Honoring A God Is Very Deeply Transformative. Even When Youre Not Actively Working With Them, Even When

Honoring a God is very deeply transformative. Even when you’re not actively “working” with them, even when you’re simply taking in their essence and making an offering here and there! My advice to someone who wants to learn about a deity is to learn from this deity. What can they teach you, as a mythological and divine figure? What are the positive changes that came to be since you’ve started venerating them? Notice these changes and let yourself learn and be guided by the deities you love!

Planets & Intent

A quick guide on which planets to utilize in magick based on intent.

Banishing: Sun, Saturn, Pluto

Beauty: Venus

Binding: Saturn, Pluto

Cleansing/Purification: Sun, Moon

Communication: Mercury, Jupiter

Confidence: Mars, Jupiter

Courage: Sun, Mars, Jupiter

Creativity: Moon, Venus

Cursing: Saturn, Neptune, Pluto

Divination: Moon, Uranus, Neptune

Dreams: Moon, Neptune

Energy: Sun, Mars

Fertility: Moon, Venus

Happiness: Sun, Jupiter

Healing: Sun, Moon

Hex-Breaking: Saturn

Independence: Mars, Uranus

Invisibility: Moon,Neptune, Pluto

Legal Matters: Saturn

Love: Venus

Luck: Mercury, Jupiter

Manifestation/Power: Sun, Moon, Mars, Pluto

Meditation: Moon, Neptune

Mental Clarity: Sun, Uranus

Mental Power: Uranus, Neptune

Peace: Moon

Prosperity/Wealth: Sun, Mercury, Jupiter

Protection: Mars, Saturn

Psychic abilities: Moon, Uranus, Neptune

Relaxation/Calming: Moon, Neptune

Sexual Relations: Venus, Mars, Pluto

Spell-breaking: Saturn, Pluto

Strength: Sun, Mars

Success: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Travel: Moon, Mercury

Wisdom: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

Wishes: Sun, Jupiter

© 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟺 𝙰𝙳-𝙲𝙰𝙴𝙻𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙰

Intuitive Magick: Rebirth Shower

by autumn sierra

I performed this ritual during a trying period of my career path experience. I’d been fired from a previous job—one that didn’t seem to fit for me from the start, but I pushed on since not every experience in life will be just how you’d like it. I fell into a thought process of self-loathing. How could I have lost my job? I should have done everything in my power to work harder, to make money, to meet expectations even if they were unrealistic.

But the reality was that I was losing my spirit. The job had turned me into a drone, a mindless thing meant to type numbers 8 hours a day, then leave to live its own life for 4, before repeating it all over again.

Realizing I’d been punishing myself for something that may have been what fate had intended for me, I knew I needed to escape my own mental prison. I did so with this intuitive ritual cleansing shower.

*This is a simple intuitive ritual. I preplanned nothing. If you feel moved to substitute any herb or action to better fit your practice, please follow your intuition.

What I used

Cedar wood incense for cleansing

Tuning fork for balancing energies

Ash for symbolic smudging

Oil for anointing and moisturizing

Meditation music

Comb

Bar soap and shampoo & conditioner

Bath towel

Self-love tea (raspberry leaf, rose, thyme, bay leaf)

What I did

First, I carried all of my supplies to the bathroom, trying to remain in the moment and remove focus from my negative thoughts. I returned to the kitchen to brew a (very hot) cup of tea and brought that with me as well.

Inside the bathroom, I closed the door, removed my clothes, put on some low frequency meditation music, and lit the incense. The smoke started filling the air as I rang the tuning fork in every corner of the room and then on either side of my head, and at my third eye. I smoke cleansed my body from foot to crown, reflecting on my emotions and the events that brought me to this point.

Gazing at my reflection in the vanity mirror, I slowly combed my hair, working the tangles. Each tangle reminded me of a difficulty I faced in my experience throughout my career, and the frustration of trying to undo the knots matched my frustration in my work.

I then dipped my fingers into the ash and smudged it over my eyes, wiping it down my face as a physical manifestation of the pain in my mind and in my heart, the disappointment and self loathing I had inside me. I smudged the ash over my chest and arms, allowing myself to feel all of the negative energy. I shed a few tears and stepped into the running water of the shower.

Instantly, I blocked the negativity from my mind and focused on the tones of the music. The warm water pelted over my skin, slowly rinsing the ash from my face. I imagined the darkness and sludge of my own emotions melt away with the water as well. When I felt comfortable, I began wiping the rest of the ash away, feeling my heart that the darkness was leaving me. Then I continued with my regular shower routine of washing my hair and then my body, from the head to the feet with intention and focus in every movement.

When all of the dirt and soap was washed away, I turned the shower off and dried myself from the head to the feet, wiping down and away to ensure that all negativity would be shooed from me. I anointed myself with skin-gentle oil on the face, chest, arms, and legs and massaged it into my skin before drinking the cup of tea I brewed earlier. This tea ended my ritual by cleansing my body internally.

I gazed into the mirror once again and reflected on my emotions and thoughts in the moment. My body felt lighter, my mind felt clear, and my heart felt calm. The music echoed off the walls and I memorized my facial features. I saw myself. Nothing less. In that moment, it felt as if my self from only an hour earlier had died, and this fresh self had taken her place. I was ready for a new beginning again.

Edit: I recently performed a second “rebirth” shower ritual after a difficult experience with a loved one. My emotions seemed out of my control, and I ultimately resorted to this method in order to reset and start from scratch, so to speak. At the time, I had no ash on hand. So I showed the physical manifestation of my emotional pain by lightly scratching the skin of my legs, up over my stomach and back, my chest, arms, neck, and face. This left red marks that I used in place of the ash as a symbol to wash away with the water of the shower. 5-10 minutes after the heat from the shower was gone from my skin, the redness of the scratches faded and disappeared. I’ve found that this is a nice substitute if ash isn’t kept on hand.

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Kitchen Witch Recipe: Vanilla Mug Cake

Who doesn't love a little cake? This is good for a quick, fairly simple individual serving that can be made in the microwave. And of course, I'm witch-ifying it with the correspondences. This is a good one for a self-love ritual, or for any workings to help comfort.

Ingredients

1/4 c all purpose flour

1/2 tsp cornstarch

1/2 tsp baking powder

2 tbsp salted butter (softens and relieves energies)

3 tbsp sugar (sweetens your disposition)

1 tsp vanilla extract (love and comfort)

3 tbsp milk

1/2 tsp sprinkles (optional!)

Directions

In a small bowl, combine flour, cornstarch, and sugar. Whisk together to combine.

Add better to large mug and microwave until melted.

Stir sugar, vanilla, and milk into melted butter.

Add flour mixture to mug and stir to form a batter. If you're using sprinkles, gently stir them in.

Microwave 1-2 minutes. It should be puffy but still shiny. Let the cake rest 2-3 minutes. It will continue to coon through in this time.

If you want to add more magic to this, you can absolutely make a ritual out of it. Incorporate pink candles, rose quartz, roses, lavender, whatever makes you feel the most loved and comfortable. Invoke any deities (I always call on Aphrodite for this).

♛ ✦ ʜᴇʀᴀ • 𝙌ᴜᴇᴇɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɢᴏᴅs, ɢᴏᴅᴅᴇss ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ sᴋʏ, ᴍᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇ, ғᴀᴍɪʟʏ, ᴄʜɪʟᴅʙɪʀᴛʜ, ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀʜᴏᴏᴅ, ᴡᴏᴍᴇɴ, & ʀᴜʟᴇʀs/ʟᴇᴀᴅᴇʀs ✦ ♛