welcome to demystify magic with Molly and Madison I'm Molly a former skeptic turned full-time energy healer and
teacher and I'm Madison a born and raised witch running my family's Crystal shop and we're here to explore all
things woo through the lens of both science and spirituality so that you can find the moments of magic in your
everyday life and create an intentional spiritual practice so if that's what you're into find a cozy spot take a deep
breath and let's demystify some magic
how oh wow we really went for it we did it's been a
couple weeks since we recorded just the two of us and all bets are off all bets are off I'm excited today we uh we
actually just got a request for this this morning which sparked our we we're feeling a little low creatively and
we're like well we could talk about this for a while we're going to talk about lowbudget witchcraft how you can do your
[ __ ] on a budget mhm I love talking about this which I think most most
people are surprised to hear me say that when I'm the one that owns the store that sells the things um but even
like I love watching people get creative about
what they can do like really all the stuff that I have is just like the cherry on top like the extra fun stuff
yeah it's so fun to get creative in that way and just like using what you have
it's like a puzzle yeah yeah and I think it becomes like so much more potent
because you're using things that you enjoy so like for example kitchen witchery it's like yeah you could go out
of your way to like make a spell or you could take your hyperfixation meal of the month and turn it into a spell and
now feeding two apples with one worm yeah it's like
sure feeding two worms with one apple I think that's just called sharing
sharing is caring that's the vegan way to say kill two birds with one stone I know I I when I
was a consent educator I had a a mentor who told me that I should avoid any kind of violent language and so now I'm like
hyper aware of how much I say two birds with one stone so he started trying to make up my own you know in college I had
a Spanish teacher who like early in the semester had us go through and point out
like every phrase in the English language that has an under of violence
mhm very related to this episode I know you guys you're welcome but I I also
think about it all the time I yeah so if you have a good alternative to two birds one stone we want to hear it I think you
came up with it just now feed one apple with two worms feed feed two worms with
one apple yeah that's what I try to say I screwed up every time I liked the way feed one apple with two worms it's a
unforunately so it actually didn't solve anything it actually didn't solve a thing but I like it better anyways um
before we dive into our lowbudget ideas Madison what was your magic moment we are really going back to Our Roots this
week with our magic moment um because I went back to therapy this week
hey is my new therapist you guys have heard me if you've listened to the podcast for a while talk about how I had
a really really amazing therapist when I lived in St Louis who was like the perfect blend of like
woo and rooted in science and I did like this highly studied form of therapy
matched with this like really meditative practice that we did and it was really really amazing and so when I left
Missouri I obviously could no longer see her and it took me a long time to like
even really be interested in seeing anyone else because I was like no there's just nobody there's nobody who's
going to do it like her there's nobody who's going to do it like her if you live in Missouri and you need a good
witchy therapist slide into my DMs um but I started looking like maybe a
month or two ago and I just like really perfectly manifested this person and I had my
intro session a few days ago and she said something that I had
just never considered like about my history and something that like could be
impacted stuff going on now that just like I never ever would have thought about and I was like oh maybe other therapists are
also smart and good at their jobs maybe it's not just this one person uh so I
was very proud of myself so proud of you love that we love therapy here at dsy Magic We Stand what
was your magic moment okay mine might be controversial ooh I'm excited
so as you know uh if you've listened to the pot at all I am very much into the fantasy fairy smut Dragon fourth wi is
my favorite series of all time I'm gonna say it oh I know what you're gonna say I'm gonna say don't spoil it okay don't
spoil it well yeah I'm not I just this is a spoiler-free podcast so of all
things fourth wi is my favorite series of all time okay I I thought that when I read it and I read it like a year ago
okay for the first time a year ago maybe like N9 months ago and I just thought you know like oh I really loved it at
the time it's probably not my favorite still maybe right because how many books
I read last year how many of them do I actually remember fourth wi and iron flame are one of them two of them and so
I recently got the dramatic audio versions and I can in fact oh this isn't
what I thought you were going to say at all I'm getting there shut the [ __ ] up sorry sorry sorry it's a fun game I like
to play in my head sometimes is where I try to figure out what your magic moment is before you say it my favorite game is when Madison goes I know what you're
talking about no I don't and I'm still talking I was so confident and I was
because there was something that I was excited to talk about anyways go I know I think we're going to get there let me
give the Preamble anyways I got the dramatic audio versions and can confirm this is
in fact my favorite series of all time I would die for Zaden Roy Ryerson I think it's R if I know I every
name every name in a fantasy book just is a Mumble yeah just as a Mumble for me which is which is why like rereading
with an audio book is so interesting because I'm like oh that's how you say Taran I'm like who the [ __ ] is
neolan we have a book club at spell crafter uh and this past month we did a
book on runes and Anthony helped us lead it because it's uh me and my friend
Lorraine who we don't know very much about the runes and so we call in the experts yeah and he made such a good
point where he's like if there's ever a book that you are going to struggle with the names just listen to it like he was
like I I gave him a copy of the book that we were going to talk about and he was like oh I'm just going to listen to it because that's how you know how to
pronounce the runes and I was like [ __ ] you're so smart I know so now I know how to pronounce most things I still revert
back to the mumbles that I said anyways that is not my magic moment my magic moment is I fell back in love with the
series I spent 40 hours over the course of 4 days Rel listening to book one and
two and the day that I had like 3 hours left in the series I go into a tiny little bookstore which I will not name I
will not name and shame them and they had Onyx storm available the third book in the series available 4 days early
they had no idea what it was I literally picked it up and I felt like I was like buying drugs off the street like I
picked it up and I was like okay Molly cool be cool cuz I thought they were going to not let me buy it I know and I
was like and I have a friend who's also obsessed with fourth wi and so I was texting her and I was like oh my God I'm holding onx storm in my hand right now
and she's like do they have another one I will drive to your house in my PJs right now and so I was just like really
cool I was like ah do you guys have another one of these and they were like ah we have um we have uh I think it's
called fourth wi is the other one in the series and I was like really specifically looking for
this one do you have that and she's like no we only ordered one we weren't sure how it was going to sell and I was like
mhm no I'll take it I will take it we'll take it and I literally the whole time I
was like be cool Molly be cool anyways um I got to start reading it 4 days early I know that's controversial
because people have told me since then that uh the author is like really upset
that some stores are selling them early well so what I found
out so this is where I so I was right first of all everyone so we all know this is what I thought you were going to
talk about I heard and I don't really understand how this is happening but I
read that people were like somehow swapping the dust covers yes I heard
that too and I was like so how are you doing that if there's no book like if the book's not out well okay what I have
heard um and I heard I mean seeing on Tik Tok is that targets have
accidentally been putting on extor on the Shelf early but then you go to check out and it won't let you buy it so
that's why people are swapping them that is not what I did so I thought that is what the author was upset about because
that does impact that's what I think she is upset about but I can also understand that like if you're planning this huge
launch I've also heard some people have been posting onx storm spoilers before the book is released I refuse to do that
yeah I'm going to you know I'm GNA throw my hat in the ring and I'm going to say that that's okay like the the book
seller put it out that happens all the time first of all like books come out on Tuesdays but the book sellers obviously
get them in advance and like for smaller releases it's never a big deal like if they go out early like that happens all
the time if a book comes out on Tuesday it'll go out when they come this is like Harry Potter Mayhem like people are
doing midnight release parties tonight and that's like I just don't think that that's that big of a deal that you bought it if it was on this if it was on
the Shelf if you didn't swap the I think swapping the desk C only that's I did not swap them I will also say that I
already pre-ordered the book so I also have a release day sale number in there
and I will also be buying the Kindle version and the dramatic audio because I can't be stopped she is also going to be
just fine like you bought the book she got the money she got the money it's all
good did not swap dust jackets that would be [ __ ] up and I have not posted a spoiler I refuse to spoil I haven't
finished it yet um we're recording this the day before it's officially released I'm about halfway through and I can
confirm it's my favorite series knowing that you found it early I it did have me like peeking my little head in of all my
local bookstores to be like hey you got it yeah I was and then I feel bad going and looking so I buy another book that's
what I did last night but the thing that was like such a Magic Moment is so this bookstore I'm not going to name and shame them because I don't want them to
get in trouble and also I don't want you to start taking the good books from me but it's a tiny bookstore it's a used
bookstore but they have some new books and I learned last time I was in I could bring in books for credit and so I've
started doing this thing where I impulse purchase books and then a lot of times I read them on my Kindle so they're like perfect condition and then I brought
them in and I got like $50 worth of credit so it was also a free copy of
Onyx storm wow love that yeah perfect to segue into budget witchcraft
yeah buying the same book four different times in four different
ways uh okay anyway what if we just had a
podcast where we just talked about that dumb [ __ ] oh man and we're
like okay we shared our opinion on buying books early time to go we have
talked about doing a uh patreon where the bonus monthly episode is just like random [ __ ] Yap off uhhuh that's what
it would be called too randt of mly with Molly and Madison a court of I forgot
about a court of Molly and Madison and that's a you know in another life in
another life so maybe one day if enough people bug us to make it we will anyways
let's talk about budget magic yeah let's wait before we do that I have we
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can do that at dfy magic.com hell yeah okay now we can dive in okay we've
teased you long enough okay here's how we're going to do this we are going to go in order of cost
so we are going to start with [ __ ] that is free and then we're going to move on to things that cost a little bit of
money and then we're going to move into things that maybe cost a little bit more money but still not a lot and then we're
going to end by going over the five most popular intentions that you might use
for your magical practice and we're going to give you a spell for each one that is going to cost little to no
money sick let's do it I can't wait let's do it all right so first we want
to give a little disclaimer of like if you are looking for places to buy appes
for your practice how you can get the most bang for your buck and it will not
come as any surprise to you that I'm going to start and say that your local Botanica or your local metaphysical
store is going to have some good deals MH that is you really are going to be
able to get good pricing on things they you know at least it's my intention when we're buying things for the store that I
really try to have like a wide variety of price points for things you know like
I have you know with like things like tarot decks Like I Do Really Work hard to like support the Indie small batch
like independently published decks and then I also have the Decks that cost maybe $20 you know like yeah same thing
for candles and herbs you know like any kind of place that has like a bulk herb
shop and it doesn't have to be witchy in nature yeah like a natural food store yeah like a um what are they called oh
my God a zero waste store you know where they have like where you literally just buy like out of the
container that is going to be way less expensive than I think you think it's going to be like it's not like going to
Target yeah yeah yeah I also think like being really creative about the supplies
that you do buy like I often when I see you know those clearance bins in the grocery stores that like always have
random [ __ ] in them I always buy the birthday candles when they're in there because I use them for my spell candles
and so you get like a pack of what like 20 of them for like 9 cents or whatever
great that's all I need for my spells um I also will often buy like spell jars or
7-Day candles at the Dollar Tree I've seen other people say they found like incense there you know spray bottles
there's a lot of a lot of stuff there that you can find and as far as herbs go I if I'm not buying in bulk like say
it's something like you know that I'm going to use in my kitchen at the same time I'm probably going to that at a
grocery store or even Costco I recently got a huge thing of bay leaves at Costco and it was the greatest thing I've ever
found yeah buying herbs in bulk if you know that you are going to use them a
lot it really does save you a lot of money and it's like not a huge upfront
cost usually you know like obviously it depends on the herb that you're purchasing but on the whole unless it's
something like rare like obviously you know don't buy your saffron in bulk but yeah
things like salt and lavender and rosemary like those things when you buy them and buying in bulk even isn't like
buying a [ __ ] ton it's most often buying by the ounce which yeah will last you for [ __ ] ever yeah buy exactly what
you need too I remember I bought like a Ziploc baggie full of bay leaves and it was like 63 cents and there was like
aund bay leaves in there I was just like when am I ever going to use all of these MH totally okay first things first we're
going to give you some three ways to do these things first one on our list is
meditation now you could go out and spend a bunch of money on a meditation app you could go to a class and do a
meditation class you could buy a book on meditation those are not the recommendations we're going to give you today we going to give you free
recommendations and one of them is a a Shameless self-promotion it's my seven
days of meditation for the easily distracted it's totally free you can sign up in the description but it's
essentially it's it's designed for people who think they can't meditate so if you feel like my brain won't shut up or I can't sit still or I have too much
going on any of that this is for you it is free you get seven meditations across
seven days and if you hate meditating give me seven days I will change your mind yeah I love meditation as a
resource because the only thing you need is your own brain yeah so there's tons
on YouTube I mean my YouTube but all over YouTube whether you want like to
meditate with a guided practice or you like a sound healing or you like to sare at a candle flame all of that is on
YouTube on Spotify on wherever you get your music yeah I love just like
searching through YouTube because you really can like find such a wide birth of creators who are doing so many
different things that there really is something for everyone if you need like a lot of guidance or if you just need
someone who's going to pop in and every couple minutes to help you reenter you know like there really is something if
you just want music yeah but what I really love about meditation too is that it really does like build a really great
foundation for other spellwork as well so if you want to like Stow a little bit
of money away to buy things for your practice down the line meditation and
working on that practice is something that can really make you feel like you're building something so that when you do have access to like the tools
that you want to expand a little bit you've been putting energy towards this practice and
you've built something really really strong that will help you like getting in the in the mind space of magic and
spell workor is really the most important part that's where that intention is set
and I really think that meditation just like flexes that muscle in such a helpful way that even if you're not
looking to save money like starting at meditation I think is the way to go yeah
hundo hund op another way that you can kind of siphon some energy into your spiritual practice is congrats you're
already doing it hey listening to this [ __ ] podcast or any kind of
like Spiritual Development learning there's tons of free resources those people that you find on YouTube who are
doing these guided meditations I'm going to bet a lot of them also have some free resources that you can learn from and
getting a wide birth of perspectives as well I think is like what YouTube is really good for is where you can learn
about a lot of opinions I get this question a lot with things like tarot of
like how do I build a relationship with the cards and you know how do I find the
meaning that is like what it means to me MH it can be expensive to read 10
different tarot books but my advice is always to listen to as many opinions as you possibly can and so a lot of that
can be through following people on Instagram through following people on YouTube like listening to podcasts about tarot taking
classes you know there are lots of free resources online that you know everybody
will be saying it like it is the answer because it is their answer but I think like shifting your mindset a little bit
and seeing these things that people create as perspectives and then they kind of become like Pokemon cards of
like okay how many different ways of looking at things can I learn about MH
and then I think the only way to really find out what what calls to
you is to create opportunity for yourself to see things that don't yeah
yeah I think it's a cool practice in discernment too it's a cool practice of like tuning into your gut like what
feels right what feels off what about it feels off I also think too you know I I
have so many different like teachers that I gravitate towards and a lot of
them say this same things like the same message but they might say it a slightly
different way or they might give a very different example like I was listening to Jeff Warren who's one of my favorite
meditation teachers and he had us bring our awareness to the air moving through
our nose hairs and I was like oh my God like that actually helped me ground into
my breath more than like any other you know I've heard feel the upper lip or feel the nostril or feel the back of the
throat but it was the nose hair so I was like wow I can really feel those suckers
move oh that's the one yeah so it's like you can hear the
same thing a hundred different times and then someone says it just a little bit differently and everything Clicks in and
I think that's like that's that's my favorite part about learning from different teachers and especially you know like I'm a big fan of going on
YouTube and trying to find teachers that I think I'll disagree with like trying
to find people that like have a completely different lifestyle from me look different from me or different age
from me and those are the people that I learn the most from because their perspective is going to be so different
from mine mhm yeah totally okay we're going to give you a little reduce reuse
recycle witchcraft lesson so these are taking things that you already have you always hear me say use what you have how
you can use them in your magical practice and we are just going to bing bang Bongo lightning round through them
the first my favorite use your empty pill jars or pill bottles as spell jars
mhm I love that something that I really love to do find intentions in the things you already have or the things you
already have to buy so when you're buying your body wash do you want to go for rows for some
self-love some soothing do you want to go to Lavender for calm and intuition
you can use color magic in that way as well of like oh the lavender is purple I know purple is also associated with
power so I'm going to feel calm but I'm also going to feel confident you know yep y I don't know if you guys are the
same but around like any holiday like I feel like everybody loves to give me a
bath salt and I'm not complaining if you're thinking about giving me a bath salt please do because I love to see
what intention I can tie to something like that you know of oh
this has x y and z in it I know salt is great for cleansing salt for protection as you
might have heard once or twice on this podcast but what other ingredients are in there and how can I ground them into
my practice Yeah I do this too with like stuff that's dying in my pantry that I'm
never going to eat so the other day I was remaking my money bowl and I didn't have we're going to talk about money
bowls in a minute so don't worry about it but I didn't have rice I didn't have like my usual you know what I put as the
base so I just looked through my pantry and I was like oh this is a a soup mix a
dried soup mix that has been in here for a while and is about to expire that's the base of my money Bowl I like okay
it's legumes for abundance and there's some green ones for abundance there's some yellow ones for power like I was
like okay this is what we're using and you know what that was a week ago that money Bowl has done me well so far
perfect love that Y and then this can kind of be applied to anything
I'm going to use sigils as the example but like you'll see a 100 books on how to make a Sigil or a 100 books of
sigils that is something that is easy and free to make on your own and there
are so many places on Instagram that share sigils that are like made for
Community use and I think that is so [ __ ] cool obviously like it's nice to have in my dream world I have the spell
crafter library in my house and it's all full of reference books and I you know like I never have to lift a finger and I
just think about it and it just lands in my Palms perfectly mhm but there is so much extra intention in making a Sigil
creating a spell you know like we are going to give you some examples I
implore you at the end of this episode we are going to give you like a really inexpensive way to do this spell with
like the Bare Bones right think of one extra free way that you can enhance it that you can make it more tailored to
you yeah ch that thing tweak it a little bit and make it yours that's going to make it so much more powerful with no
extra dollar spend and in case you want like an idea for that something that I'll do and some of you will not be
shocked by this but when I'm doing like a motivation or an energizing spell I always play Aaron's Party come get it in
the background cuz I've attuned myself to just get pumped up when I listen to that so I like didn't even think of that
as part of the spell but now I'm like yeah the music that I'm playing in the environment is part of the spell uhhuh
for sure I also think too you know I love
having reference books on herbs and the Magical intentions of them I think
they're easy to use but I'm not going to lie to you when I am in my kitchen and I am making a sandwich and I don't have my
books nearby I just Google magical intentions of tomato whatever you know
like and then just go with whichever resonates again like it's using your discernment and like we always share
with you you can't do it wrong you can't screw it up so if you Google magical
intentions of tomatoes and there's six different things and one of them stands out to you go with that trust your gut
MH unless we forget get a [ __ ] library card yeah that will change your
life if you do not have one they have they have way more books on witchcraft
than you would think I have had library cards in very small cities in very large
cities in very red cities and in very blue cities and I can't promise that
I've been able to find everything but I have been able to find more than I ever thought I would for free yeah and if you
have a an e-reader the Libby app connects to libraries and if you are
like me and you live in a place where your libraries don't connect to the Libby app if you Google like out of
State Library cards you can find lists of places where they're either free to get an out ofate library card to use on
Libby or they cost like a nominal amount oh yeah and I'm pretty sure I I think
that St Louis is one of those places and they have a really really great Library
System there you go so I still use mine I moved back to Florida what almost three years ago way to expose yourself
I'm telling I didn't have to do anything I had to go into the library to get my physical card but to get e-reader stuff
I never had to do anything and so don't arrest me St Louis Police Department if
you have the Libby app my mom and I share library cards on our Libby app like it gets a little bit confusing do
you have to pay for your library card no but she lives in a different state so she has a different library card smart
yeah yeah so I have her library card she has my library cards um you and I should
trade library cards we for sure should you can use my St Louis one ever you want my one good it gets a little bit
confusing because my mom and I are constantly like did you put a hold on this book or did I so just be aware of
that who wants this book and between you and me oh God I know I know that's going
to be really that's why we don't you have to go back to page 152 that's where I was well it won't let
you download on multiple readers oh oh that's I guess good for us bad for us in
different way we have to share a Kindle account too it would have to merge Our Lives which you know it feels like the
next logical step yeah it feels like when we have our witchy witchy
house with the hand of God that we're sitting in Reading we will share an e-reader
account we'll share a Kindle we'll sit next to each other on the couch and I'll say no we'll stream it to a TV we'll say
okay I'm ready for the next page when are you ready okay kitchen witchery SL herbs my
motto is use what you have so we've talked about this before we have a low effort kitchen witchery episode if you
are like I don't even know what you're talking about go to that one but I always recommend go through your spice
cabinet your tea cabinet the things that you have in your fridge and write the
intentions down like you could physically write them on the the bottle or you could make yourself a little
encyclopedia so I willing to bet you have everything that you need to create
the spell that you want or the intention that you want and it could be as simple
as like literally the other day I made like cinnamon buttered toast and I was
like this is an abundance ritual and I was like sugar for attraction cinnamon for abundance butter for transformation
like you can just start to you know get get really familiar with the things you use every day and then eventually it
just become second nature you're like okay what do I need for abundance or what does this spell do and that's a
really fun like tool for learning too is if you have you know for me my
hyperfixation right now is delicata squash and Sumo oranges okay
fancy well I like delicata squash because you don't have to peel it sure I don't even know what that is oh girl
girl for for a cord of mly medison yeah our first soda F
squash we're really reeling them in on this lowbudget episode we're telling you
why you should not get our patrion yeah save yourself save yourself
the headache and the money but Sumo oranges are my favorite and because Sumo oranges are like $2.99 an orange I'm
like I'm getting I'm getting all my money's worth so I'm like okay when I'm eating them it's for Joy it's for
happiness it's for energizing it's for uplifting what do I need right now and then I'm taking the Peels and I'm
putting them in a bag in my freezer for my simmer pots and my spells later mhm so you can you can really reduce reuse
recycle your herbs I also okay this is gross but I'm going to share it with you
I live in a place that has curbside composting and so I set an intention for
my compost bucket and it just becomes this sludge of yuck but it has an
intention of like maybe it's banishment this week and I'm like okay what am I throwing in here that's
banishing this energy or you know what am I putting in here what is the intention that I'm
releasing wichy compost is a new one for me I'll be honest but I love it
something else that um I actually just thought of that I had the idea to myself I was like oh this is what you should do
if you are a tea person MH reuse your tea leaves that you've steeped yes yes
you know like sit your tea bag back out to dry a little bit and you can use that in spellwork you know like yeah I throw
mine in simmer pots or in baths mhm I love an herbal tea and those are full of
so many good fun things that you can assign intention to you know yes or if
you buy a tea and you don't like the taste of it m yes yes yes it's not use it in simmer pots I have so many teas
that I love the smell of them but I don't like the taste of them so I'll use them in simmer Poots or I'll make poper
baskets if I have a lot of it mhm in case you're unfamiliar with with what popery is apparently I've just learned
this was a thing in the '90s not so popular now is it's basically like this a simmer
pot without the water like you just you have a bowl of stuff and it infuses the space with
smellin smells good yeah like cinnamon pine cones are a type of popery or usually like a lot of them are flavored
flavored scented artificially and give give me headaches so that's why I'm like oh I just used like tea or whatever and
in small spaces they'll Infuse but in big big spaces simmer pots are probably a better way to go it totally wasn't me
that didn't know what it was and had to off mic ask what a popery is cuz I only know what poopy
is okay if you want the Uno wild card for kitchen witchery and by that I mean
you're sitting there and you're like wow I don't have an ingredient for XYZ intention and I really need that to
finish this spell Rosemary Rosemary is your Uno Wild Card use it for whatever
intention you need we're going to give you an a wild card for most of these categories so if you if you're like I
have no herbs I have no spices I have no tea in my house go to the Dollar Tree get some Rosemary mhm it really is like
such a universal herb that has such a wide birth of intentions that you can
use it for I've said wide birth so many times is that my hyperfixation phrase mhm yeah it's a really dilated phrase
what wide birth I hate you
I hate it here I got to go you guys my mom called she said I got to be home right now next next okay so this we're
we're we're getting into the the part of the episode where there's a little bit of money required right this is like a
low cost instead of like a a zero cost situation but I want to talk about kandle magic because it is so
inexpensive so impactful and it does like I feel like often times with
witchcraft we often like sacrificing the part that kind of like looks and feels cool mhm and candle magic is such a
lowcost way to like preserve that energy which I know it is not necessary for
spell workor but it is nice right like it's nice to make something you know I I
did like a big smoke cleanse of the house the other day and I set my cauldron down on my Altar and it was like smoking and there was like a candle
going behind the smoke and it looked very aesthetically pleasing and I was like wow this is nice and I think it's
okay to like value that a little bit you know yeah yeah I'm going to say
it but your Uno wild card here is a white candle mhm any intention white
candle if you have an Ikea near you this is a life hack yes I bought a jumbo pack
of white tealight candles from Ikea when I lived in Missouri yeah yeah it has moved with me
cross country yeah to multiple apartments and now my house it's like a hundred in there more
I think and I think it was maybe $5 yeah like I think it may I have one too that
is my most budget friendly like that is the buy and bulk made of like the dreams are made of you know yeah I love
tealights too because they're for me I struggle with the the chime candles cuz
I feel like I need to babysit them yeah that's why I prefer the birthday candles hard to get
yeah but tea lights are nice cuz they only last what like an hour or two and so if I'm doing like a focus spell it's
like okay I'll focus on my emails until this candle goes out yes totally and I
want to talk a little bit about the different sizes of candles because speaking of time candles they are again
like the most costeffective they are a dollar at most metaphysical stores I
don't think I've ever seen them for more than a dollar if you do see them for more than a dollar like basic basic
colorful ones we have some metallic ones that are a little bit more expensive but like just plain one color chime candles
if you live in like a very high cost area it might be different but for the most part about a dollar maybe two mhm
they it is not about the size of the candle that is like the power of the spell in my opinion some people do this
differently but for me I choose the size of a candle on how often I want to do
that type of work yeah so I've talked about my candle that I keep by my
bedside that is for like when I'm ready to receive information through my dreams
right MH I know that I'm going to do that long term so for ease I bought a larger candle but I could buy a $1 chime
candle once a week and achieve the same results you know yeah or that 100 pack
of tealights or that 100 pack of tea lights and just I think that's one of the reasons why I love your Mercury
retrograde ritual hit is because it comes with the three T lights rather than the giant chime candle because I
just for me I just gravitate towards like shorter bursts and I know for you you gravitates more towards like one
time and then use it over and over totally interesting how we approach it differently I know and so there are like
really lowcost ways and truthfully to me like buying a larger candle is the equivalent of buying in bulk you know
because they last longer but but you're not sa it's not like you're saving a
[ __ ] ton of money by buying the larger candle and it doesn't impact the power
of your spell and so you can go to a metaphysical store and for under $10
have one of every color that's seven spells MH you know if you do one of every color of the rainbow yeah or you
could also just use whatever candles you have like they don't have to be specifically witchy chime candles or
whatever like if you have a Yankee Candle mhm look up the intentions of those fragrance notes what color is it
draw a Sigil on the container yeah if you're a person that you know that you're going to buy those scented candles no matter what like that's
something that you fit into your budget you can combine those things as well crystals okay your Uno wild card if you
can only have one Crystal if you only buy one Crystal make it a clear quartz
clear quartz amplifies any intention it also is usually pretty
inexpensive so you can get a tumble you can get a point you can get I got a bag
of like tiny little points they're like they're itty bitty I think it was like $10 for like a pound or something crazy
like that and I just reuse them over and over and over again yeah what I love about using crystals in Magic is that it
really is like a Choose Your Own Adventure of like you can find crystals for as cheap as like a dollar or two for
a tumble all the way up into like the thousands of dollars for those massive statement pieces says you know the hand
of God yeah and bigger is not always better like people always ask me what size crystal do you need it really
depends what you're using it for if you're using it for self-healing I think smaller is better because you can really
lay it on your body lay it on your third eye or on your throat and it's not going to like you know be uncomfortable in
that way or you can make a grid with them you can stick them on top of your candles you can stick a Sigil underneath
them like there's so many ways that you can use them and you can use them over and over and over and over again so if
you only have one clear quartz crystal you can do like a million different spells with that one Crystal yeah I
think that that is where I have some like room for growth because I am so
attracted to the statement pieces I think like going to the crystal shows has just ruined me where I see all these
beautiful pieces like I have this gorgeous piece of garden quartz that is
massive mhm that I don't work with ever because I can't pick it up and so its
job is to sit there and look beautiful which is what I wanted it for but I don't feel this like whenever I have a
moment where I'm like oh I would love to meditate and have something over my third eye like I don't have those things yeah that and so I'm like I need to
expand my tumble collection yeah I feel like I've gotten really good at this because I still don't have my office
built so all of my crystals that I packed up when I moved in November are still packed up so I have one clear
quartz like one clear quartz because it's my raiki training quartz and so I was like okay I need to keep this with
my raiki training stuff so I didn't pack it with the rest of my crystals and I'm like wow I've really had to do
everything with this one Crystal so Canen confirm you can do it all with one clear
quartz yep all right now to finish us out we are going to Rapid Fire through
some of the most popular intentions that you guys come to us with and we are going to give you a low cost or zero
cost way to do a spell so starting with cleansing mhm clapping there we go done
Round of Applause screaming screaming one of my favorite things to do when I'm doing a spell especially like I I did a
freezer spell the other day when I was really really pissed off and I didn't I didn't want to find like my incense or
whatever so I just screamed at all of my ingredients it was so cathartic uh music
that same those same like uh sound cleansing videos on YouTube that we were talking about like the singing
bows and things that people do on YouTube that is an excellent cleanse if you smoke anything that smoke
can be used to cleanse and a lot of times herbs you can
light in a fire safe dish for smoke cleansing so like Rosemary lavender I'll
do a cinnamon stick when I'm doing like an abundance spell to cleans yeah you can literally just light a cinnamon
stick on fire and use it like hold it like a match yeah mhm yeah or I'll go grab some pine needles throw them in my
cauldron light them up don't overthink it you don't have to buy the fancy
million dooll bundle with the Pressed flowers and the crystals embedded in it you can if you want to those are fun but
you don't have to I see them all the time and I look at them and I'm like I could never burn that like that would be decorative I know that's great like I
need things to be a little bit uglier yeah for me to set them on fire
you know another good use for your old tea leaves too oh yeah totally like get them
nice and dry MH lay mount in a paper towel set them in the sun mhm yeah yeah
then they're infused with so much extra intention because you've given them so much more of your energy yeah I was thinking too like I've seen some people
make candles inside orange peels I don't know how well that would work but that's
fun you can get creative have fun with it I'm going to try that but be safe yeah practice fire safety next
protection you you know what I'm going to say salt salt baby any kind of salt
does not matter what kind of salt could be a salted pretzel that's a protection spell could be your table salt that's a
protection spell it could be it just snowed here and so my my husband drives
a plow truck and whenever he turns his Salter on I'm like salt full protection a driveway is so protected right now mhm
yes this is a great way to incorporate sigils too what I do in the morning when
I'm getting ready is I'll spray my perfume in like a little sigil
oh or I'll put my makeup on my face I'll draw like a little sigil before I blend
it out mhm yeah I have sigils on my SPF mhm yes yeah or I'll make a soup and
when I season the soup with salt I'll stir in a Sigil with the spoon excellent
yes I do that my coffee every morning and then same the protection spell I'm doing every day wear black wearing black
mhm and if you want to incorporate those things put on your all black outfit draw a Sigil I I'll often draw it like on my
chest plate like that's where I like to if I'm like MH protecting my whole self
you know I don't as if I was only protecting half of myself if the intention is to protect me m I'll draw a
Sigil on my chest plate mhm and then put it little salt around you know have some
salt in your breakfast eat a pretzel easy peasy yeah easy peasy also if you
don't like salt say you're on a low sodium diet black pepper mhm can go in
most things yep black coffee mhm is protective black licorice I think of
milk as protective cuz it kind of like coats your throat I thought black licorice was funny yeah that's fun
that's fun I hate black licorice I think that's gross I was just thinking about that were
black all right oh boy we're losing the plot here all right abundance abundance
one of my favorite abundance spells and this is so fun because it is a standard like cheap easy meal is to eat
beans beans and legumes and rice are so good for abundance and they don't cost
lot so if you were like I I have definitely gone through stages of my life where all I could afford was beans and rice for every meal that is an
abundance spell mhm totally I also love beans as a base for a money Bowl if you
don't know what a money bowl is it's literally just a bowl like I I don't know how else to describe it it is a
vessel that holds ingredients tied to abundance yes with the intention of
attracting more abundance to you yes so it's usually a thing that will sit on your altar if you don't have an alter
I'll put it on like my work desk or you know like if you are a person that you don't want other people to see what
you've got going on you can shove it in a closet I used to keep a mini one in my laundry room and every time I found
change in the pockets I would put it in the money Bowl fun that's cute and so usually this thing will have like a base
which you can use dried beans I often use rice or salt yeah that's where I use
my bean soup mix mhm whatever you have the most of yeah I go through my pantry this is how
I clean out my pantry of like dried stuff because I'm someone that I will
buy dried beans with every good intention of like I'll put them in my crack poot I'll cook in bulk but I am a
microwave girl I'm a microwave beans girl and so this is how I use the things
that I if I have a lot of pasta I will use that oh wow yeah rice oats it's like
whatever thing I bought in bulk that I was like I have every intention of using and I don't are great for abundance so
good and then you can add just a couple other things like any looser spare change we've talked about on the podcast
before using like checks that you've already deposited you know sticking those in a money bowl and it could be
currency that isn't your own so someone asked me this the other day if they went traveling to a foreign country and they
have like money left over from that that they can't spend in their current country can they use that in a money
Bowl absolutely I have I have British pounds in mine I will often put like Monopoly money in mine uhhuh yes I love
that like a true no cost way of doing that and then also something that I really like to add is coffee and
cinnamon those are my two favorites to put in a money Bowl coffee kind of speeds things up and then cinnamon is
another great abundance ingredient that smells nice and is pretty yeah and if you're allergic to Cinnamon mint a mint
tea bag rip that open throw it in there uhhuh and I always do a crack ass salt for protection to protect my my money
mhm there's your money Bowl there's your money oh another abundance spell that is not only free but will actually make you
money mhm do your [ __ ] returns oh those things that you bought on
Amazon that you're like I'll return it later the stuff the thing you bought at Walmart that didn't fit you that you're
like oh I'll put it in the back of my car return it later do those returns that's literally an abundance
spell I do it every new moon that's my returns day is like right around the new moon
because I'm calling in abundance I'm manifesting so I do all my returns on
that day yeah and then I'm like wow I manifested $14 and then I buy myself a little treat there you go and it's a
free little treat so uhuh cuz you already spent that money mhm all right A
Little Love spell this is going to be a really easy candle spell and you can kind of apply this to anything like
whatever your intention is but I think I love a little pink chime candle I don't know what it is about it and I I think
hearts are quite easy to carve into candles if you have a chime candle and you're like trying to carve into it with a toothpick you know what I'm talking
about where your lines just go a little funky a heart is something that I can
accomplish with I would say like 75% success rate which is pretty good for me so yeah it's also Valentine's season so
there's a bunch of like heart stuff that maybe you have like you have a little heart plate or you have a little heart
wreath you could stick it around the handle you know like whatever if somebody gave you some conversation
Hearts you can sprinkle those around love conversation Hearts they're so good and for what reason for what reason
you're going to take your pink chime candle you're going to carve your little hearts or your symbols of love and then
as you light it going back to like that idea of focus chime candles will take a little bit longer but as that candle's
burning sit and meditate with the candle while thinking about like all that love
that you give to others imagine it coming back to you imagine all of that love and energy coming and encircling
you and giving yourself like that loving warm hug that you extend to others you
know like feel your own warmth this is also something that if you want to
manifest a partner this is a great time to like go through and go through your list of the type of person that I'm
manifesting has this this this they're kind they're funny they respect me they
they love my friends they have close relationships with their family they love dogs whatever it is you know those
things like creating that person in your mind's eye while that candle is burning especially after you've like brought in
that love to yourself you know creating that environment of self-love to then
manifest that partnership from to me is the way to do that I'm going to give you
a lowcost self-love spell originally I was going to say eat strawberry but conversation Hearts had me thinking
first of all what's your favorite conversation heart color pink I think why I like pink but I also like
blue but only when it's blue raspberry wait which is rare do conversation Hearts have flavors based on the color
yes I don't since when have I timeline jumped cuz if there was a blue raspberry
conversation heart I would have found it okay the blue raspberry ones are a little more rare they're harder to find
I'll let you know when I find the brand to me they just taste like sugar like they just taste like chalky sugar but
like the white ones kind of taste minty in some Brands I'm going to need a a brand breakdown from you okay when when
they hit the shell do taste test but I was going to say a great self-love spell is get yourself a box of candy hearts
you can get I just saw an eight pack for a dollar I think it was at the Dollar Tree $125 sorry at the do25
tree this is going to sound silly but while you're eating them I want you to
say the affirmation on them to yourself and [ __ ] mean it as much as you can
I'm just imagining someone going up to the mirror and saying call me to
themselves that's what makes it so fun because some of them are like love you or like you're cute and then some of
them are like you're mine or whatever be mine and like it's just silly enough
that like you're you'll do it but because your brain like doesn't really
know the difference between saying something in just and like actually telling yourself that compliment you're
going to be creating this like conditioned response where you're saying something nice to yourself and then immediately giving yourself a little
treat and so you become like pavloving yourself to be nice to yourself uh-huh totally I like that
yeah okay fine I'm in okay fine my excuse to buy candy hearts later now
that I have to do a taste test and say nice things to myself uhhuh okay finally intuition
development I think we've talked a lot about this on various podcast episodes we have a whole series on intuition
development from is it almost two years ago now if you go back the first one is anxiety versus intuition if you just
type in intuition you'll find it but that's a great place to start we give lots of lowcost no cost exercises you
can do but I also think meditation is the most powerful form of intuition development and just a reminder I got
that free 7-Day meditation challenge if you hate meditating I will change your mind I promise so you can download that
from the show notes and develop your intuition at the same time love it love it did we do it I think we did it did it
all right let us know what your favorite low or no cost uh hot tip for witchy magical
practices is and uh maybe we'll do a part two if we get too many if we get a bunch of ideas too too many ideas too
many ideas then we'll just have to I don't know throw it on the patreon all
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