Out With the Old: Spells for Breaking Habits, Changing Fortunes, and Cutting Ties

Heading into this new year, there’s plenty each of us would love to leave behind. These out with the old spells hep us do just that – casting out negativity, bad luck, unhappiness, and bad influences – while also ensuring that we invite good fortune and positivity to take the place of the bad we want to rid ourselves of. Here you’ll find easy spells for breaking bad habits, severing ties with people and situations, cleansing ourselves of the past, drawing success and monetary fortune our way, and attracting all sorts of goodness in the year ahead.

Intent & Intentions in the New Year: A Beginner's Guide to Setting Intentions for a Fresh Start

Once again, we stand on the threshold of a shiny new year. For many people, this is the time to take stock of the lives we’ve built for ourselves and assess the areas that need change, to make plans to become a new-and-improved version of ourselves by the next New Year. In the context of holiday traditions, we refer to this as making resolutions; but, when working with energies and magical forces, we might refer to it as setting intentions.

Winter Protection Magic: Herbs, Amulets, and Easy Spells to Protect Yourself and Your Home

While the winter days are darker, slower, quieter, colder, we also find they are a time to gather with friends and family, to enjoy the warmth of company and the cheer of the winter season. It’s a season known both for being a season of joy and togetherness, as well as being a season of isolation and spiritual vulnerability. As opposing as these reputations are, one thing they share in common is the increased need for protective magic.

Protective magic for the winter season doesn’t have to be complicated. Indeed, you’ll often find it’s much the opposite. There are many simple methods of magical protection that we can put to work this winter season, and some of them are things we already do without even knowing. In this piece, we’ll explore winter herbs and ingredients one can use in their winter protection magic, as well as a few easy ways to protect yourself and your space during this winter season. Let’s get started.

Unwelcome Mat: A Spell for Home Protection

There are many ways to ward off negativity and magically protect our spaces. And the down-to-earth nature of cottage magic allows practitioners to make use of commonplace household items as powerful magical supplies. This can be a practical and accessible approach for many practitioners, it allows individuals to practice their craft even when they may have limited access to specialized tools or might prefer a more discreet form of magic. With a little time and ritual, everyday items can be repurposed for magical uses, imbued with intent and purpose that makes them just as powerful as more formal tools and supplies.

Connecting with the House Wights: Using Tarot to Connect with Your Household Spirits

Practitioners of cottage magic possess a deep connection to their homes and the land around it. Although some may think of this as a connection to the beams and bricks that make up the house itself, many cottage witches also seek to build a connection with the rich spiritual energies that reside in their homes. For those who acknowledge the spirit realm and seek to walk in step with it, household spirits can be a source of peace and comfort as well as powerful magical allies.

Cottage Magic for Protection: Make the Home a Safe & Sacred Space

For many practitioners of magic, the home is seen as a sacred space. Whether it’s an apartment in the inner city, a house in the suburbs, or a cottage at the edge of the woods, a practitioner’s home is a place where they can practice their magical and spiritual craft, find solace, and create positive energy. One specific magical path that honors the spiritual significance of the home is the practice of cottage magic. Cottage magic or cottage witchery is a branch of magic that focuses on the magic within your own home. It can be a powerful tool for promoting positivity and protection in your living space.

At the Witch's Table: Recipes for a Samhain Feast

Samhain is a Celtic Pagan festival that marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Thanks to its place on the Wiccan Wheel of the Year, it has also been incorporated into the practices and observations of many other practitioners of magic and Paganism. In its modern observation, Samhain is a time of celebration, reflection, and remembrance. As the veil between the worlds thins, it presents a perfect opportunity to gather with one’s friends, communities, and loved ones to share a feast that honors the bounty of the earth and the spirits of the departed.

Into the Unknown: Celebrating Friday the 13th as a Witch

Friday the 13th is a date that has a long history of association with superstitions and fears, but for witches and practitioners of magic, it can be a day filled with enchantment, mystery, and opportunity. Rather than hiding from black cats or broken mirrors, practitioners of magic can embrace the unique energies of this day to enhance their spiritual practices. Let’s talk about a few ways in which you can celebrate Friday the 13th as a magical practitioner and tap into its energy.

Under the Thin Veil: Herbs & Spells for Personal and Spiritual Protection

As the leaves change and the air takes on a crisp chill, the magical energy of autumn permeates the air. This time of year is not only visually enchanting but also spiritually potent. During this period, the veil between the worlds is thin, making it an ideal time to focus on spiritual/magical protection and warding off negative energies.

An Autumn Warding Spell: Banishing Fear & Protecting Yourself Through the Dark Months

Autumn arrives, bringing with it a unique blend of mystery and magic. The falling leaves and cooling temperatures invite us to turn our focus inward, reflect, and prepare for the coming winter. This is also a time when the boundaries between the physical and spiritual worlds grow thin, making it an opportune moment to cast a protection spell. In this blog post, we will guide you through an Autumn Warding Spell to help you create a protective magical ward against negativity and fear as the darkening side of the year unfolds.

Autumnal Abundance: An Autumn Spell for Blessings

As we bid farewell to the scorching days of summer and welcome the golden hues of autumn, there's an undeniable magic in the air. Autumn, with its homespun warmth and promises of joy to come, invites us to harness the energy of the season's transformation. It is a season to express gratitude for the bountiful harvest and set intentions for the months ahead. In this blog post, we'll explore a simple yet powerful spell that allows you to connect with the essence of autumn, inviting abundance and warmth into your life.

The Silent Supper: A Rite to Honor the Spirits of the Dead

The Dumb Supper or Silent Supper. It bears two meanings in the southern Appalachian region of the United States – as a method used by unmarried women to divine one’s future spouse, and (as its more widely known) as a dinner held to honor and commune with those who now dwell in the realm of spirits. In this post, we’re going to focus on the latter interpretation of the term.

Pumpkin Magic: Magical Ways to Use Pumpkins

Pumpkin season isn’t just for Halloween, nor is this fantastic gourd only good for carving jack-o’- lanterns, decorating for Halloween, or baking in a pie. They’re in-season from late August or early September through December, so if you’re only putting them to use in October, you’re missing out on loads of good pumpkin time. Pumpkins have a plethora of uses, especially in witchcraft. Much of what you’ll find in magical and herbal resource books only really acknowledges the pumpkin in its association to Halloween and Samhain, which is – if I may speak frankly – an absolute shame. The pumpkin is so much more than this, and in this blog post we’re going to explore some of the pumpkin’s many uses.

Roses in Witchcraft: Magical Uses for Roses

It’s spring in the northern hemisphere, and that means it’s the season of blooming roses everywhere! Or that’s the case ‘round my region. It’s now the perfect time to get out and harvest roses, petals, buds, thorns, and leaves, and to put them to magical use. In this post, you’ll find a collection of spells that anyone can try for themselves.

Curios & Symbols for Abundance Magic

Abundance is a hot topic word in many corners of the magical and spiritual communities. Perusing blogs and websites about magic, one will find a number of spells and rituals dedicated to attracting and manifesting abundance. Now, the word abundance simply means to have a lot of something. Although we may think of abundance as being focused on the amount of wealth we have or have access to, it can also refer to having one’s basic needs comfortably met, having an abundance of joy and happiness, or an abundance of opportunity. Abundance magic can be used to attract more prosperity into your life, bring customers to your business, open the doors for opportunity, or entice a wealth of love, happiness, and friendship into your life.

A is for Apple: Thirteen Magical Ways to Use Apples

The almighty apple – so commonplace, yet its uses are endless. It has countless magical correlations and applications around the world. The small, too oft unnoticed apple bears significant religious connotation as well – a fruit that has been historically used in invocational offerings to no less than a dozen deities and has gained symbological infamy. From its use in fertility and romance magic to its association with death and immortality, there seems to be very little the apple cannot do.

A Spell to Draw an Ideal Partner to You

This spell is intended to help draw an ideal partner into your life. It is a non-binding love spell, which means that it is intended to draw a person into your life, but not to make them love you or to make them stay with you. It is written with the intention to keep the person’s free will and clarity still very much intact. It could be helpful in situations where you are actively trying to meet new people, such as using a dating site/app or trying to meeting someone in a new workplace, school, city or other venue.

Workings for the New Year: Binding Someone or Something to the Old Year

As each new year begins, one’s mind turns naturally to making plans for the betterment of our lives, situations, and selves. We are inclined to take stock of what we have accomplished and who we have become in the year prior, and to evaluate the kinds of changes that we want to make in our lives. Sadly, most of the time, we find that we are unhappy with the progress we made the previous year—whether we didn’t get the right job or didn’t make the changes in our relationships that we planned.

Rituals for the New Year: Way-Making & Removing Obstacles from your Path

Most of the time, our New Year’s resolutions don’t pan out. Although we might meet the new year with a renewed sense of faith and optimism, it can be difficult to maintain that energy as the year gets going. Once we start feeling fatigued with our new resolutions and our motivation begins to wane, we tend to assume that the goals we set were simply not realistic to begin with. We almost never consider whether we made sure to clear the way for our resolutions to succeed before we started.

Rituals for the New Year: Cleansing & Removing Negativity

In many ways, we have no choice but to bring the past with us was we move from year to year. We all have trauma that we carry with us. We all have relationships that we will bring with us everywhere we go. We all have beliefs and perceptions that might never shed. But there are also many things we can leave behind. We can let go of some of the things that hold us back, that keep us stuck in what we think of as the “old year” by performing a simple cleansing to remove some of the negativity that we carry. Removing negativity isn’t a heal-all solution to all of our problems, but it can help us to feel lighter, to be more focused, and to have more hope as we work in pursuit of our goals and resolutions.