The Witch of the Wolds

Call me Hetty. Witch from the Cotswolds. Witchy stuff and pages from my Grimoire. Some pages I have found online and redrew. Main a-sense-of-impending-doom Other blog is lavender-stone.

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It's been a while hope you are all well

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Mabon grimoire page redo

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Watched the perseoid meteor shower tonight I saw at least five and many bats, but its nearly moon rise so it'll be harder to see them, I'm heading to bed now, night 💫🦇

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Merry Lughnasadh, we made potato & courgette soup out of things from our garden and foccaccia with rosemary from our herb spiral

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Lughnasadh grimoire page

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More flowers from my garden, they survived the heatwave, Sun flower, snap dragons & hydrangea which somehow has blue, pink and white flowers

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Tasseomancy symbols and meanings

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Please reblog this version as its the comprehensive master post because of tumblrs 10 pictures per post limit

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Tasseomancy symbols and meanings

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Small Litha altar

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I hope everyone is having a lovely summer solstice ☀️

I'm going to be spending my afternoon in the garden and walking Bumble later as we are currently having really warm weather

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Litha grimoire page

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Went for a walk on the common with Bumble and look at all the lovely flowers that are out and the bugs that are attracted to them, we are so lucky that the blue butterflies are coming back 💙

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Didn't manage to get the little booklet done over the weekend because our electricity went out for a good 6 hours and I had not charged my laptop or phone so couldn't carry on with it, then realised I had miscounted how many pages I would need so had to start over 🙃 but I've finished drawing out the symbols and just need to write out the description and ink it all so hopefully maybe tomorrow

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Finally built our herb spiral, which was a lot of lugging of big rocks but definitely worth it, so happy with how it turned out, I still need to get a few more herbs to plant up, and I'm going to eventually have them all in the coco liners (except mint, as it goes crazy) because they rot down but I'm leaving things in pots now so I can move them around to see where they thrive

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Alright, I have done my research for the tasseomancy symbols and I have just finished finding references for drawing out all 202 symbols that I'm going to attempt, obviously there are many many more symbols but I don't want to go mad and I've already spent a long time on this but I'm hoping to get it done on the jubilee weekend

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Tasseomancy

I'm planning on also doing some kind of booklet that I can easily slip in and out of my grimoire of different tea leaf symbols and their meanings

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Hi Hetty, I can't believe how beautiful and accurate the pages from your BoS are, I have no idea how long it took and I'm sure people compliment your work all the time, but WOW. I am so impressed and motivated to improve mine too! Thank you for sharing them, have a lovely day :)

Hello @astraeaboann,

Thank you very much for your kind words, I really appreciate it, yes it does take a fair while; from research, to planning the page out, to actually writing it, especially as I tend to redo pages if I'm not happy with how they turn out, but I'm glad if people get inspired to do more of their own grimoires/ book of shadows.

Thank you again and I hope you also have a lovely day 😊