Welcome to Magic School

On today’s episode of Welcome to Magic School, we’re gonna be talking about Runes for Protection Magic.

View these show notes with pictures and more at https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/episodes/protectionrunes/

My personal website: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/

In Today’s Lesson:

• What are runes? How can you use runes in magic?
• Which runes are best for protection magic? (We’ll cover three today; stay tuned for part 2!)
• Elhaz (Sometimes known as Algiz)
• elk, elk-sedge, hamsa, branches of the world tree
• protection for travelers
• protection from ancestors
• self-defense, boundary-setting
• Isa
• ice, ego
• energy shielding
• defensive mirror magic
• Thurisaz
• thurse (giant), thorn, Thor’s hammer (Mjollnir)
• destruction (can be positive or negative, offensive or defensive, can even be creative)
• What are some specific ways you can invoke or evoke the magic of these protection runes in your witchcraft practice and your day to day life?

Further Learning & Additional Resources:Recommended Runic Reading:

• Modern Runes: Discover the Magic of Casting and Divination for Everyday Life by Vervain Helsdottir https://amzn.to/3mUxYGS
• Taking Up the Runes: A Complete Guide To Using Runes In Spells, Rituals, Divination, And Magic by Diana Paxson https://amzn.to/3DCI3i8
• The Big Book of Runes and Rune Magic: How to Interpret Runes, Rune Lore, and the Art of Runecasting by Edred Thorsson https://amzn.to/3aE8kjz
• Northern Mysteries and Magick: Runes & Feminine Powers by Freya Aswynn https://amzn.to/3mNdoIm

Additional Resources:

• View the Rune Resources page on my personal website: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/resources/runes (this page will continue to be updated with more resources, including a book list and website directory, as time goes on)
• Wikipedia page for Troll Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_cross
• Tacitus’ Germania: https://www.unrv.com/tacitus/tacitusgermania.php
• Teal Swan on self-isolation: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CUelxCSFUf3/?utm_medium=copy_link

Plant Magic for Protection:

• Pick and choose your plant magic from this bundle, curated around the intention of magical protection: https://www.myyl.com/oilcoven#bwm/protection
• Essential Oil Magic: Natural Spells for the Green Witch (chapter on Protection) by Vervain Helsdottir

In today’s lesson on Welcome to Magic School, I’m going to share with you a recent experience I had, part one of which was a definitely demonic nightmare, and part two of which was a shamanic journey in which I revisited the scene of the nightmare and literally slayed the demons that came to haunt me.

I’ll be sharing about what that experience was like, how I knew the nightmare was demonic, how I prepared for my journey in the material realm, and what happened in the spiritual realm once I entered the trance state. That includes what I did to prepare myself in the spiritual realm, how Zhong Kui came to me as a helping spirit, how I determine the true nature of spiritual entities, destroy demonic entities, and what lessons I brought back for life in the material realm.

In Today’s Lesson:

1. Physical steps you can take in the material realm to prepare for a demon-slaying mission in the spiritual realm via shamanic journey;
2. Actions you can take in the spiritual realm to protect your energy and fight spiritual foes;
3. What facing demons in the spiritual realm can teach us about living our best life in the material realm.
4. Plant Magic Minute: White Angelica for Energetic & Spiritual Protection

Further Learning & Additional Resources:Check Out the Episode 02 Show Notes for general Shamanic Journeying resources. https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/episodes/02-shamanic-journeying

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Audio for Journeying:

• Shamanic Drumming audio (no guide): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivCOrc1HWxI

Enhance Your Journey:

• Book a Divinatory Coaching Session: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching
• Plant Magic for Journeying: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/shamanicjourney

Zhong Kui on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Kui

• If you do end up working with Zhong Kui, I would suggest pouring him some of your best tea (or at least very good tea) as an offering. My favorite source for farm-direct Chinese Tea is So Han Fan’s West China Tea: https://westchinatea.com/tea

Today’s Homework:

1. Subscribe, rate, & review (please)! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Welcome to Magic School can currently be reviewed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Podchaser, and Audible.

1. Embark upon a demon-slaying quest!

• Go on a shamanic journey. (See resources above for suggested audio tracks.)
• On your journey, ask your guide or guides if you have any demons plaguing you. If not, congratulations!
• Unless you’ve just had the most amazing energetic reset of your life, you probably have at least one. Ask your guides to prepare you—if they have any tools or advice to give you for fighting your demon(s). If they do, accept with gratitute; if not, you can use anything you learned in this lesson.
• Ask your guides to take you to your demons and support you in defeating them. You can use the techniques you learned in this episode, or if your guides or...

For today’s lesson on Welcome to Magic School, we’re gonna be talking about a very complex subject: I’m going to be sharing with you an introduction to Shamanic Journeying, with the caveat that what I’m sharing is from my own personal experience—I am not officially initiated in any particular shamanic tradition, but the techniques I share in this episode have worked for me and definitely belong in the category of “Witchcraft that Works,” at least in my book.

In Today’s Lesson:

1. What is Shamanism? What is Shamanic Journeying? And how does this apply to you and me?
2. What is the point of a Shamanic Journey? What are the benefits, and what are the risks?
3. How do you go on a Shamanic Journey? How do you mitigate said risks?

Further Learning & Additional Resources:

• Audio Tracks
• Shamanic Drumming audio (no guide): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivCOrc1HWxI
• “Meet Your Spirit Guide” Guided Meditation by Lilian Eden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuJM31DqAkM
• Recommended Reading:
• Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstacy by Mircea Eliade: https://amzn.to/3ANZsUd
• Spirit Walking: a Course in Shamanic Power by Evelyn Rysdyk: https://amzn.to/3EYdzc0
• Raven Kaldera’s website on Northern Tradition Shamanism: http://www.northernshamanism.org/welcome.html
• Further Listening
• The Shaman’s Cave podcast: https://shamanstv.com/
• Enhance Your Journey:
• Book a Divinatory Coaching Session: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching
• Plant Magic for Journeying: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/focuspocus/

Today’s Homework:

1. Subscribe, rate, & review (please)! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Welcome to Magic School can currently be reviewed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Podchaser, and Audible.

1. Go on a shamanic journey! (See resources above for suggested audio tracks.)
2. Record your experience and tell me how it goes!
3. Extra Credit: Share what you learned on Instagram and tag @welcometomagicschool so other witches can benefit, too!

Contact the Professor:

https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/contact

Today’s lesson on Welcome to Magic School is about crafting empowering questions for use in divination with Tarot, Oracle cards, Runes, and other divinatory methods.

In Today’s Lesson:

1. Fortune-Telling vs. Divinatory Coaching
2. Disempowering Questions vs. Empowering Questions
3. What to Do with the Answers to Empowering Questions

Further Learning & Additional Resources:

• Book a Divinatory Coaching Session: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching
• FREE Worksheet for Crafting Empowering Questions: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/free-worksheet
• Take Inspired Action with Valor & Focus Pocus: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/focuspocus/

Today’s Homework:

1. Subscribe to my newsletter to receive the FREE Worksheet for Crafting Empowering Questions.
2. Fill out the worksheet.
3. Perform a reading for yourself using the question you created with the worksheet.
4. Tell me how it goes!
5. Extra Credit: Share what you learned on Instagram and tag @welcometomagicschool so other witches can benefit, too!

Contact the Professor:

https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/contact

Welcome to Magic School!I'm your host, Vervain Helsdottir, and this is the podcast version of school orientation!

This episode is for you if you're just stumbling upon this podcast and you want to know who I am, what qualifies me to teach about magic, and why I think you might benefit from joining me on this magical journey...

OR if you've been listening for a while but you want to know a little more about where it all started.

Here's what you need to know:

• Welcome to Magic School operates on the quarter system
• Episodes are published weekly on Wednesdays when Magic School is in session (for 8 weeks every quarter)
• First quarter begins 9/22/2021
• Homework is optional but encouraged and each assignment will be reviewed at the start of the next lesson/episode.
• W2MS is episodic, not serial--some episodes do build on each other, but you do not have to listen in order.

Find me:

www.vervainandtheroses.com (subscribe to newsletter)

www.welcometomagicschool.com

IG: @welcometomagicschool (podcast) & @vervainandtheroses (personal)

My Books:

Modern Runes: Discover the Magic of Casting and Divination for Everyday Life

Essential Oil Magic: Natural Spells for the Green Witch