Author: A Solitary Pagan
Rite of Starry Sky
Tonight we are not using incense but enjoying the aroma of the Florida water and the fresh flowers. Sprinkle yourself with the Florida water. Go outside (or look out a window), and count the number of stars you see in the heavens for one minute. Write down this number. If it is over ten, reduce the number by adding the double digits. For example, if the number you counted is 15, then you would add...
Rite of Rain
Place your magick key and the special glass bottle filled with the listed herbs beside your pebbles on your altar. Fill the bottle with blessed water. Swirl the bottle nine times, intoning the following charm: Gifts of rain and flowing grace Create for me a sacred space Where peace and healing now abide And Spirit travels by my side. Sprinkle the pebbles with a bit of the holy water from the speci...
Essential Healing Salve Recipe
When it comes to healing salves, there are a couple kinds that prove their need most often. Though everyone has different preferences and different recipes for those salves, these are ours. Sore Muscle Salve 3 Parts Cloves 2 Parts Arnica 4 Parts Cayenne Pepper 1 Part Basil Bug Bite Salve 3 Parts Calendula 1 Part Plantain 2 parts Cloves Topical Menstrual Cramp Salve (To be applied to the abdomen) 1...
Elderberry Syrup Recipe
This homemade elderberry syrup can be taken at the first sign of a cough, cold, or flu. It’s also great as a daily immunity booster. For cold and flu. Adults, use 1 tablespoon every 2-3 hours. For children under six, use 1 teaspoon every 2-3 hours. For immunity. Take 1 teaspoon daily. Ingredients. 4 cups of water. A 1⁄4 cup of dried elderberries. 2 Tablespoons of dried elderflowers. 2 Tablespoons ...
The Best of Elderberries
The elderberry recipes here are what will make the bounty of your foraging a real prize. A recipe is what brings surprise to all you’ve gathered. There is much to learn from bringing your abundance into further form such as food or medicine. Here is a little secret for you. After gathering your elderberries, be sure to freeze them before removing the berries from the stems. When frozen, the berrie...
What is A Psychic Attack?
A spiritual or psychic attack is when someone intentionally sends negative energy your way. All that’s really required is for someone to think negative thoughts or wish you ill for that energy to affect you – it’s the force and intent behind that energy that determines how powerful it is. People who unknowingly send psychic attacks usually don’t know how to process their emotions whenever they fee...
Symptoms of a Psychic Attack
Below are a few of the many examples of what can be experienced by a psychic attack Having nightmares: Having frightening and unpleasant dreams Seeing the attacker front and center: Seeing the attacker in a devilish way, either in dreams, meditations, or thoughts Experiencing fatigue: Feeling tired and depleted of energy constantly, for no reason Feeling pain: Having aches in the sa...
Herbal Poppets
This is also known as the “voodoo doll,” although it has been in magical use at least 4,000 years and was only lately associated with voodoo. Though they have been made out of roots, potatoes, lead, bark, paper, and other materials, in magical herbalism poppets are usually fashioned of cloth and herbs. The poppet is a doll made to represent the person to be aided through magic. Poppets are most of...
Herbal Poppets And Sachets
Traditionally, empowered herbs were used to fill either sachets or featureless dolls called herbal poppets. They were made for love, protection, prosperity, fertility, healing and success and could contain either a single herb or a mixture, depending on the purpose. Poppets, which are used mainly in love or healing or occasionally in protective magick, are generally kept in a safe place, such as a...
Water Lilly
Nymphaeaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains five genera with about 70 known species. Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on or emergent from the surface. Leaves are round, with a radial notch in Nymphaea and...
Calendula
Calendula is known to affect the menstrual cycle and should not be used during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Theoretically, calendula may affect conception when taken by a man or woman, so couples trying to get pregnant should not use calendula. Other names for calendula are Marigold, summer’s bride, bride of the sun, sun’s gold, ruddes, ruddles holigold, pot marigold, drunkard, goldes, husbandman’...
The Hedge Craft – Plantain (Plantago lanceolota)
Plantain (Plantago lanceolota) – leaf• Antihistamine – good for insect bites, hay fever tea• vulnerary (wound healer) used as a poultice for clearing heat and inflammation, varicose veins and varicose eczema• purifying quality – used as a poultice to draw out dirt from wounds• relieves toothache and inflammation in gums• soothes mucous membranes of digestive tract – good for stomach ulcers and IBS...