"Abraca-Fuck You"

@bigcitydruid

Canada based green witch with a special interest in herbs, stones, and looking at the moon

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Seriously.

Go out to the woods sometime. Find a big tree, the biggest you can.

Go up to that tree, lay a hand on it, and ask it about what it feels, about how it feels about having won its place. Ask it how it feels about having smothered and shaded out a hundred smaller enemies, and then feasted on their rotting corpses. And that huge ancient oak tree will tell you how sweet triumph tastes, and how death pays for life.

Then find one of the struggling little scraggly trees under that oak, and ask it what it feels, and it will tell you of patience, of endurance, and of how sweet will the bones of the giant taste when the giant falls at last, and gives the sapling its chance.

Plants understand more of triumph, of death, and of how death and life are but two sides of the same coin than most humans ever will.

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Some different herbs and their magickal uses

Just so you know, these aren’t all the magickal herbs out there. These are just ones I have written down in my grimoire and that I typically use.

Sea Salt: Purification and cleansing. (I like to sprinkle some at my doorway and windowsills).

Sage: Purification, banishing negative energies, and consecrating magickal tools and spaces. (This is an herb that I highly recommend all witches have in their possession).

Black Pepper: Banishing negativity, warding off evil, and protection.

Thyme: Invigorates the user and helps them move on from something that may be holding them back. Good for getting over losses.

Rosemary: Cleansing, purifying, and deals with matters of the heart.

Chamomile: Attracts money, luck, and helps reverse hexes.

Bay Leaves: Psychic matters and divination, success, money, and making wishes/intentions.

Basil: Domestic harmony, home protection, purifying, and warding off negative influences. (I’ve actually used this around my own home before. I’d say it works).

Parsley: Divination, psychic advancement, and protection.

Cinnamon: High levels of spirituality, psychic ability, and works in matters of lust and love. (This is a personal favorite of mine).

Cloves: Drive away negativity, cleansing, and bringing prosperity.

Ginger: Adds strength to any magickal working and can draw in new experiences.

Oregano: Joy, strength, vitality, and energy.

Peppermint: Cleansing, peaceful sleep, bringing about change, and abundance.

Spearmint: Healing, sleep protection, and vitality. (I’ve found that combining this with peppermint really helps me get to sleep).

Poppy Seeds: Heightened awareness, luck, and helps with insomnia.

Cayenne Pepper: Helps deal with separation, and can speed up any magickal working.

Orange Peel: Love, divination, money, luck, and emotional peace. (They also make great air fresheners!)

Paprika: Adds and extra boost to any magickal working.

Honeyed Lips

This glamour is designed to help you appear more persuasive. This can be helpful when applying for a job, public speaking, or convincing friends/family/lovers. BE AWARE - this type of glamour is inherently manipulative and should only be used to help you convince others and make people more inclined to listen to what you have to say.

MATERIALS

10g Shea Butter

10g Beeswax

10g Coconut Oil

1 Tsp Honey (Local if you can)

5 drops Sweet Orange Oil

On a double boiler (medium/low heat) melt the Shea Butter, Beeswax and Coconut Oil. Turn of heat and stir clockwise as you add the Honey and Sweet Orange Oil. Sing as you stir:

Smooth as butter,

Sweet as honey,

Enchant my words,

To be bright and sunny.

With honeyed lips,

And charming smiles,

Those who hear me

Are not hostile.

To my words,

They shall listen,

And be convinced

By my proposition.

Let it cool in a container of your choice (I like a small metal tin). Once cool, apply to your lips and repeat the above chant. The heat of your lips will activate it.

- Marci

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⚡ How to Charge Objects ⚡

⚡ In witchcraft we talk about energy a lot, especially in the context of “charging” objects, or filling them with energy, whether personal or external, as the moving force behind magic and spells.

⚡ Old energy becomes stagnant and bleh. Kinda like old food in the fridge. You gotta clean that out of it, so it doesn’t make the new good you put in “stink” too. So cleanse first before you charge!

⚡ Think of it like batteries! Things lose their charges, and then they kinda feel useless. So you gotta plug it back in to its metaphysical roots.

⚡ there are many ways to charge objects: ⚡

moonlight

sea water

moon water

sunlight

fire

wind

soil

planetary influence

electricity

and many more! almost anything you can come up with

⚡ You can even charge one object with another, like charging a coffee cup with a crystal before breakfast. The magical energy stored in the crystal will transfer to the coffee, and then you have charmed and charged your drink!

⚡ When new energy is introduced to an object with correspondences, and it sits in there, it takes on those new properties of itself and

Regular water (no corres) + sunlight = sun water, water that has taken on the magical properties of the sun.

Amethyst (healing) + moonlight = boosts the existing healing properties of the amethyst, and has moons magical properties too

⚡ You can charge almost any object, with anything that has an energy.

a spell to attract other witches

this spell is for the solitary witch; it creates an aura around you that attracts witches, as well as hones your psychic mind to find witches when you’re out and about. best done during a full moon. you will need:

✦ a small pouch or bag

✦ a bell

✦ st. john’s wort (protection against evil magic, clairvoyance, general magic)

✦ sugar (good energy, attraction, summoning)

✦ cloves (gaining what is sought, energy)

1. after casting your circle, turn to the four corners/directions of your magick space and ring the bell to announce yourself and call the attention of the energy around you.

2. hold the cloves in your hands. inhale their scent and meditate for a moment about the power of your own witchcraft, and imagine it projecting further and further out, making it noticeable to witches who are perceptive to energies. as you do this, the cloves will help carry that energy for you. place some of the cloves in the pouch and set the rest aside.

3. hold a bit of st. john’s wort in your hands and hone in on your own clairvoyance and intuition. whisper to the st. john’s wort that you wish to strengthen your perception of other witches. place some in the pouch and set the rest aside.

4. to complete the ritual, sprinkle some sugar onto your tongue to bring good energy and summon what you seek from the spell. sprinkle the rest of the cloves and st. john’s wort outside your house, and carry the pouch with you.

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The Yule Deer

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Basic Homesteading Skills

Crafts

quilting

embroidery

cross-stitch

knitting

crochet

sewing

Cooking and Baking

homemade bread

homemade butter

homemade extracts

dandelion jelly

Canning

26 canning recipes

canning jars 101

60 canning recipes

Gardening

edible trees to plant

what to plant to save the bees

cure and braid garlic

save seeds for next year

braid onions for long term storage

build a greenhouse

Animals

homemade chicken feed

raising mealworms for chickens

why to raise nigerian dwarf goats

Outdoors

starting a fire with sticks

trail signs

knotting

find true north without a compass

Medicine

homemade neosporin

all purpose healing salve

I’m gonna take a moment to talk about the greenhouse link above. Greenhouses can be quite a bit of work, time, and money to build - and they take up space - so some thoughtful planning and research can ensure that whatever you build you’ll get the most out of.

Most people, when first approaching greenhouses, just build a generic shed that has clear walls and a roof. That’s what you see in the blog post above, while the author kept mentioning how incredibly hot it is. The author is located in central Washington state, USA.

Greenhouse with no ventilation/cooling or heating or electricity or gas, in a hot climate summer climate, cool winter. While conventionally attractive, it is not particularly functional, and is only useful for a relatively short period of the year.

How best to design a greenhouse can depend on factors like climate and latitude.

If your greenhouse is located someplace very cold, you’re looking at issues with heating it, or else not using it at all during that time. There’s multiple ways to heat greenhouses, traditionally methane or propane gas, although in emergencies, and if it is wired for electricity, electrical heat may be used. Some people have even used wood furnaces (this is less than ideal) For any place with long winters this quickly becomes very expensive. Thermal mass is the clever trick to solve most, if not all, (depending on climate) heating issues in winter - no fossil fuels or deforestation required.

If your greenhouse is located someplace very hot, you’re looking at issues with cooling it, or else not using it all during that time. There’s multiple ways to cool greenhouses - fans/vents and shade cloth being the most common. Thermal mass can also help with this issue too.

My favorite website on greenhouses (which longtime readers may recognize) is Penn and Cord. Heating and cooling greenhouses so you can use them for more than 6 weeks a year can be very expensive and very energy intensive - unless you start looking at passive solar greenhouse designs, such as those by Penn and Cord. You do sacrifice some space in the back greenhouse for the thermal mass aka giant barrels of water.

Can be built out of used or scrap material.

Above, barrels are on the left, hidden behind the plants. Below, this is what the wall of barrels looks like before plant beds are installed.

These 55 gallon drums filled with water and painted black, all along the north wall, are the “battery” that keeps these greenhouses usable year round. The roof angles are designed so that these receive direct sunlight (hence why they are painted black) in the winter, the sun heats the water, and they help keep the greenhouse warm all winter long. They’re working at high elevations in Colorado which means 1) wild temperature fluctuations 2) it’s pretty cold in winter there, down to -30F/-34C. The barrels also modulate the hot temperatures in summer. There are variations around this idea, but hopefully the concept makes sense. Sometimes people will create the northern wall out of concrete, and then put the barrels or bottles of water in front of it, for a similar “battery” or modulating effect. The interiors are painted bright white, to reflect as much light as possible to the plants.

Granted, this extremely energy efficient and far more sustainable greenhouse style does not have the same “aesthetic”, but the space is actually far more usable. Penn and Cord and their crew are growing 365 days of the year, in greenhouses mostly made out of used materials. None of these greenhouses obviously have electricity or gas installed, but they don’t actually need it either, thanks to their clever and regionally-appropriate design.

Okay I am 100% behind people building up their ability to survive and growing their skill set. 2 things though.

1. Modern subsistence movements need to be aware of and careful about not creating laws which may inhibit the subsistence practices of the poor. https://www.google.com/amp/s/grist.org/food/are-trendy-homesteaders-clueless-about-class-differences/amp/

Gardening and sewing clothes aren’t just activities for hipsters. They’ve long been practiced by the poor.

2. Homesteading as a term is a means of claiming land with “no owner” by working it and making it yours. Unfortunately, at the time of homesteading laws in the USA the land did have an owner, the indigenous people who were then forced off their land and out of the places they’d likely inhabited for millennia to make room for more homesteaders. Not to mention that despite their new freedoms black people were not given land as easily as their white counterparts.

Consequently, the term “homesteading” has myriads of negative connotations not the least of which is racism. For this reason I propose those choosing to re-embrace this way of living use terms like subsistence farmer, self sufficiency, or slow living.

https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/aa3401af-a553-4d87-85a0-90efd49be07d/homesteading-displaced-native-americans/#.XjfA0CSIaEc

The Homestead Act proved detrimental to Native Americans, when overly optimistic advertising in Europe brought a flood of immigrants to the

https://www.google.com/amp/s/aeon.co/amp/ideas/land-and-the-roots-of-african-american-poverty

The Homestead Act gave 1.6 million white families – and fewer than 6000 black families – 160 acres of virtually free land

Fuck capitalism and fuck colonialism. OP’s post is important, and so is this addition. Reblog this edition

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can you imagine being THIS cool

Context.

WHY IS THE CONTEX EVEN BETTER?!

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Goals tbh

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✨🎵❄️Winter Solstice❄️🎵 🎶❄️Music Post❄️🎶✨

A little winter jingle for your ritual’s ambiance or your home! Except for Witchmas most of these are ambient sound tracks to put your space in the spirit of winter cheer!

❄️ Mysterious and Fae-like ❄️

Winter’s Breath

Dark Winter Music

Shivers in the Cold

Crystal Unicorns

Ice Elves

Winter Whispers

❄️ Playful Winter ❄️

Romantic Winter

Snowflake Realm

Winter Ball Dance

Sleigh Ride

Festive Holiday-Inspired Background Music

Once Upon a December Music Box

Frostbite by Pekoe

❄️ Classical ❄️

The Nutcracker

The Snow is Dancing (Debussy)

Harry in Winter

Christmas at Hogwarts

Winter Waltz

Ice Dance (Piano Ver)(Music Box)

❄️ Meditative and Icy ❄️

Beautiful White Winter

Magical Winter Music (with Blizzard and Chimes White Noise)

Winter Wonderland Music (with chimes and bells)

❄️ Witchmas ❄️

Jingle Bells, Cast Your Spells, Make the Whole World GAY

Cloven (Krampus)

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (eerie)

Let it Snow

What Night is This?

Solstice Carol

Night of the Krampus

Silent Night, Solstice Night

December will be Magic Again

Hail the Holly King (The Holly king shredding on a snowy mountain)

Ice Queen (Dramatic Rock)

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🕯️ Candle Magic 🕯️

Candle magic is one of my favorite type of ritual, because it is relatively simple to setup, and non-expensive. You just need a candle, and fire to light it up. If you want the spell to be even more powerful, feel free to carve symbols or sigils on the candle before lighting it. Then sit down, observe the flame, and think about a question that is worrying you.

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Color correspondences

⚪ White candles: healing, purification, innocence, meditation, peace

⚫ Black candles: strength, negative energies, resilience, self-control

🟤 Brown candles: intuition, animal protection, stability, decisions

🟣 Purple candles: ambition, power, focus, concentration, inspiration

🔵 Blue candles: happiness, calm, laughter, relaxation, harmony, water

🟢 Green candles: luck, love, fertility, birth, health, success, earth

🟡 Yellow candles: imagination, divination, intelligence, energy, air

🟠 Orange candles: authority, changes, control, support, versatility

🔴 Red candles: love, brave, blood, passion, death, sex, fire

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Candle reading

🔥 Candle will not light: the question cannot be answered anymore, because things are already in movement, you cannot turn back now.

🔥 Strong, stable flame: the answer to your question is “yes”.

🔥 Weak, small flame: the answer to your question is “no”.

🔥 Dancing flame: there is chaotic, undisciplined energy present. You need to focus and meditate before taking any decision at the moment.

🔥 Crackling flame: spirits might be present in the room, and they would like to speak to you. Be open to their message.

🔥 A lot of smoke is coming out: the universe is helping you cleanse yourself and your room, leaving space for new opportunities and energies.

🔥 Candle will not go out: the spirits are telling you that the ritual is not over. Ask yourself if your question was the right one, or if there is anything that needs to be further discussed.

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Reblog if you want your followers to anonymously ask you one thing they want to know about you.

Spells for Job Seekers

Job seeking:

Job spell

Job spell!

Spell for a job

Job finding spell

Opportunity spell

Get! That! Job! Spell

Visualization job spell

Fast employment job spell

Spell to attract money/a job

Good luck for getting a job spell

Tyr amulet to gain employment

Spell for drawing in job opportunities and success

I have the job I want sigil

Career counselor tarot spread

For the interview:

Get the job spell and charm

Lucky interview bottle

Successful interview spell

Mini interview/luck spell jar

Luck for my job interview sigil

Spell jar to hasten a call back after the interview

Interview/performance review/presentation success spell

New job success:

New job protection pouch

New job spell jar

New job prosperity bowl

Odds and ends:

Business success potion

My business ventures are a success sigil

Career, income and passion spell jar

What to include in a job spell jar

Success/prosperity spell sachet

Prosperous and efficient spell sachet

Barista job spell jar

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spell for drawing in job opportunities/success 💸✨

this is a spell for drawing in job opportunities and career success, either to you or a friend! i performed this spell for my boyfriend and a week later an incredible opportunity arose AS WELL as one for me! it is truly a powerful ritual - but keep in mind that this spell only works if you put in your end - searching/applying, etc!.

materials:

taglock (something to represent you/the target of the spell! anything that shows your ability or talent is great - like a poem, report card, diploma, etc! a photo is great too)

four of wands tarot card (optional)

large 7-day green candle

cinnamon

earl grey tea packet (bergamot)

‘fast luck’ incense

paper and pen

your favorite crystal for meditation/grounding

ritual:

clean the space around where you are going to perform your spell and have a seat. meditate with your crystal for a moment until you reach a place of calm and focus.

arrange the taglock, tarot card, candle, and incense on your altar/ritual space.

using the paper and pen, write your intention for the spell. be specific! what kind of job would you like? part-time? full-time? how soon do you need the opportunity to come to you?

light the incense and wave the smoke around your intention. place the intention in an envelope and set it on your altar.

keeping your intention in mind, light the green candle, adding the cinnamon and earl grey tea packet.

keep the candle burning the entire week until it goes out on it’s own. daily, burn some more incense and add more cinnamon and tea to the flame.

once the candle has burned out, take the ashes from the incense/candle and some more cinnamon/tea and add it to salt to create a black salt to keep on your altar, keeping your spell alive as long as it needs to. 💞

How come whenever black people say that Hoodoo is closed to nonblack witches the FIRST THING white witches say is “Well then only white witches can practice Celtic/Hellenistic paganism (or any other OPEN European religion/spiritual practice).

Like it just shows how uneducated y’all are. Honestly. Celtic and Hellenistic paganism are OPEN practices. There is no requirements to join. Hoodoo was made by SLAVES, SLAVEESSSSS! Made by African slaves FOR African slaves and their descendants to help protect themselves. Why, as a white witch, would you want to use the spirits of slaves and black ancestors to do work for you??? Like why???

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Literally nothing makes me happier than the idea of hunting Elon Musk for sport. I am completely serious. The thought actively brings joy to my day.

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I'd even give him a backpack of food, maybe a day's worth. I'd even leave all his little gadgets on him. You'd only get connection with satellite anyway. He's got to feel confident or it's no fun.

Would you toy with him a bunch, or just go straight-in for the kill?

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Oh you absolutely draw it out are you kidding? You let the initial confidence erode into loneliness as the food and batteries run low, and helplessness when they run out, then fear when he realizes I gave him a canteen but no water. Am I trying to prolong the hunt? Or is it a trap to draw him out towards the rivers? The answer is both.

I’d let him get clever. Maybe he can start a fire with the electronics, maybe he read that he can brew the pine needles into tea for some extra calories. Maybe hes one of those guys that carries a multitool he never uses. Maybe he whittles a branch into a crude spear and manages to catch a salmon. Maybe he learns how many little bones they have.

More likely he goes hungry. That’s when you start fucking with him. You sneak into his camp at night. You leave him protein bars. Good ones. You make him feel watched. You make him feel desperate.

You wait for the full moon. Then you break out the horns and dogs and you learn how fast he can really run.

You seriously need to see a therapist

I kinda wish the tables would turn on people like op

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My gut says OP’s response to “what did Elon do to you?” is “he became wealthy and I’m envious and would rather him be dead”

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It's actually the congolese child slave labor and the illegal apartheid emerald mines and the assisting overthrowing the democratically elected government of Bolivia for lithium but go off king

#sdhfgsafs WHO are these elon defenders #he doesnt need your protection boo hes a pos billionare

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