Witching Here and There

Dragon spirit guardian leading me on my way // young witchling learning her craft // avid palmist 

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that made you wiser, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything you still grow. Be proud of this.”

—

[listsoflifehacks]

Genius Gardening Hacks

[dickface-conjectural-deactivate]

I do a lot of this shit. The vinegar and baking soda stuff I’ll have to try.

You can also use craft paper that they sell in big rolls at the hardware store as a weed mat if you don’t have newspaper. 

[falsepalindrome-deactivated2019]

All tricks my pops taught over the years of gardening together.

Let’s not forget my pig’s blood trick…

[ddrvbiblgigb]

[garfield-baybee]

Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow

[themori-witch]

83 Herbs and Their Magickal Properties

Okay, so this is going to be a long text post so sit your cute butt down and get comfortable. You may want to make some tea or grab some kind of nourishment before you get comfortable because you are going to be here for quite a long time.

Keep reading

[hausofrainbows-deactivated20181]

Artsy Witch Tips:

use a blend of star anise, sunflower petals, mugwort, and marigold for creativity.

amazonite, orange calcite, and citrine are great for getting motivated and energized for your creative endeavors.

charge your paint water and use them for potions, spells, etc.

do small paintings as offerings for your deities.

stain your watercolor papers with teas that associate with the energy you want to manifest.

use sketchbooks as grimoires/books of shadows.

keep a spiritual journal to think, write, and draw in.

charge your paintings by drying them in moonlight/sunlight (not for too long or the paint can fade).

draw/paint/write for a spell or ritual and hang up the product near your altar when you are done to help manifest it quicker.

sing to your ancestors, deities, or spirit guides.

paint or draw a charging space to place your crystals on.

draw crystal grids for your crystals.

[thecolorsfucked]

Help! Someone is praying against me, what do I do???

everyone has some ain’t shit person in they life who wants to see them fail, even if it’s subconcious. a jealous friend, an entitled coworker, or ya shady ass aunty who can’t mind her damn business, we all have someone working against us

most curses amount to this, so before you start freakin’ out that some powerful rootworker or witch is mad at you, i have some tips to help you out

First notice the signs

do ya ears ring? itch? feel hot? is ya eye twitchin? do you keep havin dreams with a person who you not all that close to? did you get really hype for some good news and then it crumbled? even when it seemed like a for sure thing? then someone is prolly working against you

Figure out who it is

this can be difficult. narrow down the most likely aint shit people in ya life, pay attention to ya dreams, ask the house spirits and ancestors, or do a little divination. get a grasp of their energy.

Cleanse

but frfr get outcha Florida Water, double the salt, light all the herbs on fire, clean and cleanse your home, car, and any spaces you heavily occupy. cleanse and get rid of items connected to the person. take a long cleansing bath.

Banish

do a banishing spell, write the names of the people down and set them on fire, get the black salt out and sweep it out the door. banish their energy that is currently being directed at you. cleansing only gets rid of what is there currently.

BIND

remember, if you don’t bind them, the person will just keep sending those prayers and soft curses your way. silence them.

Prevention/Preemptive Strike

there are many ways to just eliminate the casual curses and prayers against you.

STOP TELLIN EVERYONE YA GATDAMN BUSINESS

Protection charms

Reflecting spells (real mirrors are good for this)

Sigils

Washing your doors

Protective and charged crystals

Cats

now go forth and handle that messy bitter bitch who’s tryna fuck up ya life 👌🏽

[heartmindalignedspirit]

I fuckin love this post. Thank you so much for all of this!

[kiefbowl]

Let’s say your matrilineal line is fairly consistent and everyone has their daughter at 25. So four women in your matrilineal line are born every hundred years. In a thousand years, that’s only 40 women. Like the math is so simple and yet ? You don’t think about it. So in 2000 years, 80 women. So basically, 0 AD started roughly about 80 mothers ago. That’s it.

[hawthorn56-deactivated20230602]

I’m……… i’m a little drunk n cannot deal with this right now

[thevideowall]

Yep

The advent of agriculture around 9500BC was about 450 mothers ago

[quousque]

you can’t just say shit like that without a warning

[annechen-melo]

Many, many mothers ago, when the world was new….

[draiocht-arsa]

Honestly this has been on my mind since I saw it, I never really thought about my ancestors that way. They are always just a vague group, “the ancestors”.

But seeing them and personifying them as, the mothers, made them real to me.

And I felt them tonight. It’s overwhelming and indescribable.

I’ve always been interested in ancestor work, and putting it in this context is powerful to me.

[thegirlwiththesnakestattoo-blog]

i’d like to meet them all

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Honestly something that bothers me more than most things is having my compassion mistaken for naivety.

I know that another fish might eat this bullfrog right after I spend months rehabilitating it.

I know that turning a beetle back onto its legs won’t save it from falling over again when I walk away.

I know that there is no cosmic reward waiting for my soul based on how many worms I pick off a hot sidewalk to put into the mud, or how many times I’ve helped a a raccoon climb out of a too-deep trashcan. 

I know things suffer, and things struggle, and things die uselessly all day long. I’m young and idealistic, but I’m not literally a child. I would never judge another person for walking by an injured bird, for ignoring a worm, or for not really caring about the fate of a frog in a pond full of, y’know, plenty of other frogs.

There is nothing wrong with that.

But I cannot cannot cannot look at something struggling and ignore it if I may have the power to help.

There is so much bad stuff in this world so far beyond my control, that I take comfort in the smallest, most thankless tasks. It’s a relief to say “I can help you in this moment,” even though they don’t understand.

I don’t need a devil’s advocate to tell me another fish probably ate that frog when I let it go, or that the raccoon probably ended up trapped in another dumpster the next night.

I know!!!! I know!!!!!!! But today I had the power to help! So I did! And it made me happy!

So just leave me alone alright thank u!!!!

[shrineart]

THIS.

[the-rain-monster]

I heard a story about this, a parable I guess.

There was a big storm and a ton of starfish were washed onto the beach, stranded much further up than they could get back and beginning to bake in the post-storm sunshine. A little girl was walking down the beach, picking up starfish and throwing them back into the sea. Some guy comes up and asks her what she’s doing. “Saving the starfish,” she says.

He looks around at the huge beach and the hundreds of starfish, and says “You can’t possibly save them all. I’m afraid you’re not gonna make much of a difference.”

She throws another starfish back into the ocean, and replies “It made a difference to that one.”

[the-real-seebs]

Yeah, I mean, we know we can’t change all the things. But have you ever noticed how much better life is when you’re around people who change things when they can?

[theangriestlittleunicorn]

Kindness is a choice. Even if it’s small, it’s worth it.

[itsladykit]

This is what I’m talking about, when I say that kindness and compassion do not equate with ignorance, stupidity, or naivety. Being cynical does not make someone more intelligent or more worldly. 

Kindness is not weakness.

Kindness is brave. Especially when you also know that your kindness might not be returned, may even be met with anger or cruelty. It’s reaching out with an open hand, knowing that it’s just as likely to be bitten as it is to be held. 

Kindness is hard. If you can’t find it in yourself to be kind, then fine. But don’t make it more difficult for those that can.

[simonalkenmayer]

Kindness is a discipline, a skill like anything else. Don’t think you can simply be nice the odd time and call yourself kind. Kind takes work, ethic, perseverance. It must be pursued even in the darkest of times. Mercy is for those who deserve it the least and vows are for the times when it is most difficult to withstand.

If you aren’t pursuing it every day, then you’re not kind. You’re occasionally nice. 

[elysianaphrodite-blog]

Important Reminder that you probably already have your own personal correspondences to things!!

You don’t have to write out a long list to be able to say you have your own correspondences to certain objects or colors, etc. For example, remember in kindergarten/preschool when you’d use traffic lights to show your level of understanding for a topic? You probably began associating the colors to that! Green for a deep understanding or success, Amber for difficulties or confusion and Red for frustration and simply having not a single clue. Or, your phone can be associated with either unlimited knowledge or social interactions (depending on what you use your phone for). You don’t need to write a list of your own correspondences to say that you have them, nor use traditional, handed down ones. Just look around you and identify what you already think.

[willowofthehearth]

If I could give newbie witches just ONE piece of advice aside from the fact that it’s more important to actually BE a witch than to have all the tools and aesthetics, it would be this post.

Correspondences can vary across locations and cultures. Your personal correspondences are going to resonate SO much deeper in your craft that ones you just pulled off a blog or a webpage.

[ellagreen]

Галина Горькавая 

[necromancyandme-deactivated2020]

On the Casting and Consecration of a Circle which, being of a singular quality and nature, is Most Conductive to the Art of Necromancy

And here is the secret which many neglect; that the circle is not merely a shield, but a great lens, which takes energy from within and casts it out into the triangle of the art, but refracts that from without, so conjured spirits are dissipated as they cross the threshold.

Another secret is of the space, which few understand but it is of grave importance, and many neophytes fail because of it. It firstly wished that it be outside or in some deep cellar, for being elevated from the bare earth is harmful to the operation, and if one is elevated in the air substantially, spirits will refuse to come. Secondly it should be at a cross roads, or a cemetery, or the first within the second, but this is rarely possible, elsewise, seek out mausoleums, deep caves, cellars or places that have ‘forehand been used by necromancers, for we mark the earth we practice upon, we dissolve the veil with our necromantic alchemies, and like to create doors which do not close, but this is a great secret I will not prescribe herein. Third it must be abundant with death and reminders thereof, and for this reason we gather fetishes and bones and other necrotic and charged things in our chambers, and for which we drink blood; otherwise the lifeless sap of the vine, that we may be filled as within so without with that most taxing of blessings. And one may prepare a place by taking dead things, burying them in the earth, and erecting stones or wood pillars in certain places congruent with certain stars and other forms, for they will gather up the essence, between them, condensing and multiplying it for the magician.

The circle should be of three, five, six, or nine feet in diameter, as is suitable for the work at hand, and truly should consist of a minimum of two lines, the outer most being the measurement of the circle and the inner being a half foot from outer, wherein one will inscribe their characters and incantations, but some put the names of gods and spirits; know that a siege from without will not be held back eternally, for as the gods and spirits and stars move from their places, their powers wane, therefore, if one  one may employ incantations or signs or names which call upon the underworld itself, which only wax or wane with the presence of death, as i have said. And all this you must draw with blessed chalk, powdered for the bare earth and whole for stone or wood, but one might also use paints or ink, and may indeed inscribe it upon the very earth with their blade, but too may one use blood to make the circle, and this is of particularly great effect. But some mages get great fabrics and draw or otherwise embroider and mark it to form the circle permanently, this is a treasure for mages and one should try to attain them if it be within their means. 

But now it comes to talk of the consecration of the circle. Let the circle be made in the night hours, and if it is to be kept past sunrise, cover it with thick black cloth, stones and charcoal - let no light touch it, less it be rendered useless unbeknownst to the magician: his works will fail or he will be made subject to the whole of the power of that which they summon. Before drawing the circle and erecting all things needed, the magus must cleanse the place with incantation, fumigation and aspergation, using scents and fluids conducive to the art. Here i give you an incantation with which to cleanse the grounds; set alight first the incenses, fragrances like sulfur, gravedirt, rotted meat, mummified flesh, and certain poison flowers, but also apples, velvet plant, bones and powdered blood; and asperge the soil with stagnant water, blessed wine, poisons or fresh blessed water. This is the incantation:

“Arise dread worms of the underworld, arise maggots and crawling, writhing creatures, arise from the earth and devour the impurities! Heralds of rejuvenation, I call to you! I asperge the earth in libation to thee! Let the seeds of impurity be cast away by these scents sublime. Let the dead rise and smell the incense!” 

I also gift you with a short Incantation to say after having drawn the circles, and it is so:

“I have erected the circle, just at the threshold of the gates to the city of the dead, and by these dread signs am I made master of those whom I call forth. These lines and angles I have made, I sit in an arcane fortress, I lay siege to the gates with my words, let them open wide at my advance, less i tear them down.”

And this is the manner of our art.

Best of Luck

- S.

[queensbees]

okay I know that there are terrible terrible people out there but listen

I also know that there are people who stop and smile at tiny plants growing out of sidewalk cracks, people who laugh so loud they snort, people who compliment others randomly, people who take pictures of their friends because they love seeing their friends happy, people who ramble about things that they’re passionate about, people who blush and stutter, people who are kind, people who are warm, people who love and love and love and love.

[lesbianmooncolony-deactivated20]

remember to drink lots of water, because your insides are a swampy bog and a water shortage would affect the local frog population

[hedgwigtch]

Photos of my bath salt for the sick soul which I made and took today, a thoroughly enjoyed bath.

Post with how to make it can be found here

[hedgwigtch]

Bath Salt for the Sick Soul (aka how to be a tea ingredient)

SO I am rather ill at the moment, coughy, phlegmy, that ball park, but also very emotionally drained so I decided to do a little bath spell to make myself feel better and to get my mojo moving once again.

Ingredients for the salt;

Himalayan pink salt - it’s like Epsom salt when dissolved in water and you soak yourself in it, and for it’s association with removing impurities and promoting self-love

Black tea - calming to the skin and by the scent

Dried lavender heads - the scent is calming, and promotes sleepiness, it helps me to feel relaxed and take a nap or go to sleep after the bath

Dried catnip leaves - catnip is a healing herb to me, but the leaves are calming and it has a minty scent which aids with sleep

Eucalyptus leaves - eucalyptus oils help clear the airways so you want to crush these up real good

Dried rose bud - for the rose scent which is calming and the association with self-love

General other ingredients which are added later;

A bubble bath mixture

Honey

Lavender essential oil

Crystals which are nice to have on board;

Rose quartz - self-love, happiness, and healing

Citrine - strength of self and protection (from illness in this case)

Clear quartz - to amplify the other two crystals and to help clear the air

Steps undertaken;

Add all salt ingredients to mortar and pestle and give them a good old grinding up.

Add mortar ingredients to a cup or so of hot water and stir it up real good to dissolve the salt, and add in a bit of honey while you’re here.

Once the water is looking like a fine cup of tea with a salty kick, you’re free to start running you bath (I did let my tea/salt liquid charge up in the sun for a few minutes though)

Add your bubble mixture and essential oil to the water while it’s running to get things nice and foamy.

You can now pour your tea into the water and watch the color turn a lovely creamy shade, continue to fill bath to desired level.

After my bath was full I lit a lavender candle and let myself soak in my mixture until I was a prune and I was sure the steam had opened up all my pores.

Follow-up;

After my lovely bath I rinsed myself off in some cold water, washed my face and went about my normal skin care routine before taking a quick cat nap. Can confirm I am already feeling better and my nose is no longer all blocked up (the power of eucalyptus, my friends). Also just through the scents in the steam my hair smells wonderful.

Knock yourselves out, and get well soon <3

[ultrafacts]

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[kvotheunkvothe]

EVERY TIME SOMEONE BRINGS UP THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA I GET SO ANGRY.

[tuxedoandex-deactivated20200116]

but why

[faith-n-reason-deactivated20191]

Because it got burned. All of that knowledge, lost forever.

[aussietory]

[ultrafacts]

The library was destroyed over 1000’s of years ago. The library consisted of thousands of scrolls and books about mathematics, engineering, physiology, geography, blueprints, medicine, plays, & important scriptures. Thinkers from all over the Mediterranean used to come to Alexandria to study.Most of the major work of civilization up until that point was lost. If the library still survived till this day, society may have been more advanced and we would sure know more about the ancient world.

[kryptonians]

That graphic grinds my gears every time I see it

[noterfsathogwarts]

[theonewhosawitall]

romans.

Julius Caesar to be precise 

[hot-tea-nanako]

Remember this when you’re conquering. Keep the books.

[zzazu]

THIS HURTS MY HEART SO MUCH EVERY TIME ITS BROUGHT UP

[thinkphrontistery]

Julius Caesar needs to be stabbed for this

[lesbiananglerfish]

I know we should totally stab Caesar

[physicianwhy-deactivated2016112]

Does March 15th sound good for everyone??

[poutinedragon]

hey everyone, guess what day it is

[grrrlsworld-deactivated20220602]

@ the tumblr witch community

STOP PROMOTING CURSES. Magic should never be used to harm others. Period point blank. I don’t know why I have to say that in the first place. Bringing that much negative energy into your craft and into your life will only hurt you.

[daemonrot]

I’m gonna be kind to you bc you’re clearly new.

You have no right to police how people handle their business.

Magic has always been used to defend the defenseless. 

Not every witch is Wiccan

Morality is relative with this. One person’s blessing is another’s curse. 

again, it’s none of your business

[marshflower-witch-deactivated20]

Why doesn’t this have any notes?! @a-magpie-witchling, please boost this

[a-magpie-witchling]

Ah, I remember when I cast my most powerful curse to the date…

I was kneeling for hours on the floor, to the point of nearly passing out, of nearly puking. I was holding the pieces of a dead animal in my hands, pouring every drop of my hate and wrath into its carcass, my blood caked dry around me.

My mom and sister wear proudly the pouches that carry my vengeance against anyone who would ever harm them.

You know what I felt afterwards?

Safe. I felt safe.

And you want to take that away from me?

We’re not helpless, and we have the right to defend ourselves and ours.

MIND. YOUR. OWN. FUCKING. BUSINESS.