Women in music + flowers

Detail: Dante and Virgil in Hell, 1850, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

getting rid of insects in the home the green witch way

while insect visitors like ants, wasps and spiders aren’t always welcome, killing these little creatures is never ideal, and can interfere with the energy of your home. whenever possible, here are some natural + humane alternatives to pest removal.

✳ ants: leaving lemon rind near their points of entry to your house is an effective deterrent; they will avoid the smell. you can also use baby powder, which they don’t like to walk on.

✳ wasps: if there is a wasp nest around your home, placing several cotton balls coated in peppermint essential oil around the affected area, like the corners of the front porch, will bother the wasps enough to stay away from the area. the closer you can place the peppermint to the nest, the better.

✳ spiders: chestnuts have a chemical compound on their surface that acts as a spider repellent; additionally, chestnuts don’t go bad for quite some time, so they can provide long-term spider deterring. place a handful of chestnuts in the corners of your home.

✳ bees: honeybees are precious and should be kept alive at all costs. if there is a beehive near or on your home that is causing bees to enter your home, or you or someone you live with have a bee allergy, the most effective humane way to prompt the bees to build a hive elsewhere is to smoke them out. do this at dawn, as it gives the bees time to relocate before sundown. using rotten wood, paper or cardboard, create a burning pile underneath or nearby the hive, set it alight, and immediately vacate the area, as the bees will start exiting the hive. make sure all your windows are sealed. you may need to do this over the course of a few days to ensure they leave, and often times bees won’t return to an area where they’ve been smoked.

the majority of insects will be deterred by peppermint essential oil or vinegar, as a general rule.

🌻 Midsummer, or summer solstice

🌻 Art By: Lanajay_Art on instagram https://www.instagram.com/lanajay_art/

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🌞 When Is Litha?

🌻 Northern Hemisphere:

20-24 June

It is typically celebrated on the longest day and the shortest night of the year

🌻 Southern Hemisphere:

20-24 December

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🌞What Is Litha?

🌻 Litha is the celebration of the longest day and the shortest night of the year. The sun god is thriving and at his most vibrant peak, giving warmth to the earth and growth all around. We are celebrating the potential and successes that surround us. From now on the days will begin to become shorter again and darkness will begin to take over. The summer and warmth are still sticking around for a while, though, and it is still a very happy occasion. We are celebrating the pregnancy of the Triple Goddess with the Horned God. The Oak King is currently ruling the waxing half of the year while the Holly King is ruling the waning half of the year. The Holly King and the Oak King are battling with each other and the Holly King will eventually overrule the Oak King. Litha is a time for important magick and major spell work that needs to be put into action; It’s the best time to complete any huge magickal workings that need tackling. Before the darker days return, we must celebrate.

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🌞How To Celebrate It

🌻 Litha comes at such a positive time of year and your celebrations will reflect this.

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🌞Activities

• 🌻 Tackle the most challenging and most anticipated spells and rituals at midsummer, the ones that require the most energy from you; what better time to do it than when the world’s energies are at their peak! It’s the best time of the year for rituals to do with fire,faery magick, love, passion, energy and luck for the warmer times to come.
• 🌻 It’s also a good time to renew any tools or create or purchase any extra magickal tools you may require.
• 🌻Throw a midsummer bonfire or have a fire ritual. Or organize an outside gathering to simply enjoy the sun! There are loads of different ways that you can do this, a traditional midsummer bonfire would (obviously) be outside, although if this is not an option, a wood burner inside would also be fine. Burn pieces of old oak, light them on the evening before midsummer, then let them burn out as they reach the morning. It is also common to scatter herbs on the fire. Some Wiccans also burn the nine sacred types of wood (birch, rowan, ash, alder, willow, hawthorn, oak, holly and hazel) to bring them good luck and a good harvest. During the midsummer bonfire they would jump over the fire, then let the fire burn down completely and sometimes collect ashes from the fire and scatter them on the fields or on their herb garden to bring good fortune in the harvesting season coming in the near future. You could also keep some ashes for luck within spell work or rituals.
• 🌻 Create a god’s eye: it is typically made from wool or string and its purpose is to give protection and luck for the darker and colder days to come. Hang the god’s eye above your altar or on your door.
• 🌻 Go for a walk and enjoy the peak of summer! Collect things from the natural world that you need for magickal workings and to place at your altar. Have a picnic or barbecue or even just go to the beach or go for a bike ride.
• 🌻 If you work with the fae or just like to appreciate them, midsummer is the time for the faery rede. At this time, the fae will be riding magickal animals across the countryside, so hang out, either outside your house or in a nearby field, Bells and offerings such as sparkly decorations and food can be used to create the perfect area for the fae.

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🌞Altar Ideas

• 🌻 Light green, yellow, gold and red candles to represent the sun god at his peak and the green earth at its fullest.
• 🌻 Decorate your altar with summer flowers such as sunflowers, carnations,poppies and hydrangeas.
• 🌻 Place a ring of flowers around your altar or around specific items for protection.
• 🌻 Pictures of the sun or ornaments symbolizing the sun honour the sun god being at his peak.
• 🌻 Oak leaves represent the Oak King, who has been ruling for this hald of the year, but will be laid to rest soon. Oak in different forms can be relevant to Litha.
• 🌻 Gold, yellow and orange ribbons and cloth can be draped at your altar.

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🌞Food And Drink

• 🌻 Warm-colored vegetables such as butternut squash,sweet potatoes, carrots and tomatoes are all great to eat around this time of the year. They represent warmth and the wonderful produce we receive from the summer.
• 🌻 Home-grown or locally produced leafy green vegetables
  
• 🌻 Spicy foods
  
• 🌻 Curries
  
• 🌻 Spiced cakes
  
• 🌻 Spiced punch and rum
  
• 🌻 Anything with honey or as an alternative golden or maple syrup- bees are another representation of Litha, the midsummer full moon is acutally also known as the honey moon!
  
• 🌻 Barbecued food or flame-grilled food is good to eat too; once again it represents the heat and the sun’s energy.
  
• 🌻 Ice cream- not only is it cooling in the summer months, it also represents the colder days to come.

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🌞Crystals

🌻 Relevant crystals to carry around with you this time of the year, to meditate with, to use in divination and spell work, and to place at your altar are:

• Emerald
• Sunstone
• Citrine
• Yellow Tourmaline
• Yellow Topaz
• Calcite

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🌞HERBS

🌻 Seasonal fresh herbs are great of Litha, as is anything that represents heat, flavour and greenery and ties in with Litha’s celebrations.

• Mint
• Basil
• Rosemary
• Sage
• Honeysuckle
• Carnation
• Paprika

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🌞INCENSE

🌻 Good incense to use during casting circles and burning at your altar around Litha time and for cleansing and consecrating, as well as for magickal workings, are:

• Lavender
• Citrus scents, such as orange and lemon
• Musk
• Pine
• Rose
• Summer Flowers

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🍄 Things To Research As A Green Witch MASTERLIST

A green witch is typically a witch whose specializes and focuses on natural materials and energies. They are often skilled herbalists and probably enjoys gardening. Like a lot. You might be a baby green witch or an experienced one. Maybe even an eclectic one, no matter what, all is welcome!

I am most certainly not entitled to knowing everything about green witches but I want to help out some people when stuck on not knowing what to research.

As always, enjoy!

gif by @la-petitefille

🍄 plants!

🍄 edible plants :)

🍄 non Edible plants :(

🍄 other uses for non edible plants that’s not eating :)

🍄 history of herbal witchcraft

🍄 herbal brews

🍄 aromatherapy

🍄 drying flowers/herbs

🍄 harvesting flowers/herbs

🍄 endangered plants (so you don’t accidently pick them)

🍄 medicinal plants/herbs

🍄 teas

🍄 tinctures

🍄 meads

🍄 smoke blend recipes

🍄 different types of other natural based witches

🍄 seasonal magick

🍄 when to start sowing

🍄 when to reap

🍄 wheel of the year

🍄 types of plants

🍄 types of herbs

🍄 what types of animals/insects (bees, butterflies, etc.) do your flowers/herbs attract?

🍄 usage for *plant name*’s roots

🍄 usage for *plant name*’s stem

🍄 usage for *plant name*’s flowers

🍄 usage for *plant name*’s leaves

🍄 usage for *plant name*’s bark

🍄 usage for *plant name*’s seed

🍄 plants

🍄 what are herb sachets?

🍄 pressed flowers <3

🍄 smoked herbs

🍄 poisonous plants

🍄 essential oils

🍄 extracts

🍄 cacti/succulents

🍄 gardening 101 (haha, i’m so lame)

🍄 what are some good botanical books?

🍄 the fae

🍄 candle correspondence to elements

🍄 PlAnTs

🍄 houseplants

🍄 sage (god, I love sage)

🍄 lavender

🍄 rosemary

🍄 basil

🍄 chamomile

🍄 PLANTS

🍄 crystals

🍄 aloe vera

🍄 tea leaf readings

🍄 dear me, I almost forgot to mention plants

feel free to add on, loves!

♡ That naked witch in the woods

🌼 Also known as spring equinox

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🐇 When Is Ostara?

🌼 Northern Hemisphere: 19-22 March

🌼 Southern Hemisphere: 19-22 September

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🐇What Is Ostara?

🌼 Ostara is a celebration of the start of spring, it’s when night and day  have become at perfect balance with each other. At this time, light now begins to take over darkness. Signs of spring are here for most of us or are arriving very soon. New life and growth are appearing all around us. Winter is drawing to an end and it’s getting to the time where we need to shake off the winter, if we haven’t already at Imbolc, and move full force ahead. All of the planning and procrastinating at Imbolc is now to be put to the test and begun. It’s a time for fertility, new growth, the birth of animals and insects too. The sun is slowly awakening to its full potential. The sun god and the young maiden goddess are married now and so conception is imminent. When she gives birth she will become the great mother. It’s also time to begin to honour your spring deities and your fertility deities, the main one being the Germanic Anglo-Saxon goddess Ostara who the sabbat is named after. She wakes up the earth with her powerful energy and creates fertility, growth and renewal all around. Ostara often takes the form of a hare of rabbit, which is why rabbits are a huge symbol of Ostara.

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🐇 How To Celebrate It

🌼 Easter, the traditional Christian holiday that is widely celebrated, has been adapted from the pagan Sabbat Ostara. As you may know, Easter is named after the female hormone oestrogen, necesary for fertility, which is one of the main aspects of the celebration of Ostara. As Easter has evolved from Ostara, there are actually quite a few similarities between the two holidays.

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🐇 Activities

🌼 Any plans or goals that you would like to complete this year, get started on them now; motivation is high!

🌼 Start your magickal herb garden if you haven’t already, if you don’t have room, no worries! Small pots and plants in appropriate places can be just as effective.

🌼 Take a walk, look for the first inspirational and motivational signs of spring, Maybe even press a flower or two.

🌼 Hold an Ostara egg hunt.

🌼 Wear green to represent the green earth arriving.

🌼 Spells to cast at this time would be for hope, love and good fortune or any that relate to achieving goals, to fertility and to love.

🌼 Bless an egg with a property of your choice and eat it.

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🐇Altar Ideas

🌼 Decorate it with green, purple and yellow ribbons to represent the spring and greenery that comes to the earth,

🌼 Light green,purple and yellow and orange candles.

🌼 Paint real or fake eggs for your altar to represent fertility and honor the fertility goddess Ostara.

🌼 Decorate your altar with some spring flowers- only pick a few though! After picking flowers, water them to give thanks and plant some more seeds around them if you can.

🌼 Pot up a plant and place it at your altar, keep it healthy and watch it grow and flourish.

🌼 Add statues, trinkets or stuffed toys of hares or rabbits- these are major symbols of fertility and immortality, and are close representations of fertility deities.

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🐇 Food And Drink

 🐇 Good foods and drinks for this time of the year are anything that represent fertility and seasonal foods to honour the beginning of spring:

🌼 Green vegetables
🌼 Seeds
🌼 Eggs
🌼 Dairy such as goat’s , cow’s and sheep’s cheese and milk. Free- range or home produced is best, but shop-bought or dairy substitutes, if you don’t eat dairy, are just as good.
🌼 Meats such as lamb, ham and rabbit, or meat substitutes
🌼 Flowers that are edible, on salads, etc.
🌼 Light breads
🌼 Fresh juices

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🐇Crystals

🐇 Relevant crystals to carry around with you this time of year and to meditate with, use in divination and spell work, and place at your altar are:

🌼 Clear Quartz

🌼 Agate

🌼 Rose Quartz

🌼 Amazonite

🌼 Jasper

🌼 Lapis Lazuli

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🐇Herbs And Flowers

🐇 Herbs and flowers that are preferable at this time of the year are seasonal flowers and herbs that can be planted, or that begin to blossom or be fragrant in the spring.

🌼 Lilies

🌼 Narcissus

🌼 Lavender

🌼 Honeysuckle

🌼 Lemon Balm

🌼 Daffodils

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🐇Incense

🐇 Good incense to use during casting circles, burning at your altar around Ostara time and for cleansing and consecrating, as well as for magickal workings, are:

🌼 Floral- spring flowers

🌼 Rose

🌼 Strawberry

🌼 Oak Moss

🌼 Sandalwood

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Source: A modern guide to witchcraft & magick by: harmony nice

Art Credit To: natachachohraart

Art by thienbao.deviantart.com

Originally posted by tana-the-dreamchaser

So. There’s probably quite a few lists out there on water, types of water and the uses of each kind. We already know water is a good offering, but honestly, a lot of the lists leave out a bunch of water types. I would know I looked at as many as I could find on here and on other sources. This list will be updated when I find more information or a new type of water that hasn’t been listed here.

Disclaimer: I have not included waters from closed religions/cultures/practices. If I do have one listed please let me know and I will remove it from the list or make a note about it. Please be respectful to other cultures if it’s closed to you. Don’t be a baby about it. No means No.

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Angel Water

• Love, Beauty, Angel Work, Manifestation, Protection, Cleansing, Blessings, Romance, Dreams, Sexual Energies, Romance

Asteroid Water

• Main Source: @feral-space-faerie
• Anointing, Physic Clarity, Astral Travel, Earth Magic/Workings, Healing, Energy, Wishes, Dreams, Damage

Cemetery Water

• Main Source @of-bones-and-pomegranates
• Spirit Work, Shadow Work, Offering for the Dead, Grounding, Ancestor Work, Psychic, Divination, Energy Work, Protection, Warding, Cleansing, Healing from Loss, Restfulness, Releasing, Grieving

Creek/Stream Water

• Purification, Cleansing, Rebirth, Harmony, Peace, Healing, Calming, Relaxing, Movement, Progress

Dew Water

• Fertility, Love, Glamours, Growth, Beauty, Youth, Prosperity, Birth, Wishes, Health, Healing, Dreams, Sleep, Peace, Happiness

Hail Water

• Protection, Hexes, Curses, Causing Physical Harm, Strength, Destruction, Harm, Pain, Fear

Holy Water

• Banishing, Cleansing, Warding, Purification, Protection, Blessings, Healing, Exorcism, Health, Calming

Ice Water

• Transformation, Balance, Creativity, Change, Slowing Down, Stopping Emotions, Curses, Hexes, Warding

Lake Water

• Peace, Relaxation, Reflection, Emotions, Love, Memories, Past Life Regressions, Meditation, Knowledge, Strength, Intuition, Confidence

Lavender Water

• Memory, Psychic Abilities, Attraction, Sexual Energies, Divination, Love, Romance, Intuition, Sleep, Dreams, Relaxing, Calming

Marsh Water

• Cloaking, Invisibility, Cleansing, Protection, Warding, Reflection

Mist Water

• Creativity, Balance, Partnerships, Hiding Truths, Protection, Curses, Hexes, Inspiration, Fear, The Unknown

Moon Water

• All Purpose Water, Cleansing, Dream Work, Astral Travel, Balance, Intuition, Banishing, Divination, Creativity, Motivation, Manifestation, Healing, Clarity, Protection, Reflection

Pond Water

• Bindings, Silencing, Peace, Contentment, Relaxation, Self Reflection, Relaxing, Meditation, Balance

Rain Water

• Energy, Protection, Growth, Truth, Cleansing, Rebirth, Power, Peace, Quelling Anger, Relaxation, Dreams, Cycles, Creativity, Inspiration, Balance, Calming, Love, Romance, Depression

Rainbow Water

• Main Source: @thespellweavingspirit
• Luck, Wealth, Happiness, Fulfillment, Positivity, LGBT+ Spells Work, Changes, Perseverance, Hope, Connection, Creativity, Joy, Inspiration, Peace, Prosperity, Growth

River Water

• Changes, Moving Forward, Warding, Releasing, Emotions, Feelings, Energy, Movement, Progress, New Opportunities, Protection, Cleansing, Motivation, Rushing, Power, Strength, Confidence

Rose Water

• Love, Glamours, Beauty, Healing, Happiness, Strength, Cleansing, Blessings, Sleep, Motivation, Protection, Commitment, Compassion, Romance, Friendships, Health

Sea/Ocean Water

• Healing, Psychic Work, Adapting, Changes, Manifestation, Strength, Glamours, Cleansing, Banishing, Protection, Hexing, Purification, Health, Power, Confidence, Anger

Snow Water

• Purity, Resolutions, Balance, Change, Transformation, Cleansing, Purification, New Beginnings, Protection, Calming, Relaxing, Happiness, Joy, Peace, Hibernation, Reflection

Star Water

• Main Source: @stargvsm
• Power, Protection, Purity, Illumination, Enlightenment, Guidance, Hope, Divination, Clarity, Intuition, Lessons, Learning, Memory, Wisdom, Knowledge, Peace

Storm Water

• Force, Motivation, Relaxation, Anger, Releasing, Emotions, Strength, Confidence, Charging, Curses, Hexes, Protection, Offensive Magic, Movement, Changes, Power

Sun Water

• Cleansing, Self Esteem, Social Anxiety, Truth, Confidence, Enlightenment, Positivity, Glamours, Health, Energy, Power, Strength, Healing, Creativity, Inspiration

Swamp Water

• Banishing, Bindings, Cursing, Hexes, Protection, Warding, Cloaking, Illnesses, Negativity, Invisibility

Waterfall Water

• Power, Energy, Success, Movement, Bravery, Confidence, Strength, Force, Hiding, Protection, Warding, Peace, Calming

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Sincerly,

The Sleepy Witch

**Compiled from my personal Grimoire. Additions may Happen**

Created: 4/17/2019

Posted(Patreon): 4/17/2019

Posted(Tumblr): 4/23/2019

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