A.

witchcraft and pretty things. in my twenties. she

[bugdr00lz]

Meet The Blogger

If you find yourself needing to address me, you can call me A. I use she/her pronouns and am in my twenties.

I’m here to find the inspiration I need to reignite the flame inside me that has dwindled throughout the past decade.

My interests that I will express on this blog include casual/practical witchcraft, fiber arts (I just recently got into tapestry crochet and am hoping to create some beautiful pieces), writing, and honestly, a bunch of random other shit.

I try my best in my social interactions, but here’s a preemptive apology for any awkwardness or failure to hold a conversation.

This page is going to be a catch all, so I hope you’re okay with a vibe instead of a curation.

xx A.

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[bugdr00lz]

me rn

[nixpunk]

i love you. you made a mistake? i dont care i love you. you made a wrong choice? love you. you don’t think you’re good for anything? guess what you’re good for loving i love you

[nixpunk]

i was 15 when i made this post and i’m 25 now, and still seeing people reblog and tag this with things about their lovers or their friends or characters or themselves or that they really needed this today. i dunno it just feels really special to me. thank you, keep loving each other, i still love you.

[bugdr00lz]

Soiled Soil?

I had an idea and I’d like some input on the logistics of it.

If you have a bowl of water that you let sit out to collect negative energies, and if you dispose of that water into a planter that doesn’t actually have any plants, but is just soil, could you theoretically start using that soil in baneful magic?

[the-clumsywitch]

[horseavoider-deactivated2025020]

does anybody else drunk night sword

[escapismsworld]

"Moonlight" (1902) by Lionel Walden

[hemoglobin-juice]

i love you ferns i love you moss i love you fungi i love you lichen i love you mold i love you weird plant-like things that i dont know the actual id of i love you weird things that no one else seems to care about i love you

[breelandwalker]

Lucky Day Powder

Intent: To cause good luck and high probability of success to follow one for a single day.

Ingredients:

Orange Peel

Cinnamon

Fenugreek

Ginger

Irish Moss

Lemon Peel

Materials:

Mortar & Pestle (or spice grinder)

Funnel

Mesh Strainer

Collection Dish

Container

Note: Powdered versions of most herbs are available online. I recommend Wellcat Herbs and Starwest Botanicals for the best quality products. Also, if you can get your hands on a good spice grinder, you can make your own powder from dried herb products.

Grind each ingredient separately to produce fine powder. Sieve the material through the mesh strainer into the collection dish; this removes the larger unground pieces and gives you cleaner powdered herb. (Pro-Tip: Putting a funnel under the mesh strainer reduces lost material and makes collection much easier.)

Combine the component powders in the collection dish, mix well, and bottle immediately. For volume, go heavier on the less expensive or more easily available materials like Cinnamon, Ginger, and powdered fruit peels. Otherwise, use more or less even amounts.

Put a pinch in your shoes before going out on any day that you need a boost of good fortune, or chance to sway in your favor. Also useful for spellwork related to finding or keeping employment and obtaining wealth. Add to incenses and charms designed to bring luck. Combine in a jar with sesame seeds for long-term household use.

For more recipes to fill out your potion kit, you can check out Pestlework: A Book of Magical Powders & Oils. (Available on Amazon and in my shop!)

If you’re enjoying my content, please feel free to drop a little something in the tip jar or check out my published works on Amazon or in the Willow Wings Witch Shop. You may also enjoy my show, Hex Positive - available wherever fine podcasts are heard. 😊

[delusionalisted]

“Low Spoon” witchcraft doesn’t exist.

This is a post for all my disabled siblings. (But it applies to broke or low-income siblings as well.)

By the way, you heard me. What does exist is capitalism, consumerism and scarcity, all things that don’t belong to witchcraft. Witches in the past were mostly poor, unprivileged and unhealthy individuals with just one skill: knowledge. Yes, for today’s americentric standards they’d have been called “low-spoons practitioners”.

No fancy candles? No cauldron? Just one heavily used tarot deck?

Yes, no fancy candles Susan, you can keep those paraffin toxins to yourself.

Cauldron, Deborah? I have no money to waste for your pinterest aesthetics. We cook in this house, I can simply use a kitchen pot.

Mais oui Elizabeth, just one old tarot deck. It’s used my dear Elizabeth, you know… that’s something that happens when you actually use… tarot instead of purchasing 15 decks, then ending up using just one or two of them and leaving the other 13 to collect dust and resentment towards you.

*Sigh*

This is all to say, witchcraft doesn’t need a 9-steps process to be achieved. Calling it “low-spoons” practice just means “high spoons” practice is the norm. It is not. Most importantly, it never was. You don’t need 30 specific crystals to perform a spell, you don’t even need one most of the times.

— Addition: If you fit into the “Low Spoons” type of witch and you noticed that your spells or rituals don’t work, then let me share one of the possible reasons why they fail: you followed a “low spoons” recipe or spell preparation, consciously or unconsciously gave the title “too much power” (your subconscious registered your spell as something lesser than a proper ceremony) and any energy that you and the ingredients released just plopped like a pudding on the floor.

Branding something as “lesser” in spirituality can lead to two results: failure or high delays. Yes, the herbs you use still have, nourish and release power, but without YOUR faith, their power alone can do so much; in most cases, your subconscious skepticism rejects your desired manifestation leading to a delayed or completely failed magickal attempt.

[servantofthefates]

12 Things You Need to Know About Traditional Spells

Why are traditional spells so goddamn weird?

There is no black or white magic.

Elements That Make a Spell Truly Powerful

5 Signs that a Spell Book is Authentic

The Power in Witches’ Hair

Spell Ingredients in Traditional Witchcraft

We do not cast spells against haunted places.

Do not mistake grimoires for journals and scrapbooks.

We call it the Ritual of Wandering.

Shielding is entirely pointless.

Gold and Silver in Witchcraft

Why Blood Magic is Powerful

[clowncarbrain]

Minecraft Mob Poppets: A Technomancy Concept

I’m playing with an idea in my head, per usual, so we’ll see how this works but writing down what’s going through my head helps unjumble my thoughts

Names can be used as a taglock. So if you name a mob after a specific person, it could be used as a poppet. I have a few ideas of what you could do from there…

Name it after your friend and use an anvil to name its food after what you’re wanting to cast (happiness, peace,) and feed it to the animal to send it their way (Note: You should always ask friends and loved ones if they’re comfortable with you using magic on them)

Name the mob after someone you want to protect and build a barrier around it

Name a cat after someone and sit it down on a bed to invoke better sleep

Drown the mob to drown the target with insecurity

Explode the mob to make the person’s own hatred backfire on them

Bury a mob named after a person you want to forget about

Might think of more ideas later, but this is something I wanted to jot down and try out.

Thoughts? 🤔

[bugdr00lz]

Assigning Purpose to Ingredients - After The Fact

Does anyone have experience with successfully adding intention/energy to premade things?

I just can’t seem to come up with a method of imbuing correspondences into something mass-made (ex: my rosemary & mint shampoo), that feels right to me. So ultimately, I’m just looking for ideas or things that others have tried. Hopefully I’ll find something inspiring!!

[sweatermuppet]

thank u earth for leather & fur & sex & pottery & laughter & rain & the lilac bush & hay in a field & cows to eat the hay & thank u earth for a perfect view of the moon

[breelandwalker]

2025 Witches' Calendar

For all my witches out there, here’s a handy list of the 2025 dates for the solstices, some commonly-referenced holidays, full and new moons, and special astronomical events. I’ve listed my sources at the bottom.

Dates and times for all events are calculated for Eastern Standard Time, USA, Northern Hemisphere. Adjust for your location as needed and check the DarkSky Placefinder to see what special events will be visible in your area.

On a related note, readers are encouraged to create their own seasonal calendars, holidays, and observances based on your local biome and personal preferences. Enjoy!

Solstices, Harvests, Quarter Days, Some Common Dates

February 1-2 - Imbolc / Candlemas / High Winter

March 20 - Spring Equinox / Ostara

April 30-May 1 - Beltane / May Day / Walpurgisnacht

June 20 - Summer Solstice / Midsummer / Litha

August 1 - Lughnasadh / Lammas / Summer Harvest

September 22 - Autumn Equinox / Mabon / Fall Harvest

October 31 - Samhain / Halloween / Final Harvest

December 21 - Winter Solstice / Yule

Full Moons

January 13 - Wolf Moon ♋

February 12 - Snow Moon ♌

March 14 - Worm Moon ♍ (Lunar Eclipse)

April 12 - Pink Moon ♎

May 12 - Flower Moon ♏

June 11 - Strawberry Moon ♐

July 10 - Thunder Moon (aka Buck Moon) ♑

August 9 - Sturgeon Moon (aka Corn Moon) ♒

September 7 - Harvest Moon ♓ (Lunar Eclipse)

October 6 - Hunter's Moon (aka Blood Moon) ♈

November 5 - Frost Moon (aka Beaver Moon) ♉ (Supermoon)

December 4 - Cold Moon ♊ (Supermoon)

* The full moons in September and October are almost EXACTLY equidistant from the Autumn Equinox this year, so whether you'll have a Harvest Moon in September or October depends on where you live!

New Moons

January 29 ♒

February 27 ♓

March 29 ♈

April 27 ♉

May 26 ♊

June 25 ♋

July 24 ♌

August 23 ♍

September 21 ♍ (Seasonal black moon, second new moon in Virgo)

October 21 ♎

November 20 ♏

December 19 ♐

Special Celestial Events

March 14 - Worm Moon Total Lunar Eclipse

March 29 - Solar Eclipse

September 7 - Harvest Moon Total Lunar Eclipse

September 21 - Seasonal Black Moon / Solar Eclipse

November 5 - Frost Moon Supermoon

December 4 - Cold Moon Supermoon

(Check the DarkSky Placefinder to see what will be visible in your area!)

Mercury Retrogrades (in case you need them)

March 14 to April 6

July 17 to August 10

November 9 to November 29

Happy Witching!

SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

Bree’s Lunar Calendar Series

Bree’s Secular Celebrations Series

Moon Info - Full Moon Dates for 2025

Calendar-12 - 2025 Moon Phases

Full Moonology - 2025 Full Moon Calendar

AstroStyle - All the 2025 Full Moons

Your Zodiac Sign - Astrology Calendar 2025

Old Farmer’s Almanac - Mercury Retrograde Dates 2024-2025

Sea and Sky - Astronomy Calendar of Celestial Events 2025

DarkSky International - Dark Sky Placefinder for Stargazing

Patheos - 2025 Wheel of the Year Astrological Calendar

Image Source - How Stuff Works

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[bugdr00lz]

Using witchcraft as motivation to do mundane things?

I’ve been trying to find resources for “practical magic” lately and have not come up with any that quite address what I’m looking for.

The best way to describe what I want to learn, is how one can feel the energetic relationship between something like a spell to grow my hair to be long, healthy, and beautiful and the mundane actions of using the right conditioner, sleeping with a silk wrap, using rosemary oil, etc.

I guess I’m looking for other witches who have the brain capacity (that I severely lack) to break their wants/needs down into bite sized bits. For example: a spell or sigil to find hair products that work best for me without having to try a bunch and spend tons of money.

I hope this makes sense and that someone gets what I mean. If there’s someone out there who works their magic like this, I’d be very interested in hearing from you!

🍎🐛

[witchofthewildwood]

to rewild your witchcraft

walk barefoot on stones in shallow streams.

talk to the wind and let it carry away your regrets.

forage for wildflowers to place on your altar, press in thrifted books, or give to loved ones —be careful when identifying

watch sunrises and sunsets. wake up before the sun. bare witness to the painted sky.

spend hours in the woods among the wild. take long long walks or sit still and watch the world.

talk to plants and listen to them. make friends.

get field guides to trees, plants, birds, etc. that are native to your area. learn which are which. bookmark pages that you recognize or want to find.

sing back to the robins. caw back to the crows.

journal by firelight and feel the flame burn your worries away.

gather snow and bring a bowl inside. talk to it and tell it your worries. your fears. let it melt, transmuting your stress and worries into healing nourishment. bring it outside and water the soil. see how things can be changed.

dance. run. move your body to sweat, if this is something you can do

collect stones from the river and try to find the best ones. keep them in your pocket. hold onto them to remember that you’re an animal.

go to a lake and float. feel the water carry you. lifting you from your stress. bring a vial and collect some for spellwork.

make a necklace out of an acorn and thread.

stand in the rain. dance in it. lay down in the grass and let it pour. let it wash fears away, transform doubt to hope. start anew.

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘

(wild winter witchcraft here)