ripped directly from my handwritten grimoire! This spell comes at you to remind you I exist! I just imported all my old email subscribers to this new platform so please stick around for more magick, tarot, and astrology with me!
Positive Spiritual Hygiene and Psychic Self-Defense
The foundation of any life in witchcraft or magick, initiated or not, is spiritual hygiene and psychic self-defense. What does that mean? Keep truthful and honest with the rules of your practice and don’t let the haters get to you. The further into your life of occult wisdom you go the more and more of yourself and your tender parts will be activated, available, and, if not properly protected, potentially completely on display. An old axiom of occultism is "to know, to dare, to will, to keep silent" and it explains quite a bit in regards to the topic at hand. It is the basis of spiritual hygiene and psychic self-defense.
☆to know - trust your gut
☆to dare - allow yourself to be changed
☆to will - is that what the authentic self wants?
☆to keep silent - who or what doesn’t need access to you or your motives?
In my youth, faith was taught to me as something that you can't see or explain but you know it to be true. Nothing i learned in parochial school taught me to have that faith in their god or any god that came across my path but it did begin the lesson I needed to have faith in myself. I wanted to believe in something bigger than me but after countless tragedies, pitfalls, and challenges I met some witches and found the closest thing to "faith" as I've ever felt.
These occult tools that were only reflecting my true self back to me were not dangerous hellfire they had been sold to me as.
Maybe they weren't so bad after all. Woah. Wait a second. Maybe "bad" isn't what was sold to me. It might not exist at all!
Don’t get me wrong, don’t harm anyone yadda yadda yadda but really look at that your grown ups told you was right and wrong. The first part of spiritual hygiene should be going through these rules passed to you and interrogating them. Is it authentic to you that you were "bad" or doing that thing? Or "good" for not doing that other thing?
Basically, if you don’t believe in God, why are you living by His rules? If you don’t trust man, why believe what he deemed polite?
Now ask yourself if you truly know yourself without these systems?
Can you dare to be that person?
Every day is a new opportunity to become more of yourself. Will yourself into a life you can’t even imagine yet.
And only guide others down the path when they ask.
With a mindful and self exploratory reflection, spiritual hygiene and positive psychic self-defense will follow.
But what about some practical advice? Here’s a recipe ripped directly from my grimoire for your protection
Protection Teapot Spell
Materials
1 teapot, opaque & firesafe
black, white, and pink salts
a small amount (1-3 pinches) of
rue
elecampagne
calamus root
lemograss
mugwort
motherwort
witch’s grass
4 black tourmaline pieces (must all fit in teapot)
1 Black candle to start
reburn more candles in teapot for extra oomph
your spit
protection oil of your choice (make one yourself!?)
Steps
gather your materials to your circle
cast your circle
clean/clear/cleanse your teapot
layer salt white> pink> black, each layer covering the last
with the spout at the left hand, place each tourmaline at a corner
place your black candle, anointed with your oil, in the center of the teapot. if you need to melt the base for stability, do so.
around the candle sprinkle all of the herbs one-by-one while imagining their material contributing to the protection you need, both seen and not.
burn candle & meditate while it does. pay attention that the materials inside the teapot do not catch fire.
after it burns, spit in the pot while repeating “Protect me: [list all of the names you work or are known under], from any harm intentional or otherwise” ABRAKADABRA
Place your teapot on your altar nearest your bed with the spout pointing towards your head.
Maintenance
pick a day to consistently spit in it every week to keep it active.
when you need extra protection, burn another anointed candle in it for extra oomph
add other charms, herbs, and objects of protection for a more personal approach
what to do when your protection hasn’t worked.
completely clean your teapot and dispose of whatever is inside of it at a crossroads so the salt will not harm the soil. and then immediately redo the spell with all new materials (you can reuse the teapot)
xoxox
kthrn the gr8
AKA HUGE WITCH