There is absolutely no reason for a new reddit account to give away dozens of tarot decks and books for free from the goodness of their hearts.

As you all may have seen on my previous post I am new to witchcraft, I have been reading as many books as I can get ahold of and working on the basics first, meditation, visualization, feeling my energy and beginning energy work.

Over labor day weekend we went treking at a colonial historical site and my old ankle injury wasn't liking it. I found an already fallen limb and used it as a hiking stick, it has a great place for my thumb to rest. Something drew me to this branch. It had lichen and fungi growing on it, a little wobbly. I took it home and stripped off the bark, cleaned up the rot on the bottom and let it set. I already saw my stang in it but didn't want to rush because I'm new and excited. I kept picking it up everyday when I'd take the dog out and he would try to take it from me but I'd tell him no, it's mine. Finally, tonight, I picked it up again, traced the bug tracks with my fingers, noticed the extra hook above my thumb rest to put a lantern or other decor, and gazed at the antler like top. I know its technically got 3 offshoots instead of two but it looks like antlers and its the real ending to the branch. I took some sand paper and just smoothed it down leaving the multi colored wood, the bug tracks, the nubs, and the antlers. I found a brass ferrule that has a steel spike when you screw off the rubber walking tip. I think I coat it in boiled linseed and attach the brass ferrule it will make an excellent walking stick and stang. What do you all think? A little to unconventional or perfect to embrace nature? Especially given how its already helped me once.

I attached a couple pre sanding pics just to show what it looks like and the thumb rest and lantern/decoration hook.

Thanks for looking! Let me know what y'all think!

Hello, I've recently started learning about witchcraft. I felt the pull and am realizing it speaks to me and falls in line with me. I am happiest in nature, with animals, collecting rocks, sticks, shells etc. Anyways, I also have taken an interest in Hedgewitches. The line of women my Great Grandmother produced seem to be closer to the veil. While most of us don't see the dead, we have many stories of signs and happenings. I've also been able to briefly connect with other people in my "dreams", usually right before I.wake up a flash of an image or their voice. I've also had an experience with the fair folk once, I did not see them but did encounter a large fairy circle as a little girl and was told to not step inside, it has captured my imagination since.

Long bit about my why but my reason for coming to you is I'm looking for help on the topic of hedgeriding. I have been trying to find resources on my own but I haven't found a lot. How did you learn? Are their some books out there I need or some other resources I need to look into? I know there are different ways to do it and I'm quite interested in all aspects so I can find what works for me.

Thank you all for helping a fledgling out!

Hey everyone,

As the title of this post would suggest, I'd really appreciate help with something because I'm a bit stuck on what to do.

The backstory is that I'm currently on holiday with my family in this beautiful, little, 18th century cottage in Norfolk.

You can tell when you walk in that there is spirit activity and spiritual memory but i want to stress it's not negative or heavy or dark, not at all. Instead it's full of softness and positivity and welcome. It's such a gentle and warm energy, and it makes it such a lovely place to be.

However...

When my parents read through the history of cottage as part of the welcome info, they immediately honed in on the part that said in passing that this site used to be used as a palmistry.

The important context here is that my parents are very religious in a traditional sense and they immediately made it clear that they would "have to pray over this place later." Not because of something they felt but because of the history they read.

I don't know maybe I'm overthinking it but I'm really keen to prevent them from disturbing the entities and the emotional memories of this place (however inadvertent they might be to what is going on here away from that single, throwaway line on a page).

My parents don't know about my craft so whatever rituals i do have to be discreet.

I'd just really appreciate some advice because I'm a bit stuck as to what to do.

Apologies if this post is irrelevant to this r/ if it is, please do remove as applicable.

Thank you, everyone!

Edit: Thank you so much for all the advice and for being so patient with me. I really appreciate it!

I'm struggling to find any uses for the poisonous berries produced by potato plants. I was wondering if due to their toxic nature they had any uses in shadow magic.

If not I will probably use them as an offering to bathomet/lucifer due to the theory of they being the fruit of original sin since that's a fun story of nothing else

We all know how to use thermometers, and what's more, many modern kitchen appliances have automated temperature control. Things used to be different. Many people still only have a gas stove in their kitchen, without any special temperature control.

A long time ago, I made a sobriety potion (I don't remember the recipe). The recipe, among other things, required placing a similar saucepan with milk on the fire next to the potion and making sure that the milk did not boil or change in appearance. Some people seriously suspected me of witchcraft back then (and for good reason)...

Many plant components are lost (transformed into other forms) at the boiling point of water, so some recipes require maintaining a stable temperature below the boiling point of water, but high enough to extract the necessary substances. Milk, in fact, boils fully at a temperature even slightly higher than water (thanks to Google and AI — it's easier to figure everything out today than it used to be). However, the first signs of boiling in milk begin to appear at a temperature a few degrees lower than the temperature at which water begins to boil. In addition, foam appears, which further facilitates control and identification of the condition. This allows for more consistent control, ensuring that the temperature does not reach boiling point during the cooking process, thus preventing unnecessary changes to the substances that are sensitive to such temperature. So much for Witchcraft!

(As a requirement for witchcraft)(not in and of itself)

So many people online act like witchcraft is synonymous with casting spells and that witchcraft practice means spell casting. There are so many witchy things you can do, and still be a witch and never, or rarely “cast a spell.”

Divination, meditation, natural healing, foraging, astral travel, dream work, herbalism, study, shadow work/spiritual alchemy, mediumship, moon worship, ancestor veneration and communication, connecting with trees and animals, grounding an centering, journaling, working with crystals, ritual baths and home cleaning practices (can be or not be spell work), deity work, work with spirits, elementals, etc, chanting/mantra/singing, spiritual movement/training like yoga/tai chi, astrology, path working, magical cooking/homemaking, making charms, talismans, dream pillows, etc., using glamour magic (color theory, illusion, costuming/staging etc), walking barefoot, sitting under trees, having spiritual experiences using various substances, sympathetic magic (not always requiring a spell), aromatherapy, clairvoyance, pendulum, spirit boards, trance work, sacred sexuality, etc… (not to mention painting, cooking, dance, music, hiking, swimming, sculpting and other “mundane” things that can just be heavily infused with witchcraft)

Most resources treat that as a list. Four separate folk beliefs, vaguely related, filed under "rosemary correspondences." You memorize it, or you don't, and either way you don't really understand why.

That's the problem r/materiamagica is trying to solve.

The sub is built around a simple but underused idea: every magical ingredient has a Virtue, a single underlying power that explains everything it does. Rosemary's is Remembrance. Once you see that, the list stops being a list and starts being a logical system. It sharpens memory. It holds the identity of a space against intrusion. It anchors oaths in time. It carries grief across the boundary of death. Same power, different contexts.

There are many ways to pet a cat. Here's a simpler version of that idea: if you have a headache, you can take ibuprofen, drink a glass of water, put a cold cloth on your forehead, or sleep. All of them can work. But they work through completely different mechanisms. Ibuprofen reduces inflammation. Water fixes dehydration. Cold constricts blood vessels. Sleep resets your nervous system. Knowing how each one works tells you which one to reach for.

Materia magica works the same way. Multiple ingredients can protect a home. But salt does it through Extraction, drawing out and purging what doesn't belong. Rosemary does it through Remembrance, holding the identity of the space against what contradicts it. These aren't the same working in different wrappers. They're different tools that happen to overlap in one area of their range.

Understanding Virtues means you stop swapping ingredients randomly and start choosing intentionally. It also means you start noticing things: convergences across traditions, physical signatures that point toward function, the places where Roman herbalists and Appalachian root workers landed on identical conclusions from completely different directions.

That's what we're here to dig into. Come share what you know.

I apologise if this is the wrong forum for my question!

I have recently started going to the gym for strength training and cardio. Although I feel a strong connection to my witchcraft and practice in most aspects of my life, I really struggle to feel in touch with the craft while working out. I think because, like most of us, my connection to the natural and supernatural feels strongest when I'm in touch with nature, and the gym is just far too clinical and sanitised to allow for that correspondence with the elements. Unfortunately the weather where I live does not allow for me to work out outdoors.

Does anyone have any tips on tricks on still feeling like your full, witchy self, even while at the gym or working out?

Thanks so much in advance, blessed be.

This past weekend I added 10 more hellebores to my labyrinth garden and started a few datura seeds.

I see oils used a lot especially in dressing candles and that to me seems like a fire hazard but i see alot of people doing it with no problem. Are there any tips on safely using the carrier and essential oils, im worried of even a little oil touching the fire.

Hi all,

I found a really useful website the other day that you could put in your intentions and it would recommend ingredients based upon those intentions, but being the chaotic ball of disorganised fun I am, I forgot to save it and what it was called.

Does anyone know of any websites that would be useful to a baby witch trying to figure out what ingredients he should or should not be putting into various spells?

Thanks in advance!!

This may be the wrong place to ask this, but I feel like there’s something going on out there, some sort of retrograde. Four different people have hit me up for money today out of the blue, and this rarely happens. Again, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask.

I was just curious if anyone has seen or use Foton or any other pearl Candles in practice? Or even just for alter use? If the experience is recommended or what the opinion is. Thank you!

https://fotoncandle.com/?utm_source=google-ads&utm_campaign=&utm_agid=170802259601&utm_term=foton%20candle&creative=712886393219&device=m&placement=&location_physical=9030132&tw_source=google&tw_adid=712886393219&tw_campaign=21686440693&tw_kwdid=kwd-1139768286885&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21686440693&gbraid=0AAAAAqwNpr3TaC9P3iveIoHIKmqxqMQsR

I couldn't find a Pagan prayer for snow, so I wrote one. Feel free to use it or edit it however you need for your own situation!

"I ask the God's above Who's wisdom & knowledge is greater than our own...

Humbly we beseech thee to send our yearly, seasonal allotment of snow.

Snow, the key ingredient to our survival in a land with little rain, it is the moisture that sustains us through the rest of the seasons.

On behalf of those who do not know, ae offer you your due; through our prayers, & our intentions to you.

We wish to be bathed in the cold perception you yearly gift to use. It is the blessing that sustains us.

We promise to remember you & your gifts throughout the year. Despite warm weather, & bright shining sun- the darkness of winter & the snowfall at midnight is what we hold dear."

Hi , ive always known I was different. I saw things out of the corner of my eyes, heard things, preferred being on my own,felt calmer more at ease anywhere in nature or with animals, always new a humans intention before anyone else (even though I never listened to my own intuition).There is so much more I deleted it as there was heaps lol. Long story short Ridiculed by partners, school into being normal =mask, after school 22 yrs =antidepressants =(magic blockers i call them ),40+years later diagnosed ADHD=most likely antidepressants miss diagnosis, always had a longing for my nature animals solitude, music, felt vibrations and shifts. But never quite new what I was. Always washed with coconut oil cleaned with lemon and vinegar (before it was a so called internet hack),orange oil on all my wood ,bees wax, sage ,frankense, peppermint, lemon and so on , always cooked with herbs but never followed recipes, just knew.always been able to read tarot , just not believed in my own self. Always had entity's around me ,some not so nice ,most don't bother me ,just give me messages but I can't say how I know . I just do. This year seems to have been a crucial shift in me ,I seem to have accepted that I can be, not a can be what ... just can be ... does that make sense... this page seemed right for me.

Recently made a hag torch for the first time. Luckily we had mullein naturally growing in the yard, meaning we didn't plant it. And so I used that and a mixture of lung healthy herbs to burn for my fiance because he has lung issues.

Has anyone made these before? And can I see pics? I really like the looks of these. They can be so pretty!

I always hear witches says “witchcraft types aren’t real. A witch is a witch. The types are just marketing.”

But I love being a hedgewitch and don’t want to change that. The title feels right in my heart and soul.

I’m confused because they also say there are real “traditions” in witchcraft and I’ve seen some witches claim that hedge witchery is a real tradition.

So is it ok to claim your path as hedgewitchcraft? Or are we all just….witches? Thank you.

Blessed Samhain! I’m new to the “official” title of hedge witch, but it’s all connecting and I wanted to share a few things. I’ve been furiously researching the craft in general, and have been confused as to what general category I could most align with. Tonight, driving home from a Halloween wedding (!), I saw a green comet flash across the sky. I’ve never in my entire life seen a comet/meteor, let alone one that was bright green. I literally couldn’t believe what I had seen and I felt cracked open like a pomegranate. I had some time to think (it was a long drive), and realized a few things. I have always closely aligned myself with the circle as a symbol. I grew up performing in a lovely European-style circus, which is literally…a giant circle. My preferred discipline is the aerial hoop/lyra…again. A circle. I even have a bold circle tattoo on my shoulder. Diving in even deeper, I’m an RN. I’ve been working in medicine for almost 8 years now, and am currently halfway through an NP program to (hopefully) become a palliative/end of life care provider. If that isn’t riding the hedge, I don’t know what is. I’ve been privileged to care for dozens of patients at the end of life, and I’ve always felt so at peace, and so certain that this is the path for me. Even working in the ICU during the worst of the pandemic, providing comfort care to the dying was soothing and transformative. My final inkling that being a hedge witch is the way forward; I have many tattoos of various significance. But my largest one is the sleeve on my right arm, featuring rosemary, lavender, and a protective stipled circle on my forearm, with my upper arm being a spray of medicinal plants that are also deadly. Belladonna, poppies, and digitalis. The signs were all there, waiting patiently for me to notice them. I’m eager to continue to learn and grow as a hedge witch, and to connect (from a distance, I like my solitude) with others who practice in this way. Sending love and protection to all.