My Cousins Coven

Transformation of matter and self—symbolic, spiritual, and sometimes laboratory-based.

Honoring ancestors for guidance, protection, and cultural continuity.

Wards off harmful forces using symbols, gestures, or protective charms.

Projecting consciousness beyond the body to explore subtle planes.

Using planetary cycles and celestial placements for timing and alignment.

Driving away unwanted energies or entities to clear and secure space.

Restricts harmful influence or action; often protective via knots or stand-ins.

Color, flame, scent, and timing focus intent; burn to charge and release.

Formal systems with set rites, texts, and correspondences.

Results-oriented approach treating beliefs as tools; paradigm flexible.

Purifying and dedicating an object or space for sacred, intentional use.

Things once in contact remain linked; influence travels through the link.

Directed harm or misfortune—ethically debated; uses symbolic or direct means.

Insight via symbolic systems—tarot, runes, astrology, scrying.

Using dreams for divination, spirit contact, or problem-solving.

Working with earth, air, fire, water, and spirit as forces/archetypes.

Imbuing objects or places with power for a specific purpose.

Calling a spirit/entity to appear externally for aid or communication.

Everyday household magic—charms, remedies, weather signs.

Altering perception to enhance presence or redirect attention.

Restoring balance and vitality via herbs, energy work, and spiritual aid.

Cultivating and blending botanicals—teas, oils, powders—for magic and remedy.

Calling a deity/spirit/aspect into oneself or the ritual space.

Tying and weaving intent into cords; storing or releasing with knots.

Focusing intention (visualization, affirmations) to shape outcomes.

Acting as intermediary for spirits via trance or clairaudience.

Working with the dead—from ancestor contact to summoning.

Binding promises with magical force; breaking them has consequences.

Gifts to spirits/deities—food, drink, incense, or service—as reciprocity.

Guided visualization/journeying in symbolic or spiritual landscapes.

Direct communication with deities, spirits, or higher powers.

Shields, wards, talismans, and charms to safeguard people and places.

Aiding the dead’s passage; cleansing hauntings; settling restless places.

Creating and charging runes, seals, or sigils to achieve results.

Crystal, mirror, flame, or water gazing to receive symbols and visions.

Working with lunar phases, solstices, equinoxes, and festivals.

Creating task-focused constructs (egregores/servitors) from thought and will.

Calling an entity into presence for aid; set boundaries and protections.

“Like affects like”—working on a representation to affect the original.

Consecrated objects carried or worn as ongoing vessels of intent.

Adopting other forms/traits symbolically (or, in lore, astrally/physically).

Breath, rhythm, chant, and movement to enter altered, ecstatic states.

Influencing conditions—calling rain, calming storms—tied to land and season.

Ethical gathering and relationship-based use of natural materials—plants, stones, and waters—for magical work.