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Magickal Manicures: Incorporating Witchcraft into Nail Art

Witchy nails? Yes, please! Add some magic into yout manicure routine with Emma’s top tips.

Magickal Manicures

Manicures have long been a way to express personal style and creativity, but they can also be a powerful tool for manifesting intentions and channeling magical energy. My belief is that if it’s something that you enjoy and take pride in, that it’s something that you can utilse to empower yourself spiritually. Things such as music, cooking, dancing, driving, art, fashion, interiors… can all be used as part of your daily spiritual practice. By incorporating symbols, sigils, and specific colors into your nail art, you can transform your manicure into a spell on your fingertips. Whether you’re a seasoned witch or new to the craft, here are some enchanting ideas to make your manicures more magical.

Person painting nails pink base colour with red hearts

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1. Choosing the Right Colors

Colours carry potent energies and vibrations that can influence your mood and intentions. When selecting nail polish colors for a magical manicure, consider the following associations:

  • Red: Passion, energy, courage, strength, and love.
  • Pink: Romance, friendship, compassion, and self-love.
  • Orange: Creativity, enthusiasm, success, and joy.
  • Yellow: Happiness, clarity, intellect, and communication.
  • Green: Growth, abundance, healing, and balance.
  • Blue: Calm, wisdom, protection, and intuition.
  • Purple: Spirituality, psychic abilities, mystery, and transformation.
  • Black: Protection, grounding, banishing negativity, and introspection.
  • White: Purity, peace, truth, and new beginnings.
  • Gold/Silver: Wealth, success, and lunar/solar energy.

Also don’t forget to have fun! You can mix and match any colours you want, this is your expression.

Witch themed nail art with purple night sky, yellow moon and black cat

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2. Incorporating Symbols

Symbols are powerful tools in witchcraft, representing various aspects of life and the universe. Adding these to your nail art can enhance your intentions. Here are some common symbols and their meanings:

  • Pentacle: Protection, balance, and harmony.
  • Triquetra: The triple goddess, eternity, and the threefold nature of life.
  • Ankh: Life, immortality, and the divine feminine.
  • Moon Phases: Different phases for different intentions (new moon for beginnings, full moon for completion, etc.).
  • Runes: Each rune has its own meaning, from protection (Algiz) to joy (Wunjo).
  • Stars: Your horoscope or favourite constellation for example. 
  • Wheel – Hekate and the wheel of fortune

To incorporate symbols into your nail art, you can use nail stickers, stamping plates, or freehand painting. Choose symbols that resonate with your current intentions and goals.

Historical text about sigils

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3. Creating and Using Sigils

Sigils are personalised symbols created to represent specific desires or intentions. They are incredibly versatile and can be incorporated into nail art for a bespoke magical boost.

How to Create a Sigil:

  1. Write down your intention in a clear, positive statement (e.g., “I am confident”).
  2. Remove any repeating letters and vowels (leaving you with “MCFDNT”).
  3. Combine the remaining letters into a unique symbol.
  4. Charge the sigil with your intention by focusing on it and visualizing your desire coming true.

Once your sigil is created, you can paint it onto your nails. You can keep it simple with a single nail featuring the sigil, or repeat the design across multiple nails for added power.

Hand with black nail polish with gold, green and silver holding bottle with label saying 'The Killing Moon'

“The Killing Moon” by Lelê Breveglieri is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

4. Enchanting Your Nail Tools and Polishes

Before starting your manicure, take a moment to cleanse and charge your nail tools and polishes. Here’s how:

  • Cleansing: Use smoke, or incense to cleanse your tools of any lingering energies.
  • Charging: Hold your tools and polishes in your hands, close your eyes, and visualise them being filled with your desired energy. You can also place them under the moonlight or sunlight to absorb lunar or solar energy.

5. Infusing Oils and Lotions

Anointing your nails and cuticles with charged oils or lotions can add an extra layer of magic to your manicure. Choose oils that correspond to your intentions:

  • Lavender: Calm and relaxation.
  • Rose: Love and beauty.
  • Peppermint: Energy and clarity.
  • Citrus Oils: Joy and positivity.

As you massage the oil or lotion into your nails, visualize your intentions being absorbed into your body.

Halloween nail art, orange, black and white nail polish with bat and pumpkins

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6. Using Crystals

Crystals can amplify the energy of your manicure. Here are some ways to incorporate them:

  • Gemstone Nail Art: Use small crystals or gemstones as accents on your nails. Clear quartz, amethyst, and rose quartz are popular choices.
  • Crystal-Infused Polishes: Some nail polishes are infused with crystal energy. Look for these special polishes or make your own by placing a small, cleansed crystal in the bottle.
  • Crystal Charging: Hold your hands over a crystal grid while focusing on your intentions, allowing the crystals to amplify your desires.

7. Meditative Manicures

Transform your manicure routine into a meditative practice. As you paint your nails, focus on your breathing and visualize your intentions with each brushstroke. This mindfulness can enhance the magical energy of your manicure.

Star wars themed nail art with stars, light sabre and darth vader

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8. Seasonal and Lunar Alignments

Align your manicures with the seasons or lunar phases for added potency. For example:

  • Spring: Focus on growth and renewal with pastel colors and floral designs.
  • Summer: Embrace vitality and abundance with bright, bold colors and sun symbols.
  • Autumn: Reflect on balance and gratitude with earthy tones and leaf motifs.
  • Winter: Invoke introspection and protection with dark, rich colors and snowflake designs.

Similarly, align your manicures with the lunar phases:

  • New Moon: Set new intentions and use colors like white or silver.
  • Waxing Moon: Focus on growth and use colors like green or blue.
  • Full Moon: Manifest and celebrate with gold or silver.
  • Waning Moon: Release and banish with black or dark purple.
Red haired with performing ritual in forest with black nail polish

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9. Ritual Manicures

Create a full ritual around your manicure for a deeply immersive magical experience:

  1. Set the Scene: Light candles, burn incense, and play soothing music.
  2. Cleanse: Start with a cleansing hand soak in salt water or a herbal infusion.
  3. Intention Setting: Before starting, take a moment to meditate and clearly set your intentions for the manicure.
  4. Nail Art: Apply your chosen colors, symbols, or sigils with focused intention.
  5. Final Blessing: Once your nails are dry, hold your hands over your heart and visualize your intentions being empowered.

By infusing your manicure routine with these magical practices, you not only enhance your personal style but also harness the power of witchcraft in your everyday life. Whether it’s through color magic, symbols, sigils, or crystals, each element adds a layer of intention and energy, making your manicure truly spellbinding. Happy enchanting!

Do you pratice magickal manicures in your beauty routine? If so let me know below as I love to hear more witchy beauty and lifestyle tips, so why not follow me on social media? 

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Until Next time! 

Love Ems x X

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Kitchen Witchery: Magickal Camembert Cheese Ritual:

Emma shares a camembert spell which encourages love, wealth and abundance to flow towards you. She also explores how witches use cheese in Witchcraft, nice!

I recently shared a recipe over on my Tiktok that caused a bit of a sensation so I thought it best that I store it here for everyone’s reference. 

I love to have fun with my witchcraft practice, especially when in the kitchen, this is where you can be whimsical and spiritual at the same time and there is just something so wholesome about it all. So I like to bring a bit of magick into my everyday meals, and here is one of my favourites using magickal herbs and  

Camembert…OMFG…CHEEZE. 

Here is the Tiktok Video for reference (why not give me a wee follow whilst you are on there, huh?) 

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I love making magick in the kitchen and this is a spell I made myself to help empower me to focus on my future goals, get rid of negative energy and welcome in the love & light. ✨Let me know if you wish to know more of my magickal recipes ✨ Do you like to make magicak recipies? If so let me as id love to try them ✨💕 as always check out digital-coven.com for more witch tips, spells, magickal recipes and tarot chat! #witchtok #spells #spellwork #digitalcoven #digitalcovenuk #witchcraft #magickrecipe #ukwitches

♬ Elevator Music – Bohoman

The Spells Intentions: 

I wanted a spell that would pay homage to energies that I was working with to help encourage love, wealth and abundance to flow towards me. I love to do these hearthy spells regularly as they help me cleanse negative energies away but also helps me bring positive good energy in…and I get to eat delicious food, so yey! 

  • So when constructing the recipe I pulled from what I want I want to achieve 
  • I set my intentions and wrote them down 
  • I wrote my recipe based on my intentions e.g Herbs that bring wealth..
  • I started to make the recipe at the perfect time of day – in this case in the evening when I usually do larger spells (I just love to work at night, you know?) 

Anyway here she is the recipe in all her glory: 

Image Link My Tiktok: 

Abundance, Love & Wealth  Camembert Ritual Recipe

Ingredients: 

  • Camembert  Cheese – Represents Hecate and the Moon
  • Honey – To sweeten the spell and attract abundance and promote good health. Brings forward property and community 
  • Sea Salt – Promotes protection, cleansing & purity 
  • Cracked Black Pepper – Wards off negative energy and blackages, brings forth psychic connection 
  • Chilli – Energise the spell, adds passion and brings good health 
  • Garlic – Represents Hecate, good health  fortune 
  • Rosemary – Protection, cleanings, love, abundance & safe home 
  • Olive Oil – Healing, cleansing, protection and spiritual binding 

The Process: 

  • Cut into the top of the cheese and stuff into the slices the garlic, chilli and the rosemary 
  • Make sure to visualise your intention when bringing your ingredients together. 
  • Grate the salt and pepper and squeeze on the honey, drizzle the oil and visusalise your intent (you can even recite a little chant if you’ve wrote one)
  • Cook in the oven for 15 – 20 minutes until gooey and soft ( I heat everything at 200C)
  • Consume with pleasure and visualising your good intentions entering in ❤

[Bonus] If you really want to take the spell to the next level, why not make your own magickal bread to eat with it? (Recipes soon!) 

“Camembert gratiné” by Ludovic Péron is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Setting your Spell Intentions: 

Here are some ways that you can supercharge your spell. 

  • Personalise: Please note that this is a guide and all spells are personal to you so can and change ingredients to help with the intentions of a spell – add some basil for money if you spell is more focused on abundance or love etc 
  • Carving symbols and numbers -research sigils, runes and symbology
  • Perform the spell work at specific times, dates and moon phases to further empower the spell – just research what works best for what you are trying to manifest. 
  • Listen write a chant or listen to music that channels the energy of your intentions as you are cooking – literally get into the zone etc. 

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Ways that Witches use Cheese in Witchcraft 

As you know I am all about educating when it comes to witchcraft but I also really love talking about cheese … .so here are some ways that witches can use cheese in their Witchcraft. 

In witchcraft, various ingredients, including cheese, can be used in spells and rituals based on their magical properties and symbolism. While cheese may not be as commonly discussed as some other ingredients, it can be employed in witchcraft in several ways:

  • Offerings to Deities: In some pagan or deity-specific practices, cheese may be offered as a gift to certain gods or goddesses. The choice of cheese can vary depending on the deity’s associations or preferences.
  • Kitchen Witchcraft: Kitchen witches often work with ingredients readily available in the kitchen, including cheese. Depending on the type of cheese and its attributes, it can be incorporated into spells or rituals. For example, cheddar cheese might be used for prosperity or yellow cheese for happiness.
  • Binding Spells: Cheese, particularly soft and moldable varieties like Brie or  

Camembert, can be used in binding spells. You might symbolically bind two individuals or energies together, perhaps in a spell to promote unity or strengthen a relationship.

  • Divination: In some divination practices, cheese can be used as a tool for scrying or interpretation. The patterns or holes in certain types of cheese may be interpreted symbolically.
  • Feast Celebrations: Cheese can be included in celebrations, feasts, or Sabbat rituals as an offering or as part of a larger ritual meal. For example, it could be offered during a harvest festival to honour the abundance of the season.
  • Symbolism: The type and colour of the cheese can be chosen for its symbolism in a particular spell. White cheese may represent purity, while blue cheese may symbolise transformation or change.
  • Altar Decorations: Cheese can be used as an altar decoration to represent the earth element. You might place cheese, along with other food items, on your altar to honour the harvest, fertility, or abundance.

“Cheese Magic” by Esperluette is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

When using cheese or any other ingredient in witchcraft, it’s essential to consider the magical properties and symbolism associated with that ingredient. Also, personal intent and intuition play a significant role in crafting effective spells and rituals. As with any magical practice, it’s essential to respect the beliefs and traditions of your own path and those of others.

So have I inspired you to go and get your cook in the kitchen and work some magick? Or do you have a recipe or a ritual that you want to share with us? If so let us know below in the comment or via our social channels as we love to hear from you. 

If you wish to send us an email please pop us an email via our contact us page ❤ 

Until next time, darlings! 

Love, Ems 

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How to make Moon Water 

UK Tarot Reader and Witch Emma teaches us about the enchanting world of Moon water and the ways it supercharges your witchcraft.

The New Moon is in Virgo on the 15th September so I thought it would be timely to learn more about the enchanting world of Moon water and the ways it supercharges your witchcraft. Whether you’re a seasoned witch or just dipping your toes into the magical waters, harnessing the power of the Moon and its cycles can add a celestial touch to your craft. Plus….it’s really bloody fun. Who doesn’t like making a lil ceremony out of things, huh? 

Today, we’re gonna dive into the process of making Moon water during the new Moon and explore the ways you can use this elixir in your spells and rituals.

Making Moon Water: 

How to make Moon water from your very own home is simple, just follow the below instructions. 

What you will need to make moon water:

  • A clean glass or crystal container – preferably with a lid
  • Pure, clean water – spring or filtered works best and tap is fine
  • A quiet, sacred space under the night sky – if you don’t have access to any outdoor space then a shelf or window sill works. 
  • Patience and intent – Make sure you know what your New Moon intentions are before you begin the Moon Water process. 

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How to make Moon Water: 

Now you have everything that you need please follow these next steps to make your New Moon Water. 

  • Choose Your Moon Water  Container: Select a clear, glass or crystal container for your Moon water. The container should be clean and free from any contaminants especially if you plan to drink the water. If you can only get clear plastic etc that is fine. 
  • Setting the Stage: Find a quiet, sacred space outdoors where you can place your container. The new Moon phase is the ideal time to connect with the Moon’s energy, as it represents new beginnings and fresh intentions.If you don’t have access to outside space then you can store your Moon water on a shelf or window sill so it can bask in the Moonlight.
  • Fill Your Container: Pour your chosen water into the container and make sure that it is sealed tight so no little nasties get in there! [Optional] You can also add herbs and other ingredients to help flavour the water and/or build the intent.
  • Select Your Crystal [optional]: Placing a crystal by your water can infuse it with additional energy. Quartz crystals are versatile and work well for most intentions, but you can choose one that resonates with your specific goal. PLEASE NOTE: Putting crystals in the water is risky so please don’t do this or check with an expert before you do if you plan to consume the water.
  • Set Your Intentions: As you place your container in the Moonlight, focus on your intentions for this Moon water. What do you want to manifest in your life? Visualise this goal and set the water with your intent/manifestation. [Optional] You can write down on a piece of paper your goals and leave by the Moon water to set your intent and/or you can read aloud your intentions when placing your water in it’s charging location. I like to use music to get me into the magickal head space as well.
  • Leave It to Charge: Leave the container under the Moonlight for the entire night, ideally from the moment the new Moon is visible until dawn. We all have different life and sleep patterns so these times may vary.
  • Retrieve Your Moon Water: When you wake up, collect your container. Your Moon water is now charged with the energy of the new Moon and your intentions. 

Now,  it’s time to use that Moon water to make some magick and there are plenty of ways to use Moon water in your practice. 

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The Witchy Uses of Moon Water

Now that you’ve crafted yourself some snazzy lil’  Moon water, let’s explore the fascinating ways you can integrate it into your witchcraft. We’ll go more in depth into these ways in further posts but for a general idea: 

 Spellwork and Rituals: Moon water is a versatile ingredient in spellcasting. Use it to consecrate tools, anoint candles, or enhance the potency of your spells.

 Cleansing and Purification: Sprinkle Moon water around your home to cleanse and purify the energy. You can also add a few drops to your bath for a spiritually refreshing experience.

Housework: If you really want to go all the way when it comes to purification and cleansing your space, you can even use Moon water in your housework and daily chores. Adding Moon water to a mix of water and salt is a fabulous cleanser for your floor. Mirror magic? Mixing Moon water with salt and vinegar is great for cleaning your mirrors which capture a lot of energy and can be powerful tools for spell work.

You could even use a larger container especially for the storaging of Moon water for use in cleansing your home throughout the cycle. Now, that is dedication!

Divination Enhancer: Dab Moon water on your third eye (forehead) before a tarot reading or scrying session to enhance your intuitive abilities. You could also do this before bed to encourage psychic dreams. 

Meditation Aid: Sip a small amount of Moon water before meditation or bedtime  to help you connect with your inner self and the lunar energies.

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Dream Magic: Place a glass of Moon water on your nightstand to encourage lucid and vivid dreaming. Some witches believe it aids in dream interpretation. Putting Moon water on your pulse points before bed can also encourage intuitive dreams. 

Charging Crystals and Talismans: Use Moon water to cleanse and charge your crystals and talismans, amplifying their metaphysical properties.

 Anointing Tools: Dip your wand, or other magical tools in Moon water to enhance their magical potency. Also great for jewellery and other magical apprael. 

Blessing and Protection: Create a protective circle by sprinkling Moon water around your sacred space before rituals or spellcasting.

Beauty and Self-Care: Incorporate moon water into your skincare routine to promote clear, radiant skin and a sense of inner and outer beauty. You can even use Moon water in the bath and wash your face and hair with that extra magical touch. Just make sure to visualise what you are manifesting as you do.

 Manifestation: Use Moon water to water plants, symbolizing the nurturing of your intentions and goals (more on this later in the month!). You can also drink it as you visualise your manifestation goals 

Cooking and Kitchen Witchery – Using Moon water as an ingredient and to boil things such as tea or pasta helps adds a little extra magic into your meals. You can also use a few drops within stocks to freeze and spread the intention through the Month. Nice! 

More Magical recipes here. 

Crafting Moon water during the new Moon and infusing it with your intentions is a delightful way to tap into the Moon’s magical energy. It’s certainly one of the simplest ways to get into practicing monthly rituals and is for beginner witches.  Whether you’re using it in spellwork, cleansing, or self-care, the possibilities for its uses can be tailored to your practice! So, grab your crystals, set your intentions, and let the magic of Moon water help energenise your magic and manifestations 🌙🔮✨

“Super Moon Over Water by Beach” by PictureKat is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

When is the next New Moon? 

The next New Moon is 15th September 2023 and will be in Virgo. This is the best time to set your intentions due to it being the last New Moon before Eclipse Season kick starts from 14th October. Eclipses can be chaotic so I don’t personally manifest during time (I learn from my mistakes!) so I use this time to plant the seeds and build the foundations of what I am manifesting before taking a lil break until after eclipse season ends on the 28th Oct. 

The remaining New Moons for 2023 are: 

14th October 2023

  • New Moon – New Hunter’s Moon

13th November 2023 

  • New Moon – New Beaver Moon

12th December 2023 

  • New Moon – New Cold Moon

Have I  inspired you to make moon water or use it in a different way? I hope so and as always we’d love to hear here from you at Digital Coven HQ so let us know in the below comments or via socials. 

Enquiries? We’ve created this magick little contact form here for enquires and questions.

Until Next time, 

Love, Emma 

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