Entirely Guilty By Design

Oceane | 24 | she/her | married | mama to 1.5 halflings | Canada | Readings always open! | Been a practicing witch for just about 14 years. Primarily elemental and sea witch, who follows Hellenic and Norse deities (and Bast). | My sister and I have a magical business, check it out! https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ConsultingShadows

[daydreamer-atheart]

Where do I start?

I’ve seen quite a few masterposts for beginner witches, guiding them in things to research, and where to start. Well, this is my masterpost of masterposts! Complete with some things to start your research with, some awesome, trustworthy witch blogs, and FAQ!

*Warning: it is quite lengthy

Keep reading

[coastal-witch-deactivated202308]

🌊Calm Seas

patience & anti- anxiety sachet spell🌊

💙 a sachet spell to encourage communication, increase patience, increase wisdom, and soothe anxiety using sea energy🏝

What you need:

🌊 a blue sachet

🐟 blue sea glass or a blue crystal

🌀 blue salt (white works as well)

☁️ a seashell

💧 sea water

🐳 a pinch of rosemary and lavender

How to make it:

🌊 put all the ingredients in your sachet, one by one *except the sea water*, focusing on the intent and imagining a calm ocean

**try listening to ocean sounds or light a blue candle to help you focus on intent if you need to

🌊 once the sachet is together, sprinkle some sea water on it to cleanse and charge it

🌊 carry the sachet with you as needed for soothing anxiety, communication, wisdom, memory, patience, calm, meditation, and understanding

[moonlightacademy]

A Secret Witches Guide to Concealing your craft

Make sure practicing witchcraft in your home does not put you in any imminent danger! 

Drink tea - A mundane thing, make it a daily thing in order to make people less suspicious. Say short incantations while stirring in your honey. 

Keep a small plain notebook to use as your grimoire - Use this to write all your witchy ideas in. 

Find a well concealed hiding place to put all of your witchy stuff - Put anything that you want to keep concealed in here. 

Create a portable altar - One easy enough to take down and hide quickly. Draw an altar in your grimoire for a simple portable altar.

Meditate - Sit somewhere you won’t be disturbed and meditate. You don’t need any special supplies to meditate therefore, it is easy to hide.

Paint your nails to match your intent  

Glamour your Clothes

Braid your hair while say an incantation

Trace sigils around your room - Use your fingers so they remain discreet and charge them with intent.

Glamour a piece of jewelry to wear daily

Keep plants and candles in your room - No one will draw conclusions if these are in your room.

Decorate a shoe box to dedicate to your practice - Put any witchy things you want if you are unable to find a place to hide your stuff. 

Use knot magick when tying your shoes

Cleanse your room and home using intentions

Water your plants with growth spells - Speak to them while doing this in order to help them grow.

Do your casting in a discreet location outside - this way no one can interrupt you when you are in the middle of a ritual.

Use color magick when picking out what you want to wear

Use scented candles - Although lots of candles may raise suspicion, if they are scented they won’t draw much attention.  

Write sigils in lotion - Cover your body in lotion sigils, in a couple minutes they will fade away and not be visible.

Stir counter clockwise - In your baking or your tea to banish negative energy.

Use playing cards instead of tarot cards

Go for hikes - A way to be with nature and not raise any suspicion.

Clean your room - This is the equivalence of cleansing your room.

May the moon light your path!

==Moonlight Academy==

[beginnerwitchybitch]

very lowkey but still helpful

[hiswitchcraft]

Secret Witch Masterpost

General Guides

[Secret Witches Guide To Concealing Your Craft] [Broom Closet Solutions] [Broom Closet Witchery] [If You’re A Secret Witch] [Big Broom Closet Post - Part 1] [Big Broom Closet Post - Part 2] [How To Hide Your Witchy Ways] [Thriving In The Broom Closet] [Little Things For Witches Who Keep Quiet About Their Craft] Specific Stuff [Secret Witch Ideas For Moving] [Warding While Watched - A Secret Witch’s Guide] [Sigil Charging For Secret Witches] Tips [Secret Witch Tip] [Secret Witch Tip] [Secret Witch Tips] [Secret Witch Tips] (Different post)  [Subtle Witch Tips] [Tips For Discreet College Witches] [Tips For Life In The Broom Closet] Spells [Low-key Spells] [Enchantments For The Subtle Witch] Sabbats [Subtle Yule Witching - 1] [Subtle Yule Witching - 2] [Subtle Yule Witching - 3] [Subtle Witch Tips - Lammas] [Subtle Witch Tips - Last New Moon Before Samhain] [Subtle Witch Tips - Samhain] Altars [Secret & Covert Altars] [Tip For Closeted Witches Who Can’t Use A Dedication Altar] [Altar Ideas For Secret Witches] [Altars on a budget] Divination [Playing Card Divination] [An Introduction To Divination With Playing Cards] [Playing Card Fortune Telling - Card Meanings] Supplies (Some of these are for witches on a budget, still useful) [Acquiring Discreet Supplies] [Inexpensive items for you craft] [Common spell items] [Witch on a budget] Other [Apps For Witches] [Witchy iOS Apps] [Witchy Uses For Your Phone For The Frugal Or Secret Witch] [Jar Alternatives]

[scarletarosa]

Ares

Greek god of war, battle-lust, violence, courage, and rage

Ares (Roman: Mars) is the son of Zeus and Hera, the King and Queen of Olympus. As the god of war, Ares represents its chaos and bloodshed, whereas Athena represents strategy and necessary wars only. Ares loves war for its own sake, and delights in the din and roar of battles, in the slaughter of men, and the destruction of towns. The destructive hand of this god was even believed to be active in the ravages made by plagues and epidemics. Due to his wrath, Ares was said to be hated by many of the other deities and was not much worshipped in Greece. Yet his Roman counterpart, Mars, was perhaps the Romans’ most beloved deity due to their focus on strength and conquest.

In ancient Greek art, he was depicted as either a mature, bearded warrior armed for battle, or as a nude, beardless youth with a helm and spear.

Myths: One myth describes Hallirhothios, an Athenian youth who rapes the daughter of Ares, Alkippe. Enraged, Ares goes after Hallirhothios and slaughters him. After this act, Ares is summoned to the court of the gods in Athens by Poseidon, but is acquitted since his action was just. Ever since, this place was named Areiopagos (Hill of Ares) in his honour. Another myth tells of the Amazon women, who Ares had fathered. He trained them in the arts of war and brought them up to be fearless warriors who lived in the outer-limits of the world. These fierce women were all led by queen Hippolyte, another Amazon, and they only allowed women to be among them, with all male infants being put to death.

In what is perhaps the most famous myth of Ares is the story of him and Aphrodite. The goddess of love and beauty had been reluctantly arranged to marry Hephaestus, the blacksmith god, since Zeus did not want anyone arguing over her. Yet not only was Aphrodite not attracted to Hephaestus, but she desired lovers rather than marriage. She was soon seduced by Ares and as they were love-making, the Sun god Helios saw them and left to go tell Hephaistos. Angry and bitter, Hephaistos crafted a chained net and captured the two lovers up inside it and all the Olympian gods came to see, some laughing at the sight. When Hephaistos was content with this revenge and decided he no longer wished to keep Aphrodite as his wife, he released them and they both quickly departed. The two deities are known to have had several children together, including Eros (infatuation/romance), Anteros, Phobos (terror), Deimos (fear), and Harmonia (harmony).

An additional myth which is based off of the Phoenician story of Ashtart (Astarte) and Adon, is Aphrodite and Adonis. This myth tells of how Aphrodite fell in love with the handsome youth named Adonis, whom she had helped raise as an infant. She bore him a daughter and was full of joy, but was keeping wary since she knew Ares would become furiously jealous. Ares one day took the form of a wild boar and gorged Adonis while he was hunting, causing him to die in Aphrodite’s arms as she wept. His blood mingled with her tears and became the anemone flower.

Appearance: A tall, muscular Greek warrior with tanned skin, dark brown eyes, and has short curled black hair. His demeaner is usually stern and he speaks in a deep voice.

Personality: Ares is pretty much always serious, and when calm, he basically feels like a dormant volcano. He is easily angered and does not hesitate to take vengeance when wronged. He is a god who primarily lives for the rush of battle and revels in powerful shows of strength. Although Ares can also help in teaching people how to develop personal strength, how to overcome oppressors and abusers, and how to overcome inner-struggles. Ares also is quite straightforward and blunt, whether it be to his enemies or when advising others. He teaches that in this world, you either have to learn how to be a warrior or you will be crushed by difficult situations or by those who oppose you. Confidence, resilience, courage, and assertiveness are all things he strongly values and teaches to those who seek strength. As for those who do harm to us, he says that we must stop being so forgiving as this is usually a dangerous and foolish mistake that will lead to even greater problems. Instead, our enemies must be defeated and put in their place, as this is the only way we can achieve any change towards the better. 

| Symbolism of Ares |

Weapons 

Armour

Shields

Chariots

Flaming torches

Rams

Venomous snakes

Large dogs

Vultures

Barn owls 

Eagle Owls

Woodpeckers

Boars

| Some of his epithets |

Adámastos (Indestructible) 

Álkimos (Valiant)

Ánax (Lord; King)

Oplophóros (He who bears arms)

Phriktós (The Horrifying)

Polæmóklonos (He who raises the clamour of combat)

Teikhæsiplítis (He who storms the cities)

Vrotoktónos (The Slayer of Men)

Offerings: red wine, red meat, poultry, hare, venison, wolf hearts, chili peppers, lemons, green bananas, unripe peaches, any weapons, clubs, batons, bullets, kendo swords, shields, military helmets, bullet-proof vests, military boots, military belts, dynamite sticks, grenades, lion pelts, shark teeth, ram skulls, obsidian, red scoria, rubies, smoky quartz, red jasper, carnelian, iron, steel, burning wood (especially if Himalayan salt in thrown in since it reminds him of blood), and red sandalwood incense

*please only offer explosives if you know how to handle them

[naomi121406-deactivated20210507]

Mermaid Dust!

Hi people! Tonight i bring to you this little DIY for getting beautiful Mermaid Dust done!

💙Mermaid Dust correspondences are:

As is strongly related to water, is useful for emotions, relationships, healing, psychic abilities, exorcism and purification. It can be used for love, luck and protection too! Also, it works perfectly fine as an extra boost for any spell.

💙This is how you make it:

✨ You’ll need sugar (love, luck, healing, purification), mint (exorcism, protection, healing), eggshell powder (protection) and glitter on the color of your choice (for making it more “personal” to you. I use turquoise.) and crystals of your choice (optional)

~I recommend aquamarine, sodalite, emerald, citrine, pink quartz, amethyst, green quartz, tourmaline, hematite and/or clear quartz.

✨The amount of each thing i use is approximately the following, but you can use as much as you want and give it your own texture!

~¾ Sugar.

~2/4 Eggshell powder.

~2/4 Mint.

~¼ Glitter.

✨Then, put it all together and stir to mix it!

✨Once that you have something like this, put it on a jar or any type of container that you prefer, and use some crystals to charge it!

✨Here i’m using two pieces of aquamarine, one sodalite, two tourmaline, one pink quartz and one citrine.

✨Now, here comes something important. I leave it for a whole lunar cycle, from full moon ‘till the next one (or you can do it from the very start of the cycle, on new moon, ‘till the next new moon, choose based on your correspondences of which type of moon energy you want the dust to keep), on a closed wooden box with amethyst and clear quartz, so it can be properly charged. Another good idea is that, on a full moon night, you leave it outside surrounded by the gems you want it to be charged with.

✨At the end of the cycle, you can say a little chant of your choice when taking the dust out of the box or taking it inside home again or out of the windowsill… you understand my point lol.

💙Extra: As this is not safe to eat. If you want to make some eatable mermaid dust, i recommend using colored sugar (you can easily make it with white sugar and food colorant). Put it in some container, then put that inside your container with mermaid dust or surround your sugar container with a circle of mermaid dust (be careful not to mix it!) and leave it for a night, preferably on full moon. Next day you’ll have some dealicious mermaid sugar/dust for any healing spell, love spell, or any type you want to do!

You can make as much as you want of this, and is useful for almost everything! i really like it ♥

Well, hope you enjoyed this DIY!!!♥

[consultingshadows]

Spring is here!

And with it, Ostara is quickly making its way to the Northern Hemisphere.

In its honor and inspired by witchytips' "sabbat in a cup" series on instagram, we are pleased and excited to bring you the Ostara altar in a jar!

Find out more in our etsy store

[consultingshadows]

It's that time of year again!

[daydreamer-atheart]

Heyo! Sorry but the Google docs you had linked about cleansing, grounding and shielding, energy work, protection, and open/closed religions and cultures all don't work. Is there any way you could restore them or send them my way?

Hi! Thank you for letting me know, I fixed the grounding and shielding, but I don't actually remember what i had for protection 😅 I will fix it/write a new one when i get the chance!

[saphore]

your last words before you die are the 3rd line of the last song you listened to. what are we saying ladies?

[budgiecare]

please share this so people are aware this toy is NOT SAFE.

Please be very very careful when buying toys for your birds, just because its labelled as a bird toy does not make it safe because unfortunately some companies care more about making money than the welfare of our animals.

[honey-lusst]

stay safe ! 💕

[daydreamer-atheart]

🛡 Protection bottle 🏺

This is a bottle, or jar, protection spell meant to cast a protective aura around your room, or house. If you do it in a small enough bottle, you can also carry it on your person.

You will need:

🐢Jar or bottle

🐢Salt

🐢Eggshells 

🐢Protection herbs (anise, basil, bay, cedar, cloves, garlic, juniper, mugwort, rosemary, sandalwood)

🐢Protection crystal (hematite, obsidian, onyx, black tourmaline)

🐢A protection sigil or charm

🐢Wax/candle to seal the bottle, or a ribbon

Start by casting your protection, this can be done using a circle, sigil, shielding, ward, talisman, whatever you are most comfortable with. Make sure you have everything you'll need inside your space. 

If you're using a candle, start by lighting it. Call forth any deities, or entities whose help you wish to ask for to protect you, if you want. This step is not mandatory. 

Add the ingredients to your bottle, focusing on each one and how it will add to the spell. For the herbs, you can use any combination of the ones posted in the ingredients list. I recommend only using 2 or 3, but use as many or as little as you are comfortable with and capable of obtaining. Same concept applies to the crystal, though I would only use 1 crystal for this spell (if you're using crystal chips, you can put a few of the same crystal in your jar for the same effect).

If you're using a sigil, put it in the bottle. If you're using a charm, tie it to the neck of the bottle with rope or a ribbon.

Finally, seal your jar! If you used the ribbon, that can be enough to seal it. Otherwise, you can let a small candle melt down on your bottle, drip candle wax from a bigger candle, or use wax melts and pour them over the top.

Close your circle, bid thank you and farewell to the entities, and you have yourself a protection bottle! Place it near the entrance to your room or house, or keep it in your pocket or purse for personal protection.

[memeclassheroes]

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Hello important information!!!

Bread is NOT part of a skeleton's natural diet and feeding it to them can make them sick. Instead try: coins from countries that no longer exist, dead batteries, ballpoint pens, or brass buckles. These are much closer to what skeletons eat in the wild :)

[mctreeleth]

I live in a coastal region and I generally feed the local skeletons with broken seashells collected during low tide, which are high in calcium and other natural minerals. Very occasionally, such as for celebrations such as last night's solstice, a shard of broken ancient pottery makes a great treat, but be careful, as these are sometimes cursed, and may cause issues for some skeletons.

[gothiccharmschool]

Our local skeletons really like corks. And they go bonkers over tinfoil, but I haven’t been able to find solid info on if it’s a safe treat for them or not.

[robotsandfrippary]

The ones out here keep eating each other and I’m not sure what that’s about but it can’t be good.  Anyone else having this problem with their local skeleton population?  

[fullyfunctionalminiaturebeehive]

They need calcium! I'd take a leaf out of mctreeleth's book and let them nibble some tasty seashells. If you live way inland, your local feed store should have oyster shells (for chickens,) or you can give them egg shells from your breakfast : )

[will-o-the-witch]

Hey, folks?

Don't Do This.

This is incredibly rude and unprofessional. They came into my inbox asking about if I do hexes, I explained I wasn't typically comfortable doing them for hire but listened anyway. I mentioned multiple times that I don't work for free. I didn't even specifically request money, just that I wasn't going to shill out my time/materials/energy/expertise for a stranger for nothing in return.

They ghosted me. Five days later I messaged and they blocked me.

Tumblr witches are not your work dogs. We are human beings who spend years developing a craft deeply tied to our spirituality, and you are ordering a commission. Whether it's a full-blown spell or a simple tarot reading, deserve to be treated with the same courtesy you would give any digital artist, commission writer, or other creator on the platform.

If any other makers want the uncensored screenshots so they can avoid dealings with this person, feel free to message me.

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

FINE! I'll do it myself

[sixft]

god it is so fucked up and so infuriating that embalming is a requirement in so many places to hold a viewing

[sixft]

and the worst part is that its so fake like legally this isnt really a thing but you have so many nasty old money hungry funeral directors leeching money from widows and those in mourning just so they can see their loved one one more time im so mad

[sixft]

dead bodies literally are not dangerous 9/10 times corpse air does not exist and yet you have multi level funeral homes like altima in spain who literally do not allow viewings without the body being placed in a glass coffin or behind a fucking window which again costs thousands and thousands of dollars its so stupid

[sixft]

do your research i am begging all of you to do research because the funeral industry is so not what anyone thinks it is. get into green death and eco burial activism. get into the practice of being death positive. check out recompose life and the stuff that theyre starting because its amazing. throwing bodies into the ground is not as dangerous as directors want you to think

[sixft]

AND LIKE green death is literally the only disposition that doesnt hurt people!! embalming is bad for everyone involved. cremation puts out really bad chemicals and uses a shit ton of energy. alkaline hydrolysis is another great alternative but too many people think its "gross" or whatever. look at me. look me in the eyes. look me in my tumblr dot com eyes. when you die, you can get tossed into the dirt. it is literally your funeral. get what you want

[sixft]

on another note, i am begging my bipoc and lgbtq+ friends (esp trans bipoc) to think about death. i know how morbid this is trust me. i know its offputting. there are too many trans people who die misgendered. research your rights to die trans. caitlin doughty has a really good video on this but im literally in the middle of my funeral directing class so i cant find it rn

[glados-boyfriend-girlfriend]

[sixft]

YEAH THIS ONE THANK YOU

[ofmymuses]

- ̗̀ anxiety apps.  ̖́-

      hello everyone ! I hope you’re all doing well today. as you may (or may not) know, I suffer from severe social anxiety and school is coming up which is terrifying to me. if you, too, have anxiety / any other disorder or just simply want a distraction than this is a great masterpost for you.

I have gathered a few little games and apps on my phone for when I’m anxious – these are for the iphone so I’m not 100% sure if they’ll be accessible for other kinds of phones. *feel free to add more games / helpful apps !

GAMES.

HAPPIFY– you can choose 1 free track ( coping better with stress, conquering negative thoughts, building self confidence + much more ) and focus on that - you can track your progress and see how your skills compare

RECOLOR – an awesome colouring app with a lot of different options ( some a free, some you need to pay for but overall has a good selection of free colouring ‘pages’ )

I LOVE HUE– basically just a little game to organize colours in the right order. NOTE: it may hurt your eyes if they are sensitive to a lot of colours at once

THISISSAND– play with sand!! make cool designs

ZEN SAND– a relaxing little game, guide sand into the vases

NEKO ATSUME– collect adorable kitties + a really cute art style

OTHER HELPFUL APPS.

ALWAYS THERE– ‘kids help phone’ in app-form. you can talk one-on-one with a counselor. NOTE: waiting can take a long time

7 CUPS-- much like ‘always there’ but has more to do. you can pick what your problem is at the time. you can work on that problem OR do some of the other stuff like watching cute videos or doing breathing / relaxing exercises

MOODS– basically just helps to track your moods ( choose between good, okay and bad + you can add a note if you want to )

HEADSPACE– a meditation app ( over the course of 10 days )

[shelbys-advice-blog]

SUPER URGENT Do you know of any free online therapy websites that don't require talking. (So you can just message the person?) I have tried loads but they either require a payment or on the phone calls. Which isn't what I wanted.

Hey love!

I’ve got tons of online therapy/counseling sites. I’ll list them below <3

Online Councliling

Lifeline Crisis ChatWebsite: www.crisischat.org

886TeenLink Website: 866teenlink.org/chat-now

Care Crisis ChatWebsite: carecrisischat.org

Common Ground Website: commongroundhelps.org

IM ALive Website: www.imalive.org

Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service Website: www.suicidepreventionandcrisisservice.org

TeenLine Website: teenlink.crisishotline.org

The Hope Line Website: www.thehopeline.com/gethelp

Your Life Your Voice Website: www.yourlifeyourvoice.org

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender National Help Centre Website: www.glbtnationalhelpcenter.org

National Domestic Violence Helpline Website: www.thehotline.org

National Eating Disorder Association Website: www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network Website: ohl.rainn.org/online

The American Cancer Society Website: www.cancer.org

Australia

Lifeline Website: www.lifeline.org.au

Kids Help Line (ages 5-25)Website: www.kidshelp.com.au

eHeadspace (ages 12-25)Wesbite: www.eheadspace.org.au

SANEWesbite: www.sane.org

Beyond BlueWesbite: www.beyondblue.org.au

Butterfly Foundation for Eating Disorders Website: thebutterflyfoundation.org.au

National Sexual Assault, and Domestic Family Violence Foundation Website: www.1800respect.org.au

MensLine (family, romantic, and interpersonal relationships) Website: www.mensline.org.auOpen: 7 days, 3pm-8.30pm

UK

ChildLine (ages up to 18)Wesbite: www.childline.org.uk

Get Connected Youth Web Chat (ages up to 25) Wesbite: www.getconnected.org.uk

Family LivesWesbite: familylives.org.uk

Broken Rainbow: LGBTQ Domestic Violence Web Chat Wesbite: www.brokenrainbow.org.uk

Relate (family, romantic and interpersonal relationships) Website: www.relate.org.uk

Hope this helps, please let me know if you ever need some more help/advice, I’m always here. Xoxo