The Wiccans Glossary

The Wiccan’s Glossary

Tips on Charm/Item Placement for Spellwork

If you want to keep something close, bury it in your back yard.  If you want to attract something, bury it under the front door step  If you want to destroy its influence, burn it.  If you want it to move away and sink, throw it in running water  If you want to disperse it to a distance, throw it into a crossroads  If you want to fix its influence, inter it in a five-spot pattern  If you want it to work by means of spirits, bury it in a graveyard  If you want to hide its point of origin, conceal it in a tree  If you want it to work in secret, give it in food or drink  If you want it to work by stealth, hide it in clothing or on objects  If you want its influence to begin or strengthen, throw it East  If you want its influence to end or weaken, throw it West  If you want its influence to rise and fall cyclicly, float it in a tidal estuary

Not sure why I feel such a strong need to say this NOW but:

Magic doesn’t come from herbs or symbols. It doesn’t come from semi-precious stones or funky colored candles.

Non-witches use those things all the time, sometimes on a daily basis, and never really do magic using them.

Someone who doesn’t BELIEVE in the healing properties of Rose Quartz won’t benefit from them. Someone who doesn’t believe that burning a green candle can bring luck and money won’t draw those things to themselves by burning a green candle.

The magic comes from YOU. Your belief in those things is what allows them to work. Herbs, fancy candles, stones – those are all conduits and boosts for your own, innate magical power.

Do certain herbs and stones have innate power? Yes, I believe that they do. Certain days have power, certain phases of the moon have power. Not necessarily because I believe those things (aside from the astronomical/cosmological stuff like eclipses, solstices etc.,) have innate power, but because many people, over a long period of time, have believed that those things have that specific power.

However, I also feel that YOUR personal associations with a plant, stone, color etc., can override those because YOU are the one doing the magic. It is YOUR ENERGY being channeled through that particular conduit, after all. How could it NOT have some effect on the way the magic works?

Herbs/Food/Plants by Purpose

Banishing: Basil, Betel Nut, Black Pepper, Black Salt, Cayenne Pepper, Chamomile, Cactus, Cloves, Dragon’s Blood, Elder, Garlic, Heliotrope, Horehound, Juniper, Morning Glory, Mullein, Mugwort, Oleander, Onion, Rosemary, Rue, Sage, Sea Salt, St. John’s Wort, Thyme, Tobacco, Vinegar, Wood Betony, Yarrow Flower

Beauty: Avocado, Beet, Catnip, Chamomile, Evening Primrose, Flax, Ginkgo Biloba, Ginseng, Henna, Lady’s Mantle, Lemon, Lilac, Lucky Hand (Orchid Root), Magnolia, Maidenhair, Myrtle, Orange, Orange Blossom (Neroli), Orchid, Pea, Prune, Rose, Sunflower, Violet, Yerba Santa

Binding: Agrimony, Calamus, Crowfoot, Hydrangea, Ivy, Knotweed, Morning Glory, Skullcap, Snapdragon, Solomon’s Seal, Spiderwort, Vinegar, Witch Hazel

Cleansing/Purification: Angelica, Anise Seeds, Black Pepper, Cayenne Pepper, Cedar, Coconut, Dragon’s Blood, Fennel, Fern, Frankincense, Garlic, Ginger, Grapefruit, Guava, Honey, Horehound, Horseradish, Hyssop, Lavender, Lemon, Lemongrass, Lemon Verbena (Vervain), Lime, Marjoram, Melon, Mesquite, Parsley, Peppermint, Pine, Rosemary, Sage, Sandalwood, Sea Salt, Solomon’s Seal Root, Tangerine, Thyme, Turmeric, Vinegar, Yucca

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Color Magick

PINK: Represents love, compassion, nurturing, femininity, friendship, romance, partnership, self-improvement, peace, and spiritual & emotional healing. 

RED: Love, lust, passion, attraction, and fertility. Courage, willpower, independence, and determination. Also associated with speed, assertiveness, aggression, physical strength and sports/competition. Represents health, vitality, strength, survival, and war.

ORANGE: Creativity, celebration, vitality, self-expression, and joy. Intellectual matters, legal matters/justice, and overcoming addiction. Also associated with business success, ambition, prosperity, opportunity, and investments. 

YELLOW: Represents happiness, confidence, vitality, change/progress, and inspiration/imagination. Helps with contact, communication, and trade. Also associated with learning, knowledge, mental clarity, concentration, speaking, writing and visualization. 

GREEN: Prosperity, abundance, money, physical & emotional healing, growth, luck, marriage and fertility, and tree/plant magick. Rejuvenation, recovery, harvest and harmony, balance, peace, hope, and nature. 

TURQUOISE/LIGHT BLUE: Health, patience and understanding. Change, intellectual and intuitive insight, inventions and originality. Spirituality, tranquility, renewal, peace, and protection.

DARK BLUE: Communication, will power, focus, forgiveness, and good fortune. Also associated with truth, fidelity, patience, organization, and sincerity. Represents peace and tranquility, calmness, truth, wisdom, justice, counsel, guidance, understanding and patience, loyalty and honor, sincerity, devotion, healing, femininity. Also represents astral projection, prophetic dreams, removing negative energy/influences, and protection while sleeping.

PURPLE: Ambition, power, royalty. Connections with elemental spirits, angels, and deities of divination and prophecy. Associated with psychic abilities, divination, counter-acting negativity and black magick, reversing curses, psychic healing, psychic power, inspiration, meditation, spirituality, spiritual power, astral projection, and the third eye. 

BLACK: Grounding, banishment, learning, protection, safety, reversing, uncrossing, releasing, shapeshifting, defense, scrying, and protection. Repels and banishes evil, negativity, curses, and hexes. 

GRAY: Neutralizes and removes negative influences. Represents neutrality and contemplation.

WHITE: Purification and cleansing on all levels, contact with higher self and spiritual helpers. Aura-healing, truth seeking, consecration, spiritual enlightenment, protection against negativity, breaking curses, exorcism, meditation, divination, inspiration, and clairvoyance. Innocence, peace, balance, healing, and truth.

SILVER: Reflection, intuition, cycles, rebirth, reincarnation, healing, and emotional stability. Remove or neutralizes negativity. Represents dreams, psychic abilities and psychic workings. Associated with lunar magick, connections, and deities. 

GOLD: Fortune, abundance, and prosperity. Positivity, justice, health, attraction, and luxury. Sun deities and solar energies. 

BRONZE: Business success, passion, money, fertility, and career growth.

Sources: The Magickal Cat, Wejees, PaganWiccan About

Snake Sheds Magical Uses

You could use the shedding of a snake a few ways, Both Good and bad. First, Think of why the snake sheds its skin. They do so, To allow for further growth and to remove parasites that may have attached to their old skin, And to allow the snake to fully grow. 

Now a Witch would interpret this and use this energy to:

Banish unwanted entities

To heal

To bring growth, And change to a situation. 

Think “Out with the Old, In with the new” 

Snakes are also known to be very protective, Sly, And feared. So for these reasons A Witch would use the skin to bring:

Protection

Transformation

Strength

Jinxes

curses and crossings

In Hoodoo practices the skin of a snake can be used to bring good and bad things. On the light side it is used to bring luck, break crossings (hexes) wisdom,  protection, and good fortune especially to Gamblers. And on the darker side it used to hex. To confuse an enemy, to harm them, or to bring rotten luck.