In place of the head matriarch, I cooked "Easter" dinner this evening. I don't know what ancestor came over me but I just cooked turkey wings with gravy, a pot of greens and candied yams with rice....and get this--everything turned out hot at the same time! My little millennial brain is feeling all warm an fuxxy lol. I would take a picture--Its absolutely beautiful. But man. I was sitting here thinking wow-this is something you cook when you love yourself.
If God doesn't forgive people who don't repent--why should we? Why are we forgiving people God won't even save? Name one story in the bible where God forgave somebody that wasn't sorry?
Maybe when God judges them he says "The people you offended forgave you. My son forgave you. But because you didn't repent and confess your sins to me, I will not forgive you."
But that's whack, it's like I forgave them for no reason. I guess it's possible to forgive people that are going to hell anyway. Oh well, forgive as an act of obedience. I suppose eternity is a long time to fry at excruciating temperatures right alongside someone you refused to forgive.
Should I pray for God's mercy? God literally will have mercy on them AFTER they repent. You can't pray that they repent because that's an act of the will and God isn't going to forgive them for fun or just because YOU prayed. Conditions have to be met first... and THEY must meet the conditions.
Inside the Witch’s Library:
Mundane Magic by Molly Donlan
A few weeks ago I found myself at a loss. I am an ADHD witch who lives in a small space with my partner, who has diagnosed OCD. I’m sure you can imagine the challenges that brings 😅
So I came here for a little advice. My magical practice has continuously enriched & enhanced my life in all ways, so I figured someone on this site with hearth magic expertise might have some advice for me. Thus, Mundane Magic entered my life (I’d like to thank @our-marvel-universe again for this book rec).
This book has a great introduction explaining ADHD thought patterns and why certain tasks might be more difficult for folks with brains wired like mine. Off the jump, Donlan suggests adding novelty to mundane tasks to “trick” the brain into having more fun, and using the Moon & Earth cycles to keep track of deep-cleaning chores.
The rest of the book is broken up into sections based on different areas of a typical Western home. There are spell ideas, but what I love the most were the ways of adding magic/whimsy/novelty to home-keeping tasks. While nothing I read was revolutionary, just the information being organized in this way has had me reaching for this book almost daily since initially reading though it.
Yes, there are spell ideas, but what really resonated with me was the information on how certain areas of the home could influence my magical life. The bed, for example, I hadn’t realized could make me feel stuck or groggy in the mornings if it wasn’t being regularly energetically cleansed. A simple solution for me was a magical cleansing pillow spray I made and have been using daily, in between weekly washes.
This book has really helped me decontextualize cleaning and has helped the magic in my home flow with less restrictions. And I can feel the spiritual benefits! My hearth spirits have been much more lively, and I’ve felt their involvement in my daily chores too, helping me out.
I’m really grateful I found a resource like this, from a mundane perspective and a magical. I highly recommend this book for other ADHD witches or anyone who’s learning to keep a home for the first time.
A lot of beginners have asked me in the past about how witchcraft works, if the mechanics behind spell would work, which pantheon to work with, which deity to follow, and what they should believe. I believe that religion is ultimately a very personal experience, as we each have different ways to reach towards something beyond us. I think that telling someone else what to believe or how to practice is not just robbing someone of the spiritual experience of discovering their own beliefs, but also flat-out dangerous and controlling. I strongly believe that one shouldn't find an established practice and try to force their beliefs to align with it, but instead should self-reflect upon their naturally-held beliefs and find a practice that aligns with them. So instead, I like to provide a list of questions that scratch just the tip of the iceberg of establishing a foundation for your belief system. I don't think that reflection should end at this short list of questions, and that you should continue to reflect upon your belief systems beyond this. I do also want to emphasize that your foundational belief system is allowed to change over time with new experiences.
How does magic/witchcraft work? Is it through spirits and the agency of the materials you're working with? Is it through symbolic recreation? Or something else?
Is magical power internal or external to you? Or in other words, does the ability of magic to work come from the strength of an individual, or outside forces?
Why does spoken word have power? Why do materials have correspondences, where do they come from, and how do they perform work? Do thoughts/intentions have power, and why?
If you believe in deities, how do you think they exist? Representations of forces of nature? Thoughtforms/created by people's beliefs in them? Independent spirits that are inherently divine? Local spirits that have been elevated through belief/relationships? Something else?
Do you believe that there's one true religion? That religions can coexist? If you believe that they can coexist, do you intend to follow more than one? If so, how would could you practice those multiple religions while remaining culturally sensitive to both? Are different gods faces of each other, or entirely separate? How do those belief systems compliment each other? Where are there differences, and how do you understand those differences?
Outside of deities, do you believe in spirits? Do you believe that spirits can impact the world around us? Do you have interest in interacting with spirits? Why would motivate a person to work with spirits?
How involved are spirits v. deities in our lives? Would you turn to one over the other for various things? How might different types of beings be interacted with differently in your practice?
Do you believe that the world around you is inherently alive, beyond things/beings understand to be biologically living? How do you define life? What determines what has a spirit or soul?
What's motivating you to pursue polytheism and/or a magical practice? What's important to you when finding a path? Ancestral or cultural re/connection? Pre-existing related interests? Are there certain values you want your practice to align with? Is there something you don't want your practice to look like?
Where do you already find divinity and/or magic around you? What makes you feel the most connected to divinity/magic?
The Spring Equinox is just around the corner. Thought it would be great and helpful to make a post about some of my favorite things. Making lists and decorations. Some fun things eveyone should do for this coming holiday.
Ideas for spring cleaning to help tailor your own list, whether it be digital, calendar, planner, or on a cork board. A clean house makes for clean energy. Make a ritual out of it.
Also a perfect time to do something new or add something to your self-care routine. Make it match the season! Bless you all be friends and family 🔅💠🔆
LEO is not a king over people.. leo is king over himself, it means leo control his desires, feelings and thoughts.
In estoeric astrology, leo is ruled by the sun ( same in traditional astrology ).
Sun in esoteric it symbolize “heart”.
Leo in MEDICAL ASTROLOGY rule “heart”.
In a lower way, leo want attention, validations, always want to be number 1, care about people’s opinion and their validations.
In a higher way, leo start to understand their talents, themselves, their soul.
Then .. leo turn from “i’m king over everyone” TO “i am that, and that is me”. It means leo’s pride and ego melts ..
“ i am that, and that is me”. An example for this sentence :
Imagine there is a “lamp”.
If the lamp can talk it will say “i am the queen of lights, i am the one who illuminates the place”.
This is the “i am the king over people”.
BUT when the lamp understand that “the light comes from electricity” it will say ( the lamp is that “electricity” and that “electricity” is the one .. let me shine”.
Leo is ruled by sun in traditional and esoteric astrology ..
Sun in esoteric astrology is NOT = I AM.
Sun in esoteric astrology is = the bright spirit within matter.
Leo is the 5th sign of the 12th zodiac signs.
Leo is before virgo and libra zodiac signs.
Why?
Because you need to know who you are, how to express yourself, the real meaning of validations ( leo )
BEFORE you serve, organize, improving your lifestyle (virgo)
And before you enter relationships and having social life ( libra ).
That’s why leo is before virgo and libra zodiac signs.
Yes, leo and sun represents ego. Ego is a fake and delusional thing! But it’s doesn’t mean that ego is not effective, EGO is a TEMPORARY IDENTITY.
Ego / pride is like : role in a theater, identify in a fake name and fake role for the theater, having a character in this theater temporary.
The illusion here is = thinking that you’re just that role and sticking in this fake role.
It’s like wearing a mask then dropping it off.
After the beginning of individual identity ( aries ).
After building self-values, values and material security ( taurus ).
After learning ( gemini ).
After the formation of roots, emotional security, safety, internal world ( cancer ).
Then LEO will come .. “who am i? How can i express myself? What’s my talents?”
Cancer focus on internal world, then leo will begin to show this internal world externally.
Leo is before virgo, why?
Because after you know yourself, expressing yoursef, become self-aware, be the king of ur life.. you need to organize and improving your life
Leo = this is me, this is my talents.
Virgo = ok, then i will improve it.
Why leo is before libra?
Because you can’t get into relationships, having a social life and you don’t know who u are. You can’t get into relationships and you let your ego controls you.
To all my herbalist, healers and green witches: This a phenomenal book. And I wanted it sooo bad but I could not pass up Barbara G Walker's Encyclopedia (hell at $2.99 I'll probably still get it-I just won't be able to cover it with my kindle points). Anyway, the kindle book is selling for pennies on Amazon right now.
I cannot believe I just got this [kindle] book on Amazon for .99! If you're into goddess history, culture and religion you NEED this book. It is $3.99 on Amazon.com right now. I used my 3 kindle points to get this. There is another book that I really wanted but I could NOT pass this one up.
Mint tea is amazing for debloat and whenever I feel bloated on my period or something I just drink some mint tea and I feel better right away. Also mint is great for digestive discomfort. If you feel really uncomfortable in your abdomen or you feel really sick mint tea is really a healing tea. It does wonders.
My favorite thing about lavender is how it can calm me down. I think lavender flowers look beautiful in your home and their purple color is just beautiful. Lavender can really calm you down. If you ever feel stressed, nervous or angry I recommend lavender tea or lavender scent.
Chamomile how I love chamomile tea. It helps me with stress, my mood is better and of course I sleep better so every night before going to bed I make myself a cup of chamomile tea and I sleep like a baby. It's good. It tastes great and it makes me feel happy.
If you ever wondered why grandma added ginger to your tea when you felt sick and nauseous there's a reason. It helps with stomach cramps and therefore it can help ease the tension in your gut and you won't throw up so much.
And finally something not everyone is talking about enough. Red clover. It helps with high hormones. If you are going through puberty or you are having mood swings it can be because of hormones. You can find good tea with red clover in and it can help. It can smooth your heart work, lower your blood sugar and even help with menopause.
I'm not a doctor so therefore I only written what I was thought and what I know. For any reason if you want to take some random plants and eat them please don't. First you need to read about said herbs and plants since some can be dangerous. If you want more answers or something go look in the books. Plants are not like paint you can mix.
Performed during The Conjunction of Venus and Mercury.
Intention: expand consciousness, shatter illusions and spiritual/religious/political/psychological/emotional propaganda.
Tools used:
Lavender incense
Lavender herb
Ginger
Garden Sage
Yellow beeswax candle
Rose quartz, Amethyst, and Black Tourmaline
Intentions and Purpose of Tools Used:
Lavender ← Water and Air. Mercury. Crown. Third Eye. Clearing negative energy. Protection, peacefulness. Enhanced intuition. Protection against psychic attack. Enhance and align with Higher Consciousness, general love, and emotional healing. Releasing past traumas. Clearing energetic blockages.
Ginger ← speeds up the spell
Garden Sage ← Air. Jupiter, Mercury, and Moon. Wisdom, enhanced emotional strength. Releasing energy of past traumas.
Energies I call upon:
I call upon my ancestors: [specific names].
I call upon the energy and power of The Conjunction of Venus and Mercury.
I call upon Mother Earth.
I call upon the powers and properties of the tools used here.
Spell/prayer:
I invoke the expansion of consciousness and shatter all spiritual, religious, political, emotional, and psychological propaganda, delusions, and illusions of [insert name].
I invoke the revealing of the truth and expansion of awareness for [insert name].
How To Perform The Spell:
Light candle and Lavender incense.
Put the herbs and spices into a fire proof dish. Lavender, ginger, and garden sage.
Write spell/prayer on a pieces of paper.
Recite spell/prayer 3-4 times while candle and incense burns
Light paper with spell/prayer by candle and let it burn in a fire proof dish with the herbs and spices.
While paper burns, recite the spell/prayer 3-4 more times.
Wave around Lavender incense in counter-clockwise motions while repeating the spell/prayer 3-4 more times.
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My witch friend and I performed this spell to expand the consciousness of and shattering illusions and delusions and propaganda for our fathers.
I decided to get back into my plant personality studies for reals this time, so I visited the local library to find some books to peruse. And OMFG-what a disappointment.
The library in this neighborhood is so ass bro lmao. There's like three books and then a huge section for teens and kids. I was pissed when I left out of there. They don't even have recognizable titles from semi-famous authors. Nor do they have subject matter books that you can like research and nerd out on. Most libraries at least have those "For Dummies" books--they didn't even have that. They have zero any occult books. NOTHING.
What the faaaaaack!
I want to read actual books and do research the old school way for this topic and the idea of getting all of my research from google makes my skin crawl.
Woosah.
Anyway, you know what? I am the queen of telling people to study to show thyself approved which is a sister to start where you are. Afterall, 6 months from now--a trash library will be a dim excuse.
So, Google it is.
Speaking of reading books. I am halfway through "The Great Cosmic Mother". I am quite proud of myself-especially as someone with a ton of criticisms about it and who initially found it a slow, nauseating read.
Now that I have dug my heels in to read it I can say my worldview is changing. And I feel like EVERYBODY EVERYWHERE is lying to me about everything all the time. I'm not sure what to do with that yet.
Spring Allies: Charms, Spells, Divination, and Plant Magic; Part 1
by Keziah Zibelmann
Spring — a time associated with renewal, rebirth, awakening, and change, and a season best known for its wealth of greenery, buds, blossoms, and outdoor beauty. Much of that outdoor beauty is teeming with power and possibility, as spring brings a plethora of plant allies that can support and enhance one’s magical practices. With herbs known for their potent protective qualities, flowers said to be invaluable divinatory tools, and plants bringing in luck and money in abundance, even the most “common” and overlooked of springtime finds can be a boon to one’s witchery and magic.
This pieces aims to provide a collection of some of spring’s most powerful magical allies and the versatile ways in which they can be put to use in anyone’s magical craft.
BUTTERCUP
[WARNING: All species of buttercup are poisonous. Do no ingest and do not leave buttercups in an area where they can be ingested or accessed by children or animals. Buttercups are also known to cause dermatitis when handled, so handle with care and caution.]
Buttercup is associated with love, friendship, harmony and peace, and happiness, and can be used in any magical working surrounding these matters. They also bear some association with health and healing works, be that physical, mental, or emotional healing.
[Buttercups by Nik, 2025.]
FOR LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, & HARMONY:
Gifting a bouquet of buttercup flowers (or featuring buttercup flowers) can promote peace and harmony between the giver and the recipient.
Happening upon buttercup recently after starting a new relationship or starting to date someone is an omen of happiness to come and love growing between the parties involved.
To repair a damaged friendship or promote a last friendship, plant two buttercups side by side, naming them for each of the parties involved.
Growing buttercup on one’s property attracts peace and love to the home and its inhabitants.
FOR WISHING:
If one is lucky enough to catch buttercup just before blooming, one can make a wish on the buttercup flower. Wishes on buttercup should focus on matters of the heart and relationships, or on personal happiness and growth. The wish will bloom as the buttercup flower does.
FOR HEALTH:
If one has illness or disease in one’s home, planting buttercups on the property is believed to help attract healing and cast illness out.
Buttercup petals or whole flowers (please handle buttercup flowers safely and with caution, preferably with gloves, to avoid dermatitis) can be included in a sachet or bag charm for healing.
A bouquet of buttercups kept in a home where illness is taking root is said to prevent the illness from sticking around and lasting long.
My grandmother says that gifting buttercups to someone who is unwell “draws the sick back out of them” and promotes a speedy healing and recovery process. She says this can also be done by burying buttercups on that person's property.
Buttercups brighten, fighting back against depressive energies and promoting mental clarity and wellness. Therefore buttercups can be grown on the property of those who suffer with depression or have recently experienced loss, as a means of combating and warding against depression.
CHERRY BLOSSOM
[CAUTION: Cherry blossoms contain coumarin, which is potentially hepatotoxic. Handle with caution and care. Do not ingest cherry blossoms unless they have been properly prepared. It is much safer to buy professionally prepared, ready to use, pre-made cherry blossom products instead of attempting to make one's own.]
Cherry blossoms are particularly powerful allies for love magic, as well as for beauty and glamour magic.
[Cherry blossoms by David Brooke Martin, 2019]
FOR LOVE:
It is ideal to marry when the cherry blossoms are in bloom, considered an omen of a lasting partnership filled with happiness and love.
Sitting beneath a blossoming cherry tree with someone assures happiness between the parties. There is, though, some question as to how long the happiness is guaranteed – some say the happiness is assured for the duration of cherry blossom season, while others say the happiness is certain from that day on until the start of next year’s cherry blossom season.
Cherry trees growing on one’s property attract and promote love to the home whenever the blossoms are in bloom.
Burning cherry blossom incense while working love magic can give the working more oomph.
BEAUTY & GLAMOUR MAGIC:
Wearing cherry blossom soaps, lotions, creams, oils, or perfumes can be used in glamour and beauty magic to enhance beauty.
Burning cherry blossom incense whilst working glamour and beauty magic, or whilst dressing and getting ready for the day, further boosts beautifying magic.
DAFFODIL
[WARNING: All species of narcissus flowers are poisonous. They contain lycorine, a toxic crystalline alkaloid and are toxic to both people and animals. Please handle with caution and care. Do not ingest daffodil and never leave daffodil where it can be ingested or accessed by children or pets.]
Also known as asphodel, lent lily, and narcissus, daffodil can prove a useful ally in matters of luck, love, prosperity, and fertility.
[Yellow daffodils in spring by Yoksel Zok, 2020]
FOR CLEANSING:
It’s said that daffodils can clear out and ward off negative energies, as well as attract positive energies, happiness, and love into their space.
Daffodils are often seen as symbols of new beginnings. Incorporating daffodils in one’s space, such as on one’s altar or magical work area, whilst one is clearing out old feelings or energies serves as a symbol of newness, but the daffodils also boost one’s cleansing work while they’re at it.
FOR LUCK & PROSPERITY:
Bouquets or tussie-mussies of yellow daffodils bring fortune, wealth, and good luck with money into a place where work is to be done or creative endeavors are carried out, such as an office, studio, or cubicle.
Having a bouquet of daffodils in the home is believed to draw luck into the home. Some sources specify further that the bouquet should contain no less than thirteen daffodils [1].
Carrying a daffodil flower in one’s pocket, purse, or on one’s person is believed to attract good luck. When the daffodil is kept in a shirt pocket near one’s heart, that luck is believed to be even stronger.
Growing daffodils on one’s property can draw luck into one’s home and life, and increase already existing good luck significantly.
FOR LOVE & FERTILITY:
Gifting someone daffodil flowers or a bouquet featuring daffodil can promote feelings of love between you and that person.
To attract love into your life and home, plant daffodils on your property.
For those seeking a boost in fertility, bringing fresh daffodils into the bedroom and keeping them near the bed, such as on the nightstand, is believed to help in boosting fertility and virility.
Featuring daffodils in one’s bridal bouquet is said to assure children will soon follow the marriage.
OTHER:
Daffodils growing in the wild are said to be indicators of a sacred place [2], and some sources say they have associations with fae folk [3]. Due to this, it can be ideal to work magic in an area where wild daffodils are growing, particularly if one works with fae in their practice.
Daffodils also, though more commonly in ancient European cultures than nowadays, bear associations with death and underworld realms [4]. They are still sometimes used as grave flowers. Thus, daffodils can be an ideal plant ally for magical practitioners who work with death or with spirits or deities associated with death or the underworld.
DANDELION
Ah, dandelion. There are plenty of folkloric associations and uses for dandelion, and they’re most commonly known for folk divination customs and wishing spells, but they can absolutely be put to other uses in one’s magical practice.
[Dandelions by Viridi Green, 2020]
FOR DIVINATION:
Dandelion tea can be ingested before or during the practice of psychic and divinatory arts. Doing so is said to boost one’s psychic abilities and aid in such work.
To the same end, placing dandelions in one’s bath is said to enhance one’s psychic gifts [5].
Some say [6] that one can tell how many years they have left in life by blowing on a dandelion during its peak puffball stage. Blow the fluff and count the seeds left attached after doing so. The number of seeds are said to be the number of years you have left to live.
Scott Cunningham, in Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, takes this further to allegedly calculate the hour of one’s death. He says one can do so by blowing ‘three times at the seed head. The number [of seeds left] is the hour.’
FOR PROTECTION:
Drinking dandelion tea before sleep can keep nightmares at bay.
Likewise, keeping fresh dandelions at one’s bedside wards off nightmares and restless sleep.
To have an abundance of dandelions growing on one’s property is to have magical protection from malevolent forces and spirit foes.
Carrying a dandelion as a charm or token can grant protection from bad luck, negative energy, and malicious magical works sent one's way.
FOR BLESSINGS, FERTILITY, & HEALTH:
Dandelions can attract blessings, peace, and joy. Having them grow on one’s property is believed to be a blessing.
Bringing dandelion root into the home brings joy, blessings, abundance, and peace with it. One can include dandelion root in container spells for blessings, sachets and bag charms, and in wards
Dandelion root is also a symbol of fertility and can be included in any fertility charm or working.
Keeping a dandelion root underneath one’s bed will boost fertility.
FOR WISHING:
Dandelions are commonly used for making wishes, which is possibly their best known use. To do so, the dandelion must be in its puffball phase. Puck the dandelion, make your wish, and blow the dandelion fluff, sending the wish out into the universe with the fluffs that float away.
GROUND IVY
[CAUTION: Although ground ivy is used by humans for culinary and herbal medicinal purposes, it can be toxic to some animals. Please do not leave ground ivy where it can be ingested or accessed by any pets, cattle, or livestock.]
Also commonly called alehoof, gill-go-over-the-ground, lizzy-run-up-the-hedge, and field balm, ground ivy is well known as a divinatory ally, but also has some protection powers to lend.
[Ground Ivy by Ivar Leidus - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0]
FOR DIVINATION:
According to Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs [7], one can discover the source of negative magic sent one’s way or worked against them by placing ground ivy at the base of a yellow candle on a Tuesday. Burn the candle fully. After this is done, the source of the negative or malicious work will soon be revealed by dream, vision, or by someone revealing it in conversation.
FOR PROTECTION:
Ground ivy can be a protective ally for those who delve into realms of divination where they may be coming in contact with malevolent or disruptive energies or entities. Keeping ground ivy on one’s work space whilst divining, or, even better, keeping it on one’s person, can offer protection from energies and entities that could harm one or cling to one.
See Spring Allies; Part 2 (coming soon!) for more!
CITATIONS, SOURCES, & FURTHER READING:
NOTE: Some of the works featured in this piece come from beliefs relevant to the area I was born in and live in now, and some of it was taught to me by my grandparents. See the citations below for specific books some works can be found in, and see the sources and further read section for even more books in which these plants and their magical uses and folkloric associations can be found.
Citations:
[1] The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Magical Plants: A Practical Guide to Creating Healing, Protection, and Prosperity using Plants, Herbs, and Flowers (2008) - Gregg, Susan
[2] Plant Witchery: Discover the Sacred Language, Wisdom and Magic of 200 Plants (2020) - Diaz, Juliet
[3] 110 Magical Flowers and How to Use Them [https://www.celebratepaganholidays.com/rituals/110-magical-flowers-and-how-to-use-them]
[4] Compendium of Symbolic and Ritual Plants in Europe: Vol. II Herbs (2002) - De Cleene, Marcel & Lejeune, Marie Claire
[5] Magical Folkhealing: Herbs, Oils, and Recipes for Health, Healing, and Magic (2018) - Conway, DJ
[6], [7] Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (1985) - Cunningham, Scott
Sources & Further Reading:
A Curious Herbal - Blackwell, Elizabeth
Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure & Folk Magic from Appalachia - Richards, Jake
Bilder ur Nordens Flora - Lindman, C.A.M.
The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Magical Plants: A Practical Guide to Creating Healing, Protection, and Prosperity using Plants, Herbs, and Flowers - Gregg, Susan
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs - Cunningham, Scott
Doctoring the Devil: Notebooks of an Appalachian Conjure Man - Richards, Jake
Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Lore - Watts, D.C.
Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen - Köhler, Hermann Adolph
Magical Folk Healing - Conway, DJ
the Master Book of Herbalism - Beyerl, Paul
Plant Witchery: Discover the Sacred Language, Wisdom and Magic of 200 Plants - Diaz, Juliet
Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones: Hoodoo, Mojo & Conjure with Herbs - Bird, Stephanie Rose
The Treadwell's Book of Plant Magic - Oakley Harrington, Christina
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