From Storm and Sea, I welcome thee.

I am Avii of the Western Storms and Seas. I welcome thee to this space, for enjoyment and comfort.

[bled]

[staraptor]

u ever just want to sit at the bottom of a pool or something. like if i could breathe underwater it would be a really nice, peaceful environment. especially if it was sunny and the water was nice and warm. just sittin there, watching the sunlight dance on the tiles? yeah. that’s a nice thought

[vvitchyone-deactivated20200329]

🌊 Sea Witch Essentials 🌊

~ This is what I personally do and use in my craft, I’ve debated posting this because I love the sea more then most things, the crystals listed or what I associate and what reminds me of the sea, you can use whatever though! The sea calls to people in many different ways so whatever you see fit lovelies. 💙

~ Let it also be known that you do not have to live by the ocean to be a “sea witch” anyone’s love for the sea has no limits. ✨

🐚 CRYSTALS 🐚

~ Blue Lace Agate: Clarity, confidence in ones communications and actions, helping one to stay calm in anxious situations or times. 🌀 you can put this in water.

~ Amazonite: Helps speaking ones truth, harmony and peace. 🌀 you can put this in water.

~ Blue Apatite: Helps with physic activation, knowledge, cleansing of the mental and spiritual body, and stimulates visionary states. 🔱 do not put in water.

~ Aquamarine: Soothing and calming, helps one enhance clear communication. 🌀 this can go in water!

~ Green Aventurine: Vitality, confidence and growth in all forms, helps one move through transformations with a positive outlook! 🌀 this can go in the water!

~ Blue Aventurine: Inner strength, self discipline and awareness, as well as physic awareness. 🌀 this can go in the water!

~ Azumar: Personal growth, joy, refresh and insight, communication with oceanic creatures. 🌀 this can go in water!

~ Blue Calcite: Helps with ones physic abilities, astral traveling, soothing and calming for the emotional body. 🔱 this cannot go in water!

~ Blue Chalcedony: Helps to bring one to their center, calmness, inner knowledge and serenity. 🌀 this can go in the water!

⚓️ DECOR ⚓️

This is so fun!! There is so many ways you can decorate your altar or home when it comes to the sea! These are some of my favorite. 💙

~ Seashells! And sea glass! Real or fake, whatever is easier for you!

~ Sand! You can gather some from your local crafts store or a body of water near you.

~ Netting! You can use it as your altar cloth, or if you like braiding or weaving, use it to tie off sachels.

~ Statues or images of ships, compasses, maps, anchors or even sun dials!

~ You can also have statues or images off mermaids, krakens or anything else that resides in the sea!

~ bones or scales of fish, shark teeth, etc.

DEVOTIONAL ACTS FOR THE SEA🏴‍☠️

Just as we do acts of kindness for our Earth, we need to do it for our seas as well. For they are a world of their own.

~ If able, learn how to sail! Drive a boat, or simply row.

~ Sail in a ship or a boat! Try any type of sea travel.

~ Pick up trash at your local beach or board walk.

~ Learn about the types of waves and rip tides, how to watch out for them above the water.

~ Better yet take classes on how to properly escape and handle one just in case. Please practice water safety. Please.

~ Learn about the types of sea creatures and sea plants that live and dwell near you! Or if you’re not by any ocean learn about your local wildlife and plants by lakes, streams, etc.

~ Listen to Oceanic or water soundscapes! My favorite is: Ocean Rain Sounds by Ocean Waves Radiance!

~ Do yoga, meditate, or workout on the beach! Or by a body of water!

~ Read the tales and stories of pirates, sirens, and sailors! Read of the stories and sing their songs.

~ Learn the places of a ship! The keel, hull, deck, stern, port, etc!

~ And for the love of Davy Jones himself and all things I hold dear, do not attempt to play with the sea or water wildlife and don’t pick the plants. No matter how pretty, or tempting.

📚 Crystal references and sources I used the book: The Book of Stones: Who They Are & What They Teach (second edition) by Robert Simmons & Naisha Ahsian

[sweeneynoir]

me, suddenly realizing i haven’t left any kind of offering to my dieties in literal months: ya’ll want some takis?

[moss-wizard]

What a year this week has been.

[we-dont-matteratall]

It’s Monday.

[jacuwi]

It sure as hell is.

[actualaster]

The earlier in the day Monday you reblog the funnier this gets

[theerraticace]

Please reblog if you think that “they/them/theirs” is a valid set of pronouns.

[possums-against-cops]

this post must be reblogged by everyone

[studdedheartsblog]

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

By reblogging this post you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not reblogging this post on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this post will not make its way into the hands of Anish Kapoor.

[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

[seainaglass]

Moodboard || Poseidon - Sea

[oracleofapollo]

Devotional Activities: Zephyrus

Chimes: Wind chimes are always nice to listen to and a good homage to him and his siblings

Kites: Make your own, buy one, doesn't matter. Just get out on a nice breezy day and fly one.

Wind pipes: Or more any wind instrument. Learn to play them, play music more wind based.

Cloud watching: Take a breather and just watch the clouds pass on a breezy day

Pale blue: Burn pale blue candles, wear pale blue, paint or color with it. Gentle color that embodies the air and wind

[oracleofapollo]

Devotional Activities: Poseidon

Beach: Have a beach day. Spend your time relaxing in his domain

Horses: Go horseback riding. Place imagery of them on your alter, draw them, or wear shirts with them on it.

Shells: Collect shells from the beach. Use them as offerings or do something with them (ie. make necklaces or frames)

Charities: Donate to a charity meant for beach cleanup or ocean cleanup. Be an active part of keeping his domain clena

Surf: If you know how to get out there and shred it up if you don't why not take a lesson? And if you can't don't be ashamed to grab that boogie board and sit on it at the beach. The point is to connect

Ocean Breeze Candles: When you want to be close to the ocean but just can't for whatever reason you can at least pretend and smell the salty air.

[oracleofapollo]

Low key Ritual: Asking for Healing from Asclepius

So I realize that many young ones in our community can’t have alters or do rituals because of varying reasons so I thought I’d try to help with some Low key rituals that can be done easily. 

For this ritual I am basing it off of a ritual on hellenion.org. The ritual on the site is a full on ritual and very good for others who can worship openly. I’ll link it Here

Keep reading

[fromstormandsea]

I'm going to try this when I can for my eye!

[oracleofapollo]

Low Key Offerings

Here are offerings to the gods without looking like offerings to the gods

Books: Great for Athena, but can be offered to other gods as well. I offered "The Art of War" to Ares once.

Drawings: Of the gods or of anything else. If drawn for them they work

Poems/Written works: Poems, stories, songs. They all can be written or typed and printed and set on the alter or other area dedicated to the gods

Jewelry: Any kind. They just look like you set jewelry down

Keepsake Box: I did this as a offering box and also as an offering to Artemis when I was younger

Coins: Good for Charon, Hermes, and Hades

Flowers: Everyone loves flowers and they just look like decor

Statues/Figurines: It's art. As long as you aren't overly decorating them or putting other offerings at their feet no one will think "Hey now that there's an offering"

Stuffed animals: My kids do this. Recently a stuffed owl was offered to Athena

Sea Shells: You can just put them in a pretty box or jar.

[oracleofapollo]

Lessons from the Gods

These are personal lessons I have learned while interacting with individual gods that I thought could be helpful lessons to others as well

Zeus- One’s past mistakes should not influence their present chances, within reason.

Hera- It is alright to not be a perfect mother and you shouldn’t try hiding any postpartum. It is better to admit the fear, pain, and bad thoughts and get help than to let them fester.

Hephaestus- Beauty belongs to those who stand tall despite what others say… Focus on what you can do and not what you can’t. Please yourself not others

Apollon- There’s a “beast” in each of us that we must face daily and you won’t always win, but you should keep fighting anyways.

Artemis- “Roles” are just loose guidelines that one should not take seriously. Do you. Always do you

Persephone- Your story will change with each new mouth that speaks it. Don’t let it bother you. You know the truth and those who matter will know the truth. That is what is important

Hermes- You can be extremely childish and act dumb all you want and still be extremely smart, cunning, and mature when the situation calls for it

Nyx- Elegance and grace does not come naturally to everyone and if it doesn’t for you but you still wish to cultivate it do not give it up. 

Hestia- Spoiling others for no real reason makes you feel so much happier.

Aphrodite- Whatever makes you feel beautiful is alright. If you feel beautiful covered in makeup wonderful. If you feel beautiful all natural, wonderful. If you feel beautiful with mud on your face.. Guess what? That’s wonderful. Real beauty shines through when you feel happy in your skins, no matter what covers it.

Hades- Doom and gloom is fun. Doom and gloom does not spell evil. Take pride in your personal doom and gloom. ((I like watching creepy stuff in the middle of the night and can’t fall asleep without a good ghost video playing and that’s awesome))

Athena- there is always more to learn and asking questions, no matter how “silly” or “stupid” they feel, is not something to apologize for. 

Thanatos- Being death positive is a good thing. We shouldn’t fear the most natural of things. Yes it is hard to imagine being gone from this world, but it is better to embrace it now and have things planned then to leave your loved ones with nothing to go on. Own your mortality and make it amazing while you can

Morpheus- Dreams don’t have to end when you open your eyes, you just have to keep working for them.

[fromstormandsea]

Skipping Witch Tip Wed #8

Sorry fellow witches.

I need to skip posting for a bit as I've had eye surgery and can't handle looking at screens for too long.

Hugs, kisses, and best wishes.

-Avii

[brujeria-n-bongs]

Yall…. Stop bathing in grocery store rose petals.

Stop using them in teas and salves and skin toner too.

Mass produced roses like the ones we find in grocery stores of flower shops are beautiful! - By design.. And “by design” I mean by chemicals and pesticides. They’ll wreck your skin far more than help (especially if you have sensitivities or allergies[ @ me] ). Make sure ANY flowers or herbs or roots you use are certified for culinary or therapeutic use. Get them from credible places. And use common sense.

Free advice, take it or leave it.

[therestlesswitch]

Omg yes. This goes for any flower of course, not just roses.

Always use local growers if you can because that way you can be sure that they haven’t been sprayed. And local florists =/= local grower. Any transported flower, which means most cut flowers from florists too, will have to get sprayed as part of the importing/shipping process.