[alwaysbeconnected]

Wanted this to be a main blog

So I’ve started a new witchy main blog over here @hypnoticwitch

I hardly use my main blog anymore and wanted a fresh start! Be seeing you over there, my lovely new witchy friends!

[sunandsolstice]

witch culture is giving a shit about climate change

[the-highwitch]

Big Witch Energy 💚

[circeandthebees]

As a witch who is also white, I just gotta say that once I find out that a witchy practice is closed (ex. Smudging or hoodoo) I back up right away.

I don’t get how y’all think you are entitled to any of these types of practices

From one white person to another: knock it off, there are so many witchy things you can do. Don’t take things away from others. It’s a shit thing to do.

[stelliferoustudio]

Like if you want to use sage to clean your home, go for it. But don’t use white sage and for the Love of Mother Earth DON’T call it Smudging.

As a Canadian I am especially sore about the Smudging thing. There are SO MANY people here who claim to have Native roots and who use that as an excuse to steal Native practices.

Unless you TRULY have Native blood in your family tree. Unless you were taught the detailed Smudging ceremony by NATIVE people, you are NOT ACTUALLY SMUDGING.

You are waving some sage around and acting like a damn insensitive idiot

[returntoeden]

this. I have native blood in my lineage but I still can’t actually smudge because I have no one in my family to teach me the smudging ceremony. It’s still smoke cleansing, even if I have native ancestors.

[alwaysbeconnected]

Loose leaf tea recommendations?

I’ve been hunting through my town for the best place to buy herbs for spells, as well as a shop to find good loose leaf tea and I’ve had no luck so far!

Any of my new witchy friends have recommendations for online shops with good loose leaf tea, and or herbs for spells? I’d prefer to support local beauties and witchy lovelies if at all possible!

I appreciate it!

🍵🍃✨

[teawitch]

Mountain Rose Herbs is a popular go to for online herbs, essential oils and such.

https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/

Adagio is my favorite for my ongoing tea addiction. 

https://www.adagio.com/

They have fandom blends if you have a favorite fandom. And if you like Earl Grey, they have an Earl Grey Bella Luna that they only sell on the day of the full moon. Yes, I have scheduled my buying around the full moon just for this tea.

A note about buying herbs and teas. Both of these shops are popular enough to have a constant turn over of product, which means we’re less likely to get something that’s been sitting on a shelf for too long. Herbs and teas go stale if they sit too long. Oh, and essential oils can be damaged by sunlight. Something to keep in mind if you’re in a shop with a display. 

[alwaysbeconnected]

Yay! Thank you! Great info and advice 🙏✨💜

Definitely need me some of that Earl Grey Bella Luna!

And all my earl grey feeds my fandom because I channel Captain Picard, “tea, earl grey, hot,” every time 😂

Thank you again!

[the-witches-glossary]

Seer Stones.

Also known as the Dreamer’s Crystal, Emma’s Eggs and Window Crystal.

These river tumbled chunks of quartz from Elbe River in Southern Brazil, are frosty white on the outside, with a polished flat side or “window” revealing a world of depth and wonder in the quartz inside.

[witchstress]

Ok I have one of these in amethyst and I couldn’t find any information about them for the longest time?! I’m so excited about this post haha

[the-witches-glossary]

Message me to purchase! I had to close my store due to my health.

[galaxycomplection]

I am happy to announce that my store is open again! Check it out!

Seer Stones.

[alwaysbeconnected]

Loose leaf tea recommendations?

I’ve been hunting through my town for the best place to buy herbs for spells, as well as a shop to find good loose leaf tea and I’ve had no luck so far!

Any of my new witchy friends have recommendations for online shops with good loose leaf tea, and or herbs for spells? I’d prefer to support local beauties and witchy lovelies if at all possible!

I appreciate it!

🍵🍃✨

[riverlandfarm]

15 reasons to build an herb spiral for your garden (By Jean Bardot, Natural News)

(By Jean Bardot, Natural News)

Whether you’re a city mouse or a country mouse — with a high-rise patio or 1000 acres — building an herb spiral near your kitchen allows you to partake in the sustainable permaculture revolution and have fresh organic culinary herbs at your fingertips. An herb spiral is a compact vertical garden built on specific principles allowing for individualized management of wind and water flow to create the ideal garden in a limited amount of space.

The spiral is a natural form that provides an efficient method for managing space, storing and sorting. Using the natural universal design of a spiral, the forces of gravity and water flow are utilized to their fullest allowing for proper drainage downhill. Herbs that thrive on drier soils live at the top, whereas those needing more moisture reside at the bottom where water collects. This form allows for planting of a widely diverse number of plants, and creates natural, sunny and shady areas — a perfect miniature microclimate landscape environment. The herb spiral as a permaculture form that allows you to create your own ecosystem and become self sufficient. The format can be adapted to large gardens if space is available.

Stone or block building materials allow for retention of heat and insulate plants in colder weather or at night, while acting as the backbone for the structure. Collect water at the bottom and have a small fish or frog pond or even a bog and grow edible water plants. An herb spiral can be built even on a concrete foundation and filled with the richest biodynamic, organic earth to support any plants included.

The spiral should always be built to move in the direction of water drainage in whatever hemisphere it’s located in — for example, in the Northern hemisphere, water runs off in a clockwise direction and the opposite is true for the Southern hemisphere. This allows for optimal positioning of the pond at the bottom and reduces evaporation. The spiral can be built as a round or oval shape to take advantage of the movement of summer sunlight.

15 REASONS TO BUILD AN HERB SPIRAL FOR YOUR PERMACULTURE GARDEN

1. Maximize growing space to grow more food. 2. Multiple microclimates available for optimal plant growth.

3. Healthier plants where growing needs are met and companion planting is easy to reduce insect problems and foster beneficial plant relationships for better growth. 4. Aesthetic garden focal point.

5. Maximizes space even in very small areas on top of concrete or in high-rise buildings. 6. Harvesting access is easy and all plants are effortlessly accessible. 7. No bending, everything is at waist height — hooray!

8. Save money by growing your own food. 9. Eat organic, using heirloom seeds and avoid pesticides and genetically engineered seeds. 10. Reduces maintenance, little weeding and easy to turn and mulch.

11. Manage water amounts and use natural forces to perpetuate the growing season. 12. Reduce building costs when you use local available materials. 13. Use drip irrigation or a small sprinkler for easy watering and irrigation.

14. Create a bio-diverse habitat for creatures who come to visit. 15. Build an herb spiral to grow medicinal herbs to avoid Big Pharm drugs.

Sources for this article: http://www.mitra.biz http://themicrogardener.com http://welcometovoluntarysimplicity.wordpress.com http://www.mysquarefootgarden.net/creating-an-herb-spiral/

[dandiliiontea-deactivated202105]

Ya can’t cleanse a space that ain’t clean.

Witches, do your laundry.

[rosemarywaterwitch]

call me out yeah it is fine thanks

[littlewitchlingrowan]

You know what?

[khangi]

SMUDGING IS NOT SMOKE CLEANSING

SMUDGING IS NOT SMOKE CLEANSING

SMUDGING IS NOT SMOKE CLEANSING

smudging is a native traditional ceremony and is not equivalent to smoke cleansing!!!!

[anthonythewitch]

• 🍯 Honey Magick 🍯 •

Honey

Honey is a natural substance created by bees within their hives. The hive consists of primarily female bees, which will leave the hive to collect nectar from flowers and then return to transform this nectar into sugary honey for later consumption.

Humans have been collecting honey since 8000 BC, and it has been utilized by nearly every culture across the globe for food, healing, and spiritual purposes.

Honey is universally considered a talisman of prosperity, beauty, health, and sweetness, and it can be utilized in all of these types of witchcraft.

Prosperity

Honey is a representation of abundance: its primary use in nature is as a stored source of food to be used in times of hardship, both for bees and for humans. It is also created from the nectar of flowers, imbuing it with the energies of the Sun and springtime. As such, it can be added to spells for wealth, abundance, fertility, or prosperity in order to amplify the effects and create surplus in your life.

Beauty

Sympathetic Magick states that an object’s physical qualities are reminiscent of its spiritual properties. Honey is golden, pleasing to the eye, and sweet. On its own or added to face masks, it can cleanse, nourish, and moisturize the skin. It can also be added to beauty or glamour spells in order to add a sweet glow to your energy.

Healing

Honey has been used to treat wounds since the time of the Ancient Egyptians. Its viscosity and moisture creates a moist seal around a wound. It also contains natural antibacterial properties, providing a stable and sterile environment for wounds to heal in. Metaphysically, honey can be added to protection spells or wards in order to create an environment of positivity and sterility, and can also be added to healing spells in order to strengthen the recovery process.

Sweetness

Honey is appealing to humans and animals because, above all else, it is sweet. One of honey’s most ancient uses - utilized in magical practices ranging from Egyptian to Greek to Voudoo - is to add ‘sweetness’ to a spell.

It can be added to glamour magick to make the illusion more easily accepted. It can be added to curses in order to make the energy seem harmless when entering the target’s life. It can be added to money spells or job spells in order to ‘sweeten the deal’. It can be added to love or sex spells in order to sweeten a relationship or conjure an appealing partner. In general, it can be added to any spell to make the effects more pleasant and inviting.

Offering

Honey’s final use is especially helpful to witches who work with nature spirits, fairies, the Dead, or deities. Honey contains a very pleasing, warm, Sun-type energy, and therefore it is extremely enticing to spirits. Since the time of the Ancient Egyptians, honey has been used as an offering that symbolizes the utmost love, care, and respect.

Honey can be drizzled onto a candle and burned. It can be drizzled into a body of water or directly onto the earth. Most commonly, it can be drizzled into an offering bowl (or on top of an offering meal) and left outside, in a graveyard, or on an altar. Because it is excellent at preserving itself, offerings of honey can be left somewhere for prolonged periods of time without worry of it spoiling, which is extremely helpful to forgetful witches (like me) or witches with long-term altars.

So, all in all, honey is maybe one of the most underrated magical ingredients, and I hope this post got some of you hip to honey magick.

Happy Witching 🕉

[circeandthebees]

As a witch who is also white, I just gotta say that once I find out that a witchy practice is closed (ex. Smudging or hoodoo) I back up right away.

I don’t get how y’all think you are entitled to any of these types of practices

From one white person to another: knock it off, there are so many witchy things you can do. Don’t take things away from others. It’s a shit thing to do.

[themori-witch]

A Chant for Luck!

“On this day, and each day henceforth,

I attract only good luck, good fortune, and mirth.

By Earth, by Wind, by Fire, and Sea,

As I will it, so mote it be.”

[wildxwitch]

Cheap Witches: Thrift Stores!

I have always loved thrift stores. When my family was poor-ish back in the day, I would often get one shopping trip a year for clothes at the thrift store and I would get all my halloween costume pieces there. Maybe it’s the nostalgia, maybe it’s that I myself am now poor-ish but either way I think we can all appreciate a good deal regardless. Especially on staple pieces that can be used for your practice. Now ON TO THE FINDS!

Books

Sometimes it takes a little luck but I’ve found a couple great useful books for 3$ or less each along the shelves of books in my local Value Village. The crystal healing ones I found were a huge deal to me back in the day when I was but a baby witch and they were dirt cheap.

Candle supplies

Every witch needs something to burn candles on/in. Now I’m not saying it needs to be fancy, for a long time I used a dollar store plate (psa, do not burn candles on surfaces you care about because scraping wax off things is not a delicate process) but picking up some candle holders for less than 2$ is going to help keep candles from falling over and lighting your house on fire. You can also find some wicked pretty ones.

Curtains/Tablecloths/Pillowcases

Yes, I buy thrift store curtains. As I mentioned in my previous post in this series, many things may require scrap fabric and although you can get the dollar store scarves I prefer using old curtains or tablecloths from the thrift store. Not only will you be getting WAY more fabric but it doesn’t cost too much more than the dollar store.

String and/or Ribbon

Some of my spells and my favorite hex require some kind of yarn/string/thread. If your local thrift establishment of choice has any kind of craft section, no matter how big, you are in business. Bags of embroidery thread, spools of twine or other string and skeins of yarn are all SUPER cheap and often great quality. (Note: I mean the yarn, the other two options are pretty standard) Sometimes I can even find ribbon spools but those are interchangeable with plain old coloured string.

Picture Frames

Are you setting up your altar? Do you wish you had something nice to put the picture of your deity(ies) in? Look no further than the thrift store for GORGEOUS frames of literally every size imaginable. 

Vases

You actually can not find nicer vases for cheaper than a thrift store. I don’t know what else you’d use them for, crystals maybe? Dried flowers waiting to be used? Candles? Either way, if you need one, there are virtually none cheaper or easier to find. Same goes for crystal or glass bowls. Besides, if you kill plants like yours truly, having flowers that are guaranteed to die is a nice way to enjoy plants without having to remember to water them.

JARS

That alone should be enough but I do want to chuck in one piece of advice. Do not forget about the cup aisle! I got a sweet glass skull that screws closed with your standard mason jar lid because it was donated with one of those lids with a hole and a straw. Hence it was a “cup” but NOT ANYMORE! It holds my dead flowers. I named him Herman.

As always, feel free to send me a message if you’d like/have more questions. Hopefully soon I’ll make a trip to IKEA for the next post in this series! If there’s something you’d like me to cover, let me know.

Much love ~ ♥

[dxncinginblxck-deactivated20160]

Basics of Astrology

[funkylittlelesbean]

Dates:

Aries: March 21—April 19

Taurus: April 20—May 20

Gemini: May 21—June 20

Cancer: June 21—July 22

Leo: July 23—August 22

Virgo: August 23—September 22

Libra: September 23—October 22

Scorpio: October 23—November 21

Sagittarius: November 22—December 21

Capricorn: December 22—January 19

Aquarius: January 20—February 18

Pisces: February 19—March 20

•

What These Signs Mean:

Aries - Active, Demanding, Determined, Effective, Ambitious

Taurus - Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience

Gemini - Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable

Cancer - Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective

Leo - Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative

Virgo - Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful

Libra - Balance, Justice, Truth, Beauty, Perfection

Scorpio - Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding

Sagittarius - Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism

Capricorn - Determination, Dominance, Perservering, Practical, Willful

Aquarius - Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous

Pisces - Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive

•

Your Signs:

- ________ Rising

- ________ Sun

- ________ Moon

- ________ Mercury

- ________ Venus

- ________ Mars

- ________ Jupiter

- ________ Saturn

- ________ Uranus

- ________ Neptune

- ________ Pluto

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What Those Signs Mean:

Rising: Your rising sign, in short, is you’re actual Zodiac. It is based off of time zones in which the day you are born. The names for them are Aries, Capricorn, Gemini, Taurus, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Aquarius, Virgo, Pisces, and Cancer. Your Rising sign might be found easily on first impressions you might give.

Sun: This is who you are in personality, your normal self. This is how you may act if alone, and is your inner traits. How you act can be described with this sign, also as to who you are.

Moon: You may call the moon sign you have your emotions. It influences your decisions. It is how you feel on the inside, whether everyone knows this or just you. It holds your loves and fears, hates and excitements. Anything, really.

Mercury: is how you may be like in time of communication, reasoning, intellect and awareness. It’s known for it’s power of the brain.

Venus: The sign of Venus is based upon the time you were born and can be called something of Love.

Mars: is in charge of attraction and raw energy for that matter.

Jupiter: The planet of Jupiter is responsible for luck and good fortune. Whether the optimization is for humor or good will, it’s going to be a major apart of you no matter what. It’s the happy part in your life. You need it there.

Saturn: This sign, Saturn, is here for the parts in life with things like restriction and limitations. Found as you get older, this is known for being you as you grow up.

Uranus: is here for the change in life. The sign can be for the worse or better at times, and it’s a part of life you’ll eventually come across. Take it, hit or miss, and in the end it might make you better than it seemed.

Neptune: can be called dreamy, for this matter. The sign for this works as great influence, fantasy, and imagination seen in your daily life, so to say. With this, you might find it almost as if a dream.

Pluto: Not the same change with Uranus, but Pluto is part of big change. It’s more of transformation. Life challenges thrown your way will lead to this sign, Pluto.

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I hope that helped! If you have any questions about your signs or how to find them, you can ask me @dxncingblxck or any other astrology blog basically. Have fun and happy astrology-ing!

[greeksandwhat]

As if I needed any more reasons to love Apollo…..but I saw this

and this

and this

And I’m??? He’s so good?????

He cares so much for his lovers and children, even though they’re just mortals

Not only that, he also brings the Fates themselves along with him like “Guys You Have To Come My Gf is About To Give Birth To Our Child I’m So Excited!!!”

[my-name-is-apollo]

Tldr: Apollo cares and helps his pregnant gfs unless stated otherwise

[littlealienproducts]

Deer God Poster (Holo and Normal) by InkJunkArt

[montanawitch]

Witchcraft is about intent and the wording of a spell is often the product of the vernacular at the time therefore using “yeet” in a banishing spell is perfectly acceptable thanks for coming to my ted talk