My Favorite Wind Spell

Oh Billy, you look so small right there…

Steam Cleansing ♨

Since incense makes me sneeze, I’ve been resorting to a different method of cleansing lately - steam cleansing! It’s exactly what it sounds like, using steam to cleanse your space. 

Ingredients:

A pot, to be used for boiling water

Essential oils of your choice (about 50 drops total)

Water

Instructions:

Add about 2 cups of water to your pot depending upon how large it is

Otherwise, just fill the pot about halfway with water

Add 50 drops of whichever essential oils you choose 

Turn on your stove, and let the water boil 

You should start to smell the essential oils throughout your house in very little time

When the water has almost completely evaporated, turn your stove off

Let the pot cool down and proceed to wash it as you would usually do with your dishes

The scent tends to linger all day, if not longer

Repeat as necessary :)

Essential oils for cleansing:

Anise

Camphor

Cedarwood

Citrus oils (bergamot, grapefruit, lemon, lemongrass, lime, orange, tangerine)

Dragon’s Blood

Hyssop

Lavender

Oregano

Peppermint

Pine

Rosemary

Sage

Sandalwood

Spearmint

Thyme

Some essential oils may cause respiratory irritation in both humans and animals, and many essential oils should not be used if pregnant or if you have other various medical problems. Please consult your physician if you have any questions about the use of essential oils.

Aromatherapy, Memory, & Magick

🎄🔥Nordic Holidays🔥🎄

Let me start off by clarifying that these are the Norse holidays I personally celebrate. I have it split up into major holidays(holidays I try not to miss aka major holidays) and minor holidays(Smaller celebrations, I might not even celebrate these, etc.). This information will vary from person to person, you can celebrate whichever holidays however you want! Enjoy ~ 

✨Major✨

Jól

Jól otherwise known as Yule/Yuletide is a Nordic holiday celebrated between sundown on the Winter’s Solstice for a following twelve days(now you know where the Christians got it). It is also during Jól that the Wild Hunt takes place, Óðinn rides out with his dead, elves, or the dwarves may ride out across Midgard. Seeing the Hunt was thought to bring famine, plagues, and war but offerings of food and gifts could be left out for blessings and prosperity.  Jól was said to mark the return of Baldr from Helheim and the loosening of grip of winter of the Earth.

There numerous references to Jól in the sagas including Skáldskaparmál, Heimskringla, and poetry written by the skald Eyvindr Skáldaspilli which when translated reads:

“again we have produced Yule-being’s feast [mead of poetry], our rulers’ eulogy, like a bridge of masonry”. Most of these references testify to Jól being celebrated with blóts, feasting with family, drinking, gift giving, and dancing.

To be more specific, you can celebrate the twelve days of Jól by being hands on in your devotion! This was traditionally a time of year that was largely devoted to baking, finishing the mead making process, and hand making decorations and offerings to the heathen home and gods!! There was typically at least one julbord(feast) and an animal sacrafice. 

For example, straw animals in the shape of goats(Þórr), stars, boars(Freyr), horses, and ravens(Óðinn) were made and hung up around the house or a Jól tree! Yessss, that was something that German immigrants brought over to the U.S. The Jól tree was traditionally a tree outside that was decorated and offerings were left at in honor of Yggdrasil! You can also make wreaths, garlands, and woven rugs or wall hangings! 

The first night of Jól is typically called the Mothernight, this was in honor of the All Mother Frigg and the Disir. The first night(the longest night) is supposed to be symbolic to the rebirth of the world from winter. This is the perfect night to start on some weaving or crafts! Frigg is known for her weaving.

Disablót

Disablót was a sacrificial holiday(blót) in honor of the female deities, women, disir and valkyries. It’s purpose was to enhance the upcoming harvest and prepare the grounds for sowing. 

 It is mentioned in Hervarar saga, Víga-Glúms saga, Egils saga and the Heimskringla. This  celebration still lives on in the form of an annual fair called the Disting in Uppsala, Sweden(I really want to go to this). There’s a lot of debate to when the holiday was originally celebrated because the sagas all are slightly different. However, it is currently celebrated at the end of February by Sweden!

It was around this holiday that the first furrows were plowed in the fields and that there was a feast of new beginnings.

Nordic folk customs would include getting ready for the gardening season, preparing for the gardening/farming season ahead, and making a feast for your loved ones and female deities you work with.

Sigrblót

Sigrblót also known as Summer Finding or Ostara is the celebration of the spring equinox and welcoming good weather. It is a celebration of the rejuvenation of the earth, fertility, and growth.

This is a holiday often used to celebrate the Germanic god Ēostre, the embodiment of springtime and life, Iðunn, god of youth and renewal, and Frigg/Freyja, for their key elements in fertility magic. Is more commonly seen in modern days as a celebration of the renewal/awakening of the Earth(Jörð), the deities, and life. It is also a celebration to welcome joy and light into one’s life.

Nordic folk custom would include a large bonfire, smorgasbord(as always), baking sweets, and honoring the gods mentioned above or ones important to you this holiday.

Midsummer

Midsummer is probably the second biggest celebration next to Jól. It is pretty much just the celebration of the summer solstice and can also be celebrated in hopes of a good harvest at the end of fall. 

This holiday is attested to in the Ynglinga sagas and has long been a passed down celebration. Folk custom for celebrating would be large bonfires, speeches, smorgasbord, dancing around a majstång(traditionally for fertility), lots of drinking, and galdr. This is another holiday with a lot of hands on folk tradition; wreath making, kindling fires, making toy viking ships of wood and filling them with offerings to be burned, burning corn figures, adorning homes, halls, and the fields with fresh flowers and greenery.

A lot of of historians believe this is a particularly good time of year to make blessings to Baldr. This was also the time of year for sailing and war. With crops planted at home, vikings would set off to go to other lands. 

Freyrfeast

My favorite holiday!! There is no actual surviving name for this beast but it’s believed to be held around the star of August and most modern Norse pagans celebrate it on August 1st. The  Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta has an account of a priestess of Freyr traveling across Sweden at the start of winter with a picture of his god as a sacrifice for fertility and to honor him. Traditionally it’s a celebration of the first harvest where the primary god honored is Freyr with Sif and Þórr also celebrated as gods of harvest.

Traditionally the very first sheaf of grain harvested(I use my first bundle of lavender) is bound and blessed as an offering to the aforementioned deities and spirits of the field.

Folk customs include decorating the village well and springs, holding a grand feast of the gathered harvest, and baking a bread in honor of Freyr to give him at the end of and then plit among family. Preserving meats and vegetables was also done along this time of year and is a great time to start new batches of mead for upcoming  blóts.

Haustblót 

This is the celebration of the Autumn Equinox, the second harvest of the season, and when Norse folk would start preparing for winter by bringing livestock + stored food inside. It is referenced to in the Ynglinga sagas as well as the Eddas. It’s not as celebrated in modern times but farmers and agriculturalists still celebrate it and you can too!!

It is another joyous holiday celebrated with grand bonfires, large feasts, drinking, and dancing. It is believed that villagers would cast the bones of their slaughtered cattle on the flames to help them survive the winter.

There is a belief that once the village fire and all other fires were extinguished the families would go back their homes and light their hearth from the common village flame, bonding the community! I don’t know if this true but I’ve heard the story a few times and I honestly love the idea of it.

Vetrnætr/Álfablót

Otherwise known as Winters Night(or Samhain). This is the celebration of the last harvest, honoring of the landvættir, ancestors that protected the land through harvest, the vanir, paying respects to Death, and the welcoming of winter. Vetrnætr and Álfablót are celebrations of the same holiday but Álfablót is a blót that’s held privately in the home on the day of Vetrnætr.  

Similar to Freyrfeast, for Vetrnætr the last sheaf of wheat/grain was bundled up and blessed and often given as an offering to Óðinn and his dead setting out for the Wild Hunt. It was believed with the start of the Wild Hunt the dead could return to the places where they had lived and a large feast, celebration, and fire were commonly used in their honor. 

This was also a time for serious contemplation of death. To the Norse people, death was always around the corner and was viewed as a natural part of life. Death wasn’t viewed as negatively as it is in modern times but rather the Norse lived their lives in a way to live & die with honor, so their future ancestors would have something to celebrate on this day.

Álfablót in particular was typically run by a woman but we’re past gender norms now so whoever is comfortable running a ritual do it. It is a sacrifice to Freyr and the elves of Alfheim, in honor of the families ancestors, the life force of the family and the hearth, and is believed to also be a ritual for fertility. It is done the night of Vetrnætr.  

Minor

These are not necessarily minor, they are just not holidays that I always keep up on, don’t celebrate, days of remembrance, etc. There are definitely more Scandinavian holidays I’m not including because I’m not knowledgeable on them all and they’re not as widely celebrated(like celebrating Flag Day in America).

January 19 - Þorrablót is an Icelandic midwinter feast in honor of winter and Þorr which contains song, story telling, and traditional Icelandic foods like blóðmör and Brennivin. It is typically celebrated during Þorri February 2 - Barri is the celebration of the union between Freyr and Gerd and a celebration of fertility and the earth. February 9 - Remembrance for Eyvind Kinnrifi, he refused to convert to Christianity so Olaf Tryggvason tortured him to death. March 28 - Ragnar Lodbrok Day! Cheers to one the most legendary Vikings in history, King of Denmark and Sweden, and raider of Paris. April 31st-May 1st - Waluburgis Night, a celebration of the saint Valborg a nun who was the niece of Saint Boniface.  May 9 - Remembrance for Gudrod of Gudbrandsdal, whose tongue was cut out by the Norwegian king ‘St. Olaf’ for speaking out against the tyranny of the Christian Tryggvason, and urged others to resist him and continue worshiping the old gods.  May 20 - Frigg Blót! This actually a fave but it’s not really major so I’m keeping it down here. It’s a celebration of warmth and spring. Traditionally the time of year to go camping, hold a bonfire, and perform a blót for Frigg and honor her as the All Mother, pray for good blessings and health to those of your hearth. June 8 - Lindisfarne Day: It’s believe that on this day in 793 CE three Viking ships raided the Isle of Lindisfarne which is marked as the start of the Viking age. July 9 - From the Laxdaela Saga, it is a day of Remembrance for Unn the Deep Minded, she was well-known and respected cheiftan in Iceland. October 8 - Day of Remembrance for Erik the Red, founder of Greenland. October 14 - Vetrablót is a celebration of the harvest and honors Freyja as the god of fertility and honors the disir as well. November 11 - Feast of the Einherjar, a holiday where the fallen heroes of all the halls(Valhalla, Fensalir, etc.) are remembered. November 27 - Feast of the winter and hunt gods  Ullr and Skadi, also a day to celebrate Weyland one of the greatest Germanic craftsmen.

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Actual Things I have studied over the years that would make me an excellent addition to your mystery-solving gang

Related to my Skill Monkey Character Trope post

Learning how to throw my voice (Ventriloquist style)

Overtone Singing

How to properly feed and care for Crows and Corvids so you can build your own guild of feathered trinket-loving thieves

Actual Witchcraft (I’m literally a follower of Apollo. Like, actual Apollo)

Lock-picking (accidentally, it’s a long story)

Playing the Didgeridoo and Ukulele

Color Theory and Lighting

The culture and biology of fictional creatures

Vampire lore

How to do the entire Thriller Dance (They made us learn it in Elementary School for some reason. We didn’t even perform it or anything, it was just a semester in gym class for no reason)

Pendulum, Tarot, Osteomancy (Bone Divination), and Bibliomancy Divination

Every Renaissance Fair skill known to man, from metalsmithing to jousting

Magical and Alchemic symbols

The Fair Folk and all the arbitrary rules for interacting with them

Geology and the science of Gemstones for some reason

Tidbits about shows and movies I’ve literally never watched

Medieval Armor from around the world

Herbalism and Home Remedies

The cultural and spiritual Symbolism for almost anything

Wayyy to much lore from my favorite series

Basic etymology, like the meaning of names and such

Strange Historical facts, like Yasuke, the first Black Samurai

And too many other things

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I cannot find much on augury witchcraft or readings! Would you happen to have info or resources on it? I’m super drawn to the idea of using birds in my divinatory practices 🕊️

Have? No. Find? It's what I do!

Augury Bird Divination: History & How to Read Bird Flight Patterns

The Ancient Art of Augury

What are the Symbolic Meanings of Birds for Divination?

Augury Divination

"My Take On Modern Augury"

Orthinomancy: Divinatiom from the Flight and Cries of Birds

Also I found this book and this book. I have not read them. I have not researched them. But hopefully it's what you're looking for!

I know you didn't ask for this bit, but in light of my recent post I have to say this seems like the perfect thing to try working with from scratch or experimenting with! If you wanna use the flight of birds in your divinatory practice, just do it! You don't have to have a step by step guide. You can just start.

I hope this helps!

Most Effective Ways to Attract Abundance

While it’s important to remember that money and material items aren’t going to solve all of our problems, being financially stable and comfortable can help you focus more on your spirituality by allowing you the freedom to practice more often. Manifestation is probably my strongest area of expertise when it comes to energy work. I opened my business in October of 2020 and was making around $100 a month until January of 2021 when I really started focusing heavily on the power of positive thought, and I made $10,000 in revenue that month simply by writing down that I would do so.

The following are some of my favorite and most successful methods of using and manipulating the universe’s energy for my own benefit:

🔮 Be sure of your resources! Manifestation is real and it is powerful! The universe can do some pretty amazing things. However, before you begin your practice, it’s important to be sure that you have a source through which prosperity can be achieved. You are asking the universe for money, but how is it going to fulfill your entreaty? Do you own a business? Do you make and sell artwork? Do you have a job where raises or tips are a possibility? Have you entered a giveaway or started a fundraiser? While it’s possible to receive money out of nowhere, it is far less likely than if there is an accessible source through which you are able to receive.

🔮 Writing Sentences! This has by far been my most rewarding action, and it’s also something so simple that many people fail to acknowledge it’s power. Grab a journal, green if you can find one, along with a (preferably) green pen. Cleanse and consecrate these tools, then sit with them for a while and set your intention for their use. Once or twice a day, write a full page, front and back, of what it is you’d like to attract. The trick is to write as if these things are already yours. Some examples could be:

I am blessed with an abundance of wealth.

I am grateful for my financial stability.

I always have the money I need.

I am constantly advancing in my career.

🔮 Daily Affirmations! Make it a point to start and end each day looking in the mirror and telling yourself how successful and wonderful you are. Self-love is a great way to increase the power of our spell work. If we are constantly assuring ourselves of how magical and powerful we really are, our abilities never cease to grow. Here are some helpful affirmations for abundance and financial growth:

I am wealthy.

I am a powerful manifestor.

I attract money with ease.

I am a naturally gifted witch.

🔮 Stop limiting yourself with your own beliefs! This one is definitely the most important, and maybe the most difficult, of all. The number one key to a successful path whether it be manifestation, spell work, meditation, or ANYTHING related is to BELIEVE that all that you are saying is true, and all that you are doing is going to be successful. If you don’t have total faith in the universe and yourself, you will never achieve your desires. Take time to meditate and let go of any and all self-doubt. Look to your peers for inspiration. Accept it as a self-evident truth that energy is all around us, and the universe is inviting you to use that energy to create the reality you most desire.

Whatever method you choose, remember to keep a positive mindset. Through the power of positive thought, nearly everything is attainable. Remember to love yourself, be grateful for what you DO have, and keep the faith.

Manifesting more environmental activists while actively promoting it sounds like it’d work. And there’s so many spell ideas possible that double as something that incorporates reducing, reusing, repairing and other stuff like that!

It would make a cool new path people can follow too!

There’s just so many possibilities that I wanna talk about!

(feel free to stop reading here because this is just me dumping more unrealistic ideas because i can)

Stopping the big oil corporations is definitely a must, ofc we can’t just stop them in their tracks like that. But I do believe that a large amount of people can cast spells to present issues. Like stopping as much of their sales as possible. Which isn’t really enough to stop but it’s still something that can cause problems and stress. Or cast spells to get more attention in real life or on the internet and start sharing about the environmental impact they cause. Add some persuasion to it too! Then we can get people to rethink and possibly refuse to buy/use their stuff. I really don’t know much about how big oil corporations work, other than the fact that they extract oil and sell it. I’m not sure if their target audience is big companies or individuals or a mix of both so feel free to correct me. But yeah, cause some issues, make them lose money.

now for spells. I know a lot of witches already reuse jars but I don’t see any other container? Glass isn’t the only thing you can use after all (As long as you don’t put it in the ground, i’m talking about plastic) The plastic container for gum could be used for a spell instead of being thrown away, old clothes can be cut up and used to make sachets (I’ve only seen a few people doing this?) if you don’t donate it, I know lots of witches do this but repairing things with intention as a spell is amazing, manifest a meatless meal once a week if you can.

And a lot of witches buy crystals without knowing if they come from an ethical source or not. Or if they’re mining too much crystals from one area. I feel like we need to do something about that. We also need to start telling people that they don’t have to have crystals. In my experience, an enchanted rock with a sigil or rune drawn on it works.

I’m sure someone has done this before. Planting something with the intention that something will grow as the plant grows. Now imagine something like team trees but with for each tree, there’s an intent set that helps the climate change issues.

It’d be very nice if we could make Antarctica just a little colder too.

also I really wanna hex a big oil corporations.

Ok so weather magick is possible, so can we get a bunch of witches together, or have as many witches as possible preform some spells together to slow down global warming?

Not cast spells with the intention of “ending climate change” I mean like, spells for colder weather, cursing the top 1% every time they make a decision that hurts the environment, just being environmentally friendly, manifesting more environmental activists and people actively trying to reduce their carbon footprint, stuff like that.

It’s just a thought but if we can get enough people, it’d be possible right?

Farewell online privacy

Yoga

New Witch Resources

I’m gonna say it again, I made a google doc full of online resources for new witches! 

See see see it’s absolutely packed with good stuff! We’re talking PDFs, small businesses to get books from, and tons of links. Please go check it out! And remember my DMs are always open if you have any or many questions 💕