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May we never have to defend ourselves
May our comrades sleep safely
Protect them from accidents, vigilantes, white supremacists and police
May they live their lives peacefully and without harassment
May they never have to defend themselves
May those who were slain rest in peace and power
Amen.
“Throughout the records of the Gospels, I saw how Jesus didn’t treat women any different than men, and I liked that. We weren’t too precious for words, dainty like fine china. We received no free pass or delicate worries about our ability to understand or contribute or work. Women were not too sweet or weak for the conviction of the Holy Spirit, or too manipulative and prone to jealousy, insecurity, and deception to push back the kingdom of darkness. Jesus did not patronize, and he did not condescend.”
— Sarah Bessey - Jesus Feminist (via lindseypayton)
Page of Swords.
Approach each new challenge as you would a new day, with open eyes. Your acquired knowledge is a fortress. Impenetrable. Ever lasting. Have patience and reservation. Know that few things come easily. Especially when those things are worth having.
here’s my response to everybody saying “coronavirus is just a flu, there’s nothing to worry about”
Semistrelnaya
The Seven Arrows icon of Theotokos, dated to the XVIII century, is a variation on her Softening of Evil Hearts image, distinct in that the arrows or swords are always depicted to the left and right of Her. The icon is prayed to for the softening of cruelty in the heart, particularly for the good favour of enemies.
Soften our cruel hearts, Mother of God, and extinguish the assault of those who hate us, and resolve all that weighs on our souls. Looking upon Your holy likeness, we are in awe of Your compassion and mercy towards us; we kiss Your wounds, in horror of our own arrows that wound You. Do not let us, good-hearted Mother, die in our cruelty and of cruelty of another, for You are truly the Softening of all cruel hearts.
✨🔮There's So Many Spell Materials Right in Your Kitchen 💐🍓
🍓You don’t need to immediately jump right up to your local botanica, spiritual shop, or even digital marketplace in order to find ingredients for your spells. A lot of the time, if you’re not able to go outside to forage, you can open up your own pantry and find PLENTY of items for whatever kind of spell work you’re doing. Protection, love, money, cursing….you can find ingredients for anything you want to do in your spice cabinets, in your fridge, in your pantry!
🌷Things like cinnamon and coffee can be used to add speed or quickness in your work.
🌷Cinnamon is also great for protective work because of it's firey hot nature as well. You can use the whole bark or the powder in different ways. Do what works for you and what your spirits or traditions or ancestors suggest.
🌷Cinnamon is ALSO good for money work too! I fucking love cinnamon. It goes SO good with other things like allspice and nutmeg too for money.
🌷 Coffee in general is an ingredient I like to use in my m
🌷 Lemongrass used in tea can be very helpful for calming anxiety. Lemongrass can also be used for cleansings and breaking blocks.
🌷Cornstarch can be used as a base for all of your spiritual powders if you wish!
🌷Cloves are good for domination.
🌷Black pepper is protective, and is very useful in reversals/return to sender work.
🌷Flor de Jamaica/Hibiscus flower is really good for love/beauty work, especially passionate ones. It has a lot of vitamin c as well!
🌷Mint is so good for money work! I love sweet mint the most for this. It’s also good to drink as a tea for when you’re having stomach problems like tummy aches and gas. It’s very easy to grow fresh as well, and can be found for pretty cheap at grocery stores (pssst….if you have SNAP/EBT, you can find mint plants/hierba dulce in supermarkets and they’re SNAP eligible!)
🌷 Apples have also been associated with things like beauty and love, depending on who you’re talking to. The seeds would be very useful in love but alternatively dominating work, depending on what you’re going for. Just be careful!
🌷Onion & garlic skins can always be used for cleansing and protection (garlic for this) purposes in your space and home too
🌷Eggs can be used for offerings (but as always, double check that whoever will accept them!). they can also be used for cleansings as well, and are also used for protection.
🌷Dont forget the egg shells are useful for protection too! And you can use the eggshells as well to create calcium water for your plants, or crushed up so slugs cannot access your plants.
🌷White rum is so good for cleaning as well, so is white vinegar, but for the vinegar I personally think it's especially important to do something to bring sweetness and good things back into your space
🌷 You can literally use any of your kitchen oils to make your own conjure oils -- it doesn't matter if it's vegetable or jojoba or canola or soy or olive (although I PERSONALLY prefer to use olive as base for my money oils & work, as well as my protective work)
🌷Oregano is also good for money, for protection, for situations with court and the law
🌷Orange peels are great for happiness and money! They're also cleansing, so they're great for floor washes. You can boil them if you want to for washes and for a nice scent to the home. You can dry them to use in happiness or money powders or mixes (you can keep the peels whole or turn the dried peels into powder with a mortar and pestle, food processor, or by hand)
🌷 Lemon and limes can be used as strong spiritual cleansers too. I like to boil them and use the water for washes. They can also be used for other workings, especially when you need people to leave you alone and get away from you. You can prep them the same way you would do the orange peels!
🌷 Oats are good for your skin, especially if you have irritation, but are also really good offerings and has been associated with wealth as well.
Make sure at the end of the day you’re talking to your spirits, your ancestors, your intuition, and listen to what they tell you! They’ll always give you the best results, it’s never good to just do whatever the books tell you.
for the LAST TIME, i WON'T say it again, repeat after me:
the WIZARDS have a COUNCIL
the DRUIDS have an ARCHCIRCLE
the CLERICS have a PANTHEON
the WARLOCKS have a UNION
the SORCERERS have a GUILD
the BARDS have a COLLEGE
and the WITCHES have a HIGH COVEN
STOP trying to act as though all mages follow the demands of the wizards council or i am going to turn your teeth into bees about it
“The time has come when the world needs the Ancient Wisdom as never before.”
— Manly P. Hall
Some color plates by Augustus Knapp from “The Secret Teachings of All Ages“ by Manly P. Hall (1928). Images in order are:
Mithra in the form of the Leontocephalic Kronos (eternal time). See also: Aion (Uranus), Phanes and the Orphic Egg.
Abraxas (“The embodied form of God”).
Cherubium of Ezekiel (c.f. “Living Creatures” and Tetramorph).
Celestial Virgin with Sun God in her arms. See also: Isis & Horus, Mary & Jesus. Note Orphic Egg c.f. Kundalini wrapped around a Lingam in Muladhara chakra.
The Jewel of the Rose Croix (where “Rose” is an anagram for “Eros“ or Love).
Magician invoking Elementals (Gnomes, Undines, Salamanders, Slyphs) from within a Magic Circle.
Paracelsus performing the experiment of palingenesis (creation of a new universe). See also: “The Rose of Paracelsus” by Jorge Luis Borges (1983).
The Consummation of the Magnum Opus (“Great Work”). See also: creation of Homunculi, Golems, Tulpas, Egregores and “Assumption of God Forms“ (a form of Theurgy).
The Philosopher’s Stone (note double-headed eagle in centre of diamond). See also Vajra (diamond, thunderbolt).
Double-Headed Eagle (The end product of the Magnum Opus). See also: Rebis in Alchemy, the divine Hermaphroditus (child of Hermes (Intellect) and Aphrodite (Feeling)), Ardanarishvara (androgynous form of Shiva merged with Parvati).
Will always have a place on my blog (but seriously some of those Gnostic Archons I’m sure weren’t that pale.)
Wow, check out all these old homies.
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Herbal kitchens: apothecary 🌿
🕊I am thankful for everything i have 🕊
Divination to find Artistic Talent™
Spell Ingredients: ~The Tablet Pen you lost a week ago
~Nearly Sipped Paint Water
~That Shirt you wore to a Color Run
~The Baby Powder Scented Crayon
~The lost cap from your Crayola fruity scented markers
~The Pencil Box from when you were in Elementary School
~A Piece of Chalk
Ritual Steps:
~On the night of the Next Full Moon, put all ingredients EXCEPT YOUR COLOR RUN TEESHIRT AND CHALK into Pencil Box.
~Throw Pencil Box at the wall while Chanting the Following: “TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR WHY IS ART SO FUCKING HARD”
~Open the box and dump contents onto the Color Run Teeshirt on the floor
~Read the jumbled mess as Runes
~Eat the Chalk as a snack if you get hungry
🔔 BELLS IN WITCHCRAFT 🔔
Bells might just be the earliest form of superstitious practise that I remember. My baba attached three sakura-patterned suzu bells on my schoolbag as a kid, purportedly for good luck and protection from evil spirits – and Japan is far from the only place to have associated bells and bellringing with mystic practise. They’ve been used worldwide to ward off evil and carry messages – and in a more metaphysical sense, sound is the movement of energy through substance. Sounds have the potential to work powerful magic.
Here are some of the ways I’ve found utilising bells to be helpful to my craft. While I’m more likely to use traditional suzu type bells, your own background, path and culture will likely have its own types of bells – and as ever, bells can be ornate antiques or they can be a bottle cap in a tin can, as long as they’re used with intent.
GETTING STARTED
🔔 As with so much of the craft, if you’re new to the witching bell, it’s a matter of exploration and experimentation. Get a “feel” for what works for you and the specific bell you’re using.
🔔 It’s good practise to ensure that the bell itself is cleansed, warded and protected – you don’t want anything nasty tapping into that power. All witching tools can do as much harm as good, intentional or accidental.
🔔 A good way to begin incorporating bells into your craft is infuse them into any typical ritual that you’re comfortable with, or even just a prayer or moment of contemplation at your altar if you have one.
🔔 Give the bell a soft ring while focusing on the energy it’ll ripple and move, try to track the movements it creates and what it touches. The tone it’s sending out. The most primal and versatile use of the bell – and what many of the below come down to – is simply another manner of physically channelling energy, giving it shape and direction.
PROTECTION
🔔 “Passive” bells such as windchimes or small bells attached to belongings you don’t want disturbed are a starting point. They will scare off some forms of spirit all by themselves, especially if appropriately blessed, charmed or enchanted. Or cursed.
🔔 Gently tolling can draw energy into a ward or circle you are forming and enforce its protective properties, or for a simple cleanse, letting the sound travel to every corner of the area you are protecting. It’s a little more “cutting” than a smoke or incense cleansing, which I view as more “gentle” forms of cleansing. Both have their uses.
🔔 Harder tolling is, in my opinion, one of the most powerful ways in which to enforce a banishing – however, it’s best to you know what you’re doing with the bell before you go bashing it about.
DISCERNMENT
🔔 Bells can have quite the effect on your perception and awareness. Ringing and then stopping, listening to the silence left in its wake, can bring you new perceptions or make things you’d previously missed obvious. Let it attune your mind and senses to something new, whether that’s in your thoughts or something with a little more presence. Visualise travelling with the sound, taking heed of the energies it touches and disturbs. Take note of the echoes – you’ll learn what they mean with experience.
🔔 A set of windchimes can let you know if something is passing through or if there’s some unusual energy afoot – and, yes, it may also just be letting you know that it’s a particularly breezy day, but that’s witchcraft for you.
CONJURING
🔔 This can be as simple as calling good energies to witching tools, spell jars, tarot decks, crystals, altars and shrines, your favourite teddy bar, anything at all.
🔔 With spirit work, it can truly help to magnify your “calling”. This can range from gently bringing your latest offering to the attention of your friendly neighbourhood house spirit – all the way to trying to catch the attention of something more. Be mindful, however. As I said, I consider bells pretty powerful tools and a call that’s too loud is not good spirit work practise for the spirit worker’s own sake. It can really help coax something out of hiding if you’re gentle with it, though.
COMMUNING
🔔 Some use bells to mark the beginning and end of a ritual, and I’ve read that in Wiccan practise an altar bell can be used to invoke the Goddess, although as a non-Wiccan, I’ll welcome corrections on that if I’m wrong.
🔔 In my experience, very simple forms of communication via bell work a lot better than anything too complex – “come here” and “stay away” have already been covered, and other than that they can serve as greetings or signals of a start or end of some practise or ritual, the opening or closing of a door, etc.
🔔 They can also serve as a warning or a litmus test regarding spirits, a signalling of your presence and awareness, lack of fear, or willingness to defend – but be prepared to deal with whatever responses these garner.
BINDING
🔔 Bindings are where you most often see that famous (clockwise) circular motion of the bell, embodying the meaning of the spell. This can be a simple binding to seal a spell or charm or enchantment, or a spirit-binding.
🔔 Personally, spirit-binding is something I do as little as possible simply due to my beliefs holding the autonomy of spirits in very high regard. However, sometimes situations arise that call for it, and I’m aware that not all bindings are unwilling. Far from it – and some spirits are dangerous when unbound.
🔔 As an animist (believing that all things, including inanimate objects, contain a spirit of their own), I consider gently nudging a spirit back into its physical form a sort of semi-binding, and that can be useful.
I’ll leave you all with a note that I am an urban apartment-dwelling witch through and through, so I understand that we can’t all be jangling away at all hours. I myself have a glass windchime in my front window that makes a distinct but muted sound when disturbed by passers-through, and highly recommend wooden ones also. I also only use my small and relatively quiet suzu bell for my crafting – one given to me by my baba herself.
Feel free to add any of your own findings, and happy tolling.
Certainly took its time, though totally understandable in these Covid times but the final piece in my Agrippa collection is complete.
The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy and Selected Writings by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim published by Black Letter Press
The complete set, they are gorgeous books!
