Things to put in your book of shadows
Of course, only put in your book of shadows/grimoire what you want. If you don't want to put certain subjects in your book then that's fine. It's your book, utilize it how you want. This is just a masterlist of ideas that I've put together. Feel free to add anything else to the list that I may have missed, because there's absolutely no way I included everything.
And for the love of all the gods, if you come across a closed entity or practice, don't try to work with the entity or practice if you're not already part of that group or tradition. You can research it but don't practice it.
+ A blessing and/or protection
+ A table of contents
+ About you:
Your current path
Your personal beliefs
Your spiritual journey
Favorite crystals/herbs/animals
Natal chart
Craft name
How you got into the craft
Astrology signs
Birthday correspondences (birth tarot card, birth stone, etc)
Goals (if you have any)
Anything other relating to your personal practice
+ Safety
Fire safety
What NOT to burn
Plants and oils that can be toxic to your pets
What crystals shouldn't be in water, sunlight, etc
Things that shouldn't be put out in nature (salt, glass, etc)
Potion safety
How to incorporate blood safely
+ Core concepts:
Intention and how it works
Directing energy
Protection
Banishing
Cleansing
Charging
Shielding
Grounding and centering
Visualization
Consencration/Blessing
Warding
Enchanting
Manifestation
+ Correspondence
Personal correspondence
Crystals and rocks
Herbs and spices
Food and drink
Colors
Metals
Number
Tarot card
Elemental (fire, water, air, earth)
Trees and woods
Flowers
Days
Months
Moon phases
Zodiac
Planets
Incense
Teas
Essential oils
Directions (north, south, east, west)
Animals
Local plants, animals, etc
Dream symbology
+ Different practices
Practices that are closed to you (some examples below)
Voodoo and Hoodoo **Closed**
Santeria and Brujeria **Closed**
Shamanism and native american practices **Closed**
Wicca and wiccan paths
Satanism, both theistic and non-theistic paths
+ Different types/practices of magick
Pop culture magick
Technology magick
Chaos magick
Green witchcraft
Lunar magick
Sea witchcraft
Kitchen magick
Ceremonial magick
Hedge witchcraft
Death witchcraft
Grey witchcraft
Eclectic witchcraft
Norse witchcraft
Hellenic witchcraft
Animism
+ Deities
The deity/deities you worship
Different pantheons (the main five are Celtic, Roman, Greek, Egyptian and Norse, all open)
Deities and pantheons that are closed to you
Common offerings
Their epithets
Their mythology
Their family
Deity worship vs deity work
Prayers and how to make your own
Deity communication guide
Devotional acts
Ways to get closer to them
+ Other spiritual entities
Angels
Ancestor work
Spirit guides
The fae
Demons
Familiars
House spirits, animal spirits and plant spirits
Other various folklore entities
Spirit etiquette
Cemetery etiquette
Setting boundaries with the spirits
Communication guide and etiquette
Grounding, banishing, protection and cleansing, aka: "Spirit work safety guide"
How they appear to you
Common offerings
Circle casting
+ Divination
Tarot cards
Oracle cards
Tarot and oracle spreads
Pendulum
Numerology
Scrying
Palmistry/palm reading
Tasseography (Tea leaf reading)
Rune stones
Shufflemancy (Shuffling of a playlist)
Dice divination
Bibliomancy (Randomly picking a phrase from a book)
Carromancy (Melted wax)
Pyromancy (Reading flames)
Psychic abilities
Astrology
Aura reading
Divination via playing cards
Lenormand
Sacred geometry
Angel numbers
+ Other types of magick
Candle magick
Crystal magick
Herbalism/herbal magick
Glamour magick
Hexing
Jinxing
Cursing
Weather magick
Astral work
Shadow work
Energy work
Sigils
Art magick
Knot magick
Crystal grids
Color grids
Music magick
Charms, talismans and amulets
+ Spellwork
What makes a spell work
Basic spell structure
What NOT to do
Disposing of spell ingredients
Revitalizing long term spells
How to cast spells
What to put in spells (See correspondence)
Spell mediums- Jar spells, spoken spells, candle spells, sigils, etc
Spell timing
Setting up a ritual
Taglocks: What they are and how to use them
+ Holidays and Esbats
Yule
Imbolc
Ostara
Beltane
Litha
Lughnasadh/Lammas
Mabon
Samhain
The 12 full moons (Esbats)
How to celebrate
Deity specific holidays
+ Altars and tools
What they are
The different types and their uses (travel altar, working altar, deity altar, ancestor altar, etc)
What you can put on your altar
What you use your altars for
Common tools in witchcraft
How to use the tools
Food and drink
Common herbs in recipes
Sabbat recipes
Moon water: What it is and how to use it
Potion bases
Tea magick
How to get your herbs
Foraging
+ Mental health and self care
Bath magick
Affirmations
Burnout prevention
Aromatherapy
Stress management
Mental health coping mechanisms
+ History of witchcraft
+ Dream records
+ How to differentiate between the magickal and the mundane
+ Calendar of celestial events (Esbats, retrogrades, etc)
+ How to dry herbs and flowers
+ What chakras actually are and how they work within Hinduism
+ History and traditional uses of reiki
+ The witches' alphabet
+ The runic alphabet
+ Common witchcraft terms
+ Common symbols in witchcraft
+ Your own witch tips
+ Good witchcraft books and authors to avoid
+ Any online resources you utilize often
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Explain the basic: Oils
Check out Part 1, which explains how to use the things down below.
Disclaimer: All the things in this post are based on research and personal experience. As much as I could be a teacher, I suggest you find many resources for knowledge to develop your own experiences.
Make sure you research the oils you buy/use because some oils can damage or hurt your skin in a really bad way. as well as some aromatherapy oils that can hurt your pet (if you have one).
Types of oils
Anointing oils — A sacred oil that’s blessed and charged and specially formulated for a specific purpose, usually for people.
Carrier oils — Vegetable and mineral oils that are used to help dilute essential oils that could cause skin irritation.
Condition oils — Anointing or conjure oils used to help relieve or improve someone’s condition.
Conjure oils — A dressing oil from an ancient practice usually African, European, or Native American traditions. Often found in Hoodoo.
Dressing oils — Specially prepared oil applied to spell and ritual objects before using them to sanctify, charge, and prepare them for use.
Essential oils — Volatile, concentrated oils, with the characteristic scent of the plant/flower they are from.
Ritual oils — Oils used to anoint candles, ritual tools, material, furniture, money, and other such items, and then use to anoint the body are often also called anointing oils.
Basic oils and their use:
Basil: Stimulates the mind, used in money-attracting oils, and encourages peace
Benzoin: Increases personal power and awakens the conscious mind
Bergamot: Money and protective rituals
Black Pepper: Protection and promotes courage
Chamomile: Meditation and inducing peace
Camphor: Purification and promoting celibacy
Cardamom: Energy to love and sexually oriented formulas
Cedarwood: Enhances spirituality
Cinnamon: Money and psychic awareness
Clove: Courage and protection
Coriander: Love and healing
Cypress: Blessing, consecration, and protection. Helps ease loss
Eucalyptus: All healing and purification.
Frankincense: Spirituality and meditation
Geranium: Happiness and protection
Ginger: Courage, love, money, and sexuality
Grapefruit: Purification
Jasmine: Love, psychic awareness, peace, spirituality, and sexuality
Juniper: Protection, purification, moon symbolism, and healing
Lavender: Health, love, peace, and consciousness
Lemon: Purification, healing, and lunar use
Lemongrass: Psychic awareness and purification
Lemon verbena: Love
Lime: Purification and protection
Lotus: Spirituality, healing, and meditation
Magnolia: Meditation, love, and psychic awareness
Myrrh: Spirituality, meditation, and healing
Neroli: Happiness and purification
Niaouli: Protection
Oakmoss: Attract money
Orange: Purification
Palma Rosa: Love and healing
Patchouli: Money, sex, and physical energy
Peppermint: Purification
Pine: Purification, protection, money, and healing
Rose: Love, peace, sexual desires, and enhancing beauty
Rosemary: Love and healing
Sandalwood: Spiritualty, meditation, sex, and healing
Tangerine: Sun symbol, power, and strength
Tonka: Money
Vetivert: Money
Yarrow: Love, courage, and psychic awareness
Ylang Ylang: Love, peace, and sex
As always, I will love to hear your thoughts! and if you have any questions, I will be more than happy to answer them! If you liked it, leave a comment or reblog (that is always appreciated!). if you are intrested in more method check the masterlist!
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Explain the basic: Crystals
Check out Part 1, which explains how to use the things down below.
Agate
Color: Variety of colorful layers
Element: Fire
Properties: Calming anxiety, quieting your mind, grounding, connecting with nature, luck, prosperity, getting through tough times, comfort, healing from grief, strength, intelligence, communicating well, boosting confidence, protection
Amazonite
Color: Light green, bluish green
Element: Earth
Properties: Spirit work, intuition, necromancy, calming anxiety and grounding, quelling fear, communicating clearly, leadership, building trust, inspiring self and others, success and luck, supportive strength, creative ideas, focusing on the end goal, cultivating joy.
Amber
By scientific standards, amber is neither a stone nor a crystal, but it nevertheless has a lot of power. It is beneficial to have nearby as it has the ability to transform negative energy into positive energy. It also possesses energy, which you may observe by rubbing amber across a piece of fabric or carpet to observe the static electricity that results.
Color: Translucent gold
Element: Earth
Properties: Convert negative energy into positive energy, emptying mind, clarity, releasing stored emotions from your psyche, healing negative emotional wounds, protection, putting mind and spirit at peace.
Amethyst
a revered crystal for centuries, is valued for its healing and protective properties. Its vibrant purple hue signifies its abilities to cleanse spaces, protect against negativity, and promote spiritual well-being. It offers comfort and relief by calming the mind, moderating emotions, and reducing anxiety. Amethyst also aids in improving sleep, addressing subconscious issues, enhancing intuition, and fostering spiritual connections.
Color: Purple
Element: Water
Properties: Healing, cleansing powers, protection, healing whole self, spiritual intuition, stress relief, calming, dampen mood swings, end nightmares, help insomnia, dream work, psychic skills, spiritual awareness, sobriety, ending and healing addiction, self discipline, inner strength, peace.
Aquamarine
Color: Turquoise, teal
Element: Water
Properties: Determination, fearlessness, expressing yourself, cleansing and purification, tapping into your intuition and psychic abilities.
Aventurine
Color: Variety but often green
Element: Air
Properties: Creativity, seeing new opportunities, free the mind to accept success, wealth and prosperity, confidence and self power, decisive action.
Azurite
Color: Deep blue
Element: Water
Properties: Healing of all forms, divination and foresight, dreamwork, focus and concentration, personal and spiritual metamorphosis.
Beryl
Color: Often green or light blue
Element: Water
Properties: Protection and healing, amplify and tune into energy, and psychic intuition.
Bloodstone
Color: Spotted green and red
Element: Fire
Properties: Physical health and recovery, healing, confidence in one’s abilities, tenacity, toughness, triumph.
Blue Kyanite
Color: Blue with white layers
Element: Water
Properties: Balancing energies, new beginnings, soul searching, finding new truths, facing change boldly, guidance in new situations, course corrections.
Calcite
Color: Typically white or yellow
Element: Fire
Properties: Grounding and centering, cleansing, purifying, mental peace and calm, clear mind.
Carnelian
Color: Orange-red
Element: Fire
Properties: Manifesting thoughts and ideas into actions and reality, achieving goals, feeling in control, productivity, building self esteem, courage, and confidence, igniting and following passions, eliminating procrastination, building motivation.
Chrysocolla
Color: Turquoise, teal
Element: Water
Properties: Wisdom, depth of knowledge, balancing mind and emotions, calming oneself, inner peace.
Chrysoprase
Color: Green
Element: Earth
Properties: Effective communication, working in groups, making your ideas heard, mental influence, poise, articulation.
Citrine
Color: Yellow, orange
Element: Fire
Properties: Positive energies, calming environment at home, facilitating communication, general wellness and well being, joy, protective powers, provides balance.
Diamond
Color: Clear
Element: Fire
Properties: As the Earth’s hardest substance it gives extreme permanence and durability, diligence, resilience, purification, and personal and spiritual growth.
Emerald
Color: Green
Element: Earth
Properties: Material success, prosperity, career accomplishment, protection, and self awareness.
Fluorite
Color: Variety of colors
Element: Earth
Properties: Healing in all forms– physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, energetic.
Garnet
Color: Red, pink
Element: Fire
Properties: Protection, returns negative energies back to sender, builds desire and passion, creativity and imagination, positive attitude and improve outlook, prime you for success, bring love and strength to others.
Hematite
Hematite, a magnetic material found in the Earth, is prized for its protective and grounding attributes. It enhances mental clarity, memory, and focus while absorbing negativity and stress. It aids in boosting self-esteem, confidence, and breaking bad habits. Hematite's reflective nature supports divination practices like scrying and is useful in attracting positive energies in spellwork
Color: Black, grey, brown
Element: Earth
Properties: Protection, grounding, think clearly, memory improvement, focus, gain perspective, reduce anxiety, absorb negativity, soothe stress, build self esteem, increase confidence, boost willpower, end addictions, scrying, magnetic properties.
Jade
Color: Green
Element: Earth
Properties: Self improvement, self love and peace with oneself, emotional health and balance, happiness.
Jasper
Color: Yellow, brown
Element: Earth
Properties: Flexibility, open mind, career success, coordination, dedication, determination, relentlessness, industriousness, grounding, luck, and balance.
Jet
Color: Black
Element: Water
Properties: Overcoming grief, healing after death of a loved one, protection, absorbing negativity, grounding, mental and emotional well being, general healing.
Kunzite
Color: Pink, purple
Element: Earth
Properties: Grounding and balance, relaxation and calm, stress relief, introspection and inner growth, peace and harmony.
Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli is an ancient and sacred stone that’s been used for its healing and clarity properties for many years. It’s a powerful stone to heal emotional wounds. It’s often used in meditation to promote focus and mental purity.
Color: Blue with white or yellow stripes
Element: Water
Properties: Eye-opening stone, discover truth, wisdom and intuition, enlightenment and spiritual awakening, find your calling, insight, psychic intuition and prophecy, connecting with the spirit world, focus and concentration, healing emotional wounds.
Lepidolite
Color: Variety but pink is common
Element: Water
Properties: Emotional balance, mood regulation, calming anxiety, stress, and other negative emotions, bringing about inner peace, ending nightmares, harmonious spirituality.
Lodestone
Lodestone, a magnetic crystal with unique properties, serves as a bridge between stone and metal. Its natural magnetism provides potent healing for the body and is commonly worn for protection and luck attraction. Creating an oil from lodestone enhances its luck-attracting properties, but to maintain its energy, regular feeding, often with the oil alongside other magnetic materials, is necessary.
Color: Black, grey, brown
Element: Water
Properties: Healing rituals, physical health, energy and endurance, circulation and immune system, pain reduction, good luck amulet, grounding, good luck oil, protection from negativity and dark magick, dampening negative emotions, attracting wealth, prosperity, and luck.
Malachite
Color: Green
Element: Earth
Properties: Facilitate life changes, rebirth and new beginnings, adventure, personal success, wealth and prosperity.
Moldavite
Color: Green, blue
Element: Air
Properties: Intuition and psychic abilities, subconscious awareness, wisdom and insight, balance, consecration and blessings.
Moonstone
Color: Variety
Element: Water
Properties: Emotional connection, forming deep relationships, connection with nature and the cycle of life, listening to the heart, empathy and compassion, heal emotional trauma, kindness, protection from dark magick and negative energies, moon magick, clairvoyance, dreamwork, lucid dreaming, and mystery.
Moss Agate
Color: White, green, black
Element: Earth
Properties: Physical prowess, strength, victory, bravery, energy, endurance, and stamina, eliminate negative emotions, luck.
Obsidian
Color: Black
Element: Fire
Properties: Protection from negative energies, grounding.
Onyx
Color: Black
Element: Fire
Properties: Protection against dark magick, seances, contacting the spirit world and departed loved ones, guards against possessions.
Opal
Color: Variety
Element: Air
Properties: Can be difficult to use, each color has different properties, strong stone, intensifies emotions, increases sensitivities and consciousness, psychic awareness.
Peridot
Color: Green, blue
Element: Earth
Properties: Prosperity, wealth and success, attract luck, abundance, growth and forgiveness, improving your life.
Pyrite
Color: Gold
Element: Fire
Properties: Luck, success, attracting prosperity and wealth, positivity and optimism, determination and strength to follow passions and achieve goals.
Quartz
Clear quartz stands out as the ideal first crystal for magical work, given its unparalleled versatility. Acting as a substitute for different crystals, it's easily accessible and affordable due to its abundance. Its amplifying, purifying, and directing abilities with positive energies make it excellent for protective spellwork and countering negative forces. Moreover, it aids in healing, clarity, focus, and spiritual development, making it a perfect starting crystal for beginners
Color: Clear
Element: Air
Properties: All-purpose, versatile, substitute for other crystals, energy pathways, positive energy, direct and strengthen energy, purification, protection, healing, clarification, focus, procrastination, spiritual growth.
Red Jasper
Color: Red
Element: Fire
Properties: Emotional protection, emotional distance, thinking rationally and logically, letting go of worries, lessen anxiety, dispel negative energies, optimism, stability and security, grounding, strength, defense against dark magick.
Rhodochrosite
Color: Pink, rose
Element: Fire
Properties: Sexual passions, romantic exploits, sexual power and adventure, attracting love, fertility, forming new relationships and friendships, compassion and empathy for others.
Rhodonite
Color: Pink, rose
Element: Fire
Properties: Healing especially emotional healing, grief, healing from loss or death, forgiveness, reconciling old relationships, mending current relationships, attracting love, making yourself a better person for others.
Rose Quartz
Rose quartz, known for its loving energy, covers multiple facets of love—romantic, friendship, caregiving, and self-love. Its use in spells for romance, friendship mending, and healing heartbreak is notable. This crystal aids in opening the heart, fostering unconditional love, and improving self-relationship by enhancing forgiveness, trust, acceptance, and self-worth. Beyond love, it offers healing and protective properties, shielding from negativity, reducing anxiety, and providing comfort and peace.
Color: Pink, rose
Element: Water
Properties: Romance, friendship, unconditional love, love spells, heartbreak, open heart, cleanse spirit, forgiving and trusting yourself, healing, protection, peace.
Ruby
Color: Red
Element: Fire
Properties: Sexuality and desire, finding love, virility, life passion, happiness, intuition and clairvoyance, empathy and improving relationships, emotional health.
Sapphire
Color: Variety but often deep blue
Element: Water
Properties: Psychic abilities, foresight and visions, luck, dreamwork, spiritual connection, creativity and inspiration, subconscious awareness, monetary goals, protection and protective magick.
Selenite
Selenite, a powerful crystal, excels in providing clarity, offering insights into the bigger picture when one feels overwhelmed by details. Its link between the physical and spirit worlds makes it invaluable for meditation and spiritual work. In dream exploration, especially when combined with amethyst, it aids in preventing nightmares, improving sleep, and enhancing dream awareness for lucid dreaming and astral projection. This crystal fosters tranquility, honesty, and virtue by cleansing negativity and elevating personal vibrations, but caution is advised as it should not be exposed to water.
Color: Often milky white
Element: Water
Properties: Clarity, see big picture, spirit guidance, insight, awareness, spirit work, dream work, stop bad dreams, help insomnia, lucid dreaming, astral projection, peace, calm, truthfulness, virtue, cleansing negativity.
Serpentine
Color: Green, brown
Element: Fire
Properties: Positivity, bright spirit, generosity, creativity, peace and calm, joy and happiness, consecration and blessings.
moky Quartz
Color: Grey
Element: Earth
Properties: Positivity and optimism, overcoming fear, overcoming obstacles, intuition and subconscious knowledge, grounding and centering.
Sodalite
Sodalite is a companion stone to lapis lazuli. They have similar properties, and if you require lapis lazuli, you can substitute in sodalite.
Color: Royal blue
Element: Air, water
Properties: Psychic intellect, insight and intuition, clairvoyance, rational and logical thought, wisdom, self awareness, clearing the mind of distractions, self control and mental discipline, working in groups, communicating your thoughts to others, two-way communication, improving communication in a relationship.
Sunstone
Color: Variety but often pink or peach
Element: Fire
Properties: Taking action, following passion, conviction, persistence, embracing fear, sexuality, toughness, sun magick, protection and healing.
Tiger’s Eye
Color: Brown striped
Element: Fire
Properties: Truth seeking, perceive reality, uncover devious or fraudulent intentions, clarity of the mind, see past illusions and deceptions, integrity and honor, loyalty and courage, and travel protection.
Topaz
Color: Variety but often blue or orange
Element: Fire
Properties: Avoid scarcity mindset, abundance, winning, success, desire and attractiveness, receptive to love, friendship and affection, intelligence and wisdom, flexibility, mental strength, protection and healing.
Tourmaline
Color: Variety but often pink or green
Element: Earth
Properties: Avoiding scarcity mindset, abundance, prosperity, believing in yourself, cleansing and protection, clearing the mind, repel negative energies, protect from harm, protect emotions, peace and calm, quell worry and self doubt, reduce stress.
Turquoise
Turquoise, known for its vibrant and protective qualities, adeptly neutralizes negativity and aligns with personal energy. It serves as a potent defense against negativity during social interactions and possesses healing attributes, radiating positivity, joy, peace, and self-love. Whether for grounding, defensive magic, or as a supportive aid in challenging circumstances, turquoise proves to be an invaluable companion.
Color: Bright blue-green
Element: Water
Properties: Protection, subdue negativity, works with your personal energy, positivity, joy, happiness, grounding, defensive magick, luck and prosperity, love and attraction, empathy and compassion.
Unakite
Color: Mottled green, orange, and other colors
Element: Earth
Properties: Connecting to nature, empathy with all living beings, animal magick, grounding, natural guidance, peace for all.
Zircon
Color: Variety
Element: Fire
Properties: Avoiding scarcity mindset, abundance, success, wealth, protection, cleansing and purification, balance and harmony, peace, healing and personal growth, receptive to love, joy.
As always, I will love to hear your thoughts! and if you have any questions, I will be more than happy to answer them! If you liked it, leave a comment or reblog (that is always appreciated!). if you are intrested in more method check the masterlist!
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