Maithewitch - A Witch In A Christan House

I need some assistance..

So I’m making a tarot deck, right? And I set it on my nightstand at night when I’m done working on it. Each morning for the past few days, the Moon card is on my bed. Like, I put it on the bottom of my deck in progress and it still ends up on my bed?? Is my baby tarot deck trying to tell me??

A Sigil of calming. It’s my first one ever! Yay! The pride is real right now, guys.

Hi, I have a quick question about the fae. Are they known to leave people gifts of shiny things? I haven’t done any work with the fae, but for about a few months now I’ve been finding coins nearly everywhere I go, when I almost never find them normally. Today I was on the train and I looked on the seat next to me, where no one had sat after I sat down, and there was a coin there that definitely wasn’t there when I got on. I’ve also been finding keys and even a ring (which fit me perfectly, too), and it’s at the point where it’s a little too coincidental to ignore. Do you have any insight/thoughts?

Hey anon! Yeah, the fae tend to leave shiny objects around- especially if they like you or want to get your attention. I once found a whole sugar spoon, and that was how I met our garden faerie. I recommend reaching out, and seeing if they want something, and mayhaps leaving an offering. See what happens!

Love it when my oracle cards are ominous.

Lol.

Also look at my beautiful solstice candle that my parents got me!! My Catholic dad made himself go into a witchy shop to get it.

The first 5 cards in my oracle deck, taken at 11pm- behold! The Silmarilion! I’ve already lore dropped on another post, so I won’t dump my nerdiness on y’all.

Fabulous idea, especially for those in the broom closet! It can be edited to be purely intentional magic, I think (op lemme know if I’m wrong) so it’s just “pretty colors you like collecting!”

Witchcraft challenge: Design a spell using the paint chip samples from the hardware store.

Hello! I’m Mai!

I’m restarting my blog from scratch, after a too-long hiatus, and I figured an introduction was in order.

I go by Mai on this blog, and I recently came out of the broom closet in a family of (very accepting) Christians. I’m a faerie witch, and I love plants and excel at divination. This blog will focus on those and basics, and the grimoire. That being said, this is a safe place, so no terfs, no racists, etc. Fight me.

My hobbies are drawing, writing, and making jewelry. I live in that one awkward part of the US where we aren’t really the South, but aren’t really Midwest either. I’m currently trying to balance 97 different things during this pandemic (including the pandemic 🥲).

I am here for any witches who need me, or are in a situation similar to mine- broom closeted, or trying to transition out of it. Feel free to drop an ask!

Edit: I have created a Silmarilion sideblog, so if you enjoy my Silmarilion content, go there. @mai-youdumbass

Ingredients that are Eco-friendly, pt 1

Hi, and welcome back to a new witchcraft post! I saw you guys really liked my post on spell disposal, and I wanted to make a post on some fabulous ingredients that are

Eco friendly ~

So here is part 1! The obvious one, herbs!

How to dry Herbs!

I think we are all in agreement that herbs are literally the most common of all spell ingredients, but you’d be shocked at how much people pay for a jar of dried herbs (or at least how much my mum pays at the grocery store)!

My family actually decided to start growing our own herbs, like thyme, lavender, sage, basil, oregano, rosemary, etc. Of course, my family being Christian, they used them for cooking.

But no matter what you do, cook or spell, an herb’s at its most potent when dried!

So how do you get from fresh herbs to dried?

Cut your herbs! Cut with plenty of stem, and don’t take too much, only what you will need for now. Make sure you thank that plant for its help, and give it a drink!

Take a bit of string and wrap one end around the base of your stems, so the herbs hang upside down.

Tie the other end to a hanger or a window hook, or a curtain rod. I hang mine in mostly darkness, my mum does it in mostly light. I recommend the mostly darkness method; my mum’s always turn out funky. I tie my bundles to a hanger in my closet and let them do their thing.

Wait 1-2 weeks, or until mostly crunchy to the touch. Not crispy, but crunchy.

Now you’re done! ✨✨

Have a magical day!✨✨

cancellation sigil

There’s a reason this salt dough recipe is the first thing in my grimoire. Very few tools have been quite as versatile as this. I have made offering bowls, a measuring spoon, a deity statue, runes… and I could go on.

Salt dough is wonderful for witchery because you make it yourself, it’s cheap af, you can make it with things you steal from the kitchen while you’re stealing McCormack herbs (don’t lie, you know you’ve done it), and it’s salt based which is like the witchiest of witch things.

The small discs on the page are my latest idea, which is outlined in the second note on the page. I mixed dried herbs into the salt dough, formed discs, let it dry, and now I’ve got these portable little magic herb discs. The ones on the page are basil and powdered sugar for drawing wealth at work. But the possibilities are endless. If you can make an herb sachet or powder, you can probably also make it a salt dough disc.

Witch tip: set these out on a dish to dry by your window to give it all that good sun and moonlight.