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Empaths and irritability

Empaths are very sensitive to energy, particularly emotional energy. This also means that they are sensitive to anger.

When you are angry, they sense it. However, in this day and age, most people are not angry. They are irritated, in my experience, most people would describe this feeling as being “busy”. This is all fine, but most people also expect empaths to come up and talk to them as though they weren’t irritated.

Unfortunately many empaths/clairsentients also get a physical reaction. They get scared and nervous. They can’t act “natural” unless that person happens to be a family or a close friend the empath knows well enough to diffuse the situation.

Since this blog is for clairsentients and empaths mostly, I would prefer to give some kind of advice, but irritable energy is terrifying and triggers us similarly to being attacked, and we are being attacked, at least emotionally. But here is a solution for us to keep shining our light. That is to focus on the good, or at least to focus on what we want. It is cliche but to focus on the good is not simply to ignore the bad. It is simply the habit of not allowing bad things to happen to you. In the case of angry people, it is simply knowing that if you must have some communication, the goal is kept in mind, you finish what you want to do and retract from the sutuation whether it be physically or mentally.

In most cases, we know we are not going to be harmed by angry people. Sure if you get a particularly bad vibe, do stay far away. But as an empath, feeling other’s irritability is not going to go away anytime soon. With the rush of social media and the feeling that we must do more and more, it will increase. Do more things that make you happy and less that makes you unhappy. As an empath, you will not (I hope) be attracted to the anger that the news and clickbait evokes. If you know how to keep yourself happy, that’s a good sign. Pull yourself up emotionally. May you all be happy.

[leoprincess777]

✨ the four clair skills ✨

👁 clairvoyance - clair seeing

clairvoyants are the dreamers, the visionaries of the world who are blessed with an open third eye. they will watch scenarios happen like a movie in their mind and have no trouble visualizing situations - in fact, they manifest easiest by visualizing! 

signs of being a clairvoyant:

you are more drawn to the aesthetics, colors, and character’s outlooks in a movie

get messages through seeing scenarios in your head or seeing certain images, numbers, words etc. around in life

have mental images randomly flash before your eyes

find it easy to visualize places, people, etc.

you learn best by seeing

you see flashes of colors, numbers, symbols, floating orbs, colored “blobs” in the air or images

sometimes seem as if a “movie” is playing in your head

you see people’s auras

you get distracted easily

you see how things fit together (about situations)

your sense of direction is always on point. you somehow always end up being where you need to be even though you can get lost

having vivid and reoccurung dreams, recieving messages through dreams

you feel a tingling or unusual awareness of the “third eye” area (between the eyebrows) randomly or when you involve in spiritual work

shadows that seem like they are floating in the air

glittering or flashing lights in the air

movement or twinkling lights out of the corner of your eyes

you can be often found daydreaming in class, among friends, in your bed etc.

you have a good sense of style and you know how to put a good outfit together

you are a skilled creator and designer (web/graphic designer, writer, filmmaker etc.) and you are talented at painting, arts and crafts because you are a visual person and you have a deep connection with beautiful things. 

👂🏻clairaudience - clair hearing

these are the singers, motivational speakers, musicians, communicators and authors in our society. they have a way with words and they have a connection to music, or anything they hear. they manifest best by reading their manifestations aloud! they recieve messages through hearing.

signs of being clairaudient:

you’re sensitive to sound

you talk to yourself a lot

you hear messages from the TV or radio, sounds, words you hear from people and things you read etc. that were delivered personally for you

you hear ringing and buzzing that no one else hears

you’re musically inclined and you have a ver much deeper connection to music, it can put you in the best and worst mood

you can tell how others feel by their voice

you can’t focus when there’s noise

you give great advice, but you don’t necessarily know where it comes from

you learn best by hearing (listening)

the songs, background music, auditory effects and actors’ voices catch your attention the most in a movie

you’re a good speaker and you learn languages easily

you’re always guiding and uplifting people.

you hate sudden or loud noises

you hear messages from the TV or radio etc. that were delivered personally for you

if you have clairaudience, you also will have the gift of clear speaking. this means that you can channel, share, and speak the messages you hear from the spirits to others

you’ve heard muffled speaking or sounds as though it’s coming through underwater and  heard strange noises around the house such as banging, knocking and creaking.

💫 clairsentience - clair feeling

clairsentients are the sensitive poets of our world who feel things very deeply and to the heart. being clairsentient means you receive psychic information through sensing or feeling subtle energy.  clairsentience is often confused with intuition, or labeled as just a ‘hunch’, an ‘inkling’ or a ‘gut feeling’. most of our mothers are clairsentients

signs of being a clairsentient

you’re a highly sensitive individual, especially when it comes to the energy of your surroundings because your environment affects your mood

your mood seems to fluctuate depending on who you’ve talked to, or who you’re surrounded by

you tend to get overwhelmed in large crowds or places where violet acts have occurred

when you walk into a room you can quickly tell if people are relaxed and enjoying themselves, or if there’s tension hanging in the air.

you have strong initial impressions about people that almost always prove to be spot on

you’re able to easy relate to where others are and understand their perspective and where they’re coming from, you’re very understanding

you experience spiritual chills or get goosebumps as a sort of validation of truth.

you can feel spiritual beings’ presence around you

you are good at reading people and sometimes you feel their emotions

you’ve noticed temperature changes, or breezes in a room without any physical explanation for “why”

you have a keen sense of smell and taste that works to tune into subtle energies, as well as physical items

you can sense when two people have been arguing, are angry with each other or when there’s something between them

you sometimes feel tingling sensations on the top of your head and you get headaches

you’ve felt there was someone in the room with you when you were alone

you’ve experienced the sensation of being patted on the shoulder, your hair brushed, or your hand held with out anyone being there 

out of no where you’ve experienced your vibration lifting, and strong energy sensations in your body

🧠claircognizance - clair knowing

and here are the scientists and researchers of our world! they are blessed with the physic ability of clear knowing. if you need a critical thinker to solve your problem, go to a claircognizant person! these people literally just know things.

signs you are a claircognizant

you just know things. yeah, that’s true. claircognizants just know things. they can’t explain how they know or where the information or idea came from.

you’re very straightforward and blunt which people can take as insensitivity or rudeness

you love learning from books, audio books, seminars and courses. you soak up knowledge like a sponge and there always seems to be room for more

you get quick and sudden ideas and you’re almost always excited to share them

you have a sense of inner knowing when something is not a good idea, despite the fact that it seems perfect on the surface

you have a certainty that someone is lying about something, despite evidence to the contrary

you’re a very organized person with perfect common sense

you receive information about future outcomes

you know where to look to find missing objects and you always find them 

people tend to bring all kinds of questions to you. usually it’s something they can’t solve. they always leave feeling like you’ve given them the answer they were looking for.

when someone asks you a question of which you have no foreknowledge, and the answer comes to you out of the blue. you can simply see it in your head and share it with others.

you can read people easily and your initial thoughts turn out to be spot on over time

you’re a left brain person and prefer things to be logical and orderly

you have a unique mind and spend your time thinking a lot – or writing a lot (many authors and songwriters are claircognizant)

you tend to know what people are going to say next, sometimes before they do

[samwisethewitch]

Tapping Into Your Psychic Senses

Every single person on the planet has psychic abilities, but most people never realize that they’re using them. As Tess Whitehurst says in her book You Are Magical, “There is almost certainly something you assume that everyone can perceive that is actually a perception that is relatively unique to you.”

For example: you may be a gifted artist. Drawing and painting come naturally to you, and you have an intuitive sense of form and color. You probably know people who claim that they “don’t have an artistic bone in their body” or “can’t even draw a stick figure,” but you can’t bring yourself to believe it. Surely, those people are just psyching themselves out, because if art comes so easily to you, everyone must be able to do it to some extent, right?

Psychic abilities are similar. You’ve probably been tapping into at least one psychic sense all your life, but it feels so normal to you that you assume everyone experiences the world this way.

Once you become aware of your innate psychic abilities, you can start to harness them. For this reason, I think it’s a good idea to become familiar with (and comfortable using!) your natural psychic gifts before you try to learn any kind of divination.

Read over the following list of common psychic senses. Does one or more of them sound familiar? Once you recognize which of these you resonate with, focus on strengthening that gift over the next couple of weeks. You’ll be amazed by how easily you’re able to tap into it once you know how!

Clairvoyance: Clear Seeing

Contrary to popular opinion, the word “clairvoyance” does not describe any and all psychic abilities. Someone with clairvoyance receives psychic messages through their sense of sight. They may see these messages with their physical eyes, or see images in their mind’s eye. Seeing auras is an example of clairvoyance in action.

You may be clairvoyant if…

You often see flashes of light, blurred figures, or other visual phenomena that others do not see. [Note: This is NOT the same as visual hallucinations. Clairvoyants typically see things with their mind’s eye, not their physical eyes, and can differentiate between their visions and what is physically in front of them.]

You often experience random mental images that seem to have nothing to do with what’s going on around you.

Your meditations are primarily visual — for example, if you meditate on the element of water, you may see a bubbling fountain in your mind’s eye.

You are a visual learner.

Ways to Strengthen Clairvoyance

Keep a journal of the mental images you receive “out of nowhere.” Do these images mean anything to you? Do individual visions fit into a larger pattern?

Meditate on your chakras, and visualize each chakra in your mind’s eye, starting from the root and working up to the crown. What do your chakras look like? Are the colors bright and clear, or more faded and muddy? Are some spinning faster or slower than others? How does their appearance correspond to your life? For example, a muddy or faded sacral chakra may indicate issues around sexuality.

Do research into auras and what the different aura colors mean. Do you always seem to see or think of a certain color when you’re around a certain person? How does that color represent that person’s energy and personality? Write down your findings.

Clairaudience: Clear Hearing

Someone with clairaudience receives psychic messages through their sense of hearing. They may hear messages with their physical ears or “hear” them in their mind. A medium who hears spirits is an example of someone using clairaudience.

You may be clairaudient if…

You sometimes “hear” things in your mind, as if someone else was talking to you from inside your head. [Note: This is NOT the same as “hearing voices” or auditory hallucinations. Clairaudients usually “hear” messages with their mind, not their physical ears, and they can distinguish between psychic messages and physical, “real world” sounds.]

Sometimes, when you listen to music or watch a movie, a specific lyric or line of dialogue seems to jump out at you, as if it were a special message.

Your meditations are primarily auditory — for example, if you meditate on the element of water, you may hear a babbling brook.

You are an auditory learner.

Ways to Strengthen Clairaudience

Keep a journal of the messages you “hear” out of nowhere. Are they consistent, forming a larger pattern? Do they all seem to be “in the same voice,” or coming from the same source? (If so, this could be a deity or spirit guide reaching out to you.)

Do a meditation with the intention of holding a conversation with a helpful spirit guide. (If you are not comfortable working with spirits, you can set the intention of speaking to your inner self.) What does their voice sound like? Is it different from or similar to your own? Do they speak with an accent or have a unique inflection? Write down your thoughts.

Experiment with shufflemancy. This is a modern form of divination where you put a playlist on shuffle and receive a psychic message from the song that plays first. (You can find playlists specifically made for shufflemancy online, or make your own.) How does the song make you feel? Are there certain lyrics that jump out to you? Write down your thoughts.

Clairsentience: Clear Feeling

Someone with clairsentience feels psychic messages, either through their body or through their emotions. They may feel physical sensations, like an upset stomach, or may be very sensitive to emotional energies. Intuitively picking up on someone’s emotions without needing to ask is an example of clairsentience.

You may be clairsentient if…

You often feel physical sensations, like a hot flash or a cold chill, out of nowhere.

You are able to feel other people’s emotions — you can always tell when someone has had a bad day, even if they’re trying to hide it.

You can sense the “vibe” of a room as soon as you walk in. Do certain buildings feel “angry” or “sad” to you? Can you always tell the energy of a party even if you just arrived?

Your meditations primarily focus on tactile sensations — for example, if you meditate on the element of water, you may feel waves lapping at your feet.

Ways to Strengthen Clairsentience

Pay attention to your “gut feelings.” Do you feel a sinking sensation when thinking about something, only for it to go badly later? Do you feel a warm, fuzzy sensation thinking about something, only for it to go really well? Write down your experiences — and be honest. It’s okay if your gut feeling doesn’t always match the outcome.

Do a pathworking meditation (this is just a type of meditation that focuses on taking a mental journey) to a forest, or a beach, or some other location that appeals to you. Try to feel as many tactile sensations as possible, as if you were really there. Feel the grass or sand under your feet, feel the wind in your hair, feel the sun on your skin. Write down your experience.

Practice feeling the energy of a plant or crystal. Reach out and touch the plant/crystal, and try to feel it out. Does it have a calm, stable energy, or is it more bright and zingy? Try feeling a different plant/crystal and see how it feels different. Write down your experience.

Note: Some (but not all) clairsentients are also empaths, people who take on the emotions of others as if they were their own. All empaths are clairsentient, but not all clairsentient people are empaths. You may be an empath if you often find yourself matching the emotions of the people you’re around — you cry when they cry, laugh when they laugh, etc.

Claircognizance: Clear Knowing

Claircognizence is the gift of psychic knowing — people with this ability often “just know” things, even if they should have no way of knowing. They may know what someone is about to say before they say it, or know personal information about someone they just met.

You may be claircognizant if…

You “just know” what’s going on with your friends and family, even if they haven’t told you. For example, you may suddenly feel like you need to call your sister, only to find out after you call that she just broke up with her boyfriend.

You always know who a text is from as soon as your phone dings, or always know what song is going to play next on shuffle.

You often know things about new people as soon as you meet them, only for them to confirm it later. Did you know your friend was a vegetarian before he told you, even though you’d never shared a meal with him?

Your meditations often include “downloads” of information, where you feel like the answer to your question or some other revelation has just been dropped into your brain.

Ways to Strengthen Claircognizance

Every time your phone goes off, try to guess who the message is from. Keep a tally of how often you’re right vs. wrong.

Do a meditation with the intention of receiving the answer to a specific question. Retreat to a place of stillness and focus on your breath until the answer to the question “just comes to you.” Write down your experience.

This is a game I used to play with my sister before I knew what claircognizance was: have a friend show you a picture of someone they know, but whom you have never met before. Focus on the picture, and see if you get any info about the person — are they a jock? Do they like rock music? What’s their personality like? Get your friend to confirm or deny the info you got from the picture, and keep a tally of how often you’re right vs. wrong.

The Other Clairs

There are two other “clair” senses that are less common, so I’m not going to talk about them at length here. Clairalience, or “clear smelling,” refers to receiving psychic messages through smell. (If you smell roses out of nowhere, with no roses in sight, you may be using clairalience.) Clairgustance, or “clear tasting,” refers to receiving psychic messages through taste. (If you taste chocolate out of nowhere, you may be using claigustance.)

In my experience, these psychic senses are less common than the ones listed above. Most people I know who have clairalience or clairgustance seem to use it as a secondary sense, in addition to a primary sense like clairvoyance or clairsentience.

Conclusion

You are probably using at least one of these psychic senses every day, without even knowing it. Most people have two to three “main” psychic senses, but some may regularly and easily use all of them. For example, my primary psychic senses are clairsentience and claircognizance, but I also find myself receiving messages through clairaudience fairly often. It’s rare for me to receive clairvoyant messages, but it has happened.

Once you’ve identified the psychic senses that you naturally lean towards, you can begin to develop and strengthen them.

Resources:

You Are Magical by Tess Whitehurst [Specifically the chapter, “Reading the Signs.”]

The Fat Feminist Witch Podcast, Episode 68: “Clear Knowing”

The Angel Code by Chantel Lysette [Specifically the section on the psychic senses.]

[cthulhu-craft]

Social Justice Tarot Reading // June 2020 . For this reading, I am using the Neon Moon Tarot by @pixeloccult - a perfect deck to lend us some perspective on this dystopia we are living in. . Our collective grief and trauma has finally reached a breaking point. We had enough, and we took action, putting boots on the ground. We made sure our pain was visible, our anger was visible - and now we are beginning to see progress from that. This is a great victory, and all eyes are on us now. But as we know, the work is far from over. . The path to progress lies between two pitfalls: Perfectionism and Complacency. We have to keep our eyes to the stars and our boots on the ground. Do not lose sight of where we are headed, yet remember that this journey consists of ten thousand small steps. All we can do is move forward from where we are NOW towards where we know we need to be. We cannot reach utopia overnight, but we must keep pushing toward it. We have many miles to go, yet remember how far we have come, how far our ancestors have carried us. . So, what does the future hold? The wave of progress is moving from the ground up. I’m seeing that those in power will finally hear us and take action, as long as we keep the pressure on them. There are problems that must be solved, and there are people with the resources to solve them. We will not allow them to rest until they place themselves on the right side of history. Change is coming. I can feel it. . . . #tarot #witch #witchy #blm #neonmoontarot #socialjustice #blacklivesmatter #tarotreading #protest #hexwhitesupremacy #witchesagainstwhitesupremacy #witchesagainstracism #cardslinger #witchcraft (at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB04SWLJ_ch/?igshid=1jeq0w8r0zfo1

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The Wild Adversary. The Devil. The Witch Father. He goes by many names and he inhabits the Unknown. Once we saw him in the deep forest, and now we see him in the blackness between the stars. He is Other. H.P. Lovecraft said, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” . If you read this far, comment where you think the Devil resides today. I think you can see him in television static at 3 am... . #Art #Illustration #Surrealism #Witch #Witchy #WitchArt #PittsburghArtist #LowBrowArt #PopArt #PopSurrealism #Watercolor #MixedMedia #Satan #Devil (at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CByyAAJp9jH/?igshid=1mif8f4k1kj6v

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What have the protests accomplished?

5/26 4 officers fired for murdering George Floyd 5/27 Charges dropped for Kenneth Walker (Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, who police accused of killing her) 5/28 University of Minnesota cancels contract with police 5/28 3rd precinct police station neutralized by protesters 5/28 Minneapolis transit union refuses to bring police officers to protests or transport arrested protesters 5/29 Activists commandeer Minneapolis hotel to provide shelter to homeless 5/29 Former officer Chauvin arrested and charged with murder 5/29 Louisville Mayor suspends “no-knock” warrants 5/30 US Embassies across Africa condemn police murder of George Floyd 5/30 Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison takes over prosecution of the murdering officer 5/30 Transport Workers Union refuses to help NYPD transport arrests protesters 5/30 Maryland lawmakers forming work group on police reform, accountability 5/31 2 abusive officers fired for pulling a couple out of their car and tasing them - Atlanta, GA 6/1 Minneapolis public schools end contract with police 6/1 Confederate monument removed after being toppled by protesters - Birmingham, AL 6/1 CA prosecutors launch campaign to stop DAs from accepting police union money 6/1 Tulsa Mayor agrees to not renew Live PD contract 6/1 Louisville police chief fired after shooting of David Mcatee 6/1 Congress begins bipartisan push to cut off police access to military gear 6/1 Atlanta announces plans to create a task force and public database to track police brutality in metro Atlanta area 6/2 Minneapolis AFL-CIO calls for resignation of police union president Bob Kroll, a vocal white supremest 6/2 Pittsburgh transit union announces refusal to transport police officers or arrest protesters 6/2 Racist ex-mayor Frank Rizzo statue removed in Philadelphia 6/2 6 abusive officers charged for violence against residents and protesters - Atlanta, GA 6/2 Civil rights investigation of Minneapolis Police Dept launched 6/2 San Francisco resolution to prevent law enforcement from hiring officers with history of misconduct 6/2 Survey indicates that 64% of those polled are sympathetic to protesters, 47% disapprove of police handling of the protests, and 54% think the burning down of the Minneapolis police precinct was fully or partially justified 6/2 Trenton NJ announces policing reforms 6/2 Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police 6/2 Confederate statue removed from Alexandria, VA 6/3 Officer fired for tweets promoting violence against protesters - Denver, CO 6/3 Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art cut ties with the MPD 6/3 Chauvin charges upgraded to second degree murder, remaining 3 officers also charged and taken into custody 6/3 Richmond VA Mayor Stoney announces RPD reform measures: establish “Marcus” alert for folks experiencing mental health crises, establish independent Citizen Review Board, an ordinance to remove Confederate monuments, and implement racial equity study 6/3 County commissioners deny proposal for $23 million expansion of Fulton County jail 6/3 Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board unanimously votes to sever ties with MPD 6/3 Seattle withdraws request to end federal oversight/consent decree of police department 6/3 Breonna Taylor’s case reopened 6/3 Louisville police department (Breonna Taylor’s murderers) will now be under review from an outside agency, which will include review on training, bias-free policing and accountability 6/3 Colorado lawmakers introduce a police reform bill that includes body cam laws, repealing the “fleeing felon” statute, and banning chokeholds 6/3 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announces plans to reduce funding to police department by $150M and instead invest in minority communities 6/4 Virginia governor announces plans to remove Robert E. Lee statue from Richmond 6/4 Portland schools superintendent discontinues presence of armed police officers in schools 6/4 MBTA (Metro Boston) board orders that buses wont transport police to protests, or protesters to police 6/4 King County Labor Federation issues ultimatum to police unions: admit to and address racism in Seattle PD, or be removed 6/5 City of Minneapolis bans all chokeholds by police 6/5 Racist ex-mayor Hubbard statue removed - Dearborn, MI 6/5 NFL condemns racism and admits it should have listened to players’ protests 6/5 California Governor Gavin Newsom calls for statewide use-of-force standard made along with community leaders and ban on carotid holds 6/5 2 Buffalo officers suspended within a day of pushing 75 year old protester to the ground, and lying about it 6/5 2 NYPD officers suspended after videos of violence to protesters 6/5 The US Marines bans display of the Confederate flag 6/5 Dallas adopts a “duty to intervene” rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in excessive use of force 6/5 Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax releases an 11-point action plan for immediate police reforms 6/6 Statue of Confederate general Williams Carter Wickham torn down - Richmond, VA 6/6 2 Buffalo officers charged with second-degree assault for shoving elderly man 6/6 San Francisco Mayor London Breed announces effort to defund police and redirect funds to Black community 6/7 Frank Rizzo mural removed, to be replaced with new artwork - Philadelphia, PA 6/7 Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband the police department, invest in proven community-led public safety 6/7 Protesters in Bristol topple statue of slave trader Edward Colston, throw it in the river 6/7 NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio vows for the first time to cut funding for NYPD, redirect to social services 6/7 A Virginia police officer faces charges after using a stun gun on a black man 6/8 NY State Assembly passes the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act 6/8 Democrats in Congress unveil a bill to rein in bias and excessive force in policing 6/8 Black lawmakers block a legislative session in Pennsylvania to demand action on police reform 6/8 France bans police use of chokeholds 6/8 Seattle council members join calls to defund police department 6/8 Boston reevaluates how it funds police department 6/8 Honolulu Police Commission nominees voice support for more transparency, reforms 6/8 Rights groups and Floyd’s family call for a UN inquiry into American policing and help with systemic police reform

No, it’s not enough, but this is only the beginning. Keep fighting!!!

(This list comes from Mara Ahmed’s blog post and was compiled by Fahd Ahmed; I added sources and new entries. Please reblog with further additions.)

[cikero]

the funniest thing we do to alligators is duct tape their mouths shut when we need to handle them. imagine being a creature so ancient and undefeatable that you haven’t changed in thousands of years being rendered basically defenseless by a piece of plastic

[xtec]

SHUT

[deep-dark-fears]

CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS

CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS 

CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS 

CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS

[sugar-petals]

How To Create Accurate Tarot Readings

worry not — know that the deck is 99% accurate already. it is merely your part of the equation to maintain that precision in the reading. cards can be unresponsive, but they can’t lie. instead of trying to fix a deck that seemingly doesn’t work, developing faith in being able to extract its truth is your stepping stone.

many meanings, but one hits home… the card will never not give you the crucial hint. but usually in roundabout ways. to find the one meaning of dozens that is meant, what i found helps is to go on and on interpreting. until: you arrive at the point where you run out of textbook meanings (which are also important) and get the important idea along the way. trying to coax it out of yourself right away usually doesn’t work, it comes to you in the process.

hobby writers wanted, dead or alive. translating your thoughts and intuition into words is a needed skill that you can develop in other areas of life already, only to bring it to the table when it comes to doing readings. after all: every ‘reading’ is a ‘writing’, at least online.

cicero’s club: are you a talented orator? take note if writing doesn’t come easily to you. you might be a much more gifted speaker. face-to-face or on camera with clients or a youtube audience suits this type of reader ten times better. the accuracy of the reading will follow suit.

put those talents in a blender. if you find yourself making videos or talking to querents via skype etc, but are more secure in terms of written readings, arrange it so you can possibly get the question first and lay out the spread beforehand. jotting things down, no matter how messy, is your strength. go for creating a little grimoire-esque tarot notebook.

the clash of minor v major arcana. how much weight you put into things depends on that. major arcana have to be emphasized as long-term trends. minor arcana are more fleeting. timing is so, so important. if you stress the major arcana, the accuracy increases.

tarot cloth & co.: cards like a cozy place. make them a nice home, if you will, and have a special reading place/table if possible, although i did find they like to see the world and be spread out in different places. tarot cards are responsive to deliberation and respect.

belief makes or breaks the deal. how much you think your deck actually reflects reality is as important as trusting it. as i said, you don’t need to worry about your deck being on point. you have to be the one operating from the viewpoint of knowing it is dead-on. in whatever funny way that may be the case. as long as you think ‘yes, this mirrors something important’, you can be a good reader.

don’t be a four of pentacles — use the deck plenty. for questions about yourself, too! the deck likes to clarify things for you, of whatever nature. the deck came to you, so it has all the answers for your interests. trivial questions are valid, even if many tarot readers will tell you to keep it sophisticated. the imagery has plenty of clues for daily life things. i once went to a party and pulled the nine of cups beforehand. what went down? someone brought their beer pong set. which as you know has nine cups on either side. it’s an old tradition, but tarot is more up to date than you think.

witchy decor: have a crystal or treasured charm ready. you could put say a clear quartz point or something like say a vintage key on the resting deck. it keeps the pile in order. put weight on the cards and the cards will hold weight. can i get an amen?

shuffling simplicity. mixing overhand and riffle shuffles is all you need, it doesn’t have to be fancy nor abrasive to the cards. simple shuffle, simple results. the cards come out the way they want to anyway.

the very personal meaning. on top of literature and advice from others, figure out how your particular TOWER, EMPRESS, etc comes out. for whom in particular. i think that’s more important. cards eclipse people. 

combine symbolic clues with literal imagery. i made bad experiences with ignoring either in favor of the other. there’s a reason why each card tells a visual story, but there’s also a historic custom behind the abstract meanings. consider both and you can approach the truth of the card very easily.

[uriasa]

hello guys! i'd love to follow more witchy/pagan people, so if you post about any of these:

- divination of any kind

- hellenistic polytheism/any other pantheon honestly

- spells

- tarot specifically!

- art

- cryptic posts

please rb this! 🥺 i'd love to make new friends uwu 🌼💓

[ceremonial]

Jessica Brown Findlay as Charlotte Wells in Harlots (2017 - 2019)

[brittany]

This city is made of our flesh. Every beam, every brick. We’ll have our piece of it.

Harlots  |  1x01

[canisalbus]

Ruedi for @coyotegoth

[artofmaquenda]

Curiosities

[iphrit-deactivated20200807]

I haven’t see any emoji spells, “stir your tea counterclockwise to banish”, or the phrase b*b*witch in months from the witchblr community. Glad there’s some growth happening.

Now let’s talk about INTENTION.

I know some of y’all get hurt when the grimoiric magicians & chad trad witches make fun of y’all without giving you a scrap to feed off of. So I’ll throw ya a bone. Learn to raise power. Raising power is. Not. Intention. It’s not even close. But it’s what a lot of y’all mean to do when you talk about “charging [magical reagent] with intention”. When you can learn to reliably draw, concentrate, and release power, what’s beyond the sky is really the limit

[giorgiatempestafumagalliblog]

5 main differences between 𝓦𝓲𝓬𝓬𝓪 and 𝖂𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍𝖈𝖗𝖆𝖋𝖙 🍁

Today I am here to talk about something that concerns me personally. Many times I have received the same question: Are you a Wiccan? (no, I’m not) I have absolutely nothing against Wicca, I believe that everyone is free to believe and practice any type of religion or spirituality. The point is another, it is the correct information. Due to incorrect media communication, Wicca and Witchcraft are often seen as identical practices. But it is not the same. Here are some differences between Wicca and Witchcraft. Let’s find them out together!

🐲 1. Wicca is a neo-pagan religion based on the worship of two main gods: the Great Mother (the Triple goddess, Mother Nature) and the Horned God (Cernunnos, Pan). The neo-paganism of the Wicca goes back to the Celtic one. Witchcraft instead refers to the esoteric tradition of the place where the witch grows up. So it varies substantially according to the geographical place where we are. And it is not a religion, but a spirituality. 🌙 2. Wiccans have a moral code, which means they only use magic for beneficent purposes. Their maxim is: Eight are the words of the law for us: if it doesn’t hurt, do what you want. In witchcraft instead (unless it is magic of the right hand) there is not necessarily this moral code but magic can be used for both beneficial and malefic purposes, it is the witch who personally decides how to use magic. 🍂 3. Although not well defined, Wicca has an organization, obviously, there is no pope or high priestess of the Wiccans but within the community there is always a priest or a priestess. While in traditional witchcraft this can happen but it is not something so defined also because witchcraft is often practiced at a family level, or in a close circle of people or even alone.

🍄 4. Almost all Wiccans believe that after death their soul goes to Summerland, a place where they can drink from the waters of a river. After the souls have drunk this water they forget about their past life and they can reincarnate. In witchcraft, this time too, changes according to the tradition that is followed, many believe in reincarnation and others believe that souls remain as ghosts on Earth.

🌲 5. According to Wicca, everyone can become a Wiccan. For traditional witchcraft instead (until long ago) not everyone can be a witch, you must have been born a witch to be a witch. it is very likely that if there is a witch in your family you will be too. The first signs to understand that you are a witch appear when you are a child or teenager. However, some traditions also believe that everyone can be a witch.    💫 Common point: the coven, which the Wiccans have taken from the witchcraft tradition. 

That’s all, of course, there are a thousand other differences, but these were the most substantial. Let me know what you think. For more information, follow me on Instagram: @giorgiatemepestafumagalli.