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Witchcraft: Topic Ideas for Your Book of Shadows/Grimoire

Please remember that these are just a small number of ideas! This isn't an end-all-be-all. Your magical journals should be personal to you and you alone. Additionally, your book of shadows/grimoire should always grow and change as you do. If you no longer resonate with something or find new information, add, take away, or archive pages! There is absolutely no shame in doing so. Most importantly, have fun!

These are listed in alphabetical order for your convenience.

Affirmations

Alchemy*

Altars

Ancestors*

Angels*

Animals (and their connection to you)

Anointing/Consecrating/Charging

Art magic

Astral projection*

Auras*

Banishing

Baneful magic*

Bath rituals

Besoms

Binding*

Birth chart (your own)

Blessings

Books (texts you can use for reference)

Candle magic

Celestial bodies (planets, the sun, etc.)

Chaos magic*

Charms, amulets, and talismans

Charm bags

Circle casting

Cleansing

Closed practices

Color magic

Constellations

Common herbs (used in the craft)

Correspondences

Crystals

Crystal grids

Daily thoughts

Days of the week (correspondences)

Deities*

Demonolatry*

Devotional practice*

Discernment

Divination (methods)

Dragons*

Dreams

Dream interpretation

Dream work

Elements (the four/five)

Elixirs

Energy work

Esbats (if Wiccan)

Essential oils

Fae*

Familiars*

Foraging calendar (for herbs)

Garden magic

Glamour magic

Green magic (herbs, plants, trees, etc.)

Grounding

Healing magic

Hearth magic

Herbalism

Herbology

Hex/curse breaking

Historical spells

Historical witches

History of witchcraft

Incense

Intention

Intention setting

Intuition

Journal entries

Kitchen magic

Knot magic

Local plants

Local myths, cryptids, or legends

Low cost magic

Low energy magic

Lunar cycle (the)

Lunar phases

Magical philosophy

Magical practices around the world

Magical technique

Magical terminology

Magical theory

Maps (of areas with interesting energy)

Meditation

Moons of the year

Mythology

Natural remedies

Obscure tools or tools you have invented

Past life exploration*

Pentacle (the)

Personal correspondence charts

Petition magic

Planetary hours

Plant identification

Poisons

Prayers

Protection magic

Recipes

Religion

Rituals

Sabbats (the)

Sachets

Sacred texts

Salts

Sea/ocean magic

Seasons (the four)

Seven psychic senses (the)

Shadow work*

Sigils

Spells (types, how to cast, ethics, etc.)

Spirits*

Spirituality

Spirit work*

Storm magic

Superstitions

Sustainable/eco-friendly lifestyle tips

Symbols

Symbol/image magic

Tarot spreads

Teas

Tech magic

Times of day (correspondences)

Tools (of the craft)

Traditional magic

Types of moons (dark moon, super moon, etc.)

Types of witches/paths of witches

Wand making

Warding

Waters (how to make, correspondences)

Weather (correspondences)

Words of power

Wheel of the year

Witch bottles

Witch's alphabet

Witch's ladder

Witchy DIY

Your magical rules

Your magical morals/ethics/values

Your reactions (to correspondences, workings, etc.)

Zodiac signs

*I believe these are more inclined for an intermediate/advanced skill level. This is because a good grasp on more basic skills (sensing energy, protection, vetting, etc.) is required to perform these practices safely and effectively with a higher rate of success.

Actual Things I have studied over the years that would make me an excellent addition to your mystery-solving gang

Related to my Skill Monkey Character Trope post

Learning how to throw my voice (Ventriloquist style)

Overtone Singing

How to properly feed and care for Crows and Corvids so you can build your own guild of feathered trinket-loving thieves

Actual Witchcraft (I’m literally a follower of Apollo. Like, actual Apollo)

Lock-picking (accidentally, it’s a long story)

Playing the Didgeridoo and Ukulele

Color Theory and Lighting

The culture and biology of fictional creatures

Vampire lore

How to do the entire Thriller Dance (They made us learn it in Elementary School for some reason. We didn’t even perform it or anything, it was just a semester in gym class for no reason)

Pendulum, Tarot, Osteomancy (Bone Divination), and Bibliomancy Divination

Every Renaissance Fair skill known to man, from metalsmithing to jousting

Magical and Alchemic symbols

The Fair Folk and all the arbitrary rules for interacting with them

Geology and the science of Gemstones for some reason

Tidbits about shows and movies I’ve literally never watched

Medieval Armor from around the world

Herbalism and Home Remedies

The cultural and spiritual Symbolism for almost anything

Wayyy to much lore from my favorite series

Basic etymology, like the meaning of names and such

Strange Historical facts, like Yasuke, the first Black Samurai

And too many other things

@beenovel, @cryptichobbit, @claraofthepen, @blueberryrock

My dad would argue that the bible says being queer is an abomination and therefore it’s not ok.

He’s the only Christian in the family

2/5 of my family members are queer. One more is questioning.

I hate queerphobia.

It literally doesn't affect me, how people choose to label themselves, what people choose to do with their own bodies. If they aren't hurting anyone, then they sure as hell aren't hurting me.

Some of y'all might wanna consider just letting people exist. I think it'll make your lives a whole lot happier.

The trill ✨ of almost getting hit by a car at 7 in the morning

Hellenic polytheism - free (and reliable!) resources

The Homeric Hymns: http://www.theoi.com/Text/HomericHymns1.html                

The premier translations by Apostolos N. Athanassakis are also available to read online for free:   https://archive.org/details/homerichymns00home and https://archive.org/details/homerichymns00atha

The Orphic Hymns: http://www.theoi.com/Text/OrphicHymns1.html

The Delphic Maxims: https://www.scribd.com/document/186693295/Delphic-Maxims

Many other primary sources from ancient Greece can be found in English translations at theoi.com, which is a fantastic resource for information about the Theoi.

Modern prayers to the Theoi:

Hearthstone https://greekpagan.com and https://greekpagan.tumblr.com/ Note: downloads of Hearthstone’s two books of Hellenic prayers can be purchased at https://www.etsy.com/shop/HearthfireHandworks

winebrightruby https://winebrightruby.tumblr.com/devotional

Some of the best and most essential books to start with - and for continuous reference, in my opinion:

Handbook To Life In Ancient Greece by Lesley Adkins & Roy A. Adkins   https://archive.org/details/handbooktolifein00adki

Greek Religion by Walter Burkert   https://archive.org/details/greekreligionarchaicandclassical

The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook: Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World by Mavin Meyer   https://archive.org/details/ancientmysteries0000unse_p7i2

The Homeric Gods by Walter Otto  https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.4448/page/n5/mode/2up

The free student guide to Classical Mythology by Mark Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, and Michael Sham: https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199997329/

I pulled 2 all nighters in a row, first tarot card i pulled today told me to rest (4th of swords)

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A Deep Room Cleanse

The state of my room is extremely important to me. It’s a direct reflection of my mental health, so when it’s messy, my energy levels are low and I just feel yucky. There’s no way I’m getting any kind of work done, magical or mundane. When it feels good and clean to be in, it’s a lot easier to deal with my symptoms and be productive. You don’t have to do every step every time of course, but each step has helped me so I figured a list like this might help someone. 

Change the lighting. Use natural sources of light (like pulling back the curtains and letting the sun in) over artificial ones. If you have salt lamps to turn on, those are still very nice. If you need artificial light to keep it from being too dark, try to prioritize light bulbs you like the color of, and ones that don’t whistle quietly when they’re on.

Change the airflow. Open a window, if you can. Often our rooms feel yucky because the air is stale. Get some fresh air moving. If it’s too cold, it’s okay to only keep it open for a few minutes or put on a coat while you work because you’re stubborn like me.

Change the sound. Put on your favorite cleansing music. Let it soak into the room. I tend to go or ambient spa stuff, or playlists that sound built for a rainy day. (Note: the music that helps you cleanse the best may not be the same as what you like the most. The playlist should keep you focused/uplifted while you work and reflect the vibes you want your room to have.)

Change the smell. Take out the trash, maybe refresh the sheets on your bed. Light a scented candle, some incense, heat up some oil, something to make your room smell distinctly different from the mucky-feeling room from before. (If your method of choice is something short like a room spray, I actually like doing it at the very end.)

Actually clean and organize. Nothing junks up the energy of a room more quicker than actual junk. Organize everything as much as you can (this might mean finally gutting your closet, even if you can close the door and hide it.) Wipe down any surfaces that need it, get everything fresh and functional again. Do some laundry while you work. If you have clothes or trinkets that are just collecting dust, extra points for purging them! 

 Cleanse any sacred spaces by themselves. A lot of us have altars or shrines in our rooms. A sacred space can also be just an extra important area of your room, like a reading nook.  Make sure to give them extra attention! You don’t need to wipe the board energetically (and probably shouldn’t), but taking a little extra time to clean surfaces, straighten up, and make sure everything feels okay on them goes a long way.

Cleanse in your regular way. Bust out the herb bundles, the bells, the ribbons, the broom, whatever you usually do to cleanse a space! The room is SUPER primed for it now, most of the negative energy probably already feels removed if not broken down. A good once-over with your favorite cleansing method should finish it off nicely. 

Refresh any wards or protections. Self explanatory. If you maintain energy borders in your room, now is a good time to check in on them and zhoosh them if needed. Keep the space clean for longer! 

Practice self-care. Take a shower, a nap, eat some food, whatever you need. You’ve put in a lot of work and you deserve it. 

I need a to read list to put this in

So about Sans narrating Night Vale,,, I’d listen to that 

 (VOTE FOR SANS if u want him to dudududu in your ears) 

Of course my life is full of luxury. Of course I am rich and wealthy and spoiled. I am always taken care of. There is nothing that I can't do or buy or have. I get the best of everything because I deserve it. Money is always finding its way into my bank account. Money can't wait to come into my possession. I know that I always have enough money to buy the things I want, to do the things I want and to go to the places that I want to go to.