*it Starts Raining*

*it starts raining*

me: yes

*lighting appears*

me: yES

*thunders explode*

me: YES

*raining intensifies*

me: YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS

To get rid of ants in spring

So this is an old kind of home-ec witch tip that I got from my Grandmother. When you first start to see warm weather in spring and you start getting ants in the house, here’s how to get rid of them:

First off: clean your kitchen “from Sunday to Sunday”. Basically, clean it every day for a week. The most important is to do a deep cleaning at the beginning and end of the week. Get under everything you can, wipe out and rinse the drains, take out the trash, wipe down all the surfaces, sweep & mop, etc. The rest of the week, you can go easier, but I still make sure to wipe down the counters and give the floors a quick going over.

Open all your windows and doors and clean them out with mint. You can use mint soap, mint extract, brewed mint tea, actually scrub it with fresh mint leaves, whatever you’ve got. I usually use mint Dr. Bronner’s watered down, but I’ll also keep some mint tea in a spray bottle to freshen it up. Once that’s done, but a line of cinnamon under the windows and doors and close them up. After this, on the windows you can just wipe off the sills with mint. The doors you should wipe down the doorway with mint every day for the week. If you can, also spray the outside of the windows and doors with mint, even if it’s just with a squirtgun (you don’t have to do the outsides every day, just a couple times).

At the end of the week, wipe up all the old cinnamon with mint, put down a fresh line, and you’re good! You might see a couple of straggler ants that are trapped inside, but that should be the end of them.

my aesthetic is fully opening the window while it’s raining until I’m freezing cold because I want to listen to the sound of the rain

The bay leaf has been held as a sacred tool for cleansing one’s space and alleviating stress, anxiety, and unpleasant energy. 🍃 Bay leaves were routinely burned in temples and sacred spaces to assist in acts of prayer and meditation, as well as wish-making. For this reason it is still a common practice to write one’s wish on a bay leaf, meditate upon it, then burn it. When this is finished, throw the ashes into the wind, which will carry your wishes off to be materialized. 🌞🍃

Blessed Imbolc

May this new year bring back our prosperity

May this return to the sun and the return of new life

Bless us with new changes and regrowth

Of the seasons in our lives that we are in

Let us cast away the old, the dead

And that which should have died long ago

Let us open our arms and hearts to the sun

Let us fill with light and fortune

Awaken from your slumber and be reborn

May this new year bring our souls peace

May this new year bring light from our dark

Blessed Imbolc

The “I Can Do This!” Motivation bottle.

I made this little bottle for my wife at work, but I’ve decided to post it because I know finals are coming up and I think this could be helpful for those of you who are juggling your finals with the rest of your life! 

All of these things came from my kitchen spice cabinets, so nothing too crazy or difficult to find here!

I made this as something that embodied what is needed to get through the tough days. It isn’t a good luck charm, just something to bring out the best thing already in you.

Each layer is for a different piece of what makes up a good, productive day in my opinion, so here we go!

Sea salt - for protection

Cinnamon - for success & wisdom

Sage - for peace

Caraway seeds - for mental power

Basil - for confidence

Rosemary - for mental clarity

Red Pepper flakes - for energy

I find that saying my intent out loud really helps me to know that it is there, the more I say something out loud, the more I feel like it is true and real, so I focus on saying my intent for each layer out loud, over and over until I really do feel it there. I also find that saying these things out loud, and being sure of them, helps you to realize that there really IS power in your words. You have power to speak these words and really bring life to them because you are stating, whole-heartedly that this rosemary is going to bring mental clarity to your day. Don’t be afraid to spend as much time as you need to on each layer to feel like your intent is there. This helps me, personally. 

Once you’re filled up, put the cork back in, tightly. I would recommend packing these layers in tightly also, so if you care them around in your pocket, they don’t all mix together if you don’t want them to.

After, I sealed my bottle with wax (mine was vanilla scented because it is my wife’s favorite scent and it’s something that really makes her happy) - (also I will make a little post about how I seal up little bottles with wax later on!) and sat with it for quite a while, really focusing the intent into the whole bottle, and what you want for it as a whole. Like before, I sat repeating out loud until I really felt it and believed it with the knowing that my words have power!

I hope this was helpful!