Earth Magic: Your Complete Guide to Natural Spells, Potions, Plants, Herbs, Witchcraft, and More - Softcover

Jones, Marie D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578596971 ISBN 13: 9781578596973

Verlag: Visible Ink Press, 2020

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Unearth the power of nature! Healing through herbs. Spells to find your soul mate. Stones to improve concentration and increase productivity. Potions for happiness. Secrets of the stars.

Nature’s magic is everywhere. It’s in backyards, in the woods, ponds, and even kitchens. You just need to know how to see it. It’s finding the well-being drawn from the energies of the Earth and the universe. It’s the herbs and plants, symbols and talismans, candles, stones, gems, and crystals, and their special powers and meanings, spells, potions, and animal and spirit guides. Even as it gives us the food, water, and air we need to survive, the Earth offers gifts far beyond the obvious.

Earth Magic: Your Complete Guide to Natural Spells, Potions, Plants, Herbs, Witchcraft, and More, will guide you through the rites, practices, and traditions people use to connect themselves to the planet, spirits, and energies. Learn how the laws of the universe and the forces of science can allow you to achieve your desires and intentions by aligning unseen energy. Find the wisdom in the stars and planets above and the Earth below.

Earth Magic brings balance and harmony to modern life through the healing and uplifting powers nature. A fascinating read, this book shares practical advice and timeless insights. Green living, natural healing, alignment with the Earth and stars―it’s all here in this wondrous guide to a universe filled with marvels. Come and explore nature’s spell-binding world of wonder and embrace the magic!

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Marie D. Jones is the author of nearly two dozen nonfiction books on cutting-edge science, the paranormal, conspiracies, ancient knowledge, and unknown mysteries, including Visible Ink Press’ Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings; Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels; and The Disaster Survival Guide: How to Prepare For and Survive Floods, Fires, Earthquakes and More; plus PSIence: How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomena; The Grid: Exploring the Hidden Infrastructure of Reality; Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History; and The Deja Vu Enigma. She is a regular contributor to New Dawn Magazine, FATE, Paranoia Magazine and other periodicals. Jones has been interviewed on over a thousand radio shows worldwide, including Coast-to-Coast AM, and has appeared on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens. She makes her home in San Marcos, California, and is the mom of one brilliant son, Max.

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Folk Magic
The term “folk magic” refers to the practices of common folk, and is interchangeable with natural magic, kitchen witchery, botanical magic, and practical magic. Folk magic was practiced by European pagans who were often persecuted for witchcraft, even though they were simply using plants, herbs, roots, and nature to heal and cure. We might even call them herbalists today. Their experiences and education came from getting hands-on with the plants that grew in their environment and over time, whether it was for medicinal or magical purposes.

In the villages they lived in, those who practiced folk magic were the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and overall healers for anyone with an ailment of the body, mind, or spirit. Folk magic is also a part of African-American hoodoo, the 19th century magical practice that combines some elements of African and Haitian voodoo or voudon with Americanized folk magic influenced by Native Americans, Europeans, and even Christianity, with many rituals involving images and statues of Jesus or the saints alongside curious and items specific to folk magic. Hoodoo folk magic spread into the American south where it took hold in rural areas mainly, such as the bayou country of Louisiana, and Appalachian mountain magic.

Eventually, hoodoo folk magic became known as “conjuring” and included working with spirits and entities to assist the living and the dead. One could conjure a spirit to assist a dead villager to the other side, as well as protect those alive in the village. If someone was sick, they visited the local conjurer to see what kind of root or herb mixture or tea or spell could heal their maladies. Some of the favorite flowers used in hoodoo healing include:

Bluebonnet – For protection

Lily – For resurrection of body or spirit

Thistle – For fidelity and loyalty

Rose – For love

Violet – For forgiveness

Magnolia – For commitment and devotion

Folk magic in any form utilizes many of the same tools as witchcraft, Wicca, paganism, and earth-based traditions. Plants, herbs, spices, roots, stones, crystals, powders, infusions, tinctures – all were utilized in spells and conjuring work by those who were considered the wisest and most experienced (usually the village elders and women). Folk magic would also be requested for love, money, luck, success, banishing negative people and spirits, breaking a curse or hex, cleansing homes, winning legal battles, finding a new job, protection against violence and gossip, and even some darker desires, such as inspiring lust, getting someone to fall in love with you, getting revenge on someone, breaking up with someone, and dominating another person.

Divination and psychic development were also goals of the hoodoo practitioner, either for his or herself, or at the request of a client who came to ask for assistance from spirits on the other side. This type of folk magic employed cards (such as Tarot), tea leaves, seashells, or bones that were cast and read to seek guidance, direction, and at times, warnings of pending dangers.

How To Read Tea Leaves
When it comes to divination and earth-traditions, there is something to be set for dual uses. Herbal teas are used as medicinals for their special properties, and the tea leaves are a favorite form of seeking signs and messages as a divination tool. The art of tea leaf reading is called tasseography, tassology, and tasseomancy, and has been practiced in Asian cultures for thousands of years. Tea is a favorite drink of so many ancient and modern civilizations, so it is only natural that it long ago took on an important role as a divining method for predicting future events for someone asking for a reading, or for the reader his or herself.

Tea leaf readings work by accessing information in the subconscious mind, or the collective unconscious that Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung wrote about extensively, that links all of humanity as in one great mind. This allows the reader access to the past, present and future not limited by linear time, and allows them to see things outside of the realm of their limited vision.

To read tea leaves, you first need to decide what type of tea you wish to use, and what kind of teacup or bowl you want to read in. It should be something symbolic and decorative.

Select and brew the tea and do not strain out the leaves.

Set the intention of the reading for yourself or for the person you are doing the reading for.

Get into a meditative or trance like state using candles or incense, or deep breathing.

Drink some of it, leaving about two teaspoons of liquid and the leaves in the cup or bowl.

Gently swirl the cup and its contents slowly.

Let the leaves settle and begin the reading.

Record everything you see or intuit.

You are looking for images, signs, symbols, and intuitions in the patterns of the leaves themselves, but also things that pop into your mind during the reading. Be patient and quietly record what you are seeing. Look for prominent or dominant shapes and patterns.

Next, you must interpret what you’ve seen. Like scrying, images and patterns may not make any sense at the time or to the conscious mind, yet their meaning becomes clear later. This is especially true if you are getting messages for someone else. They may understand the images and patterns. This is where your interpretation skills will be put to the test and sharpened with practice.

Do some tea readings for practice on yourself or a close friend until you feel like you’re getting the hang of it. Make note of your intuitions and things that don’t make sense at the time. Look also for positioning of the leaves, groupings, thickness, color, and whether the leaves are in the liquid or on the side of the cup or bowl. It all means something, and it is up to you to ultimately interpret what.

Some major tea symbols people report are:

Hearts – Love, romance, friendship, marriage, union, binding, but also heartbreak

Anchors – Good luck, a solid foundation, groundedness

Hourglass – Could mean a coming threat or danger, or that time is or is not on your side

Animals – May signify a trait of that animal

Birds – Good luck, travel forthcoming, a desire for freedom

Butterflies – Good fortune, coming change, transformation

Sun – Success, happiness, a lighter time ahead

Door – A new experience, or the closing off of what no longer works, beginnings and endings

Dagger – A warning, a need for sharp focus on something

Egg – Fertility of an idea or project, a birth, a new start

Often the shapes will be just blobs and glops, so don’t be afraid to swirl the mix again if you are not getting any “hits.” Write down everything that comes to mind, no matter how crazy it might sound, because it might make total sense down the road.

Tea leaf reading is an ancient art that cannot be mastered overnight, so take your time and get familiar with the process. You can also try your hand at reading coffee grounds or wine sediments if you are not a tea drinker.

Women often make better tea leaf readers because of their sharper and more accessible intuition, but anyone can become a pro with practice.

A simple tea magick trick – pour a cup of your favorite tea while concentrating on your intended desire. If you want to invoke something like health, love, or success, stir the tea clockwise. If you want to get rid of or banish something like illness, stress, or toxic energy, stir the tea counterclockwise.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Visible Ink Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1578596971
• ISBN 13: 9781578596973
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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