RavenClaw wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 3:22 pm
Hi there and welcome.
For healing magic there's a lot you can choose from. From the top of my head, you might want to look into Reiki, crystals, aura reading, chakras, aroma therapy, herbs and homeopathy. On a personal note, I crafted my own spell to heal a chakra so it's very possible to use spells for healing.
Judy Hall wrote a lot of books and she also made an oracle deck for crystals. Her most popular book is The Crystal Bible which has three editions. You could probably find the first edition as a pdf.
For herb correspondences, a popular book is Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs.
There are many ways to meditate so you can search here in the forums and google. Feel free to experiment to find a meditation that works for you.
There is a lot for "anything else" that you mentioned. For example, if you want to get into divination you might resonate with tarot but that's not the only divination system available. Maybe you'd like the Elder Futhark runes or a pendulum. How do you feel about connecting with your spirit guide and/or a Deity? What about spirit allies like the Elementals? Then there's scrying which can be done cheap with a bowl full of water. If you want to spend a bit more money, you can make a black mirror. All you really need for scrying is a shiny surface.
Moving on to tools. You don't need to get everything at once if you really do want to use tools plus you don't need to buy certain tools.You can find a stick you might feel like crafting into a wand. The tree it came from becomes an ally. Some items you have in your house, like spices and bowls.
You can use candles but you don't need anything fancy.
The above barely scratches the surface. If I knew what more you were interested in, I might be able to recommend more books. The short answer is, read up on what interests you and experiment.You might also want to start writing about your journey which could be the beginning of your Book of Shadows or whatever you want to call it. I consider paganism and magic to be separate but they certainly can be combined.
Hello and thank you!
I'm helpful for anyone's help. I'm already working with crystals, but I'd like to work with Reiki, aura reading and aroma therapy, and herbs. I've recently already bought a book on chakras. I'm glad that healing with chakras has helped you. I plan on working on this, I'm just reading the book as of right now. I recently bought: Chakra Healing: A Beginner's Guide to Self-Healing Techniques That Balance the Chakras. I'll buy another book if you recommend me too.
I own the Judy Hall Crystal Bible book already, but I don't own the deck as of right now. I'll look for that herb book by Cunningham. I've heard of that before. So I'll be sure to add it to books to get for myself. For Divination, I usually work with Oracle decks only. I feel connected with them anytime I use them.
I'd rather connect with a spirit guide, but I have trouble trying to connect with one as of right now. Is there a book I should buy to learn how to connect with spirit guides? This is something I've always wanted to connect with. I'm sure I'll learn eventually. I've never worked with Elementals before, but I will if it's necessary. I'm very new when it comes to scrying, this is something I've never done before.
Should I be nervous when doing this? I don't want to do this until I know what I'm doing. I'm sure I'll get around to this soon. Thanks for answering my questions and being direct with everything. I'm such a newbie when it comes to this.
Here's one last question I'd like to ask. Is it okay to read about Green Witchcraft, while also reading about Chakras, Spirit Guides, and Reiki? My main focus right now is Herbs, Crystals, Chakras, Spirit Guides, Candles, Oracle Cards, and Reiki. I just wanted to ask this, since I'm a newbie. I'd like just to work with all of these things and hope it's okay to work with all of these subjects when learning about Witchcraft.