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I love forms of witchcraft that work with the local area. Purchasing supplies from locally owned businesses and the community of the practitioner.
Using local plants, herbs, and flowers in one's magic.
Natural items from the area around you.
I try to use local goods in my craft as much as I can. I buy used books from nearby thrift stores, giving a second life to items. I also acquire candles, holders, incense and other craft supplies from local thrift shops. I purchase oils, incense, books, Tarot and Oracle decks, and other things from local small metaphysical shops and all the plants used in my practice are ethically foraged from my area. I take care to try and take only ten percent of a plant and none if it does not want to be foraged.
I'd love to learn more of my local folklore. I do know from driving about that many houses in the area keep standing stones on their property. Remnants of practices held long ago that traveled from other areas.
The spirits I know of are those I have met along my local travels. In woodlands, buildings, and near water sources in the area.
Here is a correspondence list of items used commonly in my practice.
Personal correspondences
Orange daylily, prosperity, high energy. Add to a spell for speed or high energy.
Rose, romance, love, offerings to local spirits.
Garnet, personal power. Can represent the self in a working.
Turitella agate, ancestor work, home, family. Can represent a relative in a working.
Rainbow moonstone, intuition, psychism, calming.
Mugwort and Wormwood, in a drink for DreamWork, I burn Wormwood to enhance intuition.
Dahlia, inner strength, great for personality or ego work. Power. Dignity. Used alongside blood magic.
Tar or stones with the presence of tar, to aid in breaking bad habits, namely smoking.
Tar from a specific location, a river in the town I grew up in, strong protection, hexwork.
Red daisy, love and romance. Powerful in love workings. Includes platonic love.
Goldenrod, Prosperity, fortune, luck.
Russian Sage, Dreamwork sachets. The scent is good for sinus and tension relief.
Spider Web, To draw things in and hold them. I.e Negativity, prosperity, Love, friendship. Great for protection and hexwork. In a hex to draw the target into the misfortune and hold them there.
Pine Sap, Binding rituals utilizing petition papers.
Blackberry Stick with Thorn, to entangle an enemy within hexwork.