Miss Sandra's Book Of Shadows

Amethyst and Jasper

“Amethyst is a meditative and calming stone which works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to promote calm, balance, and peace. It is also used to eliminate impatience.” ✨
“Fancy Jasper is a stone of gentleness and relaxation. It is professed to enhance one’s ability to relax and bring tranquility, comforting, wholeness, healing, and gentle endings.”

Stones

These stones promote peace,love,harmony,balance and raising the universes vibration one beautiful soul at a time.

Lunar (Self) Love Sea/Earth Spell

Bring forward your inner strength by drawing upon that of the Moon Goddess.

Adopted and combined from two spells.

Preform at night on a Full Moon.

~Ingredients: white or silver tea light float-able candles, quartz, (rose quartz), moonstone, shell or acorn if green witch), rose petals, bowl of water.

~Incantation 1: “By the brightest of days and the darkest of nights; let my inner-power rise by this light.”

~Incantation 2: “Silver moon above, let me learn your love. Fill me with your glowing light, and help me shine–full and bright.”

~Steps:

Place crystals in front of you with the candles; forming a crescent shape.
Each candle will represent a positive attribute of yourself, that you want to strengthen and draw power from.
As you light each candle, speak of this attribute or characteristic; and your intention with it. State Incantation 1 as you light each candle.
Focus on the light reflected in the crystals, visualize the light growing with strength and aligning with the light and power of the moon.
Touch your fingertips to your crystals and feel the warmth and light coming to you.
If using shells or acorns, feel the power of the sea/Earth joining you and the Moon goddess’ energies as well; complimenting, invigorating, and strengthening them. You may add these items to the offering bowl of you wish, or just have them incorporated into your grid.
Take the rose petals. For each one, state what you want to love more about yourself and the attributes represented by the candles.
You can light each petal by the flame of the complimentary candle if you wish, before dropping it into your offering/spell bowl of water for your ritual.
As the petals float in the water, draw the moon goddess’ love to you, while also offering up your love to her. The petals serving as both an offering as well as binding.
Place the candles in the offering bowl, visualizing the positivity expanding and being imbued with the love from the petals; all amplified by the water.
Stir three times while chanting Incantation 2.
Finish by stating: “As I will it, so mote it be. Love and strength come to me; three times three.”
Optional: allow all items to stay afolat in the “offering” bowl throughout the remainder of your ritual.

At the end of your ritual, preform a Full Moon Release spell; in which you light candles in representation of any negativity you wish to let go of. Place those candles in the bowl of water, envisioning the negativity dissipating and being drowned out, while the positivity washes over and replaces it.
These spells can be like “bookends” of your ritual.

Lantern Magic - Cosmic addition

★ Charge your lantern in the light of the sun to promote a warm atmosphere in your home and to be used as a cleansing tool.

★ Anoint your lantern with moon water so it may draw in serenity, peace, positivity and promote your psychic energy.

★ Draw from different constellations or specific stars so you can imbue your lantern with their unique properties!

★ Charge up with energy from Venus to attract love and relationships!

★ Draw upon Pluto so that you can use your lantern to aid in astral travel

★ Use Saturn to charge up your lantern to encourage and promote intellectual pursuits and studies!

★ Paint your lantern with the night sky if you would like. Then use it as a way to channel cosmic energy and draw from it for spells!

★ Charge up with black hole energies to clear your space of negativity and curses. It is also a good way to clear away old spells and protections that may be gunking up.

Those are just a few things. I hope this is useful!

Oil Cleansing

“As counterproductive as it may sound, oil cleansing is a terrific way to cleanse your skin… Here’s a fact though: oil dissolves oil. This means that by using the right oils, you can effectively cleanse your skin. When done correctly and consistently, oil cleansing can clear up the following skin conditions: oily skin, dry skin, acne, whiteheads, and blackheads.” - Willow And Sage, Autumn 2016, ‘The Ins And Outs Of Oil Cleansing’ <- aka where this info was retrieved from

necessities:
-hot water
-oil
-soft washcloth

the oil for you:
CASTOR: most effective for cleansing. usually part of an oil-cleansing blend
JOJOBA: good for all skin types, especially acne-prone
SWEET ALMOND: all skin types, especially oily
GRAPE SEED: all types, especially oily
AVOCADO: best for dry/aging skin
SUNFLOWER SEED: all types
ARGAN: pricey !! but good for all types, especially aging

blends:
castor is good for cleaning but can by drying. here are variations for skin types:

OILY SKIN: 2/3 castor oil to 1/3 carrier oil
NORMAL SKIN: equal parts castor + carrier oil
DRY SKIN: 1/3 castor to 2/3 carrier oil

to cleanse skin:
“unlike washing your face with soap and water, there is no need to remove any makeup before you begin… using your fingertips, gently massage a small amount of oil into your skin, taking care around your eyes… rub oil into skin for about 2 minutes. place a wash cloth in hot water and wring out excess water. place the washcloth over your face and let it sit and steam up your skin. this is key to removing dirt from your pores. wash out the washcloth and repeat this two or three times. remove all oil residue from your face with your damp washcloth. moisturize as desired.”

in short:
1. massage oil into face with fingertips for ~2 minutes
2. place a wrung-out cloth with hot water over the face to steam skin
3. repeat 2-3 times
4. remove oil residue with cloth and moisturize

Raw Amethyst

Latin names for your spell book!

im studying latin and i thought it would be cool to use a latin name for my spell book!!! here are some translations~

book of magic: liber venefica / liber magiae
book of the art of magic: liber ars magica
book of shadows: liber umbrarum
book of spells: liber incantamentus
book of secrets: liber secretorum
book of spirits: liber spiritus
witch book: liber maleficus

Lucky Spell Jar

Tip: Make sure everything is dry so it doesn’t grow moldy!

You will need:

A jar, any jar, really.
Two acorns
Basil
Nutmeg
Cinnamon
Jasmine
One piece of Citrine

Further directions:

As you put all of your ingredients into your jar, visualize lucky energy pouring into it (it’s usually green for me.) Make your intent very clear! Ingredients can be switched up depending on the type of luck you want. When your jar is finished, seal it with white or green wax and set somewhere you can see it. (ex: a windowsill, on an altar.)

How to see and read auras

Auras are energetic fields that surround all living things. Often an aura can have a particular color or hue to it depending on its frequency level.

Auras usually extend around 2-3 feet from your body, but often those who feel vulnerable or have been abused in life can have a larger aura that they have built for protection.

Although not all of us have the ability to see auras, often we can intuitively feel them. This is often expressed when we see someone that appears to have a glow to them, or if we feel uncomfortable when someone walks by or enters our personal space.

How to See Auras:

1.) Place your subject against a solid background that is light in color. If you want to look at your own aura stand in front of a mirror, at least 2 feet away, against a light background.

2.) Focus your attention to the L- shaped spot between the shoulder and the neck. Keep staring at this area and remain calm and open.

3.) At first you may see a white or clear glow but as you remain focused and expand your eye line out to the rest of the body, this glow will start expanding into a color.

If you see….

Red: This indicates an energetic and adventurous individual. It can also indicate someone who is impulsive and quick to anger.

Yellow: This indicates an intelligent and logical person who is perhaps a teacher of some sort. They are keen observers, critical and are very independent.

Pink: This indicates a very nurturing and loving individual that enjoys the company of others. They are natural healers, sensitive and have strong imaginations.

Green: This indicates a highly creative individual who is also hard working. They can be perfectionists and often make good leaders. They are generous, well respected and health conscious.

Orange: This indicates a highly sociable soul who enjoys attention and being in the limelight. They are people pleasers, are willing to give and are very in-tune with others emotions.

Purple/Indigo: This indicates a highly psychic or intuitive person who is philosophical and inquisitive. They may come across as being secretive and they are often very in-tune with animals, nature and children. They are caring individuals but often don’t like commitment.

Blue: This indicates a strong communicator who has many ideas and visions. They are also intuitive and highly intelligent. They are calm when it comes to emotions and are born motivators and inspirers. They can at times be workaholics and manipulative.

Gold: This indicates a very creative soul who loves to surround themselves in beauty and art. They enjoy the company of others and are often very attractive. People are drawn to those with gold auras so often they will have many friends. They are independent but can be stubborn.

White/Silver: This indicates a very gifted individual who is highly intuitive, sensitive and psychic. They have a deep spiritual understanding and are often healers of some kind. They are very attractive to others however, they prefer to have just a few close friends.

Grey/Black: This indicates an individual who is depressed, negative or very fearful and anxious. These auras indicate that a cleansing or healing is needed.

It is possible that someone will have a variety of colors in their Aura but often just one color will be dominant. Aura colors can also change depending on the persons mood, life events and their surroundings.

Seeing Auras takes practice, so be patient and continue polishing your skills by testing this out on a variety of people.

Crystal Tuesday- Black Obsidian

Science

First, Obsidian is not a rock, stone or crystal. Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock. Aka, it is made from liquid hot magma. When felsic lava comes out of a volcano and cools rapidly with minimal growth the resulting glass is obsidian. It is most comprised of Silica (“rock crystal”).

There are many kinds of Obsidian Such as Golden, Mahogany, and Snowflake

Correspondents

Energy/intent: Transformation. Fulfillment, Metamorphoses. Manifestation, purification and cleansing

Zodiac: Scorpio, Sagittarius

Element: Earth and Fire

Mohs hardness scale: 5-5.5

In history

Obsidian has been used in the ancient times because it can be fractured conveniently to produce knives and sharp blades. Indeed, symbolically this stone works like a knife, penetrating the heart of the problem.

Black Obsidian is a very powerful and creative stone. It increases self-control. It forces facing up to one’s true self. Releases imbalances and negative energies. Black Obsidian is protective and provides support during change. It repels negativity and disperses unloving thoughts.

Black Obsidian is a very useful tool to clean your aura and energy, it also offers a strong psychic protection. It can heal traumas and negative emotions from our numerous past lives that we have been unable to release and is very useful as a tool in energy work.

My notes on it

Obsidian is a little intense for starters, so if you would like to start working with it I suggest Snowflake Obsidian as it is less intense and has the same qualities

Fae

Fluorite

Locality: Tounfit, Bou Mia, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocc

BOS

⭐️ Crystal Associations ⭐️

Some are not technically crystals, but shh no one cares

ARIES // MARS
Bloodstone, carnelian, cinnabar, diopside, fire agate, garnet, pyrite, red jasper, rhodocrosite, sunstone, tiger eye, zoisite

TAURUS // VENUS
Amazonite, aragonite, aventurine, calcite, chrysoprase, diamond, girasol, gold, herkimer quartz, jade, jasper, kyanite, labradorite, moonstone, moss agate, rhodonite, rose quartz, ruby, topaz, tourmaline, unakite

GEMINI // MERCURY
Apatite, chrysoprase, citrine, fluorite, fuchsite, garnet, hematite, kyanite, moss agate, rhodocrosite, rutilated quartz, scolecite, sodalite, sugilite

CANCER // MOON
Aragonite, azurite, blue lace agate, borinite, chalcedony, copper, danburite, diopside, emerald, fuchsite, kunzite, lapis lazuli, lepidolite, manganocalcite, moonstone, obsidian, pearl, quartz, sapphire, selenite, seraphinite, silver

LEO // SUN
Amber, carnelian, cinnabar, citrine, copper, diamond, fire agate, garnet, girasol, gold, labradorite, moss agate, opal, pyrite, rhodonite, rose quartz, ruby, sunstone, tiger eye, topaz, zoisite

VIRGO // MERCURY
Agate, apatite, blue lace agate, botswana agate, chalcedony, danburite, emerald, fluorite, hematite, herkimer quartz, howlite, jade, kyanite, lodestone, manganocalcite, pearl, peridot, rhodonite, seraphinite, snow quartz, turquoise

LIBRA // VENUS
Aquamarine, aventurine, blue lace agate, chrysocolla, herkimer quartz, howlite, jade, kunzite, lepidolite, opal, pearl, peridot, pyrite, red jasper, rhodocrosite, rhodonite, rose quartz, sapphire, scolecite, sodalite, sugilite, unakite

SCORPIO // PLUTO
Azurite, borinite, chalcedony, diopside, emerald, iolite, jet, lapis lazuli, larvikite, lepidolite, malachite, obsidian, onyx, rhodonite, ruby, rutilated quartz, selenite, serpentine, smokey quartz, sodalite, sulphur, sunstone

SAGITTARIUS // JUPITER
Amethyst, ametrine, apatite, bloodstone, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, chrysoprase, cinnabar, citrine, copper, diamond, fire agate, fluorite, fuchsite, garnet, gold, iolite, lapis lazuli, moldavite, rhodonite, shiva lingam, tanzanite

CAPRICORN // SATURN
Apache tear, aragonite, calcite, chalcopyrite, citrine, gold, hawk eye, hematite, jasper, jet, labradorite, larvikite, lodestone, malachite, obsidian, onyx, petrified wood, quartz, rhodocrosite, ruby, serpentine

AQUARIUS // URANUS
Amethyst, aqua aura, azurite, diopside, hawk eye, hematite, jet, kyanite, malachite, moldavite, moonstone, moss agate, staurolite, tektite

PISCES // NEPTUNE
Abalone shell, amethyst, ametrine, aqua aura, aquamarine, azurite, chrysocolla, danburite, emerald, girasol, howlite, iolite, labradorite, lapis lazuli, lepidolite, moldavite, onyx, opal, quartz, silver, snowflake quartz, tanzanite, tektite, turquoise