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»fernflower« [f, 20] queer slavic witch. secular, but fascinated by all things pagan. constantly anxious but no less powerful. sidebar pic drawn for me by @modernwitchesdaily

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Nika Goltz. Illustrations for Scottish Folk Tales and Legends.

[vipermint]

Cranesbill

geranium / alum bloom / shameface / rockweed / crow foot / old maid’s nightcap

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[baronesshydrangea]

Solitary Samhain Celebration tips

So, looks like you guys like my posts about how to (lowkey) celebrate witchy holidays when you’re on your own. So here goes another one, this time for Samhain, all hollows eve, Halloween, Tempora dell'ombra, Day of the dead (fret not is the translation for the Italian term, I’m Italian and I do celebrate it, so it’s ok), or whatever you have.

- pull out old pictures, of when you were little, of when your parents were little, of when your grandparents were young

- frame pictures of loved ones who passed away

- have family tell you stories from the past, have friends tell you stories from their families and past

- write down your family tree, look for your roots

- light a candle and leave it out in the night to help lost souls find their way

- leave food offerings out in the night, or set an extra plate at your dinner table

- put up wards against all types of unwanted guests (salt on the window sills, a bag of iron nails near your door, a broom left outside)

- light some incense and cleanse your house and yourself

- sit down with an homemade pumpkin spice something and write in your witchy journal

- carve a pumpkin

- collect fallen leaves

- eat seasonal produce (pumpkin, mushrooms, chestnuts, etc…)

- divinate, if you have no tools it’s the perfect time to start (for lack of tools you can pick up any book ad do bibliomancy, look this up)

- and if you don’t know what to ask when doing divination, ask for an advice that can act as a motto for the incoming year

- pray for ancestors and gone souls

- dance with your shadow, meaning learn to recognize your flaws, learn from them, learn to work around and with them, learn to accept them (if you cannot shed it of course)

- dance with your shadow, meaning learn to see yourself at your worse, get scared of what you could do if completely unleashed in the worse possible way, be thankful for it because this way you can see your light

- put out food and water for small birds and little critters to pass the incoming cold months

[pacificnorthwestdoodles]

The preschool is buying heirloom sunflower seed in bulk. We’re going to make a ‘Sunflower House’.

How to grow a sunflower house

[pacificnorthwestdoodles]

@bacheloretteofscience THIS WORKS so well!

If you want to get super fancy, do a second ring on the outside of 4’ tall sunflowers then a third outer ring of the 1’ tall teddy bear sunflowers.  If there are any gaps you can interplant with cosmos, amaranth and nasturtiums or (if there are huge gaps) gourds.

[soul-vacations]

My mom used to do this for me in the backyard as a kid- it really works and I always loved it! Spent so many summer days having tea parties with teddy bears in my sunflower house.

[shredsandpatches]

The elementary school I went to had a similar setup except with lilac bushes – it had an open space in the middle and little enclaves here and there that were the right size for a group of three or four kids (a lot of the girls liked to play with My Little Ponies in there). It was beautiful and smelled amazing.

[rowanandrosemary]

i want to do this for me so i can depression nap in it

[hack3rwitch]

If I only had a yard…

[laclefdescoeurs]

Moonlight Scene, 1760, Joseph Carle Vernet

[theartofanimation]

Demizu Posuka  -  http://posuka.iinaa.net  -  https://twitter.com/DemizuPosuka

[andhumanslovedstories]

I’m reading a book about room decoration and quick question, am I supposed to construct my own rustic ladder leading nowhere or when the time is right will I wander into a Crate and Barrel and the rustic, cannot possibly bear weight ladder will find me?

[andhumanslovedstories]

Congratulations this is the single best ladder related fact anyone has ever uttered into the world, both you and that ladder were exactly what I in this moment needed

[lamus-dworski]

Slavic god Perun on illustration by Adrianna Konieczny.

[bitchcr4ft]

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[qxessence]

⚫️️🕷Qx🕸🔮// Necessity is the mother of invention

Doin some pretty heavy work and wanted to use this glass I thrifted not too long ago for smoke charging my sigils.

I used a top from a jug I have because it has a tiny hole in the center. To make sure the incense would stay in place I covered both sides of the hole with tape, poked a small opening & fed the stick thru. I also had to cut the incense in half to fit.

[littlestpersimmon]

the forest king is passing by.

[dedilhadosdepoeta]

[steampunktendencies]

Installed in the year 1410, this 600 year old clock in the city of Prague is the World’s oldest astronomical clock still in operation.

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[sylfvr]

L’Augure

Complete series.

4 months separate the first and the last photo. Maybe the most challenging series for me, as it coincided with a general lack of inspiration/motivation to create anything.

[anarchy-of-thought]

[granosdegranada]

“Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.” ― Brassaï