Month: December 2017

thewitchofthenorse:

Before reading please consider what this post is about. If you have a history of mental illness, self mutilation, or can be easily triggered/relapsed please consider an alternative form of magic! That being said, as someone who once spent years self mutilating I now feel like I can embrace this kind of magic and not face old fears. You know your mental health better than anyone, please be smart and practice responsibly. This is a post made purely by my experience and research.

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Intro

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To being treat all blood like it’s infected and please only used sterilized tools, you can never be too safe. This is a guide on sterilization that I’ve read through and agree with. Please do not share blood drawing tools, ingest blood, or store blood. In the act of drawing blood do not target your wrists, palms, thighs, or fore arms. If you’re going to be drawing blood a needle is ideal in my opinion. You can be prepackaged and sterilized ones or just clean and sterilize the same needle each time. Which ever you have access too. Clean the area of your finger with rubbing alcohol first before pricking to make sure it’s clean! All you really need is a drop or two!

🔪Different Practices of Blood Magic🔪

I don’t know if “practices” is the right word for this but this is more or else the different ways you can work blood into your magic or into your religion. Let me begin by saying that blood is something I see as sacred and powerful, please keep that in mind while reading this. That being said feel free to be creative as you want, if you think meditating with a candle anointed in blood will heal your headache go for it man. It’s your craft.

• Offerings – This isn’t to say every deity, fae, or creature will accept blood as an offering but some may. Always seriously consider what you’re doing before offering blood to god, I’m not sure how it is for everyone but in my practice that’s a very serious commitment and promise. 
• How you leave blood as an offering varies from deity to deity. Freyja for instance really only accepts it from be as a form of oath and it usually comes with roses and amber.
• Invocation – This slightly parallels as an offering to me mostly because I stick to Norse deity work so I won’t know much about invoking outside of gods. Again, this is a serious commitment so think heavily on it before you decide too!
• Invoking a deity with blood from my experience is inviting the god into my life. By invoking Sigyn with blood, a chalice, ashes, and willow I invited her into my life. My intention was to learn from her, to feel what she felt, to gain insight in places I previously couldn’t see, and to grow in patience and humility. I received all those things but I was also constantly overwhelmed with her grief, I spent so much time crying and morning lives I’ve never met and know little about. A risk is always taken when you invoke a god with blood.
• Warding -This is super easy and one of my favorites! There’s a few ways you can go about this but essentially you’re choosing to use your blood and your own core power to protect you from harm. You can use them to protect yourself, your home, a room, it’s an energy barrier to keep you safe.
• Personal Warding – You can do this an individual ritual/spell with a drop of blood and whatever ingredients you choose. Personally though, I like to make myself a little spell jar to carry or wear that includes a drop of my blood, onyx, amethyst, and yarrow.
• House/Room Warding – This one is super easy! I literally just grab enough white tea lights for each window and main door in the apartment. I then anoint each candle with a drop of blood and myrrh oil.
• Necromancy – I’m not super diverse in necromancy so I won’t say much on this. However, I have used blood in work with Hel to contact dead family members or particular spirits I find it hard to reach.
• Spell Sealing – When finishing up a ritual, spell, barrier, anything you can seal it up with your blood to finish it off with an impact and extra magical boost to help in manifestation. A fun little trick I like to do is to seal spell with my thumbprint, only a small prick of blood is needed and you can apply it to pretty much any safe surface. I like to use it on envelopes, bay leaves, and a glass offering dish I have!
• Healing – I’ve found that healing with blood magic can be a bit tricky, mostly if you’re trying to use your blood to heal someone else. That is something I would advice against personally. For personal healing though blood can be an amazing ingredient.
• General Physical Healing – I do one of two things most often; I just prick my finger and use the blood flow as a release of physical pain from my body or I use it draw a sigil where ever my body is suffering the most.
• Mental Health Healing – I usually do this as an act of meditation. I sit in a candle lit/moon lit/edgy as fuck room; I keep one piece of amethyst in front of me and anoint it with blood and use it as a healing vessel. You should do whatever you think would work for you though.
• Spiritually Healing – I tend to draw Dagaz where my third eye would be with a moonwater and blood mix. I’ll spend a while trying to clean my head of thoughts and sounds until I can visualize my body being filled with a glowing mist. Again, this is just what I do but honestly you can do just about anything.
• Sigils -This one is pretty simple, when you go to draw a sigil in a spell draw it in blood instead.
• Staves – I have staves separate from sigils because I use them in different ways and staves hold a much more personal meaning to me. You can use blood to draw it on wood, candles, or whatever you need. You can also use your blood through tattooing the staves on your skin to enchant it and bind it to you eternally.

🔪Blood and It’s Meaning🔪

• Animal blood(humanly and legally gathered) – Some people will say each type of animal blood has different meanings and I would most likely agree with that. However, I’ve never used animal blood so I can’t say much on the topic. You could associate it with what the animals often represent. Animal blood in general is supposed to have properties of justice, will, and strength.
• Period blood – I wouldn’t store any period blood to anyone who wants to ask, just grab a qtip and swab a little up for you spell and clean appropriately afterwards. I associate period blood with beauty, healing, fertiltiy, but could also be used to prevent pregnancies. Period blood in my eyes could work in a spell for both.
• Finger – This is pretty much where you should be drawing all of your blood unless you go for your foot. Again, a prick is all you really need. I associate this with focus, an energy amplifier, and protection.
  
• Sexual blood – This can be drawn by scratching your partner, having them bite your lip, really whatever shit ya’ll are into that could draw some go for it(in moderation and safely). I associate this with love, passion, intimacy, and compassion.
  
• Foot – This should be drawn similarly to the hand! I associate foot blood with moving forward, growth, grounding, strength, and healing.
  
• Mixed with moonwater – I’m including this mostly because I do it so damn often. I have found it to be super purifying and calming, it’s used in almost all of my larger cleansing rituals, it just makes the energy feel so great.

🔪 General Tips

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• I’ve found mixing your blood with swamp mud/clay to be a strong fertility enhancer and healer.
• I’ve found that for me blood doesn’t really work as a “filler ingredient”. I only say that because when I first began research on witchcraft I read that it was in a couple places.
• If you’re new to cursing I would advice against using your own blood in them until you feel completely comfortable in them.
• I would avoid using blood on super textured stones or stones that can’t be washed in water like selenite, pyrite(texture), opal, azurite, etc.
• Mix your ink with a drop of blood and enchant your written word or art.
• Tattoos could definitely be considered a form of blood magic. The possibilities are endless so I won’t even try naming them all! But for a couple: plant correspondences, sigils, an incantation(quote), etc.
• Leaving a drop of blood in the snow is a good way to honor Skadi or Hel.
• You can see if your plants are aliens from space if you give them a drop of blood and they start singing.
• If you put blood on your candle it’ll help amplify the energy and manifestation.
• Blood magic and sex magic work well together. You can use anointed candles, rose/blood mixtures. Man, I’m going to add that into the sex magic post.

The kind of needle that works perfect for this is diabetic needles for pens. You don’t need the pen. They come in a box of 100, and you can order them cheap from Amazon.