If only I........

Hello Everyone!

I sure hope everyone had a wonderful holiday in a round belly kinda way, and enjoyed the time they had with their families. I had a wonderful time with family and friends, would have been one hundred times better if my children were here to join us, though they did have a wonderful day and ate lots of food and told me how fun it was.

         I know those of you who like to read the things I write about may be a bit frustrated, and I have to let you all know that I am trying to get as much as I can up here for those of you who are interested. So in light of blogging for my readers, my computer has like 26 Trojans on it, and I no longer have a computer at my home until I am able to fix it, I have to use outside sources to attain computer access.

         I do thank the readers that still read and I am doing everything that I am able, in my knowledge to get back up and running. As for now a bit on the computerless side, I will try to blog after my classes where I have computer access.

         As I have stated before I will be adding new information on Witchcraft, Some more recipes for your kitchen, some useful ways to treat your cats, I bit about what I believe so my readers can understand me in a spiritual sense a bit better, and I also plan to be adding a poll for fun!.

Well I'm sorry for the technical problems regarding my blogging but things should be fixed and up and running smoothly soon, thanks for your loyalty and understanding.

~Blessed Be~

Updates

Hey everyone!

I have received some site feed back, and some request for what you would like to see.

So with that in mind I will be adding some new posts to this blog, about the origins of Wicca, Personal reviews on some good books that offer good assistance in the craft, and I may be adding a poll of some kind.

I hope you enjoy reading my site and that it helps in whatever way you may need. Please email me If you have something you want to know about Wicca, herbs, and Witchcraft and want to get answers. I will do the best I can to answer you back and add those topics into the blog so it may be useful to others.

herbalsorcoress@gmail.com

Thanks again for reading and you will be seeing those posts and updates soon

Enjoy your beautiful Sunday!

~Blessed Be~

I Can't Find This Anywhere......

I have been spending some time with my boyfriend visualizing what we would like to achieve in the future, as far as what our home would look like. Aside from thinking about how the general look would be, we want to create a room in our home just for our family, where we can gather and practice together. Our idea for creating a room all in itself, is because we have animals and yes they are loved but they also find it fun to play with things they shouldn't, and we like to leave our altar as it is set up.

 So we spent some time talking about how we would like it to look. We came up with some general ideas as far as how and where we would set our altar and place where our circle would be, and we are still looking to find things that call to us, in thinking about what I want for the room I find it fustrating to have the 4 corner candles on the table. I want to be able to place them at the corners along the circle's edge, so I really want to have  four large mystical pillars that hold my 4 corner candles and maybe the element's, so I can place them in each corner, but I can't seem to find any that are tall enough for what I like :( . So if any one has a store they can recommend that has some nice candle holder pillars email me the link! That would help us so much!

I know most witches make their own tools in most cases, understandable because any tool you put your own power into to make is going to work for you the best, so it is always a great idea to make your working tools. But on the other hand I can understand buying some thing, they may make you feel a certain way or it represents something to you or it makes your practice space decorative, whatever the reason its your practice so,

 "Do what thou wilt, with harm to none.."

If You Could Call The Future.....

Today I was thinkig about the odd ways I have helped people and I wonder if I have an ablity that I don't really know much about. OK I know that sounds totaly random but I have guided my life by how something makes me feel, for instance like when I meet new people, or what direction I may take that day, I have a hard time explaining this so I am going to tell you about what happen one day that I find myself doing alot without thinking about it.

About 5 or 6 months ago my boyfriend and I had a cupple living with us and I had just started a new job. Shortly after I started working that cupple had moved out and another person we know was in need of a home. So I went to talk to my boyfriend about it and we decided that he could stay, well he came by one night to just hang out for a while and wasn't sure if he would stay over before he moved out of his other place.  We talked about a hundred things and it was cool to have intresting conversation but he ultimatly decided to go back where he lived that night. My boyfriend and I don't really care that he wan't staying that night but I did happen to tell him right before he left that

 "If you were ment to stay the night here because of your situation, something mest up will happen when you get to the store, waiting on her"

He just kinda laughed it off and left to head for the store where his ride was to pick him up.

My boyfriend and I went about our night and I get a text about 30 minutes later from the girl picking him up,

 "He has the keys to the car!"

So I'm laughing at this point and about an hour later we have a knock on the door, he's holding the keys with a confused look on his face.

So I'm really not sure how I do this but I have done it on a lot of occasions without even thinking about it.

The Book Of Shadows

Most Witches don't have a pre-filled book of spell, for example on Charmed. Most of us have tons of note books filled with notes and scribbles where we modified our charms,spells, or rituals. The "Book of Shadows" is really just a place where you keep your thoughts and spell workings, you can even make a separate book for your herb treatments.

Now if you want, you can make a nice fancy "Book of Shadows" if you choose to. You can do that buy going through everything that you have and use a lot, then organize it to your liking. You make your cover and buy nice parchment paper and copy what you have organized onto it, or you can buy a pre-made book that you like and copy them in to that. As you grow in your spells gradually add the ones that you like to the fancy "Book of Shadows".

Over time you book will grow and become a wonderful item to pass on to your children.

Have fun with the creation process if you chose to make your own, Usually anything you make yourself hold the most power, so don't be afraid to make something!

The Best Morning Ever!

Hello everyone!

I had to come and blog about what happen to me a few days ago!

So some of you know that I work for a company called Pre-Paid Legal Services from my home, well I Begin that in 06 when I met this most wonderful person.

I have not seen her since I left that area three years ago, and I have always told her to come see me when she can get a chance. So Sunday rolls around and I wake up to a text message on my phone, and I usually don't look at them first thing when I get up. She tells me that she is about 30 minutes from my home and wants to see me!

So of course its my friend I freak out a bit and tell her how to get here, and she takes me to Starbucks so we can chat. She didn't have long to spend with me because she had some things to take care of back home in CA, but I got to talk to her about so much and It felt good to see my friend again.

She even showed me help and it lined up with when it was needed.

So call your friends and see what they are up to maybe go visit one. It made my day to hang out with her after all this time and I hope I get to see her again soon.

A Day In The Desert

The other day my boyfriend and I went out on search for some resources for medical plants that we might find in our area, I don't know how may herb dealers are around the US but finding things in nature is both fun, exciting, and a useful alternative to buying them, it also helps you understand how to identify them.

Most of the herbs that I use I do have to buy at my locale herb dealer because most of them don't grow near me and the weather is unfavorable to grow them myself, I also have a problem keeping plants in the house because I have 5 cats and one overparticular likes to uproot them and I haven't figured out a way to keep them off! If you have any handy tips that would be awesome!

Anyways so we walked for about an hour to see if we find a few that the reference said where in and around our area. We found four of them, I'm sure there is a lot more but I need a book with color photos to help ID them. We have two bushes that both look like the Mesquite so color pictures is next on my list. The Id on the Mesquite is still a bit in the dark but we did manage to successful identify 4, and one with rather nicely tasting fruit. 

The desert plants we did find, are the Cypress tree, The Desert Willow, Octillo, and The Pricly Pear.

I read up on what these plants can do and I am currently working on a tincture out of one for fungus, always handlyb  to have around the house.. lol.

  Desert plants can be used to treat a lot of problems, for instance those plant's we collected I'll go over each ones uses for now and when I get some treatment recipes made I'll add them to the blog as well for you to try.

So the First one we found was the

 Cypress Tree

This tree is a medium size ever green, the trunk is strait, and their leaves are scales.

The cones are clustered on little stalks around the circumference of the larger branches, but not out in the foliage like Juniper.

Tincture from fress twigs is effective on all skin fungus infections, including ring worm, jock itch, athletes foot,and other tineas.

you would apply this several times a day for several weeks and you can use this same procedure on your pets!

(this is the one I am currently working on)

You can also use it in tea for things like urinary tract bacteria,urethritis, and cystitis.

 Its also been used to repel insects

The next one is

The Desert Willow

I really enjoy the willow trees I think they are very pretty and my cats love to eat the leaves.

The Desert willow is a water indicate in the desert and it frequents desert washes, grasslands, and valleys.

You can use this plant for hectic coughing, on your scratches and  scrapes, anti fungus,and it can aid in the side effects of antibiotic treatments.

This was not hard to ID

Ocotillo

I call this plant the lier because when you walk up to it your first thought is don't touch me because it looks like its armored to attack you. Octillo is actually pretty soft when you have to touch it or hold it, but if you get smacked with it expect some pain. One of the cats that I have likes to play with these.

You can use this plant medical in tincture for pelvic fluid congestion, frequent need to urinate, and most hemorrhoids are helped by this plant as well.

I have to admit the

Prickly Pear

Isn't the nices looking plant and I strongly recommend protecting your hands they have needles and prickly hair all over them. This plant makes fruit that you can actually eat! I know it sounds a bit nuts, I'm from the north originally and I didn't know you could eat a Cati but you can enjoy the fruit.

When you collect these you can use the pattys medical but for just the fruit you would pick the purple pods off the top, don't just stick them in your mouth though they have hairs on them and they bite back!

Collect a few if you have never tryed them and take them home.
To eat the Pear when you get home skewer them and roast over an open flame (the pear will start to juice from what looks likes pores this indicates you got all the hairs) and cut them open remove the seeds and enjoy, they are also the most beautiful shade of pink red.
The patties you fillet and wrap around injured areas  effectively drawing out any poultices.

Though for most of these plants I would be careful and use gloves to collect them due to the desert nature of the plants. But we have a really good time find them our self and look forward to getting to know more of our native desert plants.

I'm Sorry for Not Blogging Much

Hi everyone! I have to apologise for not blogging a lot, I do try to get in as much as I can for my readers but I have been having some problems working my computer, its really old! The computer has half a gig and working the Internet is slow, my computer freezes and I am currently waiting on some ram that I ordered for my computer and it should be here so, and should fix my problem! I hope things are well for everyone and your days have been blessed and I will be posting more often on this page. I plan to put up some information on some newer plants that I have found to be useful but also not what you would typically find and most areas of the US. I also plan to put up some information regarding Wiccan holidays and add some more ways you can use herbs at home. Thank you for reading and please feel free to send me an email and tell me what topic that you want more information on!

Blessed Be