Beginner looking for advice :3

hi there ! :3
i am a total baby in witchcraft, tho ive read into the basics. first of all i really would like to learn more about protection because i really am lost. also ive read a post and the replies said it was “spell begging” please forgive me if i am doing this right now, i have no idea what yall are talking abou, i still have a lotttttt to learn. it would be really nice if someone could help me with the basics, thank you very much!!
greetings, Padfoot :3

Regardless of whether you're a beginner or not, you've posted in Book Shares without sharing a book. Don't post in the wrong forum again please - verbal warning, the next time it's official.

This thread may help you with your quest:

Read this, and try it on for size

Just asking to be clear, do you mean spellcraft , sorcery, or neopagan witchcraft?

For the New World sorcery traditions like Hoodoo, Conjure, and Brujeria traditions, Jason Miller's book is pretty okay, if I recall.

I have the hardback copy Judika Illes' massive survey of sorcery from around the world from many mythic frameworks The thing could stun an ox!There's a section on protection workings there. From these and more reading you can begin learn to construct you own.

Hello, I am a practicioner of High Magick for about 3 years so I consider myself a begginer and I have read very little about self defense but I do have few books I can recommend, those being "The Witches Shield - Protection Magick and Psychic Self Defense" by Christopher Penczak, "A Witchs Defense Manual - Protection & Reversal Magick" by Jason Miller and probably 2 more which are more into the High Magick Psychic Self Defense category but usefull for a begginer, those are "Psychic Self Defense" by Dion Fortune and "Practical Guide to Psychic Self Defense" by Denning & Phillips.

Hi there. There is a very effective protocol on getting darkness / negative energies like demons etc. cleansed from people, spaces and objects. Would that interest you?

Sandragreendragon said:

Hi there. There is a very effective protocol on getting darkness / negative energies like demons etc. cleansed from people, spaces and objects. Would that interest you?

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I think everybody will be interested in it. Please make a thread / post where you describe your methods - for the good of all.

I am happy to share.

I will do so at the request of each individual requesting information and going into detail what it entails.

So anyone that would want to learn how to do this, or wants help being cleansed and protected, please contact me directly.

Sending love and light to all that need it.

Sandragreendragon said:

requesting information and going into detail

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Share your methods with everyone or keep them to yourself.
@everybody: if sandragreendragon is trying to sell you a course, a workshop, a secret exorcism, a spiritual empowerment, anything whatever.. please report it.

Thank you Yazata for pointing that out. Sending much love and light your way. If anyone of you is still interested in obtaining a unique experience being freed from darkness, let me know. I invite anyone that is not darkness or who has not commited themself to the darkness (some call it 'sold their soul", although that is technacally incorrect) to contact me. And so you know, this is a gift from many engalic beings combined, to you. Sending all much love and light.

Darkness is as much a part of human existence as light is. I don't think people here on WF are typically interested in being freed of darkness, sorry to say that.

I have problems with the fact that you are posting this in a very beginner topic. A beginner may be not seasoned enough to put this offer aside as nonsense. I find this quite rude to be honest.

To the OP: please open the library section and read through all the books that are about witchcraft or other topics that are interesting. There is so much information just one click away. Enjoy! There is nothing wrong with reading one of even a few years about topics that interest you just before you start to practice. And another basic:

HoldAll said:

Regardless of whether you're a beginner or not, you've posted in Book Shares without sharing a book. Don't post in the wrong forum again please - verbal warning, the next time it's official.

This thread may help you with your quest:

Advice To An Absolute Beginner

Hello everyone. I'm an absolute beginner to magick. I've been doing a bit of reading and am mainly interested in the Western Mystery Traditions at the moment. The thing is none of the books seem to be written for someone starting out at the very beginning. For instance, books that outline...

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I am very sorry !! I did not realize I was posting in the wrong forum.

HellenaHex said:

Yes I was wondering what style of witchcraft you were focusing on and what gods if any? It would help me give you more useful advice. I am versed and trained in many practices due to having been blessed with the time to devote to my passions, however, my main personal practice is an ecstatic necromantic witchcraft deeply rooted in animism/folklore/oneiric practices/plant spirit teachers/and being a psychopomp. Anyway, just let me know what sort of practice you are comfortable with and I will happily give you some good spiritual protection advice.

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so as i kind of have no idea where to start and whats true and what isnt, im just gonna tell you what i know. somewhere ive read about types of witches, i liked the electrical witch pretty much. speaking of types of witchcraft: i feel very drawn to the forest and the life in it, other than that ive read about Hedge Witchcraft, Shadow Witchcraft, Protection Witchcraft and Spirit Witchcraft. id also love learn more about nature spirits, runes and sigils and the meaning of crows in witchcraft. somewhere ive read about greeting crows when i see some, my question would be why and how do i do that. ? thank you very much for your help!! :3

Greetings. So it is my understanding that you probably wrote eclectic witchcraft and it was auto corrected to electrical witchcraft. Eclectic meaning your style would use what you like from multiple styles of witchcraft forming one unique to you. It looks like you’re currently most interested in new age and nature based witchcrafts and I can definitely work with that. In truth if your focus was hedge witchcraft you would be getting to work with spirits, nature, fae, herbalism, folklore, and they can of course do protective magic as well.

This book will help you learn the basics of green witchcraft which I think you will enjoy.

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This book is on Celtic hedge witchcraft.

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This book will help you learn about using runes.

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This book will help you with Sigil magic.

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This book will help you with spirit communication.

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The book Crows and Ravens: Mystery, Myth, and Magic of Sacred Corvids by: Rick De Yampert is sold on Amazon and lots of witchy online shops and I believe you would find it very useful in gaining a better understanding of crows. Not all witches work with them. For many it comes down to do crows or ravens have significant meaning to your chosen god/goddess, is that your spirit animal or fetch form, do they symbolize something significant in your personal practice. As a whole most people agree they are symbols of wisdom, change, transformation, messengers of death, omens of ill-luck, figures associated with war, witches because in the Middle Ages they were considered familiars, tricksters, memory, thought, etc… it really comes down to what do they symbolize to you and your chosen path. Culture/mythos will really affect all symbolism in witchcraft. When working with the Morrigan crows and ravens were meaningful to me especially if I saw them on my journeys. As for greeting them just softly say hello and give them a safe treat if you have one and it’s legal where you live.

For protection the books Protection and Reversal Magick by: Jason Miller, The Witches Shield by: Christopher Penczak, Saining for Gaelic Polytheist by: Marissa Hegarty, and Everyday Psychic Defense by: Casandra Eason are Pretty useful and can be applied/adapted to most practices. Beyond the books you will find Celtic sea salt is protective. As well as Smoke/incense from Juniper, Cypress, sage, Frankincense, Myrrh, Sandalwood, Cedar (Not safe around small animals in any form if you have rabbits don’t use cedar in your incense, essential oil diffusers, candles, spray smudges, or on them in anyway.) dragons blood resin, Palo santo, and Yerba Santa to name some popular ones. Many find various crystals protective such as Obsidian, Jet, black tourmaline, amethyst, and smoky quartz, etc. as a potential hedge witch p/nature based witch you might consider talismans made from Rowan, hawthorn, or blackthorn. Or having plants like st. John’s Wort, roses, and blackberries around. There are so many other protective plants and practices that I would need to dedicate an entire thread to it but I hope this is a helpful start for you.

I’ll try to message you more reading recommendations and book links that would be helpful to you later when I have the chance. I know we have more good ones in the library here I’m just having trouble finding them at the moment.

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It would be nice of you if you posted all of these books in the forum Library so that everybody can profit from them. After all, hardly anyone will go through all the fresh replies of an existing thread in General Occult Discussion when looking for books, better post them in the Library where people will notice them. Please bear in mind that several of the books have been already shared, for example the one by Laura Tempest-Zakroff on sigils (excellent book!), only with dead links because of copyright violation complaints. In such cases, please post your fresh mega link in the replies, no need to double-post, and I’ll merge all such double threads anyway.

The OP should be really grateful to you - what with all the library sites out there, finding books for free has become like shooting fish in a barrel nowadays; however, the difficulty is discovering worthwhile books to post amongst all the fluff out there.

When searching the Library, please go to Book Shares, click on Search, tick the "Search titles only" and select "This forum". Better use one of the longer words from the name of the book as a search expression, people sometimes forget to mention the author.

HellenaHex said:

Greetings. So it is my understanding that you probably wrote eclectic witchcraft and it was auto corrected to electrical witchcraft. Eclectic meaning your style would use what you like from multiple styles of witchcraft forming one unique to you. It looks like you’re currently most interested in new age and nature based witchcrafts and I can definitely work with that. In truth if your focus was hedge witchcraft you would be getting to work with spirits, nature, fae, herbalism, folklore, and they can of course do protective magic as well.

This book will help you learn the basics of green witchcraft which I think you will enjoy.

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This book is on Celtic hedge witchcraft.

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This book will help you learn about using runes.

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This book will help you with Sigil magic.

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This book will help you with spirit communication.

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The book Crows and Ravens: Mystery, Myth, and Magic of Sacred Corvids by: Rick De Yampert is sold on Amazon and lots of witchy online shops and I believe you would find it very useful in gaining a better understanding of crows. Not all witches work with them. For many it comes down to do crows or ravens have significant meaning to your chosen god/goddess, is that your spirit animal or fetch form, do they symbolize something significant in your personal practice. As a whole most people agree they are symbols of wisdom, change, transformation, messengers of death, omens of ill-luck, figures associated with war, witches because in the Middle Ages they were considered familiars, tricksters, memory, thought, etc… it really comes down to what do they symbolize to you and your chosen path. Culture/mythos will really affect all symbolism in witchcraft. When working with the Morrigan crows and ravens were meaningful to me especially if I saw them on my journeys. As for greeting them just softly say hello and give them a safe treat if you have one and it’s legal where you live.

For protection the books Protection and Reversal Magick by: Jason Miller, The Witches Shield by: Christopher Penczak, Saining for Gaelic Polytheist by: Marissa Hegarty, and Everyday Psychic Defense by: Casandra Eason are Pretty useful and can be applied/adapted to most practices. Beyond the books you will find Celtic sea salt is protective. As well as Smoke/incense from Juniper, Cypress, sage, Frankincense, Myrrh, Sandalwood, Cedar (Not safe around small animals in any form if you have rabbits don’t use cedar in your incense, essential oil diffusers, candles, spray smudges, or on them in anyway.) dragons blood resin, Palo santo, and Yerba Santa to name some popular ones. Many find various crystals protective such as Obsidian, Jet, black tourmaline, amethyst, and smoky quartz, etc. as a potential hedge witch p/nature based witch you might consider talismans made from Rowan, hawthorn, or blackthorn. Or having plants like st. John’s Wort, roses, and blackberries around. There are so many other protective plants and practices that I would need to dedicate an entire thread to it but I hope this is a helpful start for you.

I’ll try to message you more reading recommendations and book links that would be helpful to you later when I have the chance. I know we have more good ones in the library here I’m just having trouble finding them at the moment.

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thank you so much !! this is very helpful :3