Merry meet everyone, I am finally getting round to doing a first impressions post review on this book. This book has been sat on a pile of books waiting for me to get round to going through. So today's book review is on this book called witches ladders and other knot spells. I brought this book back in January for £5 from my local book shop because it caught my eye and I wanted to learn more about knot magic. As always I will share the blurb of the book with you and the go into more detail as to why I brought this book for my collection. Blurb: "Harness the secret power of enchanted knots. With a length of string, ribbon, cord or anything that can be knotted, you can quickly make magic work for you, whether to enchant new love into your life, change your fortune or manifest your dreams. This unique collection includes all powerful witches ladders, where additional talismans are woven in with the knots to reinforce the desired outcome, and unknotting charms , which banish all forms of negativity. Plus a magical knot directory provides the tools for making effective magic happen". So from the blurb you know why I wanted this book, I wanted to learn more about knot magic and witches ladders. I have heard so much about knot magic and the effective uses for them but never really understood it which is why this book stood out a lot for me. I have so many different things I want to learn about knot magic and this book seemed like it would help me with that. Looking through this book its easy to read and simple following steps and its beautifully pictured inside. I would personally recommend this book if you are wanting to learn more about knot magic too because its such a great book from what I've seen. I will be posting more about this book on my instagram if you want to keep updated with me and my blog follow me @paganbvibesonly to keep updated. As always I will see you all in the next post. Blessed be and stay safe x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, So with the lock-down being in effect I thought I may as well check out some of the little stores I have been following for years and finally put an order in. This store was one of them that was on my list and I just couldn't put it off any longer. This store is on etsy and I will add a link to their store at the end of this post for you all the check out yourselves. I have been following her store now for well over a year and have been meaning to put an order in probably the same amount. I do normally make my own oil blends because I found it was a way for me to connect more with it all but after trying theses I probably will buy theses more often. I had ran out of my sleep mist and couldn't make any more myself which is why I brought that spray and blend from WychOils. Now she has ruined me haha. I love her blend so much more than whatever I was doing and I have been using her spray now for over 2-3 weeks and I have had the best nights sleep within those weeks. Now you should know by now I don't sleep very well, its all goes back to 2012 with events that happened in my life but since then I have had such a hard time sleeping or even shutting my brain off. I spray the bedtime blend over my pillow and covers about 5 minutes before I get into bed and I use the bedtime roller blend on my wrists and within 5 minutes I'm off to the dreamland's with no problems what so ever. If that wasn't good enough for you then the fact my boyfriend hates lavender but really loves the smell of this spray has won me over. Now the bedtime blend spray cost me £4 which is well worth it because I am so much more focused now having a good night sleep. The bedtime spray has Ylang Ylang, rose, lavender, chamomile oils in with the extra boost of rose quartz and amethyst crystal chunks in the bottle. Well worth the money! The bedtime roller blend is £5 because its more intense and also is used with a carrier oil instead of the water blend in the spray. The bedtime roller has Ylang Ylang, rose, chamomile, lavender, almond oil as a carrier and again rose and clear quartz crystals as an extra bonus. But again well worth the money and I already want more of theses. The other roller I got was in a gift set for £8 I got to chose my roller blend and a charka bracelet which as my other broke that I got last year I thought this was such a great offer. The roller I got in this offer was the anxiety blend which smells amazing. I normally use this in the morning when I go out for my daily walk while in this lock down. I have bad anxiety anyway but this has helped improve that a lot and again it smells heavenly. The anxiety blend has lemongrass, cypress, bergamot, almond oil and rose and clear quartz crystals as an added bonus. You also get an information sheet about the different charkas with this gift set which was really handy for me. Over all I spent £18.95 because the shop at the moment has 15% off if you spend so much which worked out great for myself. I would highly recommend this shop for all the essential oil blends you wish to try and after all supporting little shops is a must with the world the way it is at the moment. Help the little shops not the big shops is my view. If you want to keep updated on all things witchy away from the blog then follow me on instagram @paganvibesonly. I am always just one click away if you wish to chat or if you want me to try your shops products let me know. I am always happy to check out small stores. I hope you all are staying safe in this crazy time and I will see you all in the next post. Blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x Link to WychOils etsy shop here : https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/WychOils Merry meet everyone, For today's post I thought I would share this candle flame divination spell a friend of mine gave me months ago. I thought as we are all stuck inside we may as well focus on subjects we normally dont have time for. At this time I am writing this post we are still in lock down but that may have changed by the time this is posted. If thats the case you should still make a note of this spell and keep it handy for when you feel like doing it. You will need: - Three white candles (same shape and size) - Lighter or matches. You will need to arrange the three white candles into a triangle shape on your table or altar. Then light the candles in a safely matter. Think of a yes or no question, and read the flames for each question. If all the flames burn steadily then the answer is yes. If one flame sparks or goes out, you'll have an obstacle by you'll get what you want. If two or all the flames spark or go out, the answer is no. If all the flames sway or move in a circle, the answer hasn't been formed yet in the unseen realm. In this case, wait a few days and try again. When done, snuff out the candles and reuse if you wish. This is handy way to use the candles you have in your stock if you don't want to work with your cards. Its a great divination tool to start of with too if you haven't gotten any other tools. I hope you found this really helpful and I will see you all in the next post. Stay safe and blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, Now this post I have been looking forward to for a while now because its something very close to my heart. I love supporting local small shops because they need the money more than big companies and at the end of the day they have the best products and offers going. My witchy friend Jemma has been going on about this crystal shop on instagram for months and I have been following them but never really brought anything because at the time I was going to my local witchy shop in Liverpool and buying a lot of stuff there. Don't get me wrong I will still go to my witchy shop in Liverpool but I will be first going to Auramoon crystals from now on. This isn't because ones a big chain in fact there both small shops but the amount of crystals I get from Auramoon crystals instead of the Liverpool shop for the same price is amazing. As you all should know by now I am a big lover of crystals. I have so many now that they are taking over and I don't think it will ever change much either. Now this big crystal haul is actually two weekends of sales. I think in future I am just going to get Becky the owner to hold on to them and get them all at once because the wait is just worth it. Now I don't really want to say how much I spent on crystals in the last two weeks but for this post I really need to let you know how amazing the prices was so here goes. Aura crystals does sales and auctions every weekend. She has theses amazing £5 and under sales which most of theses are from but then she also has story sales for all the big priced beauties. I am a big lover at the moment for point crystals and was over the moon to grab the ones I could. I have 5 new crystal points and a beautiful flame crystal now in my collection and the price ranged between £8 and £2 each for them all. The flame quartz was £8 and the small amethyst crystal was £2. A lot of the points I got were around £5 in the £5 and under sale which again is amazing! The bags of crystal chips were £5 each. I have one moonstone bag and two jasper bags which for the price was a bargain and a half! I also got a palm lepidolite crystal which is just beautiful and that was only £5 or may be £4 I can't remember how much I brought that one for. It was also in the £5 and under sale so its one of the two haha. I also got two beautiful square cube crystals one was moss agate and the other a mahongany obsidian and both together was only £3 which was such a great bargain. Overall check her shop out shes on instagram @auramooncrystals and she also has an amazing shop on etsy which I will link at the end. For her sales you need to follow her on instagram so you dont miss anything though. The full list of crystals I brought are: - Flame quartz crystal £8 - Agate crystal point £5 - Flower agate point £5 - Moss agate point £7 - Gemmy amethyst point £6 - Amethyst point £2 - Moonstone chips £5 - Jasper chips x2 £5 each - Moss agate and mahongany obsidian cubes £3 - Lepidolite palm crystal £4-5 - Fluoride crystal diamond shaped £2 Oh and with each order I got a couple of freebie crystals and a thank you for buying from her which are super cute and will come in handy for my crystal grids I am working on. Overall I spent way too much on crystals but so worth it haha. When I say I spent too much on crystals my budget on crystals each month is probably half of what I spent the past month and she keeps tempting me with her sales too. I can't wait to add theses with the rest of my crystals later on today and I will be hopefully doing my altar so some of theses beauties will be added to that altar too. I hope you enjoyed this little haul post. I have posted a load of pretty photos of my new crystal additions and you can check them out on instagram @paganvibesonly. Please check out Auramoon crystals shes just amazing and the crystals she gets are amazing. Please bare in mind I have brought all this crystals myself and I am not being paid to praise auramoon crystals I just feel like she has earned it. If there is any other small shops out there that you wish for me to try out send them my way and I will see what I like from each shop. We should all be supporting smaller shops at this moment and to be fair you get better deals and service from smaller shops than you do from bigger chains. Auramoon crystals etsy shop : https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AuraMoonCrystals?ref=pr2018_faveshops I hope you enjoyed today's post and that you are all staying safe at the moment. I will see you all in the next post :) Blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, Today's post is about one of my favourite crystals on the planet Selenite. I have so many different forms of this crystal in my collect because of it. I thought I would share some information about this crystal and why I love it soo much. This crystal is connected with the chakra crown and higher crown and is believed to be an angel crystal. In many ancient cultures named several goddesses to symbolise the moon, the Greeks believed Selene to be the moon itself. She like her crystal Selenite embodies tranquillity, blessing, love and light. Selenite provides clarity of the mind, expanding ones awareness of the self and of ones surroundings. It opens the crown and higher crown chakras and accesses angelic consciousness for higher guidance. It can also be used to access past lives as well as future ones. This crystal is a calming stone that instils deep peace and is excellent for meditation or spirtual workings. I personally used this crystal while I was studying my exams in high school and again in uni to help me focus and have a clear mind while taking my exams. I believe this is such a powerful and helpful crystal to have in your collection and for me personally is always my go to crystal for when I have writers block too. I hope you found this post really interesting and that you feel the need to have this crystal in your collection too. As always you can follow me on instagram to keep updated on all things witchy and blog @paganvibesonly and as always I will see you all in the next post. Blessed be and stay safe x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, Today's post is only going to be a short one. I thought it would be a good idea to share this cute home protection spell. With the world the way it is at the moment its always handy to share and do one of theses within your home. It may even put your mind at ease slightly. You will need: - A black or white candle, - some ribbon or yarn, - lighter or match. Light your chosen coloured candle and place your ribbon or yarn around it in a circle to symbolise the circle of protection covering your home. If you wish you may also burn some protection incense such as sage or rosemary to help boost the vibe. You will say this while focusing on the flame of the candle: "Protect this home and those who dwell in it, Keep it safe from harm, or mishap, bad weathers or ill intent, Protect this space and make it a refuge, Full of good energy, secure and blessed, So mote it be" Let the candle burn down and then bury it in the ground of your home. I hope you find this spell handy for you, please bear in mind that there is no guarantee that this spell will work, its always there for an added bonus. Please also know that if you dont have a clear intent or focus while doing this spell it may not work either. I hope you are all staying safe and I will see you all in the next post. Blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, Today's post is another first impressions book review on the book called The element encyclopedia of magical creatures. Now I have only just brought this book myself after falling in love with the last book review of the same style of book from the series. I wanted to get this book because its beautifully written and it will help with my studies that I am currently interested in. Anyway as always I will share the blurb of this book with you and then talk more about why I wanted this book and why I think you should get this to have in your collection. Blurb: "Discover an incredible world full of every magical creature you could possible imagine..... From unicorns, salamanders, satyrs, giants, elves and trolls, to dragons, nymphs, mermaids, werewolves and griffins - Take an enchanting journey through the history, folklore and mythology of theses beasts from virtually every culture in the world. With stories and amazing facts on even the most obscure and mythological creature, this is a cornucopia of magic and myth". I brought this book second hand for £15 of a book seller on amazon and when I saw it I just couldn't leave it. I am at the moment really curious about other magical beings that may or may not have lived in our world. I have always had a hard time believing in other beings but as of late I was questioned something that really opened my mind. A friend of mine asked if I believed in spirits then why don't I believe in other beings too. Now this has really gotten me thinking about why I personally didn't believe and to be fair I kept coming up blank. I believed in fairies when I was a child so something must of changed. That being said I thought I should read into other magical beings and understand the history more which is why this book caught my attention. This week I have been looking for other books to add to my collection because of the lock down I wanted to stock up on subjects to study while I had the chance and this was one subject that has really caught my attention this week so I thought why not. The book itself is easy to read even though I have only read a couple pages its full of information that will keep me busy for awhile anyway. I would happily recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about the magical beings in folklore and where our history comes from. As always you can keep updated on instagram by following me @paganvibesonly. I am looking for book recommendations if you wish to give me any books you want me to review send me a message on instagram and I will get back to you as soon as possible. I am always just a click away on instagram. As always I hoped you enjoyed this post and found it helpful and I will see you all in the next post. Blessed be and stay safe x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, So today I thought I would do a post about the different goddesses of the moon. There are so many different faces the moon wears or depending on the story you hear the deity that represents the planet. I have created a small list of all the goddesses that I found out about and some information to go with each one. I thought it would be handy for you all to know which ones are connected to the moon if you wish to look into theses any further. But before I go into the list of different goddesses I will first go on a bit about the moon herself. She is considered to be the triple goddess because of her three phases, new full and waning or dark. The triple goddess represents the three stages of a females life, the maiden, the mother and the crone. This is why you see theses a lot through out witchcraft. The moon can also be known as the great mother or magna dei. There are also considered to be god connected to the moon like Thoth the egyptian god of the moon and another is sin, the Sumerian god. I have found nine goddesses that are connected to the moon and represent the moons goals. I will go through them now, if there is any you wish to connect with them then you should do your own research into the one that draws you close. Artemis is a Greek goddess that carries a quiver filled with arrows and a bow. She is always accompanied by the lionesses, dear and birds and she represents childbirth. Selene is also a Greek goddess wearing wings and a head band. She is normally seen riding in a chariot drawn by white horses and is connected to magic. Diana is a Roman goddess carrying a bow and arrow. She is normally seen with a hound and stag and she represents fertility and nature. Hecate is also another Greek goddess who has three heads. She is usually standing back to back with a horse, hound and lioness. She represents magic, sorcery, death and the underworld it self. Sophia is a Phrgian goddess who represents the holy spirit, she is known for divine knowledge and wisdom. Arianrhod is a Celtic goddess wearing silver robes and holding a silver wheel. She is known for divination. Ceidwen is another Celtic goddess who is known as the dark moon goddess with a cauldron and white sow. She is well known for herbs and grains, divination, spells and death. Isis is the Egyptian goddess wearing a crescent headdress supporting a full moon, she is known for magic, fertility and regeneration. Cybele is another Phrgian goddess known as the dark moon goddess wearing a crescent moon headdress with pomegranates and bees. She is also seen carrying finger bones. She is known for nature, wild beasts and dark magic. I hope you found this blog post useful and that you find time yourself to research each one of theses goddesses. I personally am drawn to the Celtic goddesses in this list and will be spending more time researching them. As always you can connect with me on instagram @paganvibesonly, I post daily about my witchy life and blog related bits too. I will see you all in the next post. Stay safe and Blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, It's that time of month again that I bring you this months box review on Freya's Cauldron subscription box. This months box is amazing and If you have looked at the image of everything in this months box then you will know how amazing this box is. I was over the moon when I got this months box and it didn't take long to get to me even with lock-down being in effect which I was well impressed with. Anyway as always I will go through all the information sheets included in this months box and then go through all the items and what I thought of each one. Like I said this months box is amazing. Information sheets: - An Introduction sheet for the box. - An information sheet about the gold/silver candle plus holder. - An information sheet about the herb pot. - An information sheet about the crystal of this month. - An invocation to Bridget blessing. - A sheet with chants for the horned god, invocation to the goddess and one for pan. - A spell for the earth sheet. Now on to the goodies of this months box. I was well made up with everything that came in this months box even the information sheets are amazing. I spent some time reading through them all before even looking at the rest of the items. I do love my information after all haha. The first item out of the box was the Invocation candle dressing oil. Now I love Freya's Cauldrons oils they are amazing and I have got a good selection of them now. This is a new one for me so I had to read about it a little bit. The information sheet states "Hand blended oil for use during rituals and spells where you wish to call for the assistance of a deity or spirit". The oil smells amazing as all their other oils do. I will happily use this for my spell work in the future. Like I said I love their oils and I use them for all my spell work so this one will always come in handy and to be fair I will probably use this for when I am working with the mother earth herself. The next item is the candle pack that always comes in each months box. Theses are super handy to stock your collection up and you always know they will be coming in colours you need too or thats how I feel anyway. This months colours are red, green, orange and pink. I love their candles because they are all vegan friendly and have all be picked for this month because the colours connect with Beltane that just pasted. The next two items out of the box was the herb pots. Now one of them is a herb blend to go with the spell I believe and the other is a herb to add to my collection. The herb for this month is Bilberry. I don't have this in my collection so I will be reading about this and working out what I will use this for in the future. My herbs now are getting quite huge. The herb blend is called Invocation blend and it was included to help call the deities or spirits to assist my work, or to use as an offering to thank them. This can also be used as an incense or in a charm bag. I will be looking into this a little more when I have some free time. The next item out of the box of goodies is the Rough ruby hexagon stone. Now I don't down a ruby in my crystal collection so I was over the moon getting this and its just beautiful. The energy you get off this crystal is amazing too. This will be sitting on my altar this month as I feel that it wants to be there. I also got in this box a box exclusive Triple moon goddess plaque which was handcrafted by Graham from Freya's Cauldron. This is super cute and will be added to the wall behind my altar. I love handmade items and this box is always great for them. Its just beautiful and will look amazing with the rest of my altar. The next item was the earth mother pewter pendant. Now I can't wear these necklaces but I use the charms of them into making key rings for myself or using them on charm bags. This one will be used as a key ring because its beautiful and I want it on my bag. We also got a spell kit in this months box for invocation and as you can see that must be the theme for this months box. I will be using this spell in the future like I do with all the others and this will be included in my book of shadows too. I love getting spell kits from this box because they are always really handy to have and it gives me ideas for my own spell writing. The last two items are box exclusives and are breath taking. The first item is a beautiful handcrafted triple moon goddess candle holder again one of Grahams creations for this box. This candle holder came with a silver and gold spell candle and will be perfect for using my big spell candle collection in the future too. This is just beautiful and perfect for my altar. The second exclusive item in this box and most likely my favourite item in this months box is the triple moon crystal chalice. Now this is beautiful and will be sitting on my altar. Its small enough to hold just what I need and big enough to be useful. Its beautiful and well worth the box as a whole. Overall they have really out done themselves this month and I swear they have upped their game this year with the witchy goodies. I can't wait to see what they have planned for next months box and as always you should check out their boxes. I would subscribe as they sell out soo fast. And for what I pay for this month its well worth a box full of goodies each month, If you want to hear and see more about this box and also to keep updated on things away from this blog then follow me on instagram @paganvibesonly I am always just a click away if you need to talk too. I will see you all in the next post and please stay safe . Blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, Today's post is a book review or first look review of the book The element encyclopedia of 5000 spells book. I got this book for a Easter present of my nan because I have been wanting this book for years. As always I will share the blurb with you and then talk about why I wanted this book and what it could mean for my path. Blurb: "Enter the world of folklore, Myth and Magic. Five thousand spells spanning five thousand years of magical history from earth's every corner. Discover binding spells and banishing spells, spells for love, luck, wealth, power, spiritual protection, physical healing , enhanced fertility and much more. Any reader uses the spells entirely at their own risk and the author and publisher accept no liability if the spells do not have their desired effect or if adverse effects are caused". So as you have just read this book has over five thousand years of history and spell workings. Its one of those books that will have so many different stories just to bring those spells to working order. I love the idea of having this book to fall back on when needed and for that its been in my wish list for many years. There all different kinds and types of spell workings in this book and I haven't even touched the surface of this book. I have spend this week reading the first couple of pages of this book and its amazing. Its jam packed with useful information and spell workings that I can put aside and use in the future. It has spell workings I wouldn't even think of using but is handy to have just to research and understand. The history thats in this book is what caught my attention and the fact that its jam packed with amazing spells and useful information just helps its case. I would highly recommend you looking into this book yourself and even getting a copy for your collection or borrowing it from a friend who may have it and jotting some workings out for future use. I will be sharing some of the spells from this book in the future when I feel the need to share some. But that being said its well worth you getting this book for your own studies. I hope you do check this book out and I hope you found this post useful. As always you can keep in touch with me on instagram @paganvibesonly where I post daily about updates on the blog, what I am doing and of course witchy wonders. I will see you all in the next post. Blessed be and stay safe x PaganVibesOnly x |
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