I First Made My Own Herbal Chai Blend After Reading About It In @thymeherbal The Herbal Homestead Journal,

✨🌿 Green Witch’s Comfort Spell Jar 🌲

In a small jar with a cork top, layer:

Basil

Lemongrass or Lemon Balm

Rosemary

Tree Bark (I used White Oak)

Cinnamon

Fennel Seeds

Ginger Root

Mint

Pine Needles

Let it charge in the sun for an afternoon near your houseplants, in the garden, or even under a favorite tree in the woods. For an extra boost, charge it near a moss agate stone too! Later, seal it with green or white wax and recite:

“Support me and guide me, Spirits of Nature. As a Green Witch, I thank you for your many blessings. I take a little piece of the Forest with me as I walk my path. Blessed be, and so mote it be.” 🌿

You can now take your little piece of the Forest inside your spell jar with you wherever you go as a reminder of your Green Witch oath and path. It’s great to keep in your bag, purse, or travel altar! Blessed be, lovelies! 💖🌿

How Magic Works

These are just some of many different theories about how spells work. For anybody who really enjoys “magical theory” like I do or is looking for validation that there’s something to all these weird spells! None of these serve to discredit magic, but rather add a deeper level of understanding to it. The success of a spell could be credited to more than one of these, or something else entirely!

Law of Attraction. Basically, the idea that you attract what you focus on. A popular example is focusing on the color red, and seeing how much red is around you that you didn’t notice before. This is most effective for spells involving personal matters and success, by formally opening your eyes to details and opportunities you may have missed otherwise. 

The Placebo Effect. It’s a proven fact that our bodies can heal ourselves merely by belief that what we’re doing helps! This can extend beyond health spells to things like confidence, performance ability, and other things that aim at personal improvement. The placebo effect may be all that spell needs to be successful ( and it wouldn’t have happened without the spell!)

Direct cause/effect. Something about the spell and the way it was cast directly affects the outcome. Example: a sigil designed for protection, when looked at, serves as a constant visual reminder that you are protected, subconsciously strengthening your wards.

Science/chemistry. This is most true for kitchen witchery and herbalism. Chamomile, lavender, and other herbs aren’t corresponded with calmness and sleep for nothing… they’re made up of chemicals that have been scientifically proven to calm the nerves and aid in sleep!

Quantum physics. There’s a phrase called “Quantum Woo,” where people use quantum physics (often incorrectly) to explain any type of magical thinking or practice. While the ultimate theory behind quantum physics was recently disproven, the discoveries made through research still hold true. Basically, we know particles behave differently when observed, and our energies can effect this. We just don’t know why that is. This is the baseline behind a lot of energy work.

Divine string pulling. Ask and ye shall receive. This is where we depart from the physical to the spiritual side of magic. Many people do magic by appealing to divine forces, Mother Earth, God(s), the Universe, whatever you want to call it. This could be with an offering, a ceremony, or even just bedside prayer. The divine force hears the request, and grants it by affecting change and “pulling strings” to cause the desired outcome.

Spiritual string pulling. Very similar to the previous point, but with entities that are not worshipped or seen as divine. Many believe that spirits can still affect change “behind the scenes.” A spirit worker may make a deal with a spirit for luck or protection, or someone may ask their ancestors for good fortune and health.

Personal string pulling. Instead of asking an outside entity, this is the idea that we, as the practitioner, pull the strings. This is most seen through the “cone of energy” method of casting, where we raise a lot of concentrated energy and intent in a space, then release it all at once to do its thing. You also see it with sympathetic magic, where by doing something to a poppet, we actively affect that change on the target. No middle man included.

Honey Lavender Bread

submitted by @materiamystica​

½ cup Greek yoghurt ½ cup plain flour 1tsp baking powder ¼ tsp salt 1 tbsp dried lavender 1 tbsp honey 1 egg, beaten

The intent is to increase mental clarity and connection. To clear your spiritual and mental brain fog so that you can think and see more clearly again. To improve clarity of vision and connection to your heart’s desire. Lavender is employed to stimulate clarity and connection, cleansing, memory, passion, peace of mind, healing, love, passion and retention. With the honey for added sweetness and stickiness to make visions all the more sweet, and memories stick more permanently. Harvesting your own lavender can also be intended to honour Lammas, too!

1. Mix everything in a bowl and preheat the oven at 350 F. 2. Turn out onto a floured surface and knead adding more flour until it’s no longer sticky and has formed a nice stretchy bread dough. 3. Put into a floured loaf tin. 4. Brush top with egg wash. 5. Bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes until a golden crust has formed and a skewer comes out clean. 6. Slice and enjoy!

We are trying to buy a house - so soon I’ll make a series on my magical home!

Here are some ideas -

Packing with intent

Cleansing an apartment or home when leaving

Protection for your property

Wards and Hexes for your home

How to decorate with intent

Mantle altar set-up for different seasons

Kitchen altar set-up

Offerings to the land and house spirits

Communing with the land spirit

Painting - colors and their meanings

How to make a cozy, welcoming space

The 3 Hs - Hearth, Home, and Hospitality

How to bring the elements into your home

How to bring the seasons into your home

Witch decor on a budget

DIY witch crafts

DIY witchcraft

Decorating your home on a budget

Art/decor for intent

I have lots of ideas! I can’t wait to get started :)

I figured I would take a little bit of time to post the pictures of some books wow secular or really good base for people who are interested in kitchen/hearth/green witchcraft.

Also be a really good resource for those of you who are still in the closet as these books by themselves are innocuous enough to pass by unnoticed by most unless they know what you're doing

Cold Weather Minestrone Soup

Classes were supposed to start today and since they haven’t because TX freaks out over ice, I thought I’d be productive on another front instead. So, here’s my Beginning of the Semester, Cold Weather Minestrone Soup. I’ve made this soup for a while now; it started off with some random recipe online (probably the food network website), but since I found it years ago, I’ve changed it to fit my own needs. This soup deals with ingredients that represent wealth, prosperity, purification, protection, love/lust, healing, etc.—all that good stuff that makes a good rounded semester of getting shit done both academically and socially.

I use a lot of canned and frozen stuff since I don’t always have time to cook and use up fresh ingredients. I prefer to make my own broth, since I learned how to fairly recently, but it’s very time consuming and canned/boxed broth works just as fine.

Ingredients:

3c Chicken/Veg Broth

1 can diced tomatoes (28oz, or two 14oz)

1c onion, chopped

1 ½ c celery, chopped

1c shredded carrots

1 can white cannellini bean, drained and rinsed (15oz)

½ tsp salt

½ tsp pepper

2 bay leaves

½ tsp dried sage

1tsp dried thyme

2c frozen/fresh spinach

1 zucchini, chopped

2c cooked mini bowties (technically any smaller pasta will work, but bowties are cute, so I always use these)

Directions:

Put broth, tomatoes, onions, celery, carrots, beans, salt, pepper, bay, sage, and thyme in a medium (or bigger) slow cooker, and stir. Cook on low for 7hrs, or high for 3 ½ hrs. Add spinach, zucchini, and pasta, then stir and cook for another 30 min. Remember to remove the bay leaves, or like, eat around them, since they can fuck up your throat. Add more salt or pepper if you want and you’re good to go!

*Please note that this recipe is for a crock pot, but can easily be changed to the stove top by adding more broth and cooking on medium-low to medium heat for about 4hrs. When cooking on the stove top, you’ll have to babysit it more by stirring occasionally and checking the tenderness of the veg. It’s more of a guessing game with the time, too. I’ve made this both on the stove and in a crockpot, so it can definitely be done on either.

Correspondence:

Bay: psychic powers, protection, purification, healing

Beans: protection, wealth, sex/lust

Carrots: sex/lust, fertility

Celery: sex/lust, fertility, peace, mental strength, psychic powers

Onion: stability, absorbs sickness, protection, prosperity, luck

Pepper: protection, purification, exorcism

Sage: cleansing, purification

Salt: purification, cleansing, healing, protection

Spinach: prosperity

Thyme: purification, psychic powers, health, fortune, love

Tomato: love, prosperity, healing, protection

Zucchini: protection, prosperity

Happy cooking! And stay warm!

Witches type

Source IG: @waterofwhimsy

The gods see you. They hear you. You are not forgotten. Your prayers have not been ignored. What you need will come soon. The gods see you, even if you don’t see them.

rawest fucking florence and the machine lyrics in no particular order:

no more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone

want me to love you in moderation, do i look moderate to you?

this will be my last confession, ‘i love you’ never felt like any blessing, whisper it like it’s a secret only to condemn the one who hears it

because i am done with my graceless heart, so tonight i’m gonna cut it out and then restart

tenderest touch leaves the darkest of marks and the kindest of kisses breaks the hardest of hearts

you don’t have to be a ghost here among the living, you are flesh and blood, and you deserve to be loved and you deserve what you are given, and oh how much

but the loneliness never left me, i always took it with me, but i can put it down in the pleasure of your company

at seventeen i started to starve myself, i thought that love was a kind of emptiness, but at least i understood then the hunger i felt, and i didn’t have to call it loneliness 

the fabric of your flesh, pure as a wedding dress

it’s an evensong, it’s a melody, it’s a battle cry, it’s a symphony 

but i know it’ll have to drown me, before i can breathe easy

to the crowd i was crying out, and in your place there were a thousand other faces

and it’s over and i’m going under, but i’m not giving up i’m just giving in

in a moment of joy and fury i threw myself from the balcony like my grandmother, so many years before me

and it’s peaceful in the deep, cathedral where you cannot breathe

i know i seem shaky, these hands aren’t fit for holding

i’m not beat up by this yet, you can’t tell me to regret, been in the dark since the day we met, fire help me to forget

it seems that i have been held in this dreaming state, a tourist in the waking world, never quite awake

shower your affection, let it rain on me, pull down this mountain, drag your cities to the sea

and i did cartwheels in your honor, dancing on tiptoes, my own secret ceremonials

a year like this passes so strangely, somewhere between sorrow and bliss

in the spring, i shed my skin and it blows away with the changing winds

i swallow the sound and it swallows me whole until there’s nothing left inside my soul

And how does it feel now you’ve scratched that itch? And pulled out all your stitches? Hubris is a bitch

and i want you so badly, but you could be anyone 

drink too much coffee and think of you often in a city where reality has long been forgotten, and are you afraid, because I’m terrified, but you remind me that it’s such a wonderful thing to love

i was in the darkness, so darkness i became

☀️ Midsummer Ritual ☀️

a ritual for midsummer, a ritual that observes the summer solstice, and the new life that has been growing in the earth.

☀️ perform ritual at noon, call open a circle

☀️ build a safe bonfire in a safe area, or alternatively light a yellow candle.

☀️ leave out an offering for the fae near the candle.

☀️ make a solar wheel and burn it. 

☀️ speak a prayer to each of the four cardinal directions. 

☀️ play music and celebrate in the circle

☀️ close and leave the circle.