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The Cayenne Kitchen Witch: Holiday Kitchen Witchery

It’s December, which means it’s time to take advantage of the incredible holiday ingredients available! Here are some of my favorite winter items:

Cranberry: Protection, banish negativity

Cinnamon: Security, prosperity, love

Peppermint: Cleansing, sleep, healing

Nutmeg: Luck, money, health

Maple: Longevity, love, luck

Apple: Peace, strength, health

Orange: Love, health, happiness

Ginger: “Fires Up” spells

Use these ingredients in your kitchen witchery, and infuse your winter with warmth, comfort, and happiness!

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Please do not ingest/inhale any herbs unless you are certain they are safe, this includes ensuring you do not possess an allergy to them.

- Magpie

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Isobel’s Occult Library

Hey! This is a post version of my Occult PDF Library. I am constantly updating the library so this post will soon become dated, but this is what I have as of 07/12/2015 (UK). If you want to see if there’s been any updates since then, look here.

Non Fiction

Free Pagan Books

A Practical Guide To Witchcraft And Magic Spells Cassandra Eaton

Witchcraft Today Gerald Gardner

The Gardnerian Book Of Shadows Gerald Gardner

The Meaning of Witchcraft Gerald Gardner

Natural Magic Doreen Valiente

The Witch’s Master Grimoire Lady Sabrina

The Spiral Dance Starhawk

Divination for Beginners Scott Cunningham

Wicca; A Guide For The Solitary Practitioner Scott Cunningham

Living Wicca Scott Cunningham

Encyclopedia Of Gem And Crystal Magic Scott Cunningham

Earth, Air, Fire and Water Scott Cunningham

Encyclopedia Of Magic Herbs Scott Cunningham

Wicca In The Kitchen Scott Cunningham

The Magical Household Scott Cunningham, David Harrington

Spell Crafts - Creating Magical Objects Scott Cunningham, David Harrington

Buckland’s Complete Book Of Witchcraft Raymond Buckland

A Witches Bible Janet and Stewart Farrar

The Complete Idiot Guide To Witchcraft And Wicca Denise Zimmermann, Katherine A Gleason

Timeline Of Esoterica

Pseudomonarchia Daemonum Johann Weyer

The Magus Francis Barrett

The Key Of The Mysteries Eliphas Lévi

Dogme Et Rituel De La Haute Magie Eliphas Lévi (English Translation)

The Study Of Solomonic Magic In English Don Karr

The Greater Key Of Solomon Book I Liddell MacGregor Mathers, British Museum

The Greater Key Of Solomon Book II Liddell MacGregor Mathers, British Museum

Charge Of The Goddess Doreen Valiente

The Book Of Oberon Multiple Authors

Cornish Witchcraft Books Multiple Authors (Does not include PDF)

The Art Of Drawing Spirits Into Crystals Trithemius of Spanheim

A Reformed Druid Anthology Isaac Bonewits, Robert Larson

Doctor Beowolf’s Handy Guide To The Runes Doctor Beowolf

A Brief Handbook Of Exorcism

Grimoire Of Chaos Magick

LaVey’s Satanic Bible Anton LaVey

The Satanic Rituals Anton LaVey (safe download)

The Satanic Witch Zeena LaVey

Practical Sigil Magic Frater U.D

Dictionary Of Craft Terms

The Book Of Runes Ralph Blum

Witchcraft In Scotland Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe

The Ultimate Encyclopedia Of Spells Michael Johnstone

Of Geomancy Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Three Books On Occult Philosophy Book I Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Three Books On Occult Philosophy Book II Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Three Books On Occult Philosophy Book III Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Beginner’s Guide To Crowley Books Frater Julianus

Aleister Crowley Book Collection

Magic Without Tears Aleister Crowley

Magick In Theory And Practise Aleister Crowley

The Book Of Thoth Aleister Crowley

The Book Of Law Aleister Crowley

Basic Techniques Of Sex Magick Aleister Crowley (Safe download)

The Book Of Lies Aleister Crowley (Safe download)

Natural Magic Pamela Ball

Herbal Magick - Herbal Enchantments, Folklore and Divination Gerina Dunwich

The Ultimate Book of Spells Pamela Ball

The Great Book of Spells Pamela Ball

Spells for the Solitary Witch Pamela Ball

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Spells by Michael Johnstone

8 Sabbaths of Witchcraft Mike Nichols

Celtic Mythology and Religion Alexander Mcbain

An Introduction to the Study of Tarot Paul Foster Case

Encyclopedia of Acient Roman and Greek Mythology James Belton

Asgard and the Gods, by M. MacDowall

Grimoire for Modern Cunningfolk Peter Paddon

The A to Z of Dream Interpretation Pamela Ball

The Dream Oracle Pamela Ball

The Techniques of Astral Projection Dr. Douglas Baker

Amulets and Magic Budge Walli

The Witch’s Familiar Raven Grimassi

Wicca For Beginners Lisa Chamberlain

Norse Magic D.J Conway

Falcon, Feather and Valkyrie Sword D.J Conway

Celtic Magic D.J Conway

Gay Witchcraft Christopher Penczak

Fiction

The Fellowship Of The Ring by J J R Tolkien

The Two Towers by J J R Tolkien

The Return Of The King by J J R Tolkien

The Silmarilion by J J R Tolkien

Marked By PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Betrayed by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Chosen by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Untamed by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Hunted by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Tempted by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Burned by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Awakened by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Destined by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Hidden by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Revealed by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

Redeemed by PC Cast and Kristin Cast

The Secret Circle: Book Of Shadows by LJ Smith

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For the people slyly writing comments in the tags instead of coming to me about it; yes I am well aware that many of these sources are inaccurate, flawed, or carry across cultural appropriation. However it would be remiss of me to throw away what I deem inappropriate, because my perceptions differ from others. I believe there is something to be learned from every book, even bad ones, and that reading them will help the individual to grow. I should have mentioned this in the post, it is already mentioned on the library page.

thepaganstudygrouppage

Hi, So I have done research and have come to the conclusion that I'm drawn to become a Solitary Electric Witch. But I was wondering, do you think it's necessary to do a "self initiation" into the craft and if so, how do I go about doing this?

It’s unnecessary. If you want to do so then that’s fine. I’m not entirely sure how one would go about it as Witchcraft is secular and if you’re not blending it with any religion I don’t know of any rituals or rites that would be secular. But no, it’s not necessary to initiate yourself into witchcraft.

Sparrow

asksecularwitch

Witchcraft as a whole is *not* secular. It can be religious, a religion, and secular. It is a conglomerate of practices. Please stop saying this. It progates problems for secular witches, we are a unique genre of witchcraft that needs full recogition as a separate unit because of various things that i dont feel is appropriate to lecture on here.

That being said, initiation rites are not necessarily all religious. For example, initation into a club or a frat would be an example of a secular initiation (assuming that the club and frat are not religious).

Self initiation takes two meanings. The first is “starting yourself in practice”. Literally putting the key in the ignition, initiation. This has been done for a lot of practices.

The other meaning is “i am now in such and such a closed group without anyone from that group acknowledging me” and this is the one that is bad. It says that you dont care about the groups acknowledging you as one of their own and that you supercede them. Self dedication is the more meaning for this as a replacement term, which means that you are dedicated to joining the group but you havent yet done the initiation rites.

There are literally tons of initiation rites in witchcraft. Some open and some not. Some easy and some not. Like one is firing a bullet to the sky after a long hike and seeing if the moon turns red. Initiation requirements depend on practice. Both secular and religious.

My practice has an initiation requirement and rite. Just as a mechanism for me to push people from claiming to be practicing what I am practicing. C: not for really any other reason.

So your miles may vary.

lavenderlipstickandshit

I think I have to disagree with you on whether witchcraft is inherently secular or not but I’d like to discuss it! I think you make a few wonderful points, and I agree with you when you say that secular witchcraft is a very unique genre on its own.

But when something isn’t inherently religious, it’s secular. My desk is secular. If I turn that desk into an altar, it ceases to become secular. It is now religious (please don’t think I’m talking down to you, because I know you already know what it means, but I’m just writing through my thought process. I follow your blog and I think you bring a fresh viewpoint to the table and I don’t mean this to sound condescending in any way, but I know text cannot portray tone well).

But like I think of witchcraft as a circle. A bunch of people could stand around a circle and it’s still just a circle. It’s a very unique circle, and you can do a bunch of activities and games around it. But then you have Christian prayer circles and Wiccan sacred space circles, etc. It’s now a religious circle, but it doesn’t mean the circle isn’t inherently secular, even if someone worships the circle. Then, for them and only them, it ceases to be a secular activity/thing (like those who find religion in witchcraft).

Like…the way I understand it is that if something is inherently religious, you are always taking it out of its religious context to become secular (such as celebrating Christmas when you aren’t Christian). You can take it out of the context, but it’s still a religious holiday. And if it’s inherently secular, you can add religion to it (+Wicca, +spirituality, +Christianity), but it still doesn’t make witchcraft itself a religious activity.

I hope I’m explaining what I mean sufficiently. I’d like to know your thoughts, though.

asksecularwitch

Let’s address your two examples:

1) The Desk is Secular, The Desk is Religious.

The problem lies in the fact that a Desk in your example is not like Witchcraft. Witchcraft has had a really wobbly interesting history when it comes to religious and religion involved in it. Primarily that Witchcraft has almost always been either a religion or a religious context. It was not, based on pretty much a bunch of examples of historical and folk witchcraft, like the Desk, where it was “turned religious” or “turned to religion” and now has become “back to it’s normal state.” That just isn’t the case.

I have demanded sources from people who claim that witchcraft has *always* been secular. Specifically demanded that they provide evidence of witchcraft practices that existed… err coexisted with religious witchcraft in the previous forms of witchcraft outside of the last 5 years (when the term became popularized).

It was always viewed as a religious or religion depending on time.* So how did we get to secularism in witchcraft? Well, my argument for why my practice is secular is because of the adaptability of witchcraft over time. There is a long history of adaption in witchcraft. Be it different styles of Witchcraft (Slavic verses Italian verses Anglo-Saxon) to current Modern practices (Eclectic Paganism verses Reconstruction paganism verses Wicca). I adapted what I understood as witchcraft and created my own practice which was of a non-religious type.

Adaption covers the issue of how we get to secular being a UNIQUE genre of witchcraft, and not the core, base, or “generic” form of witchcraft. Like any other UNIQUE genre of witchcraft, such as Italian Witchcraft, Anglo-Saxon Witchcraft, Slavic Witchcraft, Hedge Witchcraft, Green Witchcraft, etc etc. It is a Customized version of Witchcraft that fits particular needs. It follows the suit of humans changing things to fit their needs.

Otherwise we’d be doing the same form of witchcraft consistently thorough out.**

So the “Desk” you’re talking about, actually was an altar. Then it became the inspiration for a desk. Not the other way around.

2) “Just add a Spoonful of Religion” Makes Secularism a Mockery.

So with the concept that “Witchcraft is secular” comes some rather nasty problematic issues (as I mentioned I didn’t want to lecture, but since you’ve opened the floor). The most important one is that you’re basically how do I put it…

Let me put it first this way:

Religious Witches, especially in the New Age section, for years and years and years, have said that Witchcraft is a Religion. Have said that you cannot be a Witch and be someone who is Secular. Period. You just cannot practice secularly. That if you practice secularly, you are a horrible person who does not understand how the Universe works.

By saying “Witchcraft is Secular”, you’re literally using the exact same thought processes that these Religious Witches have, who specifically have gone out of their way to mock, ridicule, and otherwise hate on secular witches for adapting Witchcraft to themselves. Why would you want to duplicate the same erasive behavior? You’re not helping the cause. You’re actually denying people their right to their core religious and religion practices.

But more importantly, you’re “hiding” their attacks against secular witches. What I mean by that, is you’re basically ignoring the fact that this was even a denied thing. Like you’re not even talking about the fact that Secular Witches TO THIS DAY get hate mail, get all kind of bad shit just for being Secular. Like you pick up a new age book today, and you will find the same shit in there that’s been in there for a while. Secularism is NEW in witchcraft. You can’t pretend like it was just always there, always accepted. That’s not the case. And quite frankly, it’s offensive.

But even more…

You rip away the need for Secular Witch or secular witchcraft to even be a recognized as a genre of witchcraft. “Secular Witches have always been just plain ol’ Witches.” There’s a really big reason why Secular Witch is an important term. And it comes at the face of wide spread anti-secularism in witchcraft feelings. People see it as “stealing people’s practices” or “dabbling.” You would not believe the amount of shit that I have had to deal with SINCE calling myself a non-religious witch, and even more so SINCE calling myself a secular witch.

Likewise, I am really tired of secular witchcraft being the “default” or “the core” of witchcraft as a whole. All Secular Witches are Individualistic. All Secular Witches are DIY witches. All secular Witches are Creators of their own practice. Secular Witchcraft are not “generic” forms of witchcraft. All secular Witches, even within the UNIQUE Secular Witchcraft genre are different. By saying that Secular Witchcraft is the core, or the basic, or the generic version of witchcraft, you stop explaining how individualistic we are. It’s almost like you’re calling secular witches, for lack of a better term, boring.

And “+Wicca” (which don’t even get me started on this because this really pissed me off, so please keep in mind I’m trying not to be supes angry right now) or “+Paganism” is the extra spice that makes other witchcraft practices “special.”

Secular Witches are NOT the reason why people can practice different religions and different religious structures. Why are you even bringing that up? Religious witches have been different for hundreds of years before secular witchcraft was even on the table. Like they have literally got the longest history of being different from each other. Christian witches, for example, have been there for the longest fucking time.

It feels like an excuse every time someone brings up this “adding a spoonful of religion” to witchcraft. An excuse to go do whatever religion they wanna do. Instead of saying yo, I made this religion. Like Gardner did, with Wicca. Like Why are you using Secular Witchcraft to talk about religious witchcraft? At all. Like why?

And finally: “Adding Religion is Easy, just follow the steps!”

Adding religion or taking religion out, is fundamentally destructive to a tradition. I know, I broke my practice from a religious witchcraft standpoint. It’s neither simple, nor easy, nor gentle, nor cute. It is, in my opinion, really fucking hard to do. I am constantly questioning, looking at things, did I accidentally add a religious flavor to my practice.

Because any religious addition, BREAKS secularism. They are complete, total, opposites. You cannot “add” religion to secularism and not “break something” fundamental along the way. It’s not a simple procedure. Or a check list. Or something like that.

Like your desk for instance. Changing it to a religious context, means a paradigm shift in how you associate that item in your mind. Likewise in also may include a shift in your behavior. maybe you no longer put things on that altar that would have been fine on that desk. Maybe you only go to the altar on certain days of the week. Maybe you cover that altar with some kind of fabric or draping that you wouldn’t put on a regular desk. Maybe you take that altar outside and have it “charge by moonlight” which you would never do for a desk. You start changing.

It’s called “raising the mundane to sacred” which is pretty common for a lot of religions who use tools and other mechanism in their practice. Likewise, taking something sacred and bringing it down to the mundane is called “Profaning the Sacrality.” (these aren’t the technical phrases for it, I’m putting it in my words because I am forgetful of what the actual terminology is)

You fundamentally break something crossing those boundaries. Be it your view on that item, or the item itself (such as digging a pentacle in the center of your altar for religious purposes). So it’s really important not to… boohoo the paradigm shift.

Oh look at this communion chalice, hohoho it’s just a cup. Hohoho just like tea is just hot leaf water, hohoho. Like this is a really disrespectful way of doing things when it comes to profaning things.

Plus you don’t even need to profane something. Some symbol you borrowed out from some other sources that has a key place in a religion. Or some tool or some whatever. You can literally start from a secular base and build something without harkening back to profaning.

So basically, no Witchcraft isn’t secular. Witchcraft is a lot of things because of it’s long history of adapting to people’s needs and wants - hence why it can include so many things. That’s why Witchcults like Wicca whose religion status is paramount to be recognized as a TOTAL religion into itself, and religious witches who view their witchcraft as both a religious and spiritual thing but not totally a religion, and secular witches all can play under the same sandbox label as witchcraft.

But it’s also important to recognize that each one (including that middle part right there, which I don’t think I perfectly exemplified here) has their own unique genres and unique structures underneath and not all are the exact same. Have the exact same mechanisms, paradigms, history, and struggles.

I hope this made some type of sense beyond me being a little aggressive about Wicca, which I really hate having to defend Wicca. I’m just saying. I really do. That’s what got me the most annoyed. LOL.

*The time that it was not, it was viewed as the Monster Woman mechanism used to make women and other genders who identify with the witch theme as horrible evils. Thus it was not necessarily a good example of your point. :P Even though I might identify with the Monster Woman stereotype.

** We’ll not get into this discussion about how some Trad Witchcraft people say that they are the only ones to properly practice witchcraft and yadda yadda yadda because I’m not about that life tbh.

lavenderlipstickandshit

I can see where you’re coming from, and I by no way meant to offend, so I hope you know that. It’s just a concept that I haven’t seen before, and I want to discuss it; that’s all. If I say anything that offends you, please understand that I do so from a place of ignorance and lack of research, as I’m only just getting back into this from what I had to ‘unlearn’ as a young adult. When I see something I don’t understand or agree with, I prefer to discuss it over with the person who has the opposing view, because it’s the only way to really understand what they are trying to say.

First off, I didn’t mean it as a ‘spoonful of religion,’ though I definitely see that it came out like that. I do understand that there are religions that are so intertwined with witchcraft that it is impossible (or at the very least extremely difficult) to separate the two.

However, what about some forms of folk magic (though I know there are religious ties to some folk magic), old wives’ tales, and medicine men/women? At one point the old woman who lived by herself may not have called herself a witch, but knowing too much about the plants around her would give her the name by others in the town. The connection between plants and herbal medicine by have started religiously but it was by no means mutually exclusive.

There’s always the whole ‘witchcraft is conflated with the devil’ stuff, too, which spout a ton of misinformation that might be covering up any secular magic users.

I still disagree that witchcraft isn’t secular by itself, though maybe not inherently so; it is a more complex subject than I thought before. Although many religions are combined with witchcraft in a way that there is no separating it and maybe secular magic is new, but that’s what it’s changing into. Words change and witchcraft adapts and I’m thinking that it’s simply the majority agreed upon definition now. Maybe I used the wrong examples, but that’s how I always thought of witchcraft.

I’m definitely not saying it’s easy and even I’ve seen how frowned upon it is within the different communities (but I also see that changing). I don’t mean to erase your experiences or hardships. You’ve definitely given me a bit to think about on the subject and I’ll do my research before I come up with an opinion of my own.

Eclectic and Secular witches often run the same gauntlet of hate, with others accusing them of stealing and cherry picking. I don’t agree that anyone calling witchcraft a secular practice is erasing the need for a secular genre; it’s actually had the opposite effect as far as I have seen within the community on Tumblr as well as what I have seen in my community back home.

As a whole, though, I do see your frustration and will try to keep it in mind as I continue to research the topic for myself.

asksecularwitch

Hihi, it’s grumpy lumpy sec. :D

First, I can talk about something being offensive without thinking that you are doing any offense to me. That’s basically what I was trying to cover. Most of my yous in this post were not personal yous, they were general yous. ;_; confusing none the less. Sorry about that.

Second, Folk magic, Cunning Folk Magic, and Witchcraft share an interesting history when it comes to different thing. Folk magic was/is not just “medicine woman” stereotypes, where in the woman just did herbal magic. What you’re thinking about is more under the line of Phramaka/ Pharmakeia which actually did have a religious background on it (specifically with Greek Paganism).

Folk magic includes a lot of different practices both religious and non-religious - but I am extremely hesitant to call all of Folk Magic Witchcraft. For two reasons. But to be really honest with you, I’m having a hard time actually thinking of a few examples of truly secularized magic in the folk magic spectrum. What I mean by that, is if you’re going to compare Secular Witchcraft to say forms of Folk Magic that look non-religious, then you must also bring forth examples that it was looked at, in context, as a secular form of practicing that. Though it definitely could be done, I just cannot come up with good examples right now. like the example that’s coming to mind is animism which is a belief that I personally quasi-have. Animism can exist outside of religious structures, but it requires an explanation for why that is out, ie what it’s source. And almost every time I come to this example I see all of the ways it is animistic because of a religious engagement/context. Ie that we can’t pull one technique out of context we have to pull the entire chunk and discuss it as a large whole otherwise you miss parts of the religion.

The first reason, is that Folk Magic is important to be separated from Witchcraft because people practicing this folk magic might have felt insulted by someone referring to their practice as witchcraft. it might also have been dangerous. Likewise I think it was near or around the time of Gardner where there was this movement to kind of bring more High Magick standards to Witchcraft (and thus developed a High Magick Religion, wicca. I think I can argue that). So Witchcraft hasn’t always been associated with purely folk magic and vice versa. Folk magic a lot of times was associated with “benign” magic, where as witchcraft was associated more with “malign” magic. Hence me referring to the Monster Woman discussion, which is why I said it wouldn’t help your argument so much. :D

The Second reason is that Folk Magic, as a term, is extremely broad compared to Witchcraft. What I mean by that is Folk magic includes a hell of a lot of places and practices that are not labeled Witchcraft (for a variety of reasons). Like Hoodoo, for example, is a type of Folk Magic (though I wouldn’t argue it is SOLELY Folk magic, I’m just exemplifying a commonly looked at practice). And while Hoodoo does share some of the characteristics of other forms of Witchcraft, because it took on various things as it was converted by Slaves when they were sold in the US, that doesn’t mean Hoodoo is witchcraft and that it’s appropriate to call it Witchcraft.

Basically, just because it’s magic or a magical form, doesn’t mean it’s witchcraft.

Cunning Folk Magic likewise has a very religious history. There is a lot of religions in Cunning Folk practices, some pagan, and some christian. I don’t know if I could find any flavor of Cunning Folk that could be secularized. There’s a lot of cunning folk practices that are very, very religious. Cunning Folk practices are pretty important to discuss when we talk about witchcraft because….

Witchcraft and Cunning Folk practices actually share much of the same practices when it comes to discussions about Europe and European styles of Witchcraft. There’s often times where there is no difference between Cunning Folk practices and Witchcraft practices. That’s not necessarily the case these days, but if you look into certain areas at certain times, it’s almost like they are very mingled together.

So that doesn’t really help your argument much if you have a very religious or a mostly religious thing that shares a commonality with Witchcraft. ;3;

As for the “Witchcraft = the Devil” bit, actually there’s a lot of historical “Satanic” or devil worship presence in both Witchcraft and Folk magic alike. Like some people view the Devil as a Liminal God or a Crooked God (Liminal meaning “boundary holder”, Crooked meaning “not giving the straight answer, not giving an answer that is easy”), and that’s still a view that people have to this day. Likewise, some people actually straight up (if you believe some of their untortured testimony which a lot of Cunning Folk practices point at) said that the reason they work with the Devil is because they are rebelling against God.

The Devil has a place in Folk magic, Cunning Folk Magic, and Witchcraft. And it may or may not come from a religious sense. It’s the same with Folk Saints or Folk Spirits. You can’t ignore some for the sake of the other.

So I don’t want you to think that Witchcraft and the Devil have always had this terrible connection, there definitely is something to say when people (meaning outsiders who do not practice anything related to witchcraft) say that Witchcraft is a Devil Worshipping practice and sweeps pagans, satanists, and secularists all under the same label. But we shouldn’t let what outsiders think dictate how we understand Witchcraft to be formed or classified.

So whether or not it’s “hiding” secular witchcraft in that spectrum in the past, I cannot say. That would require us to actually a) get the people back, b) have a conversation with them about whether or not they are actually practicing witchcraft which the majority of them I would argue is not the case at all, and c) then have a discussion about is there some level of religion or religious flavor or not. Was it done without a religion in mind or a religious context.

Frankly, I don’t like saying anyone from the Witch Hunts are witches. I know that’s not the most popular response, but I just don’t like it.

I actually agree that Witchcraft is definitely changing in terminology when it comes to both people’s conversation and it’s structure. That’s why I talked about adaptation so much. I even wrote another post about it, because I really like this concept a lot. ;_; lol. I think the conversation should definitely include secular Witchcraft, Especially if we’re not trying to say that ALL forms of Witchcraft are secular, or are some how “based in secularism.”

But I think we can achieve that through wording witchcraft as a label that includes religions, religious practices, and secular practices rather than saying that Witchcraft is <one thing> and one thing only. That in of itself is a change to the idea of Witchcraft because Witchcraft evolves because people evolve.

I mean how many people are peeing on biscuits and feeding them to the Familiar of the Witch who cursed them to rebound the spell? Lol. How many people have chimneys that they stuff their extra clothes around so that the Familiar when it comes down the chimney, that it’ll attack the clothes because it has the scent of the human on it.

Verses how many people are using their Swipe keyboards to make sigils? Doing Pop culture witchcraft? Talking to spirits and telling them they are drunk and you need to go home. (Spirit u drunk, it’s me. :D I’m doing that).

Like Witchcraft totally evolves, but we should not remove the original things that had a presence there, in favor of the new thing. We should just include the new thing. That’s just my argument here.

Now as for this bit here:

“ . I don’t agree that anyone calling witchcraft a secular practice is erasing the need for a secular genre; it’s actually had the opposite effect as far as I have seen within the community on Tumblr as well as what I have seen in my community back home. “

What I’m saying here is two things. The first is that if we say that Witchcraft by default is secular, then there’s no reason to even have a label of Witchcraft. Because by default, every witch is a secular witch. It becomes a redundant statement to say secular witch. Because Witch should be enough to explain you at that point. But it’s not. And that’s what I’m saying by erasing.

The second, is what I’ve seen on tumblr is a variety of things as the outcome of using Witchcraft is Secular. So the most important one, is that people do not understand that secular means “non-religious.” Instead they associate it with Atheism. So you’ll find people calling themselves secular pagans [which is a paradox of the highest order as paganism is a religious labeling]. Likewise you’ll see this conversation about how there is no need to have Gods in witchcraft because secular witchcraft exist. Or that people don’t understand why someone would be in a religion and practicing witchcraft. Or like you said earlier (religious witchcraft = secular witchcraft + a spoonful of whatever religion we’re discussing).

But the more insidious problem, is that people are actually doing to Religious Witches what religious witches did to secular witches. I had a really good friend on here (I still miss you greenmystic, I hope you’re doing okay). And I watched them talk about their religion, their witchcraft, the same thing, and people sent them anons after anons after anons (i pretty much replied to every single one of them myself) about how there is no way that their Religion is witchcraft because witchcraft is secular. Because witchcraft can’t be a religion unto itself. Because it’s secular.

They pushed this person off the site completely. And I know they do it a lot on this site and that wasn’t just a singular isolated thing. I’ve seen it happen a couple times. And from religious witches who are not secular. LOL. What the fuck.

The acceptance of Secular Witchcraft came at the cost of denying other people their practices. And I just don’t think that’s okay. I just don’t. I think it’s rude, I think it’s unfair, and I think it’s well… petty and a knee jerk reaction to anyone who said “Witchcraft is a Religion.” Like we can be mad about people saying that “Witchcraft is a religion”/”WItchcraft is religious” but we can’t be mad about “Witchcraft is secular”? When it’s doing the same thing? Doing the same problem? Causing pain in the community?

I think there is an appropriate way to recognize and appreciate secular witchcraft (which is what you’re getting at right?) and an inappropriate way. And I think tumblr as a whole doesn’t know which is witch… I mean which. :P

Secular Witchcraft is a very small community (compared to the entire world of witchcraft). And like other small communities, you cannot raise it up by using it as a weapon against others. Maybe I’m the only one who feels this way, but I really don’t like the weaponizing of Secular Witches to break people who say that all forms of witchcraft is religious (for several reasons, but this post is long enough). I think there needs to be more conversation on it than that. I think respecting a community is not using that community to hurt people. Again this just could be me.

But before I finish I just want to say… there are some other problems are that Secular Witches are actually appropriating things from other religions and taking them out of context. And it’s not cool beans. I just had a convo about that on my blog actually. And how to manage and deal with that. I can link if you’d like. So we can cause pain, ourselves, to the community. It’s not just people using secular witchcraft as a weapon, we literally can be the cause of pain our ownselves. And we need to own that and fix it.

You know? And yes, that cherry picking thing is like the literal most annoying accusation of my life.

OF MY LIFE.

I do associate kind of with the eclectic forms of witchcraft. Like as a whole, I kind of view secularism and eclecticism in very similar situations.

I hope that made sense. ;3;

magpiesmagicnestarchive

Please do not ingest/inhale any herbs unless you are certain they are safe, this includes ensuring you do not possess an allergy to them.

- Magpie

nature-is-punk

Witches Reblog If...

• New, young, or considering witches can ask you questions

• Your blog is free of hate and is a safe learning community (this includes bashing christians/non-pagans)

• No questions (as long as they aren’t creepy) will be laughed at or shamed

• It’s okay to ask you for advice or opinions, even if you are an experienced witch.

• Your blog is inviting and welcoming and is a space for education on the craft.

I will follow you, because tumblr needs more of these witches.

awitchfromthesouth-deactivated2

Cannot agree more!

callistojewelry

witchedways-blog

bewitched forest

weird noises: happen in the wee hours

me, unaffected: the only supernatural and ominous force in this place is me and i was here first, so whatever and whoever you are you need to Go

understanding what things in your chart mean:

sun/star sign: your conscious

rising/ascendant: how others see you

moon: why you do what you do/your soul & how you think

mercury: how you communicate & make decisions

venus: love, money and what makes you happy

mars: basic body attraction, aggression & sexual desires.

jupiter: how we express our generosity & improve our lives

saturn: our limitations & fears

uranus: individuality

neptune: your dreams & goals

pluto: your ability to transform/rebirth

lilith: your dark side

asc node/north node: your goals in life

south node: what you need to work on in life

witchyparents

Are you a witchy parent?

Have you ever wanted to share with another witchy parent? Looked for understanding from people in similar positions? Wanted to share spells and rituals you teach your munchkins with others but didn’t know where to go? Welcome to the witchy parent group! We’re just starting out but we encourage you to spread the word that this is starting up!

ceruleancervines

Not a witchy parent but boosting

dwarvenpunk

Open to other magical or pagan type parents?

witchyparents

Yes we are as long as they are willing to follow the rules. Which we currently are working on :) should have more updates by the end of today

❣Frankie

teawitch

types of witchcraft

When I’m at home in my little cottage, I’m a cottage witch.

In the kitchen, I’m a kitchen witch.

If it’s storming, I’m a storm witch.

And if I’m at the beach, I’m a sea witch.

But at the day job, I’m rather a techno witch.

Hanging out with Hermes, I might be a bit of a Hellenic witch.

There are times in the garden when I’m a green witch.

And times at work when I’m a secret witch.

Because life has many facets.

But I seem to always be a witch.

hellyeahscarleteen

If you're in a relationship with an abusive partner, you're not alone – this author can relate, as can countless other survivors, who make an average of seven attempts before leaving for good. You should feel safe, not just if you want to leave, but right now.

In addition to what’s mentioned in this link, we have some info to help folks make a plan to stay safe when leaving an abusive relationship, and when they can’t leave just yet: The Scarleteen Safety Plan

socialjusticesummoner

Seriously, I’ve only been able to skim this article so far, but I definitely plan on reading the whole thing later

If you’re being abused by your partner, and you’re reading this right now, then you have awe-inspiring strength.

You’re suffering, but you have the courage to seek out ideas on how to take care of yourself.

I’m guessing you haven’t come across many tips like these. When I was being abused, the only advice I found was about how to leave an abusive partner, or how to heal after you’ve left.

In this society we sometimes talk about abuse victims being strong after they leave, but frame them as weak before hand. I think that is so wrong. Living in an abusive relationship takes a strength that most people cannot even comprehend. you’re not weak because you stay. there are a million reasons why we stay because, frankly, abusers actively work to keep their victims trapped.

So know that if you’re in an abusive relationship right now as you read this, I think you are strong as fuck, and I am rooting hard as hell for you.

socialjusticesummoner

Honestly, if people feel even a little inclined to reblog this, I would appreciate it. I am not trying to guilt anyone, if you don’t reblog I won’t think you’re a horrible person, that’s totally your prerogative… But if these words can help even just one current victim of domestic violence… I would be so happy.

misssatori

So many people can’t leave. So many. Please be safe.

mahigxn-deactivated20200629

KIRI’S LITTLE APOTHECARY 1000 FOLLOWER APPRECIATION GIVEAWAY!!!!

So I’ve recently reached a 1000 followers!!! Which, for me, is amazing! I never thought I’d get to a thousand so fast, to be quite honest, much less in 6 months!

Rules:

-DO NOT tag as giveaway, tumblr will delete the post and the giveaway will be canceled!

-ALL reblog count as entries!!

-You can subscribe to my YouTube channel for an extra entry

-I will only ship to Canada and the U.S.

-The giveaway ends on 29.3.16

-MUST BE FOLLOWING ME

-The more people enter the giveaway the more *secret* items will be added to the winner (things like extra stones, herbs, powders, extra sigils, etc…)

Now for the prizes:

-A handcrafted Native Medicine Wheel made by huron women in Québec

-My personal blend of Money Drawing Powder (secret recipe *wink wink*)

-A fluorite, a few rough quartz pieces, a rough amethyst, a citrine, a large sized iron pyrite

-A mix of incense sticks

-My personal blend of Notice Me PowCense (Powder/Incense)

-A kit to make my Fuck Boy Repelling Potion INCLUDING THE MINI CAULDRON AND CANDLE

-Handmade candles in green, purple, and red

-A handmade notebook by me, containing some of my never-shared recipes including the Money Drawing Powder and Notice me PowCense, along with many sigils and talismans

-A 6 card situational reading by me using the DruidCraft tarot

-Some nice little goodies, for example: pendulums, empty sachets, ink vials, Native jewelry, etc… MORE OF THESE WILL BE ADDED AS MORE PEOPLE JOIN THE GIVEAWAY!

mahigxn-deactivated20200629

Added some tumbled amethyst!!

mahigxn-deactivated20200629

Omg a 1000 notes you guys!! Added some incense matches!

lilithdevile

ATTENTION PET OWNERS

This post is going to rushed but I’m still shaking and it’s hard to type but I NEED people to know this

My mom just took my dog to the vet She(my dog) was(still is?) having a seizure

Last month we took my dog to the vet and they told us she had developed diabetes, they told us it was caused by the food she was eating, purina beneful. They told us that there have been many many many reports of Beneful has been causing diabetes, seizures, and even death in dogs.

We had no idea

We immediately switched her food and put her on a special diet plan for her diabetes, unfortunately the effects were already permeate.

Today at 11:20 my mom woke me up crying, I helped her carry my dog to the car (while she was still having a seizure) and watched her drive away red faced and still crying.

Please please PLEASE if you are feeding your pets Purina beneful PLEASE switch their food ASAP Beneful is poising dogs and I don’t want anyone else to experience what I just did Also if you could please help me signal boost this so everyone can know

toxic-w0nder-deactivated2016020

This would explain why my dog has seizures now…fucking hell

the666assbutt

Reblog and save lives of dogs

skeletonboyfriend-remade

found out purina was the reason my dog winston had been having seizures and puking. please don’t feed your dog purina.

st-rks-deactivated20160918

reblog even if you don’t own a dog or even if you’re not “a dog person” because I can’t even imagine how horribly depressed I would be if this happened to my dog

buttermybooks

BOOKISH SHOP MASTERLIST

Since the holidays are here and we all enjoy all things book related, a masterlist of all of the booklr shops is a great way to have awesome literary and fandom related merch while also supporting your fellow bloggers! Below is a list of all of the Etsy and Redbubble shops that I am currently aware of. If you know of anymore that should be mentioned, send me a message and I will add it!

Redbubble:

@buttermybooks - click to shop (fandom related)

@ifreakinlovebooks - click to shop (fandom and book related)

@rainydayscoffeeandbooks - click to shop (fandom related)

@bookwormboutique - click to shop (book related)

@thebookblr - click to shop (fandom related)

@readingperks - click to shop (fandom related)

@ifangirlaboutbooks - click to shop (carry on related lmao)

@paellego - click to shop (art shop)

@books-cupcakes - click to shop (book related)

Etsy:

@novelreveries - click to shop (book accessories)

@raqstarnails - click to shop (literary candles)

@frostbeard - click to shop (literary candles)

@fromthepagecandles - click to shop (literary candles)

@ninazenikk - click to shop (bookish art)

happyhelloco - click to shop (magnetic bookmarks)

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