🎃🔥October Magic Tips🔥🎃

thewitchofthenorse:

🌰Produce In Season🌰
apples, beetroot, black cabbage, butternut squash, chestnuts, cod, crabs, fennel, figs, halibut, leeks, mussels, onions, parsnips, plums, pumpkins, squashes, sea bass, red kale, spinach, sweet corn, turnips, thyme

🍄Wild Foods In Season🍄
beech nuts, blackberry, chickweed, crab apples, elderberries, hare, hazelnut, hawthorn berries, juniper, mallard, sweet chestnut, rowan, rose hips, wild mushrooms, wet walnuts, wood pigeon

🦇October Correspondences🦇

• Samhain (October 31st) you can decorate your altar with apple, pumpkins, squashes, crows, photos/items of the deceased, bones, dried flowers/herbs
• The full moon is on the 5th and traditionally known as the Hunter’s Moon or Blood Moon. We’ll be seeing it as the Harvest Moon this year(2017).
• Yew is the symbolic tree, marigold and red roses are the symbolic flower, rosemary, thyme, and sage are the herbs.
• Colors are black, red, and orange.
• October is a month to focus on death and rebirth; personal transformation, seeking wisdom, and a time when the veil between worlds in thinnest.

🔮Witchy Ways To Celebrate October🔮

• Connect with your ancestors or deceased loved ones; meditate on how they lived and how you can honor them. You can also try reaching out through a spirit board, pendulum, etc.!
• Did you know gods of death love apples? But seriously, if you have a deity of the dead take this time to leave them an offering and show your respects.
• Cooking! You can cook a favorite meal of a departed loved one, a favorite meal of your deity(if you have one), or just to celebrate the beginning of a new you!
• This is a great time to practice divination and it doesn’t really matter which type but try recording your results!
• Decorate your home or altar with all things spooky! You can hang garlands of sage and dried apples or decorate your altar with the colors and plants mentioned earlier. You do you, this is a great time to honor the dead but also to honor yourself and the start of a new year. 
• Celebrate the death and rebirth of the earth by setting goals for yourself, letting go of old negative ways, and starting a new.