hexes & ohs

nik, 28, new england. witch. queer af. they/them. scorpio sun, virgo moon, cancer rising. do no harm but take no shit. ✨

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Greetings, tumblr!

I'm Nik, age 28, and my pronouns are they/them. I live in New England (USA) with my beautiful girlfriend, two cats, a bearded dragon, and countless plant babies.

I've been studying witchcraft for 10+ years, and practicing for 7 or 8. Most of my craft takes place in the kitchen and in the garden, but I also dabble in tarot and other forms divination.

I am a Persephone devotee, although I am pretty new to deity work after years of being a secular witch.

Outside the craft, I have an average 9-5 desk job and work part-time stocking shelves, but I'd like to go back to school for library science someday. In my off-time I play roller derby & my url is also my derby name.

Feel free to drop me a message or an ask with any questions, or even just to say hi.

You can also buy me a ko-fi.

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Autumn hiking.

Nagano, Japan.

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Cintya

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🎃Samhain🎃

Is the third and last harvest of the year. Samhain is the end of warm days and start of the darker half of the year. Nights will get long and colder. The spiritual veil between our world and the spiritual world will be at its thinnest on the 31st. Samhain is the night the dead can walk around the earth.

Activities:

🍂 make a pumpkin pie

🍂 carve a pumpkin

🍂 press leaves in books

🍂 decorate your alter with leaves and pinecones

🍂 make apple cider

🍂 make a broom

🍂 collect pinecones and acorns

🍂 make a wreath

🍂 dress up in a costume

🍂 read scary stories

🍂 light Orange, purple, and Black candles

🍂 hand out candy

Correspondences:

🎃 Animals: bat, spider, fox, raven, crow, and dog

🍁 Colors: black, purple, orange, and green

🎃 Crystals: amethyst, smokey quartz, onyx, jet, malachite, and black tourmaline

🍁 Herbs: mugswort, yarrow, allspice, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, and rosemary

🎃 Food: apple, pumpkin, squash, soup, pie, cider, and corn

🍁 Inscense/oils: cedar, sandalwood, sage, rosemary, clove, and cinnamon

🎃 Gods: yama, hades, apollo, and herne

🍁 Godesses: freya, hel, hecate, demeter

🎃 Spells: spirit work, ambition, protection, ancestor work, and banishing

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I am wicked in many ways. x

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who wants to come into the woods tonight and dance under the moonlight around a fire

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Hades & Persephone Greek history AU (1/?) | cute diaspora goths in a long-distance relationship hanging out in a club and taking selfies (2014)

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💀Unusual Death Witchcraft💀

Visiting natural history and art museum. Not only for the spirit work (museums are surprisingly rife with spirits) but also the reflection on the objects themselves that are imbued with death energy due to their age.

Kitchen witchcraft with fermentation. I’m talking both home starters/yeasts and drink based fermenting! The process of encouraging fermentation is literally a controlled necromancy if you think about it! Also your own fermented product will be excellent to use in spellwork!

Upcycle crafting! The process of reusing items in a new way that you already had or seeking out items to use instead of letting them become trash is also working with death energy!

Playing death related games or watching movies with friends and family. Death witchcraft tasks and energy work doesn’t have to look witchy! If you have a weekly or monthly hangout where you play tabletops like Betrayal at House on the Hill or even online games. Or watch documentaries or movies with loved ones that related that totally counts! Especially as a lower spoon option.

Drawing or photographing abandoned buildings/architecture. So often people forgot that the decay of manmade objects and places do hold death energy and weight. Tapping into this side of death witchcraft can be an interesting experience.

Visiting a 24 hour store or restaurant in the middle of the night. This is a personal experience of mine but that quiet low level liminal space energy is such a similar transitional energy as to help you grow your experience and sensing of death energy. Also walking through a store at 3am is a good time to practice a walking meditation or some simple spirit communication without too much trouble. Just have your headphones in for an excuse!

Learning to maintain your own compost! I’m hopeless with the green thumb side of things myself but I still have composting I do for my yard in general. My wildflowers and natural growth is lovely because of it! The cycle of your kitchen supplies life and decay is such a simple and deep way to access that death energy and maybe even work your way up to having that green thumb! Also using this compost in spellwork will pack a punch!

What are some unusual ways you experience death witchcraft and energy?

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Art by Ungfio

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Insomnia Hex

A quick and easy hex to keep someone tossing and turning at night. 

Ingredients:

Photograph and Name of the Target

Pen and Paper

Black Thread

Small Black Bag

Coffee Grounds

Sugar

Cayenne

Cherry

Nail

Method:

Write their name on a piece of paper along with a list how they have wronged you. Using the black thread bind their name, their misdeeds, and the photo of them. Place in the bag along with the coffee grounds, sugar, and cayenne. Lastly, take the cherry (associated with its power to aid in sleep) and drive a nail through its center declaring your intention that your target not experience restful sleep until you dismantle the bag. After all ingredients have been added, seal the bag and place beneath a bed out of sight. 

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Easy Ways to Connect More Strongly with your Deities

Say Good Morning when you wake up, say Good Night before you fall asleep

Share your food with them. If you’ve ever wanted some of your friend’s french fries, you know how they probably feel. 

Donate to causes that fall under the jurisdiction of your deity. Are they a goddess for women? Donate to a women’s shelter or Planned Parenthood. Is your deity a patron of the arts? Give to PBS or local theatres.

Cook a full meal in honor of your deity. Seriously. It sounds silly but you can definitely find a regional cookbook based on your pantheon to cook a full ass feast for them.

Write them letters or notes. Keep a little notebook of notes and letters to your deity. Did you see a cute cat that you think Frigga would’ve liked? Maybe you saw a girl’s outfit that would’ve made Aphrodite drool. Let them know, or give yourself a reminder to tell them about it later.

Change your phone background. Does your deity have a temple or built pantheon? Put that shit as your wallpaper! Did you find a picture that so perfectly captures the spirit of your deity? Make it your lock screen.

Make them a Mix Tape. You know, so you can belt out songs in their honor while making your way downtown. Faces pass. And you’re home bound. 

DIY your Altar. I’m not going to lie, I’m not to altar type. However, it is a fantastically personalized space that you can do anything with. So don’t let anyone stop you from knitting that mini statue of Hecate a scarf.