When you find marshmallow root, uva ursi, and corn silk in your herbs storage, it’s going to be a good night.

natural-magics:

If you want to keep something close, bury it in your back yard. 
If you want to attract something, bury it under the front door step 
If you want to destroy its influence, burn it. 
If you want it to move away and sink, throw it in running water 
If you want to disperse it to a distance, throw it into a crossroads 
If you want to fix its influence, inter it in a five-spot pattern 
If you want it to work by means of spirits, bury it in a graveyard 
If you want to hide its point of origin, conceal it in a tree 
If you want it to work in secret, give it in food or drink 
If you want it to work by stealth, hide it in clothing or on objects 
If you want its influence to begin or strengthen, throw it East 
If you want its influence to end or weaken, throw it West 
If you want its influence to rise and fall cyclicly, float it in a tidal estuary

I’ve reblogged this before, couldn’t wait for it to come back around. Handy little guide for…. well, anything.

thelivingwiccan:

This spell works best on secret lovers! You’ll need:

• goldenrod
• boiling water
• three yellow ribbons

Grind the goldenrod plant up and add 1 part goldenrod with 1 part boiling water. Boil them together, saying:

Secret keep, and silence hold,
Caution caused by shoots of gold.
Encouragement of secrecy,
Their consequences part from me.

Soak three yellow ribbons in the infusion for about 10 minutes, then braid them together and give them to the subject of your spell.

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thelivingwiccan:

To Stop a Spreading Influence:

You’ll need:

• dandelion (still in the ground!)
• black thread or twine
• box filled with salt (large enough to hold the dandelion)

Find a patch of ground with a large dandelion in it.

Pull it out by the root (it’s important that you get the whole root at once. Try again with a different dandelion if you can’t get it out in one pull. If at first you don’t succeed, at least you’re weeding the garden!)

As you pull out the dandelion, say

“I rip you out, uproot your bones;
uproot the influence you own.
A hole shall be there in your stead;
your power shall no longer spread.”

Take the black thread and bind the leaves and flowers to the root (this should end up being one big bundle). This is also a good time to bind anything to the root that symbolizes the person or thing you’re trying to bind.  As you bind, say:

“Your opinion now is nulled,
your thoughts are kept, your motives dulled.
Your persuasion is the key
but must be kept in secrecy.”

Put the bundle in a box filled with salt, saying:

“Convince no longer, root grow cold.
I bind you stronger, root grow cold.
Move no others, root grow cold.
Your opinions are too bold.”

Place the box in a cold, dark place. To reverse the spell, take the dandelion out and place it back in the earth (the salt will have killed the root, but the seeds should sprout another flower in a few weeks).

**Spell property of TheLivingWiccan — do not remove source**

thelivingwiccan:

Intense Personal Purification: for those times when you desperately need to clear out negative thoughts and habits from yourself. (This spell does involve blood magic)

You’ll need:

• sage
• blood (your own)

To make oneself pure as anew
prick the body cleanly through
Blood for blessings, sage for smoke
burned, and cleansing be invoked

As the chant states, prick a finger and put a few drops on the leaves of sage. Burn it and speak the chant, repeating the last 2 lines a few times until you feel better.

**Spell property of TheLivingWiccan — do not remove source**

This spell works best on secret lovers! You’ll need:

• goldenrod
• boiling water
• three yellow ribbons

Grind the goldenrod plant up and add 1 part goldenrod with 1 part boiling water. Boil them together, saying:

Secret keep, and silence hold,
Caution caused by shoots of gold.
Encouragement of secrecy,
Their consequences part from me.

Soak three yellow ribbons in the infusion for about 10 minutes, then braid them together and give them to the subject of your spell.

**Spell property of TheLivingWiccan — do not remove source!**

To Stop a Spreading Influence:

You’ll need:

• dandelion (still in the ground!)
• black thread or twine
• box filled with salt (large enough to hold the dandelion)

Find a patch of ground with a large dandelion in it.

Pull it out by the root (it’s important that you get the whole root at once. Try again with a different dandelion if you can’t get it out in one pull. If at first you don’t succeed, at least you’re weeding the garden!)

As you pull out the dandelion, say

“I rip you out, uproot your bones;
uproot the influence you own.
A hole shall be there in your stead;
your power shall no longer spread.”

Take the black thread and bind the leaves and flowers to the root (this should end up being one big bundle). This is also a good time to bind anything to the root that symbolizes the person or thing you’re trying to bind.  As you bind, say:

“Your opinion now is nulled,
your thoughts are kept, your motives dulled.
Your persuasion is the key
but must be kept in secrecy.”

Put the bundle in a box filled with salt, saying:

“Convince no longer, root grow cold.
I bind you stronger, root grow cold.
Move no others, root grow cold.
Your opinions are too bold.”

Place the box in a cold, dark place. To reverse the spell, take the dandelion out and place it back in the earth (the salt will have killed the root, but the seeds should sprout another flower in a few weeks).

**Spell property of TheLivingWiccan — do not remove source**

Intense Personal Purification: for those times when you desperately need to clear out negative thoughts and habits from yourself. (This spell does involve blood magic)

You’ll need:

• sage
• blood (your own)

To make oneself pure as anew
prick the body cleanly through
Blood for blessings, sage for smoke
burned, and cleansing be invoked

As the chant states, prick a finger and put a few drops on the leaves of sage. Burn it and speak the chant, repeating the last 2 lines a few times until you feel better.

**Spell property of TheLivingWiccan — do not remove source**

Jeez, tonight has been a crazy Question Answering Night! 1 hour, 20 questions in, and still going strong. 

Tonight on TheLivingWiccan: Dichotomy in neo-Paganism and how it alienates its non-binary followers, its inherent heteronormativity, canning tinctures whilst preventing botulism, the destruction of white sage, and cats!

Question Answering Day! My inbox has been filling up and I think now seems like a pretty good time to empty it.

Friday, May 10th! Question Answering Day.

Although this blog is called TheLivingWiccan, any of a multitude of subjects get approached on this blog: from general spirituality to strict organized religion, from Wicca to Odinism, from Satanism to Reconstructionist Hellenism, from crystals and herbs to poppets and candles, from curses to spells, and from religious to secular witchcraft. 

 If you have sent a message some time in the past 2 weeks, expect it to be answered tomorrow. If you haven’t yet asked a question, send them in, but please read this first.

TheLivingWiccan

It feels so wonderful to get some new spells in there. Hopefully when it gets passed on, my descendants will feel the same.

Last night was spent blessing some hyacinth blooms and birch bark wrappings before they went on sale. Productive! Fir and Flower offerings for the Horned One seem to get the job done.

thecauldronborn:

thelivingwiccan:

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve uploaded anything for my followers, so here we are.

Spring has been sort of MIA for the past month or so. I figured it was time for a new God dedication altar. Tell me if that’s not the largest phallic symbol you’ve seen in a while, I dare you.

On the altar we’ve got our big red candle, and offerings of spicy herbs (cloves, anise, [real!] cinnamon, and palo santo) and deep crystals (citrine and carnelian).

On either side of the offerings, there’s a feather and goblet, then some natural stones and a bottle of deer fur. I happened across the deer fur while on a walk the other day, stumbling across the sleeping place of a herd of deer. Jackpot.

On the left, we have a tooth of a Bengal tiger, and on the right, the claw of that same Bengal tiger.

As usual for my God altars, we have some antlers. But there’s a new addition: the loveliest piece of birch bark I found. Someone had cut it off a tree and left it there. I figured it should at least have a place of respect, along with my new fur (which will soon be taking its place atop of my graveyard/animal parts altar).

Typical Friday.

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this is a really good idea, having all your tools and herbs hanging over your altar. I’d imagine it saves space and keeps it more organized, I think I’mma do that

Hey there! Yes, it definitely helps save space. However, a lot of the things up there aren’t tools and herbs.

They’re actually past and present spells. They’ve either run their course, or activitely continue day by day.

But having that branch/braid up there was one of my better ideas for the altar — definitely keeps things organzied (and looking sufficiently witchy, might I add).

thelivingwiccan:

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve uploaded anything for my followers, so here we are.

Spring has been sort of MIA for the past month or so. I figured it was time for a new God dedication altar. Tell me if that’s not the largest phallic symbol you’ve seen in a while, I dare you.

On the altar we’ve got our big red candle, and offerings of spicy herbs (cloves, anise, [real!] cinnamon, and palo santo) and deep crystals (citrine and carnelian).

On either side of the offerings, there’s a feather and goblet, then some natural stones and a bottle of deer fur. I happened across the deer fur while on a walk the other day, stumbling across the sleeping place of a herd of deer. Jackpot.

On the left, we have a tooth of a Bengal tiger, and on the right, the claw of that same Bengal tiger.

As usual for my God altars, we have some antlers. But there’s a new addition: the loveliest piece of birch bark I found. Someone had cut it off a tree and left it there. I figured it should at least have a place of respect, along with my new fur (which will soon be taking its place atop of my graveyard/animal parts altar).

Typical Friday.

**All photos property of TheLivingWiccan: DO NOT remove source**