Items I recycle on a regular basis and how I use them in my magical practice
- Broken Jewelry: creating charms or amulets, embellishing handmade magickal items, decorating my altar
- Brown Paper Bags: creating spell packets you intend to burn, writing spells, drawing spells for sympathetic magick
- Candle Stubs: sealing spells or containers of herbal concoctions
- Chicken Bones: crafting, opportunity/positive change spells (wishbone)
- Coconut Shells: creating amulets, peace/healing spells
- Coffee Grounds: enhance energy with in a spell, fixing the nitrogen in my altar plants, creating exfoliating scrubs
- Crown Royal Bags: crafting, storage, spell bags
- Egg Shells: energy/life/new beginning/fertility spells
- Fabric Scraps: crafting, spell and mojo bags, making twine, creating poppets, making herb pouches
- Glass Jars and Bottles (with lids): storing herbs and herbal concoctions, creating witches bottles, impromptu candle holders, containment spells
- Hair Clippings (with permission): personal magick
- Scraps of Wool Yarn: tying spell packets, making witches ladders, knot work, stringing amulets or talismans
- Tin Cans: to use when melting down wax with out creating a huge mess
- Toilet Paper Tubes: making large spell packets to burn
- Animal Bones: species specific workings and mojo bags/talismans
- Drift Wood: crafting
- Fallen Leaves: crafting, decorating, clearing negative energy, wind magic
- Feathers: crafting, attracting energy, representation of the Elemental Air
- Pine Cones: protective spells, holiday decorating
- Pine Needles: protective spells, holiday decorating, creating incense
- Pruned Tree Limbs: crafting, starting fires
- River Rocks: crafting, representation of the Elementals Earth and Water (body/strength and blood/emotion), soothing/healing spells
- Shells: crafting, representation of the Elemental Water
- Shed Skins (snake or beetle): new life/growth spells
- Stones: crafting, representation of the Elemental Earth, soothing/healing/protection spells
Most of my crafting items wreaths, thread, buttons, picture frames, mirrors, beads, and even fabric are purchased post consumer at yard sales and thrift stores and then cleansed. I have read that using secondhand or post consumer items can contaminate ones magick, but I do not find a significant difference in the energy coming from the majority of the items I find used in comparison to those coming from a factory. Honestly, factory work is no fun. How many factory workers do you know who carry around a ton of positive energy? Rather they are new or used, items that have an icky feel to them just don't come home with me.
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