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Black Salt

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 Witches black salt is used for protection, banishing, binding, cleansing, and releasing.

What you need:

- sea salt

- ashes / or a charcoal disc

- protective herbs

- mortar and pestle

Make your black salt on a Tuesday after the sun has set, preferably on a waxing or full moon as they are both good moon phases for doing protection magick.

To make my black salt I burned a mixture of rosemary, sage, and mugwort on a charcoal disc. Use whatever herbs that you associate with protection. You could also use the ashes from incense. I let the herbs burn for about 5 minutes and then ground this mixture, including the charcoal disc, in a mortar and pestle.

Combine this mixture with the salt by mixing it in a counter-clock wise direction. You could also add some ashes from your fireplace and some black pepper. I've also taken a bay leaf and drew a pentacle on it, then burned this and added its ashes to the black salt. Another optional ingredient to add is cast iron scrapings.

As with all spellwork or magickal crafting, visualisation is key. Remember to empower your black salt with your energy and intention while you are creating it. You could even bless or consecrate the salt before you add it to the ashes. 

Light a black candle (or a white one will work too). Set the black salt in front of the candle and place some protective crystals around the salt such as obsidian, shungite, or black tourmaline. You could also anoint your black candle with some protective oil such as rosemary oil, and etch protective symbols into the candle. Leave this to charge for an hour. Store your black salt in a glass container and keep it out of direct sunlight. Charge it under the full moon light!

How to use black salt:

- keep it on your altar

- carry it with you

- keep some under your bed to ward away nightmares

- cast circles with it

- dress candles for protection spells with it

- use it in protection bottles

- place your crystals on some black salt to cleanse them

- leave a sachet of it some place you want to remove the negative energy from

- sprinkle a little bit inside your home (avoid lining the outside of your home with it or putting it on the ground outdoors in general since salt kills snails, slugs, and worms and is harmful to plants and soil)

- sprinkle a little bit of it on the floor and sweep it up to ritually sweep away negative energy

- for a simple yet powerful releasing ritual, toss a bit of black salt into natural running water or into a fire

- sprinkle a little bit of black salt behind an unwanted guest to make them leave, to keep them from coming back be sure to sweep the black salt up and dispose of it away from your home

- keep some black salt in each room of your home to remove negative energy, just remember to replace it often since black salt absorbs negativity

Aura Cleansing Spray

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An aromatherapy spray to spiritually cleanse your aura. Helps you feel instantly grounded, calm, and centred. 

Ingredients:

Rosemary - protection, clarity, cleansing

Sage - purifying, cleansing, protection

Frankincense - purification, meditation, spirituality

Lavender - relaxing, purifying, balances chakras

Bergamot - cleansing, peace, protection

Full moon water - purifying, blessings, spiritually cleansing

Witch hazel - protection, healing, calming

Clear quartz - energy cleanser, amplifying, harmony

Combine all the ingredients in a glass spray bottle if you have one. I like to spiritually cleanse the spray bottle before hand, either letting it sit in a bowl of salt or using sage smoke to cleanse it.

I used essential oils instead of dried herbs as the spray will keep for longer and not get clogged. You could also brew the dried herbs and then strain them before adding it to your spray bottle.

I used equal parts of witch hazel and full moon water and about 7-10 drops of each essential oil, use what ever amount feels right for you.

Leave your energy cleansing spray to charge under a full moon.

Use this spray to cleanse negative energy from a room or your aura. You could also use this spray instead of burning sage or other herbs. Use it before meditation, spellwork, before going to bed, or whenever you feel you need to.

Uplifting Herbal Tea Blend

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An herbal tea blend to uplift your spirits and make you feel relaxed, peaceful and happy.

chamomile - relieves anxiety, calming, happiness

lemon balm - relieves depression, happiness, healing

mint - uplifting, healing, happiness

lavender - relaxing, calming, purifying

lemongrass - spiritually cleansing, happiness, relaxing

Empower your tea blend by combining the dried herbs in a mortar and pestle in a clockwise motion. I use equal parts of each dried herb, but you can use whatever amount feels right for you. Store this tea blend with a citrine crystal and leave it to charge in the sunlight for a couple of hours. You could even try making a cold brew with this, or adding it to your bath.

Crystal Water & Gem Elixirs

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By placing a crystal in water, the vibrational patterns, crystalline structure and subtle energy the crystal holds are transferred to the water. Crystal infused water and elixirs are used for healing and spiritual purposes.

***Some crystals are toxic, so be sure to do your research into which gems are safe to use in water. Crystals from the quartz family are generally safe to use. Choose tumbled stones as opposed to the rough raw stones.

If a crystal is not safe for consumption you could instead place the crystals around the water or place the water on a crystal slab, crystal coasters work perfectly for this.

Gem elixirs are made using alcohol such as vodka and used as a tincture which can be stored. While gem or crystal water is made using water and is generally used straight away. 

It’s best to make sure you cleanse and charge your crystals before using them. Do this by running them under water, placing them in a bowl of salt, or burning herbs and cleansing them in it’s smoke. Charge your crystals under the moonlight or in the sun.

The various uses of gem elixirs and water include: drinking it, applying it directly to the chakra points, using in a spray bottle, anointing magickal items or yourself, add it to your bath water, a foot soak, wash your hair or face with it, give it to your pets to drink, water plants with it, use as an offering when foraging wild plants, apply it to your pulse points. The possibilities are endless.

Crystal infusions can also be made using oil instead of water, however this wouldn’t be ingested. Instead you could use this for anointing, massaging, or in an oil burner. Infusing rose quartz in a carrier oil like jojoba oil would make a perfect massage oil.

Herbs can be added to crystal elixirs or water, be sure to use herbs that correspond to the crystal you're using. For instance you could infuse mint and lemon balm with clear quartz for uplifting, healing energy. Or smokey quartz and ginger for grounding. 

When making your crystal infusions be sure to charge it with your intent through visualisation. 

Place flowers or other natural items around your infusions. For example you could place rose petals around an elixir of rose quartz for love, beauty, and compassion. Or seashells around an infusion of ocean jasper.

Try charging your crystal infusions with sacred symbols, such as the spiral for wisdom and power, or the pentacle for grounding and spiritual empowerment.

You can also charge them with words, for example write “harmony” on a piece of paper and place this under a blue lace agate infusion. I highly suggest reading “Hidden Messages in Water” by Dr. Masaru Emoto for information on how water can be changed through human intent using words, concentration, music, etc.

Use tuning forks to enhance the healing vibrations of your crystal water and elixirs as the healing sound vibrations will further enhance your infusions.

An amethyst infusion can be applied to the face to promote a healthy complexion, or drink it to help open your third eye chakra.

Use clear quartz to purify the mind, body, and spirit.

Drink carnelian infused water for energy and vitality.

Drink shungite water for overall health and well-being.

Try working with different crystal combinations:

Dispel negativity - clear quartz, smokey quartz, and citrine (perfect to use in a spray bottle)

Harmony - blue agate, rose quartz, and amethyst

Grounding - shungite and red jasper

Happiness - citrine, aventurine and rose quartz

Beauty - rose quartz, amethyst and clear quartz

Aura Cleansing Bath

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Spiritually cleanse your aura with this aura cleansing ritual bath.

You will need:

lavender - calming, purification, peace

rose petals - self love, healing, protection

hyssop - spiritually cleansing, commonly used in spiritual baths

juniper berries - clears negative energy, purifies the aura

himalayan salt - healing, purification, protection

frankincense EO - protects the aura, strengthens intuition, relieves stress

white candle - purification, healing

new moon water - renewal, cleansing, healing

selenite/quartz/fluorite/seashells

I like to perform this ritual on a waning moon since this moon phase is associated with letting go and slowing down, in preparation for the new moon.

Start by boiling some water and pouring this over the herbs. I use about 1 litre of water and a tablespoon of each dried herb, you can use whatever amount feels right for you. Let this steep while you run your bath.

Place selenite, clear quartz, rainbow fluorite, and/or rose quartz around the bath or around the candle as all of these crystals have aura cleansing properties. You can also place seashells around the bath for their gentle grounding properties.

Add your herbal infusion, salt, frankincense essential oil, and new moon water to your bath and light the candle. 

You could also burn some dried sage or other herbs to spiritually cleanse the area with its smoke.

While you are in the bath meditate on letting go and visualise yourself becoming spiritually renewed and purified. 

Vision Oil

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A vision oil to amplify your intuition.

Ingredients:

star anise - divination, clairvoyance, third eye chakra

mugwort - astral awareness, psychic development

yarrow - psychic protection and awareness

bay leaf - promotes prophecy, psychic enhancer

frankincense - spiritual protection, drives away negative spirits

cinnamon - boosts psychic powers, spirituality, success

amethyst - connected with the third eye, increases intuition

Use this vision oil to enhance your clairvoyance abilities and promote prophecy during divination.

Rub into your hands, chakras, and pulse points before tarot readings, or other forms of divination.

Use it to anoint your tarot deck, runes, pendulum, crystal ball, etc.

You could burn this vision oil in an oil burner during divination practices.

Apply to your third eye chakra before going to sleep for prophetic dreams.

Combine the ingredients above with a carrier oil, such as grapeseed, hemp or olive oil.

Remember, as always, to infuse this oil blend with your intention while you're crafting it.

Charge the vision oil blend on a full moon with a prehnite stone.

I've also placed my oil on top of the High Priestess tarot card to charge as this card symbolises intuition and psychic abilities.

Dandelion

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A free-spirited flower that reminds us of abundance, joy, and manifestation.

Masculine

The Sun & Jupiter

Air

Wishes, manifestation, happiness, joy, resilience, courage, luck, astral awareness, divination, creativity, transformation

Dandelion flowers are connected to the sun, and the seeds are connected to the moon.

Blow dandelion seeds facing the full moon to use the lunar energy to amplify your wish.

Drink dandelion tea to enhance psychic powers and promote prophetic dreams.

The roots are linked to spirits and the underworld, drink a tea made from the roots to communicate with spirits or for divination.

Bouquets of dandelions brought into the home will dispel negativity.

Place a dandelion flower on your solar plexus and meditate. 

Burn dandelion flowers before divination.

Ring a white candle with dandelions to bring joy and happiness.

Since dandelions are associated with abundance, they are perfect for money bowl spells.

Make a solar amulet using two ash twigs shaped into an equal-armed cross. Place a dandelion in the centre and bound together with golden thread. Charge this in the sunlight.

Charge a spell bottle for happiness with dandelions and citrine crystals.

Use a dandelion tincture on your face and hair. Dandelions are rich in vitamins, moisturising and prevents acne.

Selenite

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A high vibration crystal that embodies divine lunar energy.

Correspondences:

The Moon

Water Element

Crown and Third Eye Chakras

Cancer

Purifying, cleansing, healing, protection, intuition, clears negative energy

Associated with lunar Goddess energy.

Connected to the angelic realm.

Keep a piece of selenite on you to cleanse your aura.

Use selenite during full moon rituals. 

Meditate holding a piece of selenite to bring clarity and peace of mind.

Use a selenite wand to clear your aura of unwanted energy.

Keep a piece of selenite with your tarot cards to cleanse and protect them.

Use selenite to cleanse and charge your crystals.

Selenite amplifies the effects of other crystals, making them perfect for crystal grids.

Hold a selenite crystal in your left hand and a black tourmaline crystal in your right hand.  The selenite will cleanse and purify your energy and the black tourmaline will dispel any negative energy. 

Lughnasadh Tea

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An herbal tea blend for the beginning of the harvest season.

Calendula - associated with the sun, helps restore personal energy

Mint - purifying and uplifting

Chamomile - attracts prosperity, also connected with the sun

Oat straw - has rejuvenating and purifying properties

Rose petals - healing and protective 

Mugwort - connected with divine energy

All of the ingredients are late summer flowering and could be harvested during Lughnasadh. 

Since they're all connected with Lughnasadh the energy they hold will be more potent during this time.

Combine the herbs in a mortar and pestle while empowering your tea blend with your intention.

Spellwork that holds more power during this time are ones focused on gratitude, self improvement, courage, prosperity and abundance. 

Charge this herbal tea blend in the Lughnasadh sun with carnelian, citrine, or a clear quartz crystal.

Lughnasadh

Lughnasadh / Lammas

1st of August

Herbs/Flowers/Trees: basil, bay, golden rod, mint, vervain, chamomile, calendula, mugwort, heather, poppy, sunflower, hops, comfrey, ash, rowan

Crystals: carnelian, citrine, gold, clear quartz, peridot, sardonyx, obsidian, aventurine

Foods: barley, wheat, corn, bilberries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, apples, squash, bread, pies, wine, beer

Colours: gold, yellow, beige, brown, orange, green

Lughnasadh is the first of the three harvest Sabbats. 

Lughnasadh is a Gaelic word for “festival of Lugh”. Lugh is the Celtic sun god, a master of arts and a skilled craftsman. He was also a warrior and was associated with oaths and nobility. 

Lughnasadh is also referred to as Lammas, meaning “loaf mass”. This is the Anglo-Saxon terminology. 

This Sabbat marks the beginning of the harvest season, so it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and request blessings from deities for a bountiful harvest.

Traditionally, the first cutting of the grain would be used a deity offering. Another tradition is to make a corn dolly. You could keep this corn dolly on your altar for prosperity, protection and blessings. 

Celebrate Lughnasadh with a feast. Typical foods for this day would be grains and any seasonal fruits and vegetables. Bread is commonly made on this day, make the kneading and baking process one with magickal intent. 

Create a gratitude ritual on this Sabbat. A simple one would be to write a list of things you are grateful for. You could even light a gold candle and place your list under the gold candle while meditating on gratitude.

Spells to do on Lughnasadh would be ones focusing on abundance, blessings, courage, gratitude, prosperity, and protection.

Rituals can be done on this day to invoke Lugh’s assistance with creativity and self improvement.

You could celebrate Lughnasadh by going apple or berry picking, harvesting from your own garden, or even going to the farmers market.

Create an equal-armed cross using rowan twigs and red string and place this above your front door for protection. 

The Magick of Mugwort and Moonstone

The Magician Tarot Card

Upright: manifestation, willpower, skill, energy, creation, action, confidence

Reversed: deceit, manipulation, dishonesty, illusion, weakness

Number: 1

Element: Air

Planet: Mercury

Zodiac: Virgo & Gemini

Keep the magician card on your altar as reminder that you can manifest your true desires through virtuous action.

Locate the magician card in your deck. The card above it is your hidden talents and abilities. The card below the magician represents what you need to do in order to unlock your hidden talents.

Magician spread to unlock your potential:

Take the magician card out of your deck, then shuffle the remaining cards. Draw 5 cards then place the magician with those 5 cards, shuffle them together. Lay the cards out in two rows of three cards. The row which contains the magician symbolises your talents and skills. The other row represents the steps you will need to take in order to reach your full potential.

Spell:

A simple tarot spell for when you’re in need of some creative inspiration.

Perform this spell on a Wednesday.

Face east, then ground and centre yourself. 

Set the magician card down in front of you.

Place rose petals above the card, rosemary on the bottom, and a sunstone in the centre. 

Etch the word "creativity" onto a candle, then anoint it with bergamot essential oil. Infuse the candle with your intention then light it. 

While the candle is burning, try to clear your mind from all thoughts to allow for creative inspiration to flow through.

Psychic Tea

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An herbal tea blend to strengthen your psychic abilities!

Mugwort - used for psychic development

Yarrow - expands psychic awareness

Peppermint - boosts psychic communication

Rose - enhances intuition

Cinnamon - aids clairvoyance

Grind the ingredients together in a mortar and pestle in a clockwise direction. This helps to activate and empower the herbs for your tea. I used equal amounts of each dried herb, but you can use whatever amount feels right for you. Keep a clear quartz or amethyst crystal in the same jar that you store this tea blend. Drink this tea to strengthen your overall psychic abilities, or before divination, or drink before bed to encourage prophetic dreams.

Manifestation Oil

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A manifestation oil blend to boost rituals or spellwork for manifesting all types of magick.

You will need:

- chamomile

- rose petals

- cinnamon

- star anise

- bay leaf

- patchouli essential oil

- grapeseed oil

- a glass bottle with a lid

I like to start by cleansing the area and the magickal ingredients by burning sage.

Chamomile is used in prosperity and abundance spells. Rose petals and star anise both enhance manifestation work. Cinnamon is used for prosperity and is associated with the fire element, which amplifies manifestation magick. Bay leaf is used in wishing spells, and sends your intention out to the universe. Finally, patchouli can be used to turn your desires into reality.

While making this oil it is important to focus on your intent and really put your energy into what you are creating.

Once all the ingredients have been added I shake the bottle 13 times, as the number 13 is connected to manifestation.

I charged this bottle using a 396 hertz tuning fork, and placed the bottle in a crystal grid of clear quartz and citrine.

You could also charge this oil under the full moon.