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garbagewitchcraft · 2 years

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Elemental Correspondences

~*~WATER~*~

Direction: West. Time of the Day: Sunset. Season: Autumn. Colors: blue, purple. Sense: Taste. Cycle of Life: Maturity. Instruments: anything that is resonant. Plants: underwater plants, algae, lily, plants living near water. Animals: water animals (frogs, water insects, fish, swan, crab etc.). Places: lakes/ponds, sea/ocean, beaches, swimming pools, bathroom, cold climate, tides.

Gender: Feminine. Tarot: Cups/Chalices/Goblets. Zodiac: Pisces, Scorpio, Cancer. Planets: Moon, Neptune, Pluto. Energy: Receptive. Emotional. Changeable. Crystals: blue crystals. Mythical Beings: Mermaids/Sirens, Water Fae, Nymphs/Nereids, Rusalka, Selkie, Kraken, Nessie, Leviathan, Titans, Undines.

Ritual Tools: fish bone, shark teeth, teapot, teacup, mirror, crystal ball, sea shell, sand, spray bottle, seaweed, comb, bowl, pearls, fishing nest. Ritual Forms: brewing, making tea, cooking with water (boiling), cleaning (windows, floors, dishes), taking a bath, cold herbal infusions. Ritual Types: divination, enchanting, cleansing, dowsing, astral travel, lucid dreaming, healing, lunar magic, scrying.

MAGICK NOTES:

Introducing water magic to everyday life is the easiest of all the elements!

While making tea, imagine putting good energy/intention into it and then drink it to have a good day! Afterwards (if you have time and skills) you can feel free to do divination, using leftover tea leaves.

While taking a bath/shower in the evening, imagine the water pouring onto you to be white/light in color and the water dripping off of you to be black/greyish color. I use it to cleanse myself of all the negative energy.

Looking into mirror as a divination is a very disturbing experience for me! Like, it’s effective, it can get weird though.

Water in a spray bottle can be used for space cleansing if you don’t wanna use incense all the time. Also it’s good for the indoor plants if you have any!

Washing dishes is another ritual of mine and it’s a good way to meditate. I just get lost in thought.

If you want to practice water magic, follow moon phases and use them to your advantage!

Water magic is not necessarily only gathering water and using it, but also perfoming spells or doing anything spiritual during specific weather conditions (ex.: raining, storm, snowing, hail stones).

TYPES OF WATER USED IN SPELLS:

Moon Water - great for all kinds of spells and craft! Moon water can have different abilities, all depending on during which moon phase we charged it in. The best water is the one charged during full moon or super moon as it is the most powerful.

Sun Water - keywords: positivity, strenght, happiness, courage, good health.

Rain Water - good for cleansing, meditation and relaxation. Keywords: growth, regeneration, cleansing, rest.

River Water - good for warding or spells with a clear goal as river water has a focused energy. Keywords: movement, action, flow.

Lake/Pond Water - I find it good for connecting with nature or animals. Could be used in animal magic. Keywords: wildness, nature, hidden, isolation.

Swamp/Mud Water - good for curses, hexes, binding, wishing someone bad health. Keywords: disease, dirty work, sticky, messy.

Sea Water - good for protection, banishing and any form of spell that needs powerful but calm energy. Keywords: vastness, life, fear.

Dew Water - keywords: vulnerability, peace, refreshing, delicate, calm, waiting. Good for Fae communication or any creature that is elusive.

Storm Water - good for spells that needs a lot of power. Be warned though, it’s very different from the sea water; it’s uncontrolled, chaotic and doesn’t last long. There’s a lot of anger and destructive energy.

Ice/Snow Water - keywords: endings, change, patience, harmony, growth.

Cemetery Water - good for necromancy, of course. You can put some in a spray bottle and spray it in a room in which you want to communicate with the dead.

Well Water - keywords: wishing, domesticity, home, family, community. Could be good for communicating with spirits/creatures living near or in your house.

Fog/Mist - keywords: invisibility, mystery, hidden, blindness. Spells including ‘clouding someone’s judgement’, those in which you want to stay anonymous as much as you can or those who will slowly start working over time.

~*~FIRE~*~

Direction: South. Time of the Day: Noon. Season: Summer. Colors: red, orange, yellow, gold. Sense: Sight. Cycle of Life: Youth. Instruments: string instruments (guitar, violin etc.) Plants: spices, strong-smelling, stinging or irritating the skin, resembles sun or fire, thrives in warm weather/sun/hot climate. Animals: lion, tigers, cats, lizards, foxes, snakes, scorpions, coyote. Places: hot climate, bedroom, hot springs, volcanoes, desert.

Gender: Masculine. Tarot: Wands/Torches. Zodiac: Leo, Sagittarius, Aries. Planets: Jupiter, Mars, Sun. Energy: Projective. Creative. Transformative. Crystals: red/orange/yellow/pink crystals. Mythical Beings: Dragons, Phoenix, Demons, Fire Giants, Golems, Jinns, Cyclops, Chimera, Fire Fae.

Ritual Tools: candles, lamp, sunlight, spices, ashes, metals, bones, hair/nails, firewood, matches, knives, alcohol, charcoal. Ritual Forms: cooking, baking, grilling, heating, sunbathing, having sex, intimacy, dancing, candle work, cauldron work, taking a risk, burning. Ritual Types: divination, enchanting, cleansing, protection, purification, transformation, destructive magic, banishing.

MAGICK NOTES

It’s not as easy to introduce fire to everyday life as it was with water but it’s not impossible!

The easiest thing to do is to use fire/heat in baking/cooking/grilling. For me, the fire is all about protection and destruction (sometimes cleansing but it’s cleansing by destructive force) so by using it, we get rid of all the bad stuff inside of us.

Sun is the ultimate ally to fire magic and so are stars! Sun brings us life and happiness but it also makes us sweat like pigs so, for me, it’s still cleansing by destruction. Meditation during star gazing is great and I feel like spending time with someone under starry night sky is the best thing to deepen the connection! It’s also good to just talk out loud to either a deity or a spirit guide.

I find all physical sports to be fire-related but dancing is the biggest one! Sweating, lots of energy but also fun is a great way to connect to your inner fire. Sports involving adrenaline are also fire-y.

The most common way to practice fire magick is to burn stuff. Incense, paper, bay leaves. It’s good for manifestation, protection or banishing.

In general, be careful with fire. I find the safest option is to just use candles. Down below, there’s not many examples of how to use different types in spells but I included keywords so you can decide on your own if it speaks to you or if you want to try it at all.

TYPES OF FIRE USED IN SPELLS:

Bonfire - keywords: friendship, community peace, happiness, fun.

Torch Flame/Lantern - keywords: wildness, rawness, travel, guidance, focused.

Lightning - keywords: chaos, destruction, power, fear.

Sunlight - happiness, positivity, joy, strenght, courage.

Candle Flame - generally good for everything and commonly used. The main type of fire magick.

Burning Flame - it could be small burning flame (aka candle flame) or when you take specific things (like your ex’s things) and burn them in a big pile to move on/banish them. All depends on the intention.

Match’s Flame - keywords: elusive, short-lasting, quick. Can be used in any types of spells or even divination. We light the match and wait for it to burn. If it doesn’t then the spell won’t work/the answer is no, etc. I’ll elaborate in a different post.

Grilling Fire/Heat - keywords: abundance, prosperity, survival.

Cemetery Candle Flame - necromancy again. Better to perform at a cemetery, rather than at home.

Heat - keywords: energy flow, cleansing.

~*~AIR~*~

Direction: East. Time of the Day: Morning/Sunrise. Season: Spring. Colors: white, transparent, gray. Sense: Hearing. Cycle of Life: Infancy. Instruments: wind instruments (flute etc.). Plants: plants with strong aroma, plants located high, plants with pollen/heavily pollinating. Animals: birds, flying insects. Places: mountains, high buildings, schools, offices, libraries, airports, travel agencies.

Gender: Masculine. Tarot: Swords/Knives/Daggers. Zodiac: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. Planets: Uranus, Venus, Mercury. Energy: Projective. Mental. Elusive. Crystals: white/clear/gray crystals. Mythical Beings: Pegasus, Gryphons, Zephyrs, Fae of Trees, Striga, Gremlins.

Ritual Tools: feathers, bells, incense, brooms, wands, fans, balloons, ribbons, wind chimes, dream catchers. Ritual Forms: music (singing, playing instruments, creating), burning incense, listening/talking/communicating, writing, meditation, spending time outside, hanging objects, learning. Ritual Types: divination, enchanting, learning, chaos magic, storm magic.

MAGICK NOTES

Not much I can say about air magic but I’ll try my hardest.

Air is a very elusive element so there are no actual material uses.

As you can see in ‘Ritual Forms’ I listed some examples of how I see practicing air magic which is mostly through music (but also painting/drawing!). It’s all the things that require your brain and focus.

However, there are some actual spiritual option for all the folks that wants to practice air magick.

Follow atmospheric conditions and perform spells accordingly. Spend time outside and focus on the wind surrounding you.

Work with birds! There is a form of divination called crow counting.

There’s a lot of types of air divination like shuffling songs, throwing stuff, by pendulum or Nephomancy (by clouds). There’s a whole wikipedia page about that!

~*~EARTH~*~

Direction: North. Time of the Day: Midnight. Season: Winter. Colors: green, brown, black. Sense: Touch. Cycle of Life: Advanced Age. Instruments: drums. Plants: all plants, mushrooms, moss. Animals: dogs, wolves, insects, cow, horse, bull. Places: forest, meadow, park, kitchen, basement, caves, canyon, mines.

Gender: Feminine. Tarot: Pentacles/Coins/Discs. Zodiac: Taurus, Capricorn, Virgo. Planets: Saturn, Venus, Mercury. Energy: Perceptive. Physical. Crystals: green/brown/black crystals. Mythical Beings: Dwarves, Fae, Dryads, Gnomes, Goblins, Trolls.

Ritual Tools: rocks, crystals, leaves, herbs, seeds, flowers, dirt, coins, food, wood, cards, books. Ritual Forms: cooking, baking, gardening, handmade stuff, walks in the nature, spending time with animals, offerings, cleaning the house/nature. Ritual Types: divination, enchanting, grounding, binding, animal magic, leaving the old behind.

MAGICK NOTES:

Practicing earth magick is really easy. It’s all about grounding, nature work, animals and using your two hands.

The most recognizable form of earth magick is kitchen and animal magick!

I find earth magic to be the most peaceful but isolated and unburdened magick of all! It minds its own business, it just want to be left alone and do whatever it does the best. It’s my favourite!

There’s not much to say because I think earth magick is pretty self-explanatory.

TYPES OF EARTH USED IN SPELLS:

Ashes - it all depends on what we burnt. Sage ashes are good for protection/cleansing, bay leaves ashes for wishing/manifesting. In case of paper ashes it depends on what we used the paper for/what was written on it.

Cemetery Dirt - necromancy again!

Regular Dirt - can be used in spell involving banishing, letting go, unbinding, manifestation.

Used Tea Leaves - if we made the intention, then the usage of the leaves depend on the intention! If not, then we might focus on the type of tea we drank. The leaves are also good for divination.

Destroyed Crystals (in small particles) - depends on the crystal!

Ashes From The Bonfire - or so called wood ashes. Can be used in spells involving cleansing/banishing/letting go/unbinding.

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shadowtemplepdx · 8 months

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This is a great time of year to start thinking about making infused herbal oils as you hopefully have some dried herbs laying around that you’ve collected throughout the harvest season.

The first thing you need to make an infused oil is dried herbs. It is very important that the herbs are totally dry before you combine them with oil, as they can cause rancidity otherwise.

Many different types of herbs work well for making infused oils, especially lavender, rosemary, calendula, plantain, yarrow, comfrey, and mullein.

If you don’t already have your own dried herbs, Mountain Rose Herbs (a local herb business for me ) has a great selection of medicinal herbs to choose from.

Then you will need to choose the oil that you want to use. I usually use a high quality, light sunflower oil, but there are many types of carrier oils that you can choose from.

Once you have those two simple ingredients, there are several ways of making infused herbal oils.

While making an infused oil sounds like it could be complicated, it really is as easy as putting two ingredients together and letting them sit in the sun for a few weeks.

INFUSED HERBAL OIL: WINDOWSILL METHOD

The first one is probably the easiest, but it does take the most time.

This method is best when using oils that don’t go rancid quickly, like coconut or jojoba, as exposure to sunlight can degrade some oils more quickly.

Simply put the dried herbs of your choice into a jar and cover them with oil.

Stir the mixture gently with a spoon to get as many of the air bubbles out as possible.

Then put in a sunny windowsill for several weeks to steep.

Alternatively, you can put the jar in a cool place out of direct sunlight. This will help to preserve the quality of more light sensitive oils, like sweet almond oil.

When you feel it’s ready, simply strain the herbs from the oil.

Cap with a lid and use as soon as possible. Once oils have been infused they have a shorter shelf life, so I try to only make as much as I’ll use within a few months.

Any extra you might have should be stored in the refrigerator for future use.

INFUSED HERBAL OIL: HEAT METHOD

There are quicker ways of making infused herbal oils, as well.

You can use a double boiler by putting the herbs and oil in a metal bowl over a pot of simmering water.

Make sure that the oil doesn’t get too hot as to fry the herbs, and it should be done in a matter of hours.

I’ve also used a mini slow cooker on the warm setting to make calendula oil with good results.

A box style dehydrator would also work well, especially if you are already using it for something else.

INFUSED HERBAL OIL: OVEN EXTRACTION METHOD

The last method is oven extraction.

Put the dried herbs in oil, cover, and put in a low temperature oven for several hours, making sure not to cook the herbs.

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