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What to do with my growing collection of my feline kids' shed whiskers... 🤔
I also have a growing collection of whiskers and shed claw bits! I’ve used the whiskers in positivity and luck based spells, and the claws in protection magic 🐾
“ The longest night has come once more,
the sun has set, and darkness fallen.
The trees are bare, the earth asleep,
and the skies are cold and black.
Yet tonight we rejoice, in this longest night,
embracing the darkness that enfolds us.
We welcome the night and all that it holds,
as the light of the stars shines down. ”
a blessed yule & winter solstice to all those who honor this tradition, from my home to yours. - ish 💕
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Reblog this on the first of the month for good luck all month long!
I’m blessing you with restful sleep and a slightly lucky day for tomorrow. You don’t have to do anything for it, you just got lucky seeing this :)
Enchanting Your Plushies For Good Sleep (A Simple Spell) by Velvet Rose
PURPOSE: To help ward off nightmares and bring peaceful sleep.
DISCLAIMER: Don’t do this spell if you’re allergic to lavender.
SUPPLIES:
-Your plushie of choice
-1 drop lavender essential oil
-Moon water (preferably waning moon but any is good) 2 cups
-A spray bottle
INSTRUCTIONS:
-Cast a circle or do whatever ritual you consider protective before doing this spell. For low effort circle casting spin around clockwise with your index finger pointed outwards and say “I call upon the elements quickly, fill this circle with your good energy.”
-Sit on the ground within the circle with your supplies around you. Charge the moon water in the spray bottle by speaking this incantation over it. “Breath of my lungs, a peaceful exhale, ripple this water and charge it without fail. Only dreams that are gentle in nature, can fill my sleep oh so sweet.”
-Breathe onto the moon water so that it ripples.
-Next drop one drop of lavender into the moon water thats in the spray bottle. Say “Lavendula my lovely essence, my mind soothes from your soft presence.”
-Screw the spray bottle/mister top on and hold it close to your heart. Say 9 times the following. “Now i bless you three times three. Tonight i will have restful sleep.”
-Take your plushie and give it a hug, and sprits it from about a foot away with the spray you just made.
-Close the circle or do whatever ritual you wish to close the spell. For a low effort circle closing spin counter clockwise with your index finger pointed outwards saying “I call upon the elements here, close this circle and disappear. Thank you.”
IT IS DONE! Yay! Now sleep well!
-Velvet Rose 🌹
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A little piece of Chinese folk magic here: in Chinese culture, jade is an all-powerful stone. We wear jade pendants to ward off bad vibes and evil things. Brides will wear jade bracelets on their wedding days for luck. Precious jade jewelry are often passed down in families for generations.
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Friendly reminder to all my witchy and pagan friends and neighbors that Not Everyone Does Witchery The Same Way.
Not everyone will use components or methods or rituals in the same way. Not everyone subscribes to the same beliefs or traditions or even uses of common materials. Not everyone will do the same sorts of magic or consider the same things integral to their craft.
THIS IS NORMAL AND ACCEPTABLE.
No matter how long you've been studying or practicing or what your level of expertise is, you're going to have to accept that other practitioners will do things differently. It doesn't matter if it matches up with what you believe or what you've been taught. And rather than insisting on one's own infallibility or arguing over points of meaningless minutiae, a prudent witch will take the opportunity to learn something.
(Obviously, this does not apply in situations where one encounters bigotry or predatory behavior or misinformation/disinformation that could cause actual harm. But if you're going to argue with someone over whether the particulars of their craft work the way YOU think they should, you're wasting everyone's time.)
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Beginner Tips for Interpreting Tarot (with Real Examples)
There’s this game called Powerpoint Karaoke. In the game, someone makes up a short series of powerpoint presentation slides. They will give the whole presentation a title, and then pick related or unrelated images to go on the slides. Another person has to give the presentation to the audience - basically improvising along the way the best they can to turn a random topic plus random images into a coherent presentation. Reading tarot is a lot like doing Powerpoint Karaoke. The title of the presentation is the question you ask, and the cards are the slides. The better you are at stringing disparate images into a coherent narrative on the fly, the better you will be at making sense of tarot spreads. For each of these tips, I will illustrate it with a real question that I am genuinely asking my tarot, the card I pull, and how I interpret it. 1. Ask clear questions. It is ten times harder to interpret an answer when the question was muddled in the first place. Your questions can be general, or specific, but it’s best to only ask one question at a time. I think about the wording of my question for a while before I actually answer it. I might think at first, “How is this new creative project thing going to go? Should I start it on the New Moon, or am I going to be an unproductive mess this week? Is it a bad month to start it? Why have I been so unproductive?” I’ll take that and cut it down - for instance, removing my own speculations about myself and how it will go and all of the different options. If that stuff is relevant, it will come up in the cards. I end up with a straight-forward question that is open to lots of different answers: “Is it a good move to start working on my new creative project at the New Moon?“ Example: Is it a good move to start working on my new creative project at the New Moon? Ace of Pentacles. Ooh. This seems like a good omen to me. It is not particularly hard to interpret because it feels very on the nose, because Aces are about beginnings. And it indicates that whatever I do could eventually become profitable, even though that’s not explicitly my intention. 2. Get rid of any preconceived notion of what the answer will be. Sometimes you turn over the exact card you are anticipating - like me the time I flippantly asked my tarot deck what my persistent headache might be from and thought, “I’m probably just dehydrated and it’s going to be Temperance or some shit like that.” But other times the card you get will not fit into the mold of what you are expecting. The answer you get is not always going to be the answer you want. Sometimes you are just looking for a “Should I keep going with this story or scrap it and start something new?” but that assumes that one of those options is the correct answer. Your cards may think that you should keep going with the story, but change it in some way. Or maybe you should scrap it and not start on something new right away. If you are expecting a purely yes-or-no type of answer, you may feel confused by the result you get. I often ask questions that could have a whole range of answers, instead of expecting a specific type of answer, so instead I might say, “What should I write about?” Example: What should I write about? The Chariot. This card is about overcoming obstacles, and maintaining control. It’s not really at all what I was starting to write about recently. This is definitely a card where the interpretation isn’t obvious to me. I’ve just been sitting here and had flash of realization that I think maybe I was asking the wrong question - ironic for an example about having preconceived notions. But this actually illustrates the “having preconceived notions” thing perfectly. I asked it what I should write about, and the flash of realization I just had about the message of the Chariot is, “You worry too much about what you should write about, when you will only succeed by actually putting in the effort of writing. Stop worrying about the content - write about anything as long as you are actually writing instead of pacing and contemplating.” So yeah - sometimes the answer you need is not the answer you want. 3. Read interpretations of the cards online. Yes, this is obvious. But it needs to be said because a lot of people have strong, contrary ideas about how tarot should be done. You don’t have to read only the pictures, or have a list of associations memorized, or expect the answer to come purely from your intuition. Lots of sites online offer long and detailed explanations for each tarot card upright and reversed. Often cards can have several meanings, and while reading on a few different interpretations a meaning may jump out at you as obvious. Example: What’s going to happen this week? The Moon. This card always seems hazy to me, so it’s a good one to look up. This site says, “On the New Moon, set your intentions and plant the seeds of opportunity so they can grow,” which feels relevant given that the New Moon is this week. This site says, “The towers on the opposing ends represent the forces of good and evil, and their similarity in appearance can allude to the difficulties that we face in distinguishing between them,” which frankly sounds like America to me right now. It also says, “the negative energies must be released and turned into something constructive.” I wouldn’t necessarily gather all of that just from relying on my own ideas about what this card means, but seeing it written here feels very apt for what Americans are going through - both last week and I guess maybe the upcoming week.
4. Generate a bunch of different ideas for what the cards might mean. If the answer doesn’t seem obvious or immediate, write down three or four things you think it could be saying. Write down all of the associations that spring to mind, even if they seem stupid, and then whittle them down later. You may have some intuitive sense of which interpretation is correct, or one interpretation will grow on you the longer you sit with it. Sometimes the answer may have shades of all of the interpretations you came up with. Example: What is the best way to spend my Sunday? Three of Pentacles. For me, this could go a few different ways. I asked my deck once what someone thought of me and got this card. So I associate this card with that person. It is that person’s birthday today, so it may be indicating that I should actually reach out to them. I have some good reasons for not doing that though. Or it may be a much less personal interpretation, telling me to do something collaborative. The more that I think about it, the more I think it may also relate to the first card. I’m drawing a connection here because the suit is the same. I’ve kept my ideas about my new creative project entirely to myself, but maybe before embarking on it I should get feedback from someone else on the aspects of it I’ve been struggling with. I think that’s the interpretation I’m going to go with. 5. Ask your cards silly, simple, or non-consequential questions. If you only ask serious questions where you really need an answer, you may feel way more pressure to interpret the cards correctly. As practice, it can help just to ask casual questions like “What should I eat for dinner?” and see what it says. In fact, I’ll do that right now just to show how I would interpret it. Example: What should I eat for dinner tomorrow? Six of Wands. The meaning of this card is ‘success’ and ‘praise’ and things like that, so it kind of reminds me of how I would always choose lobster on birthdays, or after my choir concerts, or middle school graduation and those types of events when I got to pick what to eat. It is definitely a celebration food for me. This is actually a card that is like ‘the answer I want but not the answer I need,” because I don’t know where I’m going to get lobster for dinner tomorrow. Maybe seafood in general will do, because I have salmon I could make. Overall - interpretations are very personal. In the examples I’ve included, someone else may not draw the same conclusion just from the card and the question because they don’t have all of that background knowledge about me to draw from. One of the best things to do when interpreting tarot readings for yourself is just to know yourself - and be able to look at yourself honestly.
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i shared these six lord of the rings themed tarot spreads with my newsletter subscribers over a week ago. they make me happy, and feel wildly appropriate for this particular moment, and i sincerely hope they bring you some joy and structure and inspiration today. . if you want to get new tarot spreads from me right when they drop, get on my newsletter list. and if you join on a paid tier (or take advantage of my month-long sale on gold annual memberships!), you'll not only get exclusive tarot spreads in your inbox every month but will ALSO get access to my private discord server, where i'm running a new tarot spreads container starting july 1st! click the link in my bio for more info 🖤
Sometimes the witchiest thing you can do is clean your fucking space. Put on some music that makes you move and just...clean. Scrub that shit. Throw away/recycle/donate as you see fit what you aren’t going to use. Open all of the windows, let some air in. Rediscover your space.
