Making chain mail jewelry is very similar to weaving. Your intent can be laced within every link. Focus on protection and self-confidence.
🔗Additional ideas:
Light incense or a candle that matches your intent during the making, and pass the charm through the smoke to charge it.
Incense scents I would use: cinnamon, pine, or dragon’s blood
Candle color I would use: black, white, or brown
You can use whatever scents or colors you associate with protection, mind shielding, and/or self confidence
🔗To activate: Create a chant that you can say in your head (or out loud, if you feel like it) whenever you feel like you need protection. Feel the chainlink on your skin and focus. You can also use mine, if you so choose – I just liked how it rhymed:
Mitrhil shield me; their piecing words cannot get to me
Feel free to add your own ideas – this was just made to inspire.
A lot of spells call for singular herbs like basil or cinnamon, but seasoning blends often get overlooked! Especially because these blends tend to be easier and more affordable in the kitchen. Let’s break a few down.
Pumpkin Spice- (Allspice, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg.) MONEY MONEY MONEY and also luck.
Five Spice Powder- (Cinnamon, cloves, fennel, star anise, pepper.) Protection, banishing/exorcism, probably especially so for things related to psychic powers and abilities.
Italian Seasoning- (Thyme, oregano, garlic, basil, marjoram, rosemary, savory, sage) Cleansing, purifying, and consecrating spaces, protection. Combined, this probably makes it great for warding.
Creole Seasoning- (Paprika, garlic, onion, pepper, cayenne, thyme, oregano.) Hella banishing power, with a kick. May also help start patching up any spiritual wounds, afterwards. But mostly banishing.
Tajin- (Chili peppers, salt, lime) Cleansing!Burn out/erode all that gunk.
Old Bay- (Mustard, paprika, celery salt, bay leaf, black pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, mace, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger.) Can be used as a general enhancer to the power, strength, or success of a spell. Banishing.
Being a green witch basically means you want to incorporate plants and nature into your craft! Other names include: nature witch, plant witch, garden witch, forest witch, etc.! I’ll talk about some of the basics being a green witch could entail, but this certainly isn’t an all-encompassing list!
On gardens and growing plants:
Whether you have a flourishing garden filled with everything one could possibly think of, a little windowsill herb garden with the bare essentials or one potted succulent; there’s no denying the joy that comes from helping green things grow!
A container around 2-3 feet deep and filled with soil is perfect for growing potatoes! Plop ‘em in, water them occasionally and harvest in the fall.
Plant things for the butterflies and bees!
Sage, rosemary, basil, mint, thyme, oregano and cilantro are all helpful herbs that you might consider planting.
Daffodils, marigolds, roses, sunflowers and primroses are my favorite witchy flowers.
Let’s be real, not of all of us have access to areas for planting gardens, or infinite space for indoor plants! It can make being a green witch a bit tricky.
Spider plants, lucky bamboo, air plants, aloe vera (succulents) and cacti are all pretty easy houseplants.
Terrariums are adorable and you can make them into mini gardens!
Grow one plant for each area of your life (happiness, mental health, etc) [source]
You can get bulbs for grow lights that fit into normal lamps, just be sure to put the plants directly under it!
Watering plants with rainwater will make them happy!
Find a place outside you can safely visit. Try to spend at least five or more minutes a day sitting and watching. Quiet your mind and just be. (This could be your front porch or backyard, it doesn’t have to be in the forest)
Wander on some nature trails. Visit the local body of water. Walk outside.
Start taking pictures of beautiful wild places, or wildlife.
Learn about what birds and animals live in your area, and perhaps what their tracks look like.
Climb a tree, go swimming in wild waters, take your shoes off and feel the ground beneath your feet, remove invasive plants and plant native ones, pay attention to weather patterns, collect rainwater, etc.
Get some basic plant field guides. I really like Audubon and Peterson, along with Botany in a Day.
There are also plant apps and websites.
Learn what plants have poisonous look-alikes and how to tell the difference.
Get a calendar. Go out at least once a week and document what stages the different plants are in. For example: March 4th. Oso berry leaves almost open. Nettles small but fully established. Bitter cherry has unopened flower buds. Salmonberry leaves almost open. Also worth adding where (elevation/location) which is SUPER helpful for harvesting reference later.
Pick a plant a week and research/journal it. Points include: What it looks like, what look-alikes there are, ecosystem + elevation it grows in, medicinal uses, edible uses, magical uses, etc.
Harvest plants and use them for medicine and food after safely doing research*.
Nothing, when used correctly, but unfortunately in this instance they are not.
Essential oils are not intended for internal use. I know doTerra and some other “We’re totally not a pyramid scheme” brands state that they are, but they’re lying liars with their pants on fire and should also not be trusted when they say they can be used on the skin neat. Always use a carrier oil, kids, chemical burns are no fun (nb: water is not a safe diluent for skin use, oil, either almond, apricot, coconut, jojoba or even olive oil are all fine) There are very few oils I will use inside my mouth, one being clove oil (for tooth pain), but never on any soft tissue like gums or tongue or back of the throat, because it can and will burn you. And even then I will always mix it with a little olive oil first to dilute some of the strength 1-2 drops can bring.
So this person saying “anywhere between 10-20 drops, it’s up to you” for something intended to go on the back of the throat, with oils known for causing respiratory distress (methols. long term followers know my hatred for the over use of menthol essential oils as cure alls) just, nope. NOPE.
Too many people mistake essential oils with tinctures which are made in entirely different ways from EOs, and certain EO companies are more than happy to make bank on that.
(source: me a person who has worked in various different holistic fields for over 15 years, including aromatherapy and herbal remedies).
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