What's Your Personal Method Of Charging, If You Don't Mind Sharing? I Love Your Blog! :) Have A Great

What's your personal method of charging, if you don't mind sharing? I love your blog! :) have a great night

I’M SO GLAD YOU ASKED!!!!! I think it’s pretty nifty and helpful if I do say so myself!

OKAY SO FIRST OFF LET ME EXPLAIN

I am not a beginner by any means. I’ve been practiing witchcraft in many forms for more than a decade now, and it’s nly lately that I’ve been having issues with visualization. It’s been getting better, but it’s still a little difficult more often than I like. SO! To combat that, I came up with this idea for charging things like candles, herbs, charms, and other objects! 

Here’s how you do it :)

You need a circle that your object fits in with lots of space around it(depending on the object/usage) 

Then, you’re gonna make a sigil for your purpose. For instance, if you were charging a candle for banishment, make a sigil that says, “banishment” or “These things will be banished from me etc.”

Now, around the outside of the circle, write words representing the things you want the object to be charged with more specifically. Like, you might be charging your candle with love and happiness. On the outside of the circle, you’ll write words relating to that, like “comfort,” “warmth,” “family,” “intimacy,” etc. 

When you’re done, connect all of them with a line between each word, like hyphens connecting them. Now you have your circle, directing and containing the energy of your sigil, and you have a second outer circle helping direct the energy and intent into EXACTLY what you want.

For added measure, you can colour the circle a shade relating to whatever you’re charging for. I.e. red for love, or black for banishing etc.

I do specific repetitive hand motions and chanting to activate and charge the sigil and object, so you do whatever you need to! 

When you finally feel done, BOOM! You now have a very specifically charged object to use as you see fit! 

I’ve used this for different candles for later use, as well as mini ones for small candles that I burn all the way down right on top of the whole circle. Here is what my study one in my grimoire looks like!

And here’s a before and after of a small one for a candle I worked for banishment. 

I hope this was clear and easy to understand!! Thank you for asking :)

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cosmic witchcraft 101: saturnian magick ♄

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. Like the other gas giants, scientists can’t be exactly sure how Saturn formed, but many believe its breathtaking rings have been there since the very beginning. One theory posits that the rings were once an early moon of Saturn whose orbit brought it closer and closer to Saturn where eventually it was ripped apart by tidal forces; a large collision may also have destroyed it. Another theory suggests that the rings are leftover material from the area of the solar system’s primordial nebula where Saturn formed. The Grand Tack Hypothesis, which explains our solar system’s formation through a theoretical Jovian migration to as far inward as Mars, suggests that Saturn getting locked in orbital resonance with Jupiter during its migration forward prevented Jupiter from going all the way through the inner solar system.

Facts:

Saturn is the second largest planet, but the least dense one. Saturn is less dense than water.

It takes Saturn 29.7 years to travel around the Sun and about 10.5 hours for a complete Saturnian day.

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is larger than the planet Mercury. It’s not that much smaller than Mars, and is second in moon size only to Jupiter’s Ganymede.

Just about every 30 years, a Great White Spot appears as a storm on Saturn’s atmosphere. The next appearance will be near the year 2020.

Saturn has more than 60 moons.

When Galileo originally discovered Saturn’s rings, he thought they were two moons on either side of the planet.

In 2010, a huge storm appeared on the surface of Saturn - it was so big it wrapped around the entire planet.

Saturn is the furthest planet from Earth that can be seen without the aid of a telescope or binoculars.

Magnification of about 30x is needed to see Saturn’s rings, which can be achieved with a large pair of binoculars or a small telescope. 

Magickal Correspondences*

Colors: yellow, black, purple

Intents: discipline, overcoming fears, breaking boundaries, limitations, uncovering reality, structure, responsibility, endurance, long-term plans, order, growth, manifestation

Herbs: dills seed, daffodil, hemlock, holly, witch hazel, nightshade, bluebell, indigo, mandrake, yew, myrrh, garlic, patchouli, cypress

Crystals: lapis lazuli, onyx, hematite, blue sapphire, amethyst, obsidian, smoky quartz, black tourmaline, yellow jade, yellow calcite

*some of these correspondences are based on traditional associations and some are based on my personal associations

cosmic witchcraft 101: solar magick  ☀

The Sun is the star in the center of our solar system. Astronomers believe our star was formed after a shockwave from a nearby supernova helped compress matter within a molecular cloud, causing some regions of the cloud to collapse in on themselves due to gravity. One of those regions became so massive it began to rotate, increasing in heat and pressure as most of the mass accumulated in the center. The rest flattened out into a disk, eventually forming the smaller bodies of our solar system. Eventually, all of that gravity and pressure generated enough heat to produce nuclear fusion, and the Sun was born.

Facts

Approximately 75% of the Sun’s mass is hydrogen, almost all of the rest is helium.

The Sun makes up 99.86% of our solar system’s mass.

It takes light 8 minutes and 19 seconds to travel to Earth.

The Sun is mostly emitting photons in the green portion of the spectrum. It appears yellow because of the Earth’s atmosphere.

When viewed from space or high in the sky, the Sun looks white; when low in the sky, the Sun appears yellow, red, orange, or magenta.

Magickal Correspondences*

Colors: yellow, gold, amber, orange, red, magenta, white, green

Intents: vitality, courage, magnetism/gravity (drawing things/energy towards you), accomplishment, strength, energy, self-confidence, centering, luck, fertility, illuminating the unknown, success boost for all other planetary energies

Herbs: calendula, dandelion, chamomile, St. John’s Wort,  frankincense, ginger, rue, rosemary, saffron, juniper, sunflower, cinnamon, eyebright

Crystals: garnet, sunstone, goldstone, ruby, fire agate, carnelian, citrine, golden topaz, sulfur, zircon, quartz, tiger’s eye

*some of these correspondences are based on traditional associations and some are based on my personal associations

If you had one piece of advice for a beginning witch, what would it be?

I have been looking forward to this ask since I saw it come in my askbox, and have been mulling it over and over in my head.

Honestly, the one piece of advice I would give to a beginning witch would have to be, Don’t try to over-complicate things!

Witchcraft is a very personal practice. It is incredibly different from witch to witch to witch. No two will cast a spell teh same way, or have the same correspondences for the same items, or believe the same things, and I’m sure you’re thinking, “Yeah but look at all those herbs I can’t pronounce and those crystal collections that have 200 more than mine, and she has cool shaped candles and he has a zillion books and they make really good sigils and and and…”

STOP.

You can ask any person on this website (and probably in real life too) about their practice, and how they think theirs is, in comparison with others. And every single one will tell you that “It’s different.” That is the beauty of witchcraft! It can be as simple or as complicated, as beautiful or as bare, as scary or as soft as you want it to be. Let me show you something. 

This is obviously, a jar of rocks. I picked up these rocks in an empty lot on my way home from work one day. They are all made from the same thing, probably some kind of commercial gravel stuff. Nothing special about them. 

I use them more than anything else in my practice. There rocks are one of my most vital pieces of my craft. Because while right now they are “just rocks,” after I’m done with them, they are little spells all their own. i will enchant them in different ways and use them all for different things. I might whisper all my frustrations into one, and throw it out the car window to banish my anger. I might spit on four of them and bury them around my property for warding. I might colour them with markers to make little poppets, I could kiss them and give one to my girlfriend as a reminder of my love, I might use them to help me ground, I might just shake the jar gently to create some music, maybe I use them to build little cairns for Hermes in different places. Do you see my point?

These things were just rocks until I decided to use them as something witchy. When I need herbs that I don’t have, I literally go pick grass and just enchant it with the properties I need. It is that simple.

So you see my little one, witchcraft is all about you. That is what is at the center of witchcraft. 

YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU.

It doesn’t matter how many crystals you have, or candles you can collect, or herbs you can name off the top of your head. It is literally about what YOU want to do. 

OWN THAT.

Hello! I was wondering if you have any books/ resources for spirit companionship? I try to find some, but most don't have any advice or information available to beginners and I'm finding it hard to learn. General spirit work resources are fine too. Thank you for any help you can give, and I hope you have a. I've day!

Hello there! I wish that I had more resources to give, but as I’m just getting into spirit work myself, I don’t have much of a collection so Far!  

Here is a masterpost by @magic-for-the-masses

Here are some spirit work tips 

Some more tips

Bonding 101

I can, however, recommend a few bloggers who know a bit more than I do, and can surely be helpful!!!

@urbanspellcraft @thiscrookedcrown @qedavathegrey @thedragonslibrary @sopherielspeaks 

Thank you for asking me for help!! It means so much to me, and I hope that you are having a great day!!

Hiya friend!! I recently got an oracle deck and was wondering how to read it?

Omg!!! congratulations!!! I adore oracle decks! When I freaked out and gave away all of my witchy things, that included more than half of my tarot cards, but I kept my four favorite decks, which are the Wild Unknown tarot, the Wildwood tarot, and the two newest oracle decks I had bought, the Floret Oracle and the Earthbound Oracle!

Oracle cards are my prefered method of reading, because unlike traditional tarot cards, they don’t have strict, specific meanings. More often than not, when you buy oracle cards they won’t come with any LWB (that Little White Book), which comes with tarot decks and gives you very brief, general meanings for the cards. Tarot is a system that is hundreds of years old, where as oracle cards are a bit newer and have a much more lose structure. They are open to interpretation, and one deck can be as different from another as you and I are. I love them because you can get such more detailed answers, and I feel like you stretch that psychic muscle just a little bit more with Oracle cards versus tarot. 

The way you read your cards will depend on how you like to read them. It may also depend on what the question is, who you’re reading for, if you use any spreads, etc. It is literally all about you. When I use oracle cards, I try to read them either in a storybook way, or by more simple and precise, “The answer to this is..” methods. Let me do a quick example for you. 

Lets say someone asked me what the next few weeks had in store for them. Here are two ways I might read them. For both of these, I will draw three cards,(written in parentheses) but read them in the fashion I’m trying to describe. 

1. StoryBook Method (Obfuscate, simplicity, terra)

These cards tell me that youll go through a period of confusion and doubt. You’re overcomplicating an important situation, and by taking a step back and looking at the big picture, you’ll be able to come closer to the true purpose you’re trying to find.

2. Precise Method (Same Cards)

Week One: You’re going to experience a lot of confusion and uncertainty.

Week Two: You need to simplify your approach to the problem.

Week Three: Experiencing satisfaction and completion after struggle. 

Does this make sense at all? Truly, it is going to all be up to you. no card or symbol will mean the same thing to you as it might mean to me. So you’ll kind of feel it out as you go! 

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