Common New Witch Mistakes

"80s songs on the radio,

Dancing like nobody's home"

Witch tips! For any witch-baby, closeted, and budgeted witches as well!

Hobby Stores nearest you(Michael's, Joanne's, hobbytown, hobby lobby)

The bead section! THERE ARE CHEAP CRYSTALS HERE. Just read the tag to know what's what. Convenient, cute, and easily written off as jewelry for our closet witches.

The JARRRRRSSSS SECTIONNNN and also the jewelry second for all sorts of cute tiny jars!

Clay! You can literally make anything from both ovenbake and air-dry clay-runes, athame, jars, wand, plates for offerings make a flat disk and stick a sigil on it, etc etc etc. Possiblities are endless

1$ thingies of cloth-these are little packages of different sorts of 1 sq ft cloth of any kind and pattern. Poppets, tarot & rune bags, etc can be made!

Loads of little decorations and things in the jewelry section for offerings, witchy jewelry, representations of deities, etc!

LOVELY JOURNALS FOR GRIMIORESSS and pretty pens for the same :D

Stickers etc in the scrapbooking section for correspondences/if you want illustrations/deity pages/honestly you can do so much

Woodworking section! Boxes for everything for deity alters, Fae houses, and organization which we all know we won't actually do. Also woodburning sets of you're feeling artsy! Also the wooden dowels make great wooden wands! Easy to carve if wanted, and decorate. Many different sizes and lengths to choose from.

Sewing section for ribbons, embroidery floss, etc for correspondences!

Candles and candlemaking kits!! Mae your own herb blendsand candles with your exact intent!

Gold leaf-lotsa uses

I'll add more when I think of them

Walmart!

Incense! Candles, oils, and waxmelts!

Herbs! Find an exhaustive amount of herbs and spices in the food section

Altoids cans for small alters/containers

Sewing things & ribbons/see above

Cloth/see above

Jewelry/see above

Grimiore/see above

Clay/see above

I'll add more if I think of it

Five below!

Tbh this place is getting better and better for witchy things

Sage! Palo Santo! A third thing I forgot!

Incenseeeee! And cute/cool holders.

Crystals now! I saw nice amethyst clusters, might have others now

Tarot cards!!!! FOR FIVE DOLLARSSS

Fountains! :D

Moon shaped lights! Crecent moon neon style, and little moon shaped balls that light up :D

Tapestries! All kinds, zodiac, chakra, even an herb chart!

Yoga booklets 👍

Salt lamps!

LED strips-not really witchy but hey its flashy, makes a nice pop on your alter

A ton of great decorative things, such as candle holders & organizational things

Grimiore things/see above

I'll add more later

Books-a-Million

SO MANY WONDERFUL TAROT DECKS & KITS

PENDULUM KITS

RUNE KITS

WITCHY BOOKS GALORE

CRYSTALSSS AND CRYSTAL BOOKS

SAGE/CLEANSING HERBS

Candles!

Oils!

Teas!

INVISIBLE INK PENS WITH LIGHTS FOR CLOSET WITCHES. Write a whole grimiore invisible to prying eyes!

Chalices! Many decorative kinds

Grimiore things/see above

Ross

Crystals! Big, real, and cheap!

Decorative stuff!

Jars!

Grimiore things/see above

Zero Gravity

Hoooooo boy! Everything you could want

Incense!

Cleansing herbs!

Obscure herbs! Like lavender/coltsfoot/etc, things you won't find at Walmart

Tarot cards!

Pendulums! So many kinds

Runes!

Chalices!

Athames!

Crystals! Clusters and smoothed.

Figurines! Of deities and such

Cauldrons! Lots of kinds, even a cute teapot shaped one :D

Crystal balls!

Alter cloths!

Wands!

Honestly this is a one-stop shop for nearly anything, if I haven't mentioned it they probably still have it.

Dollar Tree!

Yup, dollar tree. Surprisingly great

Spices!

Candles!

Ribbons!

Chalices! A wine glass is a chalice nonetheless

Jars!

Clay, sometimes!

Jewelry items!

Lots of miscellaneous items for alters/deities/offerings!

Just take a walk around, there's many things that can be repurposed!

I'll add more places if I think of them!

//Edited the hobby lobby part a little bit, because I don't want to seem like I support what they do.

I'm a transgender queer witch, I don't support their views.

Avoid Hobby Lobby if you can. I don't support the bullshittery that they do & wouldn't use them at all had I the option to, but I am a working artist and they're honestly my only option.

If you must use them, be sure to use their 40% coupon from their site each time you go because that's the closest we can legally get to robbing them out of some money. Use your loopholes to your advantage, even the small ones.

𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆 𝕲𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖔𝖎𝖗𝖊

𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐒:

🌿A page about you, your birthstone, birth chart…

🌿Types of Magick

🌿The wheel of the year

🌿The Sabbats and how to celebrate them

🌿Types of witches

🌿The history of magick/witchcraft in your countries/cultures

🌿All about the deities you worship, if any

🌿Local myths/legends of interest

🌿Herbs and their magickal properties

🌿Candles and their magickal properties

🌿Crystals and their magickal properties

🌿Essential oils and their magickal properties

🌿Chakras

🌿Gemstones

🌿Tarots

🌿Runes

🌿Sigils

🌿How to cast a circle

🌿Spells and how to cast them

🌿What days/times are best for spell casting

🌿Wandwoods

🌿Astrology

🌿The moon, and its different phases

🌿Altars, what they are and how you could set up yours

🌿Moonwater/sunwater

🌿Banishing

🌿Binding

🌿Cleansing

🌿Grounding

🌿Spirit work and how to do it safely

🌿Witch terminology

🌿Potions

🌿Safe herbs for potion making

🌿Best witchy books

🌿Ritual music/songs to listen to

𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐈𝐑𝐄:

🍁A table of contents is a wonderful idea and can be a great help, but it really is up to you.

🍁Try and plan what you’re going to write down and when.

🍁You can write down every idea you have in a notebook aside first to organise and plan if you want (this is what I do but I do consider myself a little bit of a perfecionist haha)

🍁You can print out photos, dry out flowers and herbs, add stickers, doodle and more to decorate your Grimoire if you’d like. It makes it more personal, but in the end the most important thing is that you understand it.

🍁And remember that it is your Grimoire, try not to compare it to anyone else’s and remember that witchcraft is all about personalization. If you do not have a Grimoire that’s okay too, this is your craft and your rules♡

Seven Winds, Grandma’s House

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🌙Magick vs. Magic🌙

And why witches spell it ‘magick’ Or don’t. 

The word was created by the controversial occultist Alister Crowley (1875-1947) who founded the religion Thelema which later became known as Wicca.  

One reason he added a ‘k’ was to separate between entertainment magic and witchcraft magick. 

Many thing the distinction isn’t necessary but there are other reasons Crowley did this. 

Crowley’s philosophy of Thelema meant that he also used the word magick to describe any act that brings someone closer to what he called their ‘True Will’; their purpose in life.

Will is different than want

I can make a post about Crowley and True Will in the future

EDIT: I have made a post about True Will, just click the link.

In 1886 (about 11 years from 1875) Crowley’s father, a devout Christian and preacher, passed. Crowley, a formerly devoted follower of Christianity out of respect for his father, began to turn his back on the Christian religion, pointing out irregularities in the Bible. His mother, also a Christian, because of this called him “The Beast.”

When Crowley created the word ‘magick’ he lengthened a five letter word to six letters, the number six being sacred in many beliefs. Interestingly, according to Genesis, God created man on the 6th day. In the Bible, Revelation 13:18, God assigned the number 666 to man and to the Beast.

Revelation 13:18

“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” 

The letter K is also the 11th number of the alphabet. This number has huge significance to Crowley and he often wrote about its importance: “Firstly”, 11 is the number of Magick in itself” along with his well-known phrase “Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law” which has eleven words and eleven syllables.

Some people refrain from using ‘magick’ due to Crowleys reputation and the several stories surrounding his life, others use ‘magik’ or ‘majick’ or variations of said word. But there is no right or wrong here and you can use ‘magick’ or not, it’s all up to the witch at hand. I just use it to differentiate magick and magic.

Sources: 

https://www.worldofmagick.com/post/magic-or-magick

https://www.learnreligions.com/magic-and-magick-95856 

FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

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KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.

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Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.

eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

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Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

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PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

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Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.

Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.

The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.

Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”

ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.

The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.

Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.

Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.

Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.

The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.

Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.

John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.

Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

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Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.

Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.

Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.

Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.

Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.

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Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.

Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.

Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.

Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.

TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.

Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.

Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

The Knight of the Flowers, 1894, by Georges Rochegrosse. Detail and photo by Paul Perrin. Edit.

Basic Protection Spray

Hey there Witchlings, today I want to share with you what I used for my protection spray! Remember, you can always substitute, add, or remove any ingredients that you want! You do not need to follow spells to the T, you can make them your own!

What you need:

A spray bottle

Water

Cedar

Garden Sage

Dandelion

Steps:

Fill your spray bottle with water.

Add your herbs

Make sure your bottle is tightly sealed and then shake that motherfucker up

Spray as needed until you feel safe.

Cedar, Garden Sage, and Dandelion are all typically associated with protection!

I hope that you've found this to be useful :)

Witchcraft for the Home : Cleaning Edition

So for me cleaning in and of itself is a ritual. Cleaning my home is how I destress and organize my life, and how I help good energy flow into my home. For me clean counters are as important to my craft as Sage. So hear are a small list of things I do when cleansing my home.

🌱First things first. Open the GD windows. You have no idea how awful the stale air in your home is until you let some fresh air in. Especially if you live in a small apartment like I do. You’d be amazed how quickly that alone can lift the bad energy in your home. 🌱I wipe down my counters and such with those little wet wipe cleaning things. When I buy them I add a tiny drop of Frankincense essential oil and orange blossom essential oil to them and shake them up (I buy the none scented ones so that it doesn’t get all weird smelling)  🌱Same goes for floor cleaner. Add a small drop of whatever cleansing oil you like to clean your laminate or tiles floors. DO NOT ADD ANYTHING WHEN CLEANING REAL HARD WOOD. If you have real hard wood floors adding oils to your hard wood floor cleaner can mess with the ph and screw up your floors 🌱Put some moon water in your oil diffuser while you’re cleaning to help balance out the energy in your house 🌱Sprinkle some salt in the carpet right before you vacuum it up to pull up those bad vibes as well as the gross stuff in your carpets.  🌱Tidy up your altar. I don’t know about you but for me I could have a perfectly clean room and if my altar is a little cluttered then the room doesn’t feel clean. Making sure my tools are put away and my offering dish is clean is important.  🌱When sweeping, sweep the dust out the front door if you can. (Don’t sweep like, trash or anything out). 🌱Once everything is clean and fresh light some incense. I normally choose clove or vanilla to make my apartment feel cozy

hi! for those just getting started here are some helpful apps for everyday witchy life!

also, if you want to do me a quick favor... the family jewelry store needs subscribers on youtube 💛 you don’t even need to turn on notifications to help!

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC8uaW4Nc79HAT6CMP5mg6zQ