Witchcraft For The New Year

Witchcraft for the New Year

Correspondences and ideas:

Spells to do

Herbal correspondences 

Witchy (and practical) ways to start the new year

Cleansing and preparation for the new year

New Year’s resolution alternatives

New Year’s Traditions (little things to do)

Magical ideas for New Year’s Eve

Spells:

New Year’s Wishing Jar + New Year’s Spell Jar + Goodness in the New Year spell jar

Empowerment Spell Bottle + New Year Good Luck Bottle

A New Year Spell

New Year’s Blessing

New Beginnings Spell

Spell for a New Start/Year

New Year’s Wish Box

My New Year Spell

Shower Spell for the New Year + New Year Bath Ritual

Emoji Spells:

For health and happiness in the new year

New year’s emoji spell

Protect my pets during fireworks

May the new year bring you all good things

To keep the negativity of the previous year from the new one

Sigils:

New year’s

New year sigil set

The upcoming year is peaceful

Peace and blessings come to me in the new year

For entering the New Year with clear mind, soul and general well-being

Tarot:

New Year’s Tarot Spread (3 card)

New Year’s Spread! (3 card)

Seasonal New Year’s Spread (4 card)

Tarot Spread for the New Year! (5 card)

New Year Spread (5 card)

Fear of the New Year (6 card)

New Year Tarot Spread (8 card)

New Year Tarot Spread (11 card)

The Yearly Spread (11 card)

New Year, New You Tarot Spread (12 card)

New Year Tarot Spread (13 card)

The New Year (14 card)

The Forthcoming Year (25 card)

Financial Abundance Spell 💸

You will need:

A (preferably green) candle

Allspice; for money

Chamomile; attracts money

Cinnamon; money, happiness

Bay leaf; good fortune, success

Ginger; success, power, money

Sage; purification, positivity

A bag, jar, or envelope

Coins (optional)

Crystals for abundance (optional)

A money/abundance sigil (optional)

Any of these can be dropped or substituted

You may want to start by cleansing your space or using a prayer.

Light your candle

First, visualize green and gold light coming down & into the top of your head. Let it flow or surround you, and get it to surround your hands

Take each spice/herb one at a time in your hands, and hold them until they are surrounded with the colored light around your hands. Think of what they are intended for. When you feel done, place it in a bowl.

Once all spices/herbs are in the bowl, stir them clockwise and while saying [“Money flowing free, money come to me. So mote it be.”] Repeat as many times as you feel necessary.

Place the mixture in your bag, jar, or envelope.

(Optional step) Using green colored pencil and downward strokes (to bring money & abundance IN), draw your sigil. Charge the paper with the green and gold light. Burn it on the candle flame while saying [“Add my sigil to the mix, financial abundance is what i wish”]. Add the ashes of your sigil to the jar, envelope, or bag.

(Optional step) Charge the coins with the green & gold colors. Drop the coins in your jar, bag, or envelope, and say [“A coin or two to ease my mind that financial abundance i will always find”]

(Optional step) Think of what you want your crystal to do for you. (I used pyrite, and green calcite, but any will do. Quartz is a good substitute for any crystal you may want to add). Add in your crystals and state [“These crystals given from mother earth, to help bring me the abundance that i am worth”]

Finally, tie up your bag, close your jar, or seal your envelope, and say:

“Money, money, come to me, in abundance three times three. May i be enriched in the best of ways, harming none on it’s way. This i accept, so mote it be, bring me money three times three.

Blow out your candle & use the wax to seal your jar or envelope. This can be put in your purse, backpack, etc, to bring financial abundance at work! Charge during full moons & reuse if you see fit. Thank the universe for the abundance to come 💚

1- Hecate

1- Hecate

Greek Titan of Witches, Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Crossroads.

When I first began this project, I knew that I wanted to end with Hecate. She is simultaneously the final and the first, our alpha and omega of Witchcraft. She dominates popular witch lore, but you would never know it as she resides in the shadows, side plots, and brief mentions. Only when you seek her out does she reveal herself to you, lighting your path while casting shadows and ghosts. Many, if not all, modern Witches, Pagans, and Wiccans see Hecate as a Goddess of Witches, amongst other appropriate attributes, and continue her worship and reverence now several thousand years ongoing.

As is the case with most of Greek Mythology, Hecate has multiple origin myths and genealogies. This is most likely the result of her originating outside of the Greeks, and being adapted and merged with the existing pantheon. Most traditions have Hecate as the daughter of the Titans Perses, titan of destruction, and Asteria, titan of falling stars and nocturnal prophecy. Hecate was their only child, and was able to retain her powers post Zeus’ coup as she helped him fight the Giants. As child of Asteria, her grandmother was the Titan of the Moon, Phoebe, and her cousin was Olympian lunar all-star Artemis.

There are various stories in which Hecate plays a part. Her most notable and appropriate for this time of year, however, is her integral role in assisting Demeter’s search for her beloved daughter, Persephone. Upon Persephone’s decent into Hades, Hecate, through the light of her torches, helped Demeter discover her daughter in the underworld. As such, Hecate has become a chthonic Goddess, and Persephone’s yearly attendant and psychopomp to the underworld. Her position as gatekeeper and guide to Hades solidifies many of her numerous attributes.

Hecate is associated with ghosts, necromancy, and magic. She is identified with crossroads, torches, and dark hounds. She was a common household deity for the Athenian—her shrines placed in doorways and city gates to both protect from restless spirits and bestow blessings and safe passage. Her worship and cult was as extensive as her various attributes, with temples and shrines scattered across the Mediterranean. As a key figure in the Persephone saga, Hecate was integral in the ancient Eleusinian Mysteries, impacting secret societies and occult rituals to this day.

Out of all her characteristics, her association with the crossroads is perhaps the most pertinent to my series. Most often, we think of crossroads as the intersection of two roads, yielding four directions. This was not always the case, however, as it was more common to have a proverbial ‘fork in the road’, yielding three directions. This is the kind of crossroads in which Hecate resides. Her statues depict her in triplicity, forearms outstretched, holding torches, keys, serpents, daggers, etc. One face in each direction, Hecate is the arbiter of passages, and in this way is the consort of the God Hermes.

Hecate is one of the original Triple Goddesses of Witchcraft, if not the primordial one. Her triplicity has defined much of Modern Pagan theology, with her stance representing the three phases of the moon, Waxing, Full, and Waning (Maiden, Mother, Crone respectively). Her mythological genealogy as the granddaughter of Phoebe and cousin to Artemis has yielded Hecate as a Goddess of the Moon in her own right, most often known as the unseen phase of the moon, the New Moon (however she is just as often associated with all moon phases). In Greek/Roman Mythology, Hecate joins many lunar goddesses in addition to Phoebe and Artemis, including Selene and Diana. The five were often conflated, confused, and worshiped both in tandem and in conflict. This ever shifting, impossible to pin down, lunar association echos her transient nature of existing in the shadows.

Hecate is both mysterious and severe. Her face is hidden behind her torches, or on the dark side of the moon, however her presence is a constant. She is life, death, and rebirth. She is both light and dark magic. She was beloved in her association with rites of passage like childbirth, and feared in her role as Queen of Shades, present at the final rite of passage, death. Her nature has permeated my entire series in such a profound and indescribable way, I can only show you:

#93: Lilith— often worshiped by modern Pagans in tandem with Hecate #92: Circe: Daughter of Hecate #89, #54, #39: Bewitched: A common expression “For Hecate’s Sake!” Occurs throughout the show. #79: Aradia: Daughter of Lucifer and Diana. Often seen as the daughter of an amalgamated Diana-Hecate. #70: Medea: Priestess of Hecate #67: Charmed: The Halliwell Sisters: Appears in the episode “The Wedding from Hell” #56: Ceridwen: Often worshiped in tandem with Hecate as Dark Mothers by modern Pagans. . #52, #27: Practical Magic: The necromancy ritual the Owen’s Sisters perform, albeit pronounced incorrectly. “Black as night, erase death from our sight. White as light, Mighty Hecate make it right.” #10: Willow Rosenberg: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Mentioned in several episodes and referred to as “Queen and Protectress of Witches.” #7: American Horror Story: Coven: Supreme Fiona Goode invokes Hecate “Come to me Hecate, Mother of Angels, Cosmic World Soul.” #5: The Weird Sisters: Macbeth: Hecate is their master

This list is pretty fitting for a Goddess whose name etymologically may mean “she that operates from afar.” She is seldom a central figure or even visible, however witches from the Owens to the Goodes, from Willow Rosenberg to Endora, invoke her name and ask for her spirit, guidance, and presence. Hecate, in many ways, is both the first witch, and the last. She is our alpha and omega. She is the embodiment of power and strength. As a Goddess of Witchcraft, she does not merely exist in the margins of society like the rest of us—She is the margin itself.

Hail Hecate.

“Hecate, Cerridwen. Dark Mother take us in. Hecate, Cerridwen. Let us be reborn.”  

Days of the Week and Witchcraft ✨

A good way to plan when to do your spells

Sunday - The Sun - Solar power, success, personal empowerment, material wealth, health, beginning anew. 

Monday - The Moon - Lunar power, purity, spiritual cleansing, astral work, divination, psychic ability.

Tuesday - Mars - Physical power, passion, sexuality, drive, ambition, achievement, masculine power, activate protective talismans, reverse hexes and psychic attacks.

Wednesday - Mercury - Knowledge, money, communication, the arts, change, acceptance, adaptability.

Thursday - Jupiter - Luck, growth, fulfillment, worldly power, justice, authority, health, and prosperity. (Mercury brings quick cash, but Jupiter governs the long term accumulation and preservation of wealth.)

Friday - Venus - Fertility, love, money, prosperity, healing, charm, goodness, blocking, glamour, self-care, feminine power.

Saturday - Saturn - Binding, banishing, stopping, ending, loss, renewing, transforming, protection.

— Just a thing from my grimoire

Spirit Work: Discernment

When delving into spirit or deity work for the first time, it might feel overwhelming to a practitioner who is just starting out. Many people who get into spirit work usually have a prior gift of some capacity that allows them to dip their toes into the world of the unseen.

Regardless of how or why one has arrived at the steps of spirit work, there are many factors that are of absolute importance which make up the foundations of traversing through this practice safely. Of course, the most important is protection and prevention. However, another incredibly important aspect is discernment.

All too often new spirit workers will become enthralled with the prospect of making a connection with beings on different planes than our own, and a lot of times those practitioners fall into a trap of either being deceived by a being or even by falling into a state of hysteria where they feel anything and everything is a message or sign from a spirit or deity. Either outcome dampens the practice and sets you back in your work.

Where to Begin

The most important foundational point of spirit work is to look at yourself internally prior to jumping into the practice. If you have any natural gifts such as being clairaudient or clairvoyant and you’ve effectively used these gifts before, these will be natural tools that will aid you in discernment and confirmation. While these gifts will aid you, they are certainly not the only tools you should be using while making sure that what you are experiencing is in fact truly happening.

Even in the case of natural gifts, newer practitioners can fall into a false idea of security if a being pretends to be something they’re not, so other methods of discernment are wonderful to keep in mind while communicating with beings or looking for confirmation.

Aside from natural gifts, the most important part of discernment is logic. Use your rational mind and don’t see what you want to see. See what is truly there instead and make sure you’re aware of all possibilities regarding what you are communicating with.

The Usage of Divination

For the most part, most forms of divination are simply a tool to access our intuition. When you use a pendulum or lay out a tarot spread, the information you receive using these tools are typically born from a higher place of knowing within yourself. So in a way, that makes these methods biased when using them for yourself.

When we want an answer in a reading of any kind, we tend to seek the answer we are subconsciously thinking of. This can cause a reading to give a false positive. On the other side of the coin, we can also turn a reading negative by hoping a reading does not give us bad news. However, since that is the energy we’ve poured into it, that is what we get: a false negative.

The same theory can be applied when using methods of divination such as tarot cards or pendulums as tools of discernment and confirmation in spirit and deity work. If we think we are talking to a being or we think we are receiving a message from a being, we can skew the results of a reading by hoping for that confirmation that what we are thinking is indeed correct.

Let’s say you go further and make sure you detach your wish for a desired outcome regarding a reading. If you leave yourself open and do not safeguard against it, a being that is not the one you are wishing to be in contact with can falsify who they are and lie to you through your readings. Always shield your readings.

Magical Thinking

We’ve all seen posts like these. Someone sees crows or ravens slightly more often in their area than they’re used to seeing and assumes it is a sign from a deity, while completely ignoring the fact that it is that time of the year when these birds tend to gather in their area.

It is important to always remember the true key to discernment is logic. If something is incredibly peculiar or keeps repetitively happening so much that it is quite literally drowning you and has no logical backing, then yes: it may be a sign. However, if it is an occurrence that can be explained by mundane means such as ecological patterns, it is most likely not a sign.

The same can be said for occurrences such as dreams. When something is on our mind prior to falling asleep, whether it is on our mind constantly or for a moment that is significant enough to slip into our subconscious, we may find this same topic entering our dreams. That is not to say every dream where a being is connecting to us is not real, but it simply means you should use other methods of confirmation as well alongside of it.

Do not fall into the trap of magical thinking. You are doing yourself a disservice and cheapening the practice of spirit work for yourself. It is exciting to receive a sign from a being, but a leaf blowing in the wind isn’t always a sign. Be logical, look for the peculiar, and when you receive a real sign that a being is communicating with you, you will see the difference.

Familiarity

When you know a spirit, being, or deity you are interacting with is truthfully there and is who they say they are, you will begin to be able to feel a sense of familiarity with them. They will give off a certain energy signature when they are around and will have the same mannerisms when communicating with you. Some beings prefer to use imagery to contact you, seldom using any words. Others will say familiar phrases and speak in a certain manner that is individual to them.

You can use these attributes to your advantage, and when something feels off when attempting to communicate with a being, you can be aware and probe to see if what you are talking to is being honest.

Parting Thoughts

If a being is constantly telling you that you are the most wonderful thing on Earth and it is in a way that does not seem sincere, or if they are constantly telling you negative things about yourself, they are most likely a being who is attempting to manipulate you.

Beings that are attempting to deceive you may also tell you that you are the most powerful practitioner ever, and that you need them to fulfill your true potential in your craft. If there is a push for dependency, this being is most likely attempting to burrow their way into your energy and make you think you need them.

When wanting to get confirmation from a being, simply asking for signs is the best way. The most popular way of noticing something communicating with you is synchronicity. For example, you keep hearing and seeing the number 11 and it’s happening so often that it makes you notice it’s a pattern, this may be an attempt at communication. Make sure the occurrences are peculiar as I mentioned, or you will fall into magical thinking. Ask for specific signs, not for general ones.

Again, using your natural abilities as I mentioned above is a more clear and direct way to communicate with a being. You may also partake in journeying or guided meditations to communicate with a being to receive messages and confirmations. When using any methods at all, always make sure to protect yourself so that you may only interact with beings who mean you no harm.

In the case of deities, always do research prior to reaching out to them, especially if you’re reaching out to them to ask them to do something for you. That is like asking a person to run an errand for you without getting to know them: they’re not going to do it and will probably be offended you asked.

TAROT tips for Beginners 🌙

⭐︎ Cleanse your deck after you buy it!! This is so so important, because you want to start working with a new clean energy.

⭐︎ There are thousands of ways to cleanse your deck. Cleansing can be something super simple, as just knocking on your deck 3 times or placing a crystal on top of the deck! Just do what feels right.

⭐︎ Interview your deck! After you buy new cards, talk to them, ask them questions and figure out the decks personality. There are a lot of fun spreads for this.

⭐︎ Sleep with your deck. Another good way to bond with your deck is sleeping with it near you. Just put it under your pillow or somewhere close to you over night!

⭐︎ You don’t have to read reversals. It’s up to you if you decide to turn the card back around. Again, do what feels right!

⭐︎ Reversals don’t always equal opposites. If you decide to read reversals, remember that it can have completely different meaning then just being opposite of the upright position.

⭐︎ Start simple. Start out with something simple like past/present/future spread. It’s super easy and gives you clarity on any situation.

⭐︎ Spend time looking at the picture. When you pull a card, really spend time observing at all the different colors and symbols before you look up the meaning. 

⭐︎ Jumping cards usually have something important to tell you. If you’re shuffling your deck and a card jumps out, look up what it means and what message it has for you!

⭐︎ Pull a daily card each morning. This is super fun and easy. You definitely don’t need to do this everyday, but it’s a good way to memorize the cards and their meanings.

and finally, practice, practice and practice! It’s going to take a while until you remember all the meanings, but just have fun and enjoy the process!🦋

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