Merry meet everyone, I have been looking through my books that I have collected over the years to find some autumn blends when I came across this sweet and spicy brew which I have tried myself and I just couldn't keep it to myself! This sweet and spicy brew is from the book 'Spells for peace and mind'. This book is jam packed with loads of great information and blends that you should really check this book out for yourself! That being said I will go through this tea blend and the blessing that goes with it for you all to try. You will need: - 1/4 cup of rose petals - 1/3 cup of dried rosemary - 1 tablespoon of dried basil - 1/4 cup of dried sage - 1 teaspoon juniper berries - 1 tablespoon dried cloves, - 4 cinnamon sticks - 1 medium sized bowl - 2 cups of water - 1 medium sized pan - 1 wooden spoon. Now that you have all your items you will need for this tea, put all the herbs, flowers and spices into the bowl and gently blend the mixture together by hand. While you are blending theses items together close your eyes and visualise your home being filled with white light creating it a sacred place that is protected by this light. Now imagine that light that has covered your home is now running through you to the blend in the bowl you are blending. Imagine that this light is charging them with the energy of safety and protection. Once you have done this open your eyes and collect that small pan. Put the pan on the hob and bring the water to a simmer. Once this has happened add the blended herb, flower and spices into the pan. Using the wooden spoon start to stir the mixture in the pan and when the aromatic steam rises repeat: 'Made of flowers and fire, This brew brings the peace I desire, With my hands, I make this brew, To bless our home and hearth anew, And so it is'. I personally bottle this up and have the mixture added to glass bottles with wooden sticks coming out a bit like a homemade protection air freshener. I personally love the scent of this because it reminds me of all the things I love about autumn and I do hope you enjoy creating this blend yourself. If you wish to keep up to date with all things witchy and blog related then follow me on instagram @paganvibesonly where I post daily about what I am receiving, working on and witchy goodies too. I do hope to see you all in the next post and please everyone stay safe with the world being such a strange place at the moment. Blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x
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Merry meet everyone, I have another great crystal information post for you all today and this crystal I will be talking to you all about is the green Aventurine. Now I have quite a few different shades of this crystal in my collection and thats because its such a great one to have in your collection. I believe this may actually be one of the first ones I had in my ever growing collection. I actually brought myself this crystal because it helps to promote calmness and when I was having really bad panic attacks it was one I found very useful. But that being said its not the only helpful magical property this crystal has which is why this post is such a handy one to read. That being said this crystal is also handy if you need to represent the element air in your magical workings or even on your altar because this crystal is connected with the air element. Magical Properties include: - Money, - Peace, - Career success, - Healing, - Good luck, - Calmness, - Prosperity, See like I said before this crystal is a handy one to promote peace and calmness into your life. It is also a great crystal of wealth and prosperity and when it comes to matters of the business it will help bring forth leadership qualities and decisiveness that you will need to be successful. This crystal also helps to promote compassion and empathy which is such an important thing to have in your life. It can also encourage perseverance even when you feel lost or the task seems out of reach. It can also help stabilise your state of mind and help stimulate perception and enhances your creativity. Its a great one for when your blocked on ideas and with this being a great enhancer of creativity if you do get blocked hold this crystal in your hands and visualise the blockage being removed. I find this helps me a lot when working on ideas for this blog. This crystal also helps you in seeing alternatives and creating new paths and possibilities when you do seem blocked. Like I said before this is such a great crystal to have if you get irritated easily. If you work in customer service then you need this crystal in your pocket because I will say this now it helps dealing with those types of customers! Another great use for this crystal is that it promotes feelings of well being and mindfulness. It is one of those calming crystals that you should have in your bag or pocket if you are troubled by strong emotions and this crystal can help speed up the healing of those emotions. Like the list states above this is a great crystal to have when your having interviews because it helps boost good luck and keeps your emotions in check so you can put your best self forward. I hope you have found this post helpful and enjoyed the good read. As always you can keep up to date with all things witchy and away from the blog by following me on instagram @paganvibesonly. If you have any questions or just want to chat pop me a message and I will get to you as soon as I can. I hope to see you all in the next post and please stay safe everyone. Blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x Merry meet everyone, With this month being a very special month for witches I thought I would dip back into history and research why besoms are such powerful tools for us witches today. That being said not all witches use theses amazing tools anymore because there not as common as they use to be. I for one am collecting materials to create my own one or even nudge my fellow witchy friend to help me make my own besom. Now when you look back into the history when besoms were around you could tell then had to create something to remove all the bad waste that was falling of their homes. Bare in mind their homes back in those days were created from wood, straw and old dirt. That is why the besom was created to clean out the old so their homes didn't smell as much as they did. One of the oldest besoms were created by any old material that could create the bristles. This could be old straw, herbs and twigs that were lying around and they would collect all theses together to create the main part of the broom. Many believe that the reason the bristles were circular was to represent the tree of life which many pagans back in those days believed was a important symbol. Many besoms were found hanging just in the door way of the home which was considered to ward off evil spirits, negative forces and to protect the home and whom ever lived inside. Now the traditional witches besom is normally made with a ash handle and bristles from birch twigs and thats because they were very common in those days. With modern day being harder to find these types of trees because we now have roads and buildings where back in those days trees covered the land. They also would tie the twigs of the besom together with a thin piece of willow wood and many would decorate their besoms with flowers of the season which I would consider would help cover the smell that was about in that time. What I found really interesting was many Celtic pagans connected the besom to faeries which I would of through was because of the relation to the wood used to create the besoms. Many believed the forests had sprites that protected the lands. Many believed that you would have to ask permission to collect wood aspects for the besom before making it because the sprites would cause havoc otherwise. There are other stories that a witch would ask for help from the sprites to lead her to the perfect tree to create her besom from and this was because it would then be considered enchanted with nature once created. I found that the besom is connected to both masculine and feminine energies, that being said the handle being phallic would be the masculine and the bristles being feminine. This means that the besom is in perfect balance itself which is not normally the case for witchcraft items. One of the things that you normally use the besom for is for hand-fasting rituals which if you didn't know what that is, its a witchy way of getting married. I personally love the idea of a hand-fasting with my partner when the time comes alongside the normal marriage ceremony just to please my witchy side. When I was younger my mother had her besom and when we would use the spirit board in the garden she would walk around with the besom casing the circle of protection, we would then have the besom over the doorway of the circle to keep out unwanted energies when we wanting to communicate with the other side. I have this strong memory of this because it was the first time I actually saw my mother use her besom. Anyway while theses besoms were used to clear out unwanted muck in old homes and clearing the area of ritual work, it is also important to remember that this was an important tool for witches during the burning times of Europe. That was because during this time period witches would use a broom to hide one of their most important tools which was their wand. They would hide it in the middle of the broom in plain sight so no one would think anything different. There is also a tradition that besoms have been used to harbour a particular spirit temporarily but I am unsure how true this one can be. There is so much history for us witches to remember that sometimes all you have to do is jump into the rabbit hole of history. I hope you enjoyed today's post and that you continue to look into our history this month. As always you can keep updated on all things witchy related on my instagram @paganvibesonly and if you need a chat or have a question message me and ill get back to you as soon as I can. I hope to see you all in the next post and as always keep safe everyone. Blessed be x PaganVibesOnly x |
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