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23 | she/her | Gemini Call me Katrina or Esmer, eclectic spirit witch who's finally able to practice openly. Collector of crystals and hoarder of antiques. I talk to rocks, what else do you need to know?

[virune]

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[theoryofmagick]

Let’s Talk Lammas!

One of my favorite (possibly actually favorite) things about the Wheel of the Year is the Sabbats - or, as they’re called in my house, Feast Days. Eight days out of the year, perfectly symmetrically, practitioners who follow the Wheel celebrate the turning of the seasons and the passage of time. The next holiday, Lammas - or Lughnasadh - falls this year on August 1st, and is a celebration of the first harvest.

Lammas, or Lughnasadh

Lammas, the final Sabbat before Autumn, heralds the first harvest - a time to gather the grains and enjoy the fruits of your work thus far (pun somewhat intended). In some traditions, Lammas is called Lughnasadh, which is a technically different holiday following similar themes honoring the god of craftsmanship, Lugh. The two holidays frequently fall on the same day.

Lammas for a Witch

Lammas is a time for relaxation, feasting, feeling good about yourself, and setting goals for the rest of the year. While many Sabbats are great for magic (Samhain and Litha come to mind), Lammas is more about celebrating.

Lammas Traditions

A feast is traditional - most traditional! - and the Lammas feast is no exception to lavishness. A large meal can be served outdoors with friends, perhaps on a yellow tablecloth or with yellow candles to match the color of the Sabbat, full of grains, wheats, and fruits. Traditional foods served at Lammas include breads of all kinds, corn, rye, oats, blackberries, and other summer seasonal offerings. (You can get creative with this, of course: Corn muffins, blackberry pie, bread pudding, and so on.) To make a connection with the grain in drink, one may even pop open a bottle of nice whiskey. Carnivores might like to roast a chicken or game hen in generous butter.

While you’re having your feast, you might like to make a Bragger’s Toast with your tablemates, a tradition that is emblematic of the pride of Lammas. One by one, go around the table and make a toast to something you’re proud of accomplishing yourself. (Don’t forget to cheer the toaster after their speech with a drink!). Lammas is all about celebrating your achievements - and there’s no place for guilt at a feast!

Suitable offerings for Lammas, for the altar or otherwise, include homemade bread or baked goods. Corn muffins are especially easy to make and correspond very well to Lammas with respect to both the corn and the grain.

Lammas is also the traditional time to make a corn dolly (or, if you’re like me and have a bad time with image magic, a corn Wheel of the Year) with either corn husks or wheat shafts, tied with string. This can be used as a decoration or used in later Sabbats.

The Colors of Lammas

Summer is in full swing, and the first harvest is here - beeswax, pale yellow, sunshine yellow, gold, bronze, and golden brown are mostly used at Lammas.

I always cook a gigantic meal for Lammas, so stay tuned for recipes and/or photos. :> (Also, I feel like this post should have a photo. :V)

[songsparrowwitch]

🌿Lammas Activities🌿

Lammas (also called Lughnasadh) is a sabbat from the Wheel of the Year that is celebrated on August 1st to mark the beginning of the harvest season

🌿 Bake! Cooking and sharing food is a great activity for any sabbat, and cooking bread, desserts, meat, and enjoying fruits and vegetables is a great way to celebrate Lammas! 🌿 Enjoy nature! Fall is coming next, so enjoy the fresh air while you can. Invite friends and family on a nature walk or picnic or you can go yourself and embrace the beauty that nature has to offer! Visit a lake, a park, go on a trail, or whatever you want to connect with nature! 🌿 Take care your plants! This is the beginning of the harvest season. Take extra care of your plants and maybe even give them a treat: new soil, a new pot, fresh water, or fertilizer. If it’s time to harvest some fruits or veggies, do so!  🌿 Decorate your altar and/or home! Colors, plants, grains, wreaths, animal prints, and candles are some great ways to decorate your home and/or altar for Lammas! 🌿 Do some crafts! Making crafts is a great way to have fun on Lammas, especially if you’re celebrating with kids! Making corn dolls and corn wheels are a few of the many fun ways to celebrate! Plus, when spring rolls around, you can bury the corn doll or corn wheel in a new garden to help your plants grow. 🌿 Prosperity magic! Lammas is the ideal time to perform prosperity magic, so if you have any prosperity spells hidden in your grimoire or book of shadows, take those out and work some magic! 🌿 Work on your book of shadows or grimoire! A relaxing way to end the day would be to write a few pages in your book, whether you write in spells, information, or a journal entry. 🌿 Finish some projects! If you have some projects nearing an end, Lammas would be a great time to finish those or to make more progress if you can! Not every goal needs to be achieved, but dedicating your time and effort to finishing a few would be a great Lammas activity. 🌿 Make a bonfire! Invite friends and family to a bonfire! While you sit around the fire, share some of your bad or unnecessary habits and how you plan to change or get rid of those habits so you can have renewed strength. If you’re a secret witch, you can just light a candle in your room and privately journal your reflection!

[discordianwitch]

witchcraft on low energy days

*holds up bottle of plain table salt* this salt is now purified and will banish all negative energy from this space, because I said so. *sprinkles salt all over my room* fuck off

[hecaatia-deactivated20171026]

So @chaosjelly wanted me to ask a hellhound a very important question, that question being:

So I went to hell and found a hellhound and told him that I have a super imperative question to ask that most definitely would not waste his time. He found my claim to be obviously dubious but was nevertheless intrigued and allowed me to speak. I asked him the question but he just sat there confused for a bit, trying to understand what I meant. I decided to communicate a visual of the picture so that it may help him and he immediately went from “confused” to “-_-”.

“The second one I suppose,” he finally said.  

[discordianwitch]

Spirits Be Like

Spirit: I have many names, some of which only the wind can speak.

Spirit: Most refer to me as a name that is foreign to your tongue and would be hilarious to watch you even attempt to mutter.

Spirit: However, due to the power my names hold

Spirit: You can call me George.

[nekoyaz]

One entity liked it and wanted to try spinning but couldn’t. Another entity that claimed to be a demon did not like it and told me it hated me because I wouldn’t stop spinning.

[ritual-and-chaos]

New Clickbait Article: “What Do Entities Think of Fidget Spinners? You Won’t Believe What One Spirit Worker Found Out!”

[penofswords]

dismantle the idea of spiritual practice as something you’re “Good At” (as if there’s a meditation olympics with a panel of judges scoring offerings out of 10) and turning it into yet another metric of comparison and competition

spiritual practice is a process - a collaboration between you and the gods

it’s not an endpoint. there’s always more.

[visardistofelphame]

Blade that pierces through the worlds, the twilight between night and day. 

[witchymashedpotatoes]

Me:‘I should do some witchcraft, I haven’t done any in months’

Me:*overly tired and stressed*

Me:‘Screw it I’ll just charge my protective wards idec anymore’

[witchcraftyful-blog]

Easy ways to do magick

There are hundreds of complex, glamourous spells all over the internet, and some of these spells are wonderful. However, some people don’t have to time, energy, motivation, or money to do those sorts of spells. For those people, here are some easy spell ideas.

1. Do some birthday-like magick! Light a candle, make a wish, and blow it out. (You can also snuff it out or let it burn down, depending on what you believe works best.)

2. Alternatively, blow dandelion seeds while making a wish.

3. Chant while preparing food. Even if it’s just microwaved ramen or something of the sort, give it a few stirs and chant your intent. (For example: “I will have good dreams tonight.”)

4. Before taking a bath, write your intent on a piece of paper. Fold up the paper and leave it in the bath water for a few minutes to let the water be charged with your intent. (This would work best for spells designed to affect the caster, such as glamour spells. It would probably not be a good idea to cast a curse this way.)

5. Keep a diary and write about things you want to happen as if they already have. For example, if you want someone to ask you out, write an entry about them doing so.

6. Simply think about your intent while listening to a song that reminds you of it. 

7. Before drinking anything, whisper your intent into the glass or bottle.

8. Wear colors that correspond to your goal and focus on your intent while getting dressed. If you’re unable to get dressed every morning, you could also wear jewelry, nail polish, or makeup of the color.

[themori-witch]

Good morning, dearest freaky darlings.

💐🍃🌼Happy and blessed Litha/Summer Solstice to my friends and followers in the Northern Hemisphere!🍃🌼🍃💐

❄⛄Happy and blessed Yule to my friends and followers in the Southern Hemisphere!⛄❄

[fayepath]

Summer Solstice Celebration!

Hello my lovelies!  Only one week left until the Summer Solstice and I am just beaming for the upcoming celebration! I decided to make another post like my Spring Equinox celebration one since you all seemed to like it so much. I do plan on having a bit more of a ‘proper’ ritual and celebration of the day since that Monday I have off from work, but here are some other low-key ways that I am going to celebrate the day. I’ve split it into two sections of day activities and night ones because the Summer Solstice can go all night long and I plan on doing a whole cycle’s worth of things. 

During the Day:

Greet the sun! I know it’s going to be an early sunrise, but if you’re there to greet the sun, you’ll be starting the day off on the right foot! You can either just lay in bed and watch the sun rise from your window or head outside and do a sun salutation, both will give you energy!

Wear your favourite summer clothes! Shorts, tanks tops, t-shirts, sun dresses- even flip flops if you can get away with it! The colours associated with Liltha are reds, oranges, yellows/golds, blues, greens and white! 

I’m going to be setting my citrine, clear quartz and peridot stones absorb the sunlight throughout the day- other gems that would love to be out on the Summer Solstice would be fluorite, sunstone, agate, carnelian, and any stone that is green or yellow in colour! But you best check to see if it’ll fade in colour before you set it out all day. If that might happen, then the moon light will work just as well. 

For lunch, enjoy a summer salad filled with summer berries like strawberries and blueberries, apples, leafy greens and a sweeter dressing! The berries are a great way of celebrating what the summer will bring for you. 

Get outside! I don’t care if it’s for five minutes at your lunch break or an hour long hike like I plan on doing, but get outside and live in nature! Breath in the fresh summer breeze, feel the sun on your skin, meditate and be with nature. 

There are so many ways to drink summer in- literally! Lemonade, iced tea, fruit juices, herbal teas like chamomile, rose or lavender will be such a great way to get just that little bit of summer in you. 

Today is also a great day to try and interact with the faeries and fae folk. Leave a small offering of milk and honey (or a honey cake!) outside in your garden, in a park, on the outside window ledge, and the fae will appreciate the gesture! Who knows- that could be the start of a relationship between you and them. 

At Night:

Have friends over or go out to dinner! If nothing else, the summer solstice is about celebrating with friends and family! It’s about being thankful for what you have and getting excited for the summer, so get together and discuss your upcoming summer plans! Who knows what might come out of it?

Listen to music- your favourite music, and sing your heart out! The god Apollo (the Greek god of Light, Sun, music and poetry) is one of the many gods who will be thriving off the activities of today and you can honour them by just enjoying music and art. 

Light candles- or your barbecue! Traditionally, this sabbat is celebrated with a balefire (outside campfire), but if you’re like me and lack an outside fire pit, then lighting up the bbq and cooking up some veggie or meat kebabs will be a good way of making a feast and substituting the ‘real thing’. No BBQ? No stress- light up some candles and watch it glow. Bonus points if they are coloured or scented to match the holiday. 

Make a craft for the summer- a flower crown, a bird house, a sun catcher. I know I plan on making a flower crown and perhaps painting that day, but so long as you create something, spell or not, it can honour the day’s celebrations.

Watch the sunset- like watching the sunrise, watching the longest day of the year come to a close will be an amazing way to celebrate the whole of the Summer Solstice. 

Are you of legal age? Have a drink of summer wines or berry ciders- just remember to give either the first or last sip to nature, the faeries will find it! 

Decorate your home for summer and for the summer solstice by incorporating some common symbols as decor- seashells, fresh flowers like sunflowers, daisies, carnations, and peonies, little statues of birds, deer, faeries, feathers from birds, and shining crystals. The summer decor, beach house look is always a popular one during June and July so you’ll bled right in.

So this is the rough outline of what I plan on doing during the Summer Solstice! I am going to do a spell that day I think, but I haven’t decided what just yet. I’m thinking a motivation spell or a creativity spell, so I can charge up my summer and all the writing I plan on doing. All I know is that it’s going to be a great day! I hope that I have inspired you to celebrate, regardless of how busy you may be that Monday. 

I hope you have an amazing week and a fantastic Summer Solstice! Love you all and sending all my good vibes out to you for this summer.

-Faye xx

[discordianwitch]

I've been trying to practice "tuning in" to seeing spirits lately and this week we've been at my parents' house in the suburbs in Florida, and I've noticed 1) there are so many spirits here, like more than I've ever been able to find in one place, and 2) about 99% of them are lizards. Like, huge, brightly-colored spectral lizards who walk on all fours (I've seen them walk upright but it seems like they prefer not to). Idk if that's significant I just think it is interesting.

[stormwaterwitch]

Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits

Reblog this on the first of the month for good luck all month long!

[officialaudreykitching-deactiva]

Light 10 candles and drink apple juice from a wine glass.

[vvitchella]

#witchcraft

[spellboundwitchcraft]

A spell for protecting your house when you’re not there.

Place your dominant hand on the door of the home you wish to protect, and say these words:

Protect this home and all inside From raging fire and rising tide

Should danger come while I’m away All evils will be kept at bay

If beings approach with ill intent This door their entrance will prevent

My home is safe from all concern Until the point when I return

Then visualize a barrier of golden light surrounding all of the doors and windows of your home. (This can also be used for a single room; just replace the word “home” with “room” when you recite it.)

Alternative use:

Write it on a piece of paper, and put it in the door jamb as you leave, or tape it to the inside of the door.

If your door has a mail slot, you could also put it through the slot as you’re about to depart.

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