As my crystal collection grows so do the pages in my BOS
Valuable information on individual herbs down below! 🌿
Posted: May 7th, 2018.
Updated: June 12th, 2018.
Acacia: Masculine. Deities; Astarte, Diana, Ishtar, Osiris, and Ra. Element; Air. Planet; Sun. Powers; Psychic Protection and Powers.
Agrimony: Masculine. Element; Air. Planet; Jupiter. Powers; Protection, banishes negative energy and spirits. Once used to detect the presence of witches.
Alfalfa: Feminine. Element; Earth. Planet; Venus. Powers; Prosperity and Fortune.
Allspice: Masculine. Element; Fire. Planet; Mars. Powers; Fortune, Luck, and Healing.
Almond: Masculine. Deities; Attis, Hermes, Mercury, and Thoth. Element; Air. Planet; Mercury. Powers; Fortune, Prosperity, and Wisdom.
Aloe: Feminine. Element; Water. Planet; Moon. Powers; Protection and Luck.
Althea: Feminine. Element; Water. Powers; Protection and Psychic Powers.
Amaranth: Feminine. Deity; Artemis. Element; Fire. Planet; Saturn. Powers; Healing, Calling the Dead, and Protection.
Anemone: Masculine. Deities; Adonis, Venus. Element; Fire. Planet; Mars. Powers; Health, Healing, and Protection.
Angelica: Masculine. Element; Fire. Planet; Sun. Powers; Exorcism, Healing, Protection, Visions.
Anise: Masculine. Element; Air. Planet; Jupiter. Powers; Purification and Youth.
Apple: Feminine. Deities; Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, Diana, Dionysus, Iduna, Hera, Olwen, Zeus. Element; Water. Planet; Venus. Powers; Love, Healing, Immortality.
Avocado: Feminine. Element; Water. Planet; Venus. Powers; Love, Lust, Beauty.
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what is your philosophy on witchcraft?
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scrying
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ghost hunting
species of demons
witchy books you’ve read, and a review or rating of the book (go to archive.org for free pdfs for books)
There’s an awful lot of posts/websites that have lists of herbs by name which is great if you want the correspondences of lavender but not so great if you’re looking for herbs that correspond with health. So here:
ANIMAL MAGICK:
Catnip, Peppermint, Valerian
ASTRAL PROJECTION:
Cinnamon, Jasmine, Mugwort
BEAUTY:
Lavender, Rose, Catnip, Orange
CALMNESS:
Cypress, Vanilla
CONCENTRATION:
Rose, Rosemary, Thistle, Dill, Orchid
CONFIDENCE:
Cedar, Dill, Geranium, St. John’s Wort,
CLARITY:
Lavender, Cypress, Clover, Rosemary
CLEANSING:
Lemon, Clover, Sage, Lilac, Cedar
DREAMS:
Peppermint
EMOTIONAL HEALING:
Cypress
EMOTIONAL OPENNESS:
Orange, Orange Blossom
FERTILITY:
Sunflower, Olive, Poppy, Daffodil, Oak, Honey
FEMININE ENERGY:
Daisy, Maple, Poppy, Rose, Thyme, Blackberry
FIDELITY:
Nutmeg
FRIENDSHIP:
Lemon, Sweet pea, Passion Flower
GOOD MEMORY:
Rosemary, Clove
GROUNDING:
Coffee
HAPPINESS:
Lavender, Catnip, St John’s Wort, Peppermint, Oregano, Saffron, Honey
HARMONY:
Orange, Orange Blossom
HEALING:
Lemon, Cypress, Allspice, Saffron, Cinnamon, Cedar, Thyme, Violet, Spearmint, Peppermint, Sunflower
HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS:
Vanilla
HOPE:
Chamomile
JUSTICE:
Nutmeg, Violet
LONGEVITY:
Lemon, Cypress, Acorn, Sage
LOVE:
Lavender, Violet, Apple, Chamomile,Saffron, Cinnamon, Clove, Clover, Lemon, Juniper, Peppermint, Rose, Rosemary, Vanilla, Strawberry, Rue, Ginger, Mistletoe, Thyme, Maple, Spearmint, Willow, Orange, Orange Blossom, Sugar Cane
LOYALTY:
Thyme
LUCK:
Vanilla, Chamomile, Nutmeg, Allspice, Violet, Strawberry, Olive, Poppy, Rose, Oak, Orange, Peppermint, Straw, Strawberry
LUST:
Celery, Cinnamon, Mint, Lemongrass, Sugar Cane, Olive, Nettle, Parsley, Dill, Violet, Vanilla, Saffron
MASCULINE ENERGY:
Allspice, Almond, Basil, Garlic, Hazel, Holly, Olive, Mistletoe, Cedar
MOON:
Lemon
MONEY:
Nutmeg, Peppermint, Jasmine
PEACE:
Lavender, Violet, Olive, Chamomile, Coffee, Clover, Passion Flower, Orange, Orange Blossom
PEACE OF MIND:
Coffee
PROSPERITY:
Orange, Orange Blossom, Onion
PROTECTION:
Lavender, Coffee, Oak, Clover, Acorn, Violet, Peppermint, Acacia, Willow, Thistle, Peony, Cypress, Lilac, Mint, Juniper, Ivy, Olive, Raspberry, Sage, Rose, Rosemary, Foxglove, Cranberry
PSYCHIC POWERS:
Celery, Acacia,Saffron, Cinnamon, Yarrow, Peppermint, Bay, Thyme, Mace, Star Anise, Lemongrass, Nutmeg, Bay
PURIFICATION:
Rosemary, Lemon, Saffron, Chamomile, Anise, Thyme, Parsley, Cedar, Turmeric, Peppermint, Lavender, Marjoram, Orange, Orange Blossom, Honey
RELEASE:
Peppermint, Spearmint, Fern, Mugwort
RENEWAL:
Peppermint, Spearmint, Ivy
SLEEP:
Celery,Thyme, Peppermint, Valerian, Chamomile, Passion Flower, Lavender, Rosemary
SPIRIT CALLING:
Sweet grass, Wormwood
SPIRITUALITY:
Arabic Gum, Gardenia, Sandalwood, Cinnamon, Frankincense
STABILITY:
Orange, Orange Blossom, Onion
STRENGTH:
Oregano, Saffron, Thistle
SUCCESS:
Cinnamon,Ginger, Frankincense, Clover, High John, Strawberry
SUN:
Lemon, Cinnamon, Orange, Orange Blossom
TRANQUILLITY:
Chamomile, Cypress
WILL POWER:
Orchid
WISDOM:
Sunflower, Peach, Sage
WISHES:
Bay, Sunflower, Violet, Spearmint, Sandalwood
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This post is not even close to complete but I intend to continue expanding it as often as possible
Following the moon phases and adapting my magic to their power and correspondences has been crucial to my practice. If you’re interested in connecting to the lunar cycle, here are the links to my previous posts on each moon phase.
🌑 New Moon Magic
🌒 Waxing Crescent Moon Magic
🌓 First Quarter Moon Magic
🌔 Waxing Gibbous Moon Magic
🌕 Full Moon Magic
🌖 Waning Gibbous Moon Magic
🌗 Last Quarter Moon Magic
🌘 Waning Crescent Moon Magic
Grimoire ideas
About you:
How you got started in the craft
Your spiritual journey
Things you connect to (animals, elements, plants, ect)
Types of magic you do
Your natal chart
Your deities (if you have any)
Correspondences:
Remember, you don't need to write down correspondences you will never need! So instead, write about...
Crystals you have/want
Plants you can grow yourself/already have around you. Check your spice cabinet
And list things to use those for! So that would be herb bundles to burn, salves, recipes, and so on.
Other things you can use in magic that you already have
This would be things like sea shells, snail shells, grass, dirt, candles. Get creative!
Other witchcraft stuff:
Your sigils
Planets
The sun/moon +moon phases
Zodiac signs
The elements
Symbolism (animals, shapes, and whatever else you wish to add)
Spells:
What makes a spell that works!!! This should help with making your own spells
What NOT to do
Different types of spells
Spells you will actually use
Divination:
A section on tarot cards and their meanings
How to use a pendulum
Meanings of oracle cards
Rune meanings and how to cast them
Lesser known forms of divination!!!
Mental health:
Grounding and centering
Burn out care and being energy efficient
A list of what motivates you to do your craft
Small spells for self care
Astral work:
Your astral space (a map, a description, drawings of important locations)
Your astral body, if it's any different than your physical one
A list of spirits and important information about them
Protection, sheilding, banishing, and safety
Manners when interacting with spirits and what NOT to do
Methods of projection/travel that work for you
Post-astral grounding methods
General spirit work:
How to interact with spirits and how NOT to interact with spirits
Protection, banishing, shielding, and other safety things
How to give offerings (there's more than one way!)
Methods of communicating with spirits
Signs of spirits
Ways spirits can send signs and messages (animals, dreams, and so on)
A list of different kinds of spirits you work with/have encountered
A section for research, especially if you're doing deity work.
Grounding, if it helps you afterwards
A log of interaction with spirits. This can be like a divination journal but with spirits, if that's what you do.
Acorn-Luck, wisdom, youth, personal power
Allspice- Money, Lck, Treasure, Determination
Almond- Wisdom and fruitfulness. Helps one
overcome a dependency or addiction
Aloe-Protection, Luck. Place at a grave to bring peace.
Anise-helps ward off evil, find happiness, prevents
nightmares, good in bath spells.
Apple- Love, Immortality, Friendship, Healing. Apples
make good offerings, especially at Samhan
Apricot- Love and attracting love.
Asparagus- masculan sex magick
Bamboo- Hex breaking, wishes, luck.
Banana- fertility, potency, prosperity
Basil-Love, exorcism, wealth, sympathy, protection
Bayleaf-Good fortune, success, strength, purification
Beet- Love. Juice can substitute blood in rituals.
Birch-Protection, Exorcism, Putification
Blackberry-Healing and money. Berrys are sacred.
Blueberry-Protection from enemies. Can cause confusion if you throw one in the path of an enemy
Cabbage- Fertility, Profit, good luck, lunar magick
Cactus- Chastity, banishing, protection
Carnations-Strength, healing, enhancing power, achieving balance. Burn to enhance creativity
Carrot- Lust, fertility, abundance
Catnip-Love, beauty, happiness, attracts spirits. Sacred
to cat deities and animal magick.
Cedar- Confidence, strength, protection, healing. Berries are good for anti theft spells and warding off snakes
Celery- Mental power, lust, male potency
Chamomile- Love, healing, reduce stress. Drink tea in
meditation, to destress and to get a restful sleep.
.Cherry-love, divination, happiness
Chili pepper- fidelity, love, breaks hexes
Chives- protection and weight loss
Chrysanthemum- protection, grow in your
garden to ward off evil
Cilantro- brings peace to the home and helps
attune one with their soul
Cinnamon- Spirituality, success, healing, power, love,
luck, strength, and prosperity.
Clove-love, money, protection
Clover- fidelity, money, luck. Love, success
Coconut- Chastity, protection, purification
Coffee- Helps dispel nightmares and negativity, helps
overcome internal blockages, provides peace of mind and grounding.
Corn- Protection, divination, good luck
Cotton-rain, protection, luck, healing.
Cucumber-chastity, fertility, healing
Cumin- fidelity, protection, and theft prevention
Curry- protection. Burn curry powder to keep evil forces away.
Cypress- death and mourning, stimulates healing and helps one overcome the pain of grief
Daffodil- Love, Luck, and fertility
Daisy- innocence and innocent love. Associated with children and newborns
Dandelion- healing, purification, wishes, and spirit work
Elderberries- sleep, releasing enchantments, protection against negative people and the temptation to harm others. Note, every part of this plant is poisonous.
Elm- love, protection from lightning.
Fennel seed- imparts strength, vitality, and sexual virility and masculinity.
Feverfew- protects against sickness and accidents. Use for healing spells.
Frankincense- Successful ventures, cleansing, purification, productivity, concentration and meditation.
Garlic- healing, protection, repels vampires, purifies spaces and objects.
Ginger- Draws adventure and new experiences. Promptes sentuality, confidence, and success
Grape- fertility, money, mental strength
Grapefruit- cleansing and purification
Hibiscus-attracting love, lust, and dreams
Hollyhock- Increases the flow of money, aids in financial flourishing.
Honey- for attraction, solar magick, and sweetness.
Honeysuckle- Draws money, success, and quick abundance. Aides confidence and persuasiveness.
Ivy- Protection, healing, fertility, love.
Jasmine- ideas, Divination, charging, attracting a soulmate, can induce sleep and dreams.
Juniper- promotes healing and good health, attracts healing energies and protects against theft
Lavender- Peace, love, protection, healing, sleep, purification, and healing from depression
Lemon- cleansing, purification, removal of blockages, dealing with pain
Lemon Balm- Love, Success, Healing, spiritual growth and development. Use in healing spells for mental illness
Lemongrass- psychic cleansing and opening, use in lust potions
Lettuce- Divination, sleep, lunar magick, sex magick, love spells
Lilac- Wisdom, memory, luck, spiritual aid
Lily-renewal, rebirti, marriage, prosperity,the life cycle, death.
Lime-purification, protection, promotes tranquility, strengthens love.
Maple-Love, money, longevity, luck
Marjoram- Cleansing, Purification, dispelling negativity, strengthening love, infuse in bath spells to aid grief
May Flowers- attracts adventure and chaos into your life
Mint- energy, communication, and vitality. Use in healing spells and place on alter to attract good spirits.
Morning Glory-Binding, banishing. Note, this plant is poisonous.
Mugwort- Lust, fertility, helps ease backaches and cure disease.
Mustard Seed- Courage, faith, and endurance.
Narcissus- calms vibrations, promotes harmony and peace of mind.
Nutmeg- Money, prosperity, luck, curse breaking
Oak- wisdom, strength, to preserve youth, and increase attraction. strengthens unity, The most sacred tree.
Oatmeal- for worship, use in offerings.
Olive-Fidelity, peace, marriage, healing, potency and lust
Onion- Prosperity, stability, endurance, banishing bad habits.
Orange-love, luck, divination, happiness, self confidence, blessing
Orchid- Concentration, strengthen memory, focus and willpower
Oregano- Joy, strength, vitality and energy.
Palo Santo- if you’ve been cursed use this herb to break it.
Paprika-Add to spell to energise it. Throw into someone’s yard to cause them problems. Parsley- Calms and protects the home, draws prosperity and financial increase, restores a sense of well being.
Peach- Fertility, Love, Wisdom. Peach Pits ward off evil, increase love and fertility.
Peas- Money, love
Pecan-Employment, success, security, career success.
Pepper- courage, banishing negative vibrations. Carry to ward off jealousy.
Peppermint-healing, cleansing, purification. Burn to clear out sickness and keep under your pillow for prophetic dreams.
Pine-promotes clean breaks, new beginnings, prosperity and success.
Pineapple- Luck, Money, and chastity.
Pumpkin- Health, spirit work, and lunar magick
Raspberry- Healing, Protection, and love. Use to reduce pain during pregnancy and bathe in raspberry to keep a relationship alive.
Rice- rain, fertility, protection
Rose- love, divine love, self love, friendships, domestic relationships and domestic peace.
Rosemary- good health, love, good memory, prevents nightmares, wash in rosemary before healing rituals
Sage-purification, dealing with loss and grief, improves mental stability, burned for cleansing and purification
Sandalwood- Protection, healing, clears negative energy, making wishes
Salt-purification, grounding, protection magick and circle casting
Spearmint-healing, love, protection while sleeping. Burn for healing respiratory conditions.
Strawberry- Attracts success, good fortune, and favorable circumstances.
Sugar- love spells, to bring sweetness to a sintuation, sex magick
Tea-courage, strength, divination, use as a base for potions.
Thyme- Loyalty, love, affection, grief, courage, purification, use in baths to cleanse and ward off nightmares.
Tomado- use in love spells
Vanilla-Love, Lust, passion, restoring lost emotions and energy. Increases mental strength.
Vinegar- banishing, binding, averting evil
Walnut- access to divine energy
Willow- draws strength and love, healing, and overcoming sadness. The sacred wishing tree. Wear a sprig of willow when facing the death of a loved one.
Introduction:
Learning how to banish an entity is a very important skill to know in case you come across an entity that you want to send out of your space, and is a good way to protect yourself from spiritual entities that may come to try to do harm to you. There are many ways to go about banishing an entity, and in this post I will be going over a couple of them. I will also be giving tips that may be helpful. This is not an extensive guide by any means, but it’s definitely a stepping stone to understanding the processes that coincide with the banishment of entities.
Protecting yourself:
Protecting yourself is very important especially when you feel a presence that should not be in your space. Through the act of putting up shields you will help protect you’re so against them by putting up a wall of energy between the two of you, and by putting up wards anything that’s already on the inside out. This will give you time to come back to yourself, so that you can focus on what you should do next in order to deal with this entity. These shields, and wards do not have to be elaborate, and should be something you can call upon quickly when your safety is in question from spiritual forces. Practices like casting a circle, or the psychic bubble of light are very good for this, and will go through the process of keeping the entity at bay, while you can focus on what to do next. A simple way to put up a shield is to simply focus your energy around you, by visualizing it flowing off of your body much like mist, or light well thinking that you are protected, this will send your energy out from yourself forming a shield around your body through the power of your intention.
Learning more about the entity:
Learning more about the entity can teach you a lot about its reasons for wanting to hang around you in the first place, and will also help you decide if this entity is malevolent in any way towards you, or is just an entity that is naturally there, and not aggressive. Knowledge is power, and by you locking onto some of its key features such as its spiritual appearance, and it’s personality along with any other information you can gather from it, you will be able to interact with it more effectively. Knowing what you are dealing with before you deal with it can help the banishing process go more smoothly by allowing you to have the upper hand on it by knowing your enemy, or can help you realize that you don’t need your guard up around this entity, and can let it be, or ask it to leave.
Talking it out, and asking it to leave:
If the entity isn’t immediately aggressive you could always go through the process of talking to the entity to figure out why they are hanging around. They may just be passing through and not know that they are trespassing on your space, and you may be able to go through the simple process of asking them to leave. All you would really need to do in order to do this is to enter a meditative state, so that you would be able to hear, and recognize their communication with you, then you would just have to have a normal conversation with the entity. In this conversation you should figure out what their purpose for being in that space is, and see if you guys cannot come to a civil agreement. You may be able to ask it to leave, or it may just be allowed to hang around if it is not causing problems, but that’s all that really depends on the conversation that you guys have. If you cannot communicate with spiritual entities psychically you can always go through the process of using a divination process to divine their answers.
Demanding that it leaves:
If negotiations fail, and you have gone through the process of talking to it, or you feel that it will not listen to you, then it is time to demand it to leave. Through the power of your will, intention, and assertiveness you can force the entity out of your space by demanding out loud that at leaves. This intention will send your energy to force the entity out of your space. You can also go through the process of using there name in your demands in order to connect your will to it targeting it with your energy, if you do not have its name you can always go through the process of making one up for it. By first telling the entity that it’s name is this, and then using that name in your demands to tell it to leave. During this entire process you should be strong, and assertive, and should not waver under the entity in any regards in order not to give it power, and to put your intention through. If done correctly the entity should be forced from the space from your sheer energy, and willpower.
Forcing it out with energy:
You can also go through the process of using a more energetic method by visualizing your energy as fire, or light flowing to the entity blasting it with all that you have, by focusing on this vision in your mind’s eye, while projecting your energy forward will send it out in order to manifest your desire of sending the entity out of your space. This is a much better method if you feel that you are better with visualization, and energy work, and will allow you to enter a more trance-like state, while projecting your energy at the entity.
Forcing it out with items:
Certain items have banishing metaphysical properties that can be quite helpful in sending entities out of your space. These items can be natural such as herbs, and stones, or can be more man made things such as sigil, tailsman and amulets. By bringing these objects into the proximity of the entity with the intention of forcing them out you will begin to use them. This is a good way to go to the process of banishing the entity from your space with the incorporation of other objects. You could even go through the process of hard binding the entity to an object, then getting rid of the object with the entity bound to it. This will allow the entity to be bound to something, so that that something can be gotten rid of more easily.
Here is a list of some items that can help in the banishment of entities:
Holy water
War water
Holy books
Rosemary
Sage
Garlic
Dragon’s blood
Bloodstone
Black Salt
Salt
Smoky Quartz
Obsidian
Black pepper
Cloves
Jet
Sigil of banishment
Asking for help:
You can also go through the process of asking another practitioner for help in banishing the entity from your space, especially if you do not believe that you can handle it yourself. If you do not know any other practitioners you could always go through the process of asking a deity, or deities, or your spirit guides, or other higher power to banish the entity for you, or at least help you in the process of banishing the entity. This can help you out greatly, especially if you are not used to banishing entities, and want some extra help.
Other methods you could try for banishing entities:
Drawing the earth banishment pentagram in the air.
lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram
Gnostic pentagram ritual
Violet Flame
Sweeping to the east with a broom while having the intention that the entity leaves in your head.
Cleansing the area:
After the entity is all good in banished it is a good idea to go through the process of cleansing the area where they were at. This will relieve that space from their energies, and will get rid of any negative feelings, or residual energies that the entity had left there. This can be simply done through any cleansing method such as burning herbs, placing crystals in the space , clap cleansing, or any other cleansing method that you are aware of.
Intent is the most important component and is the starting point of any magical process. Part of manifesting your desires into reality is defining them clearly and empowering that thought.
Making your intent specific is very important because it will help you avoid unwanted outcomes. Here are some examples of intents:
Weak: Protect me.
Better: Protect me from negative energy.
Strong: Protect my mind, body, and spirit from negative energy while allowing good energy in.
If you are less specific, you may find that you block of good energy as well as bad energy! The universe can also twist your words in ways you do not expect so be sure that your intent is clear.
General and simple intents may work for some practitioners but I recommend beginners strive to be specific.
Everything from here on will be directly related to your intent.
Choosing materials sounds difficult but if you have a clear intent, it should not be too difficult. Having a book of shadows or notebook and taking notes on spell materials is very helpful to crafting spells. As a beginner, you may be overwhelmed by the wide variety of herbs, flowers, spices, and crystals. Try to focus on a few at a time and keep track of their associations.
Pick materials that align with your intent. For example, if we are using the previous example you would want the following materials:
One that brings protection
One that connects to the self or the mind/body/spirit
One that absorbs or deflects negative energy
One that welcomes positive energy
You do not necessarily need all of these materials, as when you are performing the spell you can compensate for this through your words or actions.
Finding the correct components will involve research so be prepared! Your choices should be based on a combination of outside sources and personal experience. As you cast and create more spells you will become more advanced at using and choosing materials.
The words you choose to speak, sign, or think, when casting a spell should reflect your intent. Your spell does not have to rhyme but the rhythm of a rhyming poem can 1. make it easier to remember and 2. help you connect more deeply to your spirit. You can also use repetition to strengthen the spell and solidify your intent.
If you are lacking in components, you should take great care in crafting your words. This is your chance to communicate to the universe what you want and need.
I recommend researching different types of poetry and literary techniques. In a way, your poem is an offering to the universe as a thanks for empowering the spell. There is value in choosing beautiful and meaningful words to aid your spell.
I find the actions people use when executing a spell vary depending on their religion and background. In the end, you have to go with your gut and choose actions that feel right to you. Some examples of actions you can take during a spell are as follows:
Kissing a component
Burning a material
Grinding or combining materials
Drawing shapes or sigils with your hands
Facing a specific direction
Sitting, standing, walking
Dancing or physical exercise
As you can see, actions are much more open ended which I why they are difficult to explain. However, I can say that the actions you take can aid in adding power and energy to your spell. For example, dancing releases your physical energy which can charge your spell.
Actions can also help you invoke specific spirits or deities. There is a reason many Christians make a cross motion when praying. The motions themselves are a symbol that invoke whatever power you are calling upon.
Much of spell-making is a personal process of research and discovery. But, hopefully this post gives you an idea of where to start! I invite people to add on to this post with other ideas and suggestions as well as critiques!
(image from pixabay)
What’s your favourite kind of tea? 🍃 I hope everyone is well amidst the chaos 🌈
I literally just reblog stuff for my Book of Shadows, feel free to use these too. Blessed be.
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