Post-Solstice Renewal Magic
A Ritual of Coins, Spices, and Quiet Benediction from the Grimoire
The Solstice (Winter) is a hinge in the wheel — a holy pause. But just as sacred is the hush that follows. This liminal window — where darkness still lingers but the light begins to stretch — is ripe for the Witch’s slow magic. The kind that roots. The kind that ripens.
From our Gloam + Pestle grimoire, we offer a ritual drawn from bone and breath — to plant blessings in shadowed soil and scatter light like coins across the turning year.
Witch Prompt: Before we begin, take a moment to reflect: What lessons has the Solstice brought into your life? How do you wish to carry these insights forward?
Materials: What You’ll Need
Pennies or coins – as many as you feel called to work with. Each coin is a vessel, a blessing waiting to be shaped.
A Mason jar with lid – your spell container.
Allspice – draws luck and opens paths.
Cinnamon – calls love, fortune, and success into flame.
Ginger – protects and enlivens. A spell’s spark.
Nutmeg – for health, warmth, and prosperity.
Pine – an evergreen anchor of healing, resilience, and wealth.
✴ Witch’s Prompt: As you gather these, ask: What does each offer me? What part of me do they wake?
The Ritual: Step by Step
1. Set the Space
Choose a place that feels sacred. Your altar. A windowsill. A tree’s base. Sweep it clean, light a candle, and breathe.
Contemplative Prompt: How does this space make you feel? What elements of this place help you connect with your deeper self?
2. Name the desire-need-intention
Hold each coin. Whisper a wish, a need, a desire. Place it in the jar. Repeat until each coin is claimed with purpose.
Self-Reflection: What are the intentions you’re setting with each coin? Share a few with us, if you feel comfortable.
3. Layer the Herbs
Add each herb with reverence. Speak their virtues aloud. Let your breath charge them — cinnamon for success, ginger for courage, nutmeg for sweetness, pine for strength. See the blend as alchemy.
Guided Thought: Imagine the outcome of this spell. What changes do you see manifesting in your life?
4. Seal and Shake
Close the jar tight. Shake it once a day for three days. Let it sit in moonlight or beside flame. Whisper into it each morning.
Contemplation: During these three days of charging, what daily affirmations will you practice to reinforce your intentions?
The Completion: Giving as Spellwork
After three days, the spell shifts from holding to releasing. Return to your space and light the candle once more.
Hold the jar. Feel it warm from within.
Speak your final blessing: “By my will and love, may these blessings wander well.”
Take the coins and share them: tuck them near thresholds, leave them on benches, place them into open hands. Let them go like seeds.
✴ Reflective Prompts:
How does giving feel in your body?
Do you feel lighter? Anchored? Seen by something beyond?
Final Reflection: Magic Is Meant to Move
This ritual is not for hoarding. It’s for circulation. For ripple and return.
Magic is not always a scream. Sometimes, it’s a whisper dropped into a wishing well.
Each coin you bless carries a sliver of your hope. Each one sows possibility where someone else might least expect it.
This is the post-Solstice promise:
That what we offer returns.
That small acts are sacred.
That giving is a spell.
