Llewellyn's 2012 Witches' Companion by Llewellyn

Author:Llewellyn [Llewellyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: annuals, wicca, witchcraft, annual, rituals, witch, sabbats, almanac, paganism, spells, pagan, 2012
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2011-08-01T06:00:00+00:00

Another thing to consider is your skill level. Can you sew? If you can, then maybe you can make your own cloak, and save yourself the price (often quite high) of one purchased from a catalog or at a faire. Can you build an altar, carve an athame from wood, or make your own candles? You can save a lot of money making things yourself, if you have the time and the necessary skills. And sometimes you can swap your talents for those you don’t have. The members of my coven, Blue Moon Circle, have a wide variety of skill sets, and we often take turns either creating items for the group or teaching the other members how to do so themselves.

Again, you need to balance the time and energy it takes to make less expensive alternatives at home with the money you will save by doing so. Only you can decide which is in more plentiful supply: money or time.

The reason you set priorities before setting out to practice witchcraft on a shoestring is simple—it is the only way to figure out where you want to put your hard-earned money. But even when you choose what you need to have for your practice, you can look for ways to get these things as cheaply as possible.

Inexpensive Substitutes

Witchcraft is based, in great part, on our own instincts and on general principles of magick. We use tools and correspondences to focus our Will more strongly, for instance, but that doesn’t mean we are limited to using specific items, even when they are called for in a spell.

Say, for instance, that you are doing a love spell you found in a book, and the spell calls for a large pink candle, a cup of rose petals, and an amethyst crystal. And let’s assume, just for the moment, that you don’t happen to have any of those things. Ouch. I can hear your wallet screaming from here.

Instead of running out to the nearest New Age shop to buy all those supplies, let’s look at the intention behind each one. All those items are associated with love magick. But there are other ways to use these same tools, without spending a lot of money.

You could use that white candle you already have, and tie a pink ribbon or piece of string around it. If the ribbon is wide enough, you could even write the spell on it. Instead of the cup of rose petals, you could use a single rose (if you grow roses, then it would be free, of course, but even at the store a single rose doesn’t cost much), or a few petals left over from the last time you needed one, or even a picture of a rose. And instead of the amethyst crystal, you might use a small tumbled piece (much cheaper), or even a rose quartz crystal, which is also associated with love magick and tends to be much cheaper.

There are many other ways to substitute inexpensive alternatives for more expensive supplies.

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