Witchcraft

💡Ideas and tips for witches

Just some ideas and tips for witches, may have repeats. ✨

🌙 If you don't have room for an altar, draw or make an altar in your book of shadows

🌙 YouTube will help you

🌙 The dollar store will help you

🌙 Research

🌙 Use the internet

🌙 If you want an altar to carry around, make a pocket altar in a mint container or small box

🌙 Witches do not need to be Wiccan

🌙 No one can dictate how you practice your craft

🌙 Books

🌙 Try and practice as much as you can

🌙 Don't worry about what anyone else thinks about you

🌙 Learn

🌙 You don't need fancy tools (you can if you want)

🌙 Your practice will change your life

🌙 Tumblr helps

🌙 Diy projects with your craft

🌙 If you can't meditate, try it for a few minutes all the time

🌙 Sew a protective sigil into your favorite jacket

🌙 Spend time in nature

🌙 You don't need a coven (you can if you want)

🌙 Your book of shadows/grimoire doesn't need to be perfect (you can if you want)

🌙 Practice as much as you can

🌙 Anyone can be a witch

🌙 Witch apps exist (plant identification, moon phases, herbs, etc)

🌙 There are online covens

🌙 Don't freak out if you can't practice everyday due to your life

🌙 Take your time with your grimoire/BOS

🌙 Your practice is all about you it's personal to you

🌙 Use your grimoire, write in it (don't ignore it)

🌙 You don't need a notebook for your grimoire, you can get a regular story book and write over the pages, you can use an animal picture book and glue in lines pages to write on

🌙 Your grimoire is all for you, there is no certain way it needs to be

🌙 If you need grimoire/BOS page ideas look online

🌙 If your in the broom closet you can find ways to practice your craft subtlety

🌙 Google and YouTube have everything you need to help you

🌙 Your grimoire can be a simple composition notebook or a spiral notebook or a sketchbook

🌙 Try to practice every day

🌙 You don't need to empty your bank account to get tools for your craft

🌙 Set your intention

🌙 Your practice is your practice, it's all about you, choose how you want it to be

🌙 You don't need to be like every other witch

🌙 Incorporate what you love and like into your craft (ex. if you love dance or music incorporate that into your craft)

🌙 YouTube videos will help you with guided meditation

🌙 Create a practice that is unique to you

🌙 If your life is very busy, make some time for your practice (get a calendar and make some time for yourself and your practice)

🌙 Travel altars can be hidden in a purse or backpack so you can have your altar with you

🌙 Your altar can be your wallpaper on your phone so you will always have it

🌙 Use your smartphone to scry when it's in sleep mode, the black screen can take the place of a black mirror

🌙 If you want to invoke (bring things to you) stir your potions, food, or drinks clockwise. If you want to banish (drive things away) stir counter clockwise.

🌙 When you have a guest over, burn a white candle by the door they enter and exit to purify and cleanse whatever energy you guest brings with them into your home.

🌙 Burn dried rosemary in your home for protection, purification, psychic abilities, and healing.

🌙 Spray our curtains with sandalwood water so when the wind blows in it blows protection and spirituality into your home. Just mix a couple of drops of essential oil in a water spray bottle.

🌙 There's this cool website called rainymood.com that plays a 30 minute loop of a rainstorm. It is useful in spells, along with relaxation or studying. Also has an app.

🌙 There are rhyming dictionaries. This is useful if you like your spells to rhyme.

🌙 Burry a raw egg by the entrance to your home to ensure abundance for the forthcoming year and fertility in your garden.

🌙 Brick dust works the same as black salt.

🌙 You can buy 1 big pot and plant many herbs in it.

🌙 Write sigils on your nails with nail polish pens.

🌙 You can glue envelopes into you BOS to hold things like sigils, recipes, herbs, etc.

🌙 Have an altar by a window, so your items are always charged/cleansed.

🌙 Use a charged crystal on top of your WiFi router or anything that needs a boost.

🌙 A needle and thread can be used as a pendulum.

🌙 Just about any cards can be used for divination.

🌙 Craft stores usually have really cheap jars.

🌙 Just about any reflective surface can be used for scrying.

🌙 White candles can be used in place of any candles.

🌙 There are also candle apps.

🌙 Stir liquids clockwise for luck/health.

🌙 Sage can smell like weed sometimes. Just keep that in mind.

🌙 Write wishes on bay leaves, then burn them to make them come true.

🌙 White sage is endangered in America.

🌙 Empath tip: Carry blue goldstone.

🌙 Bells can be used for cleansing.

🌙 Use the note app on your phone as a BOS.

🌙 Need to bury something for a spell but don't want to use a jar? Use coffee filters, 100% cotton, tissue paper, newspaper, wool and cashmere are all biodegradable. Just wrap your item and bury it. You can also use large leaves.

🌙 Thrift stores are your friend.

🌙 Rosemary can be used in place of any herb.

🌙 Clear quartz can be used in place of any stone.

🌙 Incense ashes = black salt

🌙 Set a sigil as your background, then plug it in to charge it.

🌙 Coffee filters can be used as herb bags.

🌙 Write in your grimoire/BOS (if you have one) everyday to form a connection.

🌙 Use more than 1 resource for learning.

🌙 Use a necklace as a pendulum