Witchcraft: Crystal Shapes

Witchcraft: Crystal Shapes

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Learning witchcraft order (You absolutely do not have to follow this order. This is just how I PERSONALLY think you can start practicing witchcraft.)

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1. Energy work (grounding, centering, sending energy, energy manipulation, energy sensing, visualization, shielding, focus, psychic senses)

2. The big 3. Cleansing, banishing, protection

3. Magickal theories (how magick works) and closed practices

4. How to use magickal tools and how to consecrate them (not everyone consecrate their tools though.)

5. How to set up an altar and the difference between a shrine and an altar (also how to charge/bless an altar/shrine)

6. Correspondences (herbs, crystals, actions in ritual)

7. Basics of spellcasting (how to undo spells, how to cast a circle, how to dispose a spell)

8. Start casting protection/warding spell

9: Enchanting and sigils/amulet/talisman

8. Divination (popular ones are tarot, pendulum, and astrology)

9. (For animists) How to work with plant spirits (plant spirits are beginner friendly)

10. How to work with local spirits (they are also beginner friendly)

11. Now you can go on your own path. Learn what interests you.

Elemental Correspondences

~*~WATER~*~

Direction: West. Time of the Day: Sunset. Season: Autumn. Colors: blue, purple. Sense: Taste. Cycle of Life: Maturity. Instruments: anything that is resonant. Plants: underwater plants, algae, lily, plants living near water. Animals: water animals (frogs, water insects, fish, swan, crab etc.). Places: lakes/ponds, sea/ocean, beaches, swimming pools, bathroom, cold climate, tides.

Gender: Feminine. Tarot: Cups/Chalices/Goblets. Zodiac: Pisces, Scorpio, Cancer. Planets: Moon, Neptune, Pluto. Energy: Receptive. Emotional. Changeable. Crystals: blue crystals. Mythical Beings: Mermaids/Sirens, Water Fae, Nymphs/Nereids, Rusalka, Selkie, Kraken, Nessie, Leviathan, Titans, Undines.

Ritual Tools: fish bone, shark teeth, teapot, teacup, mirror, crystal ball, sea shell, sand, spray bottle, seaweed, comb, bowl, pearls, fishing nest. Ritual Forms: brewing, making tea, cooking with water (boiling), cleaning (windows, floors, dishes), taking a bath, cold herbal infusions. Ritual Types: divination, enchanting, cleansing, dowsing, astral travel, lucid dreaming, healing, lunar magic, scrying.

MAGICK NOTES:

Introducing water magic to everyday life is the easiest of all the elements!

While making tea, imagine putting good energy/intention into it and then drink it to have a good day! Afterwards (if you have time and skills) you can feel free to do divination, using leftover tea leaves.

While taking a bath/shower in the evening, imagine the water pouring onto you to be white/light in color and the water dripping off of you to be black/greyish color. I use it to cleanse myself of all the negative energy.

Looking into mirror as a divination is a very disturbing experience for me! Like, it’s effective, it can get weird though.

Water in a spray bottle can be used for space cleansing if you don’t wanna use incense all the time. Also it’s good for the indoor plants if you have any! 

Washing dishes is another ritual of mine and it’s a good way to meditate. I just get lost in thought. 

If you want to practice water magic, follow moon phases and use them to your advantage! 

Water magic is not necessarily only gathering water and using it, but also perfoming spells or doing anything spiritual during specific weather conditions (ex.: raining, storm, snowing, hail stones).

TYPES OF WATER USED IN SPELLS:

Moon Water - great for all kinds of spells and craft! Moon water can have different abilities, all depending on during which moon phase we charged it in. The best water is the one charged during full moon or super moon as it is the most powerful. 

Sun Water - keywords: positivity, strenght, happiness, courage, good health. 

Rain Water - good for cleansing, meditation and relaxation. Keywords: growth, regeneration, cleansing, rest.

River Water - good for warding or spells with a clear goal as river water has a focused energy. Keywords: movement, action, flow.

Lake/Pond Water - I find it good for connecting with nature or animals. Could be used in animal magic. Keywords: wildness, nature, hidden, isolation.

Swamp/Mud Water - good for curses, hexes, binding, wishing someone bad health. Keywords: disease, dirty work, sticky, messy.

Sea Water - good for protection, banishing and any form of spell that needs powerful but calm energy. Keywords: vastness, life, fear.

Dew Water - keywords: vulnerability, peace, refreshing, delicate, calm, waiting. Good for Fae communication or any creature that is elusive.

Storm Water - good for spells that needs a lot of power. Be warned though, it’s very different from the sea water; it’s uncontrolled, chaotic and doesn’t last long. There’s a lot of anger and destructive energy.

Ice/Snow Water - keywords: endings, change, patience, harmony, growth.

Cemetery Water - good for necromancy, of course. You can put some in a spray bottle and spray it in a room in which you want to communicate with the dead. 

Well Water - keywords: wishing, domesticity, home, family, community. Could be good for communicating with spirits/creatures living near or in your house. 

Fog/Mist - keywords: invisibility, mystery, hidden, blindness. Spells including ‘clouding someone’s judgement’, those in which you want to stay anonymous as much as you can or those who will slowly start working over time.

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A Beltane blessing.

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Happy Beltane!

Starting today we celebrate the union between the Lord and Lady.

We welcome fertility of al types and watch our endeavors give birth.

Step into your power, its time.

A Druidic Meal Blessing

Roots of Gratitude Blessing

So that we may bless and consecrate this sustenance to our life force,

We give thanks to those who have prepared this meal for us.

We give thanks to those who have brought these provisions to our table.

We give thanks to the laborers who have worked hard, from fields to markets, and places between.

We give thanks to the plants and to the animals who have died so that we may live.

We give thanks to the Earth-Mother, the source of all nourishment.

We give thanks to Grannos, to Sirona, to Taranis, to Llyr and to Danu, whose waters flow with the essence that sustains life within, on, and above the Earth-Mother.

We give thanks to Belenos whose light and warmth allow life and water to exist upon the Earth-Mother.

We give thanks to Be'al, the source of our Awareness of these blessings.

And we give thanks to Braciaca and to present company for sharing this feast in joyful fellowship.

May the Lord of the Groves unite us in the roots of our gratitude.

So be it.

—Oakdale Grove’s Druid Training Program …and yes you may use this!