Crystal Therapy

Crystals, as I have said in earlier post, are very remarkable and possess qualities that can improve health if used correctly, and I'm going to describe one way of using them correctly. Now this is a physical treatment, not a mental one. Crystal therapy involves being covered with crystals, that's just about it.
Of course, there is a bit more to it than being covered with crystals, but that's the basic idea. The crystals can help improve certain parts of the body like intestines, blood, the heart, mind, aches, draw out sickness, improve emotional status, accelerate psychic abilities, those are only a few to name. Now, first thing you need to do is buy several crystals, the more the better. Depending on your purpose, it's good to have specific crystals. this website has lots of metaphysical properties that come in handy when you are deciding which crystals to buy.http://www.beadage.net/gemstones/gemstonesA_F.shtml
Now, to purchase your crystals, it is very likely that there is some new age shop or occult store in your town which sells crystals. These stores would probably be the cheapest to find these crystals, but if you can't find them there then try some online stores focusing on wicca or witchcraft, they tend to sell crystals as well, try this website. http://www.13moons.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=187
Before you buy any crystals, a little background info is needed. First, this exercise works best if you can support your chakra. You have 7 chakras, and if you can place a stone of the right color at the point on your body coordinating with the chakra with that same color, then you'll be in great shape. Now, you don't have to do this will all of the stones, it is just good to start there and then have other stones to add extra help. Like if you were aching at your stomach you might put quartz there even though the chakra is orange, but it would be best to put an orange stone AND the quartz. that is just about it. Have fun experimenting with this, once you get the technique down, placing the crystals in new places is fun and feeling the effects is great, but don't forget to purify your crystals in salt water after every 1-3 times you use them for best results.

Why magic works

I've recently been doing some research into more old forms of witchcraft, like how ancient tribes performed it and the kind of objects they used and it made me start wondering. Part of practicing witchcraft is also learning what makes it work and why and I'm really starting to make some great connections. As we do things, often times we don't question why doing them is going to make a difference, but we need to because piecing things together forms a bigger picture and makes everything easier and more understandable.
I was talknig to somebody on a social network and they were saying that dark magic is easier to perform that good magic, and though I don't approve of it necessarily, in a way it does make sense. He said that he would use blood often as an offering to the spirits, which he didn't specify, but he said that he could feel the energy present much faster than if he was donig a ritual without blood, and I think that the reason behind this is because blood is a life force. Everything in our body is manditory in order for us to sustain life, and living we have energy and emotion, but when we're dead we are simply an inanimate object. If you use something that possibly came from a living creature, it's possible that you can manipulate it's lifeforce before it's completely drained out. A lot of ancient forms of magic called for this and if it didn't work then I don't think that they would have continued to perform the rituals that way.
Now please don't get me wrong and think I'm a bad person and I'm gonig to start performnig dark magic, I'm a good witch and I do good magic, but learning about dark magic is also important because it shows a side to witchcraft that good witches like myself haven't experienced. But, back to why I think it is harder for witches who don't practice dark magic to perform rituals succesfully, I think so because we have replaced blood and a lot of parts to a ritual with things like water, salt and other items that never contained a life force so manipulating a force that isn't there isn't possible, so most of the enrgy used comes from ourselves.
Alright, I just wanted to put some more information out there for people to read and gain a better understanding of the craft. I hope somebody somewhere does read this, but if not then I guess that information will just stay with me.

Old traditions

Sadly, a lot of traditions that started in ancient countries are starting to die out and are being replaced by new traditions, and in ways that is good but it is also a bad thing. I think that revolutionizing witchcraft is important because it's gongi to happen whether peopel like it or not, but the sad thing is that because modern day society is so close minded on witchcraft in general, a lot of traditions are either being dropped or replaced with representations. Let's face it that a lot of old cultures had magic practitioners, such as high priests/priestesses from ancient celtic lands, shamans from small villages, voodoo priests from small tribes, and a lot of them had some rather crude customs, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't learn from them and figure out WHY they did that. Back in ancient times, magic, for some people was a living and not just a practice and they used it every day and passed it on through generations, and if the traditions were passed on then there must have been some credibility to them, right?
A lot of these people used natural ingredients in spells, potions, rituals and charms. They might have used bones, venoms, blood, etc. but that doesn't mean they neccesarily went out and killed these animals or people to get these ingredients. Even if they did kill them, the ingredients must have been important for them to take measures like that and a part of magic is learning from ourselves and others, including those from ancient times because back then people's senses weren't as dilluted as now and they were more in sync with nature and the natural balance of things.
Now, remember that I'm not saying that you should go out and kill a bunch of things, DON'T do that, it's wrong. What I am saying is that we should study why magic practitioners took the actions they did in those times when performnig ceremonies or just in general life because it might support a lot of today's beleifs and fuel your understanding for how magic really works. Have fun!