Between every in-depth reading you do: they require a lot of energy and focus and can heavily impact the energy around your deck
When you get a new deck: you don’t know who has handled the deck before you or what energies surrounded it
If someone touches your deck: their energy can be easily transmitted through physical contact (which you could potentially use to your advantage if you’re reading for them)
When you see multiple cards from a recent previous reading appear in your current reading: a sign that the energies of the people you are reading for are becoming muddled
At different times of the year - equinoxes, full moons, first day of a season: routine cleansing is a great way to keep your cards in good shape
If you haven’t used it in a while: old, built up energies need to be cleared to help “wake up” your deck after it’s been sitting unused
With a cleansing sigil: place the deck on top to the sigil and write “Negative energy” or “Old energy” for removal
Passing through some sage smoke: sage is a great all around cleanser!
Shuffling while focusing on cleansing: shuffling reorganizes the cards and is a quick method for cleansing in between consecutive readings
Place a clear quartz on top: quartz, especially when charged with light from a full moon, absorbs negative and foreign energy really well
With the light of a full moon: the full moon represents new beginnings and holds strong cleansing power, place on a window sill overnight
Meditation with a focus on cleansing: sit near or hold your deck, close your eyes, focus on your breathing (count your inhale as 1, exhale 2, inhale 3, etc until 30), then imagine a white, cleansing light enveloping your deck
Make a salt circle around your deck: can get kind of messy, but the salt will absorb negative energy, make sure to dispose of it after!
Put the cards in order (by suit, element, number, or astrology): sorting your deck will give it a fresh start, make sure all the cards are upright as well!
Knock three times: another quick way to cleanse or “wake up” your deck, especially great for after you haven’t used your deck in a while
Beltane Celebration
Hi lovely ones! We know it’s super late but we have been working hard on new surprises you will like a lot! We promise! But for now, here’s the Beltane Spell Celebration of this month.
You will need previous Moon Water already made and you will pour it carefully inside a clear vase of your choice. After this step is done, light up the white candle and think of the elements in front of you. Make a silent wish.
Now place the flowers inside the vase while making a blessing to someone or something for each flower you put. Once it’s all done, please take a moment to think about the meaning of this celebration time. Of How it’s related to have fun, fertility, abundance, romance, celebration and protection.
If you are ok with it, you can also offer these to the faeries around your home and expect magical energies through all the month.
Here’s why:
The Ascendant does not just show “how people see you.”
The Ascendant signifies how you’ve entered into the world. It represents your birth, your first breath, and your first, strongest view of the world.
The 1st House rules over the head. The Ascendant can not only have a say on your facial appearance, but the overall vibe of your appearance as a whole.
The Ascendant serves as a spreadsheet for the placement of your planets. Without the Ascendant, you will not know which Houses your planets are in.
The Ascendant also sets the order of the signs ruling the Houses. The signs are in order on your natal chart, and the fact that the order can’t be changed shows that the Ascendant has a strong effect on the rest of your Houses. This implies that the rest of the Houses are connected in some way to the Ascendant.
The Ascendant is often accepted in many aspect patterns due to its important and visible effects.
The Ascendant is often used as a defense mechanism against the world as a way to keep oneself safe by covering the sign ruled by the 12th House. The defensiveness/covering of the Ascendant goes with the archetypal notion that Aries, the sign naturally ruling the 1st House is always defensive and on-guard from outside forces.
The Ascendant is often used to find one’s karmic lessons and directions in addition to the North and South Node.
The Ascendant is the start of the natal chart and is arguably one of the most important angles in the natal chart.
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Color of the Day : Rose
Incense of the Day : Alder
At this time of year, holly is the perfect herb to use to clearway any negative energy in your home.
For this spell you'll need :
A sheet of newspaper
Three holly leaves
A piece of stationary
A pen
First lay the sheet of newspaper flat on a table or floor, then place the holly leaves in the middle of the newspaper.
Write things you'd like to leave in this passing year on the stationary and visualize them vanishing as you tear up the stationary.
With this, visualize your negative thoughts/feelings dissipating as you scatter the pieces around the holly leaves, allowing them to cleanse the torn paper and yourself.
Finally wrap everything up in your newspaper and toss it outside, giving it back to the earth.
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🔥🔥Firey Wall of Protection Oil🔥🔥 . . This is a little how to I’m sharing with you!! I made this pretty puppy on my own, and let me tell you this is POTENT!! I made it myself and can contest this shits awesome. Here’s how to make it! You’ll need: - jar - black salt - whole chilie peppers - cayenne powder - paprika - Palo Santo stick - cloves - cinnamon sticks - cinnamon powder - ginger powder - red pepper seeds - sea salt/pink Himalayan sea salt - bay leaves - oil (be it olive, cooking, almond, what have you) - black candle - sandlewood incense . Light your incense, make sure you’re grounded, and your mind is focused for the task at hand. Please know this will take up a lot of your energy. Make your base with black salt and all powdered ingredients. It’s important that this have a strong foundation with hella protection properties so nothing can find a way through the barrier. Follow your gut and add each ingredient according to your intuition. As you add each item, really focus on this oils intent. You want it strong, powerful, Firey, and most importantly impenetrable. You want to make sure all your loopholes are tied, that there’s no room for error. Once everything is added, go ahead and pour your oil in, saying an incantation of your choice. As you do, say out loud exactly what you want this oil to do. Charge it, give it a job, leaving out no detail. Tell it what it protects you and your family from. Hold it, charge it, kiss it–until it feels right. Afterwards, set the jar in front of the black candle and light it, letting the spell charge and burn. DO NOT let the candle burn out, and DO NOT burn it out early. Let it go down and out all on it’s own. Now here’s where your gut comes in. When the spell is over, I sat my bottle on my windowsill and let it charge in the sunlight for 30 consecutive days. You can write a sigil underneath it to add an additional charge, but the suns energy gives it the burn you want. You don’t have to do it for 30 days, but for me and this oil, it’s not as effective if it’s charged in the sun for less. Once the 30 days are up, use it at your own will. Pour it in a small vial and wear it as a necklace (that’s what I did.) Anoint your doorways, windows, threshold, doorstep, friends, your car, yourself, anything. It’s potent and powerful!!
NEW MOON : Setting intentions, taking actions, moving forward, focusing in the increase, starting new ventures, exploring opportunities
WAXING CRESCENT : Redefining goals and taking first actions, consistency, gaining momentum, determination, pushing forward
FIRST QUARTER : Finding the balance between the new goals and habits, expansion, being practical, concentration on goals
WAXING GIBBOUS : Cultivating actions toward goals, improving and readjusting, intensive growth, pushing boundaries
FULL MOON : The energy of completion, gratefulness, cleansing, charging, appreciating progress, psychic work, letting go
WANING GIBBOUS : Giving thanks, decluttering, eliminating negative habits, slowing down, reevaluing goals
LAST QUARTER : Letting go, practicing forgiveness, finding time to relax, cord-cutting, get rid of unhealthy habits and addictions
WANING CRESCENT : Making room for new, rest and surrender, energizing by doing things we love, discharging the health issues
I’ve heard from quite a few of you that you don’t know what to put in your grimoire, or that you were having a hard time filling it! Here is a jumble of Lapis Cat’s tips & ideas for your grimoire!
Getting started can be hard, for a lot of reasons! I think it took me so incredibly long to do mine because i was so nervous about messing it up.
Different ways to keep your grimoire
- Spiral notebooks
- Composition books
- Binders
- Flash drive/SD card
- In google drive, notes on your phone/computer, online
- I’ve seen a $5 hardback sketchbook from michaels used
I will add, Don’t go off and buy a $65 grimoire that is beautiful for your first one, unless you really just must. You will have many grimoires after this one, and they will get more organized and beautiful as you establish your style over time.
Once you’ve selected your personal book, Its time to gather information to put in it! This is the part i’m often asked about. Nothing is mandatory in a grimoire, and you should add only information that is important to you. The one thing i will suggest you add is a blessing as one of your first pages. I’ve posted a book of shadows blessing in the past <3 Everything listed under this are just ideas for things you can add in!
Witches Rune
Sacred Traditions
Blessing
Salt Blessing
Water blessing
Cleansing methods
Sabbats
All about your goddess(es) and god(s)
Grounding
Alphabets
Runes
Symbols
Circle Casting
Songs for the goddess
Songs and methods to raise power within a circle
Elemental Powers
Moon Phases/Correspondences
Hour correspondences
Celestial Bodies & Correspondences
Color Correspondences
Herb Correspondences
Crystal Correspondences
Daily Influences
Planetary Influences
Incense correspondences
Astrology/Planetary Spirits
Numbers & their correspondences
Names of power
One word spells
Spell crafting table
Consecration methods for your sacred items
Crystal Cleansing & Programming
Meditations
Teas and associations with magick
Kitchen witchery
Divination
Your personal spells
Sigils
Your rituals
Reactions & Experiences
I hope this helps you get started on your grimoire and gives you plenty of ideas on how to fill the pages!!
Part of getting older is realizing how absolutely insane it is that basically every form of media is constantly trying to convince us that the most interesting moments of the lived human experience are happening in HIGH SCHOOL…… girl who gives a flying fuck what 16 year olds are doing.
CRYSTALS — rose quartz / clear quartz / amethyst / selenite / tiffany stone / opal / kunzite / morganite
WATERS — full moon water / sun water / dew / melted snow / ocean water
TOOLS — candles (pink, white, blue) / brushes / mirrors / ribbons
ENCHANTED OBJECTS — jewelry / makeup / charms / clothes / other accessories
MISC — flowers / fruits / sugar / herbs
BEAUTY - roses, catnip, dew, ginger, ginseng, heather, maidenhair, orange
COURAGE - basil, fluorite, mullein, sunstone, sweetpea, thyme, tiger eye, amatrine
FOCUS - amber, aquamarine, celery, celestite, ocean water, onyx, master root
TRUTH - bluebell, iron pyrite, moss agate, opal, selenite, yellow candles
STRENGTH - bay leaf, ebony, mulberry, pennyroyal, saffron, thistle, tourmaline, oak bark
WISDOM - almond, amethyst, bay leaf, coral, iris, sage, sunflower, skullcap
ATTRACTION - honey, cinnamon, cardamom, carnelian, patchouli, damiana, rosehips
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