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Vintage 1970s zodiac

Greek Necromantic Spell (1)

For the ancient Greeks, a fire made from privet [Ligustrum vulgare] opened the gates to the afterlife. To summon and speak with ghosts, burn wormwood on a bed of privet fire.

(from The Element Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells by Judika Illes)

When to Cast a Spell - By Weekdays

my personal correspondences by weekday, complied form my grimoire. i’ve interpreted the below poem “children” as anything that will be produced by your efforts. 

Monday - “Monday’s child is fair of face” - glamours, beauty and confidence spells. weather work. healing spells. 

Tuesday - “Tuesday’s child is full of grace” - communication and love spells, friendship spells. any delicate magic. plant and herb-based magic

Wednesday - “Wednesday’s child is full of woe” - cursing, hexes, bindings and banishments. space and cosmic witchcraft.

Thursday - “Thursday’s child has far to go” - spells for travel and protection, astral travel and psychic protections. sea witchcraft, hedgecraft

Friday - “Friday’s child is loving and giving” - any spell planned for someone else, love/lust spells. banishing barriers, friendship spells. kitchen witchcraft.

Saturday - “Saturday’s child works hard for its living” - job and money spells, sucess and motivation spells. creativity and truth.

Sunday - “And a child that’s born on the Sabbath day, Is fair and wise and good and gay.” - intuition spells, justice and legality.  

Different Types of Wood for Wands

Alder - Support, foundation, magical beginnings, fire and water magic 

Apple - An apple wand is used for love magic, for rituals designed to establish contact with the Otherworld, for initiation, and for fertility rituals 

Ash - The ash is a great conductor of magical force, traditionally used for witches’ broomsticks, druids’ wands, and cunning men’s staffs; the use of the ash wand connects the magician to all three realms, and when using an ash wand he or she acts within all three 

Aspen - The aspen is used to invoke magical shields, for protection, and for healing 

Bay - The bay tree is associated with the sun god and his powers of protection, healing, and divination; a bay wand may be used in all these rituals 

Beech - The beech tree is associated with written knowledge; use a beech wand for spells and rituals concerning such knowledge, and in the consecration of written talismans 

Birch - The birch is a tree of fertility, but is also a powerful magical force in rituals of purification and the banishment of negativity

Blackthorn - A blackthorn wand can be used for great good or great ill; it is a powerful magical protection, but also an instrument of cursing, used anciently to invoke the Wild Hunt to carry off the soul of an enemy 

Bramble - Healing 

Buckthorn - Healing Cypress-Rites for the dead, crossing the gates of the underworld 

Elder - Rites of the crone goddess, rites of Samhain and winter, fairy contact, healing, and summoning spirits 

Elm - Rites of the Goddess, feminine magic 

Hawthorn - Protection, invoking a psychic shield, fairy contact, the rite of Beltane, and Goddess magic 

Hazel - A good general-purpose wand, some say this is the most efficacious of all wands; a hazel wand is sometimes called the wishing rod 

Holly - Rites of male magic, warrior magic, protection from negative forces Ivy-Binding magic, protection from psychic attack Juniper-For warding off the evil eye, exorcism 

Linden - Feminine power and rites of the Goddess 

Maple - Handfastings, rituals of celebration 

Mistletoe - Rites of healing, luck, and good fortune 

Oak - Rites of protection, general-purpose magic, Midsummer, divination, fairy contact, Otherworld magic 

Pine - Gaining knowledge, fire magic, illumination 

Poplar - Divination 

Rowan - Protection, divination Service 

Tree - Protection, or as an all-purpose wand

Spindle Tree - Spinning and weaving magic, creating magic, Goddess magic 

Whitebeam - Earth magic 

Willow - Bardic magic, healing, Goddess magic, feminine magic, rebirth, purification 

Yew - Initiation, funeral rites

*Credit to original author - If anyone knows who it is please let me know 

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(Image is not mine, but it inspired me. Curated from Pinterest.)

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Put moon water in your diffuser!! It’s a quick way to cleanse your space if you’re short on time, can’t burn incense, or you’re a closet witch!