DIY Botanical Energy Shields

White shabby chic table with botanicals on display

DIY Botanical Energy Shields from Planteria teach the everyday witch how to make energy shields for defense magick, protection, and healing magic with herbs, mushrooms, plants, and animal life with the Green Hearth Witch! Learn how to put up energy shields for everyday mundane magic.

One of the first things a witch must learn is defense magic, which can come in many forms. I recommend covering the basics of cleansing, grounding, protection, and energy work to build upon your practice.

Let’s talk about energy work, shall we? Energy work involves manipulating energy, an essential part of any witchcraft.

This involves learning how to build up energy for spellcasting, putting up walls of energetic protection, and layering. Today, we are going to focus on how to make energy shields.

What are botanical energy shields? A botanical energy shield is like any other kind of energy shield you may have used in the past. Most of us have had moments when we put energy protection around ourselves.

Energy shields can be used for many different things, but of course, the one that comes to mind the most is defense magic and protection. The energy shields you’ll be creating here can go far beyond your wildest dreams!

This means you’ll be able to create energy shields for every occasion that suits your purposes. If you want to be more creative, you can build a plant-based energy shield. If you want to attract more magical happenings into your day, you can create a flower energy shield that coincides with that.

These special shields can be used for nearly anything once you become proficient in making them! You’ll be using botanicals on an energetic level to work with them. This means visualizing them in your mind, feeling their energy and essence, and allowing them to guide you throughout the day.

The botanical energy shield can be used each morning or throughout the day to achieve the desired effect. What makes a botanical energy shield so powerful is that you’ll be using the magical and medicinal properties of herbs, mushrooms, trees, and animal life to ward people off or keep energies at bay.

Again, once you become skilled and proficient at making botanical energy shields, you’ll be able to graduate to creating shields that create a mood. This can be anything creative, inspirational, motivational, and productive, depending on what you’d like to achieve that particular day.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to create a few different kinds of energy shields. Then, you’ll learn how to practice upkeep to sustain your energy and momentum throughout the day or over longer periods, using your botanical energy shield.

I’ve also included a few different kinds of botanical energy shields in this how-to lesson! This gives you a great jumping-off point for creating do-it-yourself shields. Once you’ve mastered these, then you can venture out on your own! Let’s get started, shall we?

Fly Agaric Poisonous Mushroom Energy Shield
Deadly Nightshade (Belladonna) Energy Shield
Heavily Wooded Area of Protection Shield
Onions and Garlic Toxic People Energy Shield
Rosemary Sweet Memories Energy Shield
Warm Cinnamon and Nutmeg Family Energy Shield

To make DIY botanical energy shields, you need to be in touch with your imagination and your senses. This simply involves visualizing the shield in your mind’s eye. You’ll then take that visualization and bring it to life!

To bring a visualization to life, you’ll want to make it feel real. To do that, you’ll want to add specifics and details to the picture you are creating. This includes movement, body language, and the use of all your senses.

For example, if a visualization feels as though it needs a cool breeze, embellish it with one that touches your skin and gives you goosebumps. Feel the coolness on your skin or the ruffle of the wind on the back of your hair as it slightly rises.

It’s the same thing with music. Some visuals don’t require sound at all, but if you are making a heavily wooded area of protection shield (revealed below) then you are going to want to add the sounds of nature and the trees closing in on you for safeguarding. You can add a song or sound to your visualization to make it feel and be true.

With clothing, you might feel your white cotton dress with ruffles clinging to your dewy skin in a warm summer meadow used for a cleansing botanical energy shield. These tiny details may not seem like much, but they bring your energy shield to life! They make it real and true for you and become what you want them to be!

So, the first rule for creating a DIY botanical energy shield is to get comfortable with daydreaming and using your imagination to bring it to life. Spend a few minutes every morning putting up a shield and see how it goes.

You’ll be able to test each day to see how it is working for you. Is it achieving the desired effect? It only takes a few minutes each day to build your shield. The more you build, the stronger and more solidified it becomes. It then becomes a fortress of protection.

It’s important to remember that energy shields are used for warding things off and for protection. Shields can also be used as containers for healing, revealing, and mood-lifting. If you want to feel a certain way each day, build a shield for it!

There are no limitations to the kinds of shields you can build. However, I do recommend starting with no more than one or two shields at a time until you become skilled and proficient at it. This might require a little due diligence and patience on your part.

Why are shields so important? What are some situations where a botanical energy shield might come in handy? Let’s take a look at that.

Defense magic and protection (for feeling safe, warm, and loved)
Toxic people and situations (for those times when you are forced to deal with people or situations that are less than stellar)
Warding people and situations off (this is slightly different from the toxic people shield, as this one keeps people at bay or far away)
Magical happenings (for those times in life when you need a little boost of magic)
Healing mind, body, and soul (for healing parts of the body, people, or situations)
Work Shields (can be used for creativity, productivity, and learning)
Mood-boosting shields ( can be used to alter states of mind for those days when you want to feel a specific way)

The list of shields you can make comes with endless possibilities! I use shields as an everyday, mundane form of magic. I incorporate it into my day and allow it to take hold. Some days, I come across situations where I need to build one or two additional shields into my day, based on what is going on in my life. As we know, life is full of surprises!