Okay. Hi, I'm Olivia, I'm The Witch of Wonderlust here on YouTube and on Instagram, and
we're talking about bath and shower magic today. Tt's gonna be a quick video - where'd my tea go?
There it is - it's gonna be a super quick video because there's not a whole lot to cover...
it's more so a lot of basics and many ideas that you can definitely just work off of - yeah that
made sense. Okay, grab some tea. Today I am drinking just this generic rose green tea...
yeah I just got it at my local Asian food market, so if i can find it i will link it.
It's really hot. Bath and shower magic - where do I even start? It's super great for beginners
or people who have super busy schedules; you're just incorporating your practice into something
that you already do that and it's great for beginners people who aren't really open about
their practice. Being that you are - I'm assuming - alone in the bathroom when you're taking a bath
or a shower.. most of the time - I don't know your life. Of course in the mundane world,
showers and baths can be cleansing and relaxing, so you can use that in your craft to both meditate
and cleanse yourself. Starting off super simple, super basic, visualizing just yourself being
cleansed in the shower or in the bathtub, coming off of you kind of like soap suds would and down
to the drain. Actually, one of my moderators on the Wonderlust discord server gave me this really
good tip that I love: he visualizes the body being a river, and all of the leaves and twigs being
being brushed away - brushed away? Being flowed,
carried away by the current. That's it. So feel free to use that or you can
use just your regular body soap and suds it up and visualize that body soap kind of absorbing all of
the things that you don't need anymore and washing that off and down the drain. Before we continue,
I'm going to give you a quick disclaimer: I'm going to talk about adding herbs into
things, like bath salts many of you have made your own bath salts, even just as like a DIY craft
but please, please, PLEASE be careful of the herbs that you're using. So say if you're using
lavender flowers or rose petals, you don't want to be using the things that are from
just the grocery store or the florist, you want to be using the food grade rose petals, the organic
type the ones that aren't sprayed with pesticides. You don't want to be using that on your body
just be mindful, be very careful, and also keep in mind that a little goes a long way. Same thing
with crystals, I'm just going to flat out advise that you just don't put your crystals in a bathtub
with you, that you just don't put them in water with you. You want to be very, very, very careful
and very sure that the whatever you're using is safe. I am not a avid crystal user, so I'm not
the person to advise which crystals to and to not use, so I'm just flat out saying maybe just don't
put them in the bathtub with you. The only reason I'm saying that, is because there are crystals,
such as selenite, that are water soluble, meaning that they will dissolve in water - that's not safe
for you, especially if you're bathing in it! As well as other crystals, these minerals can be
very, very toxic so please I stress just know what you're working with, be very careful, and if you
have a smidgen of doubt in your mind - just don't use it it's it's not worth it. Just trust me.
Anyway, moving on. Now that we have that out of the way what can you use in bath and shower magic
pretty much everything you already use. So this means soaps, shampoos, body washes, bubble baths,
epsom salts, bath salts, things like that. Bath teas - those are witchy. You can also make them as
elaborate or as simple as you wish it's totally up to you or what you're feeling. Most of the
time this type of application is used when you are doing things such as cleansing, obviously,
protection, or drawing magic, so you can get pretty creative, but the biggest types that
I personally will use bath magic or shower magic for are cleansing, anything uncrossing anything,
the physical body, and you can also reach that out into the spiritual body as well
things like protections, you are bathing in protective herbs so then you are coating yourself
and your spiritual self and your energy field in protective energy and of course,
drawing. So this will work into a little bit of the glamour magic - and we'll talk a little bit
about that here but we'll talk about glamours themselves in a different video. You can use
any safe herbs to bathe in to draw things such as love, luck, or money. So basically
think of bath magic and shower magic as you ARE the tool, you ARE the crystal, you ARE
whatever you're using in your craft. Cleansing, protecting, and or charging YOU. So that is what
that's kind of how I view it because it's a little easier so here are some ideas to get you started.
If you have a bathtub, then obviously you're set to go. You can do things like magical baths,
now personally as much as I absolutely love the aesthetic of the flowers and the herbs floating
around in the bath it is a b!tch to clean up. So I suggest one of two things: one you can either get
yourself some reusable muslin tea bags and make sure they're a little bigger than usual tea bags:
I would say like instead of something like this big, maybe something like that big?
And you can use it as a little scrubby and scrub your whole body with it, as well and
once you're done you can just hand wash it. You can toss away the herbs or bury them or whatever
you wish to do, and then just hand wash the muslin bag, and reuse it for next time,
or you can get one of those like strainer things - they're like, little mini drain strainers,
and just set it at the drain. I'm sure you can get them online somewhere. I've seen them in stores,
but they're just little drain strainers that you put in the drain and as your bathtub drains,
everything gets caught and you can just pick it up and toss the herbs. So I suggest those,
because you really don't want to be clogging your drain. Bath salts, again store-bought are fine,
but if you want to make your own there are plenty of tutorials and plenty of
blog posts on different recipes on how to make them. Just look up the correspondences of whatever
they're using in their recipes, and you can easily find what's compatible to your intentions. Bubble
baths - there are plenty of bubble baths that are infused with different herbs or different smells,
and the ones that you can just buy at a corner store such as Walgreens or CVS:
there's of course lavender, there's mint and eucalyptus, there's vanilla,
I've even seen charcoal, and plenty of other things. So you can use those for plenty of
different uses and intentions. Personally I love using soap bars. My favorite soap bars so far,
are from Ojai Botanika, she's wonderful, and I love the scents that she uses, and also you can
just tell that she put so much time and effort into making these bars of soaps. So much love
and so much artistic attention to detail - or if you remember, Aly, The Bronx Witch; she has a shop
where she makes her own magical soaps. I have both her money drawing and her protection, so both are
wonderful, both smell great. and she gives little instructions on how to best use those soaps. I'll
link those down below. The great thing about bar soaps, is you can carve sigils into them, so you
can charge the soap that way as well, and again if that's not something that you want to buy online,
you can also just go to your corner store and get a bar of soap that you like and think
smell good and carve some sigils into it and charge it yourself. And lastly for your shower
you can do DIY shower melts, if you don't know what those are, they're kind of like these little
square... circle things - square-circles? No - they're square OR circle, or whatever shape
you want to make them, and they're basically just these little tablets that you put on the floor of
your shower when you're showering, and the steam and the heat, allows the steam to rise and it
smells nice and you can add different properties to it. Again there are so many different
youtube tutorials and blog posts that you can find on pinterest for different recipes and
different ingredients and things like that, so just type in "DIY shower melts" and you should
be set to go. And at the end of the day, if you don't want to do all of those things,
taking a shower or taking a bath, especially, are great times to meditate and practice that,
whether that takes you two minutes or ten minutes. Or if you're one of those really long
shower takers, to practice on your meditation. Bath/shower magic super easy, super simple. So
super quick video this time, but believe me this is a game changer for those of you who
either are just beginning to practice, those of you who have busy schedules,
or the people who are keeping their practice kind of on the DL, you can get really creative and this
can be as simple or as elaborate as you wish. Depending on if you're doing a daily practice,
or doing an elaborate new moon or full moon bath, or something for a holiday,
I would love to know if you use bath or shower magic, if you have anything that I didn't mention
here, or any ideas or even questions: just leave them down in the comments below. This community
is super helpful and will probably help you out, but if you want to talk more with this community
more directly, I suppose, there is a discord link for two different discords down below, so
go ahead and check those out. Everybody's super nice and welcoming there and it's
pretty active and you can always make new friends and ask questions as well.
We also get some really good ideas from each other, so that's cool and... what
else? Oh! There's a hashtag.We have a hashtag. We've HAD a hashtag, for a long time it's:
#wonderlustcoven - with an 'o' not an 'a.' It's just #wonderlustcoven, not #thewonderlustcoven.
I mean you can, but I don't check that one. Wonderlust coven with an 'o' right here,
uh so if you want to do that, I follow that hashtag as well, and and i like to add some of the
little things that you all post on that hashtag, at the end of some of my videos, because it's
just kind of cool to see what you folks are up to. So, I think that's it. Well, as always thanks for
watching, best of luck, be kind to each other, and may your gods treat you as you've treated others.
Bye~