Herbal Burbal

Almost-Alexandrian with a Tarot buying problem.

[primevalenergy]

Witchy Candle Tutorial

Hey guys! With the Winter Solstice coming up, I’ve been making candles as gifts for my family and friends. I took pictures of my process in case it might be useful to anyone.  What you will need: -potholders/oven mitts to protect your hands -newspaper -wax -wicks and wick holders -cardboard rolls  -dye (optional) -fragrance (optional) -toothpicks/chopsticks/cottonswabs

I’ve made both jar candles (pictured left) and pillar candles (pictured right) but this tutorial is only for pillar candles. The candle I’m making in this tutorial is for someone that has anxiety so the herbs I’m adding are lavender and rose petals for soothing qualities and self love. 

FIRST! Make sure that your working area is covered entirely in newspaper. Wax can come off of most hard surfaces but its a lot easier to clean up if you use newspaper because this is can get very MESSY. Next, take cardboard tubes (mine were from toilet paper rolls) and hot glue them to a flat cardboard surface. MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO GAPS in between the cardboard roll and the flat surface when you glue them. Otherwise hot wax runs everywhere. I learned this the hard way. Pictured on the left is the first one I made to give you an idea of what it is going to look like. 

Next fill a pot about ¼ full with water and set it to a boil. Inside the pot you will place a separate container, preferably disposable or something you will only use for wax, like a coffee tin or a cookie wafer tin (like I’m using) because the inside will be impossible to clean. Don’t allow the water to boil dry. Place your wax inside the disposable tin and allow the water to melt the wax. Keep an eye on your wax in case it gets too hot and catches fire. Once the wax is in liquid form you can add dye and mix it (dye is available at most crafting stores) to make whatever color you want or you can melt a chunk of colored wax from old candles you have during the melting process to make colors. Just make sure that its from the same type of candle you’re making (jar candle wax for jar candles, pillar candle wax for pillar candles) This is also the point where you would add fragrance if you wanted to. 

Let the wax cool for a few minutes and pour a little bit into the bottom of the mold, place your wick in the center of the wax and allow it to COOL before you pour more hot wax in to make sure your wick is set in the center of your candle. If the wick isn’t in the center it will burn funny or might not burn at all. 

Once the wick has set I use two toothpicks taped together to make sure the wick is held straight up through the center of the candle while I’m pouring the rest of the wax. The toothpicks hold the the wick in place. Then carefully pour in the rest of your wax and sprinkle the top with whatever herbs you are using. Leave to set overnight….

And in the morning peel off the cardboard around it and bam! You have a beautiful candle! 

[witchy-woman]

I've been trying to be a witch. I've been sending people asks for guidance. Everyone ignores them. Even you. What's the fucking point if y'all are going to be so unapproachable. You just basically want attention. You don't want to help. Thanks for putting me off magic.

Hi, so let’s get a few things out of the way that seem to be some misconceptions – I don’t (nor does anyone else on here) owe you or anyone else answers or coaching or time, it’s really unfair to think that you are entitled to my or anyone else’s time, thoughts, energy, and personal knowledge and understanding of anything. I share what I share and I have put YEARS into this blog making it incredibly beginner friendly and easy to find things (FAQ with all my advice to beginners, a HUGE beginner’s resource tag, an incredibly extensive navigation page and even a search bar) so please don’t tell me I’m unapproachable or “want attention” because I didn’t get to your inbox message.  I get around 20-30 inbox messages every day, most of which I do not answer because 1) I don’t have the time to do so – I used to feel guilty and answer them all every day and I just couldn’t keep up even though I was devoting average of 4-6  hours every night just going through my inbox, answering questions. I cannot do that every day, I get overwhelmed and it takes SO much time, 6 hours is a shift at a job– and tumblr anonymous messages are not my job.  2) most of what people ask  me on a daily basis is already answered in my FAQ, or on my blog (search bar!) Also, this blog isn’t my whole life, man. I don’t just sit on the computer all day waiting for people to ask me things. I have a whole life, I’m a grown woman. I do want to help, but the thing is, I’ve spent the last few years devoting an extreme amount of time to helping people here. I’ve stepped back because I’ve already answered most questions I still get in my inbox and it took over my life– I literally didn’t have evening with my wife bc I was sat at my desk answering anonymous questions. 

And lastly, if a few people not getting to your inbox message right away “put you off magic” I’m really sorry, but we have nothing to do with you practicing magic, that’s your own personal choice. 

Consider not being rude next time and you might get a gentler answer from me. (:

[herbalburbal]

The Heirophant

Be patient with yourself. It was a response to a drunk ask to @thornthewitch when I was just getting back into things, relating to getting over and through childhood religions. I've kind of expanded it in general to my path--a lot changed quickly but it's always good to be patient with yourself.

[ruinedchildhood]

You can learn more about Team Supreme on the Leonard Studios website, as well as Facebook and Twitter.

http://www.leonardstudios.com/team-supreme/

https://www.facebook.com/LeonardStudios/

https://twitter.com/LeonardStudios

Source: http://aplus.com/film-forward/team-supreme-cartoon-joshua-leonard-kids-disabilities.html

[ruinedchildhood]

“If you want to show your support for the project, you can shop themed merchandise in the Team Supreme Shop, where Leonard says a portion of the sales will go toward autism awareness.”

http://www.leonardstudios.com/shop/

[freaky-coyote-deactivated202502]

THIS NEEDS TO BE A SHOW!!!!!

[etsycult]

Forest Protection Wreath with Cedar, Sage and Bones by SavageApothecary

[herbalburbal]

The Major Arcana As Nosy Witch Questions.

The Fool: Do you practice witchcraft openly or in secret?

The Magician: Do you practice white magic, black magic, both or neither?

The High Priestess: How did you first discover your path?

The Empress: Favorite time to practice your craft?

The Emperor: Favorite place to practice your craft?

The Hierophant: Best advice you've ever received from a witch?

The Lovers: Which sign or signs(zodiac or elements) are you most attracted to?

The Chariot: Favorite witchcraft tools to use?

Strength: Do you cast spells?

The Hermit: Are you a solitary witch or are you part of a coven?

Wheel of Fortune: Do you practice palmistry?

Justice: Do you work with plants and herbs?

The Hanged Man: Which area of witchcraft are you least familiar with?

Death: Do you believe in, or have experience with past lives?

Temperance: Which area of witchcraft are you most comfortable?

The Devil: Who is your closest witch friend?

The Tower: Have you ever cursed someone?

The Star: Which areas of witchcraft would you like to be better acquainted?

The Moons : Favorite thing to do during a full moon?

The Sun: Do you read tarot cards?

The Final Judgement: Do you work with spirits?

The World: What type of witch are you?

[wildechangeling]

Centering whiteness in the craft.

I’ve been into the occult for as long as I can remember. At 8 I was checking out books on satanism, vampirism, and witchcraft from the library, at 10 I started doing my own spells and interacting with Faefolk, at 13 my mom told me about the spell work she used to do growing up. I have grown a lot since those days of building fairy houses in my front yard out of rocks and flowers and leaving little offerings of honey or juice in exchange for good luck or help finding something I lost, and in those years of navigating the pagan and witch communities both online and off, reading books nonstop, blogs nonstop, etc, I noticed a trend. 

Paganism, the occult, and the craft are all very very white. Not only that but whiteness is centered as the one and only way to participate in these interests. First it started in the wiccan books I read as a child, the “white vs. black” magic that is shoved down the throats of aspiring wiccans and witches and eventually they spew it back at anyone else who will listen. If you’ve been on my blog a bit, you already know my gripe about white or black magic. If you haven’t browsed my blog or been there for my rants here is the nitty gritty: The idea at it’s simplest is rooted in colorism and racism, where white is seen as good and black or darkness seen as bad, this trope has been carried over into many different movies and books featuring magic as the villian who usually practices “black” magic has darker features, dark skin, dark eyes, dark hair, while the good characters practice white magic and as such represent purity with their fair skin and hair and eyes. Not only this but historically the magic and practices of those of color, brown and black people, have been demonized for centuries while magic performed by white people are seen as some kind of fairy tale, quirky, beautiful, sipping tea by a potted plant, aesthetic. 

Keep reading

[rad-magick]

Demon notes: Glasya Labolas

Rank: President/Earl Color: Orange Incense: Storax Metal: Mercury Planet: Mercury Element: Fire Enn: Elan tepar secore on ca Glasya-Labolas Date: November 23 to December 2 (day) 1- 10 Sagittarius  Tarot: 8 of wands Original purpose: teaches arts and sciences and creates war and calamity.  He teaches divination.  He can make men invisible and he can cause love between friends and foes.

Daemonolatry Goetia (S Connolly) Also an Earl in some texts, Glasya Labolas can be invoked to keep what you’re doing a secret from others.  To make you “invisible” per se.  He can make you wise to what is really going on around you and can make your friends and enemies unsuspecting.  You could certainly work with him for execration/binding, but also to keep projects secret from nosey co-workers or competitors or to keep a surprise party from a friend.  

Crowley’s Goetia TheTwenty-fifth Spiritis Glasya-Labolas.  He is a Mighty President and Earl, and shows himself in the form of a dog with wings like a gryphon. He teaches all arts and sciences in an instant,and is an author of bloodshed and manslaughter.  He teaches all things past, and to come.   If desired he causes the love both of friends and of foes. He can make a man Invisible.  And he has under his command 36 Legions of Spirits.

Luciferian Goetia (Michael Ford) Being a might President and Earl, Glasya-Labolas appears in the form of a dog with wings. He inspires the learning of the Hidden and Black Arts, and is an author (creator) of bloodshed and manslaughter. Glasya-Labolas is a demon of cursing, whom causes situations of danger to occur. Also being a spirit of divination, he may bring the union of friends and foes as well. Glasya-Labolas commands 36 Legions of Spirits as well

As Always -Robin

[witchbetwixtwaters]

I made plaques!!!

[desertwitchling]

Spell Weaving

Here’s a fun, meditative way to construct a spell! You’ll need: 

A small cardboard/cardstock box. This is what you’ll be making a loom out of. Matchboxes work great for ultra-small weavings. You can size up to the boxes checks come in, or shipping boxes, or you can buy a lap-size loom at craft stores.

Weaving materials, matched to your intent. Here’s a great blog post on fabric correspondences. My intent for this spell weaving was a better mood, or a lighter spirit, so I went with sky blues and a balance of materials. By far the cheapest way to get a variety of natural cotton thread is embroidery floss. It’s all natural cotton, comes in every shade and hue, and costs less than fifty cents for a skein. 

Additional objects to weave in–in this case, a feather and three beads. You can add crystal beads, sprigs of herbs, linear sigils on narrow paper and anything else that can be embedded between warp strands or worked into the weft. 

Scissors

Large- and small-eyed needles. It helps me to have needles that can span the entire width of my loom. 

The most important part of this process is to weave intentionally! You can repeat an incantation or mantra as you go. Weaving is a lot of repetitive motion and it’s a great opportunity to focus on what you want to accomplish with this spell. 

I cut an arm’s length of embroidery floss and split it into its six strands. 

With a craft knife or one side of a pair of scissors, I cut an even number of slits into the short sides of the box. I take a few inches of my separated embroidery floss and stretch them between the slits, lengthwise across the box, and then back. Tie them at the base. This is the first pair of warp threads. 

I continue tying warp threads all the way across. On the second to last thread I added my wood beads. 

I thread my small-eyed needle and knot the thread so it doesn’t slip while you’re weaving. 

At the base of the box, I weave my needle under every other warp thread. The most important thing to remember is to be consistent from both sides. If you start by going under the first thread under the right, when you go back from the left, start by going under the first thread on the left too. 

I weave around my beads and leave a lot of space to fill in on the left, which is the perfect opportunity to bring in… 

… wool roving! With my large-eyed needle I start weaving it into the open space above my thread. 

If your spell is designed with a multi-part incantation, switching sections when you change materials is a great way to work that in. 

As I double back I pull down with my needle to straighten out the roving. 

I work my tail in on the left side, and then, when it’s time to switch back to thread, I wrap the last bit of roving around my small-eyed needle as I weave the next row. 

When I finish the next block of thread and have a few inches left on my needle, I wrap around the left warp and push the needle down through the weft. Then I whip stitch around the left side in order to clean up the roving. 

With my thread coming out of the bottom of the box once more, I have another tail to tie off and trim just like the warp threads. 

Next I’m going to work in some ribbon with my large-eyed needle. 

I weave it through once, and then wrap the tail around and use the needle to push it under the same warp threads.

I trim it at an angle and use my thread to whip stitch underneath the ribbon and warp. 

Then I proceed with my next block of thread weft. 

This is about as high as I wanted to go for this weaving. I can keep going almost to the edge of the box, but I always have to be conscious that it will loosen a little when I take the warp out of the slits. 

Here it is fresh off the loom box! A little crooked, and I haven’t frayed the warp thread tails or added the feather yet. 

I insert the feather’s quill directly into the wood beads. 

Once I have it finished, I can attach a springless safety pin, and now the spell weaving can be worn as an amulet. You can hang it on your wall as a subtle decorative ward. It’s also just the right size to serve as a mat for a raw crystal–which is a great way to charge! 

Here are three more of my looms and the weavings that came from them. Top left is a vintage Jasco mender, top right is a Reclaiming Craft super tiny acrylic loom, and bottom is a lap loom from a craft store, which is just big enough to use the full-length projects as tarot spread cloths, or fold into pouches. 

The bottom weaving uses cotton yarn, and I wove the same direction two times for each row to let the warp show through in that dot pattern. The top left weaving is wool embroidery floss, which holds its shape beautifully when you take it off the loom. The top right is cotton that I colored with alcohol ink before I wove it–I was hoping for a sunset-looking scene, and it did not disappoint! When you start with plain white yarn or thread and you know exactly how wide the finished weaving will be, the potential is limitless for custom color correspondences, simple images, and even sigil-like results! 

Even when a weaving is finished you can still attach small pendants, little bells, or anything else your spell requires. You can also go back and embroider sigils directly into the weft. 

Go weave some witchcraft!

[greysorcery-deactivated20200709]

Oh this is too freakin cute. 😍😍

[herbalburbal]

OH MY GOODNESS THIS IS LOVELY!!!

[herbalburbal]

Not quite witchy, but a thought and a thing.

I teach pre-school.

I've got this little beautiful black girl in my class. She's the only one, and she is fucking SMART. I love that kid. She's funny, she's sassy (in a "this is hilarious and you know it, not in a "I need a glass of wine because of this kid" kind of way)

Today, she came in with her hair out of her braids, full out beautiful curls and afro. She looked gorgeous. A kid said, "you're hair looks different." Not weird. Just different. Kids notice different, and it's never weird unless they hear an adult say it.

She. Was. So. Self. Conscious.

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

She was sitting by herself instead of playing. I always go over to the kids who are sitting alone and talk to them. It's a thing. I was that kid. It's a personal thing.

I made a comment that I loved how her hair looked today.

She BEAMED. She asked me to smell it, because she loved what her mom put in her hair, and she just got super excited about her hair. We just talked.

If you are out and about, give these girls a compliment.

Just, "I love your hair."

Make sure these kids feel like they are the rad and awesome kids they are.

[corporeal--corvid]

If there isn’t a tea brand called Deiteas then what’s the point? Or even a Hellenic one called Teaoi. I mean, we’re missing out on blends such as Aphroditea, Arteamis, Ateana, Tealios… other God(dess) related tea puns…

[wickedtizzy]

It’s not “finally folding that mountain of laundry and grudgingly doing those week-old dishes”, it’s “honoring Hestia.”

[noctea]

My favorite self care tip is to pretend you’re a demon inhabiting a humans body and you gotta look after it, treat it right, cause these things are weak af man and you gotta protect your host

[thesylverlining]

…You know, that might actually work.

[twosidestarot]

Always and forever reblogging this

[resonance-of-libra]

Sigh. No self-respecting demon would let the body go this long without showering. Brb.

[infinite--skys-deactivated20180]

XD wtf that’s great.

[goldiesgrimoire]

This worked for me quite a few times. Especially when I have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning just like

The vessel must be present.

[unwisealistair]

This may actually work, motivation by “to be a successful infiltrator on the mortal plane my host must be as successful as possible”

[sciencescribbler]

THIS SHOULDN’T BE AS CONVINCING AS IT IS…WHAT THE FIERY-HOT BALLS OF SATAN IS MAKING THIS A CONVINCING ARGUMENT?

[terrasunshine]

respect other people’s gods. respect gods that aren’t your own.

this should not be a difficult concept, and yet Hellenics are bombarded every single day by people insulting and disrespecting our gods without knowing ANYTHING about our religion.

you can ask questions about the gods without sounding like an asshole. you can clear up confusions and misconceptions you may have without interrogating the person you want information from.

confused about why we don’t condemn Zeus for what he “did” in the mythology? ask us! but nicely! don’t say, “wow i can’t believe you worship a fucking rapist, how do you live with yourself?” ask, “so based on the mythology, Zeus did x. what’s your take on that?”

and we’ll TELL you! we’ll explain it to you! we’ll show you the hundreds of other times we’ve explained it because we’re tired of seeing our god insulted and disrespected!

this should NOT be a fucking thing I have to post about. just because a god isn’t your own doesn’t mean it’s okay to literally insult them. insult deities on your own time in your own space if you want I guess, but don’t fucking tag it so that people who worship that god / practice that religion have to see your fucking bullshit.

[lolafsvoice]

Friendly reminder that this hell site is owned by Yahoo, a company who are now actively advocating for the death of Net Neutrality.

Friendly fucking reminder that the site is actively forcing users to unfollow the net neutrality tag after 20 or so minutes of following it.

Friendly reminder that this site is now actively trying to limit our ability to share information and spread awareness.

[lolafsvoice]

Friendly reminder that this hell site is owned by Yahoo, a company who are now actively advocating for the death of Net Neutrality.

Friendly fucking reminder that the site is actively forcing users to unfollow the net neutrality tag after 20 or so minutes of following it.

Friendly reminder that this site is now actively trying to limit our ability to share information and spread awareness.