Blood, land, and craft

Asian-American witchling navigating her path. Befriending local plants and gathering local lore. Exploring and embracing my Taiwanese ancestry. Name: Adare. Enjoys EDM.

[califlair]

hat season!

[themanicnami]

@lunaesteria @sleepywitchmc @stormwaterwitch

[dumbbbunnnyy-deactivated2021021]

omg 😯

[butteryplanet]

cinemagraph artist: kitchenghosts

[fuckyeahbookarts]

DIY Natural Ink Made from Flower Petals (by thesheerstories)

[xx-thespiderqueen-xx]

~For those of you interested in making your own inks! You can use different flowers depending on their properties too. I have lists of flower meanings here and here. Although I don’t know much about making ink, so I have no idea if some of those flowers are good or bad for making ink. Just experiment with it and find out I guess.

[recreationalwitchcraft]

Use flowers with specific magical associations to add some magic to a handwritten work, or add a little extra power to a spell.

[ophelia-jadestone]

An emoji spell to make your significant other feel happier

💫🌸💑❤️👩‍❤️‍👩🎆👨‍❤️‍👨🧸💞💫

💛to charge

🔁to cast

[eclectic-witch-tarot-blog]

If you are a witch who writes (all witches)

Okay so lately I’ve been thinking of incorporating magic into the written aspect of the craft. Which I personally call scribe magic. Cuz it sounds cooler and Imma fight you if you don’t agree. So here goes.

Mundane Magic 101:

1. Draw a sigil of productivity, activate it, and draw it on the inside of your laptop/tablet sleeve for, ya guessed it, productivity. Cuz we all know what happens when notifications are turned on.

2. Charge your pens on a new moon, cuz ya know new moon is when the space is most fertile to set new intentions and bring them to fruition.

3. Charge a clear quartz (amethyst works as well) with the intention of filtering away distractions and keep it with you, either in your pencil pouch or as a piece of jewellery on you.

4. Charge a lapis lazuli with the intention of taking away your predispositions when you are researching to keep your bias from interfering with the bigger picture.

5. When you are actually working scribe magic, like writing down your intentions in letters of manifestations, write them with a feather quill, ink charged with charisma, notebook charged with the spirit of the hustle and go to town on your desires.

6. If you are drink any beverage when researching, just sit with the cup in your hands for a couple seconds and visualize this: healthy green rays infusing the drink, making it all the more efficient at taking away your exhaustion and replacing it with vigor.

7. If you wear spectacles, charge them on a full moon to retain clarity in thought.

8. If you are gonna study at your home, light a yellow candle and keep some sage or rosemary tea handy to help you concentrate. Alternatively, you could light sage incense cones near your desk to banish negative energy and negative thoughts. You could also hang rosemary to dry near your study nook. Rosemary has been used in memory spells historically.

9. If you tend to get anxious while studying, or are having trouble finding answers and coming to a cohesive conclusion in a research paper, drink vervain tea. It brings good luck, purification of thoughts and the druids believed it could open any lock. So ya know, exploit the vervain.

10. I like to keep a few leaves of rosemary in my pencil pouch and a sprig of it in my general research notebook. You could do that too.

11. Make rose water, bottle it, splash some in your eyes when you feel stuck or exhausted or hopeless about a project.

12. In my corner of the world, we wear kajal or surma everyday. If you are from the Indian Subcontinent or Middle East, enchant your kajal or surma, and whenever you feel high strung or like you are having having a whiteout, ya know when you just keep staring at just that one paragraph and you been doing it for the past half hour, apply a fresh coat of kajal or surma to your eyes to freshen up.

13. Drink Lemonade. Or listen to it. Cuz when nothing works, there’s always lemonade.

Again, this is by no means an exhaustive list, feel free to add your own ideas!

-Radha

[beatlemeat-archive]

can you believe how many species of ducks there are forever i thought there was only brown, white and green duck.

[tavley]

im a fan of this guy personally

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Ruddy duck! that’s my favorite duck!

But please also consider:

Hooded mergansers

[todaysbird]

king eider!

[mind-if-i-scream]

Buffle heads! They’re all over the marsh and bay right now!

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

yeah I love ducks

[witcheshaven]

Altar space 🔮

[theblessedbee]

🌈 How to: Pocket Altar Kit 🐚

Hey witchblr, I just thought I would share a bit about my pocket altar that I spontaneously put together so I can take my craft with me wherever I go. I think this is an awesome idea, and If you can find ways to maximize space, you can actually take a great deal of stuff with you. Tins are very cheap, and you might already have exactly what you need at home to make this kit. This may be a great idea for you if you don’t want or can’t have a big elaborate altar in your home. It can be packed up and put away at any time.

🌼 My “Eclectic Seawitch” Altar Kit includes the following: 🌼

⚈ Pouch to hold contents of kit

⚈ Pouch for crystals & seashells

⚈ Homemade rose quartz pendulum

⚈ Various crystals: clear quartz, pyrite, opal, rose quartz

⚈ Various seashells: mini conch, mini nautilus, mini scallops

⚈ Ankh/ Cross

⚈ Spellbook and gold pen

⚈ Rose quartz worry stone

⚈ Bowl-shaped shells for burning incense and sage

⚈ Matchbook including incense cones, matches

⚈ Birthday candles

⚈ Vile of shasta sage, himalayan salt and cilantro seeds

⚈ Small mermaid statue

⚈ Seashell lipgloss

⚈ Lace altar cloth

⚈ Mini alchemy cards

⚈ Mini Log

⚈ Ohana Mirror

🌼 Top 10 Tips for an Alotid Tin Altar 🌼

🌱Use a tin, box or pouch! Anything you feel suitable to hold your kit.

🌱Choose a theme for your kit if you like! Model it after what kind of Witch you are classified by if you wish. Or it can be a bit eclectic like mine, try to be as creative as you can!

🌱Avoid painting the inside of the tin and glue some cardstock only instead to maintain magnetics, that way you can use anything with a magnet on the inside of your tin. Get chalkboard labels and a piece of chalk for your tin, write things all over!

🌱Use various mediums hot glue, rubber cement, modge podge, paints, glitters, textures, moss, petals, twigs, feathers, ect.

🌱Decorate the inside with some fun pattern papers, laces, anything pretty. Tear open some magazines!! use stickers, beads, crystals and other decorative items, glue them on!

🌱Personalize your kit! Include pendulums, worry stones, crystal grids, mirrors, oils, sage bundles, anything you would like to include for yourself. Switch out things that dont work for you. If a tealight is better for you than birthday candles, switch it out. Include wildflower or herb seeds to grow outside on your journeys!

🌱Decorate matchbooks! Stick pictures to them, inspirational words and paint them or add some glitter. Maximize your creative space. If you dont have room for a matchbook, cut the match stip off of the box and glue it into your tin.

🌱You can use the mini jars as candle holders if the opening is small enough to keep it sturdy. Bring an empty jar and other jars with ingredients in them to make spell jars on the go.

🌱Include pictures of people you care about, dieties, spiritual symbols and sigils. Anything meaningful for you. You can design it so you can lay it on its side to turn into a shrine for a diety.

🌱Keep a log book and get your friends to sign it if they participate for memories sake.

🌼 My Process 🌼

It’s made out of an old Altoid tin I had laying around. Intially I had the urge to paint it blue and turquoise on the outside and white on the inside.

After drying, I got my glue gun out and glued various laces to the outside and I took apart an old pair of costume earings that I never wear. I glued the jewels to the top of the tin. I also used a 3d butterfly sticker as the main focal point. To make sure it sticks well I put a dab of glue from the glue gun in the middle. I painted around everything with gold glitter paint to accent the gold parts. I was really happy with the outcome, and not having to spend any money.

I included my favorite crystals, shells, especially my rose quartz pendulum and worry stone. My favourite is my heart-shaped rose quartz I recieved as a gift from my Boyfriend.

I decorated my viles with some old looking medicine labels I got from Michaels as well as some letter stickers to label them. It made it gave them a fancy apothecary look.

I decorated my matchbook as much as I could! I wanted to use up all my creative space including the inside of the tin. I utilized colored paper, stickers, jewels, beads, lace and ribbon, paint and glitter. Anything within your reach can be used if you use your own personal magick.

My kit includes a set of Mini Alchemy cards. I made them by glueing them to a pattern cardstock. I have a bigger version with the writings on the side but they were quite big and didn’t fit right in the tin, so I decided to make mini ones with the mini card stickers. The mini versions dont have writings on the side, so I have a full guide in my spellbook.

With the same card stock I lined my tin so they match. I also made a Log and Diary Card out of some fancy paper I had. I have “Adventure Awaits” both on the inside of my tin and on the card, I thought it was cute they matched.

I included whatever I personally thought I would want when I’m out and about. You can tweak yours however you like! You may want to bless your tin and cleanse it if you wish, enchant it so that way it stays safe, and doesn’t break as easily.

I hope this inspires you! Now go forth and make a kit for yourself!

𝐵𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝑒!

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Dropping knowledge. 

More history that our schools fail to teach

[ms-demeanor]

The last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Queen Liliʻuokalani, inherited the throne from her brother Kalākaua on January 29, 1891. A woman of peace and an accomplished author and songwrite, she became the first Native Hawaiian female author. Upon her death, Liliʻuokalani dictated in her will that all of her possessions and properties be sold and the money raised would go to the Queen Liliʻuokalani Children’s Trust to help orphaned and indigent children. The Queen Liliʻuokalani Trust Fund still exists today.

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“Aloha ʻOe” (Farewell to Thee) is Queen Liliʻuokalani’s (Hawaii’s last monarch) most famous song and a song commonly sung at High School graduations and other important events. The story of the origin of the song has several variations. They all have in common that the song was inspired by a notable farewell embrace given by Colonel James Harbottle Boyd during a horseback trip taken by Princess Liliʻuokalani in 1877 or 1878 to the Boyd ranch in Maunawili on the windward side of Oʻahu. Originally written as a lovers’ good-bye, the song came to be regarded as a symbol of, and lament for, the loss of her country.

https://hawaiian-words.com/2015/06/24/aloha-oe/

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The version of this story I read years ago (out of curiosity for the song’s use in Lilo & Stitch when Nani was forced to give up Lilo…) was so unbelievably cut down, it made it seem like her failing, rather than all these odds stacked up against her. Thank you for all the further context. ;_;

[la-petitefille-deactivated20210]

rain witch self-care tips 🌧

- allowing yourself rejuvenation through dancing under the rain

- gazing at majestic gray clouds and only finding inspiration in them

- keeping a rain-scented candle for those times in which you’re missing the cloudy days

- doing deep-breathing exercises outside (or in front of an open window) during storms, inhaling the freshness of the air

- likening yourself to the earth after a rainfall, utterly cleansed and purified

- drifting asleep to storm sounds

[lohrien]

Paintings by Ricardo Fernandez Ortega

[batjectivity]

@notbecauseofvictories this seems like something that you would appreciate

[circus-witch]

Not a particularly witchy book, the rituals it suggests are often more self help than magic. I don’t mean this as a criticism though, it is still a useful resource. @bibliophilicwitch

[noonymoon]

the magical and truly wonderful astrological planner 2019

ᵇʸ ᴍᴀɢɪᴄ ₒ𝒻 ɪ

[anancientheart]

Yoko Ono’s Cleaning Pieces

CLEANING PIECE I

Write down a sad memory. Put it in a box. Burn the box and sprinkle the ashes in the field. You may give some ashes to a friend who shared the sadness.

CLEANING PIECE II

Make a numbered list of sadness in your life. Pile up stones corresponding to those numbers. Add a stone, each time there is sadness. Burn the list, and appreciate the mount of stones for its beauty. Make a numbered list of happiness in your life. Pile up stones corresponding to those numbers. Add a stone, each time there is happiness. Compare the mount of stones to the one of sadness.

CLEANING PIECE III

Try to say nothing negative about anybody. a) For three days b) For forty-five days c) For three months See what happens to your life.

CLEANING PIECE IV

Write down everything you fear in life. Burn it. Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.

CLEANING PIECE V

Let a list of arbitrary names come into your mind as you go to sleep. Say “bless you” after each name. Do this with speed, by keeping a constant rhythm, so, in no way, you would hesitate to bless them.

[sosoukoku]

T w e l v e   O l y m p i a n s   //   A t h e n a

“Of   Pallas   Athena,   guardian   of   the   city,                                                                                                I   begin   to   sing. Dread   is   she,                                           and   with   Ares   she   loves   the   deeds   of   war, the   sack   of   cities                                                                  and   the   shouting   and  the  battle.”

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[myfairylily]

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