Witch Quickie Wednesday – The Magickal Enchanted Ivy Cottage

Welcome to Springtime and Witch Quickie Wednesday!
Today it’s time to find out what’s new here, and believe me, there’s definitely a lot that’s new. Can’t wait to show you. Enjoy this short film and let me know what you think.

By the way, if you’d like to learn about witchcraft, be sure to sign up for The Academy of International Witch-Crafting©. Courses are only a $50 donation.
Send a short request message to me at: aiwc@web.de

If you’d prefer not to take the whole course, not a problem because I’ll customize a particular course (or courses), for you that you can pick out from the following:
* Herbal Healing Magick
* Candle & Color Magick
* Money Magick
* Self Defense/Protection Magick
* Self-love Magick
* Relationship Magick
* Kitchen Magick
Let me know by sending me your request to:
aiwc@web.de
Donation prices may vary.

To book an Angel Card Reading or a Tarot Card Reading, click the link below:
https://witchcraftandmore.com/divination/

W.Q.W – My Magickal Healing Chest-rub Recipe By The Silver Sage Witch

Time for my Magickal Healing Chest-rub Recipe!

Please consider making a donation of $5 or more to help keep witchcraftandmore.com up and running. Thank you!
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=8VM3NPUM9SL6A&source=url

My contact email address: v.baltimore@web.de

Click the link below for a PERSONALIZED, in-depth Angel Channeling Messages, Oracle, and Tarot consultation:
Tarot, Angel, and Oracle Consultations

Subscribe to my channel…Get EVERYONE to subscribe – THANK YA VERY MUCH!:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUjogoVeyJtxCf579hrTPPw

Click here and follow my blog (NOT JUST WITCHY STUFF!): https://witchcraftandmore.com/blog-2/

Are you ready to become a Rogue Witch? Contact me at: v.baltimore@web.de if you would like more information on, “The Rogue Witchcraft Course,” that I will be offering in mid-April 2021!

Bright Healing Blessings to you,
The Silver Sage Witch of
Witchcraftandmore.com

Wiccan Beliefs

Wheel of the Year

Click on this link to Esty if you are interested in purchasing this Wheel of The Year

Lammas Tisane- Ceremonial Tea

Written for Coven Life

03/02/2020

By priestess Hypatia

 

Tea Anyone?

Tisanes are herbal tea that traditionally included barley.

Lammas

Lammas is the first harvest celebration, marking the transition from summer to fall and celebrating the bounty and abundance of the garden.

Spell crafting Herbal teas is a personal favorite of mine, especially herbs personally selected to reflect your intentions and the turning of the seasons. Such teas are a wonderful way to honor the seasons during your ceremony.

First harvest Tea Blend for Lammas

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup dried calendula blossoms
• 1/4 cup dried lavender buds
• 1/4 cup dried meadow sweet
• 1/4 cup oolong tea leaves
• Optional: 1 tablespoon dried grated ginger

Instructions

1. Combine all ingredients in a tea strainer or bag.
2. Pour hot water over the strainer and steep 3-5 minutes

 

Calendula– a beautiful bright beam of sunshine their bright orange and yellow petals are a beautiful representation of seasonal transitions.

Lavender– Often associated with Lammas, this beautiful plan ally will help you begin the descent into the waning and restful portion of the year.

Meadow sweet– All heal of the ancients. Acting as a natural pain killer because of its salicylic acid content, the same ingredient that makes aspirin. Wonderful for third eye activation, divination and honing of your skill.

Oolong– Adding a layer or complexity to this otherwise airy tea. Its earthiness encourages wisdom through reflection.

Ginger– Only a small amount is needed to reach its maximum benefit. Its distinct spicy notes encourages success, money and love.

COLORS AND THE ZODIAC

Esbat- June Full Moon 2019

If you are unable to access the link on the ‘Esbat Full Moon 2019’  post, I have decided to re-post it separately. Hope it helps. This also makes a wonderful reference.

FIRE

ARIES	Relaxation: Sand Creativity: Crimson red Vitality: Violet Romance: Flame orange Socializing: Sunshine yellow Productivity: Terra-Cotta Well-being/health/healing: Leaf green
LEO	Relaxation: Jungle green Creativity: Sunflower yellow Vitality: Electric tangerine Romance: Royal purple Socializing: Lime Productivity: Gold Well-being/health/healing: Mahogany
SAGITTARIUS	relaxation: Pale peach Creativity: Vibrant violet Vitality: Lime green Romance: Neon pink Socializing: Melon Productivity: Turquoise blue Well-being/health/healing: Olive green

 

EARTH

TAURUS	Relaxation: Teak wood Creativity: Emerald green Vitality: Cinnamon Romance: Merlot Socializing: Gold Productivity: Sage green Well-being/health/healing: Cream
VIRGO	Relaxation: Buttercream yellow Creativity: Cornflower blue Vitality: Spring green Romance: Peony pink Socializing: Fuchsia Productivity: Gunmetal grey Well-being/health/healing: Porcelain white
CAPRICORN	Relaxation: Mushroom Creativity: Eggplant Vitality: Bone Romance: Pumpkin orange Socializing: Bronze Productivity: Charcoal grey Well-being/health/healing: Forest green

 

AIR

GEMINI	Relaxation: Onyx Creativity: Shibori blue Vitality: Pale amethyst Romance: Vibrant violet Socializing: Tangerine Productivity: Coffee bean Well-being/health/healing: Honeydew
LIBRA	Relaxation: Chocolate brown Creativity: Teal Vitality: Fire orange Romance: Petal pink Socializing: Merlot Productivity: Rose gold Well-being/health/healing: Nude
AQUARIUS	Relaxation: Gunmetal gray Creativity: Cobalt blue Vitality: Amethyst Romance: Neon yellow Socializing: Mint green Productivity: Tangerine Well-being/health/healing: Pale pink

 

WATER

CANCER	Relaxation: Silver Creativity: Coral Vitality: Caribbean aquamarine Romance: Pearl white Socializing: Tea-rose pink Productivity: Dark teal Well-being/health/healing: Light sky
SCORPIO	Relaxation: Midnight blue Creativity: Hot pink Vitality: Blush Romance: Smoke Socializing: Ruby red Productivity: Ebony Well-being/health/healing: Pearl white
PISCES	Relaxation: Lavender Creativity: Silver Vitality: Dark amethyst Romance: Ballet-slipper pink Socializing: Sky blue Productivity: Steel gray Well-being/health/healing: Sea green

 

Mastery of the Elements & Praktical exercises

Following exercises are not meant for the beginners. It is because they work as an amplifier. Untrained person can amplify negative things and cause damage instead of improvement! You need to estimate things properly, train proper things and also to focus thoughts on positive results. Previous meditation training is to great advantage.
Every magician needs to awaken all five elements and to work with them. Magician also needs to have in balance inner energy system: channels and chakras. For this purpose, practicing vocal exercises is essential, because they support with their frequency desired element. Fire: A, Water: E, Air: I, Earth: U, Spirit-Ether: O.

To continue reading…

The magickal use of thistle

Magickal Uses of Blessed Thistle

Zodiac: Aries

Gender: Male

Planet: Mars

Element: Fire

Deities: Pan

Basic Powers: Protection

Magickal Uses: An herb of protection and vitality. A bowlful placed in a room strengthens the spirits and renews vitality. One may be carried for added strength and energy. They offer protection when grown in the garden or carried in the pocket. Throwing them into a fire will deflect lightning away from your home. Wearing a garment made from thistle will break any spell. Poppets are also stuffed with thistle to break spells.

Read more at

 

Magickal Uses of Milk Thistle

Gender: Maculine

Planet: Mars (in Aries)

Deities: Thor, Minerva

Powers: Strenth, Protection, Healing, Exorcism, Hex Breaking

Folklore: Milk-thistle is a strikingly beautiful member of its family – with its sharply serrated, white veined leaves they cannot be overlooked. The name ‘Milk-thistle’ refers to a legend according to which 3 drops of holy milk from the Virgin’s breast is said to have dropped on to the leaf, forever marking it as an herb of our Lady (formerly known as the Great Goddess).

Read more at

http://herbalriot.tumblr.com/post/62253640367/magickal-uses-of-blessed-thistle

http://herbalriot.tumblr.com/post/67557549637/magickal-uses-of-milk-thistle

 

 

Willow ~ a tree witch

”

Willow

Willows which by water stand
Ease us to the Summerland.

 

Salix alba

^{Tree of Enchantment, Tree of Witcheries}

^{Fifth month of the Celtic Tree calendar,} 

^{April 15th – May 12th}

 

^{Fifth consonant of the Ogham alphabet – Saille}

Planet: Moon

Element: Water

Symbolism: Resonance and Harmony

Stone: Moonstone

Birds: Hawk, Snowy Owl

Color: Silver

Deity: Persephone, Hecate, Cerridwen, 

Artemis, Selene, Luna, Diana, Brigit

Sabbat: Beltane

Folk names: Osier, Pussy Willow, Saille, Salicyn Willow, Saugh Tree, White Willow, 

Witches Aspirin, Withe, Withy

 

Medicinal properties: 

Willow bark contains salicin, or Salicylic acid, used to make aspirin. 

Infusions from the bark have long been used as a remedy for cholls, rheumatism, and fevers. 

Willow sap applied to the skin can remedy acne, and a strong decoction of boiling 

the bark and leaves in water can be rubbed into the scalp for dandruff.

 

Magickal properties: 

New Moon magick, creativity, fertility, female rights of passage, inspiration, emotion, binding. Love, Love divination, protection, healing.

 

Also known as the tree of immortality because of its ability to 

re grow from a fallen branch in moist ground.

 

A wand made from Willow wood has many uses: 

sleep with it and have more vivid dreams, use it to draw down the moon, 

protection for underworld journeying

 

Magickal Brooms, witch’s brooms are traditionally bound with a willow’s branch.

 

 

There once was a Willow, and he was very old,

And all his leaves fell off from him, and left him in the cold;

But ere the rude winter could buffet him with snow,

There grew upon his hoary head a crop of mistletoe.

All wrinkled and furrowed was this old Willow’s skin,

His taper finger trembled, and his arms were very thin;

Two round eyes and hollow, that stared but did not see;

And sprawling feet that never walked, had this most ancient tree.

~Julianna Horatia Ewing, “The Willow Man” ”

Read more from the original post

Thanks to

http://www.thegoddesstree.com/trees/Willow.htm

Magical Gardening Around the World

Around the world, people tend to garden in different ways. Someone living on a large family farm plants their crops differently than someone on a half-acre lot in the suburbs. A resident of a big city in an advanced nation will grow things in a different fashion than a family living in an impoverished, third world country. While one person might use a large tractor and motorized equipment, another may use a simple shovel.

Still another might only use a pointed stick to make a hole in the ground. Since time began, the human race has managed to find ways to make things grow where before there was nothing.

In the early spring, many of us who follow earth-based spiritual paths begin planning our gardens for the coming season. The very act of planting, of beginning new life from seed, is a ritual and a magical act in itself. To cultivate something in the black soil, see it sprout and then bloom, is to watch a magical working unfold before our very eyes. The plant cycle is intrinsically tied to so many earth-based belief systems that it should come as no surprise that the magic of the garden is one well worth looking into.

Let’s look at some of the folklore and traditions that surround gardening and planting magic.

For the rest of this interesting article by Patti Wiggington please click on this link: https://www.thoughtco.com/magical-gardening-around-the-world-2562458?utm_campaign=list_paganwiccan&utm_content=20170404&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exp_nl&utm_term=list_paganwiccan