Welcome

Hello! My name is Marah. I've been practicing a solitary eclectic path for about nine years now. I do a lot of kitchen witchery, as well as storm magic, green magic, tarot, palmistry, et cetera. I worship the Hellenistic Pantheon, but I am especially devoted to Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.

[buriedpentacles]

My Tarot readings improved drastically onced I started seeing tarot as a story and conversation, rather than an interview or questions and answers.

Spreads can be super helpful, but I highly reccomend that anyone wanting to improve their tarot readings to do regular free-form readings. Talk to your cards, make the reading a conversation, look to the imagery and find the narrative hidden in the cards.

[rednines]

[leafboy-the-great]

Sorry for the awful text font

[seabeck]

[esoteric-chaos]

Witch tip

Enchant and charm your glasses to enhance spiritual sight, you’ll thank me later

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags your favorite non verbal communication gesture (nod, thumbs, up…etc).

[koraki-pharmakis]

Lenaia, Maenads, & Thracian Tattoos

As some of you know, I celebrated Lenaia this past weekend, and part of that celebration was henna tattooing some maenad tattoos on myself as a devotional act to Dionysos. The process was both very easy and very difficult.

So, first, we do know maenads had tattoos--especially those known as Thracian. We see it in art of the time; we have pottery showing tattooed Thracians killing Orpheus, and in Dionysian ecstasy.

Step one went great! We know of tattoos!

Step two was to select and pick a design. Which is much harder.

See, the maenads with tattoos in pottery often followed a theme, but two depictions showed exactly the same design. Snakes, and animals in general, were common. So was the sun sign, interestingly. Sometimes, though, there were just arrow shapes going down arms, or checked patterns on forearms and legs. This could certainly just be an artistic choice, making figuring out the design even more difficult.

Finally, I picked my design. It was modeled off the two depictions below (with what I replicated is in pink); One snake, two suns on the ankles, one sun on my arm.

The first thing I realized was that this would be MUCH easier with the help of a friend.

The second thing I realized was, wow, I want to be a devotee of Dionysos.

And finally, henna is excellent, and I should do this for every holiday. (I already try to, but I often forget).

So, my results:

So, there it is! It was a little wonky, because I was hand doing henna on my own body, but I'm proud of the work, and now I kind of want these as real tattoos some day

[hellenicrisis]

Apollo & Ares

These two have been like my guardian angels, always safe and protective and loving in exactly the way that I needed it, so here's a post to honour them.🕯

[arts-and-crafts-wizard]

If you're new to the craft and wanna start solid and cautiously, it's good to ward against ignorance, anger, and performative witches who don’t think things through before spouting nonsense or dogma.   

[hellenicrisis]

🕯🍇 Dionysus the Liberator 🍇🕯

Dionysus is known by many names, including 'the Twice-Born God' and 'the Resurrected One', but my favourite one is, without a doubt, 'the Liberator'.

He is seen as a symbol of hope, as he was given a second chance at life as an infant. Having been killed as a baby in an accident, Zeus sewed his child's body to his thigh, from which Dionysus was born again.

When he was ascended to Olympus, he was done so as the Liberator of humanity, being the god of madness, ecstasy, the harvest, and hope, to name a few.

As a result, he is often depicted in art and sculpture as holding out either a libation cup or arms laden with fruit, showing how he provides for us so lovingly. He is famously shown with Eros in reliefs and sculptures, feeding and nourishing the child god; or shown with a nymph and her child, feeding them from the bushel of grapes in his arms.

The ancient Greeks celebrated his birthday on what lines up to be the 25th of December on modern calendars, and it is from Dionysus that the story of the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ came from.

Dionysus is so so much more than just the god of wine, and he doesn't deserve to have that taken away from him. He is a provider and he has cared for us for millennia, whether we realised it to the full extent or not. Praise and hail 🍇🕯

[basilcult]

Pagans were so fucking right when they built their whole religion around the sun and the moon

[magic-study]

I might be a genius or just sleep deprived.

I remember “techno witchcraft” being a thing a few years ago. Is it still? If so, I think this could be a good method for it. (Someone else has probably thought of it already, but give me my moment.)

Way back in high school, I stumbled onto the concept of fractal art when trying to figure out a topic for one of my classes. I admit to not having a great understanding of it, but the basic idea is that you plug in some numbers and you get a cool piece of art that repeats itself as you zoom in.

To use this magically, use numbers related to the target and your goal. A birthday, a special date, today’s date, the date of an exam that’s coming up, birthdays of two or more people to strengthen their bond, the time on the clock, the number of minutes until you need your goal completed, the target’s name (A = 1, B = 2, etc)… so many things are numbers!

Then you can zoom into the picture to find a piece you like, then do whatever you want with the image. Set it as a background, print it out to hang it somewhere, give it to the target of your work, pin it to a poppet, etc.

Someone who’s more knowledgeable about math could do a lot with this, I’m sure, but as a layman even I can see there’s some potential here. The infinite repetition is powerful, I’m positive.

Anyway, these are the types of things that my brain comes up with at middle-of-the-night-o’clock, so I should try to get back to sleep. Please let me know what you all think of this!

[aeshnacyanea2000]

“Witches were very good at listening to what you weren’t saying.”

— Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith

[theocseason4]

What the fuck is a broth :(

Girl… how are you alive

[koraki-pharmakis]

apollon is a god to be worshipped with smoke, thick white clouds and sulfur slipping down your throat

[hallow-witxh]

Consent in Witchcraft

I feel like a lot of people may need to hear this.

As the cold months come around, I'm beginning to see more and more of a particular kind of magic being encouraged: love magic. Now don't get me wrong, I love a good love spell - when it's for self-love, or generally inviting/invoking love into your life, helping someone else love themselves, things like that.

But do you know what I don't want to see? People casting love spells on other people without their consent. We all complain (especially other AFAB people) how annoying it is when people don't take no as an answer, when they follow us home, when they catcall us from across the street. What's the difference between someone incessantly flirting with you when you've said no and someone casting a love spell on you without your consent?

Witchcraft is a tool. It's not an answer to every single problem you have in your life. If you're going to use magic, please use it in a way that doesn't violate consent. Even if you think they like you back, please don't try to manifest someones love. You deserve to be loved by someone because they want to, not because you've influenced them to.

As always, be safe everyone, and blessed be <3

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[batsanddeadflowers]

I've been a witch for like 6 years and you know what? Still an absolute baby, I know nothing.