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I always forget this stuff! Thank you so much for making this!!!
Many of us have our own preferences for the crystals we work with. If you are called to use crystals, I encourage everyone to do some research on your own and to trust your intuition as the energy from some crystals may resonate with you more so than others. I recommend the tried and true Crystal Bible, by Judy Hall and Crystals for Beginners or Crystals for Healing, by Karen Frazier. Here is a compiled a list of a few of the top "go-to" crystals and some very basic and high-level information to go along with them below. This is a general list, not my own.
Here are a few go to crystals to reference...
Clear Quartz:
• Metaphysical Properties: Amplification, clarity, and energy enhancement.
• Healing Uses: Balancing all chakras, clearing energy blockages, and enhancing psychic abilities.
• Common Uses: Meditation, energy cleansing, amplifying intentions, and enhancing other crystals.
• Care: Cleanse under running water, moonlight, or with other cleansing crystals. Recharge in sunlight or with amethyst clusters.
Rose Quartz:
• Metaphysical Properties: The stone of unconditional love and compassion, promoting self-love, emotional healing, and inner peace.
• Healing Uses: Balancing the heart chakra, soothing emotional wounds, and fostering forgiveness and empathy.
• Common Uses: Attracting love, harmonizing relationships, self-love rituals, and emotional healing.
• Care: Cleanse with gentle methods like moonlight, sage smoke, or visualization. Avoid prolonged direct sunlight.
Selenite/Satin Spar:
• Metaphysical Properties: A powerful energy cleanser and amplifier, connecting to higher realms, promoting mental clarity, and spiritual insight.
• Healing Uses: Clearing and charging other crystals, enhancing mental clarity, and facilitating spiritual communication.
• Common Uses: Meditation, clearing energy fields, and promoting a peaceful environment.
• Care: Selenite is self-cleansing and charges other crystals. Avoid exposure to water, as it can dissolve.
Citrine:
• Metaphysical Properties: Attracting abundance, confidence, and positivity.
• Healing Uses: Activating the solar plexus chakra, boosting self-esteem, and aiding in manifesting goals and prosperity.
• Common Uses: Attracting wealth, enhancing self-confidence, and boosting creativity.
• Care: Cleanse in sunlight or moonlight, or by placing it on a bed of quartz crystals.
Amethyst:
• Metaphysical Properties: Enhancing intuition, spirituality, and mental clarity. Calming the mind and promoting inner peace.
• Healing Uses: Balancing the crown and third eye chakras, aiding in overcoming addiction, and supporting emotional healing.
• Common Uses: Meditation, enhancing spiritual connection, and promoting restful sleep.
• Care: Cleanse under running water or with gentle methods. Avoid prolonged exposure to direct sunlight, as it may fade the color.
Tiger's Eye:
• Metaphysical Properties: A protective stone enhancing courage, self-confidence, and personal power.
• Healing Uses: Balancing the solar plexus chakra, aiding in decision-making, and protecting against negative energies.
• Common Uses: Boosting confidence, motivation, and overcoming challenges.
• Care: Cleanse by running under water, smudging with sage, or with sunlight. Recharge as needed.
Moonstone:
• Metaphysical Properties: Linked to the moon and feminine energy, enhancing intuition, emotional balance, and spiritual insight.
• Healing Uses: Balancing the sacral and crown chakras, promoting fertility, and aiding in emotional healing.
• Common Uses: Enhancing intuition, connecting with the divine feminine, and promoting emotional harmony.
• Care: Cleanse with gentle methods due to its sensitive energy, and recharge under moonlight.
Carnelian:
• Metaphysical Properties: Boosting creativity, vitality, and motivation. Associated with the sacral chakra.
• Healing Uses: Balancing the sacral chakra, enhancing energy, and aiding in overcoming self-doubt.
• Common Uses: Boosting creativity, motivation, and self-confidence.
• Care: Cleanse under running water and recharge in sunlight or with carnelian clusters.
Obsidian:
• Metaphysical Properties: A protective stone aiding in grounding, transformation, and self-discovery.
• Healing Uses: Clearing negative energies, balancing the root chakra, and supporting inner transformation.
• Common Uses: Shielding against negativity, promoting self-discovery, and aiding in shadow work.
• Care: Regularly cleanse by smudging with smoke or running water.
Black Tourmaline:
• Metaphysical Properties: A powerful protection stone that wards off negativity, cleanses energy, and promotes grounding.
• Healing Uses: Shields against negative energies, balances the root chakra, and aids in promoting self-confidence.
• Common Uses: Protection against negative energies, grounding, and energy purification.
• Care: Cleanse under running water, moonlight, or with other cleansing crystals. Recharge with intention or by placing it on a bed of hematite or black tourmaline.
I need to have another blog dedicated specifically to witchy stuff.
Witchy tips: If you don't have access to graveyard dirt, you can use dead plants dirt instead.
Fruit Correspondences
Apple: spirit work, offerings, love, healing, beauty, wisdom, harvest
Apricot: love, self love
Avocado: beauty, love, lust, fertility, spell work
Banana: wealth, luck, spirituality, religion, masculinity
Blueberry: protection, banishment, curses
Blackberry: protection, fertility, femininity, funerals, afterlife, moving on
Cantaloupe: spell work, protection, grounding, energy work
Cherry: lust, love, fertility
Clementine: childhood, dreams
Coconut: protection, cleansing, femininity
Cranberry: holidays, blood magic, spirit work
Date: fertility, luck, money
Dragon fruit: lust, passion, spell work
Durian: curses, cleansing, protection
Fig: happiness, divination, love
Grapefruit: cleansing
Grape: money, spell work, fertility, offerings
Guava: love, self love, lust
Honeydew: cleansing, energy, love
Jackfruit: divination, spell work, happiness
Kiwifruit: health, love, lust, happiness
Kumquat: luck, health, money
Lemon: cleansing, purification, protection, curse breaking
Lime: cleansing, protection, love
Lychee: love, self love, femininity, beauty
Mango: love, lust, fertility
Nectarine: love, self love, spell work
Orange: cleansing, protection, divination
Papaya: curse breaking, banishing, spirit work, love
Passion fruit: lust, love, passion
Peach: fertility, love, happiness, spirit work
Pear: offerings, happiness, luck, money, confidence
Persimmon: healing, love, luck, protection
Pineapple: protection, health, offerings, money, luck
Plantain: fertility, masculinity, lust, passion
Plum: love, healing, offerings
Pomegranate: offerings, blood magic, fertility, divination, spell work
Prune: cleansing, protection
Raspberry: love, dreams, health
Strawberry: love, wishes, dreams, happiness
Starfruit: lunar/solar magic, spell work, cleansing
Tangerine: solar magic, strength, energy work
Tomato: protection, cleansing, love, passion
Watermelon: healing, femininity, lust, love, spirit work, cleansing
Tip Jar
𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐤 🌧
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Outdoor Activities:
🌧 first of all, collect rainwater! (You can use it in spells, charging, or for cleansing yourself. You can also add it to your bath for extra energy.)
🌧 dance in the rain to connect with Mother Earth's energy by letting the rain fall on you as you move to its rhythm.
🌧 while dancing, you can also sing! Especially your all-time favorite songs. The nature spirits will love it.
🌧 take a walk barefoot in the rain. Speak with the trees and look for some nice stones to collect along the way
🌧 connect with the fae folk or other folklore spirits. You can leave offerings for them, such as cookies, bread, or tea
🌧 let the rain cleanse you. Just stay in the rain and allow it to wash away any negative thoughts or emotions
🌧 if it's a gentle rain, take the opportunity to meditate, focusing especially on sound of the raindrops
Indoor Activities:
🌧 try shadow work prompts
🌧 connect with the water element by listening to your heart and respecting your emotions
🌧 listen to a guided meditation that promotes self-reflection and healing
🌧 read something while you listen to the rain
🌧 bake anything you like♡. Warm up your house by baking a treat and you can also make some tea with it
🌧 study about deities associated with rain (Zeus, Mariamman, Anzar, Freyr, Jupiter)
🌧 rest or do peaceful activities. If you're not particularly fond of rain, simply use the day to rest in your bed and do things that make you feel comfortable and peaceful ☁️ 🌱 💧♡
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tip jar♡🐉
Wrote this post like a month ago and totally forgot, but just remembered it because it’s been raining all day where I live 🌧 At least it’s a good time to stay cozy in bed and light a candle🕯:D
▪️▪️▪️▪️🪬Protection Magick 🪬▪️▪️▪️▪️
Hello darlings 🥰
Today, let’s talk about protection spells and rituals 🪬✨
As witches, we understand the importance of protecting ourselves, our loved ones, and our homes from negative energies and entities. Here are a few simple protection spells and rituals that you can try:
🧂Salt Circle: One of the simplest and most effective protection spells is creating a salt circle. Simply sprinkle salt around the perimeter of the area you wish to protect, visualizing a shield forming around it.
📿Protection Amulet: Choose a protective crystal such as black tourmaline or obsidian, and wear it as a necklace or carry it with you in a small pouch.
🪬Protective Sigils: Create a protective sigil by drawing a symbol or design that represents protection to you, and charging it with your intention. You can draw it on a piece of paper or carve it into a candle.
🪔Smoke Cleansing: Use garden sage or cedar to cleanse your space and yourself of negative energies.
Remember, protection spells and rituals are not just about physical protection, but also spiritual and emotional protection. Always trust your intuition and do what feels right for you.
(Note: This post has been edited after a commenter pointed out the ethical implications of smudging and using palo santo and white sage - alternative tools are detailed in this post. Thanks, @panthera-dei!)
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Spells + Sigils Guide Post
My name is Alva Tauri! I am a spirit worker and witch dedicated to closing the education gap when it comes to herbalism and witch practices! Below you will find a guide to all the posts I have made about using and making spells! I hope this helps you on your journey and, as always, if you have any questions feel free to leave me an ask and I will get back to you as soon as I can!
Before You Begin:
Protection Practices: Visualization, Grounding, Spells, and Sigils
Spells:
Money Bowl Magic
Sigils:
COMING SOON!
Introduction to Shielding
If you haven’t already, check out my lessons on visualisation for the basic knowledge you’ll need to begin practicing shielding.
So what is shielding?
Shielding is a manipulation of energy, used to create a barrier between yourself and unwanted, usually negative or malicious energies. It’s a basic aspect of spellwork that everyone, beginner or experienced, should use to keep themselves safe.
What can I use shielding for?
Some beginner-level uses for shielding are drawing a circle, or casting a spell. A more experienced individual might use shielding in astral travel or spirit work, where there are a lot more malicious energies involved. Personally, I use shielding as often as possible, for instance when I do tarot readings, spells, spirit work, shadow work, and especially cursing. It gives that extra guarantee that you won't flood your personal space with unwanted energies.
Other uses include shielding against real-life dangers, to a certain degree. I often shield when I am walking through town at night for extra protection. But please remember to take other measures too! Call someone, pretend to be on the phone, plan your route, and even carry pepper spray if it's legal where you are.
An easy shielding method:
The easiest way to explain this is to think of your energy as a physical manifestation. Think how power attacks are shown in anime or cartoons - a streak of colour or light, or an element. Make it personable to you: fire signs (Leo/Aries/Sagittarius) might visualise fire, or a red energy or light etc.
Firstly, some people prefer to cleanse before shielding. I don't think its all that necessary but the choice is yours.
Begin by easing yourself into meditation. Get comfortable, and use whichever technique works for you. I have various methods for this in my visualisation lessons if you are struggling.
Attempt to visualise the energies surrounding you in your mind. It might be a swirling colour of light, almost like a cloud of dust. It could be flames, it could be water. Maybe try to see it held within your hand.
Now, attempt to shape this energy around your entire body. You might want to start with a bubble or a cube surrounding you. Feel this shape surrounding and protecting you. Visualise negative and unwanted energies being held back by it.
You can also layer shields, so if you are working with a particularly malicious energy you might want to have multiple shapes surrounding you, all within each other. You can also work with deities or spirits to ask them to shield you too.
Shielding Incantation
When I am shielding, I recite a spell as well as using visualisation techniques.
The shield of protection, I carry it strong, No ill wishes or trouble shall come along, You cannot harm me, or weaken my soul, My light is my weapon, and peace is my goal.
Try it out for yourself and let me know in the comments how it went! Thank you as always for reading. Please message for requests.
What is a Witch’s Kiss?
In Puella Magi Madoka Magica and related works, a Witch's Kiss is a marking, the personal symbol or calling card of a Witch, used by a Witch and its Familiars (or Minions) to control the minds of humans and to mark their Labyrinth. These markings can be used to exacerbate pre-existing negative emotions and thoughts, change personalities, make people commit crimes or self-harm, or lure them into a Labyrinth to be consumed by the Witch inside. Some of these actions may not necessarily lead humans to being consumed: some Witches may merely desire to spread evil and misfortune regardless if they get sustenance. Furthermore, a ‘kissed’ human may not always die from it. Familiars can also kiss humans well outside of the Labyrinth they hail from in order to bring them to their Witch.
Note: In the magical hero community, I’ve heard these markings referred to as ‘sigils’ as well, but I hesitate to use that terminology for this case because I think it can cause unnecessary confusion for practitioners who regularly use sigils in their own magia. I can acknowledge that a Witch utilizes their Kiss as a sigil for their own gain, however.
If a puella magi or other magical hero is in possession of a Witch’s Kiss, it generally means that they came across it somehow in their day-to-day or astral travels and took note of its components for later exploration into the corresponding Labyrinth. The Kiss can contain visual elements that reveal attributes of the Witch including her appearance, nature, or even aspects of her Labyrinth or Familiars; this information is extremely helpful for any magical hero who is preparing to engage in magical combat with a Witch. The Kiss itself can also be used as a portal into its owner’s Labyrinth.
As a chaos magick practitioner as well, I assert that one can also reverse engineer a Witch’s Kiss for their own spellcraft. Is there something that you want to combat magically? Sigilize components of whatever you want vanquish and create a Kiss. This, in turn, can help conceptualize the trouble you are facing into a Witch and thus easier to focus energy towards defeating.
If you need a template for understanding or documenting a Witch, whether found or created, I recommend this format that was used for many of the Witch Cards that were displayed on the original Japanese website for the Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime:
[NAME], the [DESCRIPTOR, NOUN] Witch with a [DESCRIPTOR, ADJECTIVE] nature. The Witch is mainly colored [COLOR], is [DESCRIPTOR, SIZE], and resembles a/n [NOUN]. This Witch is [DESCRIPTOR, STRENGTH] and her weapon is [NOUN]. Her Labyrinth resembles [NOUN/DESCRIPTION] and her Familiars are named [NAME].
You can also add any additional information that helps you further visualize the Witch and its influence.
This post is part of my Magi Praxis series. If you have any suggestions for future topics, or you have attempted anything I have shared and want you share your experiences, please send me a message! I am always happy to go back and provide further explanation as well. ☆
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A Charm For Luck:
I haven't used this spell myself but I thought someone out there might like to try it if they need a little more luck on their side.
Needed:
A silver piece of jewelry
Two white candles
Basil
Ground Cinnamon
Matches/lighter
A needle
To Conjure:
Upon each candle inscribe the following: Luck Always Finds Me
Create a circle using ground cinnamon and basil. Within this circle, place the piece of jewelry and the two candles.
Light the candles and say the following thrice: "Herbs of luck and herbs of lore, give me what I lacked before. Imbued is this charm of mine, bring me luck and make it fine."
Allow the candles to burn themselves out then toss them. Sweep up the herbs and toss them into the wind once finished.
witches, do i have a delightfully protective, delicious, and autumnal meal for you!
this is the Bay Potatoes recipe from “the forest feast” by Erin Gleeson, but i think every witch needs to try it at least once. it’s wonderful. it is also safe for baby witches.
you will need:
3 sweet potatoes, for grounding
3 small red onions, for protection
3 red potatoes, for stability
bay leaves, for luck, abundance, and good fortune
olive oil, for wisdom and peace
salt, for purification
pepper, for banishing negativity
minced garlic, for healing and strength
how to make:
-cut sweet potatoes, red potatoes, and red onions into thin slices and line up on a 9x13 pan in any order you’d like
-slip bay leaves between slices wherever it feels right
-mix olive oil, minced garlic, salt, and pepper together. drizzle mixture on top
-bake for roughly 1hr at 425°F, or however long it takes for it to crisp at the edges
while it bakes, take this time to focus on the parts of this spell you need to most. protection? healing? meditate on it. do some shadow work on it. do some additional spell work if you feel compelled to. whatever feels right. set that intention.
when the hour is up, release your intention, and enjoy.
happy cooking!
Self-Love Spell Jar
•honey
•lavender
•pink himalayan salt
•angelica root
•bee pollen
•chamomile
•red rose petals
*sealed with blue wax for emotional healing and forgiveness*
This spell is mostly centered on me coming to love and value myself regardless of my mistakes of the past. It’s part healing, part loving for me.
♌🌕Full moon in leo🌕♌
Tomorrow is a full moon in leo!
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What does a full moon in Leo mean?♌
A moon in leo is a great time for self expression and putting yourself in the spotlight. It's a great time for self-care, celebrating yourself, and everything you've accomplished. Be gracious with yourself and recognize how far you've come! You deserve to take up space, you deserve to put yourself first, and you deserve all of your hearts desires!
Self care 🌹
Affirmations
Cleansing your space
Gratitude Meditation
Spending time with yourself
Tea party ☕
Milk bath/moon bath
Spellwork 📜
Glamour spells super effective!
Moon water (especially with roses or a flower of choice)
Protection spells
Manifestation/wishing spells
Mental clarity spells
Self love spells
Love spells (don't perform unless you have both parties consent and have been practicing your craft for at least 2-3 years!!)
Moon bath rituals
Divination 🔮
Now is a great time for focusing on the self and looking within. Tarot spreads for self improvement, finding what's no longer serving you, and discussing the future are great ideas for this full moon. You could also try to see if there is anything negative coming your way.
That's all for now!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask away! I can link some good spells if necessary, just leave a comment. I hope everyone has a wonderful full moon and all of your wishes come true 💕
Other Witch Tips
Bread, Milk and Sugar can be used in a spell to maintain household prosperity.
Salt, black pepper and Cayenne Pepper can be used in protective and jinxing spells.
If you had to get three thread colours, go for white, black and red. White for general "right hand" work, black for general "left hand work" as well as things such as protection, binding and the like. Red Thread for any work that requires a boost.
Do not undermine the powers of knot magick.
Sex magick can be touch and go but generally is empowered by a build up of energy.
Mirrors can act as a portals, divination devices, amplify magick, protect, bind and so on and so forth. A compact mirror can be used to close someone's energy in on themselves if their image is placed in the mirror, the mirror closed and bound with either red or black thread.
Chewing on lavender helps get rid of headaches and promotes sleep but I will tell you now that the taste is awful and extremely potent. Like my da used to say - if the medicine tastes like shit, that's how you know it works.
How To Cast a 3 Candle Healing Spell
This candle spell is designed to use the energy of fire to assist in a sick individuals recovery. Keep in mind that the patient should still be receiving medical treatment from a doctor and that healing spells are to be used in a supplementary way and not as the only form of treatment.
The spell will require 3 Blue candles, Thyme oil, Eucalyptus oil, Tea Tree oil, Life Everlasting Flowers, Myrrh resin, White Copal resin, 3 different pictures of the individual (they can be hand-drawn if need be) and some kind of personal concern attached to them such as skin flakes, hair, fingernail clippings, used clothing excetera.
Cleanse each of the candles with Florida Water cologne or Frankincense smoke. Carve the first and last name of the patient into every candle. Bore a hole about 1 inch deep into the bottom of each candle. Add 2 drops of each essential oil, a small piece of Myrrh, a single Life Everlasting Flower and a small piece of the personal concern (for example if you were using used clothing you could cut out a tiny part of it) into the holes. Fill the holes with wax and use a lit match to melt the wax down. Slam the bottom of the candle down on a hard surface and move it back and forth until it has flattened properly.
Start burning the White Copal resin on activated charcoal. Place the 3 pictures of the patient on your altar. Place a candle on top of each of the pictures. Light the candles with a match and say the following prayer 7 times-
"Ancestral Spirits, Hear My Plea, Bring This Person Deliverance From Illness, Do All In Your Power To Help Them Become Well, Open Whatever Roads May Be Opened On The Path to Wellness!"
Spend an hour with the candles and then snuff them out. Allow the Copal to burn out on its own. Repeat the process of lighting the candles and saying the prayers in the same way every night until the candles have burned all the way down. Wrap up the remains of the spell in clean linen. Place it somewhere close to the patient if possible. You can also bury it in the patients backyard. You can also bury the remains at a crossroads. Some of the wax from the spell can be made into the shape of a heart and placed in a magick bag along with other healing items such as Clear Quartz Crystal or Eucalyptus leaves. If you found this article to be helpful feel free to share it on Twitter and have a blessed day! (Image from Unsplash.com)
Water Energies
Moon Water
It could energize crystals
Perfect for a magical bath
For bless yourself, your home or magical tools
Spring Water
Good for Fae work
Excellent for abundance
Used in love or fertility spell
Used in subtle magick
Snow Water
Recommended for spells that focus on purity endings and change
For slow working spells
Rain Water
Multi-purpose
Excellent for growth and rebirth spells
Good for spells that you want to keep gaining power over time
River Water
Recommended for rituals and spells that has to do with moving on.
Focusing energy
Breaking through rough times
Warding
Good for activating tools
Ocean Water
Good for cleansing
Healing
Banishing
Used for protection rituals and spells
Cleansing crystals
Thunderstorm Water
Add a magical boost to any work
Good for spells and rituals that has to do with emotional strengthening, confidence and motivation
Virtuous for hexes and curses
Emotional Healing Bath
I recommend doing this in tandem with Shadow Work & Trauma release exercises. I saw a great thread on twitter that I'll link. I am NOT a professional- please be sure to do your own research and you can always use different herbs in this spell! Edit it to your liking, I made this a few nights ago for someone special. So I thought I'd share it with you guys.
What you'll need? - draw this sigil on a piece of paper to put into your jar or beneath your candle, if you are doing a bath you can always put this sigil in your satchet and trace it into the bath while stating your intentions. The usages of the sigil are explained in the linked post. I personally used colored pencils & took a page from my favorite notebook to draw it <3. I used Yellow for happiness & pink for love and then on the back in orange wrote my intentions for the sigil.
For those interested in a Spell Jar, you'll of course need a Jar and a Green candle to represent growth which you will seal the jar with. If you're able to I recommend carving the sigil linked above lightly into the candlewax. If you're interested in a spell candle, you can do one or multiple candles. I recommend any of the following colors: White for purification and renewal. Green for Personal growth & healing Orange for Mood Improvement & self confidence Yellow for Happiness and Confidence in Self Expression. Focus on what you are looking to get from this reading when you're choosing candle color <3 If you feel drawn to a different color for a different reason then go with your intuition.
A/N: Obviously these herbs have way more spiritual correspondences, but to keep it simple we're going to focus on the intention of the herbs for this specific spell. Witch Hazel Planet: Sun Element: Fire Gender: Masculine Moving on, releasing Grief, Mending broken heart, find inner balance. Amaranth Gender: feminine Planet: Saturn Element: fire Mending a broken Heart
Chamomile Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Water Peace & Calmness Chrysanthemum Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Happiness & Elevated mood! Ashwaghanda Planet: Moon & Mars? Apparently also the Sun. Mental Power & Enhancing Mental Health! Hyssop Masculine Jupiter Fire Relieving Depression & for a more positive outlook on life salt FOR THOSE WHO DO A BATH. U can use the salt to ground the stagnant energy that is causing blockages and when u drain the tub it's like removing those blockages from ur life!!
I really recommend making a playlist for your bath that consists of comforting and emotionally relieving songs. For those who are taking a spellbath with this recipe, the goal is to release so that the spell can do it's job to heal. The salt is really a big help for this reason, so don't be afraid to cry.
Signs of Energy Change
When you do spiritual work, such as drawing a sigil, invocations, evocations, cleansing, working with particular elements inside anad outside the body, there is energy moving around and working. The energy sometimes may not be working how the magus would perceive it to be but there are signs that take place around the magus and within the magus.
For example, working with the fire element, inside or outside, could cause feelings of warming up, you might feel it in your lower body or your chest, becoming much hotter and almost sweating.
Working with the water element would cause feelings of coolness and coldness or sometimes like you're in a pool.
If you're working with spirits, you might feel a pressure or a change in a particular spot. Maybe one spot becomes colder or warmer, maybe one spot feels like there's electricity.
if you're doing works where you're invoking, you may feel things internally. Pressures in the head, the chest, the arms, feelings of heat or coldness, the weird vibration feeling where your body feels like TV static, you might also feel like you're moving away from your body and someone else is there.
A few other signs that I've experienced are things like - after a cleansing, it feels like the air in a hospital - that clear, clean air.
Workings with sigils, the sigil may feel more electric when you hold it, when you hold your hand over it, you might also feel vibration, warmth, or magnetism.
When you're projecting energy out of your hands or when there is an increased energy flow, some people have dilated blood vessels which show through the skin, or their hands start to have more red blotches as energy and heat cause the capillaries to start to dilate. Alternative things include feelings of immense heat, vibration or electricity in the hands.
During healing rituals, you might experience warmth or buzzing in the area of note. If it is a ritual relating towards emotion, there may be a slight period of stillness ad peace or sometimes it will induce a cathartic release.
You might also feel, depending on the nature of the ritual, a pressure or heat in the third eye area, or in the chest. Your hairs may also stand up on end.
If you worked too much with your own energy, after the ritual - you may experience more hunger, fatigue, sometimes it will come with a period of emotional and spiritual burnout.
If you did an invocation, you might experience a euphoric headframe as well as a feelig of rejuventation and revitalization.
in the removal of hexes or in cleansings, I have noticed that some people do more purging activities such as more peering, more shitting, more sneezing, yawning, drinking more water or sometimes even vomiting.
Spirits of a more sexual nature may induce feelings of lust or cause erections and arousals upon their entering of the space.
Working with death energy may induce things such as fatigue or sometimes health issues but as you work more alongside it, it becomes easier to process and refine it.
November 2023 witch guide
Full moon: November 27th
New moon: November 13th
Sabbats: None
November Beaver Moon
Known as: Digging(or scratching) moon, Deer rutting moon, Frost moon, Whitefish moon, Mourning Moon, Dark moon, Blotmonath, Fog moon, Mad moon, Moon of storms, Herbistmanoth & Freezing moon
Element: Water
Zodiac: Scorpio & Sagittarius
Nature spirits: Subterranean faeries
Deities: Astarte, Bast, Black Isis, Hecate, Kali, Lakshmi, Mawu, Nicnevin, Osiris & Saraswati
Animals: Crocodile, jackal, scorpion & unicorn
Birds: Goose, owl & sparrow
Trees: Alder, cypress & hazel
Herbs: Betony, blessed thistle, borage, cinquefoil, fennel, grains of paradise & verbena
Flowers: Blooming cacti & chrysanthemum
Scents: Cedar, cherry blossom, hyacinth, lemon, narcissus & peppermint
Stones: Beryl, cat's eye, citrine, yellow sapphire, topaz & turquoise
Colors: Blues, grey, sea green & silver
Energy: Deity communication, cooperation, death, divination, focus, passion, healing, preparation, secrets, sex matters, taking root & transformations.
The Beaver Moon gets its name because it is the time of year when beavers begin to take shelter in their lodges, having laid up sufficient food stores for the long winter ahead. During the fur trade in North America, it was also the season to trap beavers for their thick, winter-ready pelts.
Other celebrations:
• Lunantishees
November 11th
Also known as: The day of the Sidhe
This day celebrates the Lunantishee Faeries & honors the sacred blackthorn tree that they protect. It is said these faeries dance around their host blackthorn tree or bush by the light of the full moon in which they worship. The Lunantishee are closely associated with moonstone as their name of Moon-Sidhe or moon faeries suggest. These faeries are intensely protective guardians who highlight to us the need to protect our homes & our personal energies/ourselves.
In some traditions people would leave offerings like cakes, milk, honey or ale to avert any mischievous behavior from the faeries & if you had a blackthorn tree leave blackthorn blessings upon you.
During this time it is advised to not pick, cut or prune these plants under any circumstances or else misfortune would be placed upon them.
•Night of Hecate
November 16th
Though many choose to honor the Goddess Hecate during this day, there doesn't seem to be any historical evidence suggesting this particular day has any traditional associations or events & likely was mistaken from Hekate's Deipnon which takes place during the dark phase of the moon. However modern practitioners use this day to honor Hekate despite this.
Some celebrate by having a feast filled with wine, mushrooms, bread & more while also leaving some at the threshold of their front door to symbolize the crossroads between indoors and outdoors.
Sources:
Farmersalmanac.com
Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences by Sandra Kines
A Witch's Book of Correspondences by Viktorija Briggs
Llewellyn's 2023 magical almanac: practical magic for everyday living
Wikipedia