Almond(milk): mental clarity + fortitude, luck, abundance, healing + good health
Amaretto: opening the mind, warding against negativity, creativity, luck
Blueberry: aids in memory + mental clarity, calmness, youth + glamour magic, restoration, aura cleansing + strengthening
Caramel: aids in changes + transformations, soothing quality to spells, good in Fae magic, increases tenacity
Chestnut: warding + protection, prosperity, longevity + increase stamina
Chocolate: self love + nurturing energy, ancestral magic, grounding, love + sexual prowess
Cinnamon: spiritual + personal power, healing, success, lust, luck, prosperity, strength
Clove: protection, actualization of desires, banishing negative + hostile forces
Coffee: inspire creativity, clear emotional + spiritual blockages, dispel nightmares, fortitude + increased stamina, encourage diligence
Coconut Milk: confidence + aid in glamour magic, strength, beauty, love
Cow milk: nurturing, fertility + prosperity, protection, abundance, aid in motherhood
Hazelnut: self-love and compassion, inspiration, creativity, wisdom + insight
Honey: happiness, offerings + Fae magic, sweetness, love, prosperity, healing, passion, spirituality
Irish Cream: dreams + intuition enhancer, prosperity, growth, aid in change
Peanut(butter): stability, aid in manifestation + intuition, attraction, energy
Pecan: spiritual purification + protection, abundance + prosperity
Peppermint: healing, purification, psychic powers + transformation, sleep, prosperity, passion
Pumpkin: wishes + dream fulfillment, protection + guarding, prosperity, magic enhancer, love
Oat(milk): tradition + ancestral work, health, stability + fortitude, beauty + youth, comfort, home magic, healing
Raspberry: invoking fertility or love, kindness + compassion, desire fulfilment, creativity, libido + sex magic
Sugar: used to amplify spells, sweetness + love, attraction, comfort, Fae magic
Soy milk: success + strength, growth, healing
Toffee: playfulness + youthfulness, friendship, easing transitions, courage + strength
Vanilla (creamer or vanilla extract): love, release of stress + anxiety, success, vitality + healing
Pick ingredients for your coffee that align with your ambitions for the day.
It can be used as an offering to deities, spirits, ancestors, etc.(e.g. for Sif I sweeten the coffee with oat milk + honey but for Hel I leave the coffee black for an offering)
Consider the way you stir! Counterclockwise banishes and repels negativity, clockwise invites + brings energy to you.
Stain pages for you journal, spell work, or book of shadows! You can also use a strong brewed coffee and a paint brush to paint sigils onto the pages! .
See the full post + bonus recipe at the hidden hearth patreon.
References: The Herbal Alchemist’s Handbook by Karen Harrison
**Disclaimer: a lot of the nut and milk correspondences are personal + intuitive**
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Normalize laughing with your deities
Normalize telling your deities jokes
Normalize playing music for your deities at any time it feels right
Normalize drawing silly little doodles for your deities regardless of skill
Normalize sharing a walk with your deities
Normalize soaking in the sunlight and dark mystery of night with your deities
Normalize letting your deities in, letting them be there
Normalize shedding tears of joy and sadness and expressing negative emotions that aren’t pretty with your deities
Normalize various levels of intimacy both casual and intense with your deities
Normalize following what works for you and your deities no matter what when it’s just about you and them, no one else
It is essential to find animal bones in an ethically sourced manner. Bones have been apart of us and magic itself always. These rigid organs are used in forms of offerings, animism, grounding, cleromancy, and osteomancy.
Very dependent on the shape of the charm, many practitioners adorn their magical possessions with charms. (I.e a heart charm in a sachet representing romance.) From ancient Europe to Asia, jewelry and charms were tossed from baskets onto a soft surface for divination. There is also a process called charming, which is imbuing an object with a particular energy.
Coffin Nails are utilized in witchcraft for warding, mourning, baneful magic, and death work in general. Coffin Nails represent the security of one’s physical body, as it seals us off from danger.
Coins are utilized as offerings, charms, runes, and ways to honor deities and ancestors. Coins are also added to money bowls. Coins represent Fortune and Wealth.
Each Bird has a different magical significance, so the magical properties of a bird can be both interpreted from that as well as Color Magic. Feathers themselves embody the element of Air and are great for Cleansing.
Horseshoes have been hung over doorways for at least a few centuries. This tradition not only attracts luck and fortune, but wards your space from negative energy.
Iron Pikes come from the railroads that trains run across. These Iron Pikes are often already rusted, and imbued with the intentions of protection and warding.
Old keys have been used by many and have unlocked doors many times. Each time you use a key, visualize you unlocking and harnessing potential opportunity, closure, openings, journeys, protection, safety, warding, and security.
Leaves magically represent growth, transformation, nourishment, change, development, and can be used to draw sigils upon.
Seeds not only magically symbolize fertility, but potential, growth, wealth transformation, and fortune. One can use Nuts, Seeds, or Acorns in wealth, luck, and growth spells, or as a charm.
Cowrie shells were once one of the most common forms of global currency. African traditions use Cowrie Shells for Divinatory purposes since Ancient times. Shells embody fertility, sensuality, wealth, life, and spirit.
Sticks not only embody the Earth, but can be used for Wands, Besoms, Crafts, or in place of bones in Osteomancy. You can use any kind of wood you like including cinnamon and driftwood.
The gorgeous and delicate simplicity of one of the Earth’s greatest forms of matter not only provides grounding energy, but can be used and imbued for many other purposes as well.
Acacia: Burned with sandalwood to stimulate the psychic powers.
African Violet: Protection and to promote spirituality within the home.
Allspice: Attract both good luck and money.
Aloes: Attract good fortune, love, spiritual vibrations, and strength.
Althea: Protection and to stimulate the psychic powers.
Amber: Love, comfort, happiness and healing
Ambergris: Burn for dreams and aphrodisiac
Angelica: Protection, harmony, integration, insight and understanding, stability and meditation
Anise seeds: Meditation and emotional balance incense.
Basil: exorcise and protect against evil entities such as demons and unfriendly ghosts, and to attract fidelity, love, good luck, sympathy, and wealth. This is also an excellent incense to use when performing love divinations. Also burn for concentration, assertiveness, decisiveness, trust, integrity, enthusiasm, mental clarity, cheerfulness, confidence and courage
Bay: Facilitate the psychic powers, and to induce prophetic dream-visions.
Bayberry: Attract money and also burned for protection, happiness and control
Benzoin: Purification, astral projection, clears negative energy, emotional balance, eases sadness, depression, weariness, grief, anger, anxiety and to attract prosperity
Bergamot: Money, prosperity, uplifting of spirits, joy, protection, concentration, alertness, confidence, balance, strength, courage, motivation and assertiveness
Bistort: Burned often with frankincense as a powerful incense to aid divination.
Bracken: Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain.
Cardamom: Mental clarity, concentration, confidence, courage, enthusiasm and motivation
Carnation: protection, strength, healing, love and lust
Cedar: Purification, to stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, attract love, prevent nightmares, and heal various ailments, including head colds.
Cedarwood: Healing, purification, protection, money, balance, grounding, clarity, insight and wisdom
Chamomile: Harmony, peace, calm, spiritual and inner peace
Cinnamon: Protection and to attract money, wealth, prosperity, business success, stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, and aid in healing. Also burned for stimulation, strength and lust
Citron: Burned in rituals to aid healing and also to strengthen the psychic powers.
Citronella: Cleansing, warding off, healing and exorcism
Clove: Dispel negativity, purify sacred and magickal spaces, attract money, and stop or prevent the spread of gossip. Also burn for pain relief, intellectual stimulation, business success, wealth, prosperity, divination, exorcism, protection, eases fears, improves memory and focus
Coconut: Protection
Copal: Purification, uplifting spirits, protection, exorcism, spirituality and to attract love.
Cypress: Strength, comfort, healing, eases anxiety, stress, self-assurance, confidence, physical vitality, willpower and concentration
Damiana: Facilitate psychic visions.
Dittany of Crete: Conjure spirits and to aid in divination, astral projection, especially when mixed with equal parts of benzoin, sandalwood, and vanilla.
Dragon's Blood: Dispel negativity, exorcise evil supernatural entities, courage, purification, attract love, and restore male potency. Many Witches also burn dragon's blood for protection when spell casting and invoking. When added to other incenses, dragon's blood makes their magickal powers all the stronger.
Elecampane: Strengthen the clairvoyant powers and scrying abilities-divination by gazing.
Eucalyptus: Healing, purification and protection
Fern: Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain. Also used to exorcise evil supernatural entities.
Frankincense: Dispel negativity, spirituality, purify magickal spaces, consecration, protect against evil, exorcism, aid meditation, astral strength, induce psychic visions, courage, protection, attract good luck, and honor Pagan deities.
Fumitory: Exorcise demons, poltergeists, and evil supernatural entities.
Galangal: Break the curses cast by sorcerers.
Gardenia: Peace, love and healing
Ginger: Wealth, lust, love and magical power
Ginseng root: keep wicked spirits at bay, and for protection against all forms of evil.
Gotu Kola: Burned to aid meditation.
Heather: Conjure beneficial spirits, and to magickally produce rain.
Hibiscus Flowers: Attract love, lust and also for divination.
Honey Suckle: Attract money, happiness, friendship and healing
Horehound: Burned as an offertory incense to the ancient Egyptian god Horus.
Hyacinth: Happiness and protection
Jasmine: Attract love and money, and also to induce dreams of a prophectic nature, purification, wisdom and astral projection
Juniper: stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and also to break curses, exorcism and hexes cast by evil sorcerers. It is also burned for calming, protection and healing.
Lavender: Induce rest and sleep, and to attract love-especially of a man. Also burned for cleansing, healing, happiness and relaxation
Lemon: Healing, love and purification
Lemongrass: Mental clarity
Lilac: Stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to attract harmony into ones life.
Lotus: Elevate mood, protection, spirituality, healing and meditation
Mace: Stimulate or increase the psychic powers.
Mastic: Conjure beneficial spirits, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and intensify sexual desires. The magickal powers of other incenses are greatly increased when a bit of mastic is added.
Mesquite: Magickal powers of all healing incenses are greatly increased when mesquite is added
Mint: Increase sexual desire, exorcise evil supernatural entities, conjure beneficial spirits, and attract money. Mint incense also possesses strong healing vibrations and protective powers.
Musk: Aphrodisiac, prosperity, courage
Myrrh: Burned (often with frankincense) for purification, consecration, healing, exorcism, and banishing evil. Myrrh is also aids meditation rituals, and was commonly burned on alters in ancient Egypt as an offering to deities Isis and Ra.
Nutmeg: Aid meditation, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to attract prosperity.
Oakmoss: Money and attraction
Orange: Divination, love, luck and money
Patchouli: Attract money, love, growth, mastery, sensuality and also to promote fertility.
Peppermint: Energy, mental stimulant, exorcism and healing
Pine: Purification, and to banish negative energies, exorcise evil supernatural entities, and attract money, as well as to break hexes and return them to their senders. Also burned for grounding, strength, cleansing and healing
Poppy seeds: Promote female fertility, and to attract love, good luck, and money.
Rose: Increase courage, induce prophetic dreams, house blessing, fertility, healing and attract love. Rose incense is used in all forms of love enchantment and possesses the strongest love vibration of any magickal incense.
Rose Geranium: Courage and protection
Rosemary: Purify, aid in healing, prevent nightmares, preserve youthfulness, dispel depression, attract fairy folk, and promote restful sleep and pleasant dreams.
Rue: Help restore health.
Sage: Protection against all forms of evil. It is also burned to purify sacred spaces and ritual tools. Plus it is great for promoting wisdom, clarity, attract money, and aid in the healing the body, mind, and soul.
Sage Brush: Aid healing, and to banish negative energies and evil supernatural entities.
Sandalwood: Exorcise demons and evil ghosts, conjure beneficial spirits, and promote spiritual awareness. Sandalwood incense is also used by many Witches for protection, astral projection, healing rituals and in wish-magick.
Solomon's Seal: Mainly as an offertory incense to ancient Pagan deities
Star Anise Seeds: Stimulate or increase the psychic powers
Strawberry: Attract love and for luck.
Sweetgrass: Conjure beneficial spirits prior to spell casting.
Sweet pea: Friendship, love and courage
Thyme: Purification of magickal spaces prior to rituals, to aid in healing, and to attract good health.
Vanilla: Attract love, increase sexual desire, and improve the powers of the mind.
Vervain: Exorcise evil supernatural entities.
Vetivert: Break curses, exorcism, for protection against black magick and thieves, money, peace and love.
Violet: Break curses, exorcism, for protection against black magick and thieves, money, peace and love.
Willow: Avert evil, attract love, and promote healing. It is also used by many Witches as an offertory incense for Pagan lunar deities.
Wisteria: Protection against all forms of evil.
Wormwood: Protection against all forms of evil.
Yarrow: Courage, exorcism
Ylang Ylang: Love, harmony and euphoria
Aphrodite, oh shining star of morning bright, Joy and gladness, delight and mirth, Beauty most definite under the sunlight, Divinity that no mortal or god can ever girth, To you, I pray for my love to bloom with might Like all the enchanting flowers of the earth.
One of the things that really gets me when it comes to online witchcraft and magic spaces is how hard people push the narrative that beginner magic is dangerous. It really isn't. No demon is going to show up and suck out your soul because you accidentally summoned it. No deity is going to go out of their way to harm you. Most spirits can be dealt with using a basic banishing spell. It is extremely uncommon for witches to hex each other, but you wouldn't guess it from the fear mongering that goes around about it.
What IS important for beginner witches is learning mundane skills like discernment and critical thinking. Because when you're just getting started, the most dangerous thing you are going to encounter is other practitioners preying on newbies. Know how to spot grooming. Know how to spot cult-like behavior. Know how to read books critically. Know how to spot bullshit when you see it.
Have fun with beginner magic. Get messy. Make mistakes. Fuck around and find out. There's no need to be afraid of it. No one ever cultivated a craft or skill by being too afraid to DO.
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