Everything is Magick!

Bless Be )o( CURRENT MOON about the moon

[akl-sketch]

Here's a double day for Bast and Sekhmet from Egyptian mythology. Bast is on the right, Sekhmet is on left.

Bast (also known as Bastet) is the goddess of cats, home, music, dance, and pleasure. Sekhmet is a goddess of the sun, war, destruction, plague and healing.

"Call on Bast when you want to rediscover the joys of laughter and pleasure to move through your own grief." - Ann Shen, 'Legendary Ladies'

"Call on Sekhmet when you need deep healing and strength, she reminds you that you are stronger than you think you are." - Ann Shen, 'Legendary Ladies'

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[greekwitchchild]

MABON

a beginners guide to the sabbat mabon

MABON DATES 2019:

NH: 21st-29th sepetember with the autumn equinox on the 23rd.

SH: 21st-29th march with the autumn equinox on the 23rd.

What is it?

Mabon is the autumn celebration of balance. It’s the day equal day and equal night. Mabon is the time to pay respect to the darker days coming, but also give thanks to the summer and harvest that we’re leaving behind. It’s the time for rest, rejuvenation, letting go and showing thanks.

What is associated with it?

Mabon is associated with earthy colours such as red,brown and green, apples,berries, ground vegetables, spices, leaves that have fallen and acorns. The crystals that are associated with the sabbat are quartz, amber and anything in those yellows and reds.

Activities to do :

give thanks and offerings to summer related deities such as Apollo

complete any unfinished projects and resolve any issues

harvest the final batch of herbs to dry

decorate your alter or shrines

burn incense (apple,sage, ginger etc)

wear mabon coloured clothes

meditate

now is the sabbat to perform protection and balance spells

honour spirits and ancestors, and leave offerings to nature and in graveyards for the spirits still walking

have a meal with loved ones (it’s our thanksgiving basically)

FOOD!! : breads, meats, any comfort food

relax and clean your room for the upcoming winter

remove any negative energies from summer

Hellenic Mabon:

This is the start of autumn and so this is when I celebrate Persephone being reunited with Hades. You can use this sabbat to learn more about them, contact them, give offerings etc. Use this day to celebrate their reunion and pay your respects and show they how happy you are for them.

[shysoundofstars]

What NOT to ask the Tarot.

[mywildattic]

𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆 𝕲𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖔𝖎𝖗𝖊

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Ideas of what to put in your Grimoire:

🌿Table of contents

🌿A page about you, your birthstone, birth chart

🌿Types of Magick

🌿Wheel of the year

🌿The Sabbats and how to celebrate each

🌿Types of witches

🌿The history of Magick//witches in your countries

🌿All about the deities you worship//if any

🌿Local myths//legends of interest

🌿Herbs and their magickal properties

🌿Candles and their magickal properties

🌿Crystals and their magickal properties

🌿Essential oils and their magickal properties

🌿Gemstones

🌿Tarots

🌿Runes

🌿Sigils

🌿Casting a circle

🌿Spells and how to cast them

🌿What days//times are best for spell casting

🌿Wandwoods

🌿Zodiac signs

🌿Moon phases

🌿Altars, what they are and what you need to set up yours

🌿Moonwater//sunwater

🌿Banishing

🌿Binding

🌿Cleansing

🌿Grounding

🌿Spirit work and how to do it safely

🌿Sabbats

🌿Witch terminology

🌿Potions

🌿Best witchy books

🌿Ritual music//songs to listen to

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Organising a Grimoire:

🍁Table of contents is a must.

🍁Try and plan what you're going to write down and when.

🍁Perhaps write down every idea you have in a notebook aside first to organise and plan.

🍁Perhaps first write it in pencil, then go over later.

🍁Print out photos, dry out flowers and herbs, add stickers, doodle and more to decorate your Grimoire if you want. It makes it more personal, but in the end the most important thing is that you understand it

🍁And remember that it is your Grimoire, don't compare yourself to anyone else. That book is yours and that's the specialist thing of all♡

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I truly hope this helps someone out there♡x

[vaaltyrs]

Cord Cutting Rituals

Background Info:

Cord cutting rituals are conducted typically at the end of a relationship, whether that be platonic or romantic in nature. The whole concept of cord cutting rituals stems from the idea that one needs to cut their etheric ties to someone or something. Doreen Virtue, a former spiritualist who has now since converted, says that etheric cords “act like hoses, with energy directed back and forth between both people.”

Etheric cords have the potential to transmit energy and communication between two people, but sometimes this cord becomes unhealthy. In my own personal experience, cords that are unhealthy often result in an obsession with that person, a fear that you’re being manipulated, and in some cases the knowledge that you’re being gaslit even if the relationship itself has ended.

The purpose of cord cutting rituals is cutting those unhealthy energetic ties to someone or something (like an addiction!). A cord cutting ritual will allow you to move on to better things and leave that unhealthy tie in your past.

Cord Cutting Ritual

Supplies: -Incense (optional) -Candle -A picture of yourself and the thing you are cutting cords to (if you don’t have a photo, the names written on a piece of paper works well) -Scissors -A cord (can be yarn, thread, rope, etc.)

The way I conduct cord cutting rituals are a bit different than most sources I’ve seen. One of the dangers of a cord cutting ritual I want to urge you to be aware of is that if you do not remove the cord from you, that cord can reappear. While cord cutting can entirely be symbolic (i.e. making the motion of cutting a cord as opposed to cutting a literal cord), I prefer the method of doing it literally as well.

Since this is a ritual, I encourage you to cast a circle so there is no unwanted energy that seeps in or out. If you prefer not to cast a circle, however, that is absolutely fine. Just make sure that your space is protected so the energy raised doesn’t spill out or any unwanted energy seeps in.

If you’d like to pray to your ancestors, speak with any of your guides or deities or entities you work with, do so now. I like to ask them to enter my space and be with me as I do my work.

Dress your candle if you so choose. Your candle will represent the healing energy for after your cord cutting. You can use herbs or oils (be sure to use carrier oils if you’re using essential oil blends!) or carve sigils/runes/symbols into the candle! Do it however you like.

Light your candle and as it burns, feel the healing energy of the candle wash over you.

Take your pictures or your names written on a piece of paper and then your “cord” and attach the cord between the photo or the pieces of paper.

Take your scissors or knife or whatever you’ll be cutting the cord with. As you cut the cord, visualize the tie between you and the object being cut, severing those ties. Once you’re ready, untie the cords attached to your end and visualize those cords being dug out of your energetic self so that nothing remains.

Visualize yourself and the other person as healed and whole. Let the candle burn either all at once or over several days, whichever you need to feel that healing energy. Once your ritual has ended, dispose of the cords in two separate places. You can burn them or bury them, whichever you feel is right.

[shysoundofstars]

Tasseography

•Tea leaf reading•

You might be wondering where this unusual form of divination came from, so here’s a short history on tasseography. Shortly after tea was introduced to Europe, tea leaf reading, as it’s now recognized, was born. Similar divination tools had been used with an assortment of other materials. The art of tea leaf reading spread through Europe, and is now practiced throughout the world.

Doing a tea leaf reading involves you indulging in a delicious cup of tea and putting your sharp intuitive skills to work. After you enjoy your warm cup of loose leaf tea, you’ll leave the loose tea leaves at the bottom, where some of these leaves will form symbols, each having their own meaning. That’s where your keen intuitive abilities come in! Anyone can see a triangle at the bottom of a teacup, but your job is to intuit what it means for you or the person you’re reading for.

WHAT YOU NEED FOR A TEA LEAF READING

Tea cup with a wide brim that’s light enough to easily see your tea leaves.

Saucer

Loose leaf green or black tea, preferably organic.

Napkins

Pen and paper

Water

HOW TO PERFORM A TEA LEAF READING

1. BREW YOUR TEA

Gather all of your materials. Boil your water. Place about a teaspoon of loose tea in your cup. Pour your water in and steep tea to your preference.

For the next 3 steps, if you’re doing a reading for someone else, have them do the following steps.

2. SIP & SWIRL

Before you take your first sip, gently swirl tea counter clockwise three times. Sip and enjoy your tea, but don’t drink it all! When there’s about 1 tablespoon of tea left in your cup, swirl it again 3 times counter clockwise and think about or speak your query aloud.

3. CREATE YOUR TEA READING CANVAS

Turn your cup upside down onto your saucer to remove the remaining water, allow it a minute or so to drain, then turn it back up right.

4. LOOK FOR SYMBOLS

Look over your loose leaf tea pieces and see if any symbols or shapes jump out to you immediately. Don’t fret if you don’t see anything immediately, similar to scrying with a crystal ball, it can take some time for imagery to form for you. Try looking at the inside of the cup from different directions to see shapes. Keep in mind the images formed are formed from tea leaves, so you will really need to use your imagination.

5. RECORD & DECIPHER YOUR FINDINGS

If you do start to see some shapes, begin writing them down on your piece of paper so you can decipher them later, note where in the cup they are too. Now you’re ready to decipher your findings! Here’s a guide for the most common symbols found during tea leaf readings:

6. UNDERSTAND THE TIMELINE

Where your tea leaves are situated in your cup relate to when they will happen. This is why some of the tea leaf reading cups you find have circles inside of them. Timing is broken into thirds as follows:

Bottom third: farthest away from happening, think 3-5 years out.

Top third: will be happening in the near future, think within the next few weeks.

Middle third: will happen in about a year from now.

7. FORM YOUR READING

Like most divination tools, a honed intuition is key for success, so be sure to lean on any gut instincts as you form the story for your reading. Once you understand the meaning behind the symbols it’s time to put all of the information into a story that makes sense for you or the person you’re doing a reading for.

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[pagan-witch-yo]

Charcoal discs/how to make your own incense without additives

Charcoal tablets are a great resource for witches. They’re pretty cheap, too. I use them to burn incense blends I’ve made in my cauldron or to burn resin such as frankincense. This allows you to make your own mixtures that are additive-free and exactly the mixture you want or need. 

There are two kinds of charcoal tablets. Self-lighting and plain. Self-lighting ignites quickly thanks to combustible agents added to the discs. Unfortunately, these come with a weird smell. Some prefer natural discs even though they take longer to light because they don’t have an odor. Most will burn for 15-200 minutes and can reach up to 1200 degrees Fahrenheit! Also, you’ll want to keep them in a moisture-free environment. 

Recommended tools: A super heatproof container, tongs, and a lighter. I use a metal cauldron on either a rock or a wooden stand. 

Hold the disc with the tongs and light one end. I like to use a stick lighter because you might need to hold the flame on there for a little while, and when it sparks up, the sparks sometimes land on you!

Take your herb blend or resin and place it on the disc in small pinches. There might end up being more smoke than you realize, so do it in a room that you can open the windows of or do it outside. Basements are not the best place to light incense, especially if you always end up putting too many herbs on your discs!

Whatever you do, don’t touch it! It’s incredibly hot!! If you have to, scrape it with a knife or something else long and non-flammable. 

If you’re making your own incense, try to grind it into a powder. Here are some guidelines for grinding these things (separately please! Not together!!). I also recommend letting it sit at least overnight in order for the scents to merge together a bit more. 

Resin: Freeze for 15+ minutes depending on how soft it is, then grind with a mortar and pestle. 

Wood: I recommend you let it dry out a bit first. Take a hammer and chisel and chip it to the size of rice, then grind it. 

Herbs: Grind in mortar and pestle. 

Basic Incense Recipe

- 1 part resin

- 3-4 parts wood/herbs

1 drop essential or fragrance oil per teaspoon dry mixture (optional)

🔥Incense blends 🔥

🌹Love 🌹

1 part dried roses

1 part cedar chips

🕯Intention 🕯

1 oz frankincense resin

½ tsp crushed cloves

10 drops orange essential oil

🌌Sleep 🌌

2 parts sandalwood

½ part chamomile

½ part lavender

½ part marjoram

🌅Cleansing 🌅

1 part white sage

1 part lavender

1 part sweetgrass

[earthwitchinoregon]

Autumn is a great time of year for smudge sticks! Harvest is in the air, and new beginnings are ahead with the holidays and new year right around the corner. Get your smudge on. 🌿

[my-witchy-journal]

😌Magical Self-Care😌

Recently I have been really stressful and in the near future I need a little personal time. You know just me, a good book, a cup of tea and some self care.

In one of Arin Murphy-Hiscock’s book called ‘The Witch’s Book of Self-Care’ I found some good recipes which I’m gonne try as soon as possible!

🍪Vanilla Cookie Sugar Scrub🍪

This lovely scrub will make your skin so smooth and glowing! Plus it has amazing smell.

You need:

¼ cup coconut oil

¼ cup brown sugar

¼ teaspoon vanilla extrac

4-ounce glass jar or plastic storage container with lid

Additional: to make it smell more amazing, you can add a pinch of ground cinnamon or giner and allspice!

Additional: I gonna try to add some pumpkin spice to the scrub to make it smell like autumn!

How to do it:

Mix all the ingredients together in a small jar.

To use, massage onto skin

After rinse with warm water

Pat dry.

🌸Relaxing Bath Oil🌸

‘This is a lovely, all-purpose blend for relaxing in the bath. It’s good before bed, or when you need to unwind after a tense day at work.‘

You need:

Rose quartz stone ( Make sure the stone is small enough to fit in the bottle you intend to use.)

1 cup carrier oil of you choice

Bottle with lid

5 drops lavender essential oil

5 drops lavender essential oil

3 drops frankincense essential oil

2 drops sandalwood essential oil

White candle and candleholder

Matches or lighter

Label and pen or marker

How to do it:

Cleanse the stone

Pour the carrier oil into the bottle. Add the essential oils. Cap the bottle and gently shake to blend the oils.

Pour the carrier oil into the bottle. Add the essential oils. Cap the bottle and gently shake to blend the oils.

Let the candle burn down. Label the bottle

Allow the oil to rest at least a week, if possible, to develop before using.

To use, add 2–4 tablespoons to your bath and swish your hands around to help disperse the oil in the water.

🍚Magical Body Butter Blend: Serenity🍚

As you can see this blend contains jasmine, rose and lavender oil to create a blend that attracts balance and peace.The blue candle and amethyst, jade, and moonstone also work to underline peace and to calm stress.

You need:

1 recipe Body Butter 

4 drops jasmine essential oil

4 drops rose essential oil

2 drops lavender essential oil

Pale blue candle and candleholder

Matches or lighter

Amethyst stone

Jade stone

Moonstone

How to do it:

Prepare the Body Butter as per the previous recipe, adding the jasmine, rose, and lavender oils where essential oils are indicated in the recipe.

When the Magical Body Butter is finished and placed in the container, bring it to your work space. Set the candle in the center of the work space, place the container of butter in front of it, and arrange the three stones in a semicircle in front of the container.

Light the pale blue candle, and say: Spirits of serenity, I invite you here. Lend to this butter your peace, your calm. May I be blessed by you each time I use it. .

Touch the amethyst and say, “Amethyst, I invoke your calm. Lend it to this butter.”

Touch the jade and say, “Jade, I invoke your tranquility. Lend it to this butter.” 6. Touch the moonstone and say, “Moonstone, I invoke your peace. Lend it to this butter.”

Sit at your work space with your eyes closed, breathing deeply, sensing the calm around you. When you feel it is right, you may extinguish the candle and leave, or allow the candle to burn down completely to continue to charge the butter.

🌼Herbal Tea Hair Rinse🌼

Just as an addiction I added my herbal hair rinse to this list because for me it works really well. My hair is less greasy plus I love the smell of my hair after this rinse. 😊

You need:

1 tablespoon of Chamomile tea

1 tablespoon of  Green tea

1 tablespoon of Jasmine tea

1 tablespoon of Peppermint tea

1 tablespoon of Lavender tea

1 tablespoon of  Rooibos tea

Additional: One of them drawed my attention to rosemary which can be a good addition to this recipe! So if you would like to add rosemary as well in my opinion 1 tablespoon of it will be enough.  

How to do it:  

Brew a strong tea out of the herbs. (Because I have long hair I usually make 1 liter of strong brew.)

Let it sit and cool to roome temperature.

After washing your hair and putting your regular balming your hair,  slowly pour the brew through your hair and massage your scalp.

You can rinse with water your hair after the herbal rinse, but personally I love leaving out this step because water makes the good herbal tea smell go away.

🍵Herbal tea for relaxation🍵

As I mentioned before there is no relaxation without a good cup of your favorite tea. Here I mention some tea which is excellent for reliving stress and soothing both your body and mind.

Calming teas:

Chamomile: used for antianxiety, relaxation

Green Tea: helps combat anxiety and stress,  keeps you alert yet calm enough without making you feel drowsy

Lavender: relaxation, good for addressing emotional stress

Lemon Balm: soothe headaches, calm anxiety, and treat insomnia

Lemon Verbena: promotes restful sleep, works as an antiinflammatory, improves digestion, calms nerves, eases stress, functions as an antioxidant

Passion Flower: combats anxiety, panic, insomnia, and depression, calms nerve pain, help balance mood

Peppermint:  reduce stress and relieves you from anxiety,

Rose tea:  helps remedy stress and anxiety,  calming effect

Skullcap: treat anxiety, headaches, and insomnia, promotes relaxation

Vervain:  possesses an antianxiety, relaxant, sedative effect, strong antioxidant, it packs a lot of vitamin C

[my-witchy-journal]

🌱✨🌷Magical Associations of Natural Items🌷✨🌱

Regently I have been reading ‘The Green Witch’  by  Arin Murphy-Hiscock and I have found a really good and detailed list in it about all kind of herb, flowers, plants,trees and spices’s nature and I thought it may be useful for other ones too. 

I tried to categorize all the information, but as you can see there are ones which could be placed in more than one category. So I put these in just one category. 

🌶️SPICES🌶️

Allspice: prosperity, luck, healing, purification, protection, money

Cinnamon: healing, love, lust, success, purification, protection, money, psychic awareness

Clove: protection, mental abilities, attraction, purification, comfort

Coriander: healing, love, lust

Cumin: protection, antitheft, love, fidelity

Dill: protection, love, attraction, money, strength, luck, eases sleep, mental abilities, weight loss

Fennel: courage, strength, cleansing

Garlic: healing, house blessing, protection, lust, antitheft

Ginger: healing, love, money, energy

Majoram: protection, love, happiness, health, money, marriage, comfort

Nutmeg: clairvoyance, health, luck, fidelity

Oregano: peace

Parsley: healing, lust, fertility, love, passion, protection, hex breaker, prosperity, purification, eases grief

Pepper: protection, purification

Rosemary: cleansing, protection, healing, longevity, improves memory and concentration

Tarragon: cleansing, regeneration, transformation

Thyme: purification, psychic cleansing, divination, healing, enhances memory, eases sleep, courage

Vanilla: love, prosperity, lust, energy, mental abilities, creativity

🌿HERBS🌿

Anise: psychic abilities, lust, luck, purification, love

Basil: love, trust, abundance, prosperity, courage, discipline, protection, marriage, purification, luck, mental abilities

Bay: protection, purification, endurance, fidelity, psychic powers, divination, wisdom, strength

Catnip: cats, love, beauty, happiness, tranquility, luck

Chamomile: purification, healing, soothes anxiety, gently heals bad luck, soothes children

Mint: purification, preserves health, clarity of mind, protects travelers, attracts money, health, love, success

Sage: healing, longevity, good health, psychic awareness, protection

Verbena: purification, protection, blessings, communication with nature spirits

Yarrow: marriage, courage, love and friendship, psychic abilities, hex breaking 

🍎Fruits🍎

 Apple: love, healing, peace

Lemon: purification, love, protection, happiness

Lime: love, purification, luck, sleep

Orange: love, joy, purification, prosperity

🌷Plants🌷

Angelica:  protection, hex breaker, healing, psychic abilities, house blessing, purification

Bayberry: abundance, prosperity

Chickweed: animals, love, fidelity, healing, weight loss

Cinquefoil (five-finder): eloquence, cunning, money, protection, sleep, prophetic dreams, purification, love

Clover:  lust, hex breaking, prosperity, purification, love, luck, protection, success, fidelity, comfort

Comfrey: healing, prosperity, protection, travel

Daisy: nature spirits, love, children

Dangelion: longevity, enhances psychic ability, intuition, spiritual and emotional cleanser

Echinacea: healing

Elderflower: protection from lightning, beauty, divination, prosperity, purification, house blessing, healing, sleep

Eucalyptus: protection, healing

Eyebright: truth, pierces through illusion, certainty, psychic ability

Feverfew: love, fidelity, protection, healing

Gardenia: love, attraction, peace, meditation

Geranium: love, healing, protection, fertility

Hawthorn: protection, fertility, happines

Heather: protection, rain, luck

Heliotrope: clairvoyance, psychic abilities, health, money

Hibiscus: love, lust, divination, harmony, peace

Honeysuckle: abundance, luck, prosperity, eases sorrow, enhances psychic abilities (do not use the berries; they are poisonous)

Hops: healing, sleep

Hyacinth: love, comfort, protection

Hyssop: purification, protection

Jasmine: love, attraction, prosperity, tranquility

Juniper: cleansing, purification, protection against accidents, protection against illness, love, antitheft, fertility, psychic abilities

Lavender:  healing, love, happiness, heals grief and guilt, sleep, tranquility, protection, purification, peace, house blessing, wisdom, children, marriage

Licorice: love, lust, protection, fidelity

Lilac: protection, beauty, love, psychic abilities, purification, prosperity

Lily: protection, love antidote, truth

Lotus: blessing, meditation, protection

Marigold: positive energy, protection, eases legal stress, increases psychic awareness, peace

Meadowsweet: peace, love, happiness, psychic awareness

Mistletoe: healing, protection, love, fertility, sleep, luck

Mugwort: divination, protection, healing, strength, lust, psychic power, fertility, protects travelers

Nettle: cleansing, protects from danger, protects health

Patchouli: money, fertility, lust, clairvoyance, divination, love, attraction

Poppy: fertility, abundance, sleep, love

Rose: healing, love, conciliation, restoration, self-love, attracts love and good fortune, heals trouble, enhances psychic ability

Rowan: purification, house blessing, protection, healing, psychic abilities, wisdom, strengthens spells

Rue: protection, mental abilities, purification, health, comfort

St. Johnson’s Wort: courage, power of the sun, fertility, purification, healing, positive energy

Valerian: purification, protection, healing, love, sleep, attraction

Violet: tranquility, love, luck, protection, healing

🌳Woods🌳

Birch: protection, purification, new beginnings, children

Cedar: healing, purification, protection, prosperity

Cypress: protection, comfort, healing

Elm: love, protection

Maple: sweetness, prosperity, marriage, love, money

Oak: purification, protection, prosperity, health and healing, money, fertility, luck, strength

Pine: prosperity, healing, purification, fertility

Willow: communication, eloquence, protection, healing, love, dreams

🌰Seeds🌰

Almond: love, money, healing, wisdom

Hazel:  mental abilities, fertility, protection, wisdom, luck

Flax: money, protection, beauty, healing

Walnut:  healing, mental abilities

🧅Others🧅

Ash: protection, strength, healing, prosperity

Benzoin: purification, healing, prosperity

Onion: healing, protection, purification

[lilacs-world]

Possible meanings of the eight of wands in tarot

Upright possible meanings : Movement, fast paced change, action, alignment, air travel, hard work paying off

Reversed possible meanings : Delays, frustration, resisting change, internal alignment, unfinished business

Possible use in spells : Spells for a fast change, to see work pay off

Keep in mind that the meaning of an arcana can change from a deck to another or from a person to another, it’s good to go with your gut when it comes to understanding it in a reading.

Blessed Be,

The Owl

[gardenfoxywitch]

Winter Solstice Spell

Happy Winter Solstice! I’m excited to celebrate the longest night of the year and hope we can reflect on ourselves together. I’ve created a spell that enchants us with winter wonders and helps us calm down so we are able to look inside ourselves. I like to drink this tea before I go to bed. I hope you have a wonderful night!

Ingredients

1 cup or mug of water

1 candy cane

half a tbsp of chamomile

half tsp on vanilla

Directions

heat up the water until at your preferred temperature

stir in the vanilla counterclockwise and place the chamomile in to steep

let it sit for about four minutes and strain out

mix again with the candy cane, but this time stir clockwise and chant

“A tired sky closes its eyes to dream,

creating a wondrous dance with the stars.

Time is remembered through its color and gleams,

but when the sky opens and light begins again so do we.”

Make sure you imagine a blue color swirling around you like snow in the breeze. A white snow with a tint of blue and although it feels cold on your skin, it creates a warmth underneath.  

I hope you all have a happy holiday!

- Kenzie!

[storm-and-flame]

Blessed Yule

As another cycle reaches completion, and the wheel turns ever onward -

May your log burn throughout the night.

May your wishes become your blessings.

And may your lessons this year be gentle to swallow.

I wish you all a safe and warm Yuletide in the company of your loved ones. And as I wish it,

So mote it be!

[autumncottageattic]

Happy Winter Solstice 2018🌞

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Winter Solstice Tarot Spread

Happy Solstice everyone! I thought I’d put together a little spread for the day. It can be done with three cards, one card for each section; or if you’d prefer a more in depth spread, you can use multiple cards for each section.

One - Darkness: This card represents what you can learn from the past year. On this longest night, there is plenty of time to look back on the year that has just been.

Two - Stasis: This card represents what you can reflect upon in this moment. Solstice is a time of transformation, and as you wait in this liminal time between the two halves of the year, what does this teach you?

Three - Light: This card represents what the new year may bring to you. As you look forward to the lighter days that come, what energies can you bring in for in the new year?

[junibloom]

[songsparrowwitch]

🕯️Ways to Celebrate Imbolc 💐

Imbolc is celebrated on or around February first to welcome the earliest beginnings of spring.

🕯️Honor or welcome the sun by lighting a candle in your home (you can do a fake candle if you’re not allowed to light a real candle). If you really want to go all out, you can light every single fake and real candle in your house! 🕯️Get crafty! Make candles, Brighid’s Crosses, Brighid dolls, sun catchers, or start building a garden. Imbolc is a great time to plant seeds (unless it’s too cold outside; indoor gardens are always an option)! 🕯️Decorate your altar and/or home with crystals, flowers, stones, candles, images of the sun, or any other decor that celebrates the coming spring! 🕯️Divine your future! Get out your tarot cards, pendulum, dowsing rod, bones, or other divining tools and ask for advice or insight into the future. 🕯️Take care of yourself and your home! Do some spring cleaning and cleansing and take time for yourself. Take a bath, clean off your desk, do some easy cleaning or deep cleaning, whatever you prefer. This is a great time for cleansing and purification! 🕯️Cook and share with friends and family! Pies, cookies, bread, whatever you want. If you have the energy, you can cook a feast and celebrate with your loved ones, including deceased loved ones. 🕯️Visit a lake, stream, well, or another body of water. If you want to, dip a ribbon in the body of water and then hang it on a tree (remember to not litter; you could use a tree in your yard and later tie the ribbon off) to send a message of hope and healing! 🕯️Visit a park, lake, or forest and pick up litter. This is a great way to honor the coming of spring, but if it is too cold, you can always wait until it gets warmer! 🕯️Say goodbye to winter and start to welcome spring! You can do this through prayers, spells, thoughts, or actions. Meditation is one great way that you can do this! Cleansing, new beginnings, thriving, purification, and gratitude spells are also great ideas. 🕯️Honor Brighid if you wish to! You can make Brighid crosses or dolls, set a special place for Her on your altar or in your home, give Her a prayer or offering, or something else that honors Her during this special day.