Your house is a sentient being with it’s own spirit and soul. Some people identify this spirit as their household deities or friendly house spirits. But some people have altogether forgotten how important the spirit of their house is. Talk to your house.
Houses that have been ignored tend to be dull, tired and susceptible to hauntings and negative energies. So talk to your house, listen to its aches and pains, say hello. Tell it that you come in peace, tell it that you are there to listen to it speak. Be grateful to your house. And watch the energies of your home transform themselves into joy.
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A lot of witchcraft seems to be focused on visualisation as a means of imbuing things with magic, energy work seems almost entirely written to suit those who can visualise images. I am extremely tactile, I am a touchy feely person with busy hands so I decided to share how I “enchant” items.
Enchantment in my book means to take an object and make it magical, whether it be a charm, a ward, an agent of the spell itself.
Kissing things – your lips are far more sensitive than your fingers, they are also very close to your nose so you can incorporate smell into this, too. Take the item, and bring it too your lips gently, place a plush firm kiss whilst focusing on planting your into into the item.
Stroking or brushing – I have heard people try knot magic by braiding their hair, my hair is too short for this, but you could start by brushing your hair. Really smoothing it out, deeply brushing hair or even fur is a great way to transfer magic from your mind to the hands to the object, brushing is very therupeutic and could almost be a trance inducing activity. When I had hair I could sit on, it was a wonderful sensory experience to hand brush it after a wash.
You could also feel the surface of your item by smoothing it with you hands, really get to know the texture, let the magic explore the grain of the wood, the crevices in the stone or the cool touch of the metal.
Crumbling something – You could do this with breadcrumbs for kitchen magic or a bath bomb for bath magic (I wouldn’t crumble a bath bomb imo but I have heard some people prefer to do that.) Guide your intent to your hands and let it over whelm the object in your palms.
Stepping on something – This could be very destructive and great for curses.
Walking around it – Walking around an object features a lot in folk lore, perhaps you could use it to slowly build up intent and magical energy within you?
Throwing or juggling – Juggling is a great skill to learn and I can well and truly say kinetic energy is magical very powerful, throwing and catching something in the air until your satisfied is a fantastic way of enchantment, the weight as you catch it in your hand and watching it fly in the air is just fantastic.
Rubbing it to give it body heat – This is very physical, you can feel the warmth you’ve transferred to this object and its very responsive as well.
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When I started working on this book I had no idea that it would gain so much interest.There were moments, especially in the weeks before launching the project, when I wondered “Who am I kidding, is this even going to work?”.
You see, I am no stranger to the feeling of otherness. The idea of creating a book in which I could infuse my passions, and spice it up with obscure histories, folklore, and quirky anecdotes made me feel over the moon – but there was always that voice in my head, that said “Sure, weirdo. You love this stuff, but what about other people?”
Well, thank you for proving that silly voice wrong 🙂 Working on the upcoming illustrations will be even more exciting, now that I know that I will be able to share them with all of you. I will be posting regular updates on my social media and more in depth posts on Patreon, if you want to follow along!
🌿 In other news, for those of you who didn’t manage to grab a copy, preorders are now open on my site! Due to Kickstarter policies I couldn’t include this in the campaign, but with the direct preorders I can: with each book bought you will donate £1 to the Woodland Trust, and help them plant trees and protect wildlife habitats🌳.
A lot of research, and experimentation! If your local library is fairly well stocked, there’s a good chance they have books about dyeing in their craft section (dewey decimal who? I can’t remember what it is!) and googling “natural dyes” will get you pretty far!
Some things are easier than others: brown and yellow you can get with a whole host of plants, but the deep indigo blue can really only be achieved with a good fermentation vat of indigo, which is hard to learn how to do and really does take a lot of effort to set up.
I personally like Madder a lot for red and orange, and cochineal for pink and purple! They are both fairly easy to start with too 🙂 And then you just experiment with amounts of dyestuff and how long to let it sit for!
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