Starting my witchblr anew (for the billionth time)!!
I'm Ursa, 25, she/they, from the pnw. I've been a witch for 7 years. I practiced off and on until about a year-ish ago, when I started feeling seriously called to my craft.
Still figuring my shit out and don't have many concrete labels for my practice yet, but my main interests/areas of study for the moment are:
Tarot and divination
Astrology (especially natal charts)
Meditation, pathworking, trance work
Celtic deities and folklore
Ancestral work
Glamour magick
I practice as a solitary witch, but I love to meet other spiritual people and talk shop! I'm hoping this blog can serve as a captain's log for my spiritual journey, a pathway to new ideas, and a connector between myself and a magickal community.
Veiling has always interested me and personally I do minimal veiling/hidden veils but I think veiling is a good thing for witches to know and understand.
What is Veiling?
Veiling is the act of covering your head or hair with a scarf, hat, hood, or veil for spiritual, magical, or energetic reasons.
Why Witches Veil
1. Protection
Hair as discovered in my last post is often considered a "psychic antenna". Veiling dampens how much energy you pick up from people and places.
It acts like an energetic shield or filter, blocking unwanted vibes, spirits, or emotions gunk from others.
2. Containment of Power
When doing spell work, veiling can "hold" your energy in, like keeping heat inside a cauldron.
Helps prevent energy leaks when you're tired, depleted, or feeling vulnerable.
3. Privacy & Mystery
Veiling cloaks your aura so others can't read you easily.
Creates a liminal, sacred space for yourself even in public.
4. Sacred Alignment
Some witches veil during rituals, prayer, or devotional work to signal entering a sacred state.
Different colors or fabrics can honor specific deities or elements.
5. Transition or Healing
After a haircut, illness, or big life change, veiling can help protect your crown while you regrow or recalibrate your energy.
How to Veil
You can choose everything about this intentionally from material, color magic, knot magic, and charming it.
Material: example: cotton for grounding, silk for glamour, wool for protection, lace for subtle shielding
Color Magic: You can refer to this post. Or if you have a specific meaning to you you can go with your own color correspondence for a specific color you want to convey, you can do that.
Knot Magic: Tie your veil with intention. You can use numerology, for number of knots you tie your veil with. (example: 3 knots for protection)
Charm It: Sew or pin charms, beads, or herbs into the veil, you can even do tiny sachets, protective sigils, or even embroidered symbols.
Types of Veiling
Full Coverage: Scarf completely covering hair and crown
Partial Coverage: Bandana, head wrap, half scarf
Symbolic Veiling: Hats, beanies, or headbands
Hidden Veils: A slip of fabric or ribbon under your hair, scrunchie or hair tie
Veiling Extras
Cleanse Your Veils: Smoke, salt, sunlight, moonlight, etc. to clear energies.
Dedicate Each Veil: Assign one for protection, one for ritual, one for daily wear, etc.
Glamour Magic: Veiling isn't always about hiding, you can also enchant your veil to attract or radiate certain energies.
My resolution last year was to do one thing before bed that would make my morning feel easier, and thatās become a daily habit that Iām carrying into this new year.
Some nights even filling up the kettle and setting an empty mug out for my morning tea felt hard. But I was always thankful for it in the morning.
Other nights, one thing would lead to another, and Iād wake up in a clean house with everything ready to go.
And, on a rare few nights, the one thing that I could do to make my morning easier was going straight to bed and allowing myself to rest.
What stayed the same each day is that I would take a moment to think of what I could do for my future self and do it, even after a hard day. And I would wake up knowing that I had done my best and any effortāno matter how smallāwas a kindness to myself.
i've been out of touch with my witchcraft for a long time, but now i'm coming back to it by necessity. for a long time (but especially the last half-year) i've been dealing with multiple psychic vampires at my workplace: one in my immediate work group who is the most pressing, and then a few higher-ups who i don't interact with quite as much. i think this is why i've been feeling so, well, drained. i haven't been practicing my craft in part because i get home from work and have absolutely no energy to spare.
for now i'm going to need to place heavy focus on rebuilding my energy, shielding, and cutting off the spiritual ties these people have formed to me. i've never had to directly deal with people like this before so i'm a little out of my depth. i'm a very sensitive person and no matter what i do i can't help but ruminate on the negativity thrown at me. any tried & true methods or advice would be greatly appreciated!
I wear a hagstone at work to bounce all the nasty stuff, but a coworker of mine suggested scrubbing down with seasalt to get rid of negative or stuck energy!
Any sort of protective symbols or items such as religous symbols (if you are religous), or crystals can be worn under clothes and can be prayed over/charmed to 'program' it.
ahhh that's such a great idea!! i literally have a sea salt scrub in my shower i haven't used in a while which would be perfect!
as for protective symbols, i just remembered i had found a nazar bracelet not too long ago. i kept it but was hesitant to wear it, but based on my research it's considered good luck to find a nazar in the wild, like the universe is offering protection! will definitely be wearing it to work (after a thorough cleansing of course, lol)
i've been out of touch with my witchcraft for a long time, but now i'm coming back to it by necessity. for a long time (but especially the last half-year) i've been dealing with multiple psychic vampires at my workplace: one in my immediate work group who is the most pressing, and then a few higher-ups who i don't interact with quite as much. i think this is why i've been feeling so, well, drained. i haven't been practicing my craft in part because i get home from work and have absolutely no energy to spare.
for now i'm going to need to place heavy focus on rebuilding my energy, shielding, and cutting off the spiritual ties these people have formed to me. i've never had to directly deal with people like this before so i'm a little out of my depth. i'm a very sensitive person and no matter what i do i can't help but ruminate on the negativity thrown at me. any tried & true methods or advice would be greatly appreciated!
talk about spells working in a way you didn't expect!
i cast a money bowl spell about a month and a half ago. i was just hoping for a bit of extra cash to go towards holiday presents/travel plans. well a day or two later i happened upon a finance audiobook on libby (financial feminist by tori dunlap, in case anyone was interested). not something that would have typically caught my attention, but something made me interested this time. i checked it out and read it, and it just clicked. my hyperfocus shifted towards bettering my financial literacy and i completely restructured my budget. my whole mindset about money is rewired and i'm now financially WAY better off than i was before the money bowl spell.
even though i've been a witch for years i'm fairly new to spellcasting, and i'm still not used to seeing the whole process play out from start to end. when i cast a money spell i assumed it would result in some quick cash, and instead it manifested as a significant improvement in my long-term financial wellbeing. idk man this shit is just blowing me away. i guess i have more power than i thought!
havent practiced my craft in a few weeks because i've been so focused on getting my finances under control. i have such a love-hate relationship with my whole adhd hyperfocus thing. sometimes i wish i could snap and instantly switch gears between subjects, instead of having to naturally fall in and out of hyperfixating on one thing (which often takes weeks!!!!!!!)
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