Protection bottles

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I’ve been doing light research on spells in general, specifically protection spells as I do not want to mess my life up just yet. I’ve come across several videos saying spell jars are great ways of preventing negative energy from reaching you.

Being that I’m still in the broom closet, my resources are limited, but being that I am living on 10 acres of native plants and a mom who cooks Latin dishes, my resources are infinite.

I used one of my only white candles for purity, I think I’m not sure, then burned lavender as a make shift incense to cleanse. I placed several different plants that I liked in a plastic nail box my dad used and poured water inside to make mashing them easier. I added a blend of garlic, lavender, and chilies flakes from my mom’s seasoning drawer into the mixture as well

As you can tell, I don’t completely know what I’m doing. I then took my mom’s used up perfume bottle and poured the mixture inside, using a near by stick to push the larger chucks of plants. Then I placed a stick I found into the perfume opening to seal it and poured candle wax inside.

In the end I created what I think is a functional spell jar that i believe will protect me from and fudge ups I make while doing spells/wards, considering I’m still highly uneducated. Maybe it will protect me from ticks to! Here are the results.

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A lot goes wrong with spell jars for beginners, so I don’t really recommend them.

I know of a story about someone who carved his name into a green candle because he wanted to attract luck. Not long after, he had a forklift accident, something that almost could’ve left him disabled.

When you’re working with luck, you don’t carve into the candle like that. It hinders it instead of drawing it in. So what he thought was a “luck” working was basically pulling the opposite. The very bad luck.

That’s why spell jars are better left for when you already have some experience with magick and enough discernment to understand what you’re actually setting in motion.

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Thank you for the advice sir!

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Keldan has a point, spell jars are kind of complicated. I can already tell that for the purposes you’re going for, there are a few things in that jar I wouldn’t have used. But I like the effort and the creative thinking!

As a beginner you could try making a protection amulet, making a protection rune, making stone warding around your space and if you’re feeling like a true wizard, even practice shielding (which can be done for both).

Love seeing your practice! :lotus: Cheers.

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I understand, I will look into some simpler protective options before getting into more complicated stuff!

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Honestly, I think it’s a great start. (FYI - I started with witchcraft when I was about your age.) I’m a big fan of FAFO. This is witchcraft. It’s about you finding your power and your path. Use your intuition and experiment.

The one thing I would encourage you to do is be clear with your desire. A call for money might bring in money from an unexpected source you don’t want so say something like, “I call in a new job I love that pays me X.”

Scott Cunningham also has a great accessible book on herbs. It will tell you what is what and different uses and what the planetary stuff is.

If you want to learn more about protection spells, here’s our guide: https://www.pagangrimoire.com/protection-spells/ and, I also recommend checking out the Antlered Crown on IG (I think he’s also on TikTok, but I’m not active on TikTok so I don’t know for sure). He’s got some good content around that and just good, grounded advice in general.

Oh and I also have a witchcraft for beginners guide in the shop. Most of this is also in my witchcraft 101 post, but it’s organized in a format that’s a bit easier to follow.

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Forgive me, but it sounds like you’re encouraging him to try chaos magick? Chaos magick isn’t for everyone. It kind of requires nerves of steel.

I think it’s good to follow your intuition, and yes experimentation is fine, but it’s still important to have grounding in past wisdom, basic correspondences and knowing how to work safely. I’m glad you shared the links - I forget they’re there sometimes, and I didn’t realize you’d made one for protection!

Cheers. :lotus:

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Thank you plenty for the advice ma’am, I’ll be sure to check these out!

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What do you mean nerves of steel? Is it a frightening type of magic? If that’s the case will different types of spirits appear in my next sleep paralysis?

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I meant that its highly unpredictable in its outcomes. You have to be ready for anything if you commit yourself to the chaos magick path and be very good at protection.

I personally think it’s more for advanced practitioners, but to each their own. We’re all different and we have freedom to choose how we practice.

I didn’t mean for that to sound frightening, sorry. :trident_emblem:

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NO PROBLEM DUDE, Considering I live with my family at the moment, it’s best if I leave unpredictable magic for when I’m living alone.:smiling_face_with_tear:

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I know nothing about spell jars. However, a good ‘rule of thumb’ is to follow a known recipe

if you don’t know what every step/part is for. That applies to a lot of things in life, not just

Magick. I can make amulets and talismans with each element a known purpose, and therefore

can modify this or that as I need, but if I don’t know what X sigil is about I’m not going to use it.

Research is always good, but if you’re following a known procedure/path/technique best to not

experiment if you don’t know exactly what/how all the pieces work. That goes for spoken words

as well, I’m not going to recite some Latin or whatnot out of a book if IDK what it means. Right?

But if I do know what it means, I’m still not changing anything because IDK Latin.

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This makes sense, I should read up more on herbs and their uses before I accidentally hurt myself in some way!

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No, not Chaos Magick. Just there’s a lot of rules out there for beginner witches and part of being a witch really is about stepping into your power, especially as some of us come from a background where we had none and this is an opportunity to trust yourself and not being terrified you’re going to mess something up.

Would I recommend he start casting spells from ancient texts or very old grimoires? No, probably not. And, there are a few things to know, like the money one I mentioned. (Also, I’ve personally experienced that road opener spells can sometimes act like tower cards. But, again that might not be everyone’s experience.)

Witchcraft is very personal. Everyone does differently and that’s why I encourage him to experiment. Make a protection bottle. Write down what you used in a journal. Write down the time you cast the spell. Then, go back and write down if it worked. If it didn’t work the way you want it to, try again. This is what I mean by experimentation.

If you do it again, this time, consider looking up some herbs in a book (like Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs - or another you prefer). Use an app to identify the plants you feel called to if you don’t know what they are and see if they correspond with your intention. If you got a wildly different result from what you expected, that could be a cause.

Check out planetary timing and work with the hours or days that correspond with what you’re trying to make happen. White is great for protection - so is black. They work differently.

Some people have better luck also with different methods. I love and tend to get results with candle magic. But it can fast and intense so you’ve got to be ready to ride that ride. Other people find water-based magic or herbs or kitchen magic is where they thrive. But, if you don’t try, you don’t know.

And, I also believe at the end of the day, how focused you are and how much Will you put into something can also have a profound effect. Hence the importance of grounding and centering before casting an important spell.

Also, @WrenTalbot bc texting / typing never comes across quite in the voice we’d prefer - I’m not upset with you at all, just passionate about witches finding their confidence and footing. <3 Safety is important too!

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This. Yes. It’s always best practice - as @Sedim_Haba says, not just with magic, but in life, to understand what you’re working with.

Not just for safety but also for effectiveness. If you want a spell that does x but all your ingredients correspond with y, it’s not going to be as powerful as it could be. Granted, your Will is going to do a fair amount, but having the right ingredients matters.

For instance, when I was first starting out I just worked with the spell books I liked. But, now that I know more, going back to them now and reading them is like oh my god that cute love spell was an intense binding spell. ugh. The book doesn’t say that. I was looking at it last year when working on an article and was like um, this feels like a binding spell and looked up all the ingredients and, yup.

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Another form of protection to consider are Hag stones, provided you have access to a beach or river with stones there.
It also makes for a fun day out.

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I would imagine that would be hard to find without a rocky river, there are none here.

Seem to remember something about a tradition that you can’t buy one for money?

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I had to travel to a stoney beach to get mine. Which is a rare beach in my area.
And I do believe you are meant to find them and not buy them.

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Ya, that’s how I remember the Lore. Also if you look thru the hole you can ‘spot a witch’

Hey, I just need a mirror for that LOL. I wonder if a ‘legal fiction’ would work. Seller specifies

that you’re buying the box, not the stone. There are absolutely no rivers or streams in the

flat farmland I live in that will wear a stone like that, they all meander rather slowly. In all

the times I’ve gone fishing, all I remember is muddy riverbanks not rocky at all. Rivers in

flatlands hardly have the ‘Umph’ to carve hardpacked clay, much less rocks. Outa luck I guess.

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Exactly my point, Sedim - thank you. You put it much better than I did.

Thank you for clarifying @Rebecca - I agree with everything you said. We’re good! :trident_emblem:

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