🌱✨🌷Magical Associations of Natural Items🌷✨🌱

Regently I have been reading ‘The Green Witch’  by  Arin Murphy-Hiscock and I have found a really good and detailed list in it about all kind of herb, flowers, plants,trees and spices’s nature and I thought it may be useful for other ones too. 

I tried to categorize all the information, but as you can see there are ones which could be placed in more than one category. So I put these in just one category. 

🌶️SPICES🌶️

🌿HERBS🌿

🍎Fruits🍎

🌷Plants🌷

🌳Woods🌳

🌰Seeds🌰

🧅Others🧅

Types of water

💧Rain Water 💧 

Multipurpose, Growth, Rebirth, good for Spells that Gain Power over time

💧River Water💧

Moving on, Focusing Energy, Warding, Breaking through Rough Paths, and Good for Powering Tools

💧Storm Water💧

Emotional Strength, Confidence, Motivation, Force, Charging, Strengthens Spells, and Good for Curses

💧Snow Water💧

Purity, Endings, Change, good for Slow-moving Spells

💧Sea Water💧 

Cleansing, Healing, Banishing, and Protection

💧Dew Water💧

Love, Fertility, Delicate Magick, Fae Work

Offerings for the Dead

Most people are reblogging an ask I answered long ago about offerings to give to the dead. It’s long overdue, but I’ve finally typed it up into an actual cohesive post.

~ Herbs ~ 

~ Flowers ~ 

~ Liquids ~

~ Other ~

~ What to do with the Offerings ~

This is SO overdue I’m so sorry but I hope it helps!! 

Back on your Witchy Bullshit: A Guide to Getting Back on your Feet after a Lapse

So I’ve recently taken a break from witchcraft for various reasons, mostly terrible mental health. I definitely don’t feel like I can just jump right back into where I left off, so I’m trying to ease myself back into practising. Here’s a few things I’ve been doing, and I’m hoping someone, somewhere might find them useful.

Good luck witches, you can do it!  🌘💖🌒

- Angrbrenna

A Baby Witches Dictionary 📖

Disclaimer: This is all based on my opinion. It is not perfectly alphabetized. - Altar • A place for all of your witch supplies, tools, a place to meditate and worship your deities. It is the center of your practice. Astrology • You’ve probably heard of astrology, in witchcraft it is used as a form of divination.  Astral projection • Astral projection is a purposeful out-of-body experience where you, well, project a version of your consciousness (also known as an astral body) to a location that is separate from your physical body.  Athame • A ritualistic dagger used as a tool in witchcraft. Aura • An energetic field that surrounds a living creature, usually people are referring to humans when this term is used. Baby witch • A witch who is new to the world of witching and the community.  Beltane • A sabbat that celebrates fertility and the coming of summer. Besom • A broom used as a tool in witchcraft to cleanse.  Binding • A type of spell or magick used to bind something, as in keep it from continuing behavior or causing harm. Boline • A dagger or knife used as a tool in witchcraft to cut and harvest herbs. Banishing • A type of spell or magick used to get rid of something or someone. Book of shadows • A book or journal used by a witch to store information.  Candle magick  • The usage of candles in magick, usually in combination with color or sigil magick.  Cartomancy • A type of divination that involves cards (Can be oracle or tarot cards) Cauldron • A metal pot, used to mix herbs, or potions, or really anything you might want to mix in your practice.  Chalice • A fancy cup used to keep water in as a representation of the West when casting circles or to drink from during your practice. It can also be used to give offerings of liquid to any deities you work with. Chant • A type of spell or magick that includes speaking or singing aloud. The words can rhyme and often correspond with your intent. Clairovoyance • A type of divination where you see or perceive events in the future. Cleansing • One of the foundations of witchcraft, it has many methods. It is the act of ridding a space, person, or object of negative, stagnant, or previous energies. Circle • A circle is a type of spell you cast in magick, it enhances your powers and protects you. Closed culture/religion  • A closed culture, or religion is something that is closed off to people outside of it and does not condone taking (appropriating) anything from it. Color magick • A type of magick based around color, the idea is you use certain colors that you associate with certain things to make a spell more powerful. Ex: Using pink in a love spell.  Correspondence • A connection or association with something, you could use the example I stated above. If pink corresponds with love, you use it in a love spell. This usually refers to the usage/picking of ingredients for a spell. Coven • A group of witches that often socialize, or gather. Crystal magick • The usage of crystals for magick. Ex: Using clear quartz to cleanse something. Curse • A negative spell that has permanent, sometimes deadly effects on someone. Divination • Seeking information or guidance by supernatural means. Dream Interpretation • A form of divination where the events/symbols/scenery/actions ect in a dream are interpreted.  Empath • A person with a heightened level of empathy for others mental or emotional state. Enchant • A type of magick or spell that gives something a certain property, typically permanently. Esbat • A gathering of witches that does not take place on a Sabbat. Fae/Fair folk • Another word or term for fairies. These terms are more preferred by them, especially the term “Fair folk.”  Familiar • An animal, sometimes described as possessed by a spirit or entity that assists a witch in their craft. Glamour • A type of magick or spell that changes someones appearance or energy. Grimoire • Another word for a Book Of Shadows, a book or journal used by a witch to store information and experiences. Grounding • Like cleansing, this is a foundation of witchcraft. It is like meditation, the goal is to focus yourself and afterwards to feel more connected to this world and moment. Hellenism • A Pagan religion that worships the Greek deities you most likely know from mythology, such as Zeus, or Aphrodite. It is based around the 12 Olympians.  Hex • A negative spell, like a curse but less powerful, unlike a curse it’s usually not permanent.  Imbolc • One of the sabbats, it celebrates the coming of Spring.  Intent • Another common word that makes up the foundation of witchcraft, intent is that purpose or desire you have when you cast a spell. Ex: My intent is to banish a toxic person from my life with this spell. In other words, you have to really want it to get it.  Intuition • A supernatural or unexplainable feeling that warns, guides, or helps you. Invoking • To call or summon a spirit/entity/deity. Jinx • This falls under the category of curses and hexes, as in it is a negative spell. Jinxes are the least powerful of the three, they usually last a few hours or days and don’t cause any permanent or irreversible harm.  Lammas • Another Sabbat, it is the first harvest, a representation of a time to relax and appreciate your hard work.  Litha • A sabbat that celebrates Summer and the sun.  Mabon • One of the Sabbats, this one celebrates Autumn.  Magick • It’s as you’d imagine, magic. The only difference is the spelling which is used to differentiate between stage magic and what we do.  Medium • A person who has supernatural or clairovoyant abilities that they use to relay information or messages from the spirit world.  Moon water • A magickal water this infused with the moons power. Numerology • A type of divination based around numbers. Oracle/oracle cards • Similar to tarot cards but less common, these are a type of cards used for cartomancy or divination. The different between them and tarot cards is they are more modern and do not follow the same major/minor arcana system that tarot does. Often they do not follow any common system at all. Ostara • A Sabbats celebrating spring and the coming of fertility and well being. Runes • Nordic in origin, runes are symbols used for divination. Sabbat • A neo-pagan holiday. There are 8 Sabbats. They follow the wheel of the year and are based on the changing of the seasons and nature.  Samhain • A Sabbat that celebrates the last harvest, the veil between worlds is thinnest at this time.  Scrying • A form of divination where one peers into a reflective surface. Traditionally a crystal ball is used, but there are many ways of doing it.  Sigil • A type of magick or spell, a sigil is a symbol you create, the intent of the sigil is embedded into the symbol. (If you look into making sigils, it makes a bit more sense.)  Spell jar • Any spell that is made in a jar, usually you’d mix common ingredients like magick waters, oils, and herbs that correspond with your intent.  Tarot/tarot cards • A type of cards used for cartomancy, or divination. There are 78 cards in a set, which are categorized as the major and minor arcana. The minor arcana are separated into 4 suits. Tarot spread • A way you lay out tarot cards when you do a reading, each card represents a question. Ex: A tarot spread for love. Tasseomancy • A form of divination where tea leaves are used. Theban Alphabet/Script • An ancient alphabet used by modern witches. It’s Latin based and centuries old. Its origins are unknown. Because of its modern use among witches and Wiccans, it is also known as the witches alphabet.  Paganism • An umbrella term that refers to many religions practiced by witches, including Wicca & Hellenism, the commonality between all Pagan based religions is they are based on nature and or multiple deities. Palmistry • A form of divination where you inspect someones hands and the lines present on them. Pentagram • A symbol that contrary to popular belief is not Satanic in nature, but actually represents the 4 elements and the spirit. Pendulum • A form of divination where a pointed object hung from a chain/string is used. The way the pendulum swings is what determines the results of a reading. Warding • A magickal barrier that protects you from energetic/magickal threats, such as bad spirits or curses even. One such barrier can be formed in many ways. Wicca • A Pagan religion based on nature and the divine Masculine and Feminine. Wheel of the year • A witchy calendar used to track the Sabbats, holidays based on the changing of the seasons.  Yule • One of the sabbats, this one is based on celebrating winter but also the coming of spring. This is also when the dark half of the year ends and the light half begins. - I came up with the idea for this post and was surprised I’d never seen one. So I made this! - Let me know if you have any corrections or additions and I might add them. - I hope this helps someone. Enjoy! Have a lovely day 💖

Herbs and their uses

 I’ll add more to the list in due time.

Angelica Root - protection, healing, temperance; Basil - money & riches, protection, love;

Chamomile Flowers - healing, prosperity;  

Cinnamon - protection, healing, love, passion, money;                                                                     Clove - repelling negative influences;

Comfrey - protection;

Coriander Seed - love, fertility, protection;                 

Cumin - protection, fidelity, exorcism;

Dill Weed - protection, love;

Fennel Seed - protection, healing, purification;

Flax Seed - money, protection, psychic powers, healing;

Frankincense Tears - protection, purification, consecration, exorcism;

Hawthorn - protection;

Hibiscus - lust, love, divination, aphrodisiac;

Hyssop - protection, healing;

Juniper Berries - money, protection, love;

Kelp - protection, sea & wind spells, money, psychic powers;

Lemongrass - psychic awareness, purification, lust; Mandrake - protection, fertility;

Mugwort - protection, divination, clairvoyance;

Myrrh Gum - high psychic vibrations, spirituality, purification, protection;

Oregano - protection, love, warding off colds; Peppermint Leaf - purification, healing sleep, love, prosperity;

Rosebuds & Petals - ultimate love, protection;

Rose Hips - love, health, vitality;

Rosemary Leaf - contentment, love, protection, clear thinking, money;

Sage Leaf - healing, purification;

Sea Salt - cleansing, casting circles, purification, grounding, protection;

Valerian Root - reconciliation, love, harmony;

Yellow Dock - healing, fertility, money.

Use herbs in sachets & bottle spells or burn them as incense on charcoal disks

✨Days of the week list of correspondences✨

✨Monday✨

Planet: Moon

Colors: Blue, silver, white

Intent: Beauty, dreams, emotions, fertility, insight, astral work, divination, sleep, peace, travel, purity, spiritual cleansing, psychic ability, wisdom

✨Tuesday✨

Planet: Mars

Colors: Black, orange, red

Intent: Courage, conviction, defense, ambition, achievement, activate protective talismans,success, stength, protection, physical power, passion, sexuality, reverse hexes, victory

✨Wednesday✨

Planet: Mercury

Colors: Orange, purple

Intent: Communication, change, fortune, creativity, knowledge, acceptance, luck, money

✨Thursday✨

Planet: Jupiter

Colors: Blue, green, purple

Intent: Healing, growth, fulfillment, justice, authority, protection, strength, luck, prosperity, long term preservation of wealth

✨Friday✨

Planet: Venus

Color. Pink

Intent: Birth, fertility, gentleness, freindship, healing, goodness, blocking, romance, pregnancy, passion, love, money, prosperity, self-care

✨Saturday✨

Planet: Saturn

Color: Black, purple

Intent: Banishing, cleansing, binding, ending, protection, spirituality, loss, renewing, transforming, wisdom

✨Sunday✨

Planet: Sun

Color: Gold, yellow

Intent: Fame, health, new begginings, success, prosperity, personal empowerment, wealth

Activating Sigils

There are two types of sigils: active sigils and passive sigils

To activate an Active Sigil you must destroy it by drawing your sigil on a piece of paper or something else and doing one of the following:

- burning

- submerge it in water

- blow sigil away (drawn in sand)

- eat sigil (decorated cookie, whipped cream, chocolate sauce, etc.)

- wash it off

To activate a Passive Sigil you must allow it to remain by doing one of the following:

- draw sigil on an amulet

- annoint something with oil in shape of sigil

- unwashable paint or marker

- carve sigil into a candle or etch it into anything you want (try not to carve sigils in to live trees🌳)

Because it recently came up again, here’s my tutorial for a protective rune chain perfect for a house cleansing ritual or a new home (instructions linked)!  Enjoy! Witchy Words: A Witchcraft Blog

Witchy Goals - I’m going to make one of these with sigils and ogham letters in the coming year. Because of reasons.

Can I just say that I love love LOVE that this beautiful protective symbol is hanging from a command hook

Scrying 🔮

Scrying is using a crystal ball, mirror, bowl of water or other reflective object/surface to obtain information, get messages and access your intuition. But, how do you go about doing it? Well…

Keep reading

🌷🍰 Beltane 🌷🍰

🌷 Also known as May Day

🌷 Art By: Jacqueline De Leon on Instagram

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🍰 When Is Beltane?

🌷 Northern Hemisphere:

30April - 1 May

It can be celebrated either day or is traditionally celebrated from the night of 30 April until the day of 1 May

🌷 Southern Hemisphere:

31 October - 1 November

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🍰 What Is Beltane?

🌷 Beltane is celebrated because we are now at the peak of spring; the sun god has now taken over. For many of us, summer is arriving, or is coming very soon. It’s super joyous, happy, exciting day that honours life. The earth is buzzing and all of the earth’s energies are thriving: fertility, sexuality, passion, energy and new life are at their peak of stimulation at this time. Fertility is the main theme for Beltane. The Triple Goddess in her maiden form and the Horned God are finally united and they are bringing new life on the earth. It’s the time of the year when we need to grant luck to the summer months and the growth that is coming. It is one of the solar festivals, the other being Samhain. Beltane represents birth, while Samhain represents death, which is why Beltane is seen as the most important celebration by some people.

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🍰 How To Celebrate:

🌷 Beltane celebrations focus on fertility, abundance and all of the amazing gifts that the earth gives us at this time.

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🍰 Activities:

🌷 Create amulets made from rose quartz and give them to loved ones, friends and family. This is a gift that can help with positivity and passion and they can help to lower anxiety too. For specific loved ones this can help with the passion and romance between the two of you and it can also calm nerves!

🌷 Flowers and greenery are a huge part of Beltane.

🌷 Create flower crowns.

🌷 Create daisy chains.

🌷 Wear flowers on your body.

🌷 Make a green man mask from leaves.

🌷  Beltane is a time of love, so if you have a loved one that you would like to make a commitment to, this is an excellent time for marriage, handfasting and promise rituals. You may want to plan your ceremony for Beltane.

🌷 Dance round a maypole; this is a pole that is typically made from wood or metal and that has ribbons tied to a wreath around it. The maypole, is a phallic symbol of the male, the wreath around it and the ribbons coming off it, the vagina. We are celebrating fertility and the marriage of the two of them around this time! You can do a traditional maypole dance around this pole holding the ribbons. Look out for nearby maypole festivities - there are probably more than you think; if not you can create one yourself with your loved ones or your coven.

🌷 Also if you have plans to conceive, now is a great and lucky time!

🌷 Another way to celebrate love is just to go for a walk- you could search for a hawthorn tree, make a wish , have a picnic and collect some wild flowers. Share this experience with a friend or loved one or enjoy a solitary walk.

🌷 Spells to cast at this time are love spells and vitality, protection, romance and purification spells. Casting your circles with oats around this time of year is also a good idea! They are a traditional Beltane grain for good luck.

🌷 Light a Beltane fire- have a Beltane fire ritual with your friends and family, serve food and have an outside bonfire. Fires are traditionally to honor our sun gods, and celebrate the warmth and the sun god taking over the cold.

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🍰 Altar Ideas

🌷 Decorate it with seasonal spring flowers.

🌷 Drape it with green cloth and ribbons to represent the green earth as it is now here!

🌷 Add birch and hawthorn branches, burnt in your cauldron.

🌷 Light red, pink and green candles.

🌷 Red and pink represent passion, love and fertility, which suit the theme of Beltane.

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🍰 Food And Drink

🌷 Oats in all forms; oat cookies, oatmeal, oat bread

🌷 Dairy, cheeses and milks or dairy-free alternatives

🌷 Also spicy food, to represent the element of fire and the sun

🌷 May Day wine

🌷 Vanilla-flavoured foods

🌷 Fairy Cakes

🌷 Ice Cream

🌷 Sweet breads

🌷 Elderflower and other flowery-flavoured cordials

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🍰 Crystals

🌷 Relevant crystals to carry around with you this time of the year and to meditate with, use in divination and spell work, place at your altar and, around Beltane, give as gifts to loved ones and partners, are:

🌷 Rose Quartz

🌷 Emerald

🌷 Sunstone

🌷 Pink Tourmaline

🌷 Beryl

🌷 Pink angel aura quartz

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🍰 Herbs And Flowers

🌷 Any herbs and flowers that are blooming now where you live are perfect or Beltane. Try to get the most vibrant and powerful blossoming herbs to work with at this time of the year.

🌷 Lilac

🌷 Thistle

🌷 Flaxseed

🌷 Paprika

🌷 Hawthorn

🌷 Rowan

🌷 Daffodil

🌷 Honeysuckle

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🍰 Incense

🌷 Good incense to use during casting circles, burning at your altar around Beltane time and for cleansing and consecrating, as well as for magickal workings, are:

🌷 Peach

🌷 Rose

🌷 Vanilla

🌷 Jasmine

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🌷 Source: A MODERN GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT & MAGICK BY HARMONY NICE

Black Salt, and its Usages in Both Black and White Witchcraft

Image Credit: Juniper Wildwalk ,(post author) ** BY-SA-NC

So, as a continuation of my new little chain of posts on black magick, I’m going to be talking about the substance known as black salt. This is a common element of many curses and charms, but is also protective and can be used for white magickal purposes with ease.

What is Black Salt?

Black salt is, well, salt with things that are black added. It is not the same as culinary black salt which is rock salt with activated charcoal added to it: in witchcraft, black salt usually has black pepper, crushed charcoal and sometimes dyes or other black things added. Crushed shells or rocks are also pretty popular. 

My own black salt uses a mixture of crushed charcoal and pepper, but the wood I get the charcoal from varies depending on the usage. Just for general usages, however, I tend to use oak or eucalyptus because it makes good charcoal for small-scale production. 

If you want your salt to be especially good for curses and black magick, add a few crushed chili seeds or a little sulphur. 

If you want your salt to be especially good for protection and white magick, add some iron scrapings or a little cinnamon.

Witchy Uses for Black Salt

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Black salt is excellent to use in conjunction with sage smoke-cleansing, as the sage will purify and drive away negativity and the black salt will absorb what is left.

I hope that helps someone! 

– Juniper

Ostara Honey Cake

This will be my first Ostara so I’ve been putting together my recipes for the event. The following recipe is a dairy and egg free cake with a hint of honey; a simple recipe I’ve modified. It can even be gluten free if you substitute a gluten free all purpose flour (I personally like Bob’s Mill) Perfect desert for the sabbat! It’s simple, not overly sweet, and I’ll be putting a light lemon glaze on top, but it would be wonderful plain. A perfect finish to bring in Spring/Summer.

3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup honey, warmed 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons white vinegar 1 ½ tablespoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons oil 2 cups water

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease 2 – 9 inch round cake pans then dust with flour. Warm honey in 10 second intervals in microwave until it moves around bowl like a liquid (DO NOT let it boil) Add the flour, sugar, honey, baking soda, and salt to a large bowl. Add the water, oil, vinegar, and vanilla. Mix with a whisk until well-blended. Do not over beat. It will still turn out even if there are a few small lumps. Divide the batter between the 2 greased cake pans. Bake on a middle rack of oven for 35 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Let cool before frosting, dust with powdered sugar, or dive in while warm with a fork. Mmm, tasty!🐰🐥🐏🍰

Black Salt Recipe

Okay my brothers and sisters, so every witch has there own method of making black salt, but I’m going to share how I make mine.

So what is black salt?

Black salt is used to banish negative vibrations, energy and entities by sprinkling it in the corners of your house or to add as a corresponding ingredient in your banishing spells. It is also used to protect your home from negative entities from coming in if one has an issue with invasive spirits like I once did.

Ingredients

So the first step is to place a piece of charcol in your cauldron and set it ablaze. Wait until the charcol has stopped sparking and until it is glowing hot.

Then, add your herbal ingredients to the cauldron with the intent to purify and banish negative vibrations in the space. Wait until all the herbs are burned to ash and keep adding herbs until you get a fair amount of ash.

Once you have your ashes and your activated charcol dish, cover your cauldron until the charcol dish has fizzed our and is no longer hot. Then collect your ashes and charcol and put it in your mortar and pestle. Grind until all your ingredients are a black powder.

Next is the sea salt. Slowly stir in your sea salt until all you have left in the bowl is black salt. Then safely store your black salt in a jar or bottle.

Enjoy my brothers and sisters!

Blessed be!

Drawing Sigils: My Way

Dedicated to the anon who asked, thank you~ <3

 My sigils are basically just a variant of the Witch’s Sigil Wheel. I’ve just added my own flare to it. If you don’t know what that is, it’s this thing, you kind find pictures of it on google pretty easy.

The first thing you’re gonna want to do is come up with your phrase. This will set the sigils intention. We’re gonna use the phrase “The Earth keeps me safe” for this example. Once you’ve got that figured out, pick out the words that are most important to you. We’re going to use “Earth” and “Safe” as our keywords.

(note: traditionally letters that are doubled are taken out, and only single appearing letters make the points.)

Next thing you’re gonna do, is draw lines from one letter to the next. You’ll be making separate lines for each word. Feel free to curve some of these lines, but i think it looks like a mountain or a crystal so we’re gonna keep it c:

And then the next word.

This is really starting to look like a crystal in my eyes! Now it’s time to add some flare. One thing I like to do is add circles around letters that have multiple points on them. And I add crossing lines to any other line that doesn’t have an angle or connection.

To really long lines, I like to add another line parallel to it.

The last part, make it personal! Add some sort of your own flare to it.

I played around with the crystal idea that I was getting, and added things to make it look sparkling and an arrow in the middle to represent protection. 

Lastly I like to keep my sigils in circles, but feel free to skip this step and call it done! Here’s what I came up with!

If you make one, please reblog with a picture! I’d love to see ^u^ Hopefully this helps.

❄Snow Magick - Our Uses❄

Transformations, balance, feminine energy, tranquility, peace, healing, cleansing, purification

Transformations, balance and creativity

We collected snow from a rock ledge surrounding our building. As seen in the picture below😊✨

⏩It can be charged in the light of the moon making it very pure moon water. (If done on a SUPERMOON then very pure supermoon water😍)

⏩I plan on using it to clean/cleanse my tools

⏩I want to use it to protect my home

⏩It can charge your home

⏩If a Clear Quartz is placed in it than it wil charge it with healing properties

⏩This is a great way to represent the water element and/or feminine energy on your altar for Yule

⏩Will also be using it for Bath Rituals for myself and the kiddies

⏩Also with my son night terrors i wanna draw protection sigils on our walls, windows and our door for our room (he has a tot bed in our room)

⏩When i was younger i used to draw in the snow. Now i am still doing the same but SIGILS

There are so many other uses i will eventually find for it and use it for.

BONUS ⏩ STOCK UP AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AND STORE IT (FREEZER OR JAR) TO USE AT LATER TIME😊✨

⏫looks full right- NO not at all. Will be making afew trips to get it full haha. That above equals this below⏫

Did round 2 last night

And

Round 3 this morning