This Is The Current Collection Of Useful Posts That I Have Reblogged On Crystals, All In One Place. If

This is the current collection of useful posts that I have reblogged on crystals, all in one place. If any post is from another tumblr blogger, all of their sources will be below each post, so you can look through and follow the amazing people who posted them. (If you are going to reblog something, please, never remove the original caption, or sources). 

Basics: 🌙   How Crystals Actually Work 🌙   What to Know before you Start 🌙   Methods of Use 🌙   Properties of 14 Common Crystals 🌙   Beginner Crystals Identifying Crystals: 🌙   Crystals ID 🌙   Identifying Crystals by Colour

Crystal Associations: 🌙   Major Achana 🌙   Zodiac 🌙   Anxiety and Stress 🌙   Elements 🌙   Stress Relief

Cleansing and Charging: 🌙   Cleansing and Charging Items 🌙   Cleansing Crystals 🌙   Charging Boards 🌙   Crystal Care - Cleansing 🌙   Common Cleansing Methods 🌙   Methods of Cleansing 🌙   Crystals NOT to Cleanse in Water

Crystal Grids: 🌙   Connecting to Mermaids, Fae and Angels

 Animal Totems: 🌙   Swan

Crystal Asks: 🌙   How to Identify Crystals 🌙   Cleansing

Videos: 🌙  Crystals For Money Drawing

This list will probably continuously grow and I continue to find amazing posts and don’t forget to check out the blogs of these amazing people, they deserve it :)

Water Scrying

Water scrying is the art and practice of gazing into water to see the future or receive a vision. Water scrying is a great way for clairvoyants to develop their skills, but can also be done by anyone. -Mod J

To start, you are going to need a bowl or something that holds water. Preferably the bowl or water holding object should be a solid color inside so you don’t get distracted by patterns. Black, white, or a metal bowl are ideal because these are colors that are easy to gaze at for extended periods but any solid color should work.

Fill the bowl with water

Now set up your space. It helps to turn off the lights and have a candle or a few around the bowl giving some light but not close enough that you see the reflection in the water.

Now this is the hardest part, gaze into the water in the bowl and let your eye lose focus. Your vision might get a little blurry but try to fight the urge to look around and refocus your vision. After a while of doing this you might be able to correct the blurriness without losing focus on the water. Around this point when your gaze softens some kind of vision should appear in the water. It’s important to understand that what you see might be a real depiction of what your scrying for/about but it’s more common for you see symbolic images instead. Learning to translate these symbols takes some time and practice so keep working at it. Another thing to note is that you might feel like your mind is just making you see things in the water that isn’t there, and i guess on some level that is correct. The water it’s self isn’t what’s producing the vision, you are receiving because you asked to, and are using the water and bowl as tools to help perceive it.

Here are ways to help enhance your water scrying that i know of:

You can charge your bowl over night with tea made from certain herbs. I like to steep some mugwort and lavender in my bowl to charge it while i sleep and empty it in the morning.

You can a few drops of essential oils to your bowl while scrying, or before to help charge the bowl and water’s energy. The oily surface can also help keep you from getting distracted and gives your eyes something to focus on.

Another way to prevent distraction is to put a small crystal at the bottom of the bowl around the center. It gives you a fixed point to look at, but I’ve noticed for me that is often cut off some of the vision and everything will move around the crystal rather then appearing in the whole bowl.

Using your bowl for offerings. I find this helps charge and enhance my scrying bowl’s energy by putting offering in it when i work with other spirits and deities.

Sometimes it can also help to instead of building up the energy in the bowl do a cleansing and put some salt water in the bowl to soak.

You can also use moon water, sun water, or any magically enhanced water that might be specific to the type of reading you are doing. I find moon water is always good for all water scrying.

If you try water scrying and find it doesn’t work for you that’s alright. It’s not for everyone, and even those who do it regularly have off days where they can’t get anything to come through. So give it a few tries before you decide if it’s something for you. Good luck with your scrying! -Mod J

hello, I'm a beginner witch, I was wondering if you had any tips for doing spells? and how to create one? thank you!

here’s a quick guide to spell writing 

a few tips when spell writing

just regular tips for being a witch/casting spells

notes for when your spell fails

a helpful way to think when doing spells

hope this helps!

The Boring but Important Basics of Witchcraft

Let me start by saying CLEANSING CLEANSING CLEANSING. It’s the most basic, first thing you learn, exciting and boring part of witchcraft.

Negative energy is a scientific fact based on positive and negative charged ions that make up everything.

Clearing out negative energy and replacing it with positive energy is not something you should only do during spring cleaning. Cleanse after a very stressful or negative experience like a fight or finals. Cleanse if you’re feeling lethargic or upset. Cleansing may not fix everything but it definitely doesn’t hurt.

The best way I’ve found to cleanse it a salt water, sage, pine mix. It’s in a spray bottle and I just spray it around the room. It works best if you’ve cleaned up any clutter that may be lying about. It also helps to declutter your mind. For me that can be hard between my anxiety and depression so it really helps to sit down and work things out in my head.

Another basic is protection and casting circles. When you perform spells or rituals you open yourself up to outside interference. It’s like how your laptop limited to what’s on it by itself. When it connects to the internet it becomes part of all these other devices that are connected and its no longer limited. Without a firewall your computer can get a virus. So casting a circle is like activating a firewall.

You can create a mental circle but it can be hard to keep up if you’re performing an energy costing spell or ritual. Salt is your best friend!

Creating circles and walls from outside energy is essential for most empaths to function some days. It all depends on who you come in contact with. Even if you don’t spend much time with a person you can still pick up on their emotional energy. If you do get interference cleansing can help clean out other people’s emotions.

A lot of witchcraft is visualizing and focusing your will and releasing energy from things like crystals or herbs. Meditation and mental exercises will help you in whatever spells or rituals you want to do.

My last basic isn’t witchcraft but it’s essential for doing spells or rituals. Take care of yourself. If you are too tired and don’t have the energy, for whatever reason, to focus or use energy in a spell, it’s not going to work. So drink water, exercise, sleep, relax. Do what you can to take care of you. Self care isn’t always easy but it’s important in everything you do. I’m a big advocate of those occasional and unavoidable mental health days. Mental sickness will cause your body to become sick.

Witching Hour Playlist on Spotify

Ten straight hours of witchy music for every possible mood.

Makes a great ambient soundtrack for casting charms, writing spells, tending your garden, meditating on lofty matters, cleaning the altar, chatting with your familiar, having tea with the coven, or just turning your face to the wind and remembering your power.

Top Ten Magical Herbs

1. Rosemary: 

Anti-depressive

Protection

Purification

Exorcism

Magic Defense

Banishing

2. Sage:

Aphrodisiac

Protection

Divination

Longevity

Clairvoyance

Prosperity

Passion

3. Basil

House protection

Purification

Prosperity

Spell breaker

Strenght and Courage

Harmony and peace

Psychic Development

Exorcism

Against evil eye

Business Blessings

4. Bay leaf

Consecration

Divination

Dreams

Healing

Protection

Purification

Wisdom

Wishes

Love

5. Cinnamon

Protection

Money

Business

Success

Promotion

Against Disagreement

6. Lavander

Clairvoyance

Cleansing

Consecration

Hapiness

Healing

Love

Headache

Anti- Stress

Anti- Anxiety

Relaxing

Anti-Depressive

7. Lemon Balm

Interaction

Fellowship

Family

Relaxing

Calming

Sleep

Sedative

Love

Bath

Anti- Stress

8. Thyme

Healing

Love

Purification

Psychic Powers

Sleep

Courage

Attract Fairies

9. Mint

Money

Prosperity

Travel (protection)

Exorcism

Calming

Justice

Protection

10. Mugwort

Sedative

Lucid Dreams

Keep away bad spirits

Protection

Astral Projection

Divination

Prophetic Dreams