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  • 🌿 Leaf of Intent: A Simple Bay Leaf Manifestation Spell

    🌿 Leaf of Intent: A Simple Bay Leaf Manifestation Spell

    Focused, grounded, and ready to bloom.

    Sometimes, all it takes is a single leaf to shift our path forward.

    This spell is one of my favorites for when I need clarity, direction, or a little universal nudge. This ritual uses a bay leaf as the vessel. It invites you to focus your intentions. You can declare and release them with both gentleness and fire. Whether you’re calling in healing, focus, confidence, or opportunity, this spell keeps it simple, sacred, and portable.

    🧹 What You’ll Need:

    1–3 bay leaves (fresh or dried will work) A pen or marker A fireproof bowl or dish Clear quartz (optional, but powerful)

    🔮 Step-by-Step Ritual:

    Center & Breathe Sit in a calm space, hands open, and breathe. Focus gently on one specific desire or goal, make it something that feels grounded and achievable. Write It Down Using your pen, write your intention directly on the bay leaf. Keep it short, just a word or a few. Examples: “Confidence”, “Safety”, “Open doors”. Charge the Leaf, hold the leaf between your palms. Visualize your wish blooming into reality. Pour your clarity and hope into it. Let the Fire Speak, Carefully burn the bay leaf in your fireproof dish. As the smoke rises, imagine your intention being carried out into the world. This is the release, the trust, the moment you let it go. Amplify (Optional) Hold a clear quartz crystal during or after the burn to amplify your focus and energy. Keep it near you for a few days as a touchstone. Give Thanks Whisper a thank-you, to your guides, the universe, the elements, or simply to yourself. The act of gratitude is the final seal.

    ✨ Optional Chant or Affirmation:

    “Leaf to flame, wish take flight,

    Bring my dream to clear sight.”

    Say this aloud or whisper it as the smoke curls. Let it ground your belief and light your path.

    🌙 Ideal Timing:

    Best days: Monday (for inner clarity). Thursday is best for expansion. Best moon phases are the waxing crescent or waxing gibbous. These are the times when energy builds and intentions gain momentum.

    🧺 Aftercare – Closing the Spell:

    Let the ashes cool and gently bury them in the earth or scatter them outdoors. Keep your quartz nearby or on your altar to remind you of your intention. You’ve planted a seed, now let it grow.

    Manifest with Bay leaves in yellow font line art bay leaves on parchment paper

    🕯 Final Thoughts:

    Not every spell needs complexity. Sometimes a leaf, a flame, and a moment of presence are all you need. Use this whenever you’re ready to speak your truth and let it take root in the world.
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  • Witchy 101: Altars, Divinity, and the Five-Fold Path Explained

    Witchy 101: Altars, Divinity, and the Five-Fold Path Explained

    Witchy 101: Altars, Divinity, and the Five-Fold Path
    This is for those who wander between flame and shadow. Their hands are outstretched to the unseen.

    Setting up altar

    typical components:


    Center:
    A cloth, plate, or board to work on

    Candles:
    Often one black (banishing) and one white (inviting)

    Representation of the elements:

    Earth:
    salt, crystal, soil

    Air:
    incense, feather

    Fire:
    candle, match


    Water:
    small bowl, shell

    Tools:
    Athame, wand, chalice, pentacle—optional and customizable

    Offerings:
    Food, herbs, water, flowers, written words


    Divine symbols:
    If you work with deities, include items that honor them

    Refresh the altar often.

    Dust, change it seasonally, and remove anything no longer aligned with your path.

    Think of it as a reflection of your current inner world.

    Deity Work vs Secular Craft


    You don’t need to believe in or work with deities to be a witch.


    Secular witches use energy, intuition, and intention without involving gods or spirits. They often work with the elements, the moon, and their own power.


    Devotional witches may connect to deities, ancestors, or spirits. They may perform rituals, offer devotions, or allow the divine to guide their spell work.
    Neither path is more powerful. Neither is more “right.” What matters is your truth, your comfort, your belief.

    If you do feel called to deity work:

    Study myths, signs, symbols.
    Watch for recurring dreams or synchronicities.
    Start small light a candle, offer a glass of water, write a prayer
    Consent matters.
    You can always say no, even to a God.


    Popular Deities in Witchcraft & Pagan Practice:

    Hecate (Greek):
    Goddess of witchcraft, crossroads, ghosts, and moonlight.

    Brigid (Celtic):
    Goddess of healing, poetry, and the forge.

    The Morrigan (Celtic):
    Goddess of war, fate, sovereignty, and prophecy.

    Freya (Norse):
    Goddess of love, beauty, war, and seidr magic.

    Lilith (varied):
    Symbol of independence and shadow work.

    Cernunnos (Celtic):
    Horned God of the wild and balance.

    Isis (Egyptian):
    Goddess of magic, healing, and sacred knowledge.

    Pan (Greek):
    God of nature, instinct, and chaos.

    Diana/Artemis (Roman/Greek):
    Moon goddess and protector of the wild.

    Bastet (Egyptian):
    Guardian of the home, joy, and cats.

    Choose a deity (or pantheon) that aligns with your values and needs. You don’t have to rush. Some deities find you. Others grow on you slowly, like ivy around a stone wall.

    Elemental Magic: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit



    The five elements form the bones of many magical systems:

    Earth: stability, growth, grounding. Use stones, herbs, salt.


    Air: clarity, thought, communication. Use feathers, incense, wind.


    Fire: passion, change, action. Use candles, ash, sunlight.


    Water: emotion, healing, intuition. Use bowls, moon water, rain.


    Spirit (Aether): the soul, the thread between all things. Represented by breath, the self, or a fifth point on a pentacle.

    To work with them:

    Call them in during ritual. Leave them offerings. Meditate on their qualities. Use their correspondences in spell work. When you build relationships with the elements, they’ll appear more frequently in your dreams. You’ll notice them in the weather and even in your gut instincts.
    Offer them things. Reflect on their qualities. Incorporate their correspondences into your spell work. Build relationships with the elements gradually. As you do, you’ll see them more. They will appear in dreams, in weather, and even in your gut instinct.

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  • What’s Your Craft? Exploring the Power of Witchcraft, Creativity, and Ritual

    What’s Your Craft? Exploring the Power of Witchcraft, Creativity, and Ritual

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    Craft is one of those rare words that refuses to be boxed in.

    As a noun, it speaks to the artistry of our hands, the steady, patient making of something real. Pottery. Woodwork. Poems stitched from lived experience. It’s tactile. Rooted. Intentional.

    As a verb, it’s the act of shaping.

    To craft is to labor with love, to chisel something from nothing a story, a home, a spell. It’s not just about hands; it’s about heart, history, and sometimes hardship.

    Then there’s a craft the kind that takes to water or air, built to carry us far from where we began. A vessel. A leap of faith. Something that sails or soars, as we do when we dare to create.

    But my favorite use?
    The Craft.
    Witchcraft.

    Ancestral. Personal. A reclamation of power in a world that too often tries to take it.
    It’s not all candles and crystals. Sometimes, it’s shadow work, hex-breaking, protection,
    or grief alchemy. It’s the silence of a ritual done
    in secret, or the roar of community rising in a circle.

    And here’s the thing…
    We should all try to be as versatile, as flexible, as unapologetically multifaceted as the word craft itself.
    To be a maker and a mover.
    To hold stillness and momentum.
    To be the spell, the hands that cast it, and the vessel it travels in.
    So, tell me what’s your craft?

    What do you build, shape, summon, or release?
    Whether you work with herbs or heartache, paint or protest, your craft is sacred.
    Share it. Speak it. Own it.
    Seriously feel free to share whatever you’d like 👍

    Much love always,
    Axton N.O. Mitchell
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  • A Beginner’s Guide to Witchcraft: Tools, Types, and Grounding Rituals

    A Beginner’s Guide to Witchcraft: Tools, Types, and Grounding Rituals

    Introductory guide to Witchcraft.

    Your grounding guide for the curious learner, the new witch, and the wild-hearted human.

    Popular Types of Witchcraft:

    📗 Green Witch:
    Focuses on plants, herbs, and nature-based energy. Earth Magic, healing, and growing things with intention.

    ✨Hedge Witchcraft:
    Spirit work, intuition, and journeying beyond the veil. Often solitary & rooted in ancestral magic.

    🥄Kitchen Witchcraft:
    Magic happens in daily life. This can look like tea spells or bread rituals. It involves using specific herbs and stirring intention into meals, etc. The hearth is the altar.

    🌌Chaos Magic:
    The tool is your belief, less about traditions & more about results, highly adaptable & intuitive. Experimental, individualistic practice.

    🌟Eclectic Witchcraft:
    No strict rules, pulls from many paths and systems, personal, and fluid. Think if it works, work it.

    🕷Wicca:
    Modern Pagan religion, has deities, ritual structure, and seasonal celebrations. Not all witches are wiccan.

    ✍Traditional witchcraft:
    Rooted in old folk practices. often ancestral, regional, and passed through knowledge.

    🔮Divination Focused Witchcraft:
    Uses tarot, runes, pendulums, and other tools to access insight and hidden knowledge.

    💧Elemental Witchcraft:
    Works directly with the elements. Earth Air Fire Water Spirit as living forces.


    🔨Common Tools & Their uses.

    Wand: Used for channeling energy and directing it during rituals.

    Cauldron: A vessel for burning incense, herbs, and other materials, and also for brewing potions and activating spells.

    Pentacle: A disc representing a star, often used in rituals for protection and consecration.

    Chalices: A stemmed cup for holding liquids like water, wine, or cider, used during rituals.

    Athame: A ceremonial knife, usually with a black handle, used for ritual purposes like directing energy and creating sacred spaces.

    Boline: A knife, typically with a curved blade, used for harvesting herbs and other cutting-related tasks.

    Kirfane: A knife, often with a white handle, used for inscribing candles or cutting ritual cords.

    Book of Shadows: A personal record of spells, rituals, and other important information.

    Altar: A sacred space where rituals, offerings, and other magical work are performed.

    Broom (Besom): Used to sweep and clear areas before rituals, both physically and energetically.

    Candles: Used for various purposes, including spell work, focusing intention, and illuminating sacred spaces.

    Salt: A purifying and protective substance, often used in cleansing rituals and spell work.

    Crystals: Used for their energetic properties and healing qualities.

    Mirrors: Can be used for divination (scrying) and other purposes.

    Bells: Used to ward off negative energy and unwanted spirits.

    Mortar & Pestle: Used to grind herbs and magical ingredients; blends the practical and the sacred

    Herbs: Core to most craft. burned, brewed, buried, or scattered for purpose.

    Censer: used to dispense incense

    🔊Preparing Mindset & Space for Spell work:

    1. Clean your space & clear the air. Physically tidy up, burn herbs, open windows, clap in corners, and move stagnant energy. Can use tools like bells, chimes etc.

    2. Get Grounded. Touch Earth, skin to skin. Breathe deep, hold a stone, anchor into your body and Earth.

    3. Set intention. Out loud (important) Speak what you are here to do with conviction. let your voice make it real.

    4. Gather tools not with expense but with meaning. Use what resonates with you, a matchstick with your energy is much more magical than some expensive wand.

    5. Cleanse your tools. Smoke, Salt, Moonlight, Sound, and even water not to purify but to charge and align.

    6. Hydrate & nourish. Don’t cast on empty, water and food keep your energy stable. make sure your filled up with your drink nearby.

    7. Sobriety Matters. Be clear-headed unless altered states are intentional and sacred. Clarity helps you channel, see more clearly, and keep safe. Presence = Power. Medicines from doctors and Marijuana not included.

    8.Shun the self-doubt. Believe in your work. You can envision yourself getting somewhere. Act, think, and live in the headspace that you are there. Skepticism in a spell at any point weakens it. If you aren’t 10000% sure don’t do the working yet.

    9. Again, see the goal as already being received. Never cast from a place of lack. Feel the results like they are in your bones.

    10. Cast your Salt Circle. Gather any kind of salt like black, pink, sea, or Mortin. Stand where you want your working to happen. Just breathe. Pour salt in a full circle around you clockwise. Speak aloud or think protective words. Encompass yourself in a mass of white light if you know how. If not, we will visit this soon. If you can’t do the bonus step above, that’s fine. But this one you need to master before doing spells. Visualize the light sealing the circle as you complete it. If you need to leave, make a door and reclose the door when reentering. See memo below list on steps to open a door.

    11. Setting intentions and starting your spell work. Light candles, speak clearly, move slowly. MEAN EVERY WORD. You aren’t simply asking you are shifting reality.


    OH NO I HAVE TO TAKE A PEE WHAT EVER WILL I DO?

    Pause Cut a Door, imagine unzipping or parting the circle where you plan to exit.
    use your hand wand or athame and say: “I open this doorway with respect I shall return in Peace.”

    Now step through the gap slowly and mindfully.

    After you return and step back through the gap in the circle, retrace the salt line at the gap. Say “The circle is whole once more.” Then say, “My work continues protected.”

    When all the work is done:
    Thank Spirits, energies, and or guides.
    Sweep or dissolve the circle counterclockwise and say, “The circle is open, but never broken. May the work be sealed in truth.”
    Dispose of salt responsibly and respectfully. Never scatter in grass as it dehydrates and ruins Mother Earth. Rinse it away using water if possible.


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    Much Love and good luck practicing,
    Axton N. O. Mitchell
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