.

We used to have a number of aloe plants growing in our front yard. Being white Floridians, I lost count of how many times my family used the plants when we got home from the beach.

for my future house when I become rich