The Signs As Witches

The Signs as Witches

Aries: uses bodily ingredients such as hair or teeth or nails, wild and free and howling at the moon, fire tells them what they want to know, embraces all but does not tolerate betrayal, gifted in the use of poppets and curses, full of energy and static and power

Taurus: a collector of many things, uses crystals and herbs, proficient in kitchen magic, has an inner strength that knows no bounds and no true master, a home full of colored glass and jars filled with anything you could ever need, rooted and able, wears robes with many many pockets

Gemini: a card reader and game changer, spoken spells fill the very air with magic and potential, an avid learner and sharer of their craft, books and tomes and candles fill their space, knows the power of words and names, tattoos sigils and spells all over their body and they seem to move when you aren’t looking, vast and uncontainable

Cancer: rests under the moon and whispers magic in their sleep, uses astral projection to explore and learn and play with ghosts, elaborate and detailed dream diary, deep understanding of astrology, somehow already knows what you’re going to say, mysterious and soft but only on the surface, a knower of secrets, sleepy eyes, lives in a tree in a misty forest and makes friends with the plants and spirits there

Leo: strongest in the day and has eyes that light up the night, mighty voice and skilled hands, breath carries a spark, animalistic energy you can feel when they look at you, makes their own spells borrows their own power, incredible visualization makes their dreams realities, difficult to look at directly for reasons you don’t really understand, wild hair and adorned in gems

Virgo: techno witch, weaves magic into code and text, keeps a blog as their book of shadows and altar, urban magic, has a restless mind and busy hands, deletes negativity out of their life, has much information to share despite their hollow look, eyes are lit from the inside, their phone is full of pictures that keep moving and notes only they can read

Libra: covered in veils and breathes perfume to hide themselves and confuse you, summons creatures and demons to do their bidding so their hands remain clean, almost transparent at times like a ghost or vision, is stronger than they look and delights in you not knowing their power, their mouth is almost always moving but you can’t hear what they say, soft to the touch but their skin is cold, trinkets and charms and chains adorn them and their home

Scorpio: eyes and nails are dark and caked in black, frequents graveyards and learns from the ghosts and crows, solitary witch who makes friends with bones, will help you learn what you want to know for a price, is afraid to sleep, quiet and haunted, is reborn each new moon, is full of knowing and fog and promise, takes a lock of hair from all they help, you feel them in your core

Sagittarius: rides their broom with reckless abandon, plays with the children on Halloween and shows them magic is real, their home has legs and never stays still, keeps many familiars and most are birds, gifted in charms and potions and sells their work with a smile, you can hear them laughing with the moon at night, chapped lips and wide eyes, magic is erratic and spontaneous and they couldn’t control it if they wanted to

Capricorn: loose black and gray clothing that flows when they walk, keeps a pouch of salt around their neck at all times, face is often covered or hard to see, protection spells and sigils are their innate ability, the floor trembles when they are angry, always watching watching watching, lives in a stone cottage covered with moss and scrawlings and carvings, other witches are silent around them out of fear and awe

Aquarius: hermit, storm witch, plays with rain and dances with lightning and shouts thunder, keeps trinkets and mementos in small jars around their bed, asks favors and learns from the clouds, raw and swift and ready to act, soft as a summer rain and cold as hail, hair is full of leaves and wind, feet are dirty but their mind is clean and sharp

Pisces: smells of salt and dressed in rags and burlap and pearls, misty eyes that look through you and deep deep down in you, water witch with a soft face and an ocean for a heart, thing of the sea, empath who sometimes knows you better than you do, bottles own tears and keeps them for spells, witch of all trades master of none, head is full of crashing waves, overflowing with magic and wonder

Here’s to the Witches

Here’s to the Witches with messy altars.

To the sisters that have cats with ragged ears and missing legs.

Here’s to the brothers with the altars all dripping wax and smothered in incense ash.

To the siblings with athames of stone and Books of Shadow smudged with coffee and last week’s breakfast.

Here’s to spells written in a rush but with love and care behind them.

To spells that don’t rhyme or really make sense when spoken but call storms to the sky.

Here’s to the Witches who sit Sundays in the pews and sing out the praise of the Risen God.

To the Witches who stand sky clad under the moonlight and pray by fire to the old Gods of Before.

Here’s to the Witches who learn when they are children, how to read the cards and the signs of the stars.

To the Witches who don’t learn until silver touches their hair how to cast the runes and the bones to sense a fair wind.

Here’s to the Children of the Witches they could not Burn.

To the Witches who snuck into the night with their books and wands and herbs clutched close to their chests.

Here’s to the Witches who flaunted their Spirit Boards in their sitting rooms and their crystals in their kitchens.

Here’s to the Witches.

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We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

Andy Goldsworthy (via selenemooneffe)

To make rosewater you need the following: 

Fresh roses, petals, buds, hips, and leaves.

3 parts vodka, gin, or witch hazel extract.

1 part distilled water.

A glass jar with lid.

Mix all of the items together and let sit for at least one week. Use in spells, as offerings, as a facial toner, as perfume, as a hair cleaner, or whatever else strikes your fancy.

The Wiccan’s Glossary

Moth to the Flame

This ritual is intended as a love-drawing spell, however with very minor alterations it can be used to draw in nearly anything. This can easily be done by supplementing the items placed within the jar with those more befitting of your intent and swapping out the red candle for a hue more suited. Live animals are used in this ritual and it is important to handle [the moth] carefully or risk both endangering it and the “health” of your spell.

Ingredients

Red Candle

Jar & String

Thin Cloth – a coffee filter would also suffice, assuming it’s not one of those newfangled conical ones

Moth

Personal Affect – an item or the hair, fluids, etc. of he/she/they you wish to attract. If you wish to attract a more general person or concept, blend yourself an herb/spice mixture and dust the bottom of the jar with it.  You may – and are encouraged – to do this in addition to the personal affect so as to dictate through what focus you draw this person to you.

A pinch of sugar/a drop of honey

Optional:

Attraction Oil – highly recommended

Instructions

First and foremost, you must procure a moth. Don’t make things too complicated. Turn on some outside lighting and (with jar in hand, already prepped with your personal affect and/or herb mixture) wait patiently for your guest to arrive. If you’re having some difficulty, you may find this article useful. Once the moth has arrived, simply catch it in your jar and placing the cloth (or coffee filter, make sure to poke some holes!) over-top and fasten either with the ring or with a bit of string. Needless to stay, be careful not to injure the moth (specifically its delicate wings) when “jarring.” While it is a myth that to touch a moth’s wings will prevent it from flying, handling them is still not recommended. Take care to be gentle: you want to make sure that the moth not only remains alive, but can survive when freed.

{Possible Herb Recipe: Coral-colored Rose Petals – the perfect mix of red for romance/lust, yellow for friendship and pink for sweetness, Lavender, Cinnamon, Rosemary, Cardamom, Rosemary and a touch of Ginger} 

Once that’s out of the way, the rest is a cake-walk. Dress your candle in Attraction Oil and carve in it the name of he/she/they whom you wish to attract. In a dark room, place the jar (and moth) near the candle and light. If you so choose, you may read the following incantation or try your hand at freestyle rap, do an interpretive dance or whatever gets you in that “attracting spirit.” Allow the candle to burn away a bit – watching the moth incessantly fly itself into the walls of the jar, as moths have been known to do.

In the hallowed dark – I am a beacon, The dancing play of light – ‘pon silken curtain of night, And you – on dusty wings – come calling; I draw you in, I draw you in, Like the moth to the flame, I draw you in – By witch’s will, By witch’s song: Come.

After you feel as though you’ve waiting long enough (or can’t bear to watch that resilient moth fly head-first, kamikaze-style toward the flame) take the jar outside (turning off that pesky outside lighting) and letting it fly free once more. You have successfully jarred the moth’s interminable desire to reach the flame. Collect the contents of the jar into the cloth you used to “lid” the vessel and add to it, a drop of candlewax and a dab of honey // pinch of sugar. Using the same string (or a freshly cut piece if you opted for the jar-ring), bind the cloth into a small bag and place it near the still-burning candle. Once the candle has burned out, collect the bag and carry to draw unto you the object of your desire.

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