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Witchcraft 101: Core concepts (energy work)

You’ve probably heard “energy work” mentioned, or at least one of the following terms: grounding, shielding, cleansing, raising, charging, visualising, casting. You’ll see these terms in spells and rituals as well as textbooks and theoretical discussions. There are other posts for theory; this post aims to give a rundown of multiple basic concepts of energy work to get you up and running. (Or at least, to help you understand other posts.) Bear in mind that much of this is personal opinion. Since everyone sees energy differently, in my “how-tos” I’ll refer to energy generally - fill in your own views. 

Also, in my methods, I mention “get comfortable” a lot - exactly what that means varies, depending on what I’m doing and wearing, but generally, stop fiddling with anything, and make sure you’re in a comfortable position, whatever the position is. You could be standing, sitting, lying down, moving, dancing - whatever, so long as you’re comfortable. 

Visualising

What is visualisation?

I consider visualisation to be a core concept to energy work in general. Visualisation is, essentially, thought. It’s imagination and memory and emotions all rolled up into one. (This is heavy on personal opinion, by the way.) Visualisation is what makes your intent for a spell come to fruition; if you aren’t holding your intent (i.e. thinking about/visualising it) while casting it, you can’t expect your spell to work the way you intended it to. 

How do you visualise?

As mentioned above, everyone sees energy differently, and your way may not be the same as mine. My basic visualisation method can be seen in the way I do any time of energy work: I get comfortable, close my eyes and steady my breath, and I focus on feeling and “seeing” the energy around me (I view all energy as white, incidentally). Say I’m cleansing something, my first step is to hold the object, focus on how it feels (is it cold, smooth, rough?) and “see” it glowing with a white light (energy). Then I’ll move onto cleansing it (see below). 

Your method will be different, but you could start with this or look through other posts for ideas. 

Grounding

What is grounding?

Grounding, basically, is all about ridding yourself of unwanted energy/getting your energy in balance. I kind of view it as a warm-up: you’re getting yourself in the right frame of mind and the right physical state before a workout (or spell). 

How do you ground yourself?

Everyone has their own techniques, and in time, you’ll develop yours. This is my routine:

Get comfortable.

Close your eyes and focus on your breathing. 

As you exhale, imagine unwanted energy leaving your body.

As you inhale, imagine the energy you want and need pulling comfortably around you. 

Continue for as long as you like. 

Many people like to visualise different places, or contact with nature. Try different techniques and take what you like from them, and just go with what works for you. 

Cleansing

What is cleansing?

Cleansing is like setting a device back to factory settings, or washing the dishes so they can be used again. You cleanse something to rid it of any unwanted energies - kind of like grounding, but for something that isn’t you. You could cleanse spaces and objects, and it’s generally a good idea to cleanse any items you’ve used before as well as the space you’re using before beginning a spell. It’s also generally a good idea to cleanse anything you use for divination, like tarot cards and pendulums (but I totally don’t cleanse them as often as I should). You can use just visualisation, or you can use tools - water, salt, incense and sage are all pretty common tools for cleansing. 

How do you cleanse?

My method for objects that you can hold:

Get comfortable.

Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.

Hold the item and focus on how it feels - its shape, size, temperature, texture, and scent. 

While holding the item, now focus on how it looks (with or without opening your eyes) - its colour, decorations, the way the light falls/reflects on it.

Still holding the item, visualise energy glowing/pulsing around the object.

Still holding the item, visualise the energy flowing away from the object, leaving it without any glowing energy.

Continue until you feel like the object is cleansed. 

My method for a space, area, or room:

Clear the space you plan on using (physically - move unwanted objects out of the way, pick up any rubbish etc).

Get comfortable.

Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.

Mark the parameters of the space you’re going to use (this can be a whole room or just part of one - just mentally or physically figure out where the “ends” of your spell space are). I generally walk around the edges of my space.

Focus on how the space around you feels and looks - temperature, light, textures etc. 

Visualise energy glowing/pulsing within the boundaries of your space.

Visualise energy flowing away from the space - if you have a broom, you could sweep the area while visualising the energy moving away as you sweep. You could also use incense or herb bundles while visualising energy moving away from the smoke as you move through the space.

Continue until you feel like the space is cleansed.

Warding

What is warding?

Basically, warding is putting up a shield to stop anything unwanted interfering with your spell, tools, ingredients, intent, belongings, etc.. It’s like an antivirus on a device, or a lock on a door. You could put up wards around your spell space, your home, yourself, anything you own, other people (with their consent) - pretty much anything.  

How do you put up wards?

My method for putting up wards:

Get comfortable.

Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.

Mark the parameters of the space or thing you’re putting up wards around (this could be running your finger around a crystal, walking around an area, stretching your arms and legs out to mark the parameters of your body, etc.)

Focus on how the space or thing feels and looks - temperature, light, textures etc.

Visualise energy glowing/pulsing within the space or thing.

Visualise unwanted energy flowing away from the space - like with cleansing, you could use incense or a broom to aid your visualisation.

Visualise “walls” growing up, over and under the space or object. It’s important that the walls connect, and there aren’t any gaps (unless you want to visualise, say, a door that you can enter and leave from). 

Continue until you feel like the space or thing is warded.

Raising

What is raising energy?

Raising energy is like creating or compiling energy with a specific purpose (intent). Up until now, we’ve been looking at ways of using energy to prepare yourself, your environment and your tools for spells - raising energy is a bit different. The energy that we raise has a specific intent, and generally, we want to use that intent somehow - like in a spell. 

How do you raise energy?

There are so, so many different ways to raise energy - such as music, chanting, dancing, walking, laughing, exercising, and a whole bunch of others. You can also raise energy by visualisation alone - as I describe here.

My method for raising energy:

Get comfortable.

Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.

If they aren’t already, position your hands so that your palms are open.

Focus on what you want to happen - your intent.

Visualise energy pulsing from your fingertips. The energy moves over your fingers and towards your palm, where it collects. As you do this, keep focusing on your intent.

Visualise the energy, now in your palm, growing larger and larger. As you do this, keep focusing on your intent.

Continue until you feel you have the energy you wanted, or for as long as you like. 

If you’re raising energy from, say, dancing, you might visualise the energy coming from your feet or body instead - I adapt this depending on the activity, but I always like to have a way to “gather” energy in one area. This could be your whole spell area, or it could be an area like the palm of your hand - whatever works for you and the activity. 

Charging

What is charging?

Charging is drawing on energy from elsewhere and putting it into an object to give that object intent. Think charging your phone, or laptop. You can also take energy you’ve raised and put it into an object - the energy can come from anywhere. People often have specific correspondences for different sources, however - so think about the source of the energy if you aren’t raising it yourself. 

How do you charge something?

Like with raising energy, there are entirely too many methods to list here. Some examples include leaving objects in sunlight or moonlight and bathing it in water or fire. You can pretty much do anything, so don’t be afraid to experiment. If you’re raising energy, you can just put it straight into the object (see the method below). If you’re charging something without raising energy yourself, then you can skip this and consider it charged after as much or as little time as you think works. 

My method for charging objects:

Get comfortable.

Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.

Visualise the energy, now in your palm, growing larger and larger. (This is the energy collected by raising energy, with a specific intent.)

Hold the object you want to charge (with one hand if you visualised the energy going to one palm, or with both hands if you visualised the energy going to both palms) and visualise the energy flowing into the object from your palm(s). Continue focusing on your intent as you do this. 

Continue until you feel that all the energy you raised is now in the object, or for as long as you like. 

Once you’ve charged an object, you can leave it indefinitely and use it in a later spell (though if you’re forgetful like me, you might want to put a post-it near it reminding you what you’re using it for).

Casting

What is casting?

Casting is guiding your energy towards the outcome you want. For me, this is the most important part of any spell - this is when you put all that work into making shit happen. So it’s important to be very, very specific. Don’t just focus on needing a job. Focus on finding a job that is right for you, will help you meet your professional goals (you can be specific about the goals, too) and will meet your needs (availability, hours, pay, travel time, benefits etc.), and finding that job at a time that suits you. This is also where you can really have fun with visualising! 

How do you cast?

My method for casting:

Get comfortable.

Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.

Hold the object(s) you’ve charged, or your spell (if it’s a tangible thing, like spell bags, candles, food etc.).

Visualise the situation you want to happen. As described, be specific. If you’re looking for a job, you could visualise a “you’re hired” email, dated at some point that suits you, with the above information that suits you - the hours you want, the pay you want, etc. Morph that situation into your first day, meeting friendly and efficient coworkers and management, then six months or a year into your new job. Visualise yourself feeling productive, happy, and relaxed. Visualise yourself at a review, hearing that you’re doing well and you’ve made great progress.

Now visualise the energy in your spell moving “towards” that situation. (I like to “keep” the situation in one part of my spell space, usually in the air in front of me, so I can “see” the energy from the spell I’m holding moving towards it. 

Continue until you feel that all the energy from your spell has “made it” to the situation, or for as long as you like.  

Bringing it all together

So, this looks like quite a lot. I promise it’s easier in practice, especially once you’ve done it a few times. Also, remember that this is a post that largely focuses on visualisation - you can minimise effort by charging objects in light or water (aka leaving them on a windowsill for a few hours) instead of by using visualisation to raise power and charge them. 

In practice, a routine for a spell might look like:

Ground yourself.

Cleanse your space, and any tools or ingredients you’re going to use.

Put up wards.

Raise power (you could raise power individually for individual ingredients, or all at once for all your ingredients).

Charge your ingredients (either individually, or all at once). 

Cast your spell. 

Personally, I can do the first 3 in about 5-10 minutes altogether. The last three are more time-consuming, and could take 5-10 minutes each, per item. So a quick, simple spell with no ingredients could be cast in 15 minutes (I would just skip charging and put the raised energy straight to casting). Let’s take an example of a kitchen spell, making soup:

Ground self.

Cleanse space, tools, ingredients.

Put up wards around the kitchen.

Raise power while doing food prep.

Put ingredients in pot.

Charge ingredients through stirring - energy goes into the soup through the wooden spoon.

Leave to simmer and continue charging.

Cast spell by eating. 

When I do kitchen magic, I’m already doing most of this just by cooking. I just add more visualisation in, and put some thought into the ingredients, and I have a spell! 

I hope this helps! You might find my other posts helpful:

The problem with correspondence lists

How to correspondence: food & herbs

How to correspondence: when to spell

What to use: food & herbs

When to spell: by moon phases

When to spell: by time of day

When to spell: by day of the week

When to spell: by month

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Ostara Masterpost💐✨

Stay Positive - Stay Powerful

✨💐Overview 💐✨

Wicca 101: Ostara 

The Witch Talks: The Spring EquinoxOstara and The Spring Equinox 

Ostara - 21st of March 

Blessed Ostara

💐🥚What Can I Do To Celebrate Ostara?🥚💐 

Setting Up Your Altar: Ostara 

Laurel’s Easy Sabbat Planning Guide 

🌸Happy Spring Equinox!!🌸 

Celebrate Ostara!

Celebrate Ostara 

🌻🌷 Spring Witchcraft 🌹💐 

✨💐Food 💐✨

💐🍠Ostara Quiche🍠💐 

Ostara Tea

Ostara Honey Cakes

Ostara Honey Cake

Ostara Lavender Lemonade

Ostara Sugar Cookies

Ostara Honey and Milk Cake Recipe

✨💐 Spells 💐✨

Spring Healing Jar Spell 

🌿Spring Glamour Shower Spell🌻

🌵✨Springtime Spell✨🌵

spring spell 

✨💐 Rituals 💐✨

A Springtime Ritual

🌸springtime renewal ritual

Lushcraft: Cleansing and Restoring Ostara Bath

✨💐Tarot 💐✨

Tarot Spell for Self-Empowerment

New Life Tarot Spread

Ostara Serpent Magic Tarot Spread

A Tarot spread to welcome Ostara!

✨💐Correspondences 💐✨

Ostara Plants 

Ostara Foods

Ostara Flowers 

Ostara Correspondences!

Fertility Correspondences 💕

✨💐Other 💐✨

Ostara Psychic Body Scrub

Ostara Oil

Ostara Oil II

Ostara Oil III

Ostara Oil IV

Spring Time Oil 

Offering stones

💘L o v e w a t e r 💧

Quick Guide to Celebrating the Sabbats 🌻

Seasonal Herbs/Ingredients/Flower

Ostara Crafts: Lover’s Wand

💖🥚Ostara Tips!🥚💖

I will be updating this whenever I find anything new!

✨disclaimer // none of these belong to me! all credit goes to the creators! never listen to just one source, do you own research!

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for the creative witch 🎨

stick a pencil behind your ear — pencils are usually made of cedar wood (juniperus virginiana) which is said to carry spiritual and visionary energies, but can also help with self-mastery; pencil can be enchanted!

moon phases + zodiac signs — use new moon water for starting new painting projects and full moon water for finishing them; use the zodiac of the current moon for your creativity (fire sign: creative and passionate energy; water sign: emotional expression; air sign: planning and mental work; earth sign: hand-made material items like arts and crafts);

planetary rulers of creative days — monday is ruled by the moon (emotions, inspiration); wednesday is ruled by mercury (expression, communication); friday is ruled by venus (love, beauty, art) sunday is ruled by the sun (personality, creativity, expression of self);

surround yourself with crystals — yellow fluorite, carnelian, chrysoberyl, citrine, orange calcite, tangerine quartz, mookaite jasper, fire agate, tiger’s eye, garnet, bloodstone, rhodochrosite, moonstone, pink kunzite, amethyst, ametrine, (herkimer) diamonds, chrysoprase, blue apatite, blue chalcedony, blue fluorite, blue kyanite, lapis lazuli, celestite, blue lace agate, larimar, azurite, opal; …

create your own color meanings — there are traditional and common meanings for colors but it also really helps to think about the colors and feel into the colors yourself. what do you associate with each color and what do different color combinations make you feel? then pin down which color makes you creative and surround yourself with it;

ask the Archangels for help — Archangel Gabriel can help with creativity and dissolving fear; Archangel Jophiel can help with wisdom and communication; Archangel Raphael helps with intuition and creative visualization, also brings healing and harmony; Archangel Haniel can help with expression of self and soul, also helps us to expand our spiritual horizon and therefore our art;

use essential oils while working — tangerine for joy and creativity; lavender for relaxation; clary sage for clarity and vision; jasmine for optimism and confidence; frankincense to calm; rosemary for mental clarity; eucalyptus for enthusiasm and creativity; peppermint for concentration; …

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Artist Witchy things

Watercolors with charged water.

Making r e a l l y decorative sigils.

Hiding sigil in your sketches or under paint

Color correspondences

Using your words with intention in song

Devoting music to your gods (if youre religious)

Weaving spells into jewelry

Enchanting your tools to not lose them and have them work properly

Meditating during doing your art

Working a spell into a painting and depicting a representation of what it does.

Mixing your own paint using herbs for the magickal properties.

Anything else?

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Color Magic 101: The Anatomy of Color

Welcome to lesson one in this series I’m creating for beginner Art Witches!

We have all seen and heard about color correspondences. Red = Anger/Passion Yellow = Happiness etc. but the truth is that there’s much more to color than just it’s name. The psychological effects of color, and therefore the magic we can do with it, are much more heavily influenced by those other components. So let’s take a look at the three components to color: Hue, Value, and Saturation.

Hue

Put simply Hues are the categories of color. They are the general name we refer to a color by. Sky blue and Midnight blue are very different colors but they both fall under the Hue Blue.

In the vast majority of magical practices this is as far as the study of color goes. There are many lists of correspondences associated with each Hue which include planets, days of the week, deities, etc.  

Begin a color journal- Start by listing Hues and what your personal associations are to each one. Does the color purple scare you? Does yellow calm you down? This information will be the basis of your color spellwork.

Value

Value refers to how light or dark a color is. It’s typically broken down in a 1-10 scale; the lighter range (called High Key colors) are referred to as Tints whereas the darker (Low Key) colors are called Shades. When creating art and visual spells there should be a full range of values throughout the piece. (unless specifically done otherwise for a purpose). When you want to draw attention to a particular area you can do that by creating high contrast there (very light values next to very dark values).

“Wood Nymph” -Lumi

As you can see the image on the left, which has a full range of values (1-10), is far more eye-catching than the image on the right which has only the top 4 or so high key values. By putting the darkest black next to the lightest white in the eye area it creates an attention grabbing contrast and directs the viewer’s eye.   ….Last but not least…

Saturation/Chroma

This term is probably the most misused/misunderstood property of color. It refers to the intensity of the color. This is the range between pure color (most intense/vivid) and grey (no color, only value). This does NOT affect the value only the color.

The left image is very saturated, the colors are vivid and recognizable. The version on the right is very desaturated, almost completely colorless, but the values haven’t changed only the intensity of the color.

We have powerful emotional responses to these variations which, once we understand how to use them, can help us craft powerful spells.

Homework-

Color Journal- Grab some paper and a pen (doesn’t have to be fancy) and start critically analyzing your associations to color. What do you associate each hue with in general? Are there specific variations of that color that stand out to you? Which ones are more negative/positive? which ones do you feel most connected to? We’ll be getting into the science of favorite colors in the next lesson but for now get a baseline for your personal connection to color.

Create a Value Range- Just like the graphic here, get used to mixing your medium of choice into 10 separate values. You’ll gain more control with your medium and a better eye for full value ranges. You can use paint, ink, pastels, pencil, crayon, whatever you like to work with but keep it strictly to values, no color just yet. Record your experiences in your journal.

Saturation Survey- Find or make a series of images that are saturated and desaturated. What did you feel while making/finding them? What emotional impact does the color intensity have on you? Does a desaturated image look ghostly and creepy or soft and comforting? Do the vivid colors of a saturated image make you feel excited and amped or anxious and overwhelmed? Record your findings in your journal.

I hope you have a good understanding of the anatomy of color now. Try to incorporate some of the terminology we used when referring to color in your daily life to get used to categorizing them for later use. Maybe you want to use that high key desaturated yellow from the sunrise you saw in a spell for new beginnings and fresh starts! The next lesson will be exploring the science behind your favorite color so stay tuned.

Let me know if there’s a topic you want to learn more about, how your color study is going, or if you are a fellow art witch (or are considering this path) and found this useful.

Stay Creative Witches!

-Lumi

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Intro to Art Witchcraft

🎨A brief introduction🎨 The lovely @naomi121406 posted THIS intro to Sea witchcraft and I thought it might be helpful to do a similar post introducing Art Witchcraft! 

Art Witchcraft is a path of witchcraft focused around the use of color and the creation of physical forms of art imbued with magic.

This path can be catered towards whichever artistic medium you prefer: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Digital, Traditional, Written etc. but typically involves an increased interest in sigil making, visual spellwork, Divination and utilizing the psychological effects of color for magical purposes.

🖌The Craft🖌

✍ The practice by itself is open to everyone with an interest in the arts.

✍ If you want to practice Art Witchcraft as a religion you can incorporate deities associated with artists and makers!    *Here is a list of art related deities to research if you’re interested.

✍ An Art Witch’s tools can be anything that you use within your current artistic works. You can dedicate a particular paintbrush to function as a wand, directing energy and intent into your visual spells. You can create sculptures of your guardians to place within your sacred space. Maybe you want to craft your own divination tools (i.e. runes, dice, tarot, oracle, pendulums etc) or wear specific clothes when working your magic or charge your papers, pencils, waters, clays etc. 

🖌How do you start?🖌

The first thing you’ll need is a strong love for creation, from there its just a matter of developing what works for you. Here’s some ideas to get you started:

✍ As in any other type of witchcraft, you’ll want to read as much as you can: study anatomy, do studies from life/nature, study art history, read about the psychology of color. The path of a witch is one of constant learning!

✍ You can also start gathering your tools. A sketchbook and pencil is a great place to begin. I highly recommend keeping a journal to track your development. Record your tarot readings, what you learned from each piece of art you create, and any interesting bits of information you run across. Ideas are the beginnings of art magic so find a way to develop and record your ideas!

✍ In your Grimoire/sketchbook you can write down your personal color correspondences, the artists you admire/emulate and what you like about their work, herbs or plant life that you find inspiring, crystals (there are tons of ways to incorporate them into your craft) and much more! 

✍ When you’re ready, you can start spellcrafting! Your first spells may involve protection spells, dedications for your tools, creativity or inspiration spells, easy things so you can get protected and start getting some practice. My personal recommendation for art witches is a self-dedication ritual where you, after creating a sacred space, make a commitment to yourself (or a deity) to devote yourself to the study and practice of art magic. *This is completely optional*

✍ As an Art Witch, you may want to do some more witchy things daily. Some ideas can be: Sketch or study everyday, incorporate color correspondences into your life, practice sigil making, watch art tutorials, write affirmations, or meditate/visualize to flex those creative muscles. Create a studio space (even a small or temporary one) to work magic in.

✍ Many Art Witches also work with Candle Magic, Nature/Weather Magic and Divination, so learn about those or any other areas of interest to you. Everything you experience will inform your artwork!

✍ Remember that Art Witchcraft is about loving the process of creation and your expression through it. So don’t be afraid to experiment, take risks, and always be in the process of improvement. Learning to take critique, or give it to yourself, is critical!

✍ If you want to know more about this practice, I have a whole series of posts about color and I am always posting resources, inspiration, and my personal journey! I’m always happy to answer questions and offer advice! 🖌

Love and Light, Lumi

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Mindfulness Meditation 101

There are tons of benefits to practicing mindfulness meditation. It’s a scientifically proven method to increase personal happiness, empathy towards others, greater cognitive ability, and significantly less stress/anxiety levels. As if that weren’t enough, it’s great for your posture too!

This is a super simple practice that you can do practically anywhere and for any length of time. Great for modern witches on the go to bring some real magic to your day!

How: 1. Sit down- find a place that won’t distract you and get into position. You can sit in a chair with your feet flat on the floor, cross legged on the ground, or whatever is comfortable for you. Straighten your spine, imagine the top of your head being pulled by a string towards the sky.

2. Breathe- Focus your attention on your breath. Doesn’t matter how you do it (in and out through the nose or the mouth or any combination therein). Clean air going in, stagnant/negative air leaving the body taking with it all your stress and anxiety.

3. Manage the Mind- At some point your mind will start to wander. Don’t beat yourself up about it, it’s normal. Acknowledge the thought then let it pass returning your attention to the breath. Imagine you are a pedestrian watching the highway of your thoughts stream by. A passive onlooker, aware but not engaged.

This is a really simple and easy way to begin gaining control of your thoughts (a basic skill for practicing magic) and feeling refreshed and able to take on anything!

Remember: Magic takes practice!

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How cool would this be for spells or sigils?!

Wire wrapped paper beads. write your spell on it and roll it up and carry it with you. You could paint them with colors corresponding to your goals, link them up as a bracelet and wear them. No one would know about the witchraft!

Instructions here.

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Spellsugars

Do you want to make coloured sugars to use in your spellcraft, but don't know how? I experimented, so you don't have to!

Coloured spellsugars can be used in powders, jars, sachets, and since some of them are still food-safe, to put in your tea. I wanted to make a dark blue one for some sweet dreams, pink for self love, gold as a substitute for honey, and green for money/prosperity.

Methods under the cut:

Let me start with the TLDR; imo the best options to colour are food colouring or soft pastels. Food colouring will give you the brightest colours and it will still look like sparkly sugar. Soft pastel will give the most even colour and will be great in powder, but it's harder to get bright colours. Now, onto the long version!

Method one: food colouring. Left is with liquid food colouring, four drops blue and one drop red to get a dark blue colour. Right is gel colouring, in which I used just the tiniest bit. Mix thoroughly! Since this is wet, it needs to dry, either lay it out on a plate and leave it for 24-48 hours or if you have cats like me, make a little plate out of aluminium foil and bake for 10 minutes at 350F. The blue one was a failure, since it turned into a caramel slab that I then had to break apart in the mortar and pestle, meaning it lost a lot of it's colour. But it got a redemption arc! Turns out one drop of colouring was enough (oops) so I mixed the same colour, put one drop in the sugar and repeated the process. Success!

Left: redemption sugar. right: failed sugar.

I love this method because it still looks like sugar, but coloured, which is the effect I want. Also a lot of websites for baking supplies (like wilton) have charts on how to mix alllll the colours, making it extremely versatile

Left, Method two: soft pastel. Take a soft pastel chalk and grate a little into your bowl with a fine grater. Then add sugar and mix thoroughly. I love this method because it gives a very even coat, however it is very hard to get the colours right. I used a bright leafy green, but it came out so soft that I had to add a darker green, and even then it wasn't the colour I wanted. Right, Method three: eyeshadow. Same method as above, except with eyeshadow! (don't use used eyeshadow, that is very much not hygienic). I wanted to try this because I wanted to see if the sugar retains the lustre of the gold eyeshadow. It does not, the spoon and the bottle do, but not the sugar. Also I took as much as I thought I needed, mixed, figured I needed to triple that to get any sort of colour. So this just isn't worth it.

Method four: perfect pearls, or other crafting powder. Put a little bit into your bowl, mix thoroughly. Again, I was hoping that it would retain the lustre, but it didn't. And I ran into the same problem as with the eyeshadow, I would need a lot just to get a bit of colour.

So, for brightness, and edibility, use the (liquid) food colouring. For softness, use soft pastels. Happy crafting!

Also tagging @breelandwalker because I saw in her powders tag that people were asking how to make black sugar, which got me off my ass to finally try this.

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Looking for some witch and pagan blogs to follow

Hey, so It's the summer meaning more time at home and magic learning sooo

Art witches

Ecclectic witches

Storm/weather witches

Sigil witches

Hellenism blogs

Kemeticsm blogs

#eclectic/art witch here

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Mantras for Art Witches

I am unafraid to create my truth.

I am unhindered by artist’s block.

I am unbothered by others’ opinions of my work.

I am unwilling to change my work for others.

I am unbridled creatively

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Land art spell or offering for art witches who want to work with the land spirits 🍁🍂

(Land art by Jon Foreman)

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Something I've noticed about myself as a creative and a witch

Full Moons: practical creative energy like cooking, baking, diy hair and skin care, gardening, etc

New Moons: aesthetic creative energy like painting, drawing, writing, singing, etc

I don't know if anyone else has this or the opposite. This is just a personal realization

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🎨Art Magic Ideas🎨

Use enchanted waters such as moon, elemental or holy waters to enchant your paint water

Create a thoughtform for/ensorcell a tool (paintbrush, pencil, needle, etc.) to assist your spell(s)

Recite chants/prayers/affirmations (intention) as you work

Experiment using herbs, resins, teas, etc. to make magical pigments

Make sigil stamps out of erasers, cork, hot glue, etc.

Create a portrait of your shadow self, or your witch/wizard/whatever-sona

Compile or record different playlists for different spell 'genres', meditation, and "vision board-ing"

Create your own recycled handmade enchanted paper for petitions

Protect your spells by documenting them in pictograms- use only images to portray the process

Use a recycled or handmade decorated container to house your 'personal demons'

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💻 Beginner Art Magic for Digital Artists 🖊

Drawing sigils in-between digital layers to keep them unseen to do their work

Writing spells or blessings in-between layers works the same way

Intuitive drawing for divination and spirit communication

Art in general is great for honoring ancestors and/or deities and meditating on their lessons and messages, anything from what represents them to full on portraits is fair game, get creative!

Creating a digital altar is a great option for anyone who has limited space, is closeted/secretive, is into techy witchcraft, is more of a minimalist, or if you're just an artist who wants an altar on their computer or tablet!

I hope this short list helps you get started, or helps you think of ideas! Happy witching!🌙🧚🏽‍♂️💫

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Are you into crystals? Have you considered adding art painted with crystals to your collection? Did you even realize it was possible?

All of these were painted exclusively with crystal pigments.

First row- Kyanite; Sugilite & Jadeite; Sugilite & Amethyst

Second row- Amethyst; Sugilite & Amethyst

Third row- Lapis lazuli & Sodalite; Lapis lazuli & Kyanite

Fourth row- Jadeite; Amethyst; Jadeite & Amazonite

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More Art Magic Ideas🎨🕯️

Draw or paint using your non-dominant hand to bring out your inner child

Create a mini oracle set out of bottlecaps or coins

Write odes to the tools, herbs, etc. that you use the most in your craft

Use only natural materials in a work of art- tea, coffee, dirt, plant parts, etc.

Decorate playing cards to act as talismans and keep in your pocket/wallet/bag (i.e. a money drawing card to keep in your wallet)

Bring your inner sacred space to life by drawing/painting/collaging/sculpting it

Use handmade images as offerings to spirits or deities; create personalized images of spirits or deities you're in contact with

Make a poppet of yourself and stuff it with petitions or pictograms of what you wish to embody

Create a powerful protection amulet to hang above the doorway of your home/sacred space. What does protection look like to you? Use materials that reflect the kind of protection that you're looking for.

Crochet or knit a blanket that is enchanted to bring good sleep, good dreams, or for inducing a hypnagogic state