[hemlock-druid]

Hello! My name is Hemlock (nicknamed Pluck). I am looking for nature witch/druid friends and/or mentors. I call myself a druid, but I don't think "real" druids would consider me one, since I don't follow the traditions or honor their gods. I'm forging my own path, and there's so much to learn! If you'd like to be friends, I'm interested in the following:

Hiking

Bird watching

Botany

Biology

Magic and folklore of all kinds

Pagan religion and spirituality

Journaling

Pen Pals

Art of all kinds (currently learning lino printing and gelli plate printing)

Videogames

Writing

Natural/folk medicine

Modern medicine

Anatomy

Zoology

Language learning

James Cameron's Avatar

I'm also sex-positive, which is a deal-breaker for some people, so I feel it's important to mention.

I think the best way to describe me would be "vampire, but also goblin". If any of that appeals to you, send me a message and we can chat!

- Pluck

[nomdelune]

For the stealthy witch: a Minecraft world is a wonderful place to build an altar (or a full temple!) for our spirits.

[notwiselybuttoowell]

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Hey Every(bog)body

As July gets started people on tumblr will invariably turn their mind to International Bog Day, and I want to get ahead of it and propose something.

Bog Day falls on the 4th Sunday in July, the 22nd the year the screenshot was taken but this year the 26th.

Given that this always takes off with the assumption that its the 22nd, I think we should split the holiday into two forms: observed and official

Observed will take place on the 22nd as usual, and we can celebrate it here with memes, shitpostery and bog awareness.

Offiical is for action and celebration away from tumblr. Make something with dolphin-safe cranberries! Find out about wetlands in your area! Visit them if open to the public! Sign up to volunteer with orgs that protect them! Donate to nonprofits looking to preserve them! They’re very vulnerable habits - ever more so in the U.S. after the devastating Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency decision from the supreme court in 2023, which limits the Clean Water Act and took protection away from the majority of the nation’s wetlands. The Audubon Society is one of the orgs working to look after them in the face of that, and Wetlands International has a fund you can donate to help monitor the areas used by migratory waterbirds, but I encourage you to do your own research and find ones that speak to you. It’s worth it - they are so important to natural world and the one built by humans alike.

(If you are in the Southern hemisphere and this doesn’t appeal to you in the middle of winter, World Wetlands Day is February 2nd!)

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Go forth 💚

(Observed)

[die-rosastrasse]

I finally organized my pressed flowers and was able to finish last year's herbarium! 🌷

[hemlock-druid]

This is so beautiful.

[todaysbird]

I wanted to use what ‘reach’ I may have here to share the Carolina Wildlife Center’s urgent plea for donations. If they are unable to raise $75,000 to cover ongoing and future care of their wildlife patients, the center will have to close July 20th, 2026. The services provided by CWC to the community are incredibly valuable, and without them, many wild animals will suffer without the care they need.

Original post

Link to donate

[broomsick]

The sea is a temple. The woods are a temple. Your own bedroom is a temple. The world is imbued with the spiritual. Worship is an act, not a place, and it can happen spontaneously, in reaction to the beauty of a moment.

[slewfootwitch]

"I would love to use my embroidery/cross-stitch/needlework in witchcraft more, but I like working with taglocks and other components that ruin the piece if I sew them into it." Attach your taglocks, snakeskin, nails, whatever to the back of your fabric. The needle is still piercing or securing them the same amount of times and the magic is still bound to them. They don't need to be visible to be incorporated.

[illusionsgrimoire]

This is your regularly scheduled reminder not to fuck around with using herbs OR crystals in or on the body without doing your research. I'm talking actual study of both body and the herb/crystal in question.

"this herb is supports menstrual health!" Cool. what does it DO? Like physically, what? Be specific.

How do your bodily organs function? Could you identify the individual organs? Can you explain how they work? If that organ is ill or not functioning correctly, do you know exactly what's going wrong and what needs to happen to fix it?

What component of that plant is affecting the body and how? Does your body need extra support in that way? How do you know? What other effects can this plant have on other parts of the body? Will it have chemical responses to other medications, herbs, or foods you are putting in your body?

Some minerals can start sweating sulfuric acid in high humidity, did you know that? Other rocks and crystals can contain toxic elements and heavy metals like mercury that can poison you. Sometimes they will straightup just dissolve in water — that doesn't mean they disappear, that means the water is contaminated with whatever elements and chemicals were in that stone, and it is probably not safe to drink.

Look, I'm all for herbal medicine. Crystals and stones can have really interesting uses for magic. But you can't just start smoking random plants or throwing things in a tea based on correspondence lists, or you're going to poison yourself or your loved ones.

If you want to be a healer, start with learning about the body. Not tea brewing.

[heatherwitch]

Honoring their life (and death) by learning from them and laying them to rest in their habitat and off the road.

Yellow-bellied Marmot - Marmota flaviventris

[ileftmymindinthewoods]

I've had a wondrous reoccurring idea every time I visit my local woods to find and collect 'runes' within the woods, and cast them onto a crocheted pentacle doily. I feel quite drawn to this, as I do notice I tend to practise divination solely with runes that I have crafted and defined with my own personal meanings. I hope this will encourage me to think a bit differently than my usual practice, as I will not have a set meaning for the birch leaf or alder cone chosen, and will let me focus solely on my intuition.

...was this also an excuse to crochet another witchy themed doily? Yes. Absolutely ✨️

[ileftmymindinthewoods]

I've had a wondrous reoccurring idea every time I visit my local woods to find and collect 'runes' within the woods, and cast them onto a crocheted pentacle doily. I feel quite drawn to this, as I do notice I tend to practise divination solely with runes that I have crafted and defined with my own personal meanings. I hope this will encourage me to think a bit differently than my usual practice, as I will not have a set meaning for the birch leaf or alder cone chosen, and will let me focus solely on my intuition.

...was this also an excuse to crochet another witchy themed doily? Yes. Absolutely ✨️

[thegalleryobscura]

This piece will make its debut in Bloomington, IN on March 16th. I've not named it yet, but it sure is something.

[thegalleryobscura]

This piece will make its debut in Bloomington, IN on March 16th. I've not named it yet, but it sure is something.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Color charts of undifferentiated (top) and specialized (bottom) plumage of different warbler species from Charles Keeler's Evolution of the colors of North American land birds (1893).

Full text here.

[sacredlittleember]

land spirits do not have to be dramatic.

sometimes reverence for land starts very simply:

learning the names of local plants. noticing where water gathers. thanking a tree before taking from it. picking up trash. leaving a place better than you found it. sitting quietly long enough to feel the mood of the land.

animism is not always spectacle.

sometimes it is relationship, attention, and care.

[sunnyzee]

more nature textures

[fabledforestmarket]

Many people think witchcraft starts with spells, but historically it started with observation. Knowing when turtles nested, when certain flowers bloomed, or how streams changed after rain helped people understand the rhythms of the land. That knowledge became folklore, seasonal celebrations, and eventually magical practices. And it’s still very helpful to learn these things. Go outside today and observe something about where you live. Write it down, then go observe that same thing tomorrow or next week, and write down any changes. This is how you can begin to flow with the rhythms of where you are.