Warding
Here’s a list of visualizations for psychic warding, which are designed to create energetic barriers or protections around your space, rather than just around your body. These visualizations help protect your home, belongings, or personal energy from unwanted influences.
These psychic warding visualizations are designed to protect your personal space, whether it’s your home, workplace, or other important areas. Use whichever resonates most with you to keep unwanted energies at bay and create a safe, energetically balanced environment.
Visualize a grid of protective crystals (such as obsidian, black tourmaline, or amethyst) surrounding your home or space. Each crystal amplifies the protective energy of the grid, creating a barrier that blocks out negativity and harmful energies.
Picture a circle of fire around your home or space. The flames burn brightly, purifying the energy around you and preventing any negative forces from entering the protected zone. The fire is a symbol of transformation and protection.
Visualize a thick, impenetrable hedge of thorns surrounding your home or area. Any negative energy or ill intent that tries to pass through is caught and neutralized by the thorns, keeping your space safe and protected.
Imagine tall, solid iron walls surrounding your home or space. The iron is unbreakable, deflecting any psychic attacks or harmful energies. This ward creates an impenetrable fortress that protects everything within its boundaries.
Picture a glowing web of light woven around your space. The threads of the web are strong, catching and dissolving any negative energy or psychic attacks that try to enter. The light acts as a powerful ward against any harmful influences.
Visualize a cloak of invisibility draping over your home or space. This cloak makes your space energetically invisible, hiding it from unwanted attention or psychic attack, while keeping it safe and protected.
Envision a protective stone circle around your home. Each stone is imbued with grounding and protective energy, creating a powerful ward that deflects negativity and keeps your space secure from outside influences.
Picture walls of mirrors surrounding your home or space. These mirrors reflect any negative energy or harmful intentions back to their source, ensuring that nothing harmful can penetrate your space.
Visualize a swirling vortex of protective energy spinning around your home or space. The vortex pulls in any negative energy and disperses it, preventing it from entering your protected zone while keeping the energy within clear and safe.
Imagine the four elements—earth, air, fire, and water—surrounding your home. Earth grounds and stabilizes, air sweeps away negativity, fire burns away harmful energy, and water purifies the space. Together, they create an elemental ward that protects your home on all fronts.
Visualize protective spirits, animals, or deities standing guard at the four corners of your home. These guardians act as sentinels, warding off any negative energies or ill intentions from entering your space.
Picture glowing protective sigils or runes inscribed around the boundaries of your home or space. Each sigil is charged with protective energy, forming a magical barrier that repels any harmful energy or psychic interference.
Envision a large, black obsidian shield placed at the front and back entrances of your home. This shield absorbs and neutralizes any negative energy or psychic attacks that try to enter, acting as a powerful protective ward.
Imagine a lattice of pure light surrounding your home or space. This lattice is a fine but strong network of energy that blocks out all negativity while allowing positive energy to flow freely inside.
Visualize sacred flames burning at each corner of your home. These flames purify the energy surrounding your space, creating a ward that keeps negativity and harmful influences at bay.
Picture a large, shimmering dome made of protective crystals (like quartz or selenite) covering your entire home or space. This dome radiates protective energy, warding off any negative influences or psychic attacks that might approach.
Envision a powerful wind circling around your home, sweeping away any negative energy or harmful intentions. The wind creates a protective ward, ensuring that only clear, positive energy can enter your space.
Visualize a veil of silver moonlight covering your home or space. The moonlight creates a protective, calming energy that wards off any negativity or harmful energy, keeping your space peaceful and serene.
Picture a glowing rune of protection (such as the Algiz rune) at each entrance to your home or space. These runes act as wards, deflecting any negative energy or psychic attack and keeping your space secure.
Imagine a circle of phoenix fire surrounding your home or space. The flames of the phoenix burn away any negative energy, and their regenerative power ensures that your space remains protected and free from psychic harm.
Visualize a waterfall of cleansing, protective energy pouring down around the boundaries of your home. The waterfall washes away any negativity and creates a continuous barrier of protection, keeping harmful energy out.
Picture a row of candle flames burning at the edges of your space. Each flame represents a point of protection, burning away negativity and creating a circle of light that wards off psychic attacks.
Visualize a thick barrier of thorny vines wrapping around your space. The thorns are sharp and protective, allowing no negative energy to pass through while keeping your home or area safe and secure.
Envision a protective shield made of starlight surrounding your space. The light from the stars is powerful and ancient, creating a ward that keeps out any harmful energies and protects your home from psychic intrusion.
Picture a wall of radiant sunlight encircling your space. The sunlight dissolves any negative energy that comes near, creating a warm and protective barrier that keeps your space filled with positive, uplifting energy.
🧿 Cleansing + Recharging Your Protections and Wards 🧿
Keeping your wards and protections in top shape is essential for maintaining a positive and safe environment. By keeping your wards and protections cleansed and recharged this helps maintain a harmonious and safe space. Here are some guidelines to help you determine how often to cleanse and recharge them!
*UPDATED - original post was 196 prompts
After a lifetime of subtle magic and a year of failing to step into my power, I wrote this personalized curriculum to learn my own individual Witchcraft over 366 days. There are 206 points on the list. Some will take a bit of time and work. Others require more simple answers.
I used the words "personalized" and "individual" for a reason. Witchcraft is very personal. We are all individuals and nothing we do looks exactly the same. Some of the points may not suit you. Adjust or omit them.
I will be kicking this off with a devotional river bath on June 1st.
Follow me on Instagram if you'd to tag along. Inspired by https://sammmango.tumblr.com/post/175974393404/a-whopping-list-of-grimoire-prompts-and-ideas
Cleansing Commencement Ritual
1. List everything you’re grateful for. Be very specific – from the people you love to the water you drink
2. Write down what you want to change about your life. What is holding you back?
3. List everything you need to release, unlearn, and cleanse
4. Write affirmations to support your unlearning and growth with everyday
5. Take a cleansing shower or bath. Use whatever candles, herbs, crystals, etc. you feel like.
Wheel of the Year
6. Create your own calendar/”wheel” as you go
a. Keep a running list of signs you notice of the changing seasons
7. Research each of the Sabbats and decide how they work into your craft.
a. Summer Solstice/Litha – June 20
b. Lammas/Lughnasadh – August 1
c. Fall Equinox/Mabon – September 22
d. Samhain/Halloween – October 31
e. Yule/Winter Solstice – December 21
f. Imbolc/Candlemas – February 2
g. Spring Equinox/Ostara – March 20
h. May Day/Beltane – May 1
8. How do you wish to celebrate the popular holidays or combine them with related Sabbats? Valentine’s Day? Easter and Ostara? Yule and Christmas?
Witchcraft 101
9. Definitions – Determine what these terms mean to you by researching various descriptions
a. Grounding
b. Centering
c. Cleansing
d. Charging
e. Blessing
f. Charming
g. Enchanting
h. Warding
i. Binding
j. Banishing
k. Consecrating
10. How do you ground and center?
11. How do you cast a circle? Do you bother?
12. What are the corners? How do you call them?
13. How do you set up an altar? Do you bother?
14. Research various workings and their origins;
a. Candle magic
b. Knot/braid magic
c. Sigils
d. Self protection
e. Home protection
f. Egg workings
g. Foot track work
h. Hair/Tag-lock magic
i. Money magic
i. Money bowl/plate
ii. Money candle
iii. Money dust
iv. Lode stone money spell
v. Look up 5 good money spells that you would use
j. Sex magic
k. True jar spells
Correspondences
15. Directions
16. (5) Elements
17. 7 Days of the week
18. Colours
Astrology
19. Read your own birth chart in depth while working through this section
20. Triplicities – Elements in Astrology
21. Quadruplicities – Cardinal/Mutable/Fixed
22. The 12 zodiac signs
23. The 12 houses
24. Aspects
25. Rising sign
26. Sun sign
27. Moon sign
28. Mercury
29. Venus
30. Mars
31. Saturn
32. Jupiter
33. Uranus
34. Neptune
35. Pluto
Lunar Magic
36. Moon Phases
a. Correspondences
b. Add to your calendar/”wheel”
37. New Moon rituals
38. Full moon rituals
Divination
39. Read cards every day
40. Pull a tarot card for each week. Read it for yourself. Research traditional meanings and symbolism as well.
41. Draw some tarot spreads to refer to.
42. Write a list of other divining methods that you’re interested in
43. Make runes or charms…a bone set?
Crystals
44. How do crystals work?
45. How do you cleanse crystals?
46. How do you charge crystals?
47. How do you program crystals?
a. Create a charm to carry with you as reminder and amplifier of your magic
48. What are the uses of crystal grids? Look up some examples for more ideas.
49. How can you use crystals?
a. Physically
b. Metaphysically
c. Around the home
50. Write an information page for every crystal you have. (See Crystal List)
Green Witchery
51. Research all the herbs you are growing;
a. Basil
b. Calendula
c. Chives
d. Catnip
e. Chamomile
f. Dill
g. Lavender
h. Lemon Balm
i. Oregano
j. Peppermint
k. Rosemary
l. Sage
m. Thyme
52. Identify and research 15 plants or trees in your yard. How can you use these in your craft?
53. Identify and research 15 wild plants or trees in nature. How can you use these in your craft?
54. How can you garden by the moon?
55. Note any foraging times on the calendar/”wheel”
Potions
56. Research the essential oils you have on hand
a. Bergamot
b. Cedarwood
c. Cinnamon leaf
d. Chamomile
e. Eucalyptus
f. Frankincense
g. Geranium
h. Lavender
i. Lemon
j. Lemongrass
k. Lime
l. Peppermint
m. Rose
n. Rosemary
o. Tea tree
57. Make body butter
58. Make “Personal Growth” scalp and nail massage oil
59. Make face/gua sha oil
60. Make toothpaste
61. Make toner with oil (like micellar water)
62. Make ‘Thieves’ body spray
63. Create your own signature scent in a body spray
64. Learn to make herbal infusions
65. Learn to make infused oils
66. Learn to make herbal decoctions
67. Learn to make tinctures
68. Learn to make mouthwashes
Spirit Work
69. List the Spirits you can think to work with
a. Ancestors
i. Do you have an item that belonged to them?
b. Flora, Fauna & the Land
c. Planets
i. Where are they in your chart?
70. How can one connect with the spirit of a/an;
a. Ancestor
b. Plant or tree
c. Natural body of water
d. Fairies
e. Planet
71. What type of offerings would you provide different spirits?
a. Ancestors
b. Plants or trees
c. A natural body of water
d. Fairies
e. A planet
72. Take what you’ve learned above and try connecting with spirits;
a. An Ancestor
b. A plant or tree
c. A natural body of water
d. Fairies
e. A Planet
Shadow work
73. Look at your chart;
a. Moon, house
b. 12th house, ruler
c. Saturn
d. Chiron
e. Hard aspects
74. Research Jungian Archetypes and determine which ones fit you.
a. What are your shadows? How can you work on them?
75. Research Myers-Briggs personality types and determine which one fits you.
Personal Maintenance & Glamour
76. Hydrate – your body, brain, Earth and the Moon are mainly water
77. Eat of the Earth
78. Create a soothing bedtime ritual
79. Create a morning ritual that you look forward to
a. ‘Bubble up’ ideas
b. Make a list of Affirmations
c. Gratitude candles
d. Print a checklist
80. Exercise – hike, bike, lift
a. Make a list of your favourite dog walking spots
b. Make a list of your favourite hiking spots
c. Make a list of your favourite biking spots
81. Meditate daily – even if it’s just a few minutes
82. List best hair care practices
83. List best skin care practices
CULMINATING PROJECTS
84. Make a detailed Calendar or “Wheel” with your individualized plans for the next year. (June 1, 2022-June 1, 2023)
85. Write your Grimoire – Create a tidy book of the information that you will use in your craft.
a. Your personalized Holiday/Sabbat celebrations, dates, symbols, etc
b. The basics that make up the foundation of your craft
c. The various workings you do/intend to use
d. Spells
e. Correspondences
f. The tools of your craft
g. Your completed birth chart interpretation
h. Moon Rituals
i. Personal Tarot card meanings, spreads
j. A guide to your Runes, Bones, or whatever divination set you may have made or acquired (#39)
k. Crystal practices, information pages
l. Plant information
m. Essential Oil information
n. Recipes
o. Spirit information, communication records
p. Shadow work and a plan to work on your shadows
q. Your ideal day
r. Your ideal week
Crystals:
Agate: induces dreams, prevent nightmares
Albite: dreams, lucid dreaming, astral projection
Amethyst: vivid dreams, prevents insomnia, prevents nightmares, dream divination
Ametrine: helps to understand dreams
Angel Phantom Quartz: general dream work, lucid dreaming, angel communication, prevents nightmares
Angelite: astral projection
Benitoite: astral travel
Black Tourmaline: induces sleep, prevents nightmares
Blue Apatite: dreams that will help solve problems creatively, induce happy dreams
Blue Calcite: astral travel, induces dreams
Bustamite: induces dreams
Calcite: induces dreams
Chrysoprase: peaceful sleep, prevents nightmares
Clear Quartz: induce dreams, astral travel, dream recall, vivid dreams
Danburite: induces sleep, lucid dreaming
Dioptase: vivid dreams
Dream Quartz: dream enhancement, dream divination, healing dreams, prevents nightmares, past life work via dreams, dream manifestation, astral travel
Emerald: general dreamwork, prevents nightmares
Fluorite: protection during sleep, prevents nightmares, promotes deep sleep
Garnet: induces dreams
Goshenite: induces dreams
Green Jade: general dream work, dream divination, dream recall
Hemimorphite: entering the dream state, dream divination and visions, angel and spirit communication in sleep and dreams
Herkimer Diamond: general dream work, astral travel, induces dreams, vivid dreams, lucid dreaming, dream recall
Holley Blue Agate: general dreamwork
Iolite: aids with sleep disorders, induces sleep, astral projection
Jet: astral projection, protection in sleep
Labrodite: astral travel, vivid dreams, aids in dream interpretation
Lazulite: general dream work, astral travel, dream recall, lucid dreaming
Lepidolite: aids with sleep disorders, prevents nightmares, prevents confusion in dreams
Malachite: prevent nightmares, halts repeating nightmares, dream recall, induce sleep
Moldavite: entering dream state, dream messages, vivid dreams, enhancing dream work and dream spells, guidance through dreams
Moonstone: brings dreams, lucid dreaming, peaceful sleep, prevents insomnia
Muscovite: aids with sleep disorders, sleep inducement
Opal: astral travel, brings happy dreams
Peacock Obsidian: astral travel
Picture Jasper: general dream work, brings dreams of memories
Purple Jade: induces dreams
Prehnite: dreams, dream recall
Rhodizite: astral travel
Rhodonite: general dream work, lucid dreaming, helps with interpreting messages of dreams
Rose Quartz: prevents insomnia, pleasant dreams
Sapphire: astral travel, dream recall
Scolecite: induce sleep, dream recall, lucid dreaming, messages from dreams
Smoky Quartz: induces dreams, prevents nightmares
Sphene: dream recall
Stilbite: induces dreams
Sugilite: induces dreams
Tabular: astral travel
Zircon: induces sleep
Herbs:
African Dream Bean: lucid dreaming, spirit communication through dreams
Anise: prevents nightmares
Ash: prevents nightmares, dream divination
Ashwagandha: induce sleep
Bay: general dream work and spells, dream divination
Blue Lotus: prevents insomnia, induces sleep, lucid dreaming
Bracken: bright dreams with answers to problems, protection in sleep, prevents nightmares
Buchu: dream divination
*California Poppy: induces sleep, prevent insomnia
Clary Sage: vivid dreams, strange dreams
Cayenne: induces sleep, prevents nightmares
Cedar: prevents nightmares, strengthens psychic powers in sleep, protection when sleeping
Chamomile: induces calming sleep, prevents nightmares
Cinquefoil: brings restful sleep, dream divination
**Datura: lucid dreaming
Flax: prevents nightmares
Garlic: prevents nightmares, protection during sleep, induces sleep
Ginkgo Biloba: induce dreams, vivid dreams
**Heliotrope: dream divination
**Holly: dream divination
Huckleberry: make dreams come true
*Hyacinth: nightmare prevention, helps one to recover after a nightmare
Jasmine: restful sleep, pleasant dreams, induces sleep, induces dreams, dream divination
*Kava Kava: induces sleep (do not use if you have liver issues or on prescriptions!)
*Kanna: prevents nightmares
Lady’s Slipper: induces sleep, prevents nightmares
Lavender: induces sleep, prevents insomnia
Lemon Balm: induces sleep, refreshing sleep, prevents nightmares
Lemon Verbena: dreamless sleep, dream suppression
Lemongrass: dream inducement
Magnolia Bark: induces sleep
**Mandrake: sleep inducement, protection during sleep, dream divination
Marigold: dream divination, protection from dream magick and spells
*Mexican Dream Herb: clearer dreams, dream memory, lucid dreaming
Mimosa: dream divination
**Mistletoe: prevent nightmares, prevent insomnia
*Morning Glory: prevent nightmares
Mugwort: dream divination, astral projection, lucid dreaming, psychic and spiritual dreams
Mullein: prevents nightmares, protection during sleep, keeps nocturnal demons at bay
Mustard Seed: prevents nightmares
Onion: dream divination, protection during sleep
Passionflower: sleep inducement, calm dreams
Peony: protects from nocturnal demons notably incubi
Peppermint: dream divination, induces sleep
*Poppy Seeds: vivid dreams, induces sleep
Purslane: prevent reoccurring nightmares, keep away nocturnal spirits
Rose: induces dreams of love, dream divination in terms of romance and love
Rosemary: prevent nightmares, protection during sleep, past life work in dreams
Sage: peaceful calm dreams, helaing in dreams, prevents nightmares
Siberian Ginseng: induces sleep, prevents nightmares
*Skullcap: prevents nightmares
St. John’s Wort: dream divination in terms of love
*Tobacco: prevents nightmares
Valerian Root: lucid dreaming, sleep inducement, dream recall
Vervain: prevents nightmares, dream divination
Wild Asparagus: dream inducement, lucid dreaming, flight in sleep, astral travel
Wood Betony: prevent nightmares, protection during sleep
Yarrow: dream divination
**poisonous, do not eat!
*potentially toxic or dangerous, use with caution!
Foods:
Almonds: induces sleep[, induces dreams
Banana: induces sleep, promotes painless sleep, induces sleep
Blueberries: induces dreams
Cherry: induces dreams, induces sleep
Chicken: induces dreams, lucid dreams
Dairy Products: induces sleep
Eggs: induces dreams
Halibut: induces sleep
Kale: induces sleep
Kidney Beans: lucid dreaming
Lamb: lucid dreaming
Lettuce: induces sleep
Oats/Oatmeal: induces dreams
Passion Fruit: induces sleep, prevents insomnia
Pistachios: induces sleep
Pretzels: induces sleep
Pumpkin Seeds: lucid dreaming
Red Radish: vivid dreams
Shrimp: vivid dreams, induces dreams
Soy Sauce: induces dreams
Soybeans: lucid dreaming
Sunflower Seeds: vivid dreams
Tofu (cooked): lucid dreaming
Tomato: induces sleep
Tuna: induces sleep
Turkey: induces sleep, induces dreams, lucid dreaming
Rice: Induces sleep
Salmon: Induces sleep
Animals:
Bat: dreaming
Beavers: subconscious thoughts, dreams
Groundhog: heightens dreams and states of mind
Leopard: communication in dreams, movement in dreams, sensitivity of the unconscious mind
Lizard: “Dream Walker”; dream messages, represents the dream realm
Lynx: insight of dreams, unconscious knowledge, dream interpretation
Mink: understanding your dreams while dreaming
Owl: messages through dreams, astral projection
Spiders: prevents nightmares, wards off evil and harm during sleep
Swan: dream interpretation, dream recall
Essential Oils:
Anise: induces sleep
Catnip: vivid dreams
Cedarwood: vivid dreams
Cinnamon: vivid dreams
Clove: induces sleep
Clary Sage: induces sleep
Eucalyptus: vivid dreams
Helichrysum: prevents insomnia, induces dreams
Jasmine: induces dreams
Junipher: vivid dreams
Lavender: induces dreams, lucid dreaming
Lemon Balm: vivid dreams
Mugwort: lucid dreaming, astral projection
Nutmeg: vivid dreams
Orange: vivid dreams
Palo Santo: induces sleep
Patchouli: lucid dreaming
Peppermint: vivid dreams
Rose: induces sleep, lucid dreaming, dreams related to love
Rosemary: vivid dreams
Sandalwood: induces sleep
Yarrow: vivid dreams
Ylang Ylang: vivid dreams
Incense:
Ambergris: induces dreams
Bay: dream divination, brings visions
Cedar: prevents nightmares
Dittany of Crete: astral projection
Jasmine: dream divination, astral projection
Lavender: induces sleep
Opium: dream divination, lucid dreaming, induces dreams, induces sleep, dream spells of all kinds
Passionflower: induces sleep
Rose: dream divination
Rosemary: induces sleep, pleasant dreams, prevents nightmares
Sandalwood: astral projection
*Burn incense with caution please. Burn it before going to bed and make sure it is extinguished before you go to sleep for safety reasons.*
Metals:
Silver: prevent nightmares, protection during sleep, induces dreams, psychic dreams, visions, dream divination
Colors:
Blue: astral projection
Indigo: dream divination
Silver: dreams
Yellow: dream divination, creative vivid dreams
"I can't connect to nature because I live in a city" Incorrect.
"I can't connect to nature because I can't travel" Nuh-uh.
"I can't connect to nature because I-" Wrong.
Anyone can connect to nature. Please, remove the mindset that nature is something *out there*. Nature is all around you.
The dandelions peeking through pavement cracks, the birds you don't notice on your windowsill, the brambles in the alleys, the storms and sunshine.
All of this is nature. You are surrounded by it. Notice it, learn about it. Write down when you notice the days getting longer, when more butterflies appear and when ripen blackberries ripen. Connect to the nature that lives outside your window, just past the boundary of your front door.
Watch nature documentaries, build a small windowsill garden, let the spider in your room corner stay for a while.
Connection is not determined by proximity, but by effort.
****These are used as Suggestions****
Rosemary can be used in place of other herbs
Rose can be used in place of any other flower
Frankincense or Copal can replace gum resin
Sage in place of any mints
Tobacco in place of any poisonous herbs
Acacia substitute Gum Arabic
Aconitie substitute Tobacco
Arabic substitute gum ,gum mastic or frankincense
Allspice substitute cassia, cinnamon, cloves ,mace or nutmeg
Balm of gilded substitute rose buds or gum mastic
Belladonna substitute Tobacco
Benzoin substitute Gum Arabic or gum mastic
Camphor oil substitute Eucalyptus oil or lavender oil
Carnation substitute rose petals anointed with a few drops of cinnamon oil
Cassia substitute cinnamon
Castor beans substitute for a few drops of castor oil
Cedar substitute sandlewood
Cinquefoil substitute clover or trefoil
Citron substitute equal parts Orange & lemon peels
Clove substitute mace or nutmeg
Clover substitute cinquefoil
Copal substitute frankincense or cedar
Cowbane substitute tobacco
Cypress substitute juniper or pine needles
Deer tongue substitute tonka bean, woodruff or vanilla
Dittany substitute gum mastic
Dragons blood substitute equal parts frankincense and red sandlewood
Eucalyptus oil substitute camphor oil or lavender oil
Euphorbium substitute Tobacco
Frankincense substitute copal or pine resin
Grains of paradise substitute black pepper
Gum bumelia substitute copal, pine resin or dragons blood
Hellebore substitute tobacco or nettle
Hemlock substitute Tobacco
Hemp substitute nutmeg or damiana
Henbone substitute Tobacco
Hyssop substitute lavender
Ivy substitute cinquefoil
Jasmin substitute rose
Juniper substitute pine
Lavender substitute rose
Lemon Grass substitute lemon peel
Lemon verbena substitute Lemon grass or lemon peel
Mace substitute nutmeg
Mandrake substitute Tobacco
Mastic substitute gum, gum Arabic or Frankincense
Mint substitute sage
Mistletoe substitute mint or sage
Mugwort substitute wormwood
Neroli oil substitute orange oil
Nightshade substitute Tobacco
Nutmeg substitute mace or cinnamon
Oakmoss substitute patchouli
Orange substitute tangerine peel
Orange flower substitute orange peel
Patchouli substitute oakmoss
Peppermint substitute spearmint
Pepperwort substitute grain of paradise or black pepper
Pine substitute juniper
Pine resin substitute frankincense or copal
Red Sandlewood substitute sandlewood with a pinch of dragons blood
Rose substitute yarrow
Rose geranium substitute rose
Rue substitute rosemary with a pinch of black pepper
Saffron substitute orange peel
Sandalwood substitute cedar
Sarsaparilla substitute sassafras
Spearmint substitute peppermint
Star Anise substitute bay
Sulfur substitute tobacco, club moss or asafetida
Thyme substitute rosemary
Tobacco substitute bay
Tonka bean substitute deer tongue
Trefoil substitute cinquefoil
Valerian substitute asafetide
Vanilla substitute woodruff or deer tongue
Vetivert substitute calamus
Wolfsbane substitute tobacco
Wood aloe substitute sandalwood sprinkled with ambergris oil
Woodruff substitute deer tongue or vanilla
Wormwood substitute nutmeg
Yarrow substitute rose
Yew substitute Tobacco
I’ve begun to feel under the weather, so I made this soup tonight. It’s one of my favorite recipes from my blog!
Cold Season Soup–Vegetable Soup with White Beans, Cauliflower, and Quinoa:
2 heads cauliflower, washed and roughly chopped
1 large white or yellow onion
1 shallot (not totally necessary, but I like to pack in the alliums when I’m sick)
5 large carrots
6 celery stalks
1 head of garlic (Yes, head, not clove. Go big or go home if you really want to clear the sinuses.) peeled and pressed, grated, or chopped
1 large or 2 small zucchini squash
1 c. dry red quinoa
2-3 c. cooked white or cannellini beans
4 large kale leaves, washed and roughly chopped
large handful of fresh parsley, washed and roughly chopped
3 quarts vegetable or chicken broth
½ t. ground black pepper
1 T dried thyme
1 T dried oregano
3 bay leaves
pinch of cayenne pepper
salt to taste
4-6 T olive oil
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Preheat oven to 400.
Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper or foil. Spread chopped cauliflower onto the baking sheet, and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle salt and pepper to taste, and toss to coat. Roast in preheated oven until slightly charred and soft all the way through, about 40-60 minutes. Turn/mix cauliflower halfway through baking to ensure even browning.
While cauliflower is roasting, chop onion, shallot, carrots and celery to desired size. Bring a large, heavy-bottomed soup pot to medium high heat, and add a few tablespoons of olive oil. Once olive oil is fully heated, add onions, carrots, and celery, and cook 10 minutes, stirring often to keep from over browning. Add shallot and pressed, grated, or chopped garlic. Cook another 10 minutes or until onions are translucent and very fragrant. Add broth and all spices. Bring to a simmer and then taste and adjust spices/salt as needed. Add dry quinoa and bring to a simmer again.
Finely dice zucchini and add to the pot. Let simmer about 30 minutes or until quinoa is cooked through and all vegetables are tender. Add roasted cauliflower, chopped kale, beans, and parsley. Bring to a simmer and taste. Adjust salt and spices as needed, and don’t be afraid to add more olive oil if it lacks richness!
Also, t.= teaspoon and T= tablespoon
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A tarot spread to check and see what part of your wards could use some repair. Useful to those who find sensing energy difficult.
Do not repost. Image made using Krita.
items:
- storm (or rain) water
- freshwater shell (I used an apple snail shell, but a something like a mussel or other shell would work. if you don't have one sub with a saltwater/estuarine shell and see how it goes!)
- Any charm that you can hang, preferably one that invokes imagery/symbolism of water or rain
- 2 more shells (salt or fresh. I used ones with open faces)
- silver bell
- sea glass (blues and greens)
- salt (epsom or sea salt preferred)
- large/medium feather of a water fowl (grey or white preferred)
- clear quartz (optional)
- offering dish (optional, really for presentation and clean up)
prep:
1. Set up the freshwater shell on the offering dish (or table) and keep it stable with a ring of sea glass (optional: single clear quartz or clear sea glass at front).
2. Place the charm in the shell with rope/thread/ribbon draping towards you.
3. Place the silver bell at the "north" of the dish (imagine the dish as a compass) and place your other two shells on either side of it.
4. Put the feather in front of you with the quill end nearest to your dominant hand.
5. Have the salt in a small container you can pinch into.
ritual:
1. Breathe deeply 3 times with eyes closed to center yourself. You can also create a circle or do any other grounding exercises at this time.
2. Make a circle around the inner rim of the offering dish (or table) with the salt and get this meaning across with words: "salt, mineral of the oceans, protector and cleanser"
3. Pick up the feather and stir the energies to the metaphorical north (treat the offering dish like a compass). I did this with my eyes closed as it lessens distractions. You will repeat this action for each cardinal direction and get this meaning across in order:
"I beckon rain from the North, to soak the rich earth"
"I beckon rain from the East, aided by its winds for a swift arrival"
"I beckon rain from the South, as the heat of is your creator, and it is the heat you will abate"
"I beckon rain from the West, as all waters merge and must complete their cycle"
I find it important to use "will" rather than might/should as to bolster the confidence behind your intentions. Feel free to alter and add to this wording as much as you like for it is already loose and use this time to invoke any specific deities or spirits as I did not.
4. Place the feather down gently, breathe, and say "after I have rung this bell 3 times, whenever I hang this charm where the sky can see, it will intice rain for as long as it hangs" (be thoughtful of wording and your intentions here, loopholes are very easy to accidentally create, so set clear parameters that aren't too outrageous)
5. Ring the bell with steady motions. It's important that you get 3 clear rings, so if you try to ring it once but the sound isn't great, try until you have 3 satisfactory chimes.
6. Once you have placed the bell back down, close your circle or breathe to realign any energies.
And that's about it! I tried this today and we got a good spell of rain (with thunder and everything!) even though there was no predictions for it this whole week. I'm hesitant to do a spell for storms as I live in a hurricane-prone region and it's that time of year, but feel free to replace "rain" with "storm" or whatever wording feels specific to what you desire. I kept the wordings here intentionally vague/loose because it's important to use words that you mean something to you.
Let me know if you try this and get anything out of it, or how you changed it! It's the first spell I've posted here so I'm interested to know.
I didnt dedicate a journal, but I would write "dear _" letters at the start of my encounters. Id like to do so again, I might take this idea up.
if you’re anything like me, the desire to meet and communicate with a new deity might be stunted by the idea of actually, ya know, communicating. whatever the reason (you don’t use divination, cant speak aloud, are afraid of being overheard, can’t meditate easily, etc.), initiating contact with deities can seem intimidating, and might even deter you from following the god or pantheon at all. but rest assured, there are easier and more discreet methods of talking, other than whipping out a dozen tarot decks and chanting pagan prayers
💫Why a Devotional Journal? What Is It?
devotional journals are journals dedicated to a specific deity or pantheon, where you can write messages, prayers, questions, or anything else you’d like to speak with Them about. i like to think of these journals like writing letters to a good friend- except your good friend is also a god!
☀️Beginning a Devotional Journal
depending on personal preference, this can be as intricate or as simple as you please. if you feel inclined to introduce yourself, explain what you’re doing or why you’re keeping a journal, or anything else, then feel free to! when i started mine i kept it as easy as writing “dear Apollo,” in a composition notebook, then explained my reasons and goals for keeping a journal specifically for Him. so honestly? go wild
⚡️What To Put in a Devotional Journal
prayers
Their name written in its orignal language
stories about your day
your relationship goals
tarot spreads for/to Them
song lyrics
poetry
hymns
Their family tree
things like the delphic maxims (hellenic) or 10 commandments (christian)
pressed flowers
printed pictures of what They look like to you
artwork
a list of things you associate with Them
gratitudes
what your altar to Them looks like (or what you wish it could look like)
messages you’ve received from Them
devotional acts
sigils/runes/etc
Their symbols
Their myths and lore
offering ideas
Their sacred animals, plants, cities, etc
famous works about Them
if you can think of anything else to put in a devotion journal, please feel free to add on! no matter how crazily beautiful or inconspicuously simple you make yours, the important thing to remember is your gods appreciate all efforts to strengthen your relationship with Them
-Mason Lane
The Wild Called Me Back.
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